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ynrypi ipi i C4 ENTERTAINMENT EDMONTON JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2001 Serial Joe boys eager to test drive songs from newest CD ft' J) i I I -1 i Sandra Spermines Rock Notes Plcn'dium show, autograph session this Saturday1 It's a good thing Ryan Dennis is old enough to drive now. In his first year behind the wheel, the 17-year-old Serial Joe frontman managed to pen two songs for the rock band's new disc, (Last Chance) At The Romance Dance. "I was driving to the studio one day and I just kinda heard this tune ringin' in my head," Dennis remembers. That tune went on to become Completely, a summery pop-rock number with a cruise-around-with your-girlfriend vibe. Ditto goes for the aptly-titled Let's Go For A Ride.

"I spend a lot of time in my car so I get a lot of ideas," says Dennis. "I think the car has some sort of spirit inside it." (That's a joke, by the way.) Dennis and his teenage Joes guitarist Ryan Stever, bassist Jon Davidson and drummer Dan Stadnicki also spent mucho time in a Toronto studio record- to test drive their new songs and their new touring guitaristkeyboard player Tim Hicks, who is a dinosaur compared to the rest of his band-mates. He's 22, which means hell be able to buy beer for his Joe boys. But that's not why the guys hired him. "He's a really good guy and he fits well with the band," says Dennis.

Hicks gets to show off his skills 7 p.m. this Saturday when Serial Joe checks into Playdium, the video game mecca in West Edmonton Mall. Tickets are $25 and include two hours of games and an autograph session. "We all love video games, so I think it's the perfect gig for us," Dennis laughs, then has second thoughts. "It might be tough to get the energy up for the show because we'll have wasted it all playing videogames." Gigs on the go The Cash Brothers are set to host a singer-songwriter extravaganza at The Rev on Tuesday, Oct.

16. Andrew and Peter Cash will be joined by Jason Plumb of The Waltons, Craig Northey of Odds, and Jenny Whiteley. Doors open at 8 p. m. Call the club (424-2745) for ticket info.

Sound the alarms! The Joel Plaskett Emergency will storm into the Urban Lounge on Friday, Oct. 19. Plaskett, who used to front Thrush Hermit, is now peddling his new disc, Down at the Khyber. For ticket info, call the club at 439-3388. Anti-folk artist, political activist and recluse Michelle Shocked is ready to crawl out of the woodwork again.

She's scheduled to play the New City Suburbs on Sunday, Nov. 4. Shocked's last disc, Kind-Heart-ed Woman, was released seven years ago. Tickets are $22 at the club or Blackbyrd on Whyte Ave. "Icaughtmymancheatin'So I found another wayTo make him pay for it all," Blu Cantrell sings onHtr Em Up Style "So I went to Neiman Marcus.

On a shopping spree." Based on those lyrics, it makes sense for Cantrell to perform at Red's, situated in the world's largest shopping mall. The 25-year-old aspiring pop star is set to show off her style in November. Stay tuned for a date and ticket price. ing their third disc, (Last Chance) At Tlie Romance Dance, with producer Corey MacFadyen. "We're normally doing things in such a rush.

The last record (Face Down took about three weeks to record and this one took about six months," says Dennis. "It's a big step up for us." Spending six months in one small room must feel like an eternity for any rock band and even more so for the adrenaline and hormone-charged teens in Serial Joe. (In 1999 alone, the Newmarket, Ont. foursome released their second album, received a bunch of Juno and MuchMusic Video Award nominations, and played at Woodstock.) So the Joes are now eager 1 II IIIKAII' I III Ryan Dennis, frontman for Serial Joe, spent six months on new album. TM Sync, Backstreet to team up for benefit hi' ssoeitited Pre ()KK Could your amateur sports team use extra cash this season? "We wanted to definitely get involved," Joey Fatone of 'N Sync told the cable music channel.

"We're going to do something so we can help them out." Fatone's bandmate, those artists have not yet been confirmed. Proceeds from the concert will help victims oftheSept.ll attacks on New York and Washington, though specific charities have not yet been named. The show will take place the night after The Concert for New York, a four-hour extravaganza at Madison Square Garden featuring music superstars from an earlier generation: Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and The Who. 4 if?" Sync and the Backstreet Boys plan to share the stage at an all-star pop concert to help the victims of last month's terrorist attacks. The United We Stand show is sched-uledforOct.

21 at RFK Stadium in Washington, MTV News reported Monday. Ricky Martin, Bon Jovi, the Goo Goo Dolls and Carlos Santana also are expected to perform. THE KINGSWAY GARDEN MALI Biii 11 Lance Bass, said Bonjovi Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Bruce Spnngsteen and others have been asked to take part, but Support Program If Emmys not on tube, Communities Join Together Against Domestic TV dinner a possibility Now 25 teams will share in oyer $25,000 in cash and just for shopping at Kingsway Garden Mall! Register your team or organization at Kingsway starting October 1 and each dollar spent at Kingsway, between October 1 and December 31, 2001, by fnends, family or team members, counts as one point for your team. For information or to register your team, visit the upper level Customer Service Centre in Kingsway. or call 479-5955, or visit our website at www.kingswaymall.com.

