Bodega’s Alley, 1418 O St
Wednesday: Ripple Effect
Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 O St
Wednesday: The Derailers
Thursday: Live karaoke with
Shithook
Sunday: Ska Night hosted by The
Bishops.
Knickerbockers, 901 O St.
Tuesday: Armatron, Today is the
Day and Unsane
Wednesday: (19 & over show) The
Johnstones and Almost None
Friday: The Nadas
Saturday: Eric the Red, Pablos
Triangle and For Against (CD
release party)
The Zoo Bar
136 N. 14th St.
Monday : Bill Kirchen and Too
Much Fun
Tuesday: open stage
Wednesday: Re-Xperience (Jimi
Hendrix tribute)
Thursday: Mango Jam
Friday and Saturday: Little Ed and
the Blues Imperials
Lied Center for
Performing Arts,
12^ & R streets.
Tuesday: poetry reading by award
winning actors Roscoe Lee
Browne and Anthony Zerbe,
“Poetry in Motion: Behind the
Broken Words,” in Kimball Hall.
Friday - Sunday: “Smokey Joe’s
Caffe,” a song and dance party cel
ebrating die music of Jerry Leiber
and Mike Stoller, writers of hits
“Stand By Me,” “Jailhouse Rock,”
and “Hound Dog.”
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Blues Brothers’ return worthwhile
By Andrew Washburn
Film. Critic
The Lord works in mysterious
ways.
Almost two decades after the
original “mission from God” left off
the Blues Brothers are back to the
same antics that made them interna
tional icons in black suits, porkpie
hats and shades.
In “Blues Brothers 2000,” the
sequel to the 1980 hit, co-writers
Dan Aykroyd and John Landis pre
sent the next chapter in the Blues
Brothers saga.
Even without John Belushi, the
sequel is still entertaining, with plen
■ ty of the humor, musical numbers
i and outrageous car stunts that high
lighted the original.
**2000” is a sequel in the truest
sense of the word. It is set exactly 18
i years after the conclusion of the
original picture and continues the
: original story of Elwood Blues,
played by Aykroyd.
It also has most of the original
i cast members reprising their roles, as
they are all literally 18 years older,
i The show begins with Elwood
getting out of jail and realizing the
world has changed quite a bit during
his prison stay.
His partner, Jake, is dead, his
band has long since broken up and
the orphanage where he grew up has
been demolished.
Elwood must now find a new
purpose in life as he wanders a world
without his brother or mentor.
He soon finds that his purpose is
to reassemble his old band, find a
new partner and compete in an old
style battle of the bands. During the
course of the movie, he also becomes
an unwilling mentor to a 10-year-old
orphan named Buster who is in des
perate need of redemption.
In the meantime, Elwood must
avoid numerous law-enforcement
officials, the Moscow Mafia, and a
right-wing militia group.
I John Goodman dons the fedo
ra and shades as Mighty Mack, an
ex-bartender at a strip club. He
serves as the new lead singer in
the duo while learning how to
carry himself in his new calling.
| Goodman falls short of
I duplicating the energy and style
* of John Belushi, but brings his
own sense of comedy, song and
dance to the group.
The tradition of spectacular
stunts and elaborately staged multi
car chases and crashes is also contin
ued in “2000.”
From their entrance into their
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The Facts
TWt: “Blues Brothers 2000“
Stars: Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, J.
Evan Bonifant, Joe Morton.
Dirador; John Landis
Rating: PG-13
Grade: A
Flve Words: New brothers pass the test.
comeback gig in a flaming car to the
largest car pileup in film history, the
Blues Brothers leave a trail of
destruction and chaos in the wake of
their 1990 Crown Victoria.
Despite the jokes and stunts,
blues music is the most important
aspect of the film. The cast includes
several music greats who combine to
perform 14 fully choreographed
musical numbers throughout the
film.
Even though it is 18 years later,
the message is the same, and Elwood
and the gang are still funny and
appealing.
It is definitely a film to catch,
especially for fans of music and
mayhem. The blues are back, for
now, but who knows what the future
holds for the new Blues Brothers.
After all, die Lord works in mys
terious ways.
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“BUIES BROTHERS 2000" stars (from left) Jolm Goodman, Oaa Aykroyd, J.
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Beach Boys’
lead guitarist
dead at 51
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carl Wilson, a founding
member of The Beach Boys and lead guitarist for the
seminal surf band, has died from complications of
lung cancer, his family said Saturday. He was 51.
Wilson, who also had brain cancer, died Friday
evening in Los Angeles with his family at his side.
“Even though he was diagnosed with cancer last
year and going through treatment for a year, he was a
real fighter,” said his publicist, Alyson Dutch. “He
participated in die entire summer tour this year.”
Dutch said family members, including brother *
and fellow Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, would
not be available for comment.
Carl Dean Wilson was bom in Hawthorne, a Los
Angeles suburb about five miles from the Pacific. He
learned to play guitar as a teen-ager and - with broth
ers Brian and Dennis, cousin Mike Love and friend
Alan Jardine - founded The Beach Boys in 1961.
Dennis Wilson, who was killed in a swimming
accident in 1983, came up with die idea of a surfing
theme for the music. Brian Wilson and Love started
writing lyrics, capitalizing on the surfing craze that
began in the mid-1950s.
The Southern California quintet did not make its
first public appearance until New Year’s Eve 1961 at
Long Beach’s Municipal Auditorium. The band
members’ stage fright was not helped by the fact they
could play only three songs.
Despite the limited repertoire, the audience
embraced the group. Throughout the 1960s and later,
the band defined the “surfing beat” with such songs
as “I Get Around,” “Good Vibrations,” “Help Me
Rhonda” and “Surfin’ U.S.A.”
Each of the group’s singles sold hundreds of thou
sands of copies, although only two exceeded the mil
lion needed for a gold record: “I Get Around” in 1964
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International action star
makes American film debut
By Cliff Hicks
Film Critic
Well, it’s not the best Chow Yun-Fat has
done, but it’ll have to do.
“The Replacement Killers” is legendary
actor Chow Yun-Fat’s first film in America.
With the installation of censorship in Hong
Kong by the Chinese, most international stars
have fled to the United States to continue mak
ing movies. Enter Chow Yun-Fat
Yun-Fat is perhaps the world’s mosl
renowned bad-ass. His performances in films
such as “Hard-Boiled” and “The Killer” have
gained him recognition in the States, where
die films have been either dubbed or subti
ded.
given his third and final job. When he finds
himself unable to do it, he is forced to flee the
country. In order to escape, he enlists die help
of a forger, played by Mua Sorvino.
The plot of the film probably hurts it
more than anything else, and the dialogue is -
to be frank - pretty bad. There are whole
scenes that deny plausibility, even more than
usual. Tons ofbullets fly, and there are lots of
people who can't hit squat.
From the moment the film starts, it’s
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