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Friday • January 1 7, 1 997
Friends just the same
UT & A&Mpals dismiss rivalry
By Melanie Benson
The Battalion
Some Aggies lost more than a
football game last November when
Texas A&M played the University
ofTexas.
Rick Hall, a sophomore bio
chemistry major at A&M has had
the honor of buying meals for his
friend Billy Corbett, a sophomore
biology major at UT, for the second
straight year.
“Tve enjoyed the free meals ,”
said Corbett, who looks forward to
more in the future.
Corbett enjoys the friendly ri
valry he and Rick have during the
yearly A&M-UT football game.
The differences between A&M
and UT are welcomed by Hall and
other Aggies. Although there are
many things that naturally divide
the two schools, friendships are
not suffering.
Some Aggies pride themselves in
being different from students at
other universities and look at them
selves in a different light from UT
students, who may label Aggies as
“weirdos,” “ultra-conservatives,”
and “freaks.”
“From the outside looking in, it
must be difficult to understand Ag
gies,” Hall said.
“There is something beyond
school spirit that truly unites us.”
For Corbett and others who at
tend the UT, the world of Aggieland
is on a different planet.
Corbett is originally from New
Hampshire, and looked at A&M as a
university for farmers, and contin
ues to wonder about whooping and
12th Man towels.
Corbett said Hall was not happy
when he decided to hide Hall’s 12th
Man towel in a water bottle.
“I never realized his 12th Man
hankie meant so much to him until
that day,” Corbett said laughing.
One set of fraternal twins has a
different perspective on the rivalry.
Jason Cargo, a senior meteorolo
gy major at A&M, and his brother,
Jon, a senior microbiology major at
UT, have done everything together
since birth.
They had the same group of
friends, went to the same hangouts_,
and shared the same car.
When choosing universities,
they decided a clean break
was needed.
The twins said that attending dif
ferent universities has created a
friendly rivalry back at home.
Jon is known for sticking Long
horn stickers on everything, at
which Jason says, "It gives me a
chance to show Jon how much I love
UT as I saw the horns off.”
Jon Cargo wanted a larger city
with more opportunities for job em
ployment and internships, and felt
a less traditional school with more
free-thinkers suited him.
“Austin provides a more diverse
way of using my time and my
See Friends, Page 4
iNew name, debut
album come with
birch county's return
By Michael Schaub
The Battalion
The last time Dallas’ birch coun-
ly played in Bryan-College Station,
Ejhs & LOUS I it had a different name, a different
lineup, different songs, no album
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las changed.
The band, formerly known as
Vonderland, brings its unique
, faoove-centered rock to Bryan’s Dix-
irrow s Expect tomorrow night at 9:30.
Lisa Taylor, lead vocalist, said the
ound is “from the soul canyon.
“It’s groove-oriented, yet ... I
lon’tknow,” Taylor said.
Brett Bledsoe, guitarist, said he
raws influences from musicians as
led as Pearl Jam, The Black
Irowes, Beck, Tool and Jeff Buckley.
“There’s a big variety,” Bledsoe
id, “but it’s still all around the
roove.”
Birch county’s rhythmic groove
ecame twice as intense last July
r hen the band added guitarist Paul
eid to the lineup.
“It completely broadened every-
ling,” Bledsoe said of the addition.
The music got a little heavier.”
After adding Reid, the band
tanged its name from Wonder-
nd to the nature-themed “birch
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nduced and
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ed debut album.
Roger Bishara,
ie manager, said
astell had ini-
ally refused to
ork with local
ands, but
ranged his
lind after seeing
birch county
birch county perform live.
“Castell is brilliant,” Taylor said.
“He’s basically part of our band.”
Castell is working with former
Pearl Jam drummer Dave
Abruzzese’s band Green Romance
Orchestra, but he took time to work
with birch county in preproduction.
Birch county, which also in
cludes bassist Gary Burkhart and
drummer Robbie "Cranky” Dibble,
has played at the Ticketmaster
Showcase in Dallas and the
Philadelphia Music Conference.
The single “Paris,” a powerful pop-
oriented song, has had heavy air play
in Dallas, San Antonio, Denton and
Bryan-College Station markets.
The band’s five-track album was
released on Bishara’s Pilot Records.
It was recently awarded first honor
able mention in the Dallas Observ
er’s list of the Best Texas Albums of
1996. The record release was held at
Dallas’ Trees Lounge.
Taylor said birch county’s dy
namic live show was not sacrificed
in the transition.
“We try to do something differ
ent, a little off-the-wall, while keep
ing something there for everybody,”
she said.
The band’s show drew over 13,000
listeners fast year at San Antonio’s an
nual Fiesta Oyster Bake at St. Mary’s
University, and
will play there
again this year.
The band has
shared the stage
with Deep Blue
Something and
Better Than Ezra.
Bledsoe said
audience reac
tion is almost al
ways positive.
“Audiences
are really intent
on us. They
don’t know what
to think,” he
said. “We’re in
tense, kind of in-
your-face.”
Bledsoe said he
Friday, January
17
The Backdoors, a Doors cover
band from Miami, FL, is playing at
3rd Floor Cantina at 8 p.m.
