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The Des Moines Register Friday, December 6, 1996 3T S1H TKTl Ss. 3 0 iPl JL JL Jio Hi 1M Fab holidays Hallelujah The Des Moines Community Orchestra will "Celebrate Sing Handel's Messiah" at 3 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Beaver and Franklin avenues. The orc hestra won't be singing, but there will be four soloists: soprano Chris Riedel King, mezzo-soprano Barbara Martin, tenor Paul Stageberg and bass Richard Richards. Carol Stewart is guest conductor.

It's free. Call 263-3661. The Holiday Festival of Music is set for 3 p.m. at Stepheas Auditorium, Ames. Presented by the ISU Department of Music, it showcases several ISU musical groups plus the Ames Children's Choirs.

For ticket informa- tion, call the Iowa State Center Box office at (515) 294-3347. The Santa Lucia Celebration, at 3 p.m. at the Italian-American Cultural Richard See rare photos of the Beatles in a free exhibit "Liverpool Days," on display through the end of the month at. KaleiHnscnnp At rhp Huh. It's onpn Latin American music Face It, there aren't many chances to hear authentic Latin American music in these frozen parts.

You get a rare chance tonight, when Easu-niti, a Peruvian singer and composer, performs at the Botanical Center. The music starts at 8 p.m. The Botanical Center is at 909 E. River Drive. Call 242-2934.

Another melodious option: Men's Metro Holiday Chorus is doing a benefit concert for Hoyt Sherman Place Auditorium renovation. It's at 8 p.m. at Hoyt Sherman Place, 1501 Woodland. General admission is $10, and reserved box seats are $20. Call 241-0507.

Holiday lights, Santa and Bert, the Christmas Llama, are part of the Adel Holiday Open House from 5 to 8 p.m. Event guides and maps are available at Main Street Adel display, 103 N. Ninth St. Call 993-5472 or 255-0933. In Indianola, it's a Dickens of A Christmas with street actors, carolers, food, carriage rides, music by the Simpson College Madrigal Singers and more from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Call 961-6269. Vv during store hours at Kaleidoscope. The Beatles While you're there, check out the kinetic sculptures by Iowa artist Steve Gerberich. For details, call 280-2008. Young voices do music by Bach, Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Dvorak and others when the Ames Children's Choirs perform at 7 p.m.

Saturday, Collegiate Presbyterian Church, Sheldon and West, Ames. It's free; donations are accepted. Call (515) You'll find more than 200 booths selling antiques and collectibles, arts and crafts, baked goods and more at Iowa's Largest "Free Admission" Flea Market Saturday and Sunday in the 4-H Building, Iowa State Fairgrounds. Call 262-4267. Take a holiday trip on the trolley In Boone.

Rides go from the depot to downtown Boone every Saturday through Dec. 21. Santa will be at the depot and on the 10 am. ride. There's no charge for the ride.

Call (800) 626-0319. 1 Center, 1961 Indianola features the lighting and blessmg of Clinstmas nreandacandleugntprocessioa There will also be a music, refreshments and more. Admission is i ri, Rasu-nitl free. Call 2803719 or 2444672. uu Contacts Aquarium Center Blank Park Zoo Des Moines Art Center Des Moines Civic Center 263-0612 285-2676 277-4405 243-1120 Iowa State Center, Ames 294-3347 Living History Farms 278-2400, Metro Arts Alliance 280-3222 Metro Opera 961-6221 Terrace Hill 281-3604 Ticketmaster, Des Moines 243-1888 Vets Auditorium 323-5444 I KathyBerdan, Editor Oes Moines Des Moines Symphony Ingersoll Dinner Theater ondayiTuesdayiViednesdayiThursdayiFridayiSaturday St Behind the Scenes I A look at people who bring the arts and entertainment to local audiences.

Down in It The lowdown on local hot spots and global youth culture. Everywhere at once TT It ped ri es pum Information superhighway. Internet World Wide Web. E-mail. That's just a small sample from the slug of newer words that have plugged themselves into our daily lives.

Baby Boomers were bom amid firm Arf i I terminology like while the Internet is certainly more peaceful than an outright weapon, it's changing our lives with all the impact of a mushroom cloud, only in smaller bursts. sC.s'x rr: Kyle Munson 8 Iowa and graduated from Simpson. After college, he worked in the insurance business for five years. "Three or four years into it, I knew I wanted my own business," Montgomery says. It didn't matter if it was a bar, a dry cleaning business or an insurance agency, he just knew he wanted to be his own boss.

