2s 28 -- The Michigan Daily Weekend Magazine - Thursday, OcTober 8, 1998 0 0., f r, The Michigan Daily Weeken $: g : '4 Did you know? The Free and Accepted Masons, a 300-year-old secret fraternal order with English roots that supposedly advocates philanthropy and religious tolerance, has been an integral part of American politics since the Revolutionary War. In fact, its early hold on the White House lead to the creation of the short-lived Anti-Masonic Party, which surfaced in the early 1800s as America's first third party. The following presidents were Masons: George Washington Janes Monroe Andrew Jackson James Polk James Buchanan Andrew Johnson James Garfield William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Warren Harding Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry Truman Lyndon B. Johnson Gerald R. Ford Source: "The George Magazine Book of Presidential Lists" Courtesy of Doug Coombe Professor Richard Tillinghast poses with (from left) Shumit DasGupta, Josh Tillinghast, Pat Farrell, Joel Robbins and Toby Summerfield of Poignant Plecostomus. Poetry, musisccollie at Border Crossings author discusses and signs her new book "Coming Home to Ourselves: Journaling to Wholeness." Barnes & Noble, 3245 Washtenaw. 7 p.m. Susan Melselas internationally renowned photographer whose books include "Nicaragua" and "Carnival Strippers" will give a lecture on photo- active feminism. School of Art and Design, Auditorium 2104. 7 p.m. New Jazz/Rock and Poetry Festival A free benefit for The Great Lakes Literary Alliance offers a night full of music and poetry. Rackham Auditorium. 7:30 p.m. Stand-Up Comedy See Thursday. 8 and 10:30 p.m. Swing Dance Night Paulette Brockington will show the moves and the University Large Jazz Ensemble will play the tunes. Pierpont Commons. 9 p.m. Visual Suite Event Microsoft Representatives give a Visual Basic workshop. Free T-shirts and coupons will be given away. Borders. 7 p.m. --------------- Saturday CAMPUS CINEMA Con Ja Nal 5 An all-day festival of Japanese animation, presented by Animania, the University promoter of the genre. MLB3. 10 a.m. Free. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) This anti-war film based on the novel of the same name won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Nat. Sci. 7 & 9 p.m. $4, $5 dbl. MUSIC St. Petersburg Philharmonic Now in its 117th season, the orchestra will perform an all-Russian program with works by Liadov, Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Hill Auditorium. 8 p.m. $20- 55. (734)-764-2538. String Cheese Incident Get ready to jam (and don't forget the cheese). Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty St. 668-8480 or 763-TKTS. Positively Localfest The People's Food Co-op presents a local acoustic show- case featuring Brian Lillie and the Squirrel Mountain Orchestra and more, plus kid's activities and food samples. Call 994- 9174 for information. Blammo Riot with ample alcohol and punk rock covers by this local group. 10 p.m. $5. Heidelberg, 215 North Main St., 663-7758. Pure Check out some fun, wavy tunes by this Canadian quartet. 9 p.m. Seventh House, Pontiac, (248) 335-3540. THEATER Bride of 24-hour Theatre A sponta- neous theatre performance, with act- ing and production by Basement Arts. The program was designed in a 24- hour time-span, so you never know what's going to happen. Frieze Building. 10 p.m. An Evening of Scenes See Friday. 8 p.m. Endgame See Thursday. 8 p.m. Avenue X: an a cappella musical See Thursday. 8 p.m. The Jealous Type See Thursday. 8 p.m. A LTER NATIVES Steve Fagin Distinguished video artist signs copies of his book "Talkin' With Your mouth Full: Conversations with the Videos of SteveFagin." Shaman Drum. 4 p.m. Swing Dance Learn to swing dance to recorded music. Pittsfield Grange Hall. 8:30 p.m. Stand-Up Comedy See Thursday. 