BREAKING THE SILENCE: JOURNEYS OF HOPE ACTOR VICTOR RIVlRSl A OTHERS TELL THEIR STORIES 1st Place: $3500 2nd Place: $3000 3rd Place: $2500 4th Place: $2000 5th Place: $1500 6th-10th Prize: $1000 llth-25th Prize: $500 Tonight at 8 BREAKING THE SILENCE: LOCAL FOLLOWUP PANEL DISCUSSION TROM THE KSPS Sponsored in part by: EDMONTON JOURNAL STUDIOS TONK.HT AT 9 KlNGSW Garden Mall SFARS ZEllERS THE BAY STAY CURIOUS. I'KS I us ivj the Web: CD Pun ic To vision STfifH i KWCSWAV I HOURS- MONM Ri DAY Ifi OMW 9 TO PM. SAlURBtt 9 .10 AM 5 30 PM SUNDAY 11 OOAU 5 00 PV final say, expected this week. "It's a decision that not only impacts the TV academy and CBS but the industry as well," CBS spokesman Chris Ender said. Asked whether CBS would have to pay the multimillion-dollar licence fee to the TV academy if the ceremony isn't shown, Ender said he couldn't discuss money.

Moonves acknowledged Sunday that many in the industry, including producers and casts of TV shows, had called to express reluctance at taking pan in the ceremony-One TV producer, appearing on a local TV program Monday, took a poke at fellow industry members worried that the Emmys might be a potential terrorist target. Linwood Boomer, producer of Malcolm in theMiddle, said the idea that terrorists would focus on what he called "TV people" was "just ludicrous on the face of it. But trying to fight self-importance in Hollywood is a lost cause." The academy is intent on finding a way to honour Emmy winners if CBS nixes the ceremony, Chabin said. "From phone calls we've received, people feel it's appropriate to distribute the awards," he said. A non-televised dinner at a Los Angeles area hotel would be one possibility.

1 1 hi The Associated Press I OS I I If CBS decides against a third attempt at airing this year's Emmy Awards then plans will be made for another way to honour the winners, Emmy organizers said Monday. "If they want to have a show, we'll go ahead with it," said Jim Chabin, president of the Academy of Television Arts Sciences. "If they don't, we'll proceed with distributing the Emmys at a dinner or press conference, an appropriate venue." The 53rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards were to have aired Sunday on CBS but the network and academy called off the ceremony after U.S. and British attacks on Afghanistan. The ceremony had already been postponed three weeks, from its original Sept.

16 air-date, because of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. "This has all happened so quickly," CBS Television president Leslie Moonves said Sunday. "It's really one day at a time, like it is for everything in America right now." CBS programming executives and academy officials met Monday to discuss the show's fate. Moonves has the gun, an innocent sound like pulp A tragic court jester, a hired victim, a lecherous fiction? Close, it's Verdi! our world Ll Explore October 20, 23 25, 2001 (jiuseppe Uerdi ro)n Performed at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

For tickets call: telus iiwvim joiumi r.tt Syrenide WIWW Edmonton Opera at 429-1000 or Ticketmaster at 451-8000. Tickets from $20. www.edmontonopera.com WHAT'S YOUR DAY t- Soccer is the fastest growing sport in the world. Now Fox Sports World Canada brings you some of the best soccer in the world. With an emphasis on the sports the others miss, FSW is a new channel devoted to soccer, cricket and rugby.

Whether you're a new fan or a lifelong follower. Fox Sports World Canada brings you a whole new world of choice. TUNES OF GLORY rrom Ihe United Kingdom, the Grenadier Guards Band and the Royal Tank Regiment will perform with the Massed Pipes and Bands of the Canadian Armed forces and from the U.S., the 1st Division United States Marine Corps. When: today, 7:30 p.m. Where: Skyreach Centre.

Tickets: S22.50-S49.5O, available at TicketMaster outlets. 451-8000. SEPARATE TABLES Walterdale theatre presents two plays by lerence Rattigan. In Table by the Window. Anne Shankland.

an aging ex-model, seeks to reunite with her ex-husband, John Malcolm, a convicted ex-politiian turned journalist. The hotel's manager. Pat Cooper, deftly keeps her interests alive while trying to keep them from destroying each other. Major Polloc a phony army officer. Sibyl, a neurotic girl and her ruthless mother Mrs.

Railton-Bell are entangled in a scandal that threatens to rum them in Table Number Seven. Yet once again. Pat Cooper comes to the rescue. When: the first performance is today at 8 p.m. Continues through Oct.

20. Where: Walterdale Plavhouse. 10322 83rd Ave. Tickets: S10-S12, students and seniors S8-S10, available at InketMaster. 4518000.

or at the door. SING A LONG SOUND OF MUSIC Dress up as your favourite character from the 1965 film musical and get in the oylul fun of singing alung to those irresistible songs. Your host will judge the dress ompetition and prep the audience on the appropriate actions in certain scenes When: today through Sunday at 7 p.m.; Saiurday and Sunday matinee, 1:30 p.m. Where: Carneau theatre. 8712 109th St.

Tickets: Ihursday, Saturday matinee and Sunday. S20; Triday and Saturday S22.50: family $50; S5 oil lor sludr-nts and seniors; S10 off for children 12 and under This is a selection of events Tor complete listing, consult Friday's What's On section. rj' in SPORTS UYI'lilWI mmmw FREE: PREVIEW ON NOW! Call your local cable company or satellite service provider..