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Th Atlanta Journal The Atlanta Constitution LIVING Monday, September 13, 1993 B7j DR. DRE'S CHRONIC TOUR Rapper Snoop Doggy Dog steals show Dr. Dre tops the -Hitl Chronic Tour bill ki-'l turing sorneoj of rap's hpW; test acts. A 4 oft ff i ij iJ 1 Garth, Mariah top Billboard charts i Garth Brooks and Mariah Carey battled for top positions on Billboard's charts and both won. Brooks's album, "In Pieces," debuts at No.

1 on the Billboard 200 album chart and the Top Country Albums chart He alsoi has the top country single with "Ain't Going Down (Til the Sun Comes Up)." It's his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, following "Ro-phV the Wind" and "The Chase." Ms. Carey has the highest-debuting album of her career as Box" enters at No. 2. on the pop album chart and tops the chart.

She also has the No. 1 pop single release with "Dream-lover." The album is already her second-most-successful album afterher debut disc, which peaked at No. 1 in March 1991. Ms. Carey's second album, "Emotions," peaked at No.

4 in October 1991 and her "MTV Unplugged EP" reached No. 3 in July 1992. "Music Box" debuts at No. 1 on the Top Albums chart. Other chart toppers: Hot single: "Right Here (Human Nature)Down-town," SWV.

Top video rental: "Scent of a Woman." top video sales: "Home Alone 2." Top kid's video sales: "Pinocchio." freezer. Like the sunerhernes rrtevii? By Sonia Murray STAFF WRITER Dr. Dre headlined the biggest rap show to hit Atlanta this year, but his discovery from Long Beach, Snoop Doggy Dogg, is who Atlantans turned out to see at The Omni Sunday night. And his debut album "Doggy Style" hasn't even come out yet. The hype surrounding the slim, charismatic rapper with the.Southern drawl started two years ago when he made his debut on the "Deep Cover" soundtrack.

It hit the momentum of an oncoming train with the release of Dr. Dre's platinum-selling debut "The Chronic" (on which Snoop is featured). And two weeks ago, reality collided with his gangster image on record when the 21-year-old, born Calvin Broadus, was arrested after the MTV Awards for allegedly driving a ve-' hide involved in an Aug. 25 drive-by shooting death of a 22-year-old. "A lot of people probably didn't even expect Snoop to show up because they heard he was arrested and all," said Eddy Johnson, one of the self-proclaimed "true rap fans" in the near half-capacity crowd.

But Snoop showed up to the roar of a bag-gy-jeaned, baseball-capped crowd that had been brought to its feet by the earlier acts. Ten-year rap veterans took the predominantly young crowd back to the days when there weren't enough record-selling rappers to fill an entire bill. Bald-headed bad boys Onyx, and the first femaleto be taken seriously among gangster rappers, Boss, opened the show with tight, powerful sets. from the Profile Records Former rap kings perform in the middle of the Chronic Tour. CONCERT REVIEW The Chronic Tour Dr.

Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, the Dogpound, Onyx and Boss. Sunday at The Omni. are to the rap community, the two foil the robbery attempt by killing the cops and ap pearing triumphantly on stage to the "Deejb i Cover" theme, which has the hook Vlf a police term for homicide on an undercbV" er cop." y.iiiA Line for line, the crowd sang along, jtbi3 "The Chronic" hits "Ain't Nuthin' But a Thang" and "Dre Day" while the co-sfarf and the Dogpound stomped around the dilap'," idated Chronic Liquor store set. Along the purple '64 Chevrolet Dr. Dre brought on stage during "Let Me Ride," the big surpfisS; was when Snoop unveiled one song upcoming album, "What's My The headliners opened with a minimovie in which some corrupt white undercover cops attempt to rob a black-owned liquor store.

In the back of the store is former N.WA member Dr. Dre and Snoop pulling their trademark 4.0-ounce bottles of beer As if Language' provokes thought on 'Fugitive' keeps ahead of the pack The Harrison Ford thriller "The Fugitive" stayed ahead of its box-office pursuers for a. sixth straight weekend, earn-' ing $8.7 million, more than double its nearest competitor,) preliminary figures show. 1 The new Kathleen Turner-Dennis Quaid spy comedy, "Undercover Blues," was second with $4.2 million. Final weekend figures will be released today.

"True Romance," starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette, debuted in third place with $4 million. The remaining top 10: "The Man Without a Face," $3 million; "The Real McCoy," $2.7 million; "Jurassic Park," $2 million; "Hard Target," $1.9 million; "In the Line of Fire," $1.6 million (which was expected to put the film over $100 million); "Sleepless in Seattle," $1.5 million; and "Needful Things," $1.4 million. i Director leaves modern art museum Richard E. Oldenburg, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is stepping down June 30, ending two decades of leadership that saw the museum attract the blockbuster Matisse exhibit and increase in size, attendance and endowment. Mr.

