Thursday, January- 24,
2008
{The Blue Banner}
Arts, Etc.
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Sierra Leone’s
Refugee Allstars with
Avec La Force
Saturday at 9pm.
Tickets: $18 in advance;
$22 at the door
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All
Stars will be appearing at the
Grey Eagle to spread their
message of peace and love to
Asheville. This “can’t help
but dance” show is a high
energy compilation of West
African music, roots reggae
and rhythmic traditional folk
that Sierra Leone’s Refugee
All Stars hope will appeal to
audiences across the board.
The New Familiars
Thursday at 9p.m.
Tickets: $8
This powerful mix of folk
music derived from rock n’
roll is writing “of the people,
by the people, and for the
people,” according to The
New Familiars. They bring
an honesty that they say is
“sweeping the nation in the
wake of a very tumultuous
time in our history.” They
bring their unique show to
Stella Blue this week.
Lotus and Telepath
Thursday at 9 p.m.
Tickets: $10 in advance; $12
at the door
The Orange Peel brings Lotus
to the stage for a concert that
has all the dynamics of a rock
band, the rhythms of club
music, and the sophistication
of modem electronica.
Sharky’s makes waves
Riverside pool hall provides open and safe atmosphere
Meredi Wagner-Hoehn
Staff Writer
MWAGNERH@UNCA.EDU
Whether you’re a pool shark, an
amateur who just enjoys watching
the colorful balls spin or a fan
who has never aimed a pool stick,
Sharky’s Billiards welcomes you.
“1 have people come in here all
the time who have no idea about
the game, no idea about what it
really is,” said Mark Metcalf,
owner of Sharky’s Billiards. “It’s
a place that attracts serious players
and players that want to learn to
play the right way. It’s addictive,
just like anything when you learn
it the right way.”
Stereotypes of drunken brawls
and gambling sculTles turn people
off of pool halls, but Metcaf wants
Sharky’s to draw in a different
crowd.
“So many people give pool a
bad name, having a rough time
and stuff like that, but the game
itself is not like that,” Metcalf
said. “When I was in high school,
I had a physics teacher who would
take me to a pool hall.”
Metcalf’s teacher used pool
to help teach students geometric
concepts and physics formulas.
Although you don’t have to be
a good player to shoot at Sharky’s,
if you’re a broke college student,
it helps. The flat rate is S3 per hour
per player.
“If you’ve got skill, you can
play 10 to 15 games per hour,”
Metcalf said. “The better you
play, the better the rates are. If
you’re not real good at pool, it
might take you 10 to 15 minutes to
play a game on one of those small
bar tables.”
Walking around the tables,
you can see examples of almost
every type of billiards game being
played.
“I’ve seen people playing
8-ball, 9-ball and one pocket,”
Sherman said.
If there’s such a diversity of
people always willing to play, why
aren’t there more student clientele
at Sharky’s?
“I’m within a mile of you
guys,” Metcalf said, in reference
to UNC Asheville. “Most of the
students don’t know that.”
Sharky’s is located on Riverside
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AH Tech student Stephen Sau
er, left, tries for the 8-ball at
Sharky’s Billiards on River
side Drive. Sharky’s owner
Mark Metcalf, above, .says that
Sparky's is ideal for college
students because it offers both
alcoholic and non-aleoholie op
tions for a players with a varitey
of skill and interest level. It is
also an option that is very dose
to the UN(' Asheville campus so
it makes a eonvenienl stop for
students with limited mobility.
Sparky’s isopen Sunday through
Thursday from 3:30 p.m. until
midnight and Friday through
Saturday from 3:30 p.m. until 2
a.m.
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Drive, only a short drive or hike
away from campus. This means
that it may even be accesible to
freshmen who do not
have cars.
Out of the nine
pool tables^ in the
pool lounge, only
two are bar tables;
the other seven are
professionally sized
at four-and-a-half by
nine feet.
“He has the best
tables in Asheville,”
Sherman said as he
played 9-Ball with
Norton.
“Best sticks, too,” Norton said.
One reason Metcalf opened
Sharky’s Billiards was to offer
those tables.
“There’s none of those tables
that arc set up right with alcohol
and a nice atmosphere on this end
Most people go to places where
are bar tables, or they go to
places where there \s pool tables,
hut then you don’t have the
alcohol.
Mark Mihcalf
Sharky’s Owner
of town,” Metcalf said. “Most
people go to places where there
arc bar tables, or they go to places
where there’s pool tables, but then
you don’t have the alcohol.”
Some alcoholic beverages
Metcalf carries include Budweiser,
Michclob Light and Ultra,
^ _ Coors Light, Smirnoff Ice,
^ ” 1 Icineken and Corona.
Sharky’s accepts
clientele ages 18 and
up, so for (he underage
visitors Metcalf offers
sodas and water.
The lounge offers
alternative activities to
billiards as well.
