Arts & Entertainment
No food jokes for the East Union cafeteria
Editor’s Note: The Daily Ne
braskan Arts and Entertainment
staff has designated this week Un
ion Dining Week. We will take you
on a mouth-watering voyage
through the various eating estab
lishments in the Nebraska and East
unions.
By Jim Hanna
Staff Reporter _
Somewhere in the joke file of
every elementary