Arts & Entertainment
‘Return of Dead IT funny
By William Rudolph
Staff Reporter
Remember “Return of the Living
Dead”?
Well, there’s a sequel to it now,
“Return of the Living Dead Part II.”
And guess what? Probably using the
same advertising agency as the last
time, there’s now another catchy little
phrase guaranteed to drive you to the
theater: “Just when you thought it was
safe to be dead.”
The opening scene shows a mili
tary convoy transporting hazardous
waste during a thunderstorm. One
particular soldier driving one of the
trucks is having a good old time,
smoking a joint, listening to heavy
metal over his headphones and jam
ming out (a moral lesson? The evils of
drugs, rock and roll, and toxic
waste?). The truck hits a bump. Three
waste drums fall out and sink in a
river. Whoops. Does the driver no
tice? No.
The lake just happens to be located
next to a subdivision that looks re
markably like the one from “Polter
geist.” The subdivision and lake just
happen to have a creepy old cemetery
located nearby. The waste leaks out
into the water and ground, and the
dead rise to the tunes of heavy metal.
The dead take over the subdivision/
town area. The army is powerless to do
much more than evacuate what they
think is all of the town and block off all
exit routes. But wait, there are people
trapped inside!
And what people. We have all the
horror-movie stereotypes: the young
heroine, an aerobics animal who just
happens to be the junior shooting
champion in the state; the young hero/
cablcTV installcr(hey,cable TV guys
know everything); the comic-relief,
older mentor-type (in this case, an old
lush of a doctor who keeps a “cherry”
Chevy cruiser in his garage); the
young couple (he’s a whiny grocery
store employee who moonlights as a
gravedigger, and she’s a hyper little
ditz who looks exactly like tcenybop
per star Tiffany); and the precocious
young kid who saves the day by read
ing comic books, a new category that
started with ‘The Lost Boys.”
“Return of the Living Dead Part II”
is extremely funny. Everyone over
acts to the best of their ability. The
special effects aren’t really very spe
cial, and there’s virtually no gore. But
what do you expect from brain-eating
zombies, “Terms of Endearment?”
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Burkholder Project in Haymarket
a place for Lincoln artists to create
By Trevor McArthur
Staff Reporter
—
he Atlas Carpet Ware
house in the Haymarket,
originally the Woods
Brothers Realty building, built in
1914, has been remodeled into
artist’s studios and loft apartments
by a local artist.
Anne Burkholder, who has had
an art studio in the Haymarket
since that district’s redevelopment
began in the early 1980s, rented the
building April 1, 1987, and the
grand opening was early last
month.
The project has been an idea of
Burkholder’s for a long time, she
said, and she had been looking for
a building for about 12 years. She
said she specifically wanted some
thing in the Haymarket.
All 16 of the art studios in the
Burkholder Project building are
being rented. Many of the spaces
were spoken for before the build
ing opened. There are also three
loft apartments, each of which can
also serve as an art studio, so artists
get first consideration as renters.
Rent for studios ranges from
S60 to $200 a month, depending on
size and location in the building.
The loft apartments arc about $400
a month.
The building has several galler
ies displaying works of the resident
artists.
The first-floor gallery in the
atrium displays one work from
each resident artist. It is representa
tive of what is created in the build
ing, including oil and watcrcolor
paintings, photographs and works
in various other media. The public
is encouraged to come in and
browse.
And while browsing, an “Eng
lish door” policy is in effect. If an
artist’s studio door is open, it is an
invitation to come in, talk and
watch works take shape. Burk
holder said she hopes this will help
demystify artists and the creative
process to the public.
The other two galleries can be
used to display the works of small
Burkholder and Al E. Cat
groups of artists or for theme
shows.
Jeanette Richstaltcr is a water
color artist who has a studio in the
building. She said she likes the
feeling of community the building
creates.
The building is also the home of
Project Records, an alternative
music record store. Steve Schultz,
the store’s owner, said he was look
ing for something in the Hay
market and liked the room and the
view.
However, Burkholder said she
doesn’t want to open any more
space to retail.
“I think it probably should only
be artists and art-rclatcd-lypc
things,” Burkholder said. “It just
seems like it would be a more
congenial group.”
Burkholder said Lincoln is
fairly conservative in supporting
arts. People in Lincoln city govern
ment helped her secure loans for
the project, but she said there was
little financial support from the
community.
But Burkholder said she thinks
there is space for another project of
this kind. Sixty people have con
tacted her wanting space, and she
said she can sec use for many such
buildings in the area.
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