ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Friday, November 15, 1996              TAG: 9611150020
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1    EDITION: METRO 
COLUMN: The Tipoff 
SOURCE: ALMENA HUGHES

THE TIPOFF

SOCCER TO 'EM: The First Virginia Bank Fall Soccer Classic will bring together 244 soccer teams from eight states and attract more than 8,000 visitors to the Roanoke Valley on Saturday and Sunday.

Championship teams playing in the sixth annual youth tournament include the Knoxville United U19 Boys (Tennessee state champions); the Brookwood Steamers U17 Boys (Atlanta Cup champions); the Hockessin Hailstones U18 Girls (Pennsylvania league champions); the Arlington Breakers U17 Girls (Division 1 Wags champions) and the Roanoke Stars U14 Boys (Virginia state champions).

The two-day competition will include more than 40 games played on 33 fields in 10 locations.

For particulars, call the Roanoke Valley Youth Soccer Club's executive director, Danny Beamer, at 772-3871.

TEEN THINGS: Straight Street Youth Night, 7 p.m.-11 p.m. Saturday at the Salem YMCA, will offer volleyball, basketball, swimming, games, music, food and other entertainment to help keep kids off the streets and on the right path.

There is no admission charge. Call 342-4971.

* Eleven teens will display their considerable talents at singing, dancing, piano playing, interpretative reading - even a little clogging - at the AKA Review competition Saturday at 7 p.m. in Virginia Western Community College's Whitman Auditorium.

Admission costs $10 for adults, $5 for students under age 18. Call 344-0124 or 857-7583.

MANY WAYS GAY: Stand-up comedians Scott Kennedy and Kevin Maye, being both homosexual and lighthearted, fit two definitions of gay. From all accounts, their Gay Comedy Jam: Freedom Tour fits one more definition: brilliant.

Kennedy and Maye, two who also are a twosome, have headlined in most major U.S. comedy clubs, appeared on HBO's "Comedy Channel" and A&E's "An Evening at the Improv" and opened for such notables as Garth Brooks, The Temptations, The Four Tops, David Sanborn and Judy Tenuta.

Their material is structured for a gay audience, but anyone who relates to the foibles of relationships can enjoy its message.

The tour, billed as "the first gay comedy show of its kind," will hit Slaphappy's Comedy Club in Roanoke at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

Admission will be $12 in advance, $15 plus tax at the door. Call 344-JOKE.

WRITE ON! The reception is billed as a meet-the-author function. But many people around these parts already know Reginald Shareef, a native Roanoker, Lucy Addison High School graduate, associate professor of political science at Radford University and adjunct professor of religion and philosophy at Roanoke College.

Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Harrison Museum of African American Culture in Roanoke, Shareef will sign copies of his recently completed "The Roanoke Valley's African American Heritage: A Pictorial History."

The first-of-its kind book, through 275 photographs and accompanying text, illustrates the significant achievements and contributions of this geographic area's black population.

There is no admission charge, but an RSVP will be appreciated . Call 345-4818.

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