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7 THE GAMECOCK ♦ Wednesday, June 4, 2003 THEY SAID IT 'fijs) -p yp-p-py PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH: “Rarely is the CONTACT US I_I iH' \/l I yV question asked: is our children learning?” E-mail us at gamecockmixeditor@hotmail.com -L -L ■ J J-T JL JL-L Y. Barrett f.mith from Columbia, SC, plays the guitar and sings Thursday nights at El Burito. Smith has been with the band for several years. Banjos, burritos: Thursday nights BY IRENA POPOVA THE GAMECOCK On Thursday nights during the spring and summer, Mexican restaurant El Burrito welcomes its customers with a laid-back evening of live bluegrass. The music starts around 7:30 p.m. and can end as late as 11:00. There is no cover charge, but those who want to drink must show their ID at the entrance to get a bracelet. Though the cast of the restau rant’s house band, the Burrito Band, changes, but the core re mains: singer Laura Story, Danny Harlow on the fiddle, Randy Lucas on the banjo, and guitarist Barret Smith. Harlow considers bluegrass music to be a tradition, much the same as a few friends getting to gether and jamming during their free time. “The bluegrass and folk influ ences are drawn-on by tradition,” Harlow said. “We have learned throughout a lifetime of jam ses sions, acoustic brawls, listening to records, jamming.” Harlow considers music mak ing a tapestry - something unique. “Playing in a band is like do ing a music tapestry,” he said. “It’s like magic in front of your eyes and ears. It’s a totally creative experience.” ♦ BLUEGRASS, SEE PAGE 8 Last chance to see Greenberg exhibit BY BRIAN RAY THE GAMECOCK June 15 will be the final day for art fans to stroll through the Clement Greenberg exhibit at the Columbia Museum of Art. It’s not exactly now or never. But if you can’t make it now then you’ll have to drive to Florida when the ex hibit reopens in Naples. Officially entitled “Clement Greenberg: A Critic’s Collection,” the exhibit consists of works in ab stract expressionism by Jackson Pollock, Jules Olitski Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann and Adolph Gottlieb, field paint ings by Kenneth Noland, and a handful of other artists from the modern art grab bag. Greenberg, a nationally renown art critic who wrote for “Art Digest,” “The New Republic,” and “The Nation,” was the first to praise Jackson Pollock’s splat tered canvases, calling Pollock “the most powerful painter in America.” The exhibit reflects Greenberg’s personal taste, con sisting of pieces he bought or re ceived as tokens of affection from artists such as Jackson Pollock and Kenneth Noland. Works on display also include sculptures by Sir Anthony Caro and Anne Truitt. Most of the more intriguing works are by field painter Kenneth Noland. Out of the dozen or more artists represented he is the only artist, other than Larry Poons, to fill an entire room with his paintings. Noland’s most remarkable work, a canvas emblazed with vibrant swirls of color that orbit around a black hole, catches the eye imme ♦ EXHIBIT, SEE PAGE 8 Mellow Mushroom’s pizza is fresh, slow MELLOW MUSHROOM 1009 GERVAIS STREET out of ☆☆☆☆☆ BY TRISHA SHADWELL life GAMECOCK The Mellow Mushroom has the best pizza in town - and the small est booths. Two people fit fme but four are a squeeze. But that’s what happens when you try to arrange seating for nearly / two hundred, plus two bars, \ thirty hot-bodied staff, and lots of quirky decor in a jm building that could possi- ^k bly accommodate a hun dred if there were fewer mushroom mascots. But The iH Mellow Mushroom is trying to make eating pizza more than just cheese and pepperoni at midnight. Clients can watch the open kitchen, as cooks make their pizzas and toss them overhead. The servers are all young college stu dents, full of energy. You can eat downstairs, up stairs, at the bar or even on the cov ered porch overlooking the city. The Mushroom is a trendy but pret ♦ MELLOW, SEE PAGE 8 General Manger Brian Johnsey tosses a pizza at the newly opened Mellow Mushroom .