UpDate - Vol. 13, No. 6, Page 4
October 7, 1993
Up and coming

Duran Duran to perform Oct. 20
     The popular rock group Duran Duran will appear in the Bob Carpenter
Center at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 20.
     The group has had three smash singles, "Ordinary World," "Come Undone"
and "Too Much Information," from its ninth and latest album, entitled
simply Duran Duran.
     Opening the show will be The Cranberries, now touring in support of
its new recording, "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?"
     Tickets for U.D. faculty, staff and students with ID are $20 and
tickets for the general public are $22.50.
     Tickets are available at the Bob Carpenter Center box office and
through TicketMaster, telephone 984-2000 or (215)336-2000. A service charge
may apply.
     The premiere band of the video generation, Duran Duran began in 1980
and has thrived longer and sold more records than any of its peers. Its
members are Simon Le Bon, lead vocals; Nick Rhodes, keyboards; John Taylor,
bass; and Warren Cuccurullo, guitar.

MTV's Lip Service returns to campus
     Last March, MTV auditioned several teams of University students for
Lip Service, a lip-sync game show on the network. As a result, five
University teams were invited to the MTV studios in New York to appear on
national television.
     At 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 19, MTV will return to tape auditions in the
Bacchus Theatre. Only University students ages 18-25 are eligible.
     Students interested in auditioning for the show should organize teams
of three to five people and have a prepared, choreographed lip-sync
routine. Each team must choose an upbeat song currently playing on MTV and
provide a cassette tape of the song at the audition. Videotapes will be
reviewed by the producers, and selected teams will contacted and booked to
appear on the show.
     MTV does not guarantee that any team appearing at the auditions will
be booked for the show. Selected teams must provide their own
transportation to New York for the network taping.
     Audition sign-ups are being held from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., until Oct. 19,
in Room 109 of the Perkins Student Center. Walk-ins to the audition will
not be accepted.
     For more information, call 831-1036.

Five concerts in Arsht Hall series
     The first in a series of five Sunday concerts will be held at 3 p.m.,
Oct. 17, in Arsht Hall on the University's Wilmington campus. The 30-piece
Atlantic Brass Band will start the series. After the concert, guests are
invited to join the artists for refreshments and conversation.
     Advance reservations, at $8 each, are required by Oct. 11. For
additional information, call 573-4433. The event is sponsored by the
Academy of Lifelong Learning.

'Steel Magnolias' in Student Center
     The Harrington Arts Theatre Company (HTAC) will perform Steel
Magnolias at 8 p.m., Oct. 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16 in the Bacchus Theatre of the
Perkins Student Center. A special 2 p.m. performance will be held in
addition to the evening performance on Oct. 9.
     Tickets, which are $4, may be purchased either at the door or from 10
a.m.-3 p.m. the Thursday and Friday prior to each weekend, in the Perkins
Student Center.
     Steel Magnolias is being produced by HTAC is an extra-curricular
student group sponsored by the Office of Housing and Residence Life. The
group stages three to four full-scale productions each academic year. For
more information, contact Kristen Gleason, production manager, at 837-1576
or A.J. Greely, director, at 738-8250.

'A Black Family' theme of events
     "The Black Family: A Priceless Resource" is the theme of a series of
events planned by the Center for Black Culture this semester. The series
begins Monday, Oct. 11, with "Brother to Sister: Understanding Black Male
and Female Relationships," an interactive workshop with Ras Barbka and
MTV's Kevin Powell.
     The workshop gets underway at 7 p.m. in 115 Purnell Hall. There is no
admission charge.
     Powell is an award-winning poet, journalist, producer and co-editor of
the new book, In The Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers. Among
other publications he work is seen regularly in Essence, Rolling Stone, The
Source, The New York Times and Volume.
     Also an aspiring actor and film maker, Powell is featured on the hit
MTV docu-soap, The Real World, which explores the lives of seven young
people living in New York City.
     A former student activist at Rutgers University, Powell has lectured
widely on campus racism, black male-female relations, the state of black
youth, hiphop culture and issues affecting young black men.
     Baraka is a poet and co-editor of the Traditions book with Powell. Son
of internationally acclaimed writer, Amiri Baraka and the poetess Amina
Baraka, he is a former student activist at Howard University.
     Currently, he is the executive minister of Black Nia Force, a national
black youth-student organization. A dynamic speaker, Baraka has lectured in
the U.S. and abroad and has been featured on several television and radio
programs discussing issues affecting the black community including the
state of black youth, hiphop culture, the black male as endangered species
and youth and student activism in the 1990s.
     Other sponsors of the workshop are the Cultural Programming Advisory
Board, the Office of Affirmative Action and Multicultural Programs and the
Black American Studies.
     For more information on the workshop or any other events in the
series, call the Center for Black Culture at 831-2991.