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mm The News Observer Friday August 18 1995 Wild Things 2 TV 8 Comics 10 Life and Science looks at AIDS II Dear Mom I miss you Sometimes I get scared when you gel sick 1 worry that you will not come home 1 want you to take care of yourself If you ever get real sick will you tell us? I worry too much 1 worry most about you because you might get sick not tell me and die If you died 1 would be really upset and sad and cry a whole lot I cried last night because 1 missed you so much Sometimes WHAT "What About AIDS?" exhibit WHEN Saturday through Oct 8 Hours: Monday-Saturday 10 am-6 pm Sunday 1-6 pm closes at 5 pm starting Sept 4 WHERE Museum of Life and Science 433 Murray Ave Durham ADMISSION $550 $350 ages 3-12 and 65 and older Free for members and children under 3 CALL 220-5429 exhibit "What About AIDS?" opens The product of a consortium of eight museums the exhibit has been touring the country for more than a year "What About AIDS?" is chock-full of real-world information: Interactive displays that focus on the science of viruses Pictures and quotes from survivors with AIDS A strong dose of public health education on AIDS prevention Displays showing how the virus can and cannot be transmitted Although AIDS has been politicized in the past Krakauer says the goal of this See Aids pace 6D By Grant Parsons STAFF WRITER DURHAM Under the best of circumstances teaching children and teens about AIDS can be difficult The subjects involved are the stickiest: sex death and AIDS prevention using methods guaranteed to tie the tongues of even the most well-meaning parents "It's not a subject that tends to come up at the dinner table" says Durham Museum of Life and Science president Thomas Krakauer But starting Saturday AIDS will be the main topic of conversation at the Murray Avenue museum when the traveling Pictures and comments from kids and to kids are part of the AIDS exhibit at the Musem of Life and Science STAFF PHOTO BY ROB CROSS The line on lunch What it costs how to get the menu If you want to find out what's for lunch for your child most schools distribute monthly menus to students or make them available to be picked up Here's news: WNCN going to NBC early In this summer of big media announcements there's finally one that affects people who own television sets instead of television stations At 11 pm on Sept 10 the Triangle once again will have just one NBC station No more flip Also parents can dial up menus on The News Observ er's CityLine Call 549-5100 category 6368 (MENU) Reduced price meals are avail able for those who As Dr Frank Furter looms behind them local fans get into the act at Raleigh's Rialto Theater STAFF PHOTOS BY MEL NATHANSON qualify ping from one channel to another depending upon what day it is WNCN will show NBC full-time and the old NBC station instruct them to gyrate their hips back and forth Fast This is the "Time Bob Langford ByBabitaPersaud STAFF WRITER RALEIGH "Bring down the virgins" yells a man in the front row Those in the audience who have never experienced "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" move toward the stage of the Rialto Theater On this Friday night there are 13 inductees: a Here how much lunch and breakfast will cost this year Wake County schools Plate lunches (one meat two vegetablesfruits one bread milk): $140 for kindergarten-fifth grade $150 sixth-12th grades Breakfast: 80 cents for kindergarten-fifth grade 90 cents sixth-12th grades Durham schools Plate lunches (one meat two vegetablesfruits one bread milk): $110 for kindergarten-fifth grade $150 sixth-12th grades Breakfast: 80 cents for all grades Chapel HillCarrboro City Schools Plate lunches (one meat two vegetablesfruits one bread milk): $125 for kindergarten-fifth grade $145 middle school $150 high school Breakfast: 70 cents for all grades Orange County schools Plate lunches (one meat two vegetablesfruits one bread milk): $115 for kindergarten-fifth grade $135 sixth-12th grades Breakfast: 75 cents for all grades Johnston County schools Plate lunches (one meat two vegetablesfruits one bread milk): $1 for kindergarten-eighth grade $115 ninth-12th grades Breakfast: 60 cents for all grades Warp" For the past decade people have been coming to the Rialto on Fridays at mid-night to watch a movie that has become a cult classic since it was created on a London sound stage more than 20 years ago They come to see locals act out the scenes to throw rice and toast To squirt water pistols and yell the lines: "Don't touch the hair You are going to pay" To sing the lyrics: "With a bit of a time slip You're into a mind flip And you'll never be the same again" In essence to enter a "Rocky Horror" time warp A night of "Rocky Horror" begins about 11:30 with the arrival of the cast There is Frances Spur-geon as the wholesome heroine Janet Weiss And Chris Leach as her nerdy boyfriend Brad Majors There is biker-dude Eddie played by Mike McLean and David Mumford as the See Rocky fage3D Underwear run! Audience participation hits a high point At far left Ellie London and Amanda Currier get ready if' bunch of women on a girls' night out a few college freshmen and some high school students dressed in black The more experienced tell them to stand back to front as if they are going to give each other massages and then WRDCwill be UPNindependent The date of the switch had been set for October but both stations agreed to move it up Now it's a firm date and a good one This way viewers can find the NBC station before the start of the fall season Another announcement that affects TV set owners: WNCN will start a newscast Sept 4 OK probably Sept 4 Sept 11 at the latest WNCN had planned to start a local news operation for the better part of a year but NBC's purchase solidified that commitment The president of NBC's owned-and-operated stations John Rohrfoeck was in town this week to stress that NCN (which stands for North Carolina's News) will have a news presence in more than name alone "We believe" says Rohrbeck "that local news is the foundation for a station's success" While the start date is uncertain the times for the newscasts are definite They will be at 7 and 11 pm The previous NBC affiliate then owned by Durham Life Broadcasting and called WPTF had a newscast at 7 that didn't make a dent in the ratings before going off the air in 1991 But RDC management says that's the best place for a new news show "Research indicated that was a definite opportunity" says general manager Bud Polacek "Go stand on any of the overpasses on Interstate 440 at 6 o'clock There's our promo These folks are gridlocked They didn't watch at 5 5:30 or 6" Another announcement that affects TV station owners but gives us all a sense of civic pride: The Raleigh-Durham market Nielsen announced Monday has moved up two spots to No 30 passing Kansas City and Milwaukee There are 791000 homes with televisions in the 23-county market up 29000 from a year ago SeeLanofom FK3E 3D Pop till you drop wide tour of malls and offbeat art venues that began in 1993 The tour is Mark Tucker whose company The Art North Hills Mall features an exhibit of presents by famous artist's limited-edition silk-screen prints will be shown in the mall's center court through Aug 27 In addition six local artists will display works inspired by Warhol who died in 1987 following gall-bladder of Shopping Inc shopper Andy SSEBST By Chuck Twardy staff writer RALEIGH If any artist belongs in a mall it's Andy Warhol The late Prince of Pop Art was such a prodigious shopper that when his estate auctioned the eclectic collection of cookie jars and costume jewelry clogging his Manhattan apartment along with other artists' works Warhol owned the Sotheby's sales raised $253 million Now a selection of Warhol prints vies with Gap caps and Penney pullovers for the attention of North Hills Mall shoppers "Warhol Strokes of Genius" comprising 32 of the malls Warhol Tucker paid a t'V- fee to borrow the prints from Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York and charges a fee to shopping centers to show them Among the sites at which See Pop fage4D surgery The Warhol prints including portraits of Superman the Marx Brothers and James Dean as well as selections from series such as Ads and Endangered Species are on the 36th stop of a nation- The Andy Warhol exhibit at North Hills Mall in Raleigh includes selections from the artist's Endangered Species series.