ARTS Page 8 The Michigan Daily * Star Trek 5 beams up to the Big Guy BY TONY SILBER directed Star Trek 3 and 4 ). Does Rejoice, all Trekkies! The fifth that mean that Star Trek 9 will be installment of the Star Trek directed by Mr. Chekhov? Whatever motion picture series has arrived in the case, don't expect any bold our galaxy. changes - Shatner is out to play it And what began as a small cult safe here. following of a television series In Part 5, the gang is sent off to from twenty years ago has grown a planet in the distant neutral zone into a black hole of movie-going to quell an uprising which has dollars. Star Trek V: The Final taken hostage the representatives of Frontier reunites the all-too-famil- the United Federation of Planets iar crew of the Enterprise for yet (that's us), the Klingons (the loath- another unbelievable space adven- some villians), and the Romulans ture brought to you by the special (neutrals who look like Vulcans). effects department at Paramount The leader of the rebellion is Pictures. This fifth addition to the. Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill), a Trekkie legacy is for the most part Vulcan who was kicked off his a good dose of thoughtless enter- planet for wanting to be more tainment... but something essential human. No one is suprised to find is, missing. out that he is, in fact, a relative of William Shatner (Captain Kirk) Mr. Spock's. Sybok hijacks the becomes the second crew member Enterprise and sets off with the to direct a big-screen version of the whole crew in a quest to find the memorable series (Leonard Nimoy idea of God in the universe; his See Trekky, 0..10 A hot musical recipe Cajun squeeze-box rockers to spice up scene BY ARI SCHNEIDER Finals will be over soon, and I'll bet you want to spice up your life after the drudgery of studying for hours. Well, I have just the recipe for you - a Cajun recipe, to be exact. First, take a large chunk of Louisiana back-country music. Then, mix it with a touch of soul, blue- grass, country, jazz and rock - and fire all it up with some hearty accor- dion melodies. The result will be what Ann Arbor has to offer over the next two weekends. Since the introduction of French- Louisiana culture into the American mainstream through movies such as The Big Easy and Angel Heart, to.the point of national companies offering Cajun-flavored potato chips, the region's music has been gaining steam on the American music scene. In particular, zydeco has become a very hot genre of American music. Lousiana's Terrence Simien, who was featured in The Big Easy, is one Next Friday and Saturday, June of three accordion-playing vocalists whose bands bring the craze of 23rd & 24 (rain or shine), The Frog zydeco music's folky, Creole style to Ann Arbor at the month's end Island Zydeco, Blues, and Jazz Festival will expand for the first in the French of the Creole South). fiddle, triangle and guitar are charac- time in its eight-year history to in- After a free-lance writer heard her and teristic of the French Cajun tradition; dlude this hot and spicy music along wrote her up in The San Francisco the bass, washboard and drums typi- with the soulful and cooler tunes of Chronicle, Guillory has come to be cal of Afro-American music. blues and jazz, under a big tent. known as Queen Ida. But the distinctive element of Headlining this amazing lineup A native of Lake Charles, La., zydeco music is the accordion, espe- will be the internationally known Guillory naturally turned to zydeco cially when it's played by Queen Ida. Queen Ida's Bon Temps Zydeco music- the word derives from the While the instrument is now being Band, featuring the Grammy award French "haricot," or snap bean, and accepted by the American public, the winning music of Ida Guillory. She suggests a lively dance. Zydeco is , adjustmen has taken a while. picked up her accordion about fifteen part string-band music and part "Back when I started," the Queen years ago after giving up driving a rhythm ensemble, combining the says, people really weren't ready for bus in San Francisco when her three waltzes, two-steps and jaunty this music, at least not in America. children had grown up. Ida began melodies of Cajun music with a veri- The accordion has always turned the playing with her brother's soft-rock table gumbo of other styles - no- American people off. Most people trio and eventually formed her own tably blues, country, rock, Latin, think it's only good for oom-pah-pah band (bon temps means "good times" bluegrass, calypso, and reggae. The See Cajun, p. 10 *I - Kaplan Earlyidclasses. ake one and fly high on tesday Want high scores on the MCAT, LSAT, GMAT, DAT, or GRE? Then get into high gear with a Kaplan "Early Bird" class. Well prepare you for one of these career- shaping exams and still leave you plenty of time to spare. So while the pressures off this summer, why not put a little of your free time to advahtage?A scoring advantage. Don'twait till the last minute. Sign up- today After all, everyone knows what the earlybird gets. IKAPLAN STANLEY H.KAPLAN EDUCATIONAL CENTER LTD. 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