Thursday, September 9, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Five
Ann
Arbor:
Places
to
go,
people
to
see
Good movies, bargain prices-
but bring your own popcorn
By MERRILL DINNER
To most, movies are a perversion of enter-
tainment-to some an escape for love, and to
others an implement of war.
But, whatever your tastebuds desire, it can
be found, for outside of London, Ann Arbor
has developed into one of the finest movie
complexe's in the world.,
Although Ann Arbor is missing the secluded
balconies of Casablanca. the grey cliffs of
Dover and the battles of Dunkirk, there is still
plenty of projected excitement to be had at
reasonable prices.
Cinema Guild remains the most notorious
(and by far the best) low-cost film house in
town, concentrating primarily on foreign films
by top directors-Godard, Fellini, Renoir, and
Trufaut, for example. It also features oldie-
but-goodie American productions, including a
variety of Chaplin and Marx Brothers flicks.
The Guild presents movies Tuesday through
Sunday at the modest price of 75 cents on the/
hard wooden seats of the Architecture Aud.
he other mainstay of the campus is Cinema
II, which concentrates on recent vintage pro-
ductions such as "The Dutchman,", "One-eyed
Jacks," and "Magnificent Seven." Cinema II
shows in Angell Hall's Aud. A for 75 cents.
Movies are also shown on a semi-regular
basis at Hillel, the Newman Center, the Ark,
the First Presbyterian Church, and even in
the multi-purpose room of the Undergraduate
Library. Publicized usually by handbills passed
out on campus, these movies are often ex-
cellent.
Perhaps the best deals are the movies that
are shown in the dorms on an irregular basis-
usually good and often free or, at most, 25
cents.
The American Revolutionary Media (ARM )
group also shows movies-at Canterbury House
in the past, but since Canterbury House has
moved, in the Natural Science Aud. ARM flicks
have usually been contemporary, or at least
fairly recent.
There is excitement off the screen as well,
for the Ann Arbor movie audience. Aside from
such fine movies as "The Birth of a Nation,"
"The Wizard of Oz," "The Cincinnati Kid,"
and "Little Shop of Horrors," the Ann Arbor
film community last year-at no extra cost-
was treated to Dis-ARM.
Dis-ARM was not a movie, though it might
as well have been. Dis-ARM was a vigilante
group that went about trying to destroy ARM,
by stealing several projectors and movies and
even managing to wreck movie screens just
before performances of ARM-sponsored movies.
If the more conventional movie-going is your
pleasure, the several Ann Arbor movie houses
will set you back $2 for usually second-rate
flicks with great reviews. Your best best is to
read Pauline Kael's reviews in the New Yorker
before wasting your money.
One can save 50 cents at the "real" movie
houses by going to the Wednesday matinees
or Saturday before 6 p.m.
. . .plenty to
By RICK PERLOFF
Sometimes, on a sweaty atfernoon when the streets are drench-
ed in boredom and the windowsills drip teardrops from a one
o'clock rainstorm on the lonely raincoats and the silent clod-
hopping shoes; sometimes, when the bookshelves shrug indif-
ference on the grayish, monotone world; sometimes, all you can
do is stare at a puddle and sit and watch and mumble, and
wait for the rain to die.
Sometimes you can do that.
But other times . . . there's a seashore and a sandcastle
we call Ann Arbor and even when it rains people fingerpaint
along the shore. Even when it rains, even when it's dismal, even
then Ann Arbor can live.
You can, for example, visit art galleries in Nichols Arcade,
in Centicore Bookshop; you can go archaeological and tour the
Kelsey or Natural History Museums; if it's Thursday and the
right week of the month, you can attend a Regents open hearing;
you can frequent a petshop and 'maybe get a pet; you can see
a film on scientology, about how your mind can be blown in five
easy lessons; you can wander through planetariums in Angell
Hall and the Natural History Museum; or, if you want some-
thing really swell, can arrange a tour of Burton Tower, meet
Percival Price and his 53 bells which ring at noon and 5 p.m. . . .
meet Percival Price, the first non-European to study the art
of bell ringing, campanology, and the most genuine carilloner this
side of the Huron River.
