JUST BECAUSE IT’S EXCESSIVE DOESN’T MEAN IT DIDN’T HAPPEN:

Can we possibly brag on the UT Film Committee enough? This weekend’s

mystery “Recent Release” turns out to be Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp

Fiction. Every performance is stellar, every line is quotable.

Of course the question to ask is, what will the sound be like in the UC

Auditorium? Also, will it be projected in the format that shows less screen

width than a television? Regardless, it’s an incredible movie and the Film

Committee deserves gold stars for bringing it here–****.

Showtimes are at 7 and 9:30 Friday and Saturday evening, in the University

Center Auditorium. Admission is $1 for students and $2 for non-students.

At the Clarence Brown Theatre on Sunday, Feb. 12, the Film Committee

presents Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway, a comedy

starring the always-good John Cusack. The previously advertised Sunday

film, Arizona Dream, was not available for U.S release. Showtimes

are at 7 and 9:30 p.m.

WORLD CLASS ORGANIST:

UT organ professor John Brock will present a faculty organ

recital at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12, at the Church of the

Ascension, 800 Northshore Drive. He will be assisted by baritone

Allen Henderson.

Brock has performed across the U.S. and around the world, from St.

Patrick’s Cathedral in New York to the St. Joris Church in Antwerp,

Belgium, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Posthausen, Germany. He is

known to Knoxville audiences through his many appearances in area

churches.

This weekend’s recital is free of charge.

A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY, A LITTLE BIT ROCK-N-ROLL:

Moonshine Willy– Start liking them early:

Saturday, Feb. 11, at Flamingo’s, Chicago band Moonshine

Willy will make its Knoxville debut. From the preview tape they sent, I

personally guarantee this show to be A-one superfine fun. With their high

octane country-bluegrass sound, it’s a wonder these folks are yankees. I’m

probably not the first person to compare them to Southern Culture on the

Skids, but I will anyway. If you make the show, ask them to play “Too Tired

to Live, Too Lazy to Die.” Opening for Moonshine Willy are a bunch of neat

Knoxville fellows called the Ray-O-Vacs, playing on that surf/lounge

kick.

Picasso Trigger– not for the meek:

Raleigh, North Carolina’s Picasso Trigger will get wild at the

Mercury Theatre Saturday night. They’re loud and all that stuff,

promising “chaos and humiliation” at every show. Opening the 10 p.m. show

will be the chaotic humility of Knoxville’s own Torture Kitty.

Admission is $5.

KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY:

Tonight at 8 p.m. at the Civic Coliseum, eight-time “Female

Vocalist of the Year” Crystal Gayle will open the Saturday Night

Pops Series with the Knoxville Symphany Orchestra’s DeRoyal

Valentine Concert. Tickets are $25 for second balcony seats and $35 for

main floor and first balcony seats. UT students can buy the tickets at a $6

discount at the UT Central Ticket office.

The Knoxville Symphany Chamber Players Concert will be

Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m. The concert will feature works by composer

David Baker. This performance will be at the Knoxville Museum of

Art.

RADIO CONCERT:

A radio-broadcast concert in honor of former UT Music Department Head

and KSO Conductor David Van Vactor will be heard locally at 8 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 13, on WUOT-FM, 91.9.

THEATRE:

The Grapes of Wrath continues at the Clarence Brown Theatre

through Feb. 19. Showtime is 8 p.m. nightly, with a 2 p.m. show this

Saturday, Feb. 11.

The West Side Dinner Theatre, 12801 Kingston Pike (in Farragut),

currently features Send Me No Flowers, starring Troy Bierer,

Chris Collins, Mark Hatmaker, Kimberly Hudson, Wanda Huttner, John Lyons,

Will Sanders and Stephanie Stone. Running Thursdays through Saturdays, the

buffet opens at 6:45 and the play begins at 8:15. For reservations call

966-8768. The play runs through March 18.

The Dinner Theatre will hold open auditions this Sunday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m.

for roles in Mark Hatmaker’s original comedy Seance Fiction.

Multiple roles are available. The play is scheduled to begin March23.

ART:

ON CAMPUS:

Miranda Shaw, author of Passionate Enlightenment: Women in

Tantric Buddhism, will give two lectures next week in the Hodges

Library Auditorium. At 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16, she will speak

on “The Sacred Female in Buddhist Art and Culture.” At noon on

Friday, Feb. 17, she will discuss “Worship of Women in Tantric

Buddhism.” These talks reexamine the cultural construction of gender in

South Asia.

KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART:

Musician/composer/bassist David Baker performs at tonight’s

Alive After Five concert at the KMA. Joining him will be his wife

Lida on flute, and Alive After Five veterans Donald Brown, Jerry Coker,

Keith Brown, Bill Morrison, Vance Thompson and Patty Coker. Admission is $5

general audience, $2.50 for students with a valid ID and free to KMA

members.

Several fine exhibits are currently on display at the KMA. “One

Printmaker to Another: Lithographs by June Wayne” will be on exhibit

through April 16.

LAUREL THEATRE, 16th and Laurel:

Celtic band Cherish the Ladies will perform tonight at 8 p.m. at

the Laurel Theatre. This group is the top all-woman ensemble in America’s

Irish traditional folk scene (the Chieftains meet the Indigo Girls?). This

concert will be broadcast live on WUOT, 91.9 FM. Tickets are $13 for

Jubilee Community Arts members and students, $15 for the general audience

and $6 for children 6-12. TIckets are available at the UT Central Ticket

office, Cat’s Cassettes and CDs, The Disc Exchange and at the Printer’s

Mark Bookshop.

Sunday, Feb. 12, at 8 p.m., the Laurel welcomes Canadian folk singer

Garnet Rogers. His performance mixes an “acerbic and lightning quick

wit” and lyrical poignancy to move the audience “from tears to laughter and

back again.” Tickets are $8 for JCA members and students, $10 general

audience and $3 for children 6-12.

OTHER HOT NIGHTSPOTS:

MANHATTAN’S in the Old City:

Acoustic group Crimson Moon will perform Wednesday, Feb. 15, at

9 p.m. Admission is $3.

MERCURY THEATRE on Market Square:

The Lords of Acid “After Party” will begin immediately after

tonight’s concert. The concert is at the Electric Ballroom, the party is at

the Mercury Theatre.

SASSY ANN’S Fourth and Gill Neighborhood (formerly Zarbo’s):

Knoxville jazz duo Wendel Werner and Terry Schmidt will

perform Thursday, Feb. 16, at 9:30 p.m. Admission is $2.

TOMATO HEAD on Market Square:

Amelia Earheart Returns will perform at 9 p.m. at Knoxville’s hippest

pizza parlor. Also appearing will be She Said.