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he Blues Note All-Stars, a blues band from Bryan-Col-
3ge Station, is playing at Chelsea Street Pub and Grill at
p.m.
luthie Foster, a blues musician from Bryan-College Sta-
on, is playing at Fitzwilly’s at 9:30 p.m.
.atchkey Kids, a punk band from Houston, is playing with
lid Fantasic, a rock band from Bryan-College Station, and
ietaway Kids, a punk band from Houston, at the Cow
lop at 9:30 p.m.
.atchkey Kids, a punk band from Houston, is playing at
/larooned Records at 5 p.m.
,’il Brian and the Zydeco Travelers, a cajun-zydeco band
Spice Girl
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girl power’to
» no sex kitten louston, is playing at 3rd Floor Cantina at 9:30 p.m.
erry Morgan, a blues musician from Austin, is playing at
he Blues Factory at 9:30 p.m.
iix Mile Bridge, a Celtic fold band, is playing at Crooked
'ath Ale House at 9:30 p.m.
wo Paces West, a classic rock band from Austin, is play-
igat Sweet Eugene’s House of Java at 9 p.m.
Saturday
September 14
Big Apple Trio, a jazz band from Bryan-College Station, is
playing at Sweet Eugene’s House of Java at 9 p.m.
The Blues Note All-Stars, a blues band from Bryan-Col
lege Station, is playing at Chelsea Street Pub and Grill at
9 p.m.
Breedlove, a blues rock band from Austin, is playing with
Sauce, a rock band from San Diego, at 9:30 p.m.
Eddie “The Chief” Clearwater, a blues musician from
Chicago, is playing at 3rd Floor Cantina at 9:30 p.m.
Haydukes, a folk band from Bryan-College Station, is play
ing at Crooked Path Ale House at 9:30 p.m.
The MSC Film Society is presenting Se/ena at 7 p.m. and
Chasing Amy a\. 9:30 p.m. at Rudder Theatre.
MSC Cephid Variable is presenting The Rocky Horror Pic
ture Show at midnight at the Grove.
Spencer’s Rocket, a local rock band, is playing with the
Aaron Harris Band, a local rock band, at the Cow Hop at
9:30 p.m.
Throwaway People, a blues band from Bryan-College Sta
tion, is playing at the Blues Factory at 9:30 p.m.
orvino gets the
)ugs out in Mimic
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Day
Review
Mimic
Starring Mira Sorvino and
Jeremy Northam
Directed by Guillermo Del
Toro
Rated R
Playingat Hollywood 16
** 1/2
By Aaron Meier
Staff writer
fall entomologists
looked as good as Mira
Sorvino, the star of the
ew cinematic thriller Mim-
, then butterfly collecting
ould become the national
astime. Outside of Holly-
rood though, entomolo-
ists probably don’t pose for
te cover of GQ, so baseball
safe for now.
Mimic opens with Susan
Sorvino) as a bug babe who
Iso happens to know an
wful lot about genetic en-
ineering. In an attempt to
id New York of cockroach-
s, she creates a new
pecies of bugs called the
udas breed. Is that subtle
oreshadowing or what?
The insects are released
nto the sewers and are sup-
losed to die within six
nonths. However, as Juras-
ic Park taught everyone,
lature will find a way to
urvive. Not only have these
lorified cockroaches sur
vived, they are now six feet
tall and walk on two legs,
looking chillingly human.
The plot sounds like
something out of a bad “B”
movie, but somehow Direc
tor Guillermo Del Toro
manages to give the movie a
sharp, cutting edge feel.
The way Del Toro uses
light in the subway scenes
and his kinetic use of the
camera help bring this film
out of the horror genre and
into the realm of art. Face it,
anyone who can make a
movie about roaches look
this good has to be talented.
However, despite the
promise Del Toro demon
strates, he still has yet to mas
ter the art of suspense. Many
of the scenes which should
have elements of terror sim
ply float across the screen
with minimal excitement.
Sorvi
no has
continu
ally
shown
her will
ingness
to diver
sify her
filmogra
phy,
which is
com
mendable in an age where
women seem to trap them
selves in certain genres.
Mimic should be a terrify
ing voyage into the power of
evolution. However, it leaves
the audience somewhat
bored and indifferent to Su
san’s little insect problem.
Sorvino
Rocky time
warps Aggies
by Amanda Smith
Staff writer
Cepheid Variable, the MSC committee re
sponsible for science-fiction and horror
films, will show The Rocky Horror Picture
S/tom at the Grove on Sept. 13 and 14 at mid
night. Tickets will be sold for $3 at the en
trance.
This year, Cepheid Variable will feature a
live cast at The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The cast will participate in a 11 p.m. pre
show that will include humorous skits and
in various scenes during the movie.
Daniel Robb, a cast member for The
Rocky Horror Picture Show and a senior
mathematics major, said the live cast adds
to the movie.
“The live cast somewhat acts out the
movie,” Robb said. “We are trying to en
courage people to get there around 11:30
p.m.”
Phill Becker, a Cepheid Variable public
relations officer and a senior wildlife and
fisheries major, said fun-packs will be sold
at the show for $2.50.
He said that the show calls for audience
participation, and the fun packs will include
items like waterguns and bird seed.
Although students have been allowed to
throw rice during a scene of the show in the
past, Becker said the outside venue and pos
sible detriment to birds calls for the audi
ence to throw bird seed instead.
Becker said The Rocky Horror Picture
Show bombed when it was released over 20
years ago. He said students now come to
mimic lines from the film.
“Rocky is a very bad movie,” said Becker.
“You’ll shout out with a line and the movie
will respond. It brings a lot of diversity.”
Students come dressed in pajamas and
costumes to recite the lines of the film, Beck
er said. Cepheid Variable plans to have a sec
ond showing of The Rocky Horror Picture
Show in the spring.
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