Ice-T leaves fans out in the cold
Concert promoters Lie Tan and Tony Gilbert have refused to return phone calls regarding Ice-T’s disappearance-reappearance-disappearance act as the opener for Nelly’s Feb. 24 concert at McArthur Court.
Word spread days before the show that Ice-T had backed out for vague personal reasons. Less than 24 hours later, Tan and Gilbert had dispelled the rumors and assured ticket holders who payed upward of $45 for the show that both acts would appear.
Only after Nelly finished his performance did the audience realize that Ice-T had pulled out of the concert. No announcement was made during the show.
“I felt like I was misled,” said Kurt Catlin, heritage music coordinator at the UO Cultural Forum. Catlin booked Mac Court for the show and said promoters didn’t tell him about Ice-T’s no-show until about 4 p.m. the day of the concert.
He said that this was the first concert the promoters had attempted, and “it showed.”
Catlin speculated that Ice-T wanted more money, and when he was refused, he canceled. The rapper was then replaced by hip-hop group Wolfpack.
“I was very unhappy with the situation,”
Catlin said. He said Ice-T “was my biggest
selling point.”
Despite the absentee Ice-T, Catlin said the Cultural Forum was satisfied with the concert.

— Jen West

Lecturer discusses sex

and politics of Shakespeare
Witchery, sex, politics and performance history will come together in a lecture on William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Stephen Orgel, the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities, will present a lecture about “Oberon’s Dream” at 4 p.m. today in the Knight Library Browsing Room. For more information about the event, contact the Department of English at 346-3911.

— Lisa Toth