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M A G A Z I N E
VOLUME 5, NO. 16 FEBRUARY 13, 1987
SPECIAL ISSUE
2
The .A2-
Music Scene
Audio engineering classes start careers
Students are snapping up compact discs
There's plenty of classical music on campus
The shrinking local club scene
Report on underground rock 'n' roll
MICH-ELLANY
Interview: jazz percussionist Roy Brooks 10
THE LIST
What's happening in Ann Arbor this weekend 14
EDITOR .............................................................. Bill M arsh
ASSOCIATE EDITOR .............................................. Beth Fertig
FILM EDITOR ...................................................... Kurt Serbus
ASSISTANT EDITOR ........................................... Rebecca Cox
LIST EDITOR ..................................................... Marie Wesaw
ASSOCIATE LIST EDITOR .................................. Brook Snyder
On the cover: Tracey Lee and the Leonards at the Blind Pig. Photo by Andi Schreiber.
Weekend Magazine is edited and managed by students on the staff of The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann
Arbor, Michigan 48109. Phones: Weekend Magazine, (313) 763-0379; News, 764-0552; Circulation, 764-0558;
Display Advertising, 764-0554. Copyright 1987 The Michigan Daily.

The first is a filmed performance
of Beckett's play; the second, a
documentation of a troupe
attempting to stage Waiting For
Godot.
FILM (Samuel Beckett, 1966),
AAFC, DBL/8:35 p.m., Nat Sci.
The return of the Great Stoneface,
Buster Keaton, to his natural
element: silence.
PERFORMANCES
SURVIVOR - Office of Major
Events, 7:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium
(763-TKTS).
This mainstream rock 'n' roll band
will perform its best known hits,
including "Eye of the Tiger," "The
Search is Over," and the most recent,
"Is This Love?" Opening band will be
The Spoons.
UNIVERSITY CHAMBER
PLAYER'S CONCERT -
School of Music, 4 p.m., Rackham
Auditorium (763-4726).
English chamber music of the 20th
century will be featured with a
program including Gurney's Spring,
Vaughn Williams' The Water Mill,
and Edward Elgar's Quintet in A-
minor for Piano and Strings.
THE HEART IS A LONELY
HUNTER - Office of Major
Events, 7:30 p.m., Mendelssohn
Theater (763-TKTS).
The National Theater of the Deaf
performs the drama adaption of the
Carson McCuller novel about a deaf
mute who shows several people in a
small 1930s town that they should
accept their loneliness. The
production combines sign language
with spoken languge, and is
spellbinding for all audiences.
THE MISER - University
Players, 2 p.m., Trueblood Theater,
Frieze Bldg. (7640450).
See Friday's listing for more
details.
THE FIREBUGS - The Brecht
Company, 2 p.m., Residential
College Auditorium, East Quad
(995-0532). 
See Friday's listing for more
details.
BARS & CLUBS
THE ARK (761-1451) - Connie
Kaldor, country cabaret.
BIRD OF PARADISE (662-
83 10) - Larry Fuler Trio, jazz.
THE BLIND PIG (996-8555) -
Trees, Popular Harmony.
MAINSTREET COMEDY
SHOWCASE (996-9080) - Open
Mike Night.
NECTARINE BALLROOM
(994-5436) - Megafunk Dance
Party, DJ the Wizard.
SPEAKERS
RABBI MOSHE TENDLER -
"The AIDS Epidemic: An Ethical
Perspective," Hillel, 3 p.m.,1429
Hill.
MEETINGS
UNIVERSITY FORENSICS
TEAM MASS MEETING -3-
5 p.m., 2231 Angell Hall.