8 and 10:30 p.m. of 1990's Cuba. Discussion to follow. Mich. 7 p.m. MUSIC Octubafest 1998 Michael Russo will present his senior recital in this week of celebrating the sounds of the tuba and euphonium world. Britton Recital Hall, E.V. Moore Bldg., School of Music. 8 p.m. Margo Henson Tuning up the acoustic, she'll mellow out the whole bookstore. 1 p.m. Borders. Free. Reel Big Fish Get ready for more wild skanking with openers Spring Heeled Jack and the Pilfers. 7 p.m. St. Andrew's Hall, 431 East Congress St., Detroit. (313) 961-MELT. Soul Coughing Finish the weekend off in plush Pontiac, listening to this eclectic musical trio. 8 p.m. Clutch Cargos, Pontiac. THEATER Endgame See Thursday. 2 p.m. Avenue X: an a cappella musical See Thursday. 2 and 7 p.m. The Jealous Type See Thursday. 7 p.m. Oh they look SO ska. Sevel photo. They roll into Detrol pair of very special guests: By Debby Hwang For the Daily The seed of the Beat Generation, scraped and plucked from jazz of 1950s Greenwich Village and North Beach, erupted and grew, and its issue sprung eventually into atmospheric territory. Pulled into the whirlwind, Worldwide Web of 1998, the ward of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac produced fleshy fruit. And fruit, for the most part, tastes sweeter than seed. In the mid-20th-Century United States, jazz poetry was a brave new experiment, unproved and wobbly. Forty years later, the scat-like state of emergency that Ginsberg so admired continues to exist with a more robust, sturdier core. No longer are music and verse separated; poetry does not attempt to emulate jazz. Instead, the two expressions combine and highlight each other. Such is the state of poetic-song that will be explored at Border Crossings, A Festival of New Jazz/Rock & Poetry. Festival creator Richard Tillinghast, lit- erary giant and professor of creative writing at the University, wished to unite an assorted, singular collection of musicians and poets who "want to turn listeners on to the magic that happens when you bring good poetry and good music together" He found his ensemble by word-of-mouth, fortuitous meeting and experience; he cocked a critical ear toward performers that captured an audience's attention on campus, exam- ined their capacities to progress and to interfuse with others. A few phone calls later, and Border Crossings was booked with artists ready to beguile, or at very least impress, festival patrons. The event includes both the youngblood and the established, the ultramodern prog- enitors of the new Ann Arbor fusion festival: Arwulf Arwulf, Brenda Cardenas, M.L. Liebler, Barry Wallenstein, Poignant-Plecostomus, the Magic Poetry Band, the Sonnenlicht Project and Tillinghast himself. The tally boasts five poets, 10 musicians, one aural banquet. At first glance, the midwest's Ann Arbor seems an unlikely forum for a neo-Bebop poetry carnival. Recall that in late 14th- and early 15th-Century Italy, many artists and laymen scoffed at the idea that northern Italy could fos- ter serious artwork. It did, however, with the appearance of Donatello, del Castagno and Mantegna, who ushered in what is known as the Early Renaissance in Europe. The Ann Arbor area too has its native maestro and patron: the University of Michigan. Thus the ambiance here is conducive to an event such as Border Crossings, which, in Tillinghast's words, "cele- brates this amazing Renaissance of the arts in Ann Arbor." The festival will begin with the lis- some, interlingual ministrations of Chicana poetess Brenda Cardenas. At Border Crossings, she plans to perform six poems backed with music by Poignant Plecostomus, the superlative Ann Arbor fusion band. Cardenas' poetry ranges from a sultry, colloquial sonnet read to blues music to a nostal- gic narrative ode to "Spanish Sound Waves," a series of four poems that pay tribute to the Spanish letters "v," "b," "rr" and "h." Prepare for a lush, rhyth- mic experience. Local hero ArwulfArwulf