Oldenburg became director in 1972. Under his stewardship, the museum organized several hugely successful exhibits, including last year's Matisse retrospective and the 1980 Picasso show. Since 1972, the museum has doubled its size, increased its attendance from 853,996 to 1.28 million a year and boosted its endowment from $20 million to $180 million. Mr. Oldenburg was appointed director emeritus and an honorary trustee, effective once his replacement takes From our news services 'f Maria McKee on the solo trail still doing what she wants to do Arts Festival of Atlanta volunteer Karen Bowen tries out artist Edward DeBonis's electric chair in "The Language of Force" exhibit at Piedmont Park.

By Catherine Fox VISUAL ARTS CRITIC, Violence is the ostensible subject of the Arts Festival's "The Language of Force." Cura-1 tor Eddie Granderson's subtext is: Can art make a difference? While the work of I the 10 national and local artists exhibit ing in the Pavilion and at City Hall East! is uneven in its success, they rise above the whiny, preachy self-indulgence of so much political art. And most of them and this is no small achievement compel the viewer to think about the complexities and issues of the theme rather than simply to deplore violence and walk away. In his installation "Remembering Forgetting," the most powerful work in the show, Sherman Mark focuses on the web of people connected to the victim the perpetrator, the spectator, the documentor in a meditation on complicity, guilt and the dehumanizing effects of violence. His starting point was a 1911 photo of a group of white men and boys posing as if for a yearbook with the charred body of the black man they have just burned alive. His installation is.

an abstraction of the scene an altar-like pyre at the center of a darkened room surrounded by pairs of shoes and the blown-up details of faces of the men from the photo. Words martyr, hero, accomplice, etc. are projected on the walls, and a barely discernible audio of a broadcast journal- 1 i the audience didn know. Arts Festival v. Hi r.

i ai 1 1 rn.rn.-T.iO p.m. Exhibits In the Pavilion, Bathhouse, Big Top Video Art Tent and the Youth Artl Tent and the Artist Market are l'. open throughout the day. -V. Children's Activities 1 1 JO sum.

Movinc In the Snirlcv. an intergenerational dance compa-'in ny, presents new mixed-media- work in a family performance. Up. j. town Lake Stage.

12:30 p.m. Musical duo Mn. Fuir in a family performance. Uptown lake Stage. p-m.

More than 100 hops such as basketry, paper weav- no niinnAf malrtnn KbIImm "or yfyM. uwMug, wuhmi mur, Ing, creative dramatics and paint-. ing. Tents north of Ballfleld. Performing Arts 6:30 p.m.

The Tokyo based movelfl mem-theater company Kaltaisha does an environmental- performance piece. Begins at thX golf tee near the Park Drive en- trance; concludes at the Uptown'TV Lake Stage. 8 p.m. Interarts collaboration with an aerial theme presented by Atlaiv ---t ta choreographers Pat Floyd andi.il De Wagner. Mi-town Valley atage.

9 p.m. Avant-garde jazz funk comedy duo Mrs. fun. Uptown, r-' Lake Stage. embellished with motifs and mV terials of Africa (the bright col- ors of textiles and cowrie shell.) and of the street (gold chairtt, bandannas).

vJ. Too bad City Hall East wa empty Saturday. Although the impulse to expand the festival's''! reach is well-intentioned'if doesn't seem likely that goers will venture beyond tha confines of Piedmont Park. -') "A dancehatl "DJs" who rap over a pro-" puiaveoeat. i nen tne accent comes Into It Delivery's the Important Isn't It? It's Just microphone technique." Recommended recordings: 'ThCJ Infotainment Scan" (1993; Atlantic), "458489 A Sides" (1990; Beggar's Banquet), "Bend Sinister" (1986; Bfgw gar's Banquet), "This Nation's Sav 2 Ing Grace" (1985; Beggar's Banquetj TV mr-u iMrn violenrie i i 4 VISUAL ARTS REVIEW The Language of Force" Arts Festival of Atlanta.

11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Piedmont Park. 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. City Hall East 675 Ponce de Leon Ave. N.E.

ist being attacked as he reports on the massacre in Tiananmen Square sets a tone of fear as it introduces the issue of journal-' ism's peculiar position in such situations. Edward DeBonis eschews any such subtlety in three tableaux in which the juys are represented by whi plaster hands (they wield nightsticks and guns in "Spare the which is about police brutality), and the viewer becomes the vic IOMM PIMKCff tim by listening to audio enactments of the crime. But the recordings, which sound like 1940s radio dramas, don't induce empathy, and the moment becomes a theme-parklike expression of violence. "Pigs (We are living like caged beasts)," Carl Joe Williams's installation at City Hall East, is far more chilling. The Atlanta artist, who works off hip-hop music, suggests that young African-Americans see their violence as a holy war against the violence of the system.

