thursday 3

First Year Players will be performing a musical called "Fame" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Student Activities Building. I was famous once but then everybody died.

So I stole this vibrating bed from the motel next to Lambeth and dragged it back to my apartment, but I didn't have any quarters, the lab was closed, all my sheep were out to pasture, and my roommate was home. Just another Manic Monday. The 1997 TJ Professor will be giving a lecture entitled: "Up and Down/In and Out" in Newcomb Hall 153 at 8 p.m.

In town tonight: at Macado's, Plutonium at Katie's Country Club, Iron Horse; at Miller's, John D'Earth Group; at the Outback Lodge, Frog Legs and Junk Food Buddah; at Trax, The Samples; at Monterey's, Superjock 77.

friday 4

Who says that leotards, legwarmers, and tights can't put you on top? First Year Players perform "Fame" at the SAB, 8 p.m.

Never mind the three bottles of lime M.D. you guzzled down last night. Time to open your groggy little eyes and wipe the spittle off your chin. It's Daylight at Newcomb Theater, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

U-Union presents Skylab. It Came From Outer Space (3D!) at Newcomb Theater, midnight.

In town tonight: at Trax, Baaba Seth; at Tokyo Rose, Spoon, The Seymores, and Beauty Operators, and Starry Wisdom Band; at Miller's, Jump Street Blues; at the Outback Lodge, The Nighthawks; at Tiny Mac, Brennan Snead.

saturday 5

The dame was hysterical. Ranting about some damn show, said it was her dream or something. I tried to tell her, "Look, babe, our numbers all gotta come up sometime." She just kept yelling, "I'm gonna live forever!" First Year Players present "Fame," SAB, 8 p.m.

Round up your celibate posse, treat yourselves to some wholesome turkey pot pies, lace up your identical pairs of Nikes, and come on down to Cinematheque for It Came From Outer Space at midnight. Sure you were let down by Hale-Bopp, but this is friggin' 3D!

Sil'hooettes performance at 8 p.m. in Old Cabell Hall. Tickets are $5. Backstage passes are a wee bit extra.

In town tonight: at Miller's, Larry Keel Experience; at the Outback Lodge, TR3; at Prism Coffeehouse, Patrick Ball; at Tokyo Rose, The Curious Digit, Lauren Hoffman, and the Come-On Children; at Macado's, Good Karma; at Dürty Nelly's, PPF and Soul Kitchen; at Trax, Klub Krew's Dance Experience.

sunday 6

Anne Frank Remembered will play at Newcomb Theater at 6 and 9 p.m. with a panel discussion after the first show. Restroom facilities will be provided, just don't flush until the workers have gone home to das haus.

Are you a flabby girlie-man with glutes like Turner? Let Roger Stein pump you up with his tour, "Shaping the Landscape Image" at 3 p.m. at the Bayly.

On the prowl for a dead Greek lesbian? Sappho will be making a guest appearance at "Fame," 8 p.m. in the SAB. Hey you in the toga, wanna go back to my trireme and open the amphora of love?

In town tonight: at Michael's Bistro, Furnace Mountain String Board; at the Monticello Brewing Company, Irish music session.

monday 7

graphic by Scott Herman

Howdy ... howzit going? Hello ... hey, how ya doin'... wassup... how's it hangin'? Okay. Alright. Please allow me to introduce myself . Andrew DelBanco will speak on "Evil and Satan," 3:30 p.m. in Peabody 106.

In town tonight: at Michael's Bistro, Plutonium; at Macado's, Hook; at Miller's, Tim Reynolds.

tuesday 8

Eve Agee will lecture on "Ethnicity and Menopause" at 11:30 a.m. in Peabody 106. Me, I'm gonna go with the flow.

In town tonight: at the Outback Lodge, Juicebox; at Miller's, Faster Than Walking.

wednesday 9

The Pep Band is sponsoring a Jail and Bail on behalf of the American Cancer Society in the Amphitheatre from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Maybe a rich Darden alum will show up and throw the whole smack in jail until 2007.

The Women's Center is sponsoring a lecture by Daphne Spain, assistant professor of Urban Planning in the A-school, entitled "Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage, Employment." Free "A Woman's Place is in the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office" bumper stickers at the door. 11:45 a.m. in Peabody 106.

Wanna learn how to plant a spy camera in the girls' shower room? Come to Harry West's seminar "Peeping and Glimpsing: The Optics of European/ African Encounter in N. Mozambique, ca. 1882," 4 p.m. You have to find out where for yourself.

In town tonight: at Trax, Pat McGee with Rich Recht; at the Outback Lodge, The Secret; at Miller's, Mike Rosensky and Jeff Decker Quartet.