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New bar ALLISON WILLIAMS Asst. Features Editor While bw-3 may sound like a top secret spy mission, Five Points patrons know that itfs really the newest sports bar and restaurant on Saluda Avenue. If you're wondering what bw-3 actually stands for it means buffalo, wild wings and week. What's a week? iii5 wuvvv/upn/o ??tit uiou |^ai nv/i^auiig. The downside to this is that people looking for a more social atmosphere are out of luck. The music is good but there isn't a an area for dancing. "There was no hooking up going on," Delk said. There is a bar area and the restaurant is very big with plenty of room for bigger Grea Rugge Tiiv Shown: men's leather Hiker, sizes 8-13 med Women's "Gena" leat sizes 5-10 medium. 9( Women's leather Eurc sizes 5-10 medium. 9Z Men's and Women's S Specialities at bw-3 include chicken wings with a choice of six different sauces, buffalo chips and sandwiches served on a Kimmel Week roll. Customers can also pick from a variety of other menu choices including grilled hot dogs, pocket pizzas, taco salad, nachos, fajitas and salads. There are also 16 different kinds of beers on tap. If you try one of each kind of beer you can become part of the "Brew Crew" and receive a t-shirt. I tried the chicken wings and the honey mustard sauce is very good for people with sensitive taste buds. Food is inexpensive, there are daily specials and happy hour deals. "It's cool because the food is real cheap and I'm real poor," USC graduate student Matt JJelk said. But the big attraction for many customers is the trivia game. There are several big screen televisions on the walls (right next to the huge buffalo head) where customers can watch news and sports plus compete in a trivia game. "The restaurant is based around the trivia game. Most people are either watching football or playing the trivia game. It was fun and intellectually stimulating," Delk said. However, Delk complained that the game was not challenging enough and might become boring after a while. Customers can exchange their ID for a playmaker at no price, log in their team name and watch one of the big screens flash questions concerning entertainment, movies and music. Customers compete against other people in the restaurant and people from all over the country. Prizes including t-shirts, cash and trips are given to the highest scorers. During a recent visit, everyone seemed to be absorbed in the game. All types of people play. A big table of guys were playinrr Kiif./taiinldo \xmra oIoa 1 wings it IHX&Ji txisii **,. ^>?fcv, - *<S| ^KT ^ JftS'lT::r" J Inside the new BW3 sports bar and resta crowds or booths for couples or smaller groups. Students under 21 years old should be advised that the bar is careful about carding. Even at 6 p.m. on a Wednesday, this writer was watched despite the 2 black x's on mv hands. The manager of bw-3 agreed that the trivia game is a big draw for customers. "Customers are really excited over it. They really love playing against each other." The manager also hopes that the upcoming Cluck-Off will be another draw for customers. The Cluck-Off is a wings eating contest that starts on Sept. 5 where participants will have to eat 50 medium wings in 15 minutes. Participants will have to go through several rounds and the grand prize winner will win a trip to Hawaii for 4 days and 3 nights and $1,000 in cash. I would recommend bw-3 for everyone who is ready for a change of pace. Hie atmosphere is very relaxed, the food is good, there's plenty of room and the trivia game is a lot of fun. Now for the bad news: this is not a place to find or to take a date. But, it's not a bad place for a table of couples and it's a good place for a large group who can work off extra stress through a little D AS ALL OUTDOORS IBERLAND BOOIS. InVlnnFi ium. 89.00. 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The popular stand-up comic, known for her witty observational humor, tickled the collective funny bone of America's television viewers earlier this year when her ensemble sitcom, ABCs "These Friend's of Mine," quickly and surprisingly swept into the ratings top 10. Now when the show -which focused on Ellen Morgan (DeGeneres) and her group of 30-something friends- returns this fall, itH be revamped. Several characters will be gone and a couple of fresh ones added. Arye Gross will be back as Ellen's "best friend and roommate, as will, of course DeGeneres, though her character will now own the "Buy j the Book" bookstore instead of just : managing it. Oh, and there's one i l rm 1 ;n uuiei major oiiange. me snow win have a new name: "Ellen." 1 "It won't be that different," j promises the friendly DeGeneres ^ during a telephone conversation form her Los Angeles home, adding that the stories will be stronger and more original and that the characters will be better developed. She's also thrilled that Gross is return- J ing. "As soon as we met, we clicked. J Arye and I crack each other up. I'm ? glad he's back. The other big dif- > ference are my owning the book- i WB&k Jm ^b m \r Again anH strain E BLOOD, PLEASE RedCmes [IF* store and the (show's) name change, t which means they'll focus more on > my character." > During it's freshman year, "These Friends of Mine" was fre- ( quently compared to "Seinfeld," in f part because the chow starred a stand-up comedian and focused on t the lead character and her pals. ? DeGeneres is hopeful the "female'Seinfeld'" comparison will end in y( coming months. "Neal Martens and ; Carol Black created the show, and 1 they left after six shows," says De- > Generes. "So now we can go a slight- 1 ly different direction. Maybe (be- I ing a "female- 'Seinfeld") was the " Angel Boy ! artists: EFOI/R PLATYPUS PUG D FREE ograms paid for, in part, with student activities fet special assistance for disabilities, please contact t Union at 777-7130 at least 48 hours prior to the e 5 > longer of Mine' initial vision for the show. I don't think that was the right vision for it, and I don't think our producers now feel that way either. So, I think it will head away from that." com ana raisea in iNew urieans, DeGeneres grew up as a shy child whose family, for reasons she still hasn't figured out, frequently relocated in and around New Orleans. After attending the University of New Orleans for "almost and entire semester," DeGeneres decided to pursue the life of a stand-up comic. "I started working at a few coffeehouses and at colleges around New Orleans," she remembers. "I played a lot of colleges but probably not as many as some other comedians. College audiences are rrraaf Kooanoo fViovW Viin 4-/i urViaf'o VUV MVVUUO^ WlV/jr XV 1U{/ W TTIiafcO gong on and hip to the subtlety of comedy." Then a comedy club opened up. There'd never been a comedy club in New Orleans, and I'd never set foot in a comedy club. This was around 1981, when the whole comedy club boom was just beginning. I walked in the club, which wasn't even finished yet, and I had an audiotape of my act, which I jave to the owner of the club. He iidn't know what he was doing. He vas some guy who was trying to nake a buck. He said "Sure, you'll >e the emcee six nights a week.' I vas making $150, $200 a week, vhich was fine for me." Over the next ten years, De3eneres worked often, graduating rom smoky clubs to larger, less owdy theaters, and at the same ime, made a more lucrative living, rhen, realizing that her act, in vhich she played out little stories or her audiences, resembled actrig, she decided to try her hand at, rou guessed it, acting. 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