From Eugene, Oregon, to Pontiac, Michigan, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies rule the world (or at least the nation) when it comes to swing music. You want proof? Go to one of their live shows and become a converted soul.
The basement of Clutch Cargo's was packed with a diverse crowd Friday night - but not initially. Big Barn Combo, a four-piece rockabilly outfit from Detroit, opened the show to a room-filled to less than half-capacity. The combo's set included Patsy Cline numbers, unidentifiable original material and a Johnny Cash tune for a "big" finish.
Swingin' Daddies pop in Pontiac
The ghosts of country music were definitely in the vicinity of the Palace of Auburn Hills on Saturday evening. Before a near sellout audience, Alan Jackson proved it is possible to be a successful country singer without putting on a show filled with the theatrics that seem to categorize most of country's current acts.Mellow Jackson stays a country boy
Someone must have hurt E! Entertainment Television's program director in some horrible way in the recent past. Otherwise, E!'s torturous coverage of the Olympics would never have made it to air.
Where CBS shows the events as they happen in Nagano, E! treats its viewers to anything and everything happening off the slopes, luge trails and skating rinks. 
E!'s Olympic coverage places a distant second
Based solely on soundtrack, "The Wedding Singer" is the movie of the year; any film that includes both Huey Lewis & the News and The Smiths within the same hour and a half has accomplished the wonderfully impossible in terms of fringe '80s kitsch.
'Singer' hits nostalgic note
The second season of "Daria," the cartoon show chronicling the adventures of that cynical teenage iconoclast of beauty and popularity, premieres tonight and, hopefully, a lot of people will tune in. But after "Melrose Place" and "Ally McBeal," many television viewers might be feeling a little too guilty to do so.Original cynicisms rule 'Daria'
02-16-98
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