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Show Thursday. October 17. 1991 The Daily Utah Chronicle Page Nine Salt Lake City Feature Pie Pizzeria offers good food, free entertainment Sean McBride Chronicle Feature Writer By M. It's Thursday, the day before pay day, and if you're anything at all like me that can only mean one thing; that soon you'll have enough money to buy something better than Top Ramen, boilin' bags or Macaroni 'n' Cheese to eat. I'm not sure, but I think I studied Pavlov too much in my psychology classes because I start to salivate at the mere thought of each paycheck. Every other week I spend a great deal of thought contemplating where I should go to reward myself for having survived another 14 days of student induced poverty. If you find yourself in this same scenario, perhaps you should consider The Pie Pizzeria, located at 200 S. and 1320 East, underneath the University Pharmacy, and right across from the University of Utah (Follow the giant finger if you're still lost.) The Pie has long been considered one of the most popular haunts for U. students. I remember hearing of the Pie (and the beautiful college women that hang out there) way back in high school. Well, not much has changed since I was back at Tooele High. The Pie is still a great place for four main reasons: location, food, ambience and free entertainment. The Pie is hidden right next to the U. campus, which probably accounts for a lot of its success. But unlike the Union, the Pie goes beyond a convenient location in trying to keep their clientele satisfied. "Basically what we're trying to do with the entertainment is add flavor to the Pie," said the Pie's general manager, Jeff Rivas. "We want to entertain the guests that do come in. We want to keep that youth about the Pie, and that's why we're always looking for something new and something different for the Pie because it's the outrageous that always seems to happen at the Pie." Lately, "the outrageous" comes in the form of live music or comedy on every night except Tuesdays. On Monday nights amateur musicians perform at the Pie, while Thursday through Sunday evenings feature Salt Lake bands. "Basically because of its size the Pie's more suited for a folk singer type, someone with one single acoustic guitar," Rivas said, "but we have had outrageous and very talented bands that work fairly well here. But they've almost got to the point where they've outgrown us." "Growing" or "amateur" musicians can use the Pie to get a chance at performing by playing on Monday nights. "If a band wants to come in and audition, we'll let them play Monday night," Rivas said, "and then if we like them, and the crowd likes them, we'll book them and pay them and they won't be amateurs anymore." Wednesdays not only finds the Pie full of stand-u- p comics, but comic wannabes as well. After an hour-lon-g set from a professional comedian, the Pie opens its mike up for the amateurs. Like Rivas says, the Pie is "always looking for new acts and funny people." So, if you think that you deserve X your own Showtime comedy special, Wednesday nights are for you. "The music and entertainment just add to the ambience of the Pie," Rivas explained "Just like the writing on the brick walls. The ambience just happens. It's close to the U. but it's also like an underground restaurant and I think that it's all these things that make the Pie so popular." "We surround the atmosphere with the quality of our product." Rivas said. "It takes a little bit longer than most pie, but it's worth the wait. It's also a little more expensive than Little Caesars or any of our other competitors, but you pay for what you get, and we stack it deep." And having frequently left the Pie with more pizza in a doggie bag than in my stomach because I couldn't eat it all, I can vouch for the concept of stacking it deep as well as for some of the most orgasmic pizza in town. Combine the taste with the mood and the entertainment, and you've got a great way to spend some of you paycheck tomorrow. The Pie features local music every Monday, and Thursday through Sunday at 9:00 p.m.. Live comedy shows begin on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m., and the open mike starts at 9:00 p.m. Call 582-019- 3 information. for additional V jjj , - This weekend Union Movies will be playing host to one of the most interesting documentaries to come down the pike Comic Book Confidential. It will be shown Thursday through Sunday evening in the Union Building movie theater. To go along with the movie, Union Movies has arranged a miniature comics convention which will take place in the East Ballroom between 10 a. m. and 5 p.m. on Friday Oct. 18. The film, Comic Book Confidential, traces the days to the history of comic books from their earliest books comic on Rather than