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Local and national groups serenade UNL Official says diversity was major factor in band choice By Kathy Shults Staff Reporter Local and national bands will be spotlighted this semester in a concert series sponsored by the University Program Council and KFMQ radio station. Concert Review The first concert, featuring five of Lincoln’s most diverse bands, is to night, said Scott Leech, graduate . assistant with UPC’s major pro » grams. Mannequin Beach, New Brass Guns, For Against, Trout Mystery and 13 Nightmares will take the stage in the Nebraska Union Ballroom beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets are $3.50 and available at Pickles, Dirt Cheap and both Nebraska unions. Diversity was a major factor in setting up the first show, Leech said. UPC hopes to attract a variety of listeners. The music will range from folksy pop to psychedelic to funky hard core, he said. The concept of exposing local tal ent began as a “barroom idea” in early September, Leech said. He said he , was originally attempting to put to gether one show, but interest was so great that a series was more feasible. The purpose of the scries is not to make money, he said, but to give bands a place to play and students the opportunity to hear them. Leech, along with cohorts Karl Stephen, Todd Peter and Jim Arthur, created “1 Feel Fine Productions’’ to front the series. “1 Feel Fine characterizes some ol the apathy found in Lincoln,” Lccch said. He said the local series wouldn’t have happened without support from UPC’s Concerts and Coffeehouses and KFMQ’s free promotion. Dictzc Music House is assisting with the sound system. I Feel Fine Productions will spon sor the first show, nnd after that UPC will conduct the series. KFMQ Program Manager Boh Allen said he shares Leech’s concern for the plight of local bands. “It (the series) is a great idea — a much-needed idea,” said Allen. “With the recent closing of The Drumstick, there have been fewer and fewer venues for up and coming local talent.” Leech said the concerts might be bi-weekly, although scheduling problems prohibit regularity. ‘With the recent clo sing of The Drumstick, there have been fewer and fewer venues for up and coming local talent.’ — Allen The concert series began solely as an idea for promoting local bands, but it is already integrating to national bands, he said. The second concert, scheduled for Nov. 11, will lealure Camper Van Beethoven of San Fran cisco. A local band will open. Leech said he hopes to schedule five or six concerts next semester with national louring bands. 'ffiff 11 j|SPii|Prw ^ } Ward Williams/Daily Nebraskar Leech ‘The Princess Bride ’floats in flighty fantasy Courle«y of Clive Coote Cary Elwes and Robin Wright in “The Princess Bride." By Charles Lieurance Senior Editor "The Princess Bride," East Park 3 “Anybody who tells you life isn’t entirely made up of pain is trying to sell you something,” says one character as Rob Reiner’s romantic comedy-adventure fan tasy “The Princess Bride” gets underway. But despite this nod to existen tial despair, “The Princess Bride” floats along on a rudder of cotton candy, free from the cares of the world. Its message, that “true love” conquers all obstacles and that goodness can be found in the un likclicsl of places, is far from novel, but has sustained many a film. It buoys this one for a while, but in the end, it’s easy to sec that Reiner is trying to sell us some thing. What he’s trying to sell is an uneasy parody masquerading as Highly lantasy, in turn disguised as a charming parade of cameo ap pearances. None of these masks can hide the muddled sense of purpose behind this project. Sudden bursts of Mel Brixtks slylc satire subvert the film’s sensi tive romance and keep the adven ture angle of the movie from tak mg off. Movie Review The two central characters empty, pretty fairy-tale ciphers Wcstlcy (Cary Elwcs) and Butter cup (“Santa Barbara” refugee Robin Wright) inhabit the talc like most fairy-tale couples. They are uninteresting but physically arrest ing, virtuous to the point of utter vacuousness and youthfully ob sessed with their unconsummated love for one another. It is the beasts, rogues and profligates around them that should make the talc satisfying. The child (Fred Savage) to whom the tale is teing told, by his grandfather (Peter Falk), knows this. It is the monsters See BRIDE on 7