Or: You can hear music in the UGLI sound room, practice
basketball, badminton or karate at Waterman Gym, hear a special
lecture maybe in Angell Hall, or if you're realy bored you can
plan a protest from the Student Activities Bldg.; or better yet,
you can read the Daily Official Bulletin (for things to do on just
such days.)
And that's when its raining. When it's sunny and sharp,
there's still more. There's freaks dancing at dawn and old men,
with ruffled overalls and faded sports shirts, walking their dogs,
and you can wander with them and invite the day to breakfast.
For the meal you'll walk downtown to Farmers Market, Wed-
nesday or Saturday, buy potatoes and apples and celery from the
funky farmers.
Then, a carrot in your mouth, a pitchfork in your mind, you
can whistle your way to the Diag
And once you've sniffed nostalgia, you can buy a kazoo
and bounce on down to the Huron River to watch the ducks or
wander over to Island Park and skip some stones along the water.
You could move back to city lights then - stand in front of
P.J.s, discussing dope with the junkies; downtown you can talk
about the war with one of the men outside the VFW Bldg. You
can pretend you're in Manhattan and window shop at Saks Fifth
Avenue or if you're health-food minded, you can buy some at
Eden Organic and chew merrily down State Street.
You can join a bike club and take ten-speed vacations. You
can swim in the Intramural Pool or maybe venture out to Whit-
more Iake. You can go north to the Botanical Gardens. You can
spin the cube til you're dizzy, You can laugh, you can sing, you
can run.
There's all sorts of things to keep the spider, boredom, from
spinning webs around your heart and plenty more to make Ann
orbor home.
eep your mind alive
View from the top of the tower
ORGANIC SPOTS
Get high on
the green.
WHi ERE TO GO
Coff eehouses or
bars:
of Ann Arbor's parks
Ann Arbor night life
By LYNN WHITNALL
If you get tired of sitting
around in your dorm, you might
try paying to sit around in one
of Ann Arbor's spectacular
night spots.
Mark's coffee house on Wil-
liam St. is an ideal place in
which to hang around. You can
play chess or just talk to peo-
ple - not a particularly unique
activity, but the conversation is
enhanced by the friendly, cof-
fee-house atmosphere.
Mark's has a wide variety of
coffees, teas, and nutritious
foods such as fruit, salads, and
yogurt. It is advisable that you
buy something, because 1Ias t
year Mark's closed for awhile
due to financial difficulties,
partly arising from too m a n y
people going to just hang
around.
The Ark is another good place
to try. Instead of chairs, you sit
on floor cushions - a variation.
The entertainment there is ex-
cellent, usually high quality
though nationally unknown
folk singers. The admission
charge is 50 cents on Wednes-
days and Thursdays and $1.50
on weekends.
Then there are the dorm cof-
fee houses - South Quad's
"Smitty's," Bursley's "Fanner-
il," East Quad's "Half-Way
Inn," Stockwell's "Truck Stop,"
Alice Lloyd's "Alice's Restaur-
ant," and Mosher-Jordan's "M.
J. Coffee House."
The entertainment in most of
these usually consists of local
bands or amateur folk singers,
although Alice's Restaurant fre-
quently presents films for about
76 cents.
The quality of these dorm
coffee houses varies from year
to year, depending upon the
dorm residents who organize
the activities. The quality of
the entertainment. also has a
wide range - some of the per-
formances are wretched, ,but
there are also a lot of good pro-
grams.
If exciting night life appeals
to you, consider the offerings
of the Ann Arbor bars. The
Odyssey, -Bimbo's, Mr. Flood's
Party, and Lum's, whose R.F.D.
Boys specialize in blue grass
music, are popular places which
provide entertainment' in addi-
tion to the wonders of alcohol.
However, most bars are usually
strict about checking I.D.'s.
Several bars, Flick's f o r
example, are openly hostile to
prospective customers with long
hair.
Canterbury House, formerly
one of the most versatile ga-
thering places, moved this past
summer to much smaller quar-
ters above Mark's because of
financial stress. In the p a s t
Canterbury House sponsored
bands, the Radical Film series,
plays, and speakers, but the
confining space of the new lo-
cation will heavily curtail fu-
ture entertainment.
