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.
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‘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
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