This is the last partially insufficient Entertainment Calendar for the
summer. Look for the continuation of the calendar when Fall Session begins.
Hope the calendar has provided some useful information for the
looking-to-be-entertained reader.
FILM:
The Alive After Five Summer Film Series continues with the
drama/adventure “Mona Lisa” at 7:30 Friday, August 5, in the KMA Coliseum.
This flick features Bob Hoskins in a British version of a gangster film.
With Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine and Clark Peters. The movie is unrated and
runs 100 minutes. General admission is $3.
FESTIVALS:
August 3-14 is the Georgia Mountain Fair, “Crossroads Where Old Friends
Meet,” will take place at the 42 acre fair complex in Hiawasee. It is
hosted by the Towns County Lions Club, which donates all the fair’s
proceeds to charity. Crafts, rides, food, a replication of a historic
village and more food.
MUSIC:
Playing Saturday, Aug. 6 at the Mercury Theatre will be Memphis band The
Grifters, along with with Versus. Promoting their new release, Crappin’
Your Negative, the Grifters will be performing songs that wowed Spin
Magazine. This is also the night to see what lucky fool won those
Lollopalooza tickets for the show this month in Charlotte.
Upcoming shows include:
Paula Cole. Saturday, Aug. 6. This woman has some gorgeous vocals that are
intense and deeply compelling. At the Tomato Head, 10 p.m., $2.
Female voices are perfected with the matchless Sarah McLachlan and The
October Project Sunday, Aug. 14 at the Tennessee Theatre. 8 p.m.
Traffic featuring Steve Winwood with special guests The Subdues. Wednesday,
Aug. 17 at 8 p.m. at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum.
DANCING:
On the Porch at the Victorian Houses, yee-haw. From 5-8 p.m. Sunday,
Aug. 7, Country Western Line Dancing. Right behind (or in front of,
depending on how you look at it) the World’s Fair Park off 11th
Street.
EXHIBITS/
SUBMISSIONS
Photographs by Peter Dreyer in “50 Feet From the Parking Lot, More or
Less.” This heart attack victim and heart transplant recipient has a new
outlook on life, and his photographs of flowers, people and landscapes
reflect it. On the fourth floor of the Candy Factory. Through Aug. 31.
At the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, “Knoxville and Vicinity VI:
University of Tennessee Art Alumni.” Featured will be works in various
media by regional artists who are graduates of UT. From July 25-Aug. 26.
The gallery is open and free to the public.
Knoxville Museum of Art solicits East Tennessee artists’ entries for
exhibition, “East Tennessee Art Currents I.” Guest Curator Jeff Fleming of
the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem will select
roughly 50 works by 10-15 artists and will write a printed piece for the
exhibition, which is scheduled for the Museum’s largest gallery, starting
Dec. 16.
The Arts Council seeks artists who do original work in any media including
painting, drawing, collage, photography, printmaking, sculpture, etc. to
participate in Second Annual “Artist’s Extravaganza.” For more information,
the Arts Council office is located on the second floor of the Candy
Factory.
The Arts Council is also inviting artists to apply for Artist of the Month
Exhibits 1995. Deadline for submissions is Wednesday, Aug. 31, at 4:30 p.m.
Information accompanying submissions should include a brief biography or
artistic statement and a resume of previous exhibits, experience and
education. Slides or photos should also be included along with a
S.A.S.E.
For more information, call (615) 523-7543.
Budding Bukowskis: The National Library of Poetry has announced that
$12,000 in prizes will be awarded this year to over 250 poets in the North
American Open Poetry Contest. To enter, send ONE original poem, any subject
and any style, to The National Library of Poetry, 11419 Cronridge Drive,
P.O. Box 704-1931, Owings Mills, MD 21117. The poem should be no more than
20 lines, and the poet’s name and address should appear on the top of the
page. Deadline is Sept. 30, 1994 and the entry is FREE.
AUDITIONS:
The Bijou Theatre is holding auditions for its 1994-95 Young People’s
Series touring productions, Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 16 and 17 from 5:30
to 7:30 p.m. on the main stage of the Bijou Theatre. Auditions will consist
of a one to two minute monologue and song. This is a paid position. For
more information, call 523-4211.
