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7 7- tile Charlotte Observer SECTION HOT BUTTONS AMERICANA Planning a powwow? What better place to hold it than Indian Trail? That of course is where the annual Indian Trail Pow Wow and Cultural Festival takes place this weekend A parade will make its way through Indian Trail at 11:30 am Saturday arriving at Indian Trail Elementary School at 1 pm for the centerpiece of the festival a dance competition featuring tribal and ceremonial dances from across the country The competition will continue Sunday Festgoers on all three days will also find displays of Native American art and crafts drumming singing and traders Kathie Girn la Indian Trail Pow Wow and Cultural Festival 5-11 pm today 10 am-10 pm Saturday 10 am-6 pm Sunday Indian Trail Elementary School Main Street Indian Trail Admission: tree Details: 331-4818 or (704) 821-6361 9 am-5 pm today :2 i FESTIVITIES ommodomommumaimansmoom a Charlotte's hometown arts festival Festival in the Park continues through Sunday at Freedom Park Highlights include jazz by the Loonis McGlohon Trio (9-10 pm today) and the Reflection Big Band (3430 pm Sunday) All three days feature arts and crafts dance drama music magicians clowns and more And you can't beat the price: It's free John Bordsen Festival in the Park today through Sunday in Freedom Park on East Boulevard Hours: 6-10 pm today 10 am-10 pm Saturday and 1-6 pm Sunday Festival schedulepage SF FRANK CONNORTwentieth Century Fox Guns 'n' poses: Verdant scenery and Daniel Day-Lewis co-star in about equal measure in "The Last of the Mohicans" MORE FESTIVITIES 1111111111111111MinliMMMISMINMI 0 You have to go to college to see the world in a day Specifically you have to go to UNC Charlotte Saturday for the UNCC International Festival This is the largest on-campus event it draws roughly 10000 people yearly and it puts the spotlight on 50 booths prepared by 50 international groups You'll find ethnic food cultural displays dance and music And not your typical foreign attractions either: Children's storyteller Obakunle Akinlana is also a stilt-walker John Bordsen UNC Charlotte International Festival 10 am-6 pm Saturday at UNCC Admission: free with one exception $2 tor performances of Seattle-based Bakra Bata steel drum and percussion banddance group at 1 and 3 pm in Rowe Recital Hall (tickets available at the door) Details: 547-2410 8 am-5 pm today Festival schedulepage aSF 'Last of the Mohicans' handsomely captures vastness of the times MUSIC mAmnommosionmomemildismn FRANK CONNORTwentieth Century Fox Family feud: Madeleine Stowe sees her father killed by Hurons whose children he ordered slain Last of the Mohicans of the Mohicans Violinist Young Uck Kim and conductor Robert will help the Charlotte Symphony launch its 1992-93 season in concerts tonight and Saturday Kim came to the I United States from Korea in 1961 at the 10 'liv leading edge of classi- r'''' l' cal music's so-called 4:4 "Asian Invasion" Since then he's become one of music's most promi- nent talents Spano is associate Kim conductor of the Boston Symphony His performances are an audition for the job Leo Driehuys will retire from at season's end Dean Smith Charlotte Symphony with Robert Spano and Young Uck Kim 8 pm today and Saturday Dana Auditorium 1900 Selwyn Ave Tickets: Details: 332-6136 9 am-5 pm weekdays hat we really have here is "The Half of the Mohicans" For the first hour director and co-writer Michael Mann stays faithful to James Fenimore Cooper's ver bose but noble-spirited novel In the last 50 minutes he twists 0 around the events characters and philosophy of the book usually to the story's advantage He achieves the same end as the 19th-century scribe: a rousing epic-sized some- The what generic work of pop culture An Well-acted well-paced and hand- Stars: some Mann's version of "The Last ieine St of the Mohicans" has a vast occa- Directo sionally numbing splendor: It's a Rating: "Ben Hur" of the frontier I Both book and film take place in Poor 1757 as colonists in upstate New Showing 8 Tower Pie York people less than two decades away from declaring political independence try to decide whether they care who wins the French and Indian wars The ruling British want loyalty and armed support but don't give a hoot about protecting settlers from attacks The French who've taken much of the western United States (which The Stars: Director: Rating: Poor Showing Tower Place they'd sell in the Lou- isiana Purchase