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BEN PILLOW Assistant Features Editor
With no late night eating venues
available on campus, some of the happier
people about school starting up
again are no doubt those in the takeout
business.
And, considering USC is located so
close to an area like Five Points, deliveiy
options cover a wide array of tastes.
But, where do you start, especially when
you re hungry after midnight!
Three of the easier and more obvious
places to look are the yellow pages
of the campus phone book, a Zipsheet
and Taxi Takeout, a delivery service
that will "bring the restaurants to you."
A quick scan of the ads in the yellow
pages yields a variety of restaurants
enthusiastically proclaiming they
deliver to USC, despite the feet you may
have to call and check exactly how late
they will deliver.
Thanks to their persistent and numerous
distributors, a Zipsheet is hard
not to get if you walk anywhere around
campus throughout the year. Each biweekly
issue is full of free coupons and
specials from Amoco to Rite Aid to Domino's.
Restaurants that deliver and can
be found inside most bright yellow issues
are Sammi's Deli, Village Idiot,
Oriental Express, Toogie's, Wings on
Wheels and Papa John's Pizza.
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most accessibility as far as variety is
concerned. To order a delivery, you just
call Takeout Taxi at 699-1113, give
them all your essentials (Le. phone number,
name, etc.), tell them the restaurants)
and items you would like to order
and sit back and wait.
Takeout Taxi will go to any of seven
restaurants, pick up your food and
bring it to you. The only requirement
is a $10 food minimum per restaurant,
and its not as expensive as you may
think. There is a $3.95 service charge
on all orders plus $2 for each additional
restaurant, with 15 percent gratuity
added to orders over $50.
In addition, you may also purchase
Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite and Nestea for
75 cents per can or $3.95 per six pack,
and gift certificates through Takeout
Taxi, all via cash, check, Visa, Mastercard,
American Express or Discover.
While delivery times are limited,
Takeout Taxi covers food for nearly
every taste. They deliver from The Formosa
Chinese, Szechuan and Mexican
Restaurant, Greenleaf Vegetarian Oriental
Cuisine, Julie's, Monterrey Restaurante
Mexicano, San Jose, Steak & Ale
and TGIFriday's.
The downside to Takeout Taxi is
that before they can be of much service,
you have to get their menu for each
restaurant by mail, but that too can be
done easily enough by telephone.
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for the four preteen
girls sitting
in the front row
at the Hootie and the
Blowfish concert at the
Blockbuster Rviliori Saturday
night, Darius Rucker was God.
The girls, all sporting Hootie and
the Blowfish shirts, swore their love
for Rucker, singing along with him on
"Only wanna be with you."
The former USC students, turned
America's favorite new band, still cling
to being 'normal,' but the fans in Charlotte
saw Hootie as the rock stars they
don't want to be.
It seemed clear the band members
were as glad to be back in the Carolinas
as the fens were to have them back.
"Charlotte, North Carolina. I guess
we're finally home," guitarist Mark
Bryan said at the opening of the sold
out show.
The band, who's album, "Cracked
Rear View," has sold over seven million
apes and is currently No.l, showed
some playfulness throughout the show
that seemed very un-Hootie. Drummer
Jim "Soni" Sonefeld threw his drumsticks
in the air and into the crowd a
few times during the show, which might
seem a tame thing to do in any other
band, but come on, this is Hootie.
"Yeah I just got bored out there, I
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Hootie opened the show with Hannah
Jane surrounded by 15-plus lava
lamps, with the mother of them all in
front of Soni's drums.
The band will probably never be at
the forefront of fashion: Bryan had on
cut off jeans, Chuck Taylors and a Tshirt;
Rucker donned a ball cap (surprise),
jeans and T-shirt; bassist Dean
Felber also wore jeans and a T-shirt;
and Soni had on shorts and a Gamecock
soccer T-shirt that lasted a whole
three songs on his body.
The most shocking garment on the
stage wasn't worn by any of the band
member, as a matter of fact it wasn't
worn by anyone. During the last song
of the third encore, "Goodbye," a bra
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Bryan wasn't fazed, he picked it
up and placed it on Rucker's microphone
stand.
Throughout the show, Bryan did
his usual jumping about as seen in the
"Only Wanna Be With You" video, but
the most delightful sight was seeing
Rucker playfully dancing around the
stage. He seemed to feed off of the
crowd's enthusiasm.
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when Rucker sang "Lying down in
Charleston under the Carolina sky."
From there they played "I go blind,"
the B-side of "Hold My Hand." Rucker
introduced the song saying he knew he
was finally back in the South when he
ordered ice tea and it was sweetened.
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three basses. On "Drowning,"
lucker played electric guitar, while
Jiyan gave his best impression of Pee
Townsend's windmill guitar-playng.
During the second encore, Hootie
ilayed a great rendition of "Mustang
lally" with Rucker and Bryan enouraging
the crowd, including the four
oung girls.
Hootie has caught the attention of
he nation, but still won't allow them
elves to forget where they came from.
)uring the first encore Rucker asked
he crowd "How about them Cocks?"
md then proceeded to sing the first
ine the USC alma mater.
Success may never spoil Hootie's
regular guy" image, but to the four
iris in the front row they are more
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