THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, April 21, 1995 TAG: 9504210059
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E12 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: FUN TIMES
SOURCE: BY ALICIA LUMA, TEENOLOGY ENTERTAINMENT WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 48 lines
ABOUT A YEAR AGO the only thing to do in the Pembroke area of Virginia Beach was to go walk around the area old-people mall (tell me one fun thing to do at Pembroke Mall, just one) or chill at IHOP. That gets boring as fast as IHOP coffee gets cold. But lately, man, Pembroke has been picking up.
I now go to Pembroke and hang out for hours, gazing glassy eyed at all the books in Barnes & Noble, and discussing with strangers the chances of O.J's book going into a second printing over an iced cap in the bookstore's cool little cafe. Then I wander around Planet Music salivating over the new releases, wishing I had a real job so I could buy something.
And at the end of a day of drooling over that which I, the unemployed, cannot have, what could be better than a cheap-o movie? In addition to first-run regularly priced movies, the new Columbus Movies 12 theater also runs movies that have been out for a while at way-discounted prices. They are only $1 on Mondays and $1.50 Tuesday through Sunday. Call 490-8181 for the ever-changing schedule.
Barnes & Noble is open from 9 a.m. til 11 p.m. seven days a week, and Planet Music is open from 10 a.m. til midnight all week except Mondays when it's open til 12:30 a.m. (so you can get the new releases a day early).
Here are some other options:
I know some of you prefer more active activities so here is the lowdown on a show that will get you groovin'. My favorite local band, Four Living Creatures, and Unspoken, the most thoroughly thrashed out gentlemen I've ever met, will play at you very loudly on April 29 at the Fire Escape, 17th and Pacific at the Beach. Admission is $4. Call 459-5724.
If you would rather be artsy, Riverbend Books in Virginia Beach has poetic and literary recitations by local and visiting authors and poets. On April 28 at 7:30 p.m., Scott Cairns, director of the creative writing department at Old Dominion University, will read from one of his books. Cairns is a dynamic speaker and it should be very good. The bookstore is in the Great Neck Village Shopping Center. Call Riverbend Books at 496-2758. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
Alicia Luma is a home-schooled junior.
by CNB