An Internet jukebox
flashes neon lights from
the corner of the lounge,
offering your selection
of any artist who appears on the
Internet.
Nickelback is a popular choice.
Sherman prefers rock ‘n’ roll.
Fifteen dollars will buy you 12
songs.
A foosball table sits in another
corner while three dart boards
hang against yet a separate wall.
Sharky’s also has a dart league
that will begin meeting again in
February.
Decorating the walls ol
the lounge are a few ol sports
greatest. inehiding former
quarterback retry Bradshaw,
boxer Muhammad Ali and
baseball player Kirk (libson.
The lounge's considerate
atmosphere extends to
negotiating between smokers
and non-smokers as well.
"I put a big attic fan in here to
get the smoke out," Metcalf said
Before Asheville, Metcalf ran
a pool hall in Waynesville, which
is located about 30 miles from
Asheville.
He brought the first big pool
tables to Waynesville.
"One of the reasons 1 left
Waynesville was the blizzard of
"93; it dropped boulders," Metcalf
said. "Literally, I'm talking pool
table-size boulders landed and
tore down the whole building that
I rented."
Metcalf always wanted to
own his own pool hall. Sharky’s
Billiards is the culmination of that
dream.
“I built this IVom the ground
up,” Mctcalfsaid.
Metcall'started playing billiards
at 14 when his dad bought a pool
table.
He has played consistently
since then, but he played more
intensely in his twenties.
“1 played a lot. of the top
players," Metcalf said. "The
players who were rankeil top 50 in
the world”
Sharky’s Billiards is open
Sunday through Thursday I'rom
3:30 p.m. until midnight and
Friday through Saturday from
3:30 p.m. until 2 a.m.
Don’t believe us? See for yourself!
Sharky’s Hill kinds is loealed at
9H6 Riverside Drive
Asheville. NC 2HH04
H2H-252-2700
Student show breaks the mold
SUDOKU
Alexandra Minor
Staff Writer
ADMINOR@UNCA.EDU
Walking into the Friday opening
rf‘‘Skin Deep,” graduating senior
Angela Polly’s exhibition in
Owen Hall, all eyes easily transfix
themselves on the array of human
figures layered and mounted upon
the walls of the gallery.
“I often explore themes related
to being trapped and breaking free
or emerging from an enclosed
space,” Polly said.
Polly’s message of
transcendence manifests itself in a
shadowy light.
She developed a unique fusion
of high realist and feminist styles
■0 her sculpture.
Her art resonates with social
^ttd political import.
The form of the human figure
significant to me because it
represents the human condition.
use body positions and the
tuteraction of bodies with each
other to depict emotions,” Polly,
‘5, said of her work.
Life casting, a process that has
•thanged little over the past few
centuries, contributes to the raw,
organic feel of Polly’s pieces.
Strong diagonal lines coupled
"'ith soft penetrating curves help
create the dramatic melancholy of
®jjy s white figures.
fHy favorite pieces were
Counted on what looked like down
Comforters. There seemed to be
^ rnix of emotions present. The
gures grabbed at one another,
*4 none of the implied movement
^orned frantic,” said Alexandra
uoton, 21, a studio junior art
uudent.
Tiffany Narron - Assistant Arts, Etc. Editor
Angela Polly uses human figures
to portray the human condition
in her art entitled “Skin Deep on
exhibit in Owen Hall.
The facial expressions of Polly’s
figures appear soft, peaceful,
but with an underlying trace of
indifference.
“The starkness of the bodies
is less intense because of the
surrounding composition. They
look comfortable, like it’s an
everyday activity, Rhoton said.
Pollyexplainedthedevelopment
of each piece as a highly involved
process that must be thought out
before construction begins.
”I have to have an idea of the
overall composition of the finished
piece before I even take the first
step,” Polly said.
Polly sometimes manipulates
the molds after they are cast, in
order to achieve her intended
aesthetic vision, since some poses
cause too much discomfort for
models.
“1 tend to work intuitively as
far as adding additional elements,
such as hands or other body parts
and fabric to create mystery and
ambiguity in the piece,” Polly
said.
Polly, who primarily works as a
sculpture artist, lists pop-sculptor
George Segal and feminist-
sculptor Kiki Smith amongst her
main influences.
Segal, who is known for his
white plaster figures that he places
in organic environments, are
often interpreted as articulating
the loneliness and isolation of the
human condition and inter-personal
relationships.
In this respect, Polly’s work
possesses a clo.se kinship with
Segal’s.
“Some of the emotions that
are expressed in my pieces are
vulnerability, repression and
loneliness, but also those related
to the overcoming of these
weaknesses,” Polly said.
Polly’s exhibition remained on
display from Jan. 11 through Jan.
22 in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery
in Owen Hall.
Polly plans to continue making
her artwork while beginning
research on various graduate
programs.
“I hope to apply for next year,
and 1 plan to pursue an M.F.A,”
Polly said.
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