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e WHAT'SUP Guide to Arts & Enter rAkircoTc "I wiiwbniw WUSC is presenting its second tf concert of the year at 7 p.m. at to Annie's. The show will feature to Rhode Island's Small Factory a with Low and local group Imp. to Cost is $3. tf The USC Symphony Orchestra to will perform their fall concert to Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the A Koger Center. to C CONTESTS T USA Today is beginning its a annual search for the nation's t< best college students. Sixty will Ic be named to the 1995 All-USA ir Academic Team. The key element will be a student's outstanding original academic or to intellectual product. The judges N, will be influenced by the stu- T dent's ability to describe that s endeavor in their own words. 4 For more information, call Carol n Skalski at (703) 276-5890. d n Blackboard Entertainment Inc. o presents 'The America's College e Video Competition" sponsored 1 by Levi's 501 jeans. Calling all college students, grab a cam- c SN A A??\MUSnMl C r\rt a!/ UI OUIUOI emu uu oui i ion in ly: upuarv I out on issues of your generation for $10,000 in cash awards. Create an original short-length t video that tells your story. Be funny, serious or stupid, but most of all be creative. Deadline is March 15, 1995. Call (415) 974-6844 for information. Evian issues an open call to decorate a special edition bottle with its contest inviting amateurs and professionals to submit a design or toast that conveys the theme, "Evian Toasts the Culinary Arts." The winning artwork and toast will appear on a limited edition glass bottle of Evian Natural Spring Water available to restaurants next spring. Entries must be submitted to Evian, do Ketchum, 220 East 42nd St., 12th floor, New York, NY 10017 by Nov. 30, 1994. All entries with proper adress and information will be returned and for further information call 1-800-633-3363. Mangajin Magazine presents the Fourth Annual BABEL . International Japanese/English | Tranclation oontost nnen to fln\/ w.%.%.w., ~r j resident of the United States or Japan whose name has never been credited as translator or co-translator in any publication. To participate, entrant must translate a one-page essay from Japanese to English. The essay to be translated can be found along with complete information in issue #39 of Mangajin magazine. Further questions on contest rules should be directed to the Kawamura Cultural Foundation at (212) 808-5335 or fax (212) 697-4738. LECTURES International Programs for Students is offering lively multicultural talk, free food and an informal discussion, "What is Pornography? Different Culture=Different Definitions" Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Russell J House 207. ! Libby Larsen, one of America's foremost composers, will give a J public lecture Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in Fraser Hall in USC's School of Music. Her lec- ' ture will feature discussions about her compositions and the 1 art of music writing. After the I lecture, Larsen will visit with ? USC music students to provide critique and commentary of their i compositions. i i FREE Al Got a questio: Need a ASK Ml MYRTLE I Send your letters t Gamecock, P.O. Bo> in the Russ< Th< 1 tainment Rainforest Conservation and le Search for New Jungle ledicines" will be presented by lark Plotkin, author of 'Tales of Shaman's Apprentice," londay, Nov. 21 at 6 p.m. in le USC Law School auditorium. 10VIES lickelodeon theatre presents Jlie Light's "Dialogues With ladwomen" in its Southern Circuit series at 8 p.m., uesday. Southern Circuit Hows students and film lovers ) engage in face-to-face dia)gue with some of today's leadlg film- and videomakers. 1USEUMS / GALLERIES taKissick Museum he USC art department faculty how is featuring approximately 0 recent works in a variety of ledia, including paintings, rawings, mixed media, printlaking, photography, watercolrs, jewelry and sculpture. The xhibit will run throuah Feb. 12. 