Minor Threats

The Crabs
Fri., 8 p.m.
TD Dining Hall
admission: $3

If the interview in this issue is not incentive enough to attend the Crabs concert this evening, bear in mind that Sockit/Sac Am (the organization that sponsored last spring's Yo La Tengo/Holiday/Pushkings extravaganza) may not be able to host any more bands this year unless there is a rise in interest and funding.

"Not much comes through New Haven in the way of small-touring bands," says Sockit head Kate Blofson, SY '99. "We try to bring independent-style music to a campus which has a live music drought. You'd normally have to go to Boston, New York, or Princeton for it." Smart kids also support Sockit at an Oct. 11 concert by the Secret Stars, Chisel, and Yale chanteuse Mia Doi Todd, BR '97.

LGBT Coop Dance
Fri., 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Calhoun Dining Hall
admission: $4

It's one thing to get down on a futon, dahling. Quite another to get back up. Dahling.

Yale Ballroom Dance Club
performance, merengue lesson
Sat., 8:30 p.m to 12 a.m.
Trumbull Dining Hall
admission: $2

Merengue's appeal is hard to categorize. Is it the visceral immediacy of Latin dance or the uninhibited sexual propulsion of its music? Perhaps it's simply the way the word merengue rolls off your tongue. Say it slowly: merengue. Merengue. Now saunter over to Trumbull.

Bloom on the mind, and Minor Threats confronts his influences: Oscar Wilde, "Three's Company," and the inescapable "Designing Women." The episode that's haunted Minor Threats recently is the Design House saga. Not the knee-slapper where Suzanne burns the house down; the one where Mary-Jo sells condoms to the PTA and Julia's young Design House envoy is dying. I like how Julia averts tragedy by having a dixieland band play "When the Saints Go Marching In" at his funeral. When MT's boots are six feet under, he wants to go like Our Lady of Upholstery: with a halo and a backbeat.

--C. C. Certainly, Princess Leigh, Cherie, Hortense