focusing present. themselves, this movie focuses on the personalities of their crGcitors. Director Ron Mann's previous credits include both of Imagine the Sound and Poetry in Motion, ed Juvenile Delinquency examined pornography and violence in popular media. Included in their investigations were comic books which were labeled a "social evil." The prime force in the crusade against comic books was a book called Seduction of the Innocent, by Fredric Wertham, which examined comics for blatant as well as subliminal sex and violence. As a result of the hearings, the Comics was created to Magazine Association of America Code. the Comics via the industry police The Comics Code Authority hasn't gone away, but fewer and fewer comic books are still submitted for still carry that approval under the code, and fewer tells you that it has little stamp on the cover which been "sanitized for your protection." Through interviews with comic giants like Stan Lee, William Gaines, Harvey Kurztman, Will Eisner and Robert Crumb, Mann delivers a picture of what the comics scene was like in the embattled '50s, and books, Comic spate of highly original and artistic Book Confidential covers it all with interviews, CHROMIQIPHOTOComrwi These and other comic books will be on display and sale Friday, Oct. 18, in the Union East Ballroom. Check it out. Sine Tragedy of Jimmy Carter lecture subject poli-s- ci A specialist in contemporary political communication will deliver the B. Aubrey Fisher Memorial Lecture at the University of Utah, Thursday. Roderick P. Hart, F.A. Liddle Professor of Communication and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, will speak on "Culture, Rhetoric, and the Tradegdy of Jimmy Carter" at 7:30 p.m. in the Marriott Library Auditorium. Hart's area of interest include persuasion in social movements and rhetorical criticism, and he has written several books on the subject. Hart received his bachelor's degree at the University of Massachusetts in 1966, and his doctorate from Pennsylvania State-Universit- in 1970. He taught at y ruraue university unui at 1979, and has been Texas since 1979. B. graphics and animation sequences. The film itself has been highly praised by industry insiders, as well as comics fans since its release in 1988. It was originally shown at the U.S. Film Festival in Park City in 1988, but it was shown out of competition because it is a Canadian produced film. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday in the Union East Ballroom, Comics Utah will be on hand with a table full of comics and related merchandise for your perusal and purchase. Union Movies manager Andrew Wade says that comic anyone is free to come in and sell their own books at one of the tables. "Come on in, sell your books, and see if you can pick up some too," Wade said. Then, on Friday evening, be sure and see Comic Book Confidential at 7 p.m. or 9:15 p.m. in the Union movie theater. Admission is $1.50, and the comic book tables are open to anyone free of charge. Aubrey Fisher was a faculty member in the of department communication at the U. from 1971 to his death in 1986. The department established the annual lecture to , .AM if""'1 ul" to the origin in the '30s current beyond. From comics to the war the of comics years, propaganda "" .S&.sm The Pie Pizzeria offers a plethora of entertainment throughout the week and even has open-mik- e comedy on Wednesday nights for the comedian. aspiring which were featured in the 1986 United States Film Festival (now the Sundance Film Festival). In Comic Book Confidential, he has made a film dealing with some of the most sensitive issues of our time. Censorship is a large topic of discussion in the film industry as well as the rest of society. What most not know about comic books is that they Eeople may since the mid '50s by the standards originating in the Comics Code Authority. In the '50s, the Congressional Subcommittee on self-regulat- & CHRONIdi PHOTOStoH Union Movie Theatre plays 'Comic Book Confidential plans comic sale By Jeffrey D. Jonsson Chronicle Feature Writer Cssk? Roderick P. Hart will deliver the B. Aubrey Fisher Memorial Lecture, Thursday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Marriott Library auditorium. Fisher's recognize and achievements for a forum provide presenting original research and theory in communications. So, come one come all to what promises to be an exciting lecture, and learn if the tragedy of Jimmy Carter was that he was elected, or that he lost his office to Ronald Reagan. Steven Miller Writer Wanted Lots of work, low pay, fun and games, plus lots of criticism (from readers). Ah, the life of a Daily Utah Chronicle feature writer. Come join this bunch of wild and crazy guys (and gals). Pick up an application at the Chronicle office, Room 240 Union Building. |