995. Columbia Museum of Art Richard Estes: The Complete Tints" will run through Dec. 11. his is the first traveling exhibion surveying the print worlcof (hoto-realist Richard Estes. admission is free. South Carolina State Museum 'he museum has introduced a lew exhibit, "Brain Teaser," that icludes a puzzle so difficult the urator is offering a free museim membership to the first visior who can solve it. tax Ellis, director of museum >rograms with the Smithsonian's nstitution's Division of Arts and humanities, will join members of he Three Rivers Story Telling 3uild for "Tellabration! The 4ight of Storytelling" from 7-9 >.m., Saturday. Storytellers will elate tales from mountain, African and European traditions. The program is free. PLANETARIUM Season of Light" at the Gibbes Jlanetarium is open. The show >egins with the winter solstice jnd examines how ancient culures celebrated this dark time vith their warmest and brightest lolidays of the year. POETRY READING The third annual Benefit Poetry heading featuring poets with ocal roots will be held at the Nickelodeon Theater Wednesday at 7 p.m. rELE VISION \ series of discussions about iducation in South Carolina will >e shown on SCETV Tuesday at 8 p.m. in "Conversations on Education." The World of Jim Henson" is a ribute that looks at all the dimensions of this puppeteer's work, from his Muppets?Miss 3iggy, Kermit the Frog and Big 3ird??to his other fantastic creations for film and TV on SCETV at 9 p.m., Nov. 23. rHEATER Drayton Hall rheatre (JSC will present 'Eastern Standard" through Dec. 2. WORKSHOPS i>lna I/aIaaI/aiia mill Inorl n /> I o o _ I IIIci I\v/ipcir\v/va ttiii iouu w viuw sical ballet workshop from Nov. 18-20. This is the first of a guest artist series by the USC department of theatre, speech and dance. DVICE. n? Problem? clue? fRTIE. KNOWS. :o Myrtle c/o The i 83151 Drawer A ell House. > Gamecock ni ria5 rp. J 1 111 Tke We're Not Your JV take tkeir cues from tl an evening of impr< By Mereditk TI An old-fashioned im- Regime 1 prov variety show, the shov such as the one Pup- gestiom pet Regime hosted "Stop th last Saturday night, periodic is just the sort of di- was left version one needs from a week of term The ] papers, all-nighters and pop-quizzes, requirec Luckily, after having recovered from an thing th all-nighter by sleeping all day, my room- When d( mate and I awoke refreshed and eager in a cen to attend the 11 p.m. show. The prize in a cereal b( The show began , with a tranquil solo The Prize is the played by Biyan Ma- answer to life harnes on the sitar. \ Then, almost giving \CJap.j the audience enter- "tl , 1 he prize is the ansv tainment whiplash, the i , . l r headlining act, The the 4u^t,ons on ^ We're Not Your Moth- tjuiz that tells me il 1 er Players, reclaimed good lover or not. the stage where they performed before mov- The "1 Should Have Sad" ing to Trustus Theatre. The players, James Carmine, Holli Poole, ing, eacl Jayce Tromsness, Amy Dietz, Mindi style of Blackburn, John Bailey, John Cline, them bj Patrick Holland, Thorn Penn, Alex Smith French and Lauren Scudder, were greeted with Wind, I wild applause from the audience. Westen Master of Ceremonies and Puppet the ston Comedy The too-hip-for-you troupe brings skit comedy to MTV LURE EYPE Carolina! Editor In South Carolina, the words "The State" brings mind the Columbia newspaper, but mention then a college student or any MTV junkie, and they're boi to break into an imitation of their favorite charac from "The State." What is The State"? Its the funniest show Fve s< in a long time (MTV is lucky to have snagged it)."] State" is the stuff of inside jokes and late-night silli ness. With characters like Bariy and Levon ($240 worth of puddin, oh yeah) and Doug (I'm outta here), they've brought hope to a bleak-looking TV comedy horizon. But facing mixed reviews | from comedy critics everywhere, the guys (and girl) from "The State" want to set the record straight?they're not :^y|tf||fltt an American "Kids in the Hall." jjjfl The only similarity the shows MTV's The State jfl is, clockwise from top, jfl Thomas Lennon, Kerrl fl Kenney, Todd Holloubok, Michael Jann. Kan Marina. Ban *A! Monday, No r ie lother Players ie audience in )v comedy 11 WW% Alt U1 llvi President James Carmine swur v into action by asking for suj i from the audience for a ski e Action," in which the skit wi ally stopped and the audieni to decide what happened nej next skit, "I Should Have