A w w w V W W s s w w MICHELLANY You deserve a fashion break today Score points with that sporty WttKEND/SCOTT UTUCHY SD T Dave .Siglin Ark manager talks about club's history, local club scene, and Ann Arbor audiences; "they 're great" INTERVIEW An Ann Arbor institution, the Ark has been showcasing folk and other, mostly non-commercial, music for 22 years; Dave Siglin has been the manager for the past 19. The Ark, now the country's oldest non-profit music club, moved to its' present Main St. location four yearas ago. Before the move, the club featured folk music almost exclusively. They have now expanded to include jazz and other musics. The 24 member board which oversees the Ark changes often but Siglin has been a constant. He spoke recently with WEEKEND Editor Alan Paul. Daily: Before your move, you were a strictly folk club. Was the musical expansion an intentional effort? Siglin: Yes; we definitely wanted to expand. As a matter of fact, we didn't expand as much as we wanted to. We were going to do comedy and classical chamber stuff but the exact year we moved Mainstreet Comedy Showcase opened and Kerrytown Concert House opened up. So we simply said, well, we've been around a long time. It would be easy for us to go into these areas and compete. And we could damage them. It wouldn't damage us as much because we'd have other programming that would carry us. Let's say we 'lost money on comedy and they lost money on comedy, we could outlast them because we're established and because it wouldn't be our main source of income. But we're a non-profit organization, and part of the reason for the Ark's existance, which I strongly believe in, is that through programming, you fill voids. And since they were doing comedy and chamber music, there no longer was a void in those areas. So it didn't need filled, so we didn't do it. But the move definitely allowed us to expand. We do a lot more bluegrass, we do a lot more jazz, we do a lot more pop type music. D: Along the lines of filling a void, a lot of the pop/rock/blues bars have closed recently. Have you considered moving that way? S: Sometimes you are forced to fill voids you don't really want to....I think that blues probably would not go very well at the Ark. Famous blues players do very well at the Ark, but not so famous blues players don't. They do much better at, say, the Blind Pig. The Pig's had an ongoing blues program for years. D: Yes, but if they were to... S: Close? Well, at one point the Blind Pig stopped doing blues and we picked it up, and they started it up again and we stopped. It's much harder for us to do blues. We don't have a standard liquor license which means only members and their guest can drink...Most people, when they go to see blues, go where they can sit , have a drink with a friend, and talk. It's not a show the way a John McCutcheon, Suzanne Vega or soemone like that is.. D: Do you feel you have an obligation to your club members to bring them what they want? See INTERVIEW, Page 17 During the photo sessions for the cover of this magazine I came uncomfortably close to a pair of $140 sunglasses. They were being modeled by Weekend Co-Editor Alan Paul. I'm not saying that they weren't the most bitchin' goggles this side of the local spot-welder's, but the lenses were red, and that made Alan look like his soul had been overwhelmed by Beelzebub, lord of the dark regions. The photo session took place out in front of the Daily, a scant block away from Our Lady of the Golden Arches. McDonald's was running a promotion: buy a big sandwich, get a pair of shades for $1.39. That's less than one percent of the price of Alan's shades. If you took $140 into McDonald's you could come out with shades, a Big Mac, and 218 hot apple pies. Or you could have skipped the pies, and gone into Pinball Pete's and played 548 video games. Assuming for the sake of argument that the average video game lasts three minutes, that's over twenty-seven solid hours of Mat Mania. Or you could have skipped Pinball Pete's and purchased the entire Rolling Stones catalogue from Wazoo. The $140 shades were a bit nicer than the McDonald's shades. The latter had an irritating embossed moon in the corner of one of the lenses, announcing their cheapness, and advertising the mighty corporate deathburger, but the inventive could scrape the sucker off with a thumbnail. The $140 shades also had a length of string attached, which prevents them from falling from the wearer and being stepped on, which is exactly what happened to my McDonald's shades. So I'm out $1.39. Maybe if I had spent the extra $138.61, I'd still have an intact pair of shades. Of course, I couldn't possibly wear $140 shades, even if they were given to me. That's just not Daily style. This magazine is supposedly all about Daily style, but in case you haven't noticed, these aren't our clothes. They were all loaned to us by various businesses, who all fervently hope that your seeing our fabulous bods in their smashing threads will result in lemming-like stampedes to their doorsteps. I encourage this reaction. I also fervently hope thatrhordes of fashion-crazed Daily readers will charge into The Cat's Meow and demand the very shirt that I wore, or, for that matter, charge up to me and pay me twenty bucks for the underwear I wore that day. But I'm concerned about the tacit misrepresentation that's going on. These clothes, accessories, jewels, and baubles may or may not be nice, depending on your tastes, but they ain't Daily style. Many of the students working at the Daily spend far more time than they ever wanted to in the Student Publications Building. As a by- product, the Daily, like the family breakfast table, has become a place where people who know one another well can no longer bring themselves to be deeply concerned about how shocking their appearance might be. Dailyites know they are among friends, and moreover, that these friends know See LOGIE, Page 17 U aj as Sports staff clothing: (from left to right) 1. Rush mock turltle neck sweater, $22; Kikit wool sweater, $73; Marithe & Francois Girbaud corduroy pants, $50; Available at Bivouac. 2. Nautica cotton sweater, $80; 4f Br, N< M 3. Av Fabulous Clothing & 20 109 South Fourth Street " Ann Hours: Mon-Sat. 10 am-8 OFF THE WALL If you drink, don't park. Accidents cause people. The weather is here, wish you were beautiful LS&A students are frustrated because they know they wasted four years of their lives obtaining an unmarketable degree. (in reply) BUT AT LEAST WE KNOW HOW TO LIVE, NOT JUST WORK. (in reply) That's fair. 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Fifth Avenue (2nd floor, Kerrytown) Ann Arbor 769-1133 Unlocked Putumayo brings ) 1200 South I found in the Graduate _ WEEKEND/OCTOBER 23 1987 PAGE 16 WEEKEND/OCTOBER 23, 1987