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Photos: "Lord, I Wish I Had
Prayin' Church Tbnight," McKissii
Museum, through Sept. 12.
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The Restaurant Review
by ADAM DAWKINS
The Blue Marlin
Out of four stars
1/2
1200 Lincoln St.
The Vista
$$
The Blue Marlin, one of Columbia's
most nrnminpnt seafood restaurants.
makes a good effort at serving decent
cuisine at moderate prices.
When I dined there, I ordered an
appetizer of oysters on the half shell.
The server came back to inform me that
there were none available, so I ordered
another appetizer. It, too, was out. So,
as the old saying goes, the third time
was a charm, and I went for my old
stand-by ? the crab cakes. They were
fine, but not memorable. As an entree,
I ordered the halibut. Soon, not at all
to my surprise, the server returned to
say that they were out of that, too.
So, after having flung up my arms in
despair, I ordered the mahi-mahi, and
it was quite good. The server was
nirp enough In Hisrniint the meal for
my troubles, so I suppose it was fine in
the end. However, the fact that
everything I wanted from the menu
was out was quite disappointing.
I dined at The Blue Marlin with a
couple of friends, both of whom were
somewhat disappointed in their meals.
One friend ordered fried catfish fingers
as an appetizer. To me, it looked just
like something I have seen at a local
Long John Silver's, only this cost four
times as much. Another friend ordered
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was great. However, he was disap
pointed in the size of the fried oys
ters in his entree, saying they wen
mainly breading.
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but it had some decent choices to g<
along with seafood. The service wa
fair, but nothing to really write horn
about.
All in all, The Blue Marlin is fai
in the way of seafood, but I think th<
bottom line is that I won't be return
ing there anytime soon.
Groucho's Deli
Out of four stars
611 Harden St.
Five Points
$
Ever since a good friend introduce
me to Groucho's in Five Points my fresh
man year, it has been one of my ver
favorite lunch spots in town. My fa
vorite sandwich on Groucho's men
is the STP, a sandwich made wit'
turkey and roast beef, topped with pre
vOlone cheese and bacon bits. They ir
elude their famous dipping sauce, whici
is heavy with dill. It's not for the healtl
nut, but it's a very satisfying lunch
In addition to many good sandwich
es, Groucho's serves some fine vege
tarian items.
The one thing I must say that Grou
cho's could imorove uDon is the icei
tea. As a good Southerner, I have be
come quite the iced tea connoisseui
and I have to give Groucho's a "thumb
down" in that department.
It is easy to understand why Grou
cho's is such a popular lunch place am
has been since the 1940s. I expect i
they continue serving the same awe
some but simple lunch specials, theyl
be around for many years to come
Key to pricing guides:
$ = $l-$10per person
$$ = $ll-$20
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The Gamecock
$$$ = $21 - $30
$$$$ = more than $31
Adam Dawkins is a hotel, restaurant
and tourism administration senior, and
1 a member of both the National Restauy
rant Association and American Culinary
Federation. He has published
^ restaurant reviews in publications
throughout the Southeast.
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of windows. The principal arguments
in the Microsoft battle were that making
the browser an extra major element
of a computer slows it down and
that the integration of a browser is an
aggressive marketing attempt. On
both counts, these arguments are
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sions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, ,
Volume 2," is just another album. wQv;
Fleck, this time without the Flecktones,
brings a group of some of the .i
best acoustic musicians together. He ^
mentions in the liner notes that the ^
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The songs on the CD are all in- ^
credibly catchy. However, after get- evg]
ting halfway through the CD, one a
might start to wonder when it is go- ^
big to end. The CD makes good mood ^
music, but I didn't have the stamina
rid on its we
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a computer, and it is, in part, a mar- pub
keting attempt out
While Microsoft's approach isn't atte
exactly noble, the concept is a sign of the
things to come. Integrating Internet and
software into a computer will even- one
tually be something nearly every con- mor
sumer desires. I hear a lot of people thej
complain about Microsoft products, goal
These two arguments are a little ex- but
aggerated, but when thinking about look
these things try to take into account thes
the immense scale of the tasks the erafc
company is attempting to perform, for v
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tern that can operate old applications, If yc
keep track of your new hardware, pro- use
vide an integrated Internet platform plen
and at the same time be something for 3
anybody can use is immense. Such a 1
project is always changing and im- futu
proving. ane
Microsoft is the beast with two it, d
faces. The corporation's marketing pen:
schemes are far too agressive and are tour
detrimental to the progress of com- ever
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would be a good thing to have
ring at a party when no one is contrating
particularly hard on the
sic.
The thing that impressed me most
lit the album are the various blue>s
stvles the album represents. The
satility of Fleck and his band is
y amazing. The songs range from
litional bluegrass ditties, featurbluegrass
legend Earl Scruggs, to
vgrass."
''Tales from the Acoustic Planet,
lme 2" isn't a must for the casual
3grass listener. However, I know
t many people take bluegrass mu/ery
seriously. I can see how this
ild be a very important album in
evolution of bluegrass music. The
;e generations of bluegrass musiis
that make an appearance on the
im should make an historical mark
he music industry.
If you pick up the album expectthe
jazz-fusion style of the Fleck:s,
you might, be disappointed. Howr,
I recommend you at least give it
Din at one of the listening stais
at Manifest or Papa Jazz, just
ay you heard history in the mak>r
software. The policy of buying
n/itiofitra fnolinimioc an/)
mpting to integrate them limits
variety that spawns competition
. growth. The second face, the
I urge people to lo<5k at a little
e closely, is the development of all
;e products with such ambitious
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I'm not advertising for Microsoft,
1 am saying that consumers should
at these issues before they make
e complaints, wnen ouying an oping
system for your computer, look
that you want out of it If you want
leplay, don't go for 'Windows NT."
>u want to develop software, don't
"Windows 95." Like ice cream,
ty of different flavors are out there
rour computer.
rVeb integration is the wave of the
re, and we should give companies
arly swing at it. If you don't want
on't buy into it now. But it is haping,
and the benefits will be astding.
It is a step closer to wiring
ybody into the world