The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1989 Page: 13 of 20
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THL RICF THRF SHIR FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1989 13
KAHN'S CORNER
Basketball arid the Bard
TONIGHT
•Well, it's NCAA March
Madness, when all sports fans
sit in front of their television
sets for three weeks, watching a
bunch of men with overactive
pituitary glands play for the
honor of their academic
institutions. All right, all right—
so I screwed up my predictions
of the World Series and the
Super Bowl. But I'm guaran-
damn-teeing this one. It's going
to be the Georgetown Hoyas,
the Missouri Tigers, the UNLV
Runnin' Rebels, and the
Oklahoma Sooners in the Final
Four in Seattle. It's going to be
Georgetown versus Oklahoma, in
the Championship Game, and
the Hoyas will triumph, 104-98.
Next week, I'll announce who
will be our next President.
Another feature of the often-
criticized-but-never-conquered-
Kahn's-Corner.
•Alex Chilton, Slammin
Watusis and Tabla Rasa jam
tonight at the Axiom (2524
McKinney).
•Today is St. Patrick's Day.
Drink green beer.
TOMORROW
•Was (Was Not) plays
Galveston Island at West Beach
Park #2 sometime this
afternoon. Righteous waves,
righteous babes, and righteous
music.
•Fiddler on my Spleen
(another Rice band) plays
tonight at Blithe Spirits. The
show starts at 9 p.m. and
there's no cover.
•Baker College holds its
annual Shakespeare festival
today in the Baker/Will Rice
quad. The food is cheap and the
entertainment is free, so don
your tights and join the fun.
UPCOMING
•March 19—Watch
basketball on TV.
•March 19—Artist Al Souza
presents a lecture this
afternoon at the Glassell School
of Art at 3 p.m.
• March 22—The Houston
Symphony presents the third
and final concert of its 75th
Anniversary Celebrity Series at 8
p.m; in Jones Hall. This special
series concludes with
appearances by both Christoph
Eschenbach and Tzimon Barto.
The concert will be an all-
Brahms program. For ticket
information, call 224-7575.
•March 22—"Station to
Station: Mass Transit and the
Urban Environment," the first
talk in a lecture series
sponsored by the Rice Design
Alliance, is tonight at 8 p.m. in
the Brown Auditorium at the
Museum of Fine Arts.
•March 23—R.E.M. plays
tonight at the Summit at 8 p.m,
Robyn Hitchcock and the
Egyptians open up for Mr. Stipe
and the rest of the fellows (see
related article in this section).
• March 23—Watch
basketball late at night on TV.
•March 27—Baker College
opens its production of
Shakespeare's comedy "As You
Like It" (directed by Alan David)
tonight in the Baker Commons.
For more information (since we
don't have much), call the Baker
office.
ONGOING
•The Glassell School of Art
presents its Core Fellows
Exhibition through April 30.
•Brown Silk and Magenta
Sunsets, a play dealing with a
woman's obsession with love,
plays at The Ensemble Theater
through April 23. For ticket
prices and performance times,
call 520-0055.
• Scooter Thomas Makes It to
the Top of the World plays
through March 25—with the
original New York Company—at
Houston's Comedy Playhouse.
All seats are $10; for
information, call 668-2232.
• The Art of Photography
1839-1939, an exhibit recently,
featured in Time Magazine,
remains at the Museum of Fine
Arts until April 30. Pictures by
Man Ray, Walker Evans, Paul
Strand and Robert Evans are
prominently featured.
Pub features
Irish folk singer
BY SARAH LEEDY
T
I h is
Ihis year, Willy's Pub has
substantially increased its all-
week popularity. Wednesday
nights especially have attracted
large crowds in the past few
weeks, and it isn't for one-dollar
Mexican beers. The reason is a
talented Irish folk singer, Kevin
Morrissey, playing a variety of
Irish and American songs. His
personable stage presence
always draws whole-hearted
accompaniment from his
audiences here (and it takes a
lot to get students to sing along
to "Rocky Mountain High").
Twenty-five-year-old Morrissey
comes from County Tipperary,
Ireland, and has been
performing throughout the
United States since 1986. He
has been in Houston for nearly
five months and has performed
in a number of venues, including
Waves and the Pig and Whistle
Pubs, and he also performed at
the last Wiess TG.
Counting the Eagles, Simon
and Garfunkel and Dan
Fogelberg among his influences,
Morrissey says "there wasn't
much call for my kind of music
in Ireland." He came to America,
which is currently experiencing a
revival of folk music with the
likes of Tracy Chapman and
Suzanne Vega, to establish
himself as a folksinger and
songwriter. He is traveling to
Austin this weekend to meet
with record executives at the
annual South by Southwest
Music Festival. He has already
produced an album of ten
original songs, available for
purchase during his Wednesday
night Pub gigs.
Morrissey plans to head back
to the East Coast this summer,
so catch his act at the Pub on
Wednesdays at 10 p.m., and at
the Pig and Whistle tonight from
4 til 9 p.m. He is a welcome
change from the usual Houston
musical atmosphere of bimbo
techno-pop and pseudo-metal
power ballads.
■
Alan David directs Lisa May and Bernadette Gillece in the Baker Shakespeare production of As You Like It.
•Heaven's Hard continues at
the Alley Theatre through March
26. Ticket prices for the play (a
romantic comedy that deals with
a stereotypical Southern family)
range from $14-$28, and half-
price tickets are available from
noorvl p.m. the day of the
performance at the Alley Box
Office (228-8421).
• Texas Art Celebration '89
remains on display at 1600
Smith Street in the Cullen
Center until May 18.
•Le Brun...Paris...1940
continues its open-ended run at
Stages Repertory Theatre. For
tickets and reservations for the
one-woman revue, call 52-
STAGE.
•Shear Madness, the longest-
running non-musical play in this
country's history, continues its
open-ended run at the newly
renovated Tower Theater on
Westheimer. Performances run
Tuesday through Sunday, with
matinees on Saturday and
Sunday. For times and ticket
information, call the Tower box
office at 529-5966.
•Diamonds Are Forever, an
exhibition of sixty works of art
that address the theme of
baseball and its cultural
influence, remains on display
until April 15 at the Museum of
Fine Arts.
• The Contemporary Arts
Museum exhibit Frank Stella
1970-1987 runs through April
23.
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computer systems. Check with the Campus Store for details.
Apple Computers are available al discount prices to full-time Rice students, faculty, and staff through the Campus Store.
ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWING
LEGAL ASSISTANT POSITIONS
Vinson & Elkins,-a major Houston law firm, is seeking mature individuals with
excellent academic credentials for career positions in its successful legal assistant
program, working in such areas of the firm as civil litigation, corporate law,
finance, tax, and employee benefits.
We require good written and oral communication skills, the capacity to master and
organize a new body of knowledge quickly, and the ability and desire to interface
with individuals from diverse backgrounds. We are seeking individuals with
graduate and undergraduate degrees. No previous legal experience is required.
A representative will be on campus Tuesday, March 28, 1989, from 10:00 a.m. to
3:00 p.m. in the Conference Room of the Career Services Center to discuss career
opportunities in the legal assistant profession with interested students. On-eampus
interviews will be conducted on Thursday, April 6, 1989. Please contact the
Career Services Center to schedule an interview. Complete transcripts, a research
paper, and resume must be provided to the Career Services Center no later than
Monday, April 3, 1989.
Descriptive literature is available from the Career Services Center. For more
information, contact Ms. Margaret SeWatzman at 654-4520.
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McGarrity, Patrick & Sendek, Joel. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1989, newspaper, March 17, 1989; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245717/m1/13/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.