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DIVE RECOMMENDS
Album from the Vaults:
Johnny Cash, At San Quentin:
While At Folsom Prison gets most
of the attention, this rough-and
tumble 1969 gem surpasses its
predecessor, capturing country's
most famous bad boy at his most
unhinged.
Movie from the Vaults:
"The Great Escape”: Now, since
Johnny has probably given you a
furious desire for escape with his
wild prison performance, go pick
up this 1963 classic in which Steve
McQueen and James Garner try
to dig their way out of a Nazi war
prison during World War 11.
Something Random:
Escape from your mundane exis
tence and come out to Dive Party
on Saturday. It's sure to be quite lib
erating. Sorry for the constant plugs,
but we're really excited.
Events:
THURSDAY
The Born Ruffians
Local 5061 Chaotic and vibrant, the
Born Ruffians play youthful pop
rock albums with passion and inge
nuity. Delightful Chapel Hill '6os
revivalists The Huguenots open. 9
p.m.,510
FRIDAY
Caltrop
Local 5061 Huge and lumbering with
instrumental chops that will threaten
to melt your face off, the Chapel Hill
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a conference examining how modem concepts ofthe political are
formulated through an engagement with the historical study of empires
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FRI. - SAT., OCT. 31 - NOV. 1, 2008
240 JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER, DUKE UNIVERSITY
Friday, October 31, 2008 at 9:15 am
Plenary Address I- Whose Empire Anyway?
Wole Soyinka Nobel Laureate in Literature
Franklin Humanities Institute / Karl von der Heyden
Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Friday, October 31, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Plenary Address II - Women / Slaves /Empires
Page dußois Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
University of California, San Diego
—public reception to follow
For a full listing of conference panels and participants
please visit fhi.duke.edu or e-mail fhi@duke.edu
PRESENTED BY THE FRANKLIN HUMANITIES INSTITUTE,
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL STUDIES, PROGRAM IN WOMEN’S STUDIES,
AND NETWORK ON ANCIENT AND MODERN IMPERIALISMS
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www.jhfc.duke.edu. Parking is available
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metal group champions WXYC's
Backyard BBQ. Feisty garage duo
Blag'ard and ominous drone metal
band In The Year Of The Pig open.
Holy Ghost Tent Revival
Armadillo Grill, Duke | Pulling
together strains of bluegrass, New
Orleans jazz and E Street Band
rock, Greensboro's Holy Ghost Tent
Revival is a musical explosion full
of passion and wit. The group plays
Duke's Campus Concert Series with
folk rockers Ponchos From Peru
and stylish rock group Luego.
SATURDAY
DIVERSIONS PARTY!!!
Local 5061 Not to toot our own.
horn, but we have assembled a
hell of a line up on Saturday at
506. The dueling guitars of Max
Indian will give the night a great
start.Then stalwart Chapel Hill pop
band Schooner will play its charming
gems. And finally Violet Vector and
the Lovely Lovelies will get every
body in the crowd moving with its
punk-rock take on '6os pop.
Jonathan Meiburg
Duke Coffeehouse | Normally, I
would never recommend against
our party, so let me be clear, we
want you to come to our shindig
instead of this show. But if you
have to be in Durham, Meiburg, the
frontman of Shearwater, possibly
the best chamber-pop band in the
country, wouldn't be a bad bet.
des_ark, Durham's own ridiculously
cathartic and constantly shape
shifting rock group, also plays.
Diversions
WXYC feeds hungry scene
Show gives local
bands exposure
BY JAMIE WILLIAMS
DIVERSIONS EDITOR
There are a few things that make
college towns culturally unique.
Among those is college radio,
which remains one of the most
important sources of exposure for
local artists, the people that provide
students and residents the oppor
tunity for a musical experience
unlike people in different parts of
the country.
Steph Russ, the Promotions and
Special Events Director for UNC’s
student-run radio station WXYC,
said she takes this mission very
seriously.
“We always try to keep local
bands in rotation. We really love
putting the spotlight on bands that
make great music in this area.”
On Sunday evenings from 8
to 9, the spotlight shines bright
est during the station’s Backyard
BBQ program, an hour dedicat
ed to exposing listeners to local
music.
The show gives air time to local
acts, but also invites bands in for
interviews and in studio perfor
mances.
And Friday night at Local 506,
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three bands that the station has
firmly stamped with its approval
will take the stage in celebration of
both Backyard BBQ and the music
it so ardently supports.
Sam Taylor of Caltrop, who will
headline Friday’s show, said being
asked to play the concert served
as a little bit of validation.
“We’re glad to be a part of this
show,” he said.
“It’s great that they’re paying
attention to us, and that our music
can get a little bit of distribution
through WXYC. I guess it just
means they dig it, and there’s noth
ing wrong with that.”
Django Haskins, of Chapel
Hill’s Old Ceremony, said the
experience of going into the stu
dio for the radio show provides a
surreal environment, which leads
to inspired performances.
“We’ve been on the Backyard
BBQ a couple of times, and it’s
always been a great experience,”
he said in an e-mail.
“There’s something uplifting
about playing music in a room lit
erally surrounded by vinyl and rock
posters and memorabilia.”
Those performances, in the
cramped WXYC studio upstairs in
the Student Union, also provide the
opportunity for a free recording for
the band, said Brennan O’Brien of
Greensboro instrumental trio The
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“Playing live on the radio not
only helped promote us by being
broadcast to all the listeners, it also
helped us by us being able to use
the recording for a more recent col
lection of our songs to sell to people
at the shows we play,” O’Brien said
in an e-mail.
Russ said that the ultimate goal
of the Backyard BBQ is to make
sure that local music is thriving
because that can only help the
radio station.
“We really want to support local
artists because when the scene is
doing well like it is now it can
only benefit us at the station,” she
said.
Haskins said that sort of sym
biotic relationship between local
musicians and college radio is what
makes it stand out as commercial
radio continues to lose its cultural
relevancy.
“With commercial radio becom
ing a shell of its former self, col
lege radio remains a bastion of
free thinking and for-the-hell-of-it
programming, and that’s a great
thing,” he said.
Taylor said that the benefit of
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the show should not be underes
timated.
“It’s emblematic of stuff that
should happen,” he said.
“There’s a lot of bands that just
need to be heard. It’s difficult to
have your ear on every pulse, but
they do a great job of picking up on
a lot of great stuff.”
Contact the Dive Editor
at dive@unc.edu.
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DIVE STAFF
Jamie Williams, Editor
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Jordan Lawrence, Assistant Editor
David Bemgartt, Rachael Oehring,
Jonathan Pattishall, staff writers
Jillian Nadell, Molly Jamison, Design
Co-Editors
Cover Design: Jillian Nadell
Map by Bliss Pierce
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