The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 77

UNION OBSERVER Thursday May 16 1991 3 ArtsEntertainment 1 On stage talk show 10 to 11 am weekdays 2004 Walkup Ave Monroe 283-8115 Several top gospel groups will perform at 7 pm June 15 at Stallings Town Park on Stallings Road in Stallings Among groups to perform: the Stallings Gospel Four the Briarhoppers and the Union County Mass Choir Admission is free The event is co-sponsored by the Union County Community Arts Council and the Town of Stallings For details call 283-2784 9 am to 5 pm gallery hours are 10 am to 5 pm daily except Sundays For details call 283-0844 during gallery hours ART TRAX GALLERY: Art Trax Gallery presents "Art With An Oriental Slant" featuring art with an Oriental theme Among featured artists: Jean Stromberg Mark Selleck Lambeth Marshall Kincheloe and Cheryl Emory The display continues through June 9 The gallery is at 100 Main St Waxhaw The gallery is open from 10 am to 5 pm Wednesdays through Saturdays and from 1 to 5 pm Sundays For details call 843-3379 during gallery hours fund-raising effort for the Prospect Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization For details call the school at 764-3412 8 am to 3 pm weekdays FAMILY FUN DAY: Christ Community United Church of Christ will sponsor a family fun day from 10 am to 3 pm Saturday The church is at 5114 Rogers Rd Stouts Activities include games a pet show a petting zoo a rummage sale crafts food and baked goods CPUZ-IN SOCIAL: The Tarheel Late Great Chevy Club will have a cruise-in from 4 to 9 pm Saturday at the Sonic Drive-In on Roosevelt Boulevard in Monroe No judging will take place For details call 882-2077 6 to 9 pm weekdays ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OPERA: Students at Indian Trail Elementary School will perform an original opera "Summer Camp Blues" at 9 am and 7 pm Monday and at 9 am Tuesday and Wednesday Performances will be at the school on Indian Trail Road in Indian Trail For details call 821-7614 8 am to 3 pm weekdays Music COUNTRY MUSIC PAGELAND: The Double Duty Band a popular country group from the Chesterfield County SC area performs music for dancing from 8 pm to midnight Saturday at the Country Barn US 601 north of Page land SC This is a family-oriented event with teens and children welcome For information call (803) 484-5796 9 am to 5 pm weekdays SQUARE DANCE WAXHAW: Southern Ways performs from 8:30 pm to midnight Saturday at the American Legion hall on NC 75 at the north end of Waxhaw For information call 843-2440 6 to 9 pm any day or 283-8316 5 to 9 pm any day STALLINGS GOSPEL SING: Art galleries INDIAN TRAIL KIDS' ART DAY: A magic show and workshops by painter Joseph Suit le potter Doug Helms and storyteller Karen Helms will make up this program set for 9 am to 1 pm Saturday in Indian Trail The event part of the Union County Community Arts Council's Arts Alive in Indian Trail program will be at the Union County Public Library branch on Naval() Trail in Indian Trail Admission is free For details call 283-2784 9 am to 5 pm weekdays DOVE POTTERY AND GALLERY: Works by several artists including Nancy Nichols Bulluck and Pauline Dove are on display at the gallery on East Franklin Street in Monroe The display opens Sunday and runs through June 30 A reception for the artists will be from 1 to 4 pm Sunday Regular WAXHAW ANTIQUE AND CRAFT FAIR: A variety of antique dealers and artisans will take part in a fair May 25-27 in downtown Waxhaw Fair hours are 9 am to 6 pm May 25 and 27 and noon to 6 pm May 26 Admission is free For details call 843-5500 10 am to 6 pm weekdays FM radio WMAP 1023 FM Page land SC 24 hours Country music "Talk 'n' Trade" show 9:30 to 10 am weekdays "Morning Mary" call-in Popcorn projectors: Monroe gets 8 new movie screens AM radio WDEX 1430 Monroe Oldies music daily Operates 6 am to midnight daily except Saturday and 24 hours on Sundays Request line: 289-9339 105-D Cedar St Monroe 289-9444 WIXE 1190 Monroe Top 40 country music daylight hours only Gospel music on Sundays Bluegrass shows on Saturdays Gospel music shows on Sundays "Tell Your Neighbor" call-in talk show 9:45 to 10:30 am weekdays "Inside Pro Wrestling" show 7 to 8 pm Thursdays Swap Shop show 9 to 9:45 am weekdays 8:15 to 9 am Saturdays Request line 283-1190 1700 Buena Vista Dr Monroe WMAP 1060 Monroe Daylight hours only "Talk 'n Trade" show 9:30 to 10 am weekdays "Morning Mary" call-in talk show 10 to 11 am weekdays 2004 Walkup Ave Monroe 283-8115 WNOW 1030 Goose Creek Township Daylight hours only Contemporary Christian music with some gospel music on Sunday mornings Rock Hill Church Road Matthews 882-9669 said he and Herman Stone have discovered during construction of the theater that they are distant relatives Herman Stone described himself as a movie-lover someone who "gets excited about watching inovies' "It looks like its going to be a great summer for movies he said We've been wreeiiiiig films twice a day thret days a week in Charlotte MLny of them will be Opening Friday: New Cinema 8 theaters 1 Union Square Cinema 8 will have its grand opening Friday at 4 6:15 pm with festivities and a ribbon-cutting ceremony 1 The cinema a part of Consolidated Theaters will feature eight movies for its first week with 50-cent admission The movies