12B - The Michigan Daily Weekend Magazine - Thursday, October 1, 1998
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TMBG tries to be highly selective
when searching for an opening band each
tour. This time the group says it succeed-
ed with newcomer Michael Shelley.
"Michael Shelley is a very talented
new song writer," said Flansburgh. "He's
got a very power-pop sensibility. He's a
really great songwriter. People should
definitely come early to check him out."
After this tour is over, TMBG won't
have any vacation time before the band
heads back to work.
"Rightafter we get off this tour we're
going to start working on a new studio
album," said Flansburgh. "We're also
making a children's record at the same
time, so we'll be busy."
TMBG's live album, "Severe Tire
Damage;' and current tour should tide
fans over until the next release.
Flansburgh and the gang will perform
at the Michigan Theater on Sunday,
Oct. 4.
The Michigan Daily Week<
After whirlwind of construction, No
is o longer on the
John Flansburgh and John
Unnell are the masterminds
behind They Might Be
Giants, a band whose quirky
lyrics and catchy melodies
make them popular with
many college students.
Courtesy of Elektra Entertainment
Fox Village Theater is
cheap entertainent
By Cara Spindler
Daily Arts Writer
It's another Saturday night, and if you
return all the pop bottles lined up in the
window sill, you'll have two bucks to
rub together. Perhaps you're dying to
see Uma Thurman in a black latex num-
ber, but were too damn ashamed of
yourself to shell out $8 this summer.
What's your other option?
Fox Village Theater, a mere jump,
skip and 10-minute drive from
Central Campus, guarantees second-
run movies at incredibly cheap
prices: $1.50 for each show, except
for Friday and Saturday after 6 p.m.,
when the cost is $2. To get there, take
Huron west to Jackson, then turn
right on Maple. The theater is located
at 375 South Maple Ave. in the Maple
Village Shopping Center, across the
parking lot from K-mart.
(Suspiciously, W. Stadium also seems
to verge northerly into Maple.)
Not surprisingly, a majority of
people attending movies at the Fox
selected the theater because of its
cutthroat pricing.
When asked why he was at the the-
ater, Fred McCreary, an employee at the
Gypsy Cafe, simply replied, "'Because
it costs two bucks."
Likewise, "'Cuz we're broke" was
the consensus of many local high
schoolers. Although the ticket takers
seemed stoic about the dirt-cheap glitz
and glamour of the movies, the guests
were enthusiastic about their opinions
of the movies: "Cheap. Good and
cheap.""We love it," answered one cou-
ple.
And although many people admit-
ted that they could have seen, for
example, "Lethal Weapon 4" on
opening night at the Fox Village
Theater, not one expressed regrets
about waiting. The Fox shows a vari-
ety of films and holds them until
popularity wanes, or something bet-
ter comes along. It usually takes two
months for a first-run film to become
a second-run; for example, "Small
Soldiers," out earlier this summer, is
soon coming to the Fox.
Films such as Disney's "Mulan" are
shown in the early evening and tend to
draw a larger audience of families.
Films like "Disturbing Behavior," star-
ring young actresses who recently have
appeared on teen magazine covers, usu-
ally have a larger turnout of high school
students (known as "hecklers" in
Shakespeare's time).
The great thing is that at Fox
Village Theater, you can see all
kinds of people. Families, loners,
misers and loud high school and col-
lege age folk all converge to sit
together and be mesmerized by the
screen.
All in all, a visit to the Fox is an
experience to be tried at least once.
By Kelly Bembas
For the Daily
From the multitude of coffee shops
and hot dog stands to the recently
revamped Diag, life on Central Campus
is not short on character. It's where stu-
dents jam houses large and small for
parties, head to rallies or catch sporting
events - it is also where most classes
are held. Few undergraduates will argue
it holds much of this University's histo-
ry and tradition. But although hustle
and bustle is never to hard to find on the
campus' core, empty space definitely
is.
Th.t's why, according to University
planners, almost all future additions to
campus will be added to North
Campus.
Located in what was once complete
wilderness, North Campus offers a
more peaceful setting and is home to
most engineering, art, architecture,
urban planning and music classes. It's
also where you can find Baits Housing
and Bursley Hall - the University's
largest residence halls.
But while Bursley is not only to be
one of the biggest dorms in North
America but also to sport the cam-
pus' best food, most students who
live there and in other North
Campus dwellings have complaints.
Most notable is the fact that most
undergrads do not have access to a
car - and must rely on blue
University buses to reach Central
Campus.
"The buses are very inconsistent.
Once I waited 40 minutes for a bus that
is supposed to come every 20 minutes,"
said LSA first-year student Dave
Werny. "It's hard to be on North
Campus because sometimes friends on
Central Campus don't want to wait for
you to get on a bus and meet them
somewhere. It causes a big kink in our
personal lives.:
Recently, University planners
gave North Campus a kind of face-
lift in hopes of making the atmos-
phere seem more hip and less purely
academic. A bell tower was added
next to the North Campus Commons
in 1996. The addition made the
University one of only two schools
in the nation to have two bell towers,
the other being the University of
Indiana. Also a "Diag North" was
added between Pierpont Commons
and the Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science Building.
Contemporary art adds to the
more modern atmosphere North
Campus is striving to achieve. It fea-
tures pieces such as the "Wave
Field," a sculpture of dirt and grass
designed by Maya Lin - the creator
of the Vietnam Memorial in
Washington, DC - and the bright
orange "Begob," a 20-foot tall sculp-
ture by Alexander Liberman.
Years ago, Pierpoint Commons was
constructed to be similar to the
Michigan Union. It now houses Little
Caesar's, Espresso Royal Caffe, Wok
Express and Leonardo's Cafe. It also
has a Barnes and Noble Bookstore,
ATM machines and video games.
The Media Union is latest addition to
the folds of North Campus. With library
and large computing facilities, most in
the business agree it is one of a kind.
"The Media Union is the most awe-
inspiring building I've ever set foot in.
The aura of technology permeates
everything," said LSA first-year student
and Bursley resident Chris Myers. The
three-year-old Media Union features a
virtual reality laboratory, teleconferenc-
ing center and more than 500 comput-
er workstations.
But even with all of the additions
and renovations, most students still
find life on North Campus dull.
University Planner Fred Mayer does
not agree.
"I think that North Campus is differ-
ent from Central Campus in that
Central Campus was built in and
around a town and North Campus was
built with more of a sensitivity to
nature," Mayer said. "The nice thing
here at Michigan is you have the
choice if you like to be down in the
middle of everything you can live on
Central Campus, but if you like the
setting and a more peaceful atmos-
phere, North Campus is the place."
Mayer said plans to further spruce-
up North Campus are in the works, but
his department has currently set its
sights back on Central Campus.
"There is always long-range planning
going on for North Campus, but on the
drawing board right now is an addition
to the Dow Building, which we hope to
expand to the west sometime in the near
future," he said.
Even though it is not the most exciting
place to live North Campus is a necessity.
"I hope the additions made North
Campus more exciting, Mayer said.
"But most additions have given us
needed facilities that we had no room
for anywhere else."
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make North Campus more y
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