THEATER:
“Christy the Musical” continues this week in Townsend, Tenn. at the Smoky
Mountain Amphitheatre. This performance features a musical version of
Catherine Marshall’s well-loved, best-selling novel about a year in the
life of Marshall’s mother, who as a 19-year-old traveled to the Great Smoky
Mountains in 1912 to teach school. Through Oct. 29. Show runs nightly.
Tickets are $8.50 for children and $12.50 for adults.
Satire hits West Side Dinner Theatre with “Quiet on the Set,” a satire of
TV soaps by Terrell Anthony, running through Aug. 27. Play follows a
Thursday-Saturday schedule, price for dinner and the play is $18.
“Love Triumphs” is the theme as Shakespeare comes to the World’s Fair Park
with “As You Like It” and “All’s Well That Ends Well.” The former play has
clowns and lots of those witty songs. This production runs Aug. 5-7, 16,
18, 20 and 21 at 8:45 p.m. The latter play is about a woman determined to
make a man love her. These performances will run Aug. 11-14, 17, and 19 at
8:45 p.m. Admission for the play is $5 with children under 12 getting in
free.
Sunday, Aug. 7 at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Theatre Knoxville’s Summer
Showcase kicks off at 2 p.m. with a matinee performance of two one-act
plays, “Approaching Lavender,” a comic-drama by Julie Beckett Crutcher and
“A Way With Words,” a comic tale from Frank Gilroy.
“Approaching Lavender,” directed by Frank Shea, is a story and Abigail,
who are waiting in the vestibule as their father marries his fourth wife.
All traces of polite tolerance disappear when they encounter their
soon-to-be step-sister in this contemporary comment on extended
families.
“A Way With Words,” directed by Helen Lann, takes a comic look at lies,
deceit, and self-discovery. A writer, meeting a long distance accountant
friend for lunch in New York, discovers that the accountant, who has
claimed his wife was “fine” for years, has been divorced for over a
decade.” These plays will be repeated Saturday, Aug. 13 at 7 p.m. and
Sunday, Aug. 14 at 2 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 7 and Wednesday Aug. 10 in Crossville, Tenn., the highly
acclaimed Cumberland County Playhouse features the held-over “Amadeus.”
This story centers around Mozart and his jealous contemporary Antonio
Salieri. Show time is at 7:30 p.m. and tickets run from $16-$8. Call (615)
484-5000.
WE RECOMMEND:
Keep your eye on the Mercury Theatre this month. Over on Market Square it
is kickin’.
Donkey. They kick ass. Is this the perfect name for an alternative band
that specializes in lounge music? Well, I guess. Riding the wake of a new
awakening in “cocktail swing,” Atlanta’s own Donkey has taken what USA
Today journalist David Zimmerman calls “a step from the mosh pit into a Las
Vegas showroom, circa 1958.” This wave of music (and the band) has been
featured everywhere from Entertainment Weekly to Creem to Raygun to USA
Today, and this post-grunge phenomenon has been met with anticipatory zeal.
Ditch the flannel, take a shower, and grease the hair back, slick -oh, and
I’d like that martini stirred, not shaken.
This tornado of tunage recorded their most recent release last year in one
night at The Point, one of Hotlanta’s premiere venues (they hosted the
incomparable Mazzy Star some months back). Lead singer T.B. Ferster may
come across as your suicide-rock influenced lead singer or a pop ballad
crooner lost inside the Cotton Club on acid at first, yet it all ties in
together with some strong vocal styling, i.e. there’s a method in the
madness. Not an easy feat when you’re combining sounds like Burt Bacharach,
bossa nova, samba, R & B, jazz and various forms of 60’s pop -all in one
song.
Mad trombonist Scott “Dallas” Davis is from our own beloved K-town and he
rocked the town inside out with such bands as Clock on the Wall, Awfully
Anglo, and Whitey. With him is bassist Frank Brown, alto sax player Mike
Jones and guitarist Teddy Murray. Go see Donkey. They’re swell.