If none of, these suggested
establishments is appealing, you
could try an increasingly pop-
ular night time activity - rid-
ing the, North Campus bus. It
is a perfect place for engaging
in deep conversation with some-
one, as the scenic splendors of
a darkened North Campus pass
you by.
Most importantly, it is warm
in the winter, and it is free.
By W. E. SCHROCK
For those of us that wish for
"getting back to nature" tem-
pered by cosmetic alteration of
greenery and manicured en-
vironment, the Ann Arbor area
offers a number of parks and
recreation areas.
THE DIAG of Central Cam-
pus attracts literally thousands
of young people during the
warm weeks of early fall and
late spring. They drink Boones
Farm, gather in groups to lis-
ten to guitars and fiddles and
occasionally flaunt the State
and City pot laws.
Diag people also play Fris-
bee, blow soap bubbles, and talk
professors into' holding t h ei r
classes outside.
For the non-joiner who likes
to "just watch," the Diag of-
fers such sights as dogs in heat,
an ocasional rock band, under-
cover police spotting, freaky
people, entertaining radical
rallies and guerrilla theater
shows, green grass and t a 11
trees.
it's at''
Galleries: Art is where
Looking for fun in
the 'U's' cupboards
By AL TROPOPAR
That small scrap of yellow plastic that has replaced your iden-
tity with a number can also be your open-sesame to a multitude of
mind-enrichments sponsored by the mother of all-the University
itself.
Besides allowing you to check out books at the Undergraduate
Library, your card can get you a piano and a practice room at the
Union, a swim at a University pool, or a vote (or two?) in the
Student Government Council elections.
But when you lose your ID (as everyone does at sometime or
another), there will still be University-run entertainments which
you and companions can enjoy for no charge on an empty after-
noon.
The most impressive and relaxing of these are University mu-
seums and art galleries. The
king of University museums, the
nearly every imaginable exhibit
Natural History museum, houses
which relates to the natural sci-
ences. Buffs of anthropology,
archeology, geology, biology, or
peace and quiet will find a
haven at this museum on North
University.
The Museum of Art on State
.. St. has art exhibits of every
kind displayed in light, air*
rooms. As the -exhibits change
from month to month, the mu-
seum is always refreshingly
new. Last year's shows included
W Architectural and Ornament
Drawings of the 17th and 18th
Magic bus centuries and Contemporary Art
Projects.
If you find yourself with an afternoon that seems too beauti-
ful to spend inside museums, hop a bus to North Campus. The
University buses are free to everyone and will leave you off at any
one of the well-groomed, wide-open areas of North Campus. Buses
can be caught at North University or the Medical Center.
Once you have soaked up plenty of North Campus nature, stroll
down the halls of the music school's practice rooms and hear the
By LARRY ADELSON
While "The Pieta" has never been flown
here and the Guggenheim family hasn't
donated a cent to the city, throughout its
history the University community has
housed more than its share of objets d'art.
Local gallery owners are a rather amen-
abe crew. They are, without exception, in-
terested in encouraging an interest in the
Fine Arts and are glad to help people who
have no firm intention to buy art.
They also all carry quality works in
lower price ranges to accommodate those
who would like a piece of art to -live with
but who don't have the money to be art
collectors.
Forsythe G a l1 e r y, 201 Nichol's Ar-
cade, is Ann Arbor's oldest gallery, going
back well over twenty years. Forsythe has
concentrated on representing artists o v e r
long periods of time, choosing them ac-
cording to the tastes of the directors. The
gallery shows a number of University fa-
culty members, national artists, and fore-
ign artists.
Lantern Gallery, 301 N. Main, attempts
to bring young, rising artists and older but
not well known artists, largely from the
New York area, to Ann Arbor. The gallery
also runs a "collectors club", which provides
its membership with a chance to meet with
artists and hear talks by art historians.
Centicore Gallery, .336 Maynard, is com-
bined with a bookstore. The gallery hopes
that this will create an accessible and less
formal atmosphere. At present, the gallery
carries primarily graphics, and is attuned
to the New York art scene in its exhibi-
tions.
Judlo Gallery, 1205 E. University, is lo-
cated in the basement of Logos Bookstore.
