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Show 1ni THE ARTS -·1 THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, J997 • AND ENTERTAINMENT Unplugged Final readings are scheduled set for today By LARRY BAKER JOURNAL EDITOR By ALICIA BROOKS SENIOR STAFF WRITER Cynthia Hathaway and Two Guys Named Stewart, both local artists, will perform at today's Unplugged. Hathaway, an accomplish ed guitarist, has wowed audiences across the country. Her influen ces are hard to pinpoint as folk and a love of jazz all blend together. Hathaway's o riginal songs arc magical and draw in listeners with their easy to relate to subjects of life and love. A crowd pleasing success at their appearance last quarter, Two Guys Named Stewart have returned. Although one might think that a band called Two Guys Named Stewart sho uld have at least one guy named Stewart, neith er one is. Rob Foster and Mike Leavitt a,rc the o nly guys in this band. "The name just came ou t of nowhere," Foster said. The band fo rmed in the fall of 1995. Foster and Leavitt m et at D ixie Coll ege wh ile performing the play Dracula. Foster portrayed the intellectual hero while Leavitt was the scary assista nt. T he group cam e together quite easil y. " We started playing toget her and it just worked,"said Leavitt. T hey will begin production o n their album this summer. Cynthia Hathaway and Two G uys Named Stewart will perform from l l :45 to l : l S in the Sharwan Smith Center Living Room. A pair of cam pus readings and an off-campus presentation hono ring an acclaimed SU faculty member are on tap in coming days. Today at 4 p.m . in the Humanities Room (203) of the Braithwaite Fine Arts Center, SUU language and literature professors Michael Cohen and S.S. Moorty will read. Cohen will read prose from his recently published book The Garden of Bristlecone Pines and Moorty wi ll read both short stories and poetry in English and the south Indian dialect of Telugu. Both arc amon g the m ost accomplished of authors on campus. Tomorrow evening at 7 p.m., also in the Humanities Room, renowned Utah poets Ken Brewer and Katharine Coles will read from their most recent works. Coles' book of poetry, A History of t he Garden, says SUU Language and Literature Department Head David Lee. "is a love poem: love for a world filled with knowledge, fact and m ystery; love for relationships, ranging from casual fri ends to intimate famjl y; and Ken Brewer lov~ of a wo·man for a man. And in the love poems we find the fu lfillment of the exq uisite poet, the brilliant thinker, the compassionate human being. " Coles is writer-in-residence at Westminster College and her book, says Lee, " is the most o utstanding of the year w<!st of the Mississippi and one of the best books of poetry ever." Brewer's boo k, The Lake's Edge, marks his first published work in several years and, says Lee, wi 11 Iikcly open up a floodgate of work as Brewer, who is t he head of the graduate program in English at Utah State University, has been inundated by administrative tasks of late. Says Lee, generously, of Brewer, "Ken is probably Utah 's best known an d best Loved poet ." Brewer is also USU's writer-in-residence. Finally, on Sunday, a tri bute to Lee is scheduled at Gra nd ma Ruby's Theatre in the Bumblcberry Building, 897 Zion Park Blvd., in Springdale. Featured will be lee friend s su ch as Bill Holm of Minneota, Minn., along with Coles, Brewer and Lee himself. Beginning at 7 p.m., the evening will include a " Iigh t reception." At each of t hese readi ngs, copies of the autho rs' books wi ll be available for sale and for signing. All events arc free of ch arge. Katharine Coles If your errands have you running all over, it's time to make tracks to Smith's. Our 2t shops under one roof put the skids on all that run-around. We have it all under one roof- Full-service Pharmacy, Video store, instore banking, instore Postal service-Postnet, Service Deli, Bakery, Produce, Meat, Grocery, Floral shop, Phone Cards, and a wide variety of Non-Foods. FOOD & DRUG STORES 633 S. Main• 586-1 203 I |