POP/ROCK - Feb. 19, 1992

Arlo’s Church: Arlo Guthrie’s neighbors in Great Barrington, Mass., are telling the “Alice’s Restaurant” balladeer that he can’t get anything he wants--at least not in their town. Residents in the Berkshire Mountains town at first were thrilled when the folk singer bought the former church that had been home to Alice Brock, onetime owner of the restaurant celebrated in the 1967 anti-war ballad. But the neighborliness ended when Guthrie announced he would use the place for meditation sessions for AIDS patients and for programs for abused children. The town is threatening to revoke a zoning change that allowed Guthrie to use the building.