Judlo is rather informally. run and car-
ries a wide range of work including Amer-
ican Indian crafts and Pre-Columbian cera-
mics.
Art Venture, 2030 Pzckard, shows work
by aspiring artists and students in a variety
of mediums.
'BEGONE, DULL CARE'
THE ARB, officially called
the Nichols Arboretum, offic-
ially closes at sundown, b u t
thatsis often when the f u n
starts.
Located west of the Central
Campus near the Medical Cent-
er, the Arb offers hilly fields
and shady trees. People do
everything they do on the Diag
in the Arb, only more so. Also
during the daytime people form
pickup teams and play ball.
During the warm weeks, the
Arb is a great place to watch
the sun come up. During the
winter people enjoy the snow
and cold by sledding down the
hills on cafeteria trays.
CITY PARKS are nice, b u t
if you are lucky enough to have
a motor vehicle you will pro-
bably want to go somewhere
outside the city for your green-
ery.
Nevertheless, the City of Ann
Arbor does have numerous
parks, and if you miss watching
your hometown little leaguers
play, Ann Arbor kids will be
glad to h'ave you as a spectator.
Also, the Rainbow People Par-
ty sponsors free rock concerts
at city parks during the sum-
mer months.
DELHI AND HURON-DEX-
TER parks are out the scenic
Huron River Drive. Both of
these parks are quite aways out
of the city, and both are well-
kept with water running
through them for the would-be
fisherman or wader.
To reach either park, t a k e
Main Street north almost to
the expressway, then catch Hu-
ron River Drive (on your left).
Both parks are a good bicycle
trip up tme Drive, which winds
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Art exhibition
U /sing your imagination
By TAMMY JACOBS
"Ann Arbor," someone fron nSaginaw
once said, "is the cultural haven of
Michigan."
In a way it's true. The University
prides itself on being able to provide its t
students with interesting and/or stim-
ulating things to do in moments spent 1
away from the books.t
There are always movies to see, lectures
to hear, meetings to attend, exhibits to z
observe - all listed in the "Daily Official ,
Bulletin" or the University Record's
Fir- V77.1"Weekly Calendar."I
But sometimes onewantsrsonething
different to do, something relaxing or
exciting, something not quite so sterile
and "planned."
One of the most-used recreational stand- f
bys of students weary of studying in the
omnipresent bridge game. If you don't
know how to play, you'll probably find 1
yourself with the choice of learning or
becoming a hermit.s
to oust
six high card points, and when you weary
of watching your partner consistently
trump your one quick trick, the time has
come to mtove on.
The next stop, if you have a bit of
cash, could be Wizard. Hidden in the' base-
ment of Mark's coffeehouse, on E. Wil-
liams St., Wizard sports over a dozen
pinball machines' and gives free t-shirts
to those who maintain a record on any one
machine for a period of time.
Less serious pinball addicts can whistle
"Tommy" and try their skill on t h e
nachines that grace most of the larger
dorms oncampus.
When boredom sets in after a week or,
two of playing bridge or pinball every
night, or smoking illegal weed and mutter-
ing "I'm so stoned" at the walls, greener
fields beckon the student with a fertile
imagination.
The 1969-1970 school year marked the
legendary "Battle of the Paintbrushes,"
during which the signs on the so-called
"Regents' Plaza" were periodically chang-
boredom
is sometimes amusing to visit the ROTC
building (North Hall) and wander around
looking suspicious. Or do the same at City
Hall. Or the Admtinistration Bldg.
average student, who's boredom has reach-
ed depths too deep for ordinary means
of rehabilitatioin, a list has been com-
piled of several once-only things to do,
or contemplate doing.
" Try hijacking a North Campus bus
to Cuba.
0 Play hide-and-go-seek in the stacks of
the old section of the Graduate Library.
. Set up a brothel in the Union's hotel
rooms.
* Follow any student for a length of
time and estimate how long it will take
before you are accused of being an under-
cover FBI agent.
! Establish a toll both on the bridge
to the Hill.
* Go Christmas carolling with a group
of friends in early October. Sing outside
of friends' rooms, strangers' houses, and
Pl.nradn.t I'. Pmn r,'e frnnt.rnr.