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FEATURES Thursday, September 16, 1999 - Page 5 Hey You! The Big Writers! Three The Phoenix staff would like to If you are at all interested in getting in welcome you to Western Maryland on some of the Features Phoenixfun, College. As a token of OUT love, we, come to a meeting Mondays at 6:00 the upperclassmen have gathered a list of campus and local commu- pm .or call Sarah (that's me, the nity "top threes": editor) at x8600. Best Pizza A Terror's Guide to The Impala Is a swift, graceful Domino's Ledo's Papa John's Local Movie Theaters antelope that can leap up to 30 Best Chinese Food feet In a By JENNIFER Ross 6:00 pm & $8.00 after 6:00 pm bound. North China First Wok FealuresWriter This new theater located behind Movies with Jenn and Forbidden City Owings Mills Mall is impressive. Hoyt's Cranberry Mall, Most of the theaters have stadium Favorite On-Campus Hangouts seating, and the chairs in the front Erin: Chill Factor Westminster: recline! They have a wide variety Red Square Phone: (410) 857-1410 of refreshments, including a coffee The few really violent moments Pub Prices: Adults are $6.00 before BY JENNIFER Ross AND ERIN of the film are hard hitting and re- Weight Room JERNIGAN 6:00 pm & $7.75 after 6:00 pm bar. A great place for a movie date! Features Writers morseless, and aimed against the This is a nice local theater that Lowes Valley Center 9, bad guys - ignoring the fact that Favorite Off-Campus Hangouts usually plays some of the hottest Owings Mills: Chill Factor, staring Cuba bad guys are people, too. Wal-Mart (open 'til II pml) Target new releases. Gooding, Jr., and Skeet Ulrich, is There are two positive points in Friend's House The popcorn is usually fresh, Phone; (410) 363-4194 one of few action films playing in the Chill Factor: Gooding and and the theater is clean. If you are Prices; Adultsare $5.00 before6:00 movie theaters this summer. Ulrich. Friday Night Activity 'going to see an "R" rated film pm & $7.25 after 6:00 pm Viewers wanting action will be What the film lacks in plot, the Parties make sure to bring your H), be- This theater may be hard to get satisfied by the film's standard car pair almost makes up for in Movies cause they are strict aboutcarding. to if you do not have a car. It is lo- chases. explosions, and literally likeability and comic relief. How- Getttn' a couple of 40's and... You can find out show times cated on Rt. 140in Owings Mills. nail-biting cliff hangers. ever, the movie is not one either Whoops, you're underaged, no either by phone, or by going to Chill Factor is the story of two actor would put on the top of his drinking allowed! http://www.hollywood.com. This theater is a great place to would-be good guys trying to keep resume. go for a matinee because they are the most deadly chemical weapon This may be one to save for a General Cinema, located in a shopping plaza where ever from a GI Joe gone awry. blockbuster night. All in all we Nicer Eat-in Restaurants Applebee's you can get some great deals. Get Owings Mills: there early on a weekend because it While the opening scene of the would give this film a C+ for ef- Maria's Phone; (443) 384-0081 is usually crowded. movie is explosive, the twists and fort. Chameleon Prices: Adults are $5.00 before Grade: C+ :~~:;~: ~~e::;~;~;~~t~~ot are-Il~ Have Fun! U.s. Mint reinvents the quarter Ghosts haunt theater with state quarters 'program By LISA DALE VAN AUKEN - "Ron Miller taught (he play last (NAPS) - What do washing Union, starting with Delaware, quarters featuring the traditional News Editor seme:5ter..:_'said Domser, "and [it] machines, pay phones, parking Pennsylvania, NewJersey,Georgia, American Eagle will not be pro- What do you do you get when was the oniYPray-thathe said no one understood. He didn't tell n>e_that meters, and toll booths have in and Connecticut in 1999. duced for the ten-year run of the you mix the chorus of a Greek until after I decided to do it." common? Here's a hint: chances The 50 State Quarters Program, 50 States Program, there will still tragedy, the movement stylings of Although the text is challenging are, there's one jingling around in already underway, was created to be plenty in circulation. Cirque du Soleil, and the driven and often "ambiguous," Domser your pocket or stuck between the promote knowledge about Ameri- The new 50 State Quarters of- techno beat of Front Line Assem- Sonata because of its seatcushionsof yourcouch.That's can history, national heritage, geog- fer Americans a chance to collect a bly with an expressionist play? chose Ghost "possibilities," he said right - a quarter! Perhaps the hot- raphy, and diversity. Some of the pieceof history -that is, unlessthey Chances are it's Professor Ira Set inthe modem world. the play test commodity in the hierarchy of new quarters are now in circulation need to do laundry! For more in- Domser's creation: a "techno- is an exploration redemption. An change has just gotten hotter (check your pockets and couch formation, please visit the U.S. drama." Adapted and directed by thanks to the U.S. Mint's 50 State cushionsl) and more will appear Mint's web site at http:// Old Man(Jon Reynolds)desires that Quarters Program. soon. And, don't worry, although www.usmint.gov. Domser, Ghost Sonata, by August he must do something to redeem his Strindsberg,isWMC's newest the- Whileyou may use quarters all many sins before he dies. the time, when's the last time you atrical endeavor. After meeting a clairvoyant Domser,who steppedout of his took a good look at one? Brace usual roles as producer or lighting young student (Don Todt) on the yourself for a surprise 'the next street, he decides to marry the stu- time you do - you may not see the and sound director, has worked on dent to his beautiful daughter (Jeanette Webster) and make him many productionssince he started American Bald Eagle, the long- Sonata is wealthy in order to do one final act standing symbol of courage and here in '82, but Ghost of good. the first of its kind, he said. freedom that has graced the re- Because the play incorporates "Between the powerful script," verse (tails) side of quarters for manydifferent kindsof theater and said actor Jon Reynolds, "the sur- more than 200 years. The eagle does not fit into a genre of classic real choral scenes, and the atmo- stepped aside as of January 1999 theater.Domserhas decided to call spherictechno music, Ithink theend and through the year 2009 to make the playa "techno-drama." result will be a play that has a very room for the U.S. Mint's new de- Using a chorus of about 13 unusual mood and color to it." signs commemorating each of the members, who function much like 50 United States. thechorusesof ancientGreektrag- Cathy Pendorf, a chorus mem- George Washington's portrait edy, Domser's vision of the play ber, also agrees that the play will be will remain firmly rooted on the is very different from the original. out of the ordinary. "[It's] like a warped dream," she said. front of the new quarters as the Domser's adaptation of the Domser suggests ordering tick- backs change to feature scenes play "clarifies the author's inten- ets in advance for the play, which representative of each state - in- cluding landmarks, geography, tion and allows the chorus to be- runs from September 28 to October have as a modern segment of so- flora and fauna, and significant 2 inAlumni Hall.Tickets are $3 for historical events. The new coins ciety, particularly goth," he said. students and $5 for adults. For more But despite the changes made will be issued in the sequence that in the adaptation. the play is still infonnation call the Box Office at each of the 50 states joined the very challenging and metaphoric. 4 [0-857-2448. No children will be admitted due to adult content.