His piece is a visually compelling ceremonial arrangement of bottles on tall, thin pedestals, each topped by a replica of a clenched fist These forms are ten-off "ah" or make him a singer as singular, In his way, as Bob Dylan, Captain Beefheart or Lou Reed. "I really wanted to toast, In a reggae way," Mr. Smith told Rolling Stone, referring to the now-popular manner of reggae so The Fall guy: A refiisenik after all these years By Russ DeVault STAFF WRITER On the comeback, Maria McKee gaily admits she's "always' in love with someone or something," but her true passion' never changes. "I always feel the same about music very the 28-year-old singer-songwriter says. "It's very difficult to make a living at it, but it's my livelihood and I'm quite fanatical about it." That was obvious hi 1983 when her Los Angeles band Lone Justice released its debut recording and became a next big thing.

But the country-rock; band aimlessly fizzled out in; 1987 and Miss McKee faded from4 the American pop-music scene after releasing a self-titled solo album in 1989. Now, after a mildly successful musical flirtation with England and Europe, Miss McKee is trying to re-establish herself with the Geffen CDcassette "You Gotta Sin to Behaved." ier first solo recording was "bit mopey, a bit self-indulgent," she says, but the songs' from "You Gotta Sin to Be Saved" that Miss McKee will Sing Tuesday at Variety Playhouse are bright, energetic and eloquently delivered. Mjss McKee's vocals are dead-on, no matter whether she's boldly recalling her days with: Lone Justice Girlhood the making a driving personal spiritual statement (the title track) or carefully covering a Van Morrison tune Way Young Lovers Do" and "My' Lonely Sad 'The songs just felt Miss McKee says from her record label's office in Los Angeles. "I mean, this was not a concept album." Sales and airplay have been limited, but Geffen says it will stick with Miss McKee, who recorded with former members of Lone Justice, the Jay CONCERT GUIDE Maria McKee is touring behind her album "You Gotta Sin to Be Saved." CONCERT PREVIEW Maria McKee 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Variety Playhouse.

521-1786. hawks and producer George Drakoulias (Black Jayhawks). If the recording clicks, she'll tour again after this brief outing and a visit to, Europe; if not, she'll record1 again. Chances are, there'll be a more enthusiastic response1 abroad. While splitting her time among Los Angeles, London and Dublin over the past four years, Miss McKee had a No.

1 in Britain "Show Me Heaven" from the 1990 soundtrack "Days Of Thunder" and recorded with various artists. One of her real pleasures is, working with "musicians awed by music" and says the one she, yearns to work with most is Mr. Morrison. "I've been a fan since I was a teenager, but he's not that easy to approach and so unpredictable," Miss McKee says, adding that she has "indirect-' ly" tried to arrange a duet with the elusive Irishman. "The first time I saw him in 1989, 1 cried through the whole con cert he's one of the reasons I do what I do." ia.avai Wh The Fall, with opening act.

lacK-tMMutj and Harvey Milk. Where 10 tonight Where: The Masquerade, 69S North Ave. N.E. 577-8178. Tickets $7.50 advance, $10 door.

Why it matters: One of pop's ultimata refuseniks, the Fall's founding lead linger Mark E. Smith has been churning out records for 1 6 years. The former dodcworker first grabbed a microphone as a nominal punk act one that relied on hectoring vocals, harsh, dissonant rhythms and cryptic anti-establishment lyrics that often could be heard as code, like the undarworid language of William S. Burroughs's "Naked Lunch." Only, as punk and Its model for aesthetic terrorism became new wave, dance and Indie rock, grunge and, Anally, "alternative," the FaH plowed ahead, a dogged, art-wise band of outsiders with only scorn for racord-lndustry machinations. And, besides, this Is the group's first Atlanta date since 1987.

Why It's timefyi A new album, The Infotainment Scan," Is Its first U.S. release In four years and 17th album since forming In Manchester In 1977. The CO Is released by Matador, formerly Independent label now distributed by Atlantic, which Is part of the Time Warner mega-medla conglomerate. This makes Mr. Smith and Ma- donna cogs In the same machine, an lro 9:00 AM Ch.

CD Shy Country Boys Msst uig-uty urns or MontsJ today at I am 'i tovr ny rich enough for a Fall song. Happening ex-wife: For several years In the mid-1980s, Mr. Smith was married to an American guitarist named Brix, whose presence helped to yield a near-breakthrough college radio hit (the Irresistible, hook-charged "Cruiser's and divided the band's fans Into pro-Brix and antl-Brlx camps. The couple split In 1989. Iconoclast: "Cm a lucky man," the chain-smoking Mr.

Smith, clouded in a haze of nicotine, told Spin magazine recently, "I have an avenue to say things. Not like the other expletive. I have deep contempt for guys like Elvis Costello, McCartney, Bowie. I'm very sorry. No offense meant personally.

That's why the Fall was formed. When I've got nothln' else to say, I'll expletive pack It In." About those vocals-ahj Mr. Smith's distinctive Mancunian accent, monotone voice and relent leu e. dence with lines punctuated by a blt- iti i i ij I 1 77 i i.