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By Scott Rarre.fr
Arts and Entertainment Editor
Unlike nasi tet-feod joints, Tseo
DN Diversions Editor Charles Lieu
ranee and I ate at Taco del Sol last
Thursday and had the "All You Can
Eat" Mexican dinner special. It's
merely $3.89 and is only served on
Thursday evenings. You get a large
Taco Supreme, a burrito, and enchi
lada, tortilla chips and a generous
scoop cf refried beans. That's easily
enough to fill you up, but gluttons
can go back for seconds . . . and
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Corona for just S3 cer.ts.
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Young artist
The Lincoln Symphony Orchestra
announces its annual Young Artist
.Competition, which will be Saturday,
INov. 8.
j Solo instrumental students between
the ages of 17 and 26, and solo vocal
fstudents between the ages of 17 and 28,
Who are currently studying in Nebraska
jor who have studied with a Nebraska
teacher, are eligible to compete.
I The winner will perform with the
Mncoln Symphony Orchestra in its
Regular subscription series on Jan. 27
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Aztec tiles on the walls.
If you're only slightly hungry,
your best bet is prcbibly one cf the
a la carte items like the Tz-co
can food mde to order, ar.d Taca
del Sal makes Its food in that
manner. You can choose extra ingre
dients like scur cream and black
olives. The restaurant also has extra
"gravy," which is its hick Nebraska
term for Mexican salsa. I suggest
that Taco del Sol should stop cal
ling its' salsa "gravy" to avoid confu
sion. Some people might think that
their enchilada would be covered
with brown beef gravy. Ketch!
The restaurant also serves Mexi
can desserts like crispes, which are
tortilla chips sprinkled with brown
sugar, and apple tartas, which are
soft flour tortillas stuffed with a
light cinnamon apple filling.
The food is, overall, above aver-,
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contest soon
and will receive a $500 cash prize. Two
alternate awards of $200 each will be
presented. Past winners may not com
pete again.
All applications must be endorsed
by the current teacher. Teachers are
urged to enter only students of out
standing ability.
Only music with available orchestral
parts can be used as repertoire. Instru
mental contestants are required to per
form three arias or the equivalent,
preferably of contrasting character.
By Chris McCubbin
Senior Reporter
check my weapon and move
through the door. I don 't get more
than three steps into the maze
before someone takes a shot at
me. I return fire and lunge for
cover.
I move between the husks of
buildings keeping low, trying
not to make any noise. I slide into
the poolroom, squeezing off a shot
at the guy across the table. As he
returns fire he yells something.
Suddenly, they 're all around me,
pouring out of everywhere. A
crossfire. Vm trapped. 1 lunge by
one of my attackers and dart
through the nearest exit, taking
at least a couple hits as I leave.
Lesson One learned. Some of
these people have friends. A loner
in the maze has to keep low, keep
quiet and keep moving.
Keeping to the back-alleys, I
slide through the maze ....
Basically, Lazer Tag is the logical
extension of the video game you
could even think of it as a live video
game. You get a gun that shoots a
narrow beam of invisible infrared light,
then you strap a doo-hickey on your
chest that senses this light. If your
chest sensor gets hit six times, you out.
Dead.
Long before Lazer Tag was available
on the market it was being hyped on
MTV and in comic books. A Saturday
morning network cartoon show, "Lazer
Tag Academy," debuted recently. The
copywrighted names for Lazer Tag para
phernalia are "Starsensors" for the
chest sensor and "Starlyte" for the gun.
Lazer Tag paraphernalia isn't avail
able locally just yet, and when it
does hit the toy stores it will run about
$50 for a basic set consisting of gun and
sensor with belt.
If that's a bit much for your budget,
or if you just can't wait to get your
hands on a Starlyte, Lazer Tag by the
game is available at two different
places locally: Laser-Tagg, 1227 Q St.,
and Laser Zone, 2021 0 St.
Laser-Tagg opened Oct. 1 . The playing
area is a huge room laid out as a maze,
designed to resemble a bombed-out
urban area ala "Escape From New
York" or "A Boy and His Dog," with
little rooms labeled as taverns, barber
shops, etc. There's a wide "Main Street,"
alleys and secret passages. A strobe
light flashes intermittently at one end
of the room.
