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SEVA
From page 5B
(Twenty minutes later.)
PT: How is it taking them so
long to scramble eggs?
JB: Actually, that's the com-
plaint of a lot of people who eat
here. Seva has a reputation for pret-
ty slow service. I've never noticed
it, to be honest, but the atmosphere
is so leisurely and relaxed here that
I don't think I'd care.
PT: Yeah, they're all in the
kitchen doing Yoga and smoking
peace pipes.
JB: Shut up, he's bringing the
food. This ravioli looks delicious,
and are these ... walnuts? I guess
I missed that on the menu. That's
what I like here, though. The
entrees are always a little strange
- there are weird combinations -
but I'm almost never disappointed.
You can't really get this stuff any-
where else.
CARGO
From page 1B
I justify it by trying to make sure
that most of them are positive.
After all, why else would you
want to write about music if you
didn't concern yourself primar-
ily with music you love? Rarely
is music enough of an assault on
my sensibilities (Tally Hall, The
Doors) for me to go out of my way
to say something negative about
them. So, bottom line, I'd hope
Anyway, how are your ... eggs?
PT: Yeah not bad. I'm still not
coming here again, but I guess this
place isn't that bad.
JB: I'm so glad. If you had
ordered real food, I'm telling you
you would change your mind. This
goat cheese is amazing. These wal-
nuts - a little abrasive.
PT: You do you realize I'm about
to pay $14 for eggs and French
fries?
JB: And grapes.
PT: Yes, I'm sorry, I forgot about
the grapes. That would've bought
three bowls of mac and cheese at
Noodles.
JB: We'll go there next time.
PT: That place is like practical-
ly vegetarian. Except when I put
steak on my spaghetti.
JB: You put steak on your spa-
ghetti?
PT: Steak, good. Spaghetti,
good. I don't see the problem.
JB: You're the reason I'm a veg-
etarian.
that I turned people on to music
that affects them as much as it
does me.
So yeah, I'm a pretentious,
wannabe-musician who writes
about music in a critical manner,
but don't call me a music critic.
Robert Christgau, Lester Bangs
- those guys are music critics
(Google them, trust me). I'm just a
music appreciator.
- Cargo has the most colorful
shoes at the University. E-mail
him at Ihcargo@umich.edu.
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Prison art exhibit enters 12th year running strong
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Remember reading 'A Clockwork Orange'?
michigandaily.com/thefilter.
By ANDREW SARGUS KLEIN
ManagingArts Editor
Few exhibits are as immedi-
ately provocative as the Twelfth
Annual Exhibition of Art by Mich-
igan Prisoners,
sponsored by the
Prisoner Cre-
ative Arts Proj- CreatiVe
ect, now running A~ tPn d
at the Duderstadt
Center Gallery Through
through April April11
11. If walking Free
through a gal-
lery of art made Atthe Duderstadt
by criminals and CenterGallery
former criminals
is unnerving, then so might the
knowledge that some of the artists
could be standing next to you.
Opening night at the Center
Gallery was a claustrophobic
affair. People crowded together,
body heat rose, air circulation
was low and the walls had hardly
a square inch of white space. The
media and content were equally
frenzied: charcoal, pencil, water-
color, fantastical landscapes,
abstracted portraits and nature
scenes. Despite the heat and con-
fusion, the experience was break
from the norm. Usually exhibits
are driven by content, time period
or medium. At the Center Gallery,:
there is little noticeable cohesion,
and that's actually a good thing.
The work is unified by the obvi-
ous: the artists are prisoners. With
many of the works near profession-
al quality, the first question to rise
is should it matter who the artists
are. Although art should ultimate-
ly speak for itself regardless of
who the artist is, co-curators Jane
Paul, an assistant Art and Design
professor, and LSA Prof. Jason
Wright believe the rehabilitative
power of expression for incarcer-
ated people is an important foun-
dation for PCAP and the exhibit.
The inmates are speaking to the
viewer through art, not a phone
and a glass window, effectively
shedding light on their humanity,
something society and the penal
system tend to ignore. There are
straight-forward depictions of
cells, cage motifs and chains next
to works referencing Hieronymus
Bosch, French portraiture and
Giocometti, modernist abstrac-
tions next to simple Americana.
For Emily Harris, program coor-
dinator and LSA lecturer, the
exhibit is "a place to for people to
challenger their stereotypes about
prisoners."
The exhibited art comes from
42 of Michigan's 52 prisons, a
testament to PCAP's burgeon-
ing momentum. The group runs
inmate workshops in art, theater,
creative writing and film. The
works on display sell anywhere
from $30 to $450, the money going
either to the inmates or to PCAP if
they so choose.
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Gordon Granger became inter-
ested in painting while in prison.
His pastoral rendering of a lake
with an inmate fishing hangs
on one of the inner walls, with
some his friends' work nearby.
He doesn't know exactly what
the future holds, but he's consid-
ering earning his BFA at Wayne
State or the 'University. He was
clearly in high spirits, pointing out
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Washtenaw Com-
munity College stu-
dent Kristina Knopic
and RC junior and
srganizer Mihal Ansik.
his friends and explaining their
influences. If walking through an
exhibit of prisoner art is unset-
tling, seeing your art as a free
man must be positively uplifting
- and you'd think it'd be difficult
for such an exhibit to appeal to a
college crowd. But if the opening's
high numbers are any evidence, it
does and will continue to for a long
time.
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