Fine Cinema:
Can it actually have been nine years since I first saw this movie?
The Breakfast Club, the original slacker film, is showing
this weekend at the University Center. Showtimes are 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
tonight and Saturday. Relive the magic as Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson,
the original Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke, fall in love despite their
cultural differences.
What are their cultural differences? Ringwald plays what we ’80s teenagers
called a “preppie.” Nelson plays the standard Hollywood ruffian – petty
criminal record, his father abuses him, the principal has a homoerotic
love/hate thing going on with him. But, ultimately, they see through these
shallow facades, and just in time for the Simple Minds’ song “Don’t You
Forget About Me.” Also notable: Ally Sheedy plays an introspective,
all-black-wearing brooder that predates Winona Ryder’s Beetlejuice
role.
In other film news, Star Trek-Generations starts today.
Experience the friction when Kirk meets Picard. Will Picard teach Kirk how
to go bald gracefully? The suspense is killing me.
Another promising opening is The Professional, a new film by
the director of La Femme Nikita.
As always, The Rocky Horror Picture Show plays tonight and
Saturday at midnight at Powell Cinemas. The live rendition of the film,
acted out simultaneously, will be performed by the troupe Infantile
Regression. Admission is $3.
Weekend Music:
The Knoxville Opera Company presents Rigoletto tonight
and Sunday afternoon. For further details, see the close-up elsewhere in
today’s Beacon.
Tonight and Saturday, Ripchord Records hosts a special CD
release at the Library. Sixteen bands are slated to perform. For more info,
see the close-up elsewhere in today’s Beacon.
Nancy Brennan Strange and Donald Brown are performing at the Laurel
Theatre tonight. Strange is a well-known local chanteuse and Brown is a
master jazz pianist. The show begins at 8 p.m. Admission is $8, with
discounts for children and Jubilee Community Arts members.
Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Fiji Mariners, with opening act
Bloodkin, will bring their wild mix of music to Flamingo’s tonight
at 10 p.m. Admission is $6.
Fun Girls From Mount Pilot will perform at Gryphon’s tonight at 10
p.m. These folks are crazy, and they put on a bizarre show of cornpone
punk. Also appearing will be Knoxville’s own Torture Kitty, who will
also play at the Ripchord Records CD release party. Going “unplugged” for
the evening, their plan is to play one show after the other. Says Torture
Kitty singer and Beacon writer John Sewell, “It’s so stupid it just
might work.”
The Mercury Theatre hosts The Vegas Cocks tonight at 10
p.m.
The Marcus Shirley Group performs at Lucille’s tonight at 10 p.m.
Admission is $2.
Rasta Rafiki is playing at Bullfrog’s tonight at 9:30 p.m.
Admission is $3.
Blues great Delbert McClinton appears at 8 p.m. Saturday night at
the Bijou Theatre.
Sunday, Nov. 20, jazz vocalist Patti Coker will perform at the 11
o’clock service at the Unity Church of Knoxville.
Music Next Week:
The UT Chamber Music Series will perform its second concert of
the season Monday, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m. in the UT Music Hall. Monday’s
concert will feature the renowned Brasswind Quintet. Admission is $5
for general audience, $2 for students. For more information, contact
Gretchen Church at 974-8935.
Live Poetry and Fiction Readings:
Monday, Nov. 21, from 4 to 5:15 p.m. in McClung Tower 1210, the UT
Creative Writing program hosts a reading by five UT student poets and
writers. Readers are Randall Brown, Toby Emert, Marcella Fleishman, Earl
Pruitt, and Patricia Waters.
Leroy’s Open Mic Poetry Night happens at Gryphon’s, 2003 Highland
Avenue, every Tuesday at 9. The featured readers for Tuesday, Nov. 22, are
Randall Brown and John Grayson. For more information, or to
sign up to read, call the Poetry Hotline of Knoxville, 522-6856.
Theatre:
Little Shop of Horrors concludes its run tonight at 8 p.m. at
the Clarence Brown Theatre. Admission is $10 for the general public, $3 for
full time UT students, $8 for UT faculty and staff.
UT Theatres presents A Christmas Carol for the 1994 Yuletide
season. The classic play begins in the Clarence Brown Theatre
Friday, Nov. 25, and runs through Wednesday, Dec. 21.
The West Side Dinner Theatre presents the world premier of The
Trouble With Christmas. The original comedy by award-winning
Knoxville playwright Mark Hatmaker runs now through December 23. For
reservations, call 966-8768.
Einstein Simplified performs improvisational theatre every Tuesday
at 8 p.m. at Manhattan’s in the Old City.
Art:
The Knoxville Intermedia Cooperative are presenting “A Salon”
this weekend at 123 West Jackson. The salon will offer open discussion
featuring intermedia art. The exhibit/discussion will be held November 17,
18 and 19 from 7 to 9 p.m.
The First Ever Student Competition is on display on the University
Center Concourse.
