6The Tar Heel Thursday, July 23. 1987
After two delays, ArtsCenter finally opens its doors
By JOANNE GORDON
Arts Features Editor
ArtsCenter officially opened
last week with its first performance
of Monday Night Live! in the new
building at 300-G East Main St.
in Carrboro even though con
struction has not been completed.
"We've had good attendance at
Monday Night Live! and the
plays. . . . During Monday Night
Live! we had a full house and
standing room only," ArtsCenter
Communications Coordinator
Bett Wilson said. "It feels wond
erful to be in the new facility rather
than being scattered all over the
community."
The opening came after two
construction delays. Originally the
ArtsCenter planned on opening
with the July 6 Monday Night
Live!, but because ArtsCenter
wanted to "get a little further along
with construction the opening
was postponed until the NCNB
Traveling Art Exhibition on July
12. The second delay came because
the ArtsCenter lacked an occu
pancy permit and a full-time staff
member to watch the artwork.
Last week, the Carrboro Plan
ning Department granted a special
occupancy permit, allowing the
center to continue construction
during the day and present events
at night, Wilson said.
The public can view six works
of the NCNB exhibition, which
features paintings by North Caro
lina artists, in the lobby of Arts
Center before and after events and
during performance intermissions.
Although the play has been
presented, construction has not
been completed. The 350-seat Earl
Wynn Theater will be furnished
temporarily with the stage, sound
system, lighting and seating from
the former site Can Mill Mall,
until the center can afford to
replace them with better equip
ment, Wilson said.
The center is involved in a
campaign to raise $150,000 by
Aug. 31 to meet a $75,000 chal
lenge grant by an anonymous
donor. The donor agreed to
extend the original June 30 dead
line, and the ArtsCenter is within
$25,000 from reaching the goal.
The donor issued the challenge as
a way of giving the community a
chance to get involved. "He She
has been keeping an eye on us,
and is on our side. He She figured
if extended, the deadline will give
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"Retreat," a new play by North
Carolina playwright Phil Hines,
will be presented by the New
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quietly humorous yet poignant
family drama set in a small North
Carolina piedmont town. Tickets
are $8 for the public and $7 for
Friends of the ArtsCenter. For
more information on events and
tickets, call 929-2896.
Flaming Lips melt their audiences
By JAMES BURRUS
Staff Writer
Ever eaten potato chips when
you had chapped lips?
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Oklahoma have and they still
haven't recovered. Nor have their
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The thrash sound of Flaming
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kiss it. How can anyone resist
smooching a band that sings songs
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evident by their success on the
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said the band's sound ranges
somewhere between the space of
The Butthole Surfers and The
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Flaming Lips' songs have been
called "depresso blues dirt rock
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and Sabbath-like guitar drones,"
and "psycho-delic punk."
They've been compared to The
Who, Led Zeppelin, The Doors,
Pink Floyd, Camper Van Bee
thoven, Jesus and Mary Chain,
and The Exploding White Mice.
Live, the Flaming Lips put on
a loud, uninhibited, carefree free-for-all.
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