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Live “The Distance to Here” Radioactive Grade: A After Live’s first LP “Mental Jewelry” went gold in 1991, the band must have known it was on to some thing. This must be why its latest release, “The Distance to Here,” stays close to strong guitar riffs and lead singer Ed Kowalczyk’s enthusi astic singing style. Kowalczyk’s voice rises and falls with the power of the band on songs such as “Voodoo Lady” and “The Distance.” He makes you feel as if he is on stage in front of you, just as he did in “White, Discussion” and “I Alone” from the 1994 release “Throwing Copper,” which sold more than 7 million copies. The band members also have stuck to their guns in asking ques tions about their spiritual lives. Kowalczyk’s studies in Eastern reli gions are not as forward as they were in “Secret Samadhi,” but the lyrics still chase the idea that Kowalczyk’s is chasing an idea of God. In an interview on the Friends of Live home page, when asked about the new album, Kowalczyk replied, “While a few songs are still full of an existential tension, there is a bright, happy intensity to some of them, which is very new for Live.” New indeed, because these ques tions may not be answered on “The Distance to Here.” The anger appar ent in previous releases has mel lowed, providing a new energy for a great-sounding rock ‘n’ roll album. The only single released so far has been “The Dolphin’s Cry,” which has been in regular rotation on com mercial and college radio stations, as well as MTV The closest radio-friendly song after the first single could be “They Stood Up For Love,” in which the band rolls through a looping crescen do while trying to find a place to call home. However, many songs could fit the hit-single status Live has enjoyed, including “Run To The Water” and “Dance With You” - both prototypes for radio play. The strongest vocally may be “The Distance,” where Kowalczyk’s voice bends from high to low and creates a type of mystery into which Chad Gracey on drums and Patrick Dahlheimer are happy to follow. Chad Taylor’s guitar is strong on all tracks but especially solid on “We Walk In The Dream,” which features a long, winding solo. Kowalczyk has said after every release he hopes the band from York, Pa., grows musically. On “The Distance To Here,” it appears Live has grown. Spiritually, the band is allowing its questions of life to remain unanswered. It’s also letting the music take over, not the sound of anger. The album may sound different at first to any long-time Live fan, which is what Live wants. But after listen ing extensively, they are reminded - by dark images and talk of God and love - of what started it all for Live: “Mental Jewelry.” “The Distance to Here” will make a perfect bookend to the Live collection. -Mike Warren Hey, check it over dailyneb.com Omaha theater marks Halloween with series of spoofs, scary sketches Danell McCoy Staff writer It is the month of ghouls and gob lins, ghosts and vampires and the annu al Halloween show at the Shelterbelt Theatre. For the past four seasons, the Shelterbelt Theatre, 3225 Vz California St. in Omaha, has celebrated Halloween with its show, “Shelterskelter.” “Shelterskelter” consists of nine sketches, all written by various local playwrights, with a haunted theme. “Past shows have been traditional ly more bloody,” cast member Don Nguyen said. “This year, we tried to get away from that. We wanted to focus more on the story and develop our scripts.” The content of the sketches includes a spin-off of MTV’s “The Real World” and a story about an old man scared of crickets. Nguyen said although the shows aren’t all blood and gore, audiences should find them scary. “It’s sort of like the ‘Blair Witch Project,”’ he said. “There’s not a lot of blood, but you are still scared. It is just this fear that you get in the back of your mind. We rely more on that than on the physical or what’s on stage.” Nguyen is in three of the sketches in the show. One of them, called “Stepping on Van Gogh’s Ear,” is an absurdist take on Halloween. “It’s a play inside a play,” Nguyen said. “This skit is geared more toward people who are experienced in theater and those who are aware of absurdist theater.” Two of the skits in the show, which is directed by Rob Baker, Ben Birkholtz, Christa Miller and Bryan Poole, are spin-offs of real shows. “The Real Underworld” is a take on MTV’s “The Real World,” but instead of people living together, ghouls and monsters live together. Another skit, “The Newly Dead Game,” is a take on “The Newlywed Game.” In this skit, the devil is the host, and three couples who have died grue somely are the contestants. The Bitners were killed by sharks, the Bums were killed in an explosion and the Limbs lost all of their extremities. Nguyen said the scripts being used Oprah latest celebrity to be touted as candidate CHICAGO (AP) - She’s a multimillionaire talk-show host, actress and - most recently - col lege professor. Now some Reform Party members are talk ing about President Oprah Winfrey. Party members from Minnesota have created a Web site to draft Winfrey for the 2000 presidential race. “It is Jesse Ventura times 10” said Paul Larsen, chairman of the draft committee and a party leader from suburban Minneapolis. “She’s got a thou sand times as much money, 100 times the name recognition. She has a sterling reputation for hon esty.” The queen of talk is not inter ested, a spokeswoman said. But Larsen said he was not giving up and would ask Ventura, Minnesota’s governor and the nation’s highest elected Reform Party official, to help persuade her to run. Ventura spokesman Doug Friedline said the whole situation “has gotten kind of weird.” “It’s almost like we have celebrity-itis in the Reform Party.” Theater Preview The Facts What: Shelter Skelter 4 - Annual Halloween Show Where: 3225 1/2 California St., Omaha When: Oct. 15 - 17,21 - 24,27-31, all shows at 8 p.m. except Sunday at 7 p.m. Cost: Students $8 Adults $10 The Skinny: Show has little blood but is very spooky. this year were chosen by him and four other people. “We received about 45 submis sions,” he said. “We all read the scripts and then figured out which ones would work.” Each of the skits lasts between five to 15 minutes, and the entire show runs about an hour and a half. Because this is one of the favorite shows of the Shelterbelt’s season, tick ets are going fast. “This show' is our biggest draw of the season,” Nguyen said. “Our October 16th show sold out about two months ago.” For reservations and tickets, call the Shelterbelt at (402) 341-2757 or go to vwwv. shelterbelt. org. Doors for the show will open about a half hour before showtime. Iowa police chief seeks Phish ban AMES, Iowa (AP) - As far as the chief of police is concerned, Phish fans are welcome to stay away from Ames - forever. Chief Dennis Ballantine said Monday the city jail was full of Phishheads, the devoted followers of the music group, since the band’s concert at Iowa State University on Friday night. “If they never come back, it will be too soon,” he said. Ballantine said the lawlessness and drug use outside the concert was so appalling that he will ask the uni versity to ban Phish from campus. 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