flings to the listener an earthy, pithy collection of poetry. The ever-metamorphosing musical aggregation Sonnenlicht Project, which derives its name from Anton von Webern's work "Das Sonnenlicht Spricht" ("The Sunlight Speaks"), joins the poet at the .festi- val. Arwulf focuses on "ritual instead of entertainment," on a med- ley perhaps less blithe and more brassy. One of the major lures of Border Crossings is that there, he finally can perform a sampler of "Reproductive Rights for All Women," his latest CD. Arwulf will also read the pensive "Prayer to Demeter, Hymn to the Earth," fragments of See CROSSINGS, Page 5B Inside: Prof. Tillinghast's CD, Page 7A Americans saying aloud * they love. Auditions oper ested. Borders. 7:30 p.m. ALTERNATIVES Michael Montgomery As part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series, Montgomery presents a lec- ture on "Louis Ebel and The Victors: What Really Happened 100 Years Ago." Brittion Recital Hall, Baits. 2 p.m. Clark V. Masson As part of the Doris Sloan Memorial Lecture, professor and noted surrealist speaker presents a lecture on "Body and Self in the Surrealism of Andre Mason." Museum of Art. 3 p.m. Sunday CAMPUS CINEMA Touch Of Evil (1958) The rereleased director's cut of Orson Welles's last Hollywood film, starring Welles and Charlton Heston. Mich. 4:30 & 9:30 p.m. Tropicola (1997) A compelling view Mon-Th 11-10 Fri-Sat 11-11 Sun 12-10 Happy Birthday! Charley's wouldlike to be the first to congratu-1 late you, with a free meal. Just bring along a friend and proper ID, and select your favorite entree from our famous menu. It's just our way of C7' j"inE saying Congratula- tionsandthanks for Ch lts celebrating with us. 1140S. Uivesityat Curc 668841 ,_ _ .r, Monday CAMPUS CINEMA Journey into Fear (1942) Orson Welles's World War II espionage thriller. Mich. 4:10 p.m. Touch Of Evil (1958) See Sunday. Mich. 7 p.m. Broadway Damage (1998) The story of two gay friends finding themselves post-college in Greenwich Village. Mich. 9:15 p.m. MUSIC The Randy Napoleon Quartet The group will perform classic jazz and original compositions. Leonardo's, Pierpont Commons. 8 p.m. James Kibbie The Annual Conference on OrganbMusic will feature this University faculty member. 8 p.m. Free. Hill Auditorium, 825 North University Ave., 764-2538. Bird of Paradise Orchestra Put those Union swing lessons to use with some big band jazz. 9 p.m. $5. Bird of Paradise, 207 South Ashley St., 662- 8310. ALTERNATIVES The Favorite Poem Project Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky is compiling an audio and video archive of Joan Jacobs Brumbergt A Women's Health Speaker torian and author of "FE The History of Anorexi gives a lecture on "Frorr Body Piercing: Perspectives on America Their Body Project Auditorium 3. 7 p.m. Lonnie Hull DuPont As Guild House Writers Se poet reads. There will als mic and discussion. Guild p.m. Tuesda' CAMPUS CINEMA Intolerance (1916) Silent fi accompaniment by the direct A Nation." Mich. 4:10 p.m. Touch Of Evil (1958) See 7:15 p.m. MUSIC University Chamber Kenneth Kiesler will c University Chamber Orc forming works by Stra Schubert. Rackham Au p.m. Octubafest 1998 John Gri tor of the University Conservatory of Music an perform tuba works almT composed especially for Recital Hall, E.V. Moore E of Music. 8 p.m. Ferron Margo Henson ol female singing/songwrit p.m. $15. The Ark, 316 St., 761-1451. ALTERNATIVES Thyllas Moss Award-winni writer reads from her new m a Sky-Blue Dress" and her lat lection "Last Chance for I r r " r Bes~ j ipu" SMrobrwry & Brewpub Guide PUS & EATERY. Great Menu i M-Fit Healthy Dining KId's Menu "Wide Vegetarian Selection Happy Hour Specials Mon - Fri 114 E Washington " Downtown A *" 213-1393 courtesy THURSDAY RECORDS Local acoustic sensation Lisa Hunter hits Ann Arbor tomorrow night at 9 p.m., while Lenny Kravitz will be entertaining at Detroit's State Theater.