You get 10 hits before you're out at
Laser-Tagg. It costs you $3 and you can
play 'til you're out. You don't "win" at
Laser-Tagg; again, it's like a video
game.
Laser Zone is set up a little dif
ferently. You get six hits maximum and
games are limited to 10 minutes, but
games only cost $2. If you're the only
State of the Arts
Compiled by Stew Magnuson
Staff Reporter
At Little Bo's:
Although it's an odd venue for them
to be playing, E.T.C., a soul-funk band
from Omaha, is jamming all this week
at Little Bo's. This booking completely
shatters every stereotype I've ever had
about Little Bo's. The members of
E.T.C.'are great entertainers. I haven't
seen them for several years, but I'm
sure they've only gotten better.
At Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wes
ley an University
A retrospective of the artwork of Gail
Butt will be shown in Elder Gallery on
the Nebraska Wesleyan campus next
Sunday through Nov. 19. The public is
invited to the opening reception given
r- ' ' .. X. I . . ..
This player gets ready to fire at Laser-Tagg, in the Glass Menag
erie, 1227 Q St. Another business, Laser Zone, 2021 O ST., also
has the game.
person left at the end of a game you win ambushees have been known to pick
a prize. up their small assailants and hold
Laser-Tagg is co-owned by five Lin- them suspended off the floor while they
colnites. According to Steve Rasmussen,
one of the co-owners, most of the
owners were friends in high school. A
couple of them have day jobs, and one,
Scott Kosark, is a sophomore anthro
pology major at UNL, Rasmussen said.
Rasmussen said Laser-Tagg is not
part of any chain or franchise, although
they wouldn't mind starting one. Laser
Tagg is modeled after the "Photon"
chain that has been operating around
Dallas for the last couple of years,
Rasmussen said.
Laser-Tagg is open from 4 p.m. to 1
a.m. Monday through Wednesday and
from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. Thursday through
Saturday. People of all ages can play
Laser-Tagg. Rasmussen said this has
been no problem, although some kids
have been known to hide out in kid-
sized places of concealment and am-
bush the big folk, and some of the
in the artist's honor by the Nebraska
Wesleyan Art Council, next Sunday
from 2 to 4 p.m.
Butt has exhibited his watercolor
paintings in Kyoto, Japan; Allahabad,
India and throughout the United States.
His works are part of the permanent
collections of UNL s Sheldon Art Gallery,
the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis,
the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas, City
and the City Art Museum in St. Louis.
At the Zoo:
All this week at the Zoo, Lincoln
favorites, Magic Slim and the Tear
drops, will bring their south Chicago
blues to their local, fanatical fans. As
everyone says, "He ain't slim, but he
sure is magic!"
Cover is cheap early in the week and
gets higher towards the weekend. But
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Dave BentzDaily Nebraskan
pump live shots into their sensors.
If you don't want to deal with the
kids, patrons under 16 are discouraged
after 8 p.m. In return, Laser-Tagg is
reserved for under-16s on Sunday after
noons until 5 p.m. Rasmussen said
Sundays have been particularly suc
cessful because fathers will bring their
kids in, settle down to watch football in
the lobby, and keep paying for new
rounds until the game is over.
Rasmussen said that future plans for
Laser-Tagg include regular changes in
the maze pattern and singles and team
tournaments the first to be held
around Halloween.
They're considering ways to make
the maze's interior more durable and
they're trying to come up with a time
card system that will allow individual
prizes without a time limit, Rasmussen
said.
it won't ever by more than $3. All shows
will start about 9 p.m.
On TV:
Atlanta's WTBS and Lincoln's Big 8
channel continue their weekly "Duel
ing Elvis movies"; tonight Elvis shakes
it with Ann Margret in "Viva Las Vegas"
at 9:25 p.m. on WTBS. Only three hours
later at 1:30 a.m. Big 8 will show Presley
in "Kissin' Cousins." You can use the
spare hour between movies to play your
"Clambake" soundtrack.
If you know of an event you would
like us to announce, send press infor
mation to:
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