are: "Dances With Wolves" (PG-13) 7:45 pm Friday 3:15 and 1 It 7:45 pm Saturday i -Cr ii't 4- '1j "Home Alone" (PG) 7 and 9:10 pm Friday 2:40 4:50 7 and 9:10 pm Saturday I 1 -------1- area "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II" (PG) 7:15 and 9:20 pm 4 4 0 :1111111 I t' -'4iw iv" 'Iris Friday 3:10 5:15 7:15 and 9:20 pm Saturday I oil "Sleeping With the Enemy" (R) 7:10 and 9:30 pm Friday 1 -i tt il 4i vk A A 3:05 5:05 7:10 and 9:30 pm Saturday i'lldjos r- dal "Kina Ralph" (PG) 7:05 and 9:05 LIM Friday: 3 5 7:05 and -j Opening Friday: New Cinema 8 theaters Union Square Cinema 8 will have its grand opening Friday at 6:15 pm with festivities and a ribbon-cutting ceremony The cinema a part of Consolidated Theaters will feature eight movies for its first week with 50-cent admission The movies are: "Dances With Wolves" (PG-13) 7:45 pm Friday 3:15 and 7:45 pm Saturday "Home Alone" (PG) 7 and 9:10 pm Friday 2:40 4:50 7 and 9:10 pm Saturday "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II" (PG) 7:15 and 9:20 pm Friday 3:10 5:15 7:15 and 9:20 pm Saturday "Sleeping With the Enemy" (R) 7:10 and 9:30 pm Friday 3:05 5:05 7:10 and 9:30 pm Saturday "King Ralph" (PG) 7:05 and 9:05 pm Friday 3 5 7:05 and Anything goes ALLEN BROTHERS CIRCUS: The circus makes an appearance at 5:30 and 7:30 pm Friday in a field across from the Cuddy Farms plant on US 74 in Marshville The performance is sponsored by the Marshville Rotary Club Tickets will be on sale at the gate For details call Willis Cooper at 289-9582 9 am to 5 pm weekdays PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPRING FESTIVAL: Games and live entertainment are on the schedule for Prospect Elementary School's Spring Festival set for 10 am to 3 pm Saturday All events are at the school on Ruben Road in Prospect This is a The game morn featuring 16 electronic games that provide another means of entertainment for movie patrons Top-notch films During its first week the I nion Square Cinema 8 will show films that were released in March and April but admission will he only 50 cents Some of those films are blockbusters such as "Dances With Wolves-and "Silence of the Lambs- Discounts Admission to daily matinees will be $3 with films starting abi nit 230 pm every day Special rates will be al inounced for children and older adults too Regular evemilig will be $5 -Some places are charging more- said Stone who also operates movie facilities in Alabama 9:05 pm Saturday "Silence of the Lambs" (R) 7:10 and 9:30 pm Friday 2:35 4:50 7:10 and 9:30 pm Saturday "Awakenings" (PG-13) 7:15 and 9:35 pm Friday 2:45 5 7:15 and 9:35 pm Saturday "Shipwrecked" (PG) 7 and 9 pm Friday 3 5 7 and 9 pm Saturday STEVE LYTTLEStatt Getting ready: Glass specialist Richard Stone of Marshville at work Tuesday morning adjusting bolts for the Union Square Cinema 8's sign By STEVE LYTTLE Staff Mier MONROE The theaters range from a Ing auditorium to) a more intimate-sized facility that the owner calls "my screening room" But each theater features 360 degrees of stereo sound The screens are specially made to absorb some of the light projected at them so viewers eyes aren't assaulted -I like to sell my customers a seat at the SO-yard line" said Herman Stone president of Consolidated Theaters a Charlotte-based company that opens the Union Square Cinema 8 on Friday night St one's movie house features state-of-the-art equipment that can run projects in eight theaters automatically and can inform Consolidated Theaters' officials which type of calidy bars are hest-sellers Crevs were scurrying at Midweek to complete the theater which is on Roosevelt Boulevard in the Union Square Shopping Center at Dickerson Boulevard "We'll have it done on tune'' said Ray Adcock a Union County resident who with his wife Linda will manage the facility "Monroe needs this badly The teenagers have no entertainment This is a great outlet "And adults will enjoy it" Stone said patrons will see quickly that his company wants to provide a familv-type at inosphere "I don't want people coming here to find five R-rated movies and three PGs that aren't suitahle for the entire family" he said -I want something for everyone" He pointed to such amenities as: A 3-seat theater for the most popular movies A huge screen stretching almost wall to wall will envelope the imdience Smaller thnaters for less-popular films -In these places you'll feel real close to what's happening- St( me said lie pointed to side aisles rather than walkways down the middle of the theater as an example of how intrusions will be limited Acoustic carpeting on the floor and walls of the game room "That carpeting is very expensive but it's important to keep the sound of the game room from 'bleeding' into an adjacent theater" Stone said And inn operation of the facility Stone said he is proud of: Tennessee and Georgia But I like to run these on volume- He also said he prefers to tise local labor when possittle I le said most crews involved in building the I 'Mon Square Cinema 8 were from Union and nearby counties Among them was glass so'cialist Richard Stone of Nlarshville Stone and three assistants installed the neon sign atop the theater Tuesday moriiing "This will be a real eye-catcher" said Richard St me "So will the rest of the lighting inside" Heo.