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Show . SECTION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, UFE ft STYLE EDITOR l Elyssa Andrus 344-255- 3 2004 eandrusOhwaldextra.com From Los Lonely Boys to Weird Al, entertainment options abound at state event Utah State Fair Doug Fox w DAILY it comes HERALD Wherc'ThursdaySept 19 Gate admission: $7 adults, $6 seniors, $5 youth ages 6 Grandstand entertainment: Miss Utah State Fair Scholarship Program (Thursday, included with gate admission), Los Lonely Boys (Friday, $19), .Newsboys (Saturday, $19), Grand Funk Railroad (Sunday, $19), Joe Nichols (Sept. 13, $19), Crestmark Orchestra (Sept 14, free with gate admission), Carolyn Dawn Johnson, and the Bellamy Brothers (Sept 15, free with gate admission), The Turtles featuring Flo and Eddie, and Herman's to grandstand entertain organizers of the Utah State Fair taking this year s therne to new ex "Cultivating New Traditions" is the offi cial mantra of this year's fair which begins Thursday at the State Fairpark in Salt Lake City. With that in mind, officials hope one new wrinkle will be popular among fairgoers and entertainment mavens. Free shows. Well, almost free. Tickets to three of the acts on this year's entertainment docket will be included with purchase of the dairy gate admission. And that's a first. "We haven't offered free tickets with our gate . See STATE FAIR, B2 Students wear rebellion on their sleeves ... or chests ... or backs . Leslie Earnest It's hard to say who's more likely to mouth off when school convenes this fall: students or their also known as attiStatement tude tees have caught on with teens outfitting themselves for the classroom: "Too cool for schooL'' boasts a guys' shirt from Urban Outfitters. "I'm not doing homework i tonight," warns an Old Navy girls' top. are dull explained Rain Kassie Quackenbush, in a "surf 85" top ', S5 she shcf recently at Gap Ina's Old . ' Pointe in Costa Mesa; at Metro store Navy ' Calif. "When you're walking through the halls, you can read someone's shirt if you're bored," she said, fingering a $9 ' turquoise top that cajoled, "Oh arent new, but Message laden they Ve caught fire this summer, a bright spot in a lackluster retail seasoa While overall apparel sales rose 02 percent through June, the most sales recent figures available, Jumped 16 percent, said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst for NPD Group, a market research firm in Port Washington, MY, He predicted their sales would grow -- bee-have- ." rt ... 7 Show times: Grandstand entertainment shows will begin at 7:30 p.m., except for the Jessica Andrews performance, which will begin at 4 p.m. Grandstand entertainment tickets: Available at Smith's Tlx (www.smitn-stix.co1800S88-T1XX- f) , 20 percent in the months of Jury and August. "The realty the statement piece for the season," he said. One reason is that as clothing styles have become tamer, with khaki pants and shirts almost as cool for school as they were in the 1980s, the shirts give teens a way to be a tittle edgy. , - If your closet is full of the plaid skirts and crocheted ponchos every other fresh- -' man is wearing, you need a few proclamation tees to catch the eye. "What canyou get away with? That's the point said Christy Glass Lowe, a manag- tag director at USBX Advisory Services, a Los Angeles-base- d investment bank. Some getaway with a lot, or think they can. Junior high and high school students are tees. "The snapping up double-entendparents think ifs innocent but the kids at school think it's talking about something completely different," said a clerk at Old Navy who declined to give her name. One Abercrombie & Fitch Co. offering, .. for example, says, "North Carolina, it's great to be on top." Jay Smith, a clerk at Streetz, a clothing store in Qendale showing no signs of aging or growing up Cary Darling , It's tike a visit from old friends. When the 15th edition of MTV's "The Real World," the show where "seven strangers stop being polite and start getting real," hits the screen on Tuesday night, they'll all be there. The bumpkin. The party girL The jock. The gay one. The black The breakups. The confessionguy. The hook-upals. The teary phone calls home. All of the reality-Tcomfort food that has made "The Real World" a staple ma.television world where shows disappear faster than doughnuts at Homer Simpson's house. But if The Real World," this season dropping anchor in Philadelphia, is now reality cliche setting the stage for such corny and contrived followers as "Big Brother," "Amish in the City" and "The Player" it wasnt always that way. When tl first "The Real World" landed on the air 12 years ago, it wasnt just novel, but newsworthy, a colorful snapshot of young urban "90s life that existed nowhere else on TV. For those who showed up late to the reatity-Tparty, "The Real World" sparked the reality revolution by putting seven young adults from various ' backgrounds in a house for a few weeks and letting V IKEA-furnish- re V -- ts MTV's reality show is KNIGHT RIDOER.NEWSPAPERS ' pee ) Info: (801) 53S8440, www.utahstatefair.com back-tocho- LOS ANGELES TIMES year-over-ye- . Hermits starring Peter Noone (Sept. 16, free with gate admission), Pat Green (Sept. 17, $15), Weird Al Yankovic (Sept. 18, $19), and Jessica Andrews (Sept 19, $10). AL SSSLm AngeiM Timet Graohk fchlrts oivt teens a wav to be a little darine in a relatively tame style season .si?; t See REAL WORLD, B2 |