The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, June 12, 1989, Summer, Page 8, Image 8
Coffee House is alternative to bar scene 1 By Lane Van Ham Staff Reporter ________ New University of NebraskaLin coln students probably nave a long time to wait before their 21st birth day. The question is: Whatcanonedo instead of hitting the bars? One alternative is The Cottee House, 1324 “P” St. “We’re about the only place people can go for the loose term ‘hanging out’ where there’s no alco hol,” said Jim McCabe, Coffee House owner. McCabe opened the Coffee House in July of 1987 with the idea that Lincoln needed a place similar to those he’d seen in other towns. “I’d been to coffee houses a lot in San Francisco and Oregon and I al - ways thought it was rather weird that a college town like Lincoln did not have a coffee house,” he said. “It was one of those things I kept men tioning for four or five years, and finally someone said, ‘Well, if you’re going to keep complaining about it, you’ve got to do something about it.’ ” McCabe said his vision of the Coffee House was based on the Euro pean model, rather than the beatnik coffee houses of the 1950s. “The European (coffee house) is more open, a little more quiet, where the ’50s coffee houses were more funky, casual, rustic, strumming gui tar in the background kind of things, he said. “The European is more con cerned with varieties and quality of coffee and pastries.” -1 The atmosphere at the Coffe® House lends itself to many possiblB activities and attracts a wide vanetH of clientele, of whicli students aiH only one component. ‘ ‘I had the idea of a place you eafi sit around and have conversation anl small meetings with other people® drink coffee, relax, play games Rk don’t think there’s any other plat that has this, which is why we can a cross-section,” McCabe said. “wR get some business people in the carlBf morning and then students more R the afternoon and evening.” K? The Coffee House also features R constantly rotating display of an oR its walls, arranged by one c McCabe’s employees who is also a art student. ‘‘We have big walls, and a ven 1 very high ceiling in the front, andRl started thinking, 'Whatam ! going R do with these walls so they ’re not sH bland9’ It seemed like art was a log® cal outgrowth, and we rotate it ever® 6 to 8 weeks for variety,” McCatS From time to time the CoffeR House also features poetry reading® and live music, but McCabe saiR apart from an upcoming benefit fR Lincoln’s community radio statiorR KZUM, there is nothing in the work® in this regard. me ^uiiee nouse serves MgrffS lunches in addition to items such JR bagels, muffins, cookies and checs® cake. All of the items are brought i® from other places, and McCabe saitS he has had difficulty finding the qual® ity of food he’d like to have. “There really isn't much as far a® a good bakery in Lincoln,” McCab® said. “! ’ ve found private bakers 10 b® the best thing so far. I’d like to hav® high quality English pastries, whic® aren't as sweet as French, but they’r® hard to find.” Of course, there is always the® obvious -- coffee, and other drinks. ■ ‘ ‘Some people whoaren t familial® with us come in and just ask for a cup I of coffee. When they find out we* have five different kinds, they don’t* know what to get,” McCabe said. | McCabe added that there are some B compensations for those who don’t* like coffee, such as tea and Italian I Sodas. j The Coffee House isopen Monday I through Thursday from 7 a.m. to I midnight, Friday and Saturday from 7 I a.m. to 2:00 a.m. and Sunday from 11 p.m. until midnight. Diebenkom works , now at Sheldon Forty-one portraits, figure studies and still lifes by American painter Richard Diebenkom are on display in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln through July 30. The exhibition of etchings is taken from the Sheldon collection for the: American Federation of Arts and will tour 11 cities after closing at Sheldon. ‘‘Diebcnkom’s etchings provide us with unexpected insight and com-. mentary on a lesser-known aspect of the artist’s oeuvre,” said George Neubert, gallery director. Vk-: tenkorn is among a small number of j contemporary artists who enjoy an» international reputation as one of America’s most respected painters, t 4 ‘The character of his art, its mas- j terv and authenticity, is brought to full force in this first serious effort in printmaking by this American mas-1 ter,” he said. Diebenkom is noted as an abstractH painter, but he also has produced an important body of figurative and representational graphic works, Neu bert said. The woits in the Sheldon exhibition record the artist’s experi ments with figurative compositions. 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