The Guitars opportunity came along, and Montgomery wanted it, but he was in his mid-20s at the time, and it was tough to find a loan. A bank in Woodbine, la. (near Council Bluffs), gave him the loan, and he says his five years in insurance taught him how to run a business. Running a bar is fun, but there's also managing, staffing and other concerns. "You can't have too much fun," he says.

"You have to do the business stuff." Montgomery, 28, isn't all work', though. He has a recording studio in his basement and plays guitar. He hangs with his dog and plays racquetball. And when the call comes in, he's off battling blazes or doing emergency medical care with Clive firefighters. lie says he didn't want to "grow up to be a fireman." "I'm awfully happy to do it as a volunteer," Montgomery says.

"Some things in life aren't as much fun if you do it full time." Primed for The former Guifcirs Cadillacs is now Pumpers, a dance' club with a firefighting theme. The club plays a mix of Top 40, rock 'n' roil and dance tunes with interactive DJs doing karaoke, spinning discs and more. Owner Ty Montgomery hopes to bring in live music con- certs. Pumpers is at 4020 Merle Ilsry Road. CaU Ty Montgomery owns Pumpers, a dance club that used to be a country musicilngout.

By KATHYBERDAN Register Staff Writer What to do when that old pair of cowboy boots is worn out and just doesn't fit right any more? Slip into something else something that's familiar and comfortable to you, but new and interesting for everyone else. That's what Ty Montgomery did this week when he changed the format of long-time country bar Guitars Cadillacs at 4020" Merle Hay Road. Montgomery, the owner of the club, retired his cowboy boots and went to his firefighter footwear. The new club is called Pumpers, and it has a fireflghting motif, with trucks, hats, hoses and the works. It's familiar territory for Montgomery, who has been a volunteer firefighter and paramedic for 10 years.

Pumpers opened Thursday. Instead of country, the club features Top 40 dance music from the Rolling Stones to Jimmy Buffett and what Montgomery calls "interactive DJs." The DJs will have props, costumes, do some karaoke and entertain, rather than just spinning tunes. Guitars opened five years ago and had a "tremendous run" as a country bar, says Montgomery, who bought the business two years ago. The core crowd was still faithful, but he wasn't seeing any others. "No new faces in the door is just death," he says.

Montgomery is training the Pumpers DJs to be "Just as crazy as we can make it" He played in bands and deejayed all through college. A Roosevelt High School graduate, Montgomery went to the University of mmm" V.f 4 UURA steinTiie Register Ty Montgomery has changed hats. His bar, formerly Guitars Cadillacs, is now Pumpers, a dance club with a firefighter motif. Weekend Adventure Sinbad leaps at chance to go 'postal' I A guide to central Iowa recreation opportunities. E-mail, for example, has made me feel that a part of my '92 college semester in London (through Central College in Pella) is a relic, fodder for some epic Rush song off "2112" or "A Farewell to Kings." This is the difference: I didn't have e-mail access when I was overseas, so letters (a chore) and the telephone (too expensive) were my only communication with home.

Now, on a whim, many students can zip e-mail around the globe, including Ryan Konrad, a senior at Central who's studying in Wales, England, this semester. I hear of his adventures via e-mail. "Thanks a lot for returning my message," Konrad wrote in September. "It's great to hear from the States. It's 1 1:20 p.m.

right now. The pubs are closed, the Welsh students are not here yet, and I am bored, so I thought I would hop on the e-mail and send my favorite 31 1 fan a note!" Dublin in November. "I saw some guy get rocked in Dublin. We were walking down the street when we saw this guy karate kicking this other guy. You know, round house kicking.

The guy hit his head on the sidewalk about three times and was out cold. Crazy. I bought a U2 bootleg CD." London in November "Went to Picadilly Circus, then to the Zoo a club. Friday, went to Oxford Street, to all the sights. Saturday, Nate took me to Camden Town to the market.

Crazy times down there. We walked around and then bought tickets to a show. 'Oliver' was excellent!" I'm wondering if e-mail affects "culture shock," the adjustment period that's supposed to wreak havoc with your emotions just after you're thrown into an extended foreign living situatioa Some people say that computers only distance people, prevent face-to-face talk. But when face-to-face talk is impossible, can they help soothe us through their quasi-taik? What I mean is that the phone and pen time are, respectively, more limited and formal. E-mail messages are quick and informal and more closely resemble conversation, and they don't cost the student postage or dollars per minute.