of the 1800s) are allied with the Huron indi- ans who have no Movies love for any Cauca 11000114110141100 sians LAWRENCE Uninvolved are TOPPMAN three roving fur trap- pers: Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) Chint gachgook his adoptive father (Russell Means) and Uncas Chingachgook's natlichael ural son (Eric Schweig) The comMent mander of Fort Wilstars" liam Henry a prickly Scottish colonel named Munro (Maurice Roeves) wants them to help defend the Brits Hawkeye grudgingly agrees after meeting Cora the colonel's forthright daughter (Madeleine Stowe) From here the plot moves in a path foreordained by Hollywood tradition Cora reciprocates Hawkeye's love her sister (lodhi May) Daniel Day-Lewis Madeleine Stowe Russell Means Michael Mann Violence Excellent Good Fair No stars" Unacceptable at: Matthews Festival SouthPark Union Square University Place el Day-Lewis Made- Russell Means Mann iidence Good Fair Unacceptable itthews Festival SouthPark Inion Square University Place develops an interest in Uncas and the three wanderers join the British in battling the French (who are gracious enemies) and the Hurons (who are not) Implacable Magua (Wes Studi) whose family was slaughtered by Munro's order won't rest until his Hurons kill Munro's children in return To keep the film about 110 minutes long Mann and co-writer Christopher Crowe sacrificed character development and packed every sequence full of events The decision pays off in bone-rattling artillery sequences (gorgeously photographed by Dante Please see 'Mohicans'next page INSIDE In Gastonia weekend is really looking up Singer single mom Tanya Tucker talks about Quayle kids kudos By ANN DOSS HELMS Staff Writer ou can do it or watch in the air or on the ground Aviation addicts will converge on the GastoLiAirport this weekend to soar in open-cockpit biplanes watch mock dogfights and inspect military planes of old Hot-air balloons are the newest twist at the fourth annual Phoenix Air time Air Show which raises What: Phoenix Air Show money for the flying When: 10 am-5 pm Sat-ambulance seivice urday and Sunday Last year's show Where: Gastonia Airport raised about $24000 Ott NC 274 about 5 miles for Phoenix which south of downtown Gastonia flies Charlotte-area Admission: $5 free for patients who are seri- ages 5 and younger All ously ill or injured to profits go to Phoenix Air a distant hospitals at no private nonprofit flying charge ambulance service Thrill-seekers can Details: Call (704) ride helicopters 867-8975 8:30 am-5 pm planes and hot-air bal- today loons for $15 to $45 PS: Anyone with sensitive The plane and helicop- settarrsplumgisghtowheantthtinog bring this ter rides will be given won't be is a quiet week-from about 10 am to end outing 2 pm and 4 to 5 pm Saturday and Sunday Balloon rides (with the balloon tethered to the ground) will be available from 4 to 5 pm each day Please see Air showpage I OF Dimmer News Services r-1 hese days country vocalist Tanya Tucker is known as much for what she says as for what she sings i When Dan Quayle took aim at single mothers via Murphy Brown this unwed mother of two flat-out said the vice president was out to lunch Then a month later she sang the national anthem at Republican Family affair National Convention! What: WSOC Family Did she change her Reunion Concert with tune? Tanya Tucker Doug Stone Hardly She's not Highway 101 Lionel Cart-one to duck and run: wright and the No Name Her two children and Band from Coyote Joe's their father actor Ben When: Noon Saturday Reed appear in her Where: Former Union latest music video County Fairgrounds US "Two Sparrows in a T74 Monroe ickets: advance $20 at Hurricane" Tucker gate (free for children younplays herself as a ger than 13) Available at 23 young mother the area businesses video traces a couple's Details: 335-4848 9 am-5 love from teenage to Pm today elderly years You can see more of her Saturday Tucker is the headliner at the WSOC Family Reunion Concert at the former Union County Fairgrounds in Monroe And Wednesday you'll probably catch her on TV at the County Music Association awards The 1991 Please see Tuckernext page Sosrrow Records 5FMusic: Steven Curtis Chapman heats up religious rock in Charlotte Tuesday 2F MOVIES: Billy Crystal tri- umphs as actordirector in "Mr Saturday Night" MOVIE LISTINGS 3F Gurley Co A singer who speaks her mind: Yes she sang at the Republican convention No she doesn't see eye to eye with Dan Quayle CALENDAR LISTINGS 6-8F 1 I 0.