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10 November 5,1998 Dinner raA Movie THIS WEEK: Monterrey Mexican Restaurant and "Pleasantville" Brie Bittenbender The Pendulum I missed Chi Chi’s a lot and had this huge craving for enchila das. Monterrey worked out well in fitting this craving. I enjoyed the atmosphere and the service was extremely friendly. Although the menu is rather difficult to get through, I finally found something I liked; cheese and beef enchiladas, refried beans and rice. The only thing I requested a side of mild sauce. It was great and the service was incredibly fast. I got nachos and sauce on my table as soon as I sat down. The food was on the table min utes after we ordered. The only problem I had with this establishment was that they were out of the Mexican fried ice cream; however they made up for it by giving us a plate of compli mentary sophillas (toasted dough with honey). Monterrey is an incredible restaurant if you are ready for a change of pace. My only regret is that I did not find it sooner. As for the movie, Reese Witherspoon and Toby Macquire star as two normal teens who get zapped into what we would con sider “Cleaverland.” The two go about their daily lives upon enter ing the television world. How ever, by doing this they change the way the people in “Pleasantville” think, and inevita bly the black-and-white town be comes colorized. The themes brought out in the movie are similar to those of “The Truman Show.” The com parisons to freedom acts through history such as race relations and freedom of thought are some of the themes present in the film. “Pleasantville” definitely brought change to what has been characterized as a monotonous fall line-up. The average dramas, sci- ence-fictions, adventures, actions and comedies have graced the sil ver screen. If “Pleasantville” man aged to beat “The Truman Show” in ratings, only then would it have a chance at uniqueness. As for Witherspoon and her role as Jen, the sister, she has the delinquent role down pat. If you liked her in this movie, you should also check out “Freeway.” Macquire also did an excel lent job in the more dramatic role he played in the film. Although the film was a lot different than other films in the aters now, it dragged on and on. My roommate grabbed a sweatshirt, balled it on her knees and fell asleep before the movie was half over, if that is any kind of recommendation. Carolina Nissan’s College firad Program Eligibility: 6 month’s prior to or 2 year graduates Models: ALL NEW 98 & 99 Nissan Pre-Owned 95 - 98 Models •Special Cash incentives on select models Carolina Nissan 330 Huffman Mill Road Burlington, NC 27215 #336-584-0201 ^ ASK FOR CHRIS CALEDONIA A&E DJ Spooky releases new album Keith Harrison Tribune Media Services Illbient pioneer Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Sub liminal Kid, returns with a dizzy- ingly ambitious blend of hip hop, dub, jungle, ambient and even free jazz—and his reach rarely exceeds his grasp. A handful of these tracks boast appearances by rappers, most notably Kool Keith, who lays down a typically freaky and fiin spiel about aliens, sex and conspiracies over a series of wiggy synth gurgles and bracing hip hop beats. The. bulk of “Riddim War fare,” though, is serious headphone music. Spooky meticulously sculpts multi-layered instrumental jams from rattling drum tracks, throb bing dub rhythms and all manner of buzzing, screeching and ringing sonic effects. The resulting labyrinthine cuts mesmerize just as often as they invigorate, with Spooky’s sound moving from icy to dreamy to claus trophobic in the space of a single track. A few cuts lean too heavily on common electronic skittering, and Spooky should lose those occa sional pre-song pronouncements on his art, but “Riddim Warfare” still stands as a significant achieve ment. Classic Dylan bootleg comes to life Keith Harrison Tribune Media Services Rock concerts for so long have been so safe and predictable — 90 minutes of mutual adoration followed by the entirely false drama of an encore — that the few excep tions stand out in stark relief: The Sex Pistols self-destructing as they burned through the American South; Sinead O’Connor and her anti-Pope stance getting an earful from, ironically. Bob Dylan fans during a New York tribute concert. But for a real high-stakes spectacle, with audience fiercely turning on performer and performer baiting the crowd in response, noth ing has ever matched Dylan’s ’65- ’66 world tour with the group that soon would be known as the Band. The legendary stature of this tour has been established primarily through the most famous bootleg recording of all time, a show from Manchester, England, that was mislabeled the Royal Albert Hall concert, and which Columbia/ Legacy now makes official with this vibrantly mixed and wonder fully packaged two-disc set. Modem listeners are likely to be taken aback by the vitriolic re sponse that the plugged-in Dylan inspires on the second disc of this set. Portions of the crowd stomp their feet, disrupt song openings with rhythmic clapping, and issue catcalls and whistles. 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