Blue Velvet, a blues and oldies
band, is playing at Fitzwilly’s
at 8:30 p.m.
Common Groove, a blues/rock
band from Bryan-College Station is
playing with Blue Earth, a
blues/rock band from Bryan-College
Station, at the Cow Hop at 9 p.m.
Freudian Slip, an improv comedy
act, is performing at Rudder Theatre
at 9 p.m.
Jasmine Blue, a blues band from
Bryan-College Station, is playing at
Sweet Eugene’s House of Java
at 9:30 p.m.
MSC Forsyth Center Galleries are
showing the glass painting Look for
S'
the Label, the watercolor Life, Love
and Death; and Winslow Homer’s
painting Winding the Clock, from 9
a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sleepers, a movie hosted by the
MSC Film Society, will be shown at
Rudder Theater at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Ronny Spears, a country & west
ern artist from Dallas, is playing at
the Dixie Theatre at 8 p.m.
Ronny Spears
David Trout, a comedian from
Lubbock, is performing at Chelsea
Street Pub and Grill at 9 p.m.
The Visual Arts Gallery is
showing the exhibit Patterns, an
oil painting with images of
African-American heroes, from
9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday, January
18
Burch County, a rock band from
Dallas, is playing with Jazztop, a
rock band from Bryan-College Sta
tion, at the Dixie Theatre at 8 p.m.
Freudian Slip, an improv come
dy act, is performing at Rudder
Theatre at 9 p.m.
The Kingfisher’s Wing, a full-
length play by Bill George, will pre
miere at 201 MSC at 8 p.m.
Latin Cheese is playing at
Fitzwilly’s at 8:30 p.m.
A Mexican and International
students party is being held at 3rd
Floor Cantina at 9 p.m.
MSC Forsyth Center Galleries
are showing the glass painting
Look for the Label, the watercol
or Life, Love and Death; and
Winslow Homer’s painting Winding
the Clock, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Sleepers, a movie hosted by the
MSC Film Society, will be shown at
Rudder Theater at 9:30 p.m.
Throwaway People, a blues
band from Bryan-College Station,
is playing at the Cow Hop at 9 p.m.
David Trout, a comedian from
Lubbock, is performing at Chelsea
Street Pub and Grill at 9 p.m.
Brian Whitaker, a classic rock
musician from Bryan-College Sta- ,
tion, is playing at Sweet Eugene’s .
is excited about returning to Bryan-
College Station.
“I loved College Station,” Bledsoe
says. “ In College Station, everyone
wants to party.”
The band has played at The Tap
as Wonderland, but this is its first
visit to Bryan-College Station in
over seven months.
“People there are very support
ive musically,” Taylor said.
Birch county is gearing up for
heavy regional touring in February,
and a full-length national tour in
the summer.
The summer tour will coincide
with the planned release of the
band’s first full-length album,
which Castell will produce.
Tomorrow night’s show will be the
first time birch county plays at the
Dixie Theatre, and Taylor promised
listeners who attend will not be dis
appointed.
“By the time you leave the show,”
Taylor said, “you’re going to get
what you wanted.”
Comedy Corner to feature stand-up acts
By Michael Schaub
The Battalion
Downtown Bryan’s newest and
only comedy club sits on the same
corner as a pharmacy, the county’s
Democrat party headquarters and a
carpet store. The area is known to be
historic, but it is not been known to
make people laugh.
But Rami Cerone, owner of Caffe’
Capri, says he hopes to change that
when his Comedy Comer opens Sat
urday night.
“Whenever I go out of town, I
go to comedy clubs,” Cerone said.
“That was something Bryan-Col
lege Station didn’t have.”
So Cerone, the 24-year-old
Bryan restaurateur decided to
open the small comedy club on the
second floor of his downtown
Bryan restaurant.
Cerone said support for the club
has been good, and he expects to
sell out Saturday night’s show, which
features comedian Kenneth Coxx.
The idea behind the club is to give
Bryan-College Station residents
sometliing a little different to do, be
sides strolling down Northgate or line
dancing at bars.
“You want some
thing different,”
Cerone said.
The restaurant
sits at the corner of
Main and 24th
streets in down
town Bryan.
The small club
seats about 80
people and is dec
orated in the same
vein as the restau
rant — an unconventional mix of
masks, murals, and framed prints
of everything from Marc Chagall’s
art to a blood-red Ferrari.
“If I’ve seen it before, I don’t want
“It's going to be a
cool mix of stu
dents and old
people. ,,
Rami Cerone
Caffe Capri and Comedy
Corner owner
it,” Cerone said of the restaurant
and club’s eclectic decor.
Cerone said he expects an audi
ence as diverse as the club’s interior/
“It’s going to be a cool mix of stu
dents and old people,” he said with
out a hint of irony. *
Student reaction
to the club seems td
be positive.
Emily Kryzak, 4
member of local iim
provisational comedy
troupe Freudian Slip
and a junior speech
communications ma
jor, said she drinks the
comedy club’s open
ing is a step in the
right direction.
“I guess comedy is one of the
more liberal aspects of the school,’*
says Kryzak. “It’s great. Everyone
See Comedy, Page 4
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•Men Under 21 only $3.00
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