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The Daily Tar HeelMonday, March 3, 19885
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Staff Writer
The second Union-sponsored Mike
Night. UNC's equivalent to Star
Search, was held Friday night in the
old Fastbreak area. The idea was to
provide an outlet for students to
showcase their talents in an informal
setting. The Performing Arts Commit
tee set up quite an evening of
entertainment.
Ed MacMahon couldn't make it,
but Eric V. Walker, better known as
"Wacko" to his cohorts, handled the
role of master of ceremonies. Wacko,
who kept the show moving by telling
jokes while performers set up, has for
awhile tried to be a stand-up come
dian, but by his own admission,
"That's another story.
Getting off to a late start, the show
opened with a performance by Mike
Night veteran Julnar Rizk. With her
acoustic guitar, she played "Big
Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell in a
voice closely resembling the stars. She
also played tunes by Jackson Browne
and Bonnie Raitt.
Next came the Bogus Clap Trap and
the See-Saw Rhythm, which featured
a traditional bass and guitar player,
an electronic drum machine that tried
its best to imitate a drummer and
Family receives house built
By MICHELLE EFIRD
Staff Writer
A house built by state volunteer
groups and individuals was presented
Wednesday to a Raleigh family.
During a short ceremony Walter J.
Davis, his wife and their three children
received the keys to their new house
from Mary Joan Pugh, Assistant
Secretary for Community Development
at the Department of Natural Resources
and Community Development.
Also attending the dedication were
state officials including Mayor Avery
Upchurch, who spoke about Raleigh's
role in housing. Joyce Sutton, a
representative of the neighborhood,
presented the Davis family with a
home-warming gift. At the end of the
dedication, a tour of the house was
given.
The agency spearheading the project
was Joint Orange-Chatham Commun
ity Action Inc., of Pittsboro. The group
was technically assisted by the Macon
Program for Progress and Community
Action Agency of Franklin County.
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February is finally over, and Spring
Break is just around the corner, but
most people are still suffering from the
winter doldrums. There is a play to cure
everyone's blues, however, Tunning '
through Thursday at Rhythm Alley.
King M acker al and the Blues are
Running, which premiered in
December, is back by popular demand.
Written by Bland Simpson and Jim
Wann, Mackeral is now being optioned
for a national tour. The pair of writers
have collaborated before on Diamond
Studs, and Wann wrote and starred in
Pump Boys and Dinettes. Simpson
teaches creative writing at UNC and co
authored Life on the Mississippi.
Joining the two writers in MackeraTs
three-member cast is Don Dixon, a
record producer and co-leader of the
rock group Arrogance.
MackeraTs sketchy plot line revolves
around three men raising money for the
hurricane-damaged Corncake Inlet Inn.
In fact, the show is supposed to be a
if
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another guy who just sat down and
read a newspaper through the group's
set, for what reason no one knows.
The group lived up to its name
bogus.
Greg Humphreys was the next
performer. A real last-minute musi
cian, Humphreys decided to partici
pate the evening of the show. Living
up to the informal atmosphere of
Mike Night, Wacko agreed to let him
play. Humphreys brought over his
guitar and "gave it a shot.
The only comedian of the night was
Matthew "Chili Sauce" Burke. A self
proclaimed poster child for birth
control, Burke did a variety of.
imitations including Ronald Reagan,
Clint Eastwood, Rambo and Buck
wheat. Though he spent most of the
night on his Rodney Dangerfield
impersonation, throwing out one
lihers cracking on everyone from his
cheating girlfriend ("She told me I was
one in a million, and she was right)
to his daughter ("She was voted most
likely to conceive in high school).
The best performance of the evening
came from junior Greg Barlos. He
opened his set with Elvis Presley's
"Jailhouse Rock" to the delight of the
crowd. Next he played Don McLean's
More aid for the project came from
various community action organiza
tions, area university fraternities (includ
ing one from UNC), individuals, the
National Association for Women in
Construction, the N.C. State School of
Engineering and the Department of
Natural Resources and Community
Development.
The Davis family was selected among
others by the Downtown Housing
Improvement Corporation of Raleigh.
Applicants had to meet several criteria,
which included having a complete
family and being classified as low
income by federal and state criteria,
according to the Deputy Director for
the Division of Economic Opportunity
James Forte.
Forte described the Davis house as
being a one-story, wooden house
containing 960 square feet. He said it
has three bedrooms and one complete
bath.
This" is the same house that was
partially built and displayed at the
North Carolina State Fair last year.
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fund-raiser, but most of it consists of
the reminiscences and good times of the
characters set to good, wonderful,
fantastic music.
The music there is no way to
describe it. It has to be heard. The three
men involved could not even agree on
a description.
"I don't like categories," said Dixon.
"A little folk, rhythm and blues, rock
..." Wann trailed off.;
"Swamp rock," Simpson said firmly.
One of the songs is based on the Lee
Smith story Georgia Rose. In Mackeral,
Georgia Rose, Wann's girlfriend,
becomes an unseen character who is
blessed cursed with an acute case of
ESP. "Timeless" is the first song to
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"American Pie, a song he just learned
a couple of days ago on acoustic
guitar. For awhile, Barlos couldn't get
past the first verse of the song, telling
the crowd, "I can't remember how that
damn song went. But I'm not ner
vous." Finally, he hit the right chord
and went through the rest of the song,
hitting some rough spots once in
awhile but really capturing the mood
of the song and the audience.
The Blackjacks closed the show
with Otis Redding's "Sitting on the
Dock of a Bay and Led Zeppelin's
legendary "Rock and Roll." Basically
a rhythm band, the Blackjacks were
dominated by the drummer, a man
simply referred to as P.J., and their
strong lead vocalist Eileen O'Brien.
The band has only been together for
two months and played Mike. Night
because they are looking for employ
ment at private parties, according to
guitarist Joe Woodson.
All the performers had two things
in common: they loved to play in front
of an audience, and they hope to be
discovered. Anyone who thinks he
she has talent can participate in the
next Mike Night on March 21. In the
words of Wacko, "That's another
story."
by volunteers
Forte said the frame, foundation, roof
and walls were built while at the fair
and left on exhibit. After the festivities
the house was moved to its present
location in downtown Raleigh, where
it was completed.
The majority of the building mate
rials were donated by the Joint Orange
Chatham Community Action Inc., but
several businesses and organizations
also contributed supplies, Forte said.
Land for the house was donated by the
Downtown Housing Improvement
Corporation.
Community action agencies through
out North Carolina have sponsored
such housing projects, and one is
currently underway in Durham. Statis
tics from the Department of Natural
Resources and Community Develop
ment indicate that more than 200
housing projects have been built in
Macon County during the last 18 years.
Forte said he thought the community
action agencies were a strong force in
North Carolina because they took a
firm stand in helping the impoverished.
Mfayttai Alley
introduce her.
Dixon is outstanding in "Joyride
Whose Idea was This," a song about
a young man who borrows his grand
- mother's car" to cruise and loses" it to
ra sea bankl"Thei mesmerigWlann
seems to transcend his immediate
surroundings during "A Mighty Storm
I'm the Breeze," which is as vivid a
portrait of a hurricane as one can get
without actually being in one.
There are several stories or "tall tales"
placed between the songs, the funniest
being "Rushing the Season" and "Ethi
ope's Ear."
The actors plan to take the show
around North Carolina to try it out.
"It's better to work in a low pressure
environment," Simpson said. "After
that, well see."
It would be a good idea to rush
Rhythm Alley this week; for only $6,
one can see a show that probably has
a better shot at national prominence
than any other in the Triangle.
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Bus Stop, presented last week by the
department of dramatic art in Play
Makers Theatre, is a play in search of
a themei It is the kind of play that every
20 rninutes or so feels obliged to toss
out bits of wisdom apparently designed
to enrich the observers lives. Lines like
"Sometimes you have to find out for
yourself that love doesn't exist" or
"Being humble isn't the same thing as
being wretched" are delivered and
punctuated with a brief pause, presum
ably to let them sink in.
The importance of finding someone
to love might be the main idea the play
is trying to get across, or it might not
be. No one is really sure, and that's one
of the main problems with Bus Stop.
But wait; there's more.
The story takes place near Kansas
City in a small diner where a group of
bus passengers are forced to take shelter
as a result of a big storm. The inter
connecting plot lines of the eight
characters are pretty much your basic
soap opera or maybe what a soap opera
would have been like in 1960, which
is when this story takes place.
Cherie (Mary McNeilly), a pretty but
brainless nightclub singer, is trying to
hide from Bo (David Zum Brunnen),
a cocky, young, ranch owner who treats
women the same way he treats wild
broncos. Bo is accompanied by Virgil
(Steve Maler), a serious Jed Clampett
type gentleman cowboy, the kind of guy
that never married because he'd rather
be out on the range or inside playing
cards with his buddies. Cherie is hiding
from Bo, because he is trying to
bulldoze her into going to Montana
with him.
Meanwhile, there's Dr. Lyman
(David Randy Craig), an intellectual
who's given up on finding love but has
retained a penchant for women and
alcohol. He becomes interested in Elma
(Susan Layer), the ditzy, young waitress
of the diner who is awfully similar to
what Vera in Alice must have been like
in high school. Grace (Vikki Barrett),
the lonely and kind-hearted but passion
ate owner of the diner, becomes
involved in an affair with Carl (Ken
Kasriel), the equally lonely bus driver.
Finally, there's Will (Danny Mart
schenko), the sheriff of the town. He's
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