I do know that I get to hear more of Konrad's trip as it unfolds, and more personality and perspective slips in because of that Would I have felt more connected to the States with e-mail in '92? I don't know. Opinions, anyone? Hit List KKDM's second annual Christmas Listener Appreciation Party is Sunday at SuperToad, 1424 E. Euclid. Goldfinger and Sister Soleil start playing at 5 p.m. Free admission, but you need to listen to know where to get tickets.

I met Sister Soleil. She's friendly and cool. Listen to her. Kyle Munson is a Register staff writer. Call him during work hours at 284-8521, fax to 286-2504 or By STEPHEN SCHAEFER USA Today WV I1: 'A' 2' jk n' A 4 I '4.

i 1 Ulll-'" 1 1 Recihter Fin Photo Share the holidays with feathered Snackin' on bird tweets As you haul out the holly and untangle the tinsel indoors, give some thought to your feathered friends outdoors. In "Jingle All the Way," Sinbad's antics are shamelessly outrageous. Sinbad plays a warped postal worker in "Jingle All the Way," currently showing in Des Moines theaters, but he isn't worried about offending the nation's mail carriers. "They know they're inferior at their jobs and they throw the mail away," jokes Sinbad, whose crazed carrier Myron Larabee becomes Arnold Schwarzenegger's Christ- mas Eve rival as the two fathers hunt for a soid-out toy they've promised their sons. antics in the holiday-themed are shamelessly 'outrageous.

As Myron, he pretends postal packages are' terrorist bombp and causes havoc in a mall until, when rightfully subdued by security guards, he desperately "Rodney 'King! Rodney King!" "It's a comedy," emphasizes the hulking 6-foot-5 comedian, who says he improvised 70 percent of his dialogue. "Someone is going to be made fun of," he points out. "Next we'll be wondering, 'What will the dog lovers Really, man, get a life!" "Jingle All the Way" made $12.1 million its first weekend, the biggest opening of any Schwarzenegger comedy. If this is the best role of Sinbad's burgeoning career, it's one he almost didn't get. "I was the last one they saw," he admits.

He was recommended by Schwarzenegger's agent but couldn't make the audition. Already committed to going to Bosnia with Hillary Rodham Clinton last March, he thought it would be "cruel for me to cancel On Saturday you can learn how to decorate a tree for wildlife, using edible ornaments sort of like candy canes for critters. You'll also learn about different types of winter birds and the best ways to attract them to feeders. The bird workshop is scheduled from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Des Moines Izaak Walton League, 41343 WORKSHOP: "Decorate a Tree for Wildlife" mioto 11:30 a.m.

Saturday at the Des Moines Izaak Walton League. Call 222-3444 to register. He doesn't know how to express himself." I Of his penchant, for wholesome comedy, Sinbad says: "It's strange people mis- take meekness for weakness. I'm very edgy and opinionated; I just don't curse. I think comedy should be fun; I don't think you should walk out angry at the world." He'll tape another HBO comedy special in early 1997 and co-stars in the HBO movie "The Cherokee Kid" with Gregory Hines and Burt Reynolds.

The fact-based drama about black cowboys airs Dec, 11. But it's up to "Jingle" to revive Sinbad's Hollywood standing after box-office failures like last summer's "First Kid" and 1995's "Houseguest." that for my career, because nobody's paying any attention to them." Luckily, the movie's writer and producer, Chris Columbus, was willing to wait until Sinbad returned to the country. After the audition, Sinbad felt he'd "messed" his tryout and told his manager-brother "I quit Tm going back to Michigan." Two hours later, the call came and he was Myron. "Jingle's" team had been reluctant to consider Sinbad, who doesn't use profanity in his stand-up act, "because it was a bad guy, and they saw me as Barney or Mr. Green Jeans.

"But if you hate Myron, it can't be a fun movie. You almost have to feel sorry for him. 5 Valley Drive. Cost is $2 per person. You need to register in advance; you can still do that today if you call and pay with a credit card.

The program is sponsored by Izaak Walton League, West Des Moines Parks and Recreation and Polk County Conservation Board..