For the week of July 1- July 8 is as follows:

FILM:

Wednesday, 6 and 8 p.m., the original Cape Fear will be shown at

the University Center. Hardly rivaled by Scorsese’s 1991 version (with De

Niro, Nolte, Lewis and Lange) this 1962 film features Robert Mitchum as the

ex-convict out for revenge and Gregory Peck as the southern lawyer in a

bayou town.

MUSIC:

The Dixie Dregs will perform Saturday at the Tennessee Amphitheatre,

World’s Fair Site at 8:30 p.m. The five-time Grammy nominated Dregs have

been around for quite some time (they took a10-year break). Founding

members Steve Morse (Guitar Player magazine’s “Best Overall Guitarist five

years running) and Rod Morgenstein (Modern Drummer magazine’s “Best

Progressive Drummer” four years running) have made the band

internationally famous and the Bring Em’ Back Alive album and tour

will only further their reputation as a forceful blend of rock, funk,

freeform jazz, country, classical and bluegrass music. Tickets are $15 in

advance.

Tonight, The Alive After Five act for this week will be Cindy Joseph and

J-Walkin. General Admission is $3.

Singer/Songwriter Marianne Paluso performs at Davis-Kidd Booksellers

tonight at 7-9 p.m. Paluso accompanies herself on guitar and performs

original compositions that she classifies as “acoustic new folk music from

a Christian perspective.”

Atlanta vocalist Carolyn Aiken with Dave Ezell and Jupiter Muse at

Manhattan’s tonight at 8:30 p.m. $6.

Big Al and the Heavyweights at Amigo’s tonight at 10.

EXHIBITIONS:

Works by Robert Longo at the Knoxville Museum of Art. This contemporary

artist has had works featured at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney

Museum. His five colossal paintings at KMA feature frenzied undercurrents

of modern urban society. Some of these multi-media works are over 30 feet

in length. Admission is free.

An exhibit of contemporary ceramics by Steve Welch will be showcased at the

Ewing gallery in the Art and Architecture Building at UT Welch is a

ceramics instructor with the UT art department.

Knoxville Arts Council’s Artist of the Month, Virginia Wood, showcases her

mixed media exhibition, “Textures and Tones of Summer,” at the Candy

Factory, fourth floor through July 31. These pieces feature collages,

landscapes and flowers.

THEATRE:

“The Reach of Song” at the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds in Hiawassee,

Georgia. A drama of mountain culture told by natives of Appalachia with

storytelling and mountain ballads. Tickets are $5-$12. Through July 30.

“Christy, The Musical” kicks off this weekend 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 October 29. Show runs nightly.

Tickets are $8.50 for children and $12.50 for adults.

“A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking”, a comedy by Lisa Hatmaker

and Ginny Thurston runs a Thursday, Friday and Saturday schedule at the

West Side Dinner Theatre in Farragut. Buffet starts at 6:15 and the play

begins at 8:15. Regular price for dinner and play is $18 per person.

WE RECOMMEND:

7 Year Bitch is a little band from the Northwest that likes to make little

melodies about how human years correspond to the lives of female dogs.

Well, not really. Actually they’re a Seattle band that’s so up front and in

your face it’s time for a facial. Better make that appointment to visit the

Body Shop, `cause they’re coming to town Friday to the Mercury

Theatre.

This foursome of femme fatales got together “because we thought it would be

cool to be in a band,” said Vigil in a recent interview, “We never thought

we’d play outside of Seattle. We never intended to rehearse a lot, tour

everywhere, buckle down. We have short attention spans.” It’s a common

story,friends that went to shows together who never picked up an instrument

start a band. 7 Year Bitch, however, took off.

In February of 1992, a member of Pearl Jam came up to the band and asked

them to take over their place in opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. “We

all said, `Ah, ha, ha…yeah right! Tell us another one.’ But he was

serious,” said bassist Elizabeth Davis. Vigil added, “We asked for the

lights to go up, and we took a picture of the crowd with our little

cameras.”

Since then, things have run their course like a roller coaster. Original

guitarist Stefanie Sargent died after recording their debut album Sick’

Em and the band had to decide whether to continue or not. With an

incentive to make the band stronger in memory of Sargent, they have since

gotten bigger and better and have signed on a new guitarist, Roisin Dunne.

7 Year Bitch had jammed with many other guitarists but none had the

chemistry that the L.A. based Dunne had.

In 1993, the group completed a European tour and received rave reviews from

hard to please Melody Maker and NME. They have packed venues across the

country opening for the likes of Silverfish, L7, Love Battery, Cypress Hill

and Rage Against the Machine.

The music is hard-core feminine grunge without the hygiene. Vigil’s voice

roller coasters on a fine line between allurance and disruption, a siren

with attitude. This might come from the fact that they’re all so `good

lookin’ – bassist Davis talked about their gender in conjunction with the

throbbing sound, “I think it’s sexy, ” she said.

Also appearing with 7 Year Bitch is Loudspeaker, an angry band that spews

forth from Manhattan, loud and abrasive like good grunge should be. Also

appearing with Loudspeaker will be Serene Scream.

That’s for Friday.

Sunday night, 311 comes to the Electric Ballroom to knock the socks off the

town of Knoxville in a delightfully chaotic potpourri of rhythm, rap,

reggae, ballads, screaming, yelling, shouting, crooning….

This quintet from Omaha, Neb. is a new school band of boundary-less

composition and pigeon-holed sound, whereas rap may dominate one song and a

jazzy melody the other. Vocalist Nicholas Hexum explains the new school as

“Bands that take as many styles as they want and know no boundaries – like

Urban Dance Squad, the Beastie Boys, Bad Brains…and 311.”

311 made their debut opening for Fugazi and have only gone farther in

rocking major houses over the country. The band takes on a naturalistic

handling of many genres of music, everything just falls into place,

sometimes in just one song. An interesting exhibition of music that makes

rap accessible in songs that may seem to focus on a reggae or hardcore

tone. Their first CD, Music, has been described as one part Beastie

Boys, one part Bob Marley, one part Chili Peppers.

Planet Productions calls this the show of the summer, and don’t delay on

tickets, because the last two shows in Knoxville have been sold out with

hundreds of people turned away. Tickets in advance ($9) at Raven and the

Disc Exchange. At Raven from 7-8 p.m. there will be an autograph/meet the

band party with lots of free stuff. At the Electric Ballroom, tickets are

$10 and the show will start at 9 p.m. sharp. Opening for 311 will be

Loppybogymi, Soulskin and Pegclimber.