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 See GO, Page 6 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.