Said I the players to change the la ey said at the sound of a cla sbating the meaning of the pri: sal box, for example, John Ba ley states that "the pri: >x is... is the answer to life clap?"the prize is tl answer to the questioi on the Cosmo quiz th tells me if I'm a got lover or not." Another audience i ^er ? vorite involved keepii -osmo a fajjy faje story hi a going. At the audiena suggestion, five pla ers were required Game keep the story line "The Frog Prince" g i contributing to the stoiy in ti the literary genre assigned r the audience. The genres we Renaissance, Gone With tl larlequin Romance, Sci-fi ai i. If a player failed to contim i in their genre, they were foro is a* i share is the format an dinosaur "Saturday Ni ment a season and we Hall" are beeinnine to Michael Showalter, 3 to Black are three membe i to to dispel the myths ai md controversial comedy t iter "Someone started s ? Marino explained. "Bui gen York and ended up in a [tie were sitting there cha i- Hey, this works The rest, as One of the "The State" s Garant, Michael Ian Black, Joe LoTrugllo, JH Michael Showalter, ft ftj David Wain and Kevin rjp^CM Jf'l^: , -%M m M W M IMp iiifl f Msff *$:W ;jBH vember 14, 1994 I-5 | i "... . % U [t. st C ; . n __ ze le ns Brian Maharnes and his sltar Mother Players Improvlsatlc Saturday night. :a- to leave the stage to the screams of T ig from the audience. ie Without a doubt, the highlight of s's show was the finale: a Wilson Pic y- R&B doo-wop about a subject from to card catalog. The audience chose hi: of ry. Thom Penn began the doo-wop v [o- the profound question, "What do; he mean the War of 1812 was fough to 1810?" John Bailey then chimed in v re the suggestion to "just follow the ti ie line," and James Carmine sang the bl id about losing his syllabus, ne After a five-minute intermissi ed Bryan Maharnes took the stage o 'State' i d the funny factor, something "We ight Live" with one funny mo- It, You ird-gone-weirder "Kids in the liked uf lose. create f Ken Marino and Michael Ian EacI srs of "The State" I interviewed with id id rumors that surround this form all roupe. Michae tying we met at NYU in 1988," approac t really we were all lost in New starting nS&Mbarin the Village. We havetv lined to the wall and realized "We r it," Sho they say, is history. Give s biggest misconceptions is that "Coneh vas created by MTV, but in re- does mi > everything themselves. been a; ' fl ' J Jmm A B^Pf JP?!^W^P^^^Wk > 3? fl d m ' ^JRPSII^I 1 -. ^&v 'x s& yfelHMHK S 1 i ZZZ~J < HPiiiPpp ? -? BBhHpmbmm ' mmmmmmmmimmm ' ^y ' -x ' *?? ^ ~?& - " Photo eourtooy of Bonoon Thootor complemented the We're Not You're >nal comedy at the Benson theater lief again with his original one-act play, "A Poet Named Raisin Head." Maharnes, the currently on a tour of the Southeast, ket tailors each show to the town where he the is performing. The play, a spoof of sto- Frankenstein, involved numerous refrcth erences to Columbia and the Carolina you campus. t in A little after 1 a.m., my roommate nth and I began our trek back to the dorm ime implemented with a whole new perues spective on cereal boxes, fly's legs and time lines. Delightfully zany, energizon, ing and witty, The We're Not Your Mothnce er Players are comedy improv at its best. of mind were hired to do some of the skits on "You Wrote Watch It,"* Showalter said. "After that, MTV ? ?? rrotrA na o AIAAAI 4-A 1? on/) ) au uiuui wivj gurg uo a uuoct IU HUIA in cuiu i show." 1 of the 11 members of "The State" contribute eas- they produce, direct, write, edit and pertheir own stuff. They run their ideas by Lome Is, and if he thinks its funny, they do it. This h has payed off because not only is "The State" ; its new season in January 1995, but they now ro closets. want to do everything: TV, movies, you name waiter said. >n some of the movies from old SNL skits,like eads" and "If s Pat," I hope that if "The State" avies, they pick a good character. But, its only year since their debut and already The State" has come a long way, so catch lljjrifflmk the reruns now. In January, H check out "The State" SunwF-yJ*. - JK. npffifc w*:wP!- -'M:-" 1/ S^BF lllnlMBl III 'MI Ifflllilllllliliiililllilll'lil^w hi I uli lilllHH 11 IlilKIwi