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Entertainment j Friday, September 10,1999 Page 11 Weekend in Preview The following is a brief list of week end ex’ents. Please call the venue for more information. CONCERTS: Dufy’s, 14120 St. Sunday: The Bent Scepters, The Mezcal Brothers Kimball Recital Hall, 301 N. 12th St. Sunday: Piano Gala Knickerbockers, 901 O St. Friday: Callidac, The Vagruntz Saturday: Sometimes Wonder, Jumpin’ Kate The Royal Grove, 340 W. Comhusker Hwy Friday: Case Wicked Saturday: Comedy Jam ‘99 7TH Street Loft, 504 S. 7th Sunday: Silence in Heaven Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St. Friday: Lil’ Slim and the Back-Alley Blues Band Saturday: The Grateful Dudes THEATER: Johnny Carson Theater, 301N. 12th Friday and Sunday: Pat Hazell, comedian Lincoln Community Playhouse, 2500 S. 56th St. All weekend: “Hello, Dolly!” Mary’ Riepma Ross Film Theater, 12th and R streets All weekend: “Limbo” Star City Dinner Theatre Suite 100,803 QSt. Friday and Saturday: The Comedy and Magic of Tom Burgeon GALLERIES: The Burkholder Project, 719 P St. All weekend: works by Anne BurkholdeOJancy Childs, Bill Ganzel and Elteij Smith Gallery 9,124 S. Ninth St. All weekend: works by David Alles Haydon Gallery, 335 N. Eighth St. All weekend: works by Donna Barger Lentz Center, Morill Hall, 14th and U streets All weekend: paintings by Shi Hu Noyes Gallery, 119 S. Ninth St. All weekend: works by Gretchen Meyers, Susan Barnes, Evelyn Issacs, Lois Meysenburg and Tom Palmerton The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 12th and R streets All weekend: works by John Steuart Curry and Charles Rain’s “Magic Realism” University of Nebraska at Omaha Art Gallery, 6001 Dodge St. All weekend: “Crossing the Threshold” Courtesy Photo EDDIE MONTGOMERY and Troy Gentry make up the honky-tonk duo Montgomery Gentry. ‘Country's newest bad boys' raising ruckus tonight By David Wilson Senior editor Somewhere in Topeka, Kan., prior to a show, Eddie Montgomery picks up a phone and dials a newspaper for a scheduled interview. Tiie reporter answers. “How the hell are you?” Montgomery yells in a gruff voice to the complete stranger. The interview begins - and without losing his intensity, Montgomery does most of the talking for the next 20 minutes. One word seems to come up over and over: Honky-tonk. Montgomery, you see, has been playing music in country bars since he was 5 years old. And his on stage intensity, he says, has gotten only stronger through the years. Part of the duo Montgomery Gentry, Montgomery - along with partner Troy Gentry - will bring his energy-packed show to Guitars and Cadillacs at 9 tonight. Cactus Hill will kick off the evening, and tickets are still available for $14. “We’ve been known to lock the damn doors and play all night long,” Montgomery said. “We’ve had bar owners come up and say, ‘OK, boys, let’s go.’ “We like to have a good time. That’s what it’s all about. I don’t see nothing wrong with raising hell or stepping on the other side of the fence.” Labeled by their publicist as “country’s newest bad boys,” Montgomery and Gentry show signs of their old-country and southern-rock influences on their first album, “Tattoos & Scars,” which was released last April. Their first single, “Hillbilly Shoes,” a hard, up Please see GENTRY on page 13 Female artists recognized at exhibit By Danell McCoy Staff writer In the world of art, women are often overlooked. Although they have contributed just as much to the art world, theirpieces still make less money than their male coun terparts, and they are given fewer exhi bitions in which to show their work. Beginning tonight and continuing through October, the University of Nebraska at Omaha Art Gallery, 6001 Dodge St., will pay tribute to the women who have challenged the gender-segre gated art world for more than half a cen tury. The exhibition, “Crossing the Threshold,” will feature the works of 31 women, all of whom were born in or before 1928. “The age of these women affords them a unique vantage point from which they can view the radical ways in which sexual politics changed over the centu ry,” said Bernice Steinbaum, curator of the exhibition, in a press release. The wide age ranges are apparent in the unique mediums and styles each woman uses. Included in the show are weavings, basketry, ceramics, prints, paintings, drawings and jewelry. Nancy Kelly, director of the gallery, said the museum considered the artists’ ranges in age and media in order to cre ate a diverse exhibition. One of die pieces of interest, created by sculptor Muriel Castanis, is an eight foot-tall female figure formed by fabric that was epoxy-glued into place. Castanis, who began her art career as a painter, discovered this medium after finding a crumpled rag that had hardened after being saturated with Elmer’s Glue. Castanis and Clare Romano, anoth er featured artist, will give lectures dur ing the month-long schedule of events. Also scheduled are two dance per formances, directed by Josie Metal Corbin. Both performances will take place on Sept. 22. One will be per formed inside the gallery, while the other will be in die sculpture garden. All events are open to the public and are free of charge. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with special weekend gallery Gallery Preview The facts What: “Crossing the Threshold Where: University of Nebraska at Omaha Art Gallery, 6001 Dodge St., Omaha When: Tonight through October The Skinny: Exhibit explores women’s contribution to art hours on Oct. 2 and 3. The opening reception for the exhi bition is tonight, beginning at 7:30 p.m. “We really want people to come,” Kelly said. “We hope people will come to learn about women in art. (Women) have been persevering all along and have created some magnificent art.”