FIRST RUN
FILMS,
ALLAN QUARTERMAIN
AND THE LOST
CITY OF GOLD
The original (King Solomon's
Mines) was just so darned successful,
why, they had to make a sequel.
Richard Chamberlain is an adventurer
who goes treasure hunting in Africa,
and finds romance and danger. At the
State Theater.
BEDROOM WINDOW
Steve Guttenberg takes a ten -
tative step towards seriousness
playing a cop out to stop a psychotic
who's killed two women already.
Supposedly lots of good plot twists.
At the State Theater.
BLACK WIDOW
When a beautiful woman's
husbands get offed at an unnatural
rate, Debrah Winger begins to
suspect that this is one femme who's
quite literally fatale. A taunt thriller.
At the Movies at Briarwood.
CHILDREN OF
A LESSER GOD
William Hurt is a teacher for the
deaf who falls in love with a hearing-
impaired girl in this technically
perfect adaptation of the Broadway
play. At the Movies At Briarwood.
CRITICAL CONDITION
Richard Pryor takes one more
stab at making a good feature film
in this tale of medicine and
madcapness. At the Fox Village
Theater.
CROCODILE DUNDEE
An Australian adventurer tries to
make it on the mean streets of New
York, attracting the interest of a
smart, independant female who is -
what else? - a journalist. At the
Movies At Briarwood.
DEAD OF WINTER
Mary Steenburgen is a hopeful
actress who signs on to play a most
unusual part, but she gets more than
she bargained for when the script
calls for... murder!!! With Roddy
McDowell. At the State Theater.
FROM THE HIP
Judd Nelson plays an amoral

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young lawyer who gets a partnership
by fixing a case, and then gets
handed an unwinnable murder trial.
Screwball comedy from the director
of Porky's. At the State Theater.
THE GOLDEN CHILD
Eddie Murphy is a hip private
investigator who must journey to
Tibet and face down evil monsters
when he discovers he's the only one
who can fulfill an ancient, mystical
legacy. At the Movies At Briarwood.
THE KINDRED
Yet another gory tale of scientists
who mess with things better left
untouched, and hellish creations
which come back to haunt those
foolish enough to tamper with the
unknown. This one sports Rod
Stieger and a particularly ugly beast-
thing named Anthony. At the State
Theater.
LADY AND THE TRAMP
The best and most unabashedly
romantic cartoon Disney ever did,
about love between two mongrels
from opposite sides of the tracks. At
the Movies At Briarwood.
LIGHT OF DAY
Michael J. Fox and Joan Jett are
siblings who's only escape from
blue-collar hell is rock and roll. At
the Fox Village Theater.
LITTLE SHOP
OF HORRORS
So-so musical comedy about a
meek flower shop handyman who
finds a way to fame and fortune when
a man-eating plant becomes his
ticket to ride. Bill Murray, Steve
Martin, James Belushi. At the Ann
Arbor Theaters 1 & 2.
THE MISSION
Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons
star in this epic tale of two men who
meet in the South American rain
forests - one a man of war, the
other a man of God. This film
cleaned up at Cannes, but word here
in the States is that it's a major
league yawner. At the Fox Village
Theater.
THE MOSQUITO COAST
Harrison Ford is a scary
individualist who takes his family to
a deserted coast, away from the
trappings of civilization. Trouble is,
he starts to go a bit wacky, and

pretty soon no one is safe. At the
Movies At Briarwood.
OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE
Bette Midler and Shelley Long
are an unlikely duo who team up to
find the man who was cheatingon
both of them, and get caught up in a
plot of damn-near apocolyptic
proportions. Peter Coyote and
George Carlin round out this
screwball comedy. At the Fox
Village Theater.
PLATOON
Oliver Stone's explosive,
gripping Vietnam action epic is
every bit as good as you've heard it
is. An idealistic young man finds his
illusions shattered when he
volunteers for duty in the 'Nam. At
the Movies At Briarwood.

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Professor Tikva Frymer-KenskY
"Women in Jewish Law"
What are the halachic (Jewish legal) prescriptions and
proscriptions for women and how have they changed?
Monday, February 16
7:00 p.m at Hillel (1429 Hill Street)

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