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2 Friday, April 20, 2001 Sunday Brings Chill To Franklin Street The town and University are hosting the annual Apple Chill Street Fair, featuring arts, crafts, music and food. By Lee Spears Staff Writer An estimated 35,000 people will flock to downtown Chapel Hill on Sunday to enjoy springtime weather and a wealth of local arts and entertain ment talent The 29th annual Apple Chill Street Fair, featuring arts, crafts, live enter tainment and take place from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on East Franklin Street just north of the UNC campus. Parrish Anderson, events specialist at Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation, said Apple Chill will offer something for everyone, including a newly added entertainment area for young children and anew music stage near Schoolkids Records for college students. Kids can spend the afternoon playing on the super slides and Velcro wall as well as participating in a bungee run and an obstacle course. “You name it, we have it,” Anderson said. “This year, the music is just amaz ing.” Anderson said there will be five per formance areas altogether for music and dance, featuring rock, R&B, blues, swing, salsa and jazz. One stage will be at McCorkle Place on campus and will feature performers from the UNC community. Anderson said the majority of Apple Chill’s entertainment groups for this year are local. “I didn’t know there were that many groups in Chapel Hill and Carrboro,” he said. A Free Public Educational Event | Improving Curbing without weaponsi Your children can be safe every day. So can you. fM First Church of Christ Scientist Tuesday, April 24 @ 7:30 pm East Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill A must for anyone interested in spiritual healing. 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Anderson also said he thinks ven dors’ diverse food offerings, including shark and gator kabobs, Caribbean cui sine, ice cream, cotton candy and Mexican beverages, will be some of the fair’s main attractions. Anderson said Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation has been working closely with other town departments, volun teers and the University to make sure Apple Chill runs smoothly. “It’s a town effort, and I can’t empha size that enough,” he said. Chapel Hill police Capt. Everett Johnson said the section of East Franklin Street between Raleigh and Columbia streets will be closed from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Sunday. Parked cars that are not moved before about 11 a.m. will be towed. Also this weekend in conjunction with Apple Chill, the second annual Sculpture on the Green will display the works of sculpture artists from the Triangle at McCorkle Place on Saturday and Sunday. The sculptures will be on display both days from Ip.m. to 6p.m. This year’s new addition of enter tainment for children and college stu dents means that Apple Chill truly has something for everyone, Anderson said. “We have something for the old and the young,” he said. “It’s really nice to see the communi ty and families out enjoying this.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. Yogurt is our menu! YOOUR 1 pump ( t- Downtown Chapel Hill • 942-PUMP 1 06 UJ. Franklin St. (Next to He's Not Here) North Durham • 286-7868 Northgate Mall (Next to Carousel) Mon-Sot 11 am-11:30pm. Sun 12pnvl I:3opm Australia 'Survivor' Visits Burn Victims "Survivor II" contestant Jeff Varner was moved by the burns a fellow survivor suffered in the outback. By Rob Leichner Staff Writer Jeff Varner says he loves children. And the former competitor on the tele vision show “Survivor II: The Australian Outback,” showed that love Thursday afternoon as he blew bubbles, took pic tures and chatted with patients at the N.C. Jaycee Bum Center in Chapel Hill. A UNC alumnus and former cheer leading captain, Varner said he has always supported children’s charities and now wants to extend his support to bum victims. “I’ve been a children’s advocate since I was 1 (years old),” said Varner, a Greensboro native. A serious burn injury to Michael Skupin, one of Varner’s team members and close friends on “Survivor II,” made him realize the pain that burn victims and their families must endure. “That was a very traumatic day for us,” Varner said. “I heard his screams in my sleep for three days.” From the time he learned he was to appear on “Survivor II,” Vamer has tried to use his celebrity status to help various causes. 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In the past, other celebrities such as racecar drivers Jeff Gordon and Jeff Bodine have visited the bum center, as well as many UNC basketball and foot ball players, Teague said. She said the personal visits from celebrities, and the television cameras that often accompany them, provide a great morale boost for the victims and staff alike. “When people come in and pay attention to them, it makes a differ ence,” Teague said. Vamer discussed Skupin’s recovery story to lilt the spirits of one teen who had a sick feeling in your stomach.” The city’s downtown was flooded Thursday, and residents and local inmates continued to fill sandbags - about 15,000 so far, Police Chief Mike King said. “People are just really beat,” King said. “They’ve been sandbagging and pumping for a week.” The Mississippi crested at 16.41 feet Wednesday morning at La Crosse, a foot and a half below the record set in April 1965, and had dropped to 16.25 feet Thursday morning. Officials said it could take weeks for the river to slip back into its banks and below the flood stage of 12 feet “Our dikes are still holding,” said Pat Caffrey, public works director in La Crosse. “Our biggest concern is the weather forecast.” A chance of showers or storms was forecast for the region from Thursday night into early next week, but officials said the rain was not likely to raise the river’s level. ■ -v J DTH/BRENT CLARK "Survivor 2" star Jeff Varner visits with burn victim Willy Accord during his tour of the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitals on Thursday. been burned in a bus accident. “(Skupin’s) doing great,” Vamer told the boy. “He’s got no scar, and he’s so positive” Brian Craft, a 19-year-old victim of a motorcycle accident, and his mother, Tammy, both took away autographed pictures with Vamer as a souvenir. “Yeah, I’m excited,” Craft said. “He’s a TV star.” A visit to 4-year-old Willie Acord’s room left Vamer covered in bubbles and Acord smiling widely. Vamer brought a 'Spider Woman' Not A Typical Musical By Diana Cunningham Staff Writer The Pauper Players spring musical production opening tonight has the kiss of death. But that’s not a bad thing. The character referenced in the musi cal’s tide, “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” is an incarnation of death, and her kiss is just part of the musical’s dark appeal. The production was a 1985 Broadway hit and tells the story of two cellmates, Molina and Valentin, in a grim prison in Latin America who sur vive by sharing a fantasy, escaping into the many movies of the beautiful film star Aurora. Like the original, the Pauper Players production is intended for mature audi ences only due to the show’s nudity and sexual content. David Lorenc, a Pauper Players vet eran and UNC senior, plays Molina, a gay window dresser arrested for sexual indecencies with a minor. “When you think of musicals, you think of musical comedy. This is a much darker, and more haunting tale. It’s not ‘Oklahoma’ by a long stretch,” Lorenc said. Even while dreaming of Aurora and a happier place beyond his cell, Molina is haunted by the Spider Woman’s dead ly presence. Amber Ruskin, a UNC senior who has starred in many Pauper Player pro ductions, plays both phantasms of Campus Calendar Today 3 p.m. - Sign up in the Pit all week (until teams are full) for the Unity Games, a field day encouraging interaction between diverse com munities on UNC’s campus, on Carmichael Field. 6:30 p.m. - The Organization of African Students Interests and Solidarity will host Africa Night in the Union Cabaret. It will feature a dinner and performance celebrating African diversity and culture. Tickets are available at the box office and at the door. A ticket that includes the dinner and the show costs $7. Just the show is $3. 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Ruskin said she actually prefers the role of the powerful role of the Spider Woman to that of Judy Garland-ish Aurora. “A lot of the story’s intensity comes from the interaction between two diverse characters and the development of their relationship,” Lorenc said. Molina’s cellmate, Valentin, is a polit ical revolutionary from the lower class. Both have to cope with being stuck in a cell with someone completely different, said Christian Barillas, who played Valentin. Barillas is a senior at UNC, and also a native of Guatemala who can bring his own Latin American background to the show. “The musical is a very controversial show, but it has a lot of appeal and raw emotion,” Barillas said. The director of the show, UNC grad uate Jon Howie, used the original musi cal book and score for the production. Howie has worked with professional companies in New York, and this will be his last show at UNC before returning to the Big Apple. “It’s wonderful working with Jon,” said Rustin of Howie’s direction. “He brings such intensity to his work.” “Kiss of the Spider Woman” shows every night at 8 p.m. on April 20 through April 22 with a 2 p.m. matinee on April 21 and 22. Tickets are $5 or $lO. The Arts & Entertainment Editor can be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu. Sunday 7:30 p.m. - The world premiere of “With Perfect Faith,” a choral cantata based on poems of the Holocaust and Hebrew scriptures, will take place at Judea Reform on Cornwallis Road in Durham. The work consists of soprano arias and choral movements sung by UNC professors and students. Admission is free. aljr Saily (Ear Mrrl Friday, April 20,2001 Volume 109, Issue 35 RO. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Man Dees, Editor, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News, Features, Sports. 962-0245
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