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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1984)
T ei 0^1 ULUL UdAUJl Looks like we all lived through last weekend's entertainment def icit, and it looks like this weekend will more than make up for it — there'll be lots of stuff in town to divert you from your studies. Biggest deal this weekend — Bob Hope, without a doubt. Courtesy of MSC Town Hall, old Ski Slope himself will be in G. Rollie tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12.50 and $11 at the MSC Box Office (845-1234). I'm going to see Hope, then as soon as that's over I'm heading for Dr. G's to hear Karen Kraft (Oh, the busy life I lead!). I talked to her in Austin (via phone, of course) Tuesday — find out what she had to say in related story. As reported in The Batt earlier this week, looks like Chicago is a possibility for a concert here sometime in November. Town Hall's supposed to be working on setting it up. Other good stuff this weekend: Van Wilks Band, Saturday night at Dr. G's. Yes, one more band from Austin. They've opened for people like Heart and Triumph and write jingles for Lone Star Beer. Le Cabaret This jazz club is the newest club in town, and offers live enter tainment on weekends and occasionally during the week. For more information call 846-1427. Friday — D.J. show and open dance floor. Saturday — Notropis. Sunday — Open jam Session. Wednesday — Sioux Morales. Thursday — The Scroocs. Dr. G's Located on College Main, this club offers a little bit of everything. Acts over the summer have included everything from reggae to punk to rockabilly to folk music and just about everything in be tween. The club sells beer and wine — no hard liquor — but does provide set-ups for those who bring their own bottles. Most shows start around 9 p.m. For ticket and other informa tion, call Dr. G's at 846-1812. Here's this week's calendar: Tonight — Karen Kraft — Blues. See related story in this is sue. Saturday — Van Wilks Band. Rock 'n' roll, from Austin. Sunday — Four Hams on Rye — Rockabilly. Four stars for four hams — these guys are my personal pick. From here. Monday — Open stage night — kind of an amateur free-for- all. Call Dr. G's for more info if you want to do your thing on stage. Tuesday — Live play — The House of Leaves (by John Guare). Wednesday — Dance attack — open dance floor, Deanna has D.J. honors. Thursday — The Planets — Rock 'n' roll. From Austin — kinda. The Lakeview Club Country/Western dance club that hosts live bands most of the time. Saturday — Fiddlin' Frenchie Burke and a Little Bit of Texas. For ticket information and reservations call 823-0660. The Texas Hall of Fame CountryAVestern dance club that hosts live bands most of the time. The club is located on FM 2818 and shows start at 9 p.m. For more information call 822-2222. Tonight — Texas High Riders. Saturday — Bubba Cox and the Easy Going. State Fair provides Texas-sized thrills "Howdy, folks!" "It's time for com dogs. Big Tex, high school marching bands, the Clydesdale horses, pigs, chickens and an unbelie vable midway of rides." The State Fair of Texas has all this and much, much more. The regular $3 adult admis sion charge to the Fair, held in Fair Park in Dallas, lets you see an ice revue, a circus, a heli copter acrobatics act, a parade, a fireworks display and a drill by the U.S. Marines. Pepsi is sponsoring "Pepsi on Ice" and Dr Pepper is sponsor ing the Dr Pepper State Fair Cir cus. "Pepsi on Ice" is presented four times daily and the Dr Pep per circus has performances three times on weekends and twice on weekdays. "Starship 3" features acrobat ics and otner aerial stunts per formed from a helicopter flying over the Lagoon. A parade beginning at 7 p.m. each night will feature march ing bands, beauty queens and floats. It will end with a fire works display over the Lagoon. On Marine Corps Square at 3:45 p.m. daily, the U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, Silent Drill Team and Color guard will perform. "The Great Rock and Roll Time Machine," a multi-media production with 215 songs, will play one every hour during the Fair. The show is sponsored by the Miller Brewing Company of Fort Worth. The Cotton Bowl Plaza stage will host country and western performers. Rob Dixon and the Lost Cowboy Band will play each afternoon or evening. Gary Stewart will perform Oct. 6; Joe Stampley, Oct. 7; Frenchie Burke, Oct. 8-12; Ma- son-Dixon, Oct. 8, 15, 27; Ban dana, Oct. 13; George Strait, Oct. 14; Little Joe y La Familia, Oct. 16; Shelley West, Oct. 20; Steve Wariner, Oct. 21; Reba McEntire, Oct. 22; Eddy Raven, Oct. 26; and Gene Watson, Oct. 28. Texas Renegade will play each afternoon and The Shoppe will play each night at Stage 7. Other bands will appear on the Big Tex Stage including a variety of high school bands, choirs and drill teams. On the Hall of State Stage, the Hot Wheel Skaters, tne North Texas Round and Square Dancers, the Plano Civic Chil dren's Chorus and Solomon Surles Gymnastics will appear. Other events require an addi tional ticket. The State Fair Ro deo is one. It begins Saturday and ends Oct. 14. "Sugar Babies," the Broad way musical, is another. It started Oct. 3 and will run through Oct. 21 in the Music Hall. Other activihes requiring ex tra tickets are the National Fi nals Tractor Pull, Oct. 18-21 in the Coliseum, and Cotton Bowl World Class Championship Wrestling, Oct. 27 in the Cotton Bowl. Rodeo aids rehabilitation Located in Huntsville, the Texas Prison Rodeo kicks off it 53rd year this Sunday, Oct. 7 at 8:30 a.m. and will run ev ery Sunday in October. Billed as "the wildest, roughest rodeo behind bars," the two-hour show takes place from 2 to 4 p.m. and features convicts in rodeo events such as wild horse races, calf tieing, bull riding, bareback and saddle bronc riding, as well as novelty acts such as wild cow milking and chariot races. The "Hard Money" event features forty red-shirted convicts attempting to re move a tobacco pouch stuffed with cash from the horns of a mad, charging bull. Defi nitely a hard way to make some pocket money. The rodeo is only part of the fun. Inmate arts and crafts are available, inmates display their musical talents, in various bands and the High Rollers Drill Team from the "Retrieve" prison unit in Brazoria County perform on the midway outside the Huntsville "Walls" unit. Clyde Brewer's Original River Road Boys, featuring Jim Nelson, entertain later in the day and perform country and western favorites. Rodeo souvenirs will be available, or you can stop by the "Wanted Poster" display, have your picture taken and then made into a wanted poster to grace your living room or den (or to send home to mom — tell her you've been caught and need bail money). On Oct. 7, the 1984 Miss Texas Prison Rodeo will be crowned and David Frizzell and Shelly West will help round out the day's activities. Mel Tillis is scheduled to ap pear on Oct. 14, Janie FricKe on Oct. 21 and John Conlee will finish off the rodeo's ros ter of popular country and western entertainers. Net proceeds from the ro deo help finance treatment and rehabilitation programs for the more than 35,000 in mates in the Texas Depart ment of Corrections. Tickets are available for $5, $6 and $7 and may be pur chased by sending a check or money order to: Texas Prison Rodeo, P.O. Box 99, Hunt sville, Texas 77340. If hard-driving thrills and spills are your cup of tea, check out the The 53rd An nual Texas Prison Rodeo. You are about to enter into the 'Twilight Zone' trivia contest Okay, road-trippers, here's the out-of-town stuff: Houston: Cyndi Lauper — Oct. 10 in the Summit. Billy Squire — Oct. 12 in the Summit. Rod Stewart — Oct. 14 in the Summit. Culture Club — Oct. 28 in the Summit. For ticket information, call (713)961-9003 Austin: Get ticket information at (512)471-1444. At the Erwin Center: Alabama — Oct. 12. Cyndi Lauper — Oct. 13. Alvin and the Chipmunks — Nov. 1 and 2. "Twilight Zone" trivia buffs will soon get a chance to test their mettle in a contest spon sored by "Twilight Zone" mag azine. Contest forms and rules are being posted on 100 college campuses across the U.S. dur ing the first two weeks of Octo ber. If you can't find the forms and rules on campus, the ques tions will be printed in "The Twilight Zone Magazine Trivia Special," which will be on newsstands in early December. All entries must be returned by Jan. 15, 1985. Unless, of course, you're living in the "T- wilight Zone." If you're in the "Twilight Zone" you'll have to compensate for the dimension of time and space that you're in, and for the postal service in your area of the ozone layer or the galaxy where you reside. Finalists in the contest will be flown to New York City in the spring of 1985 for the "ultimate Twilight Zone' stumpers." The grand prize is a trip for two to Jamaica and all of the sun, fun and other tropical de lights you can handle. So, if you live in the "Twilight Zone," or can answer a few easy questions like: "Name Ray Bradbury's two unproduced Twilight Zone' scripts," "W- here was Rod Serling bom?" and "List, in alphabetical order, the name of every Twilight Zone' episode ever filmed," you may want to take the time to fill out the contest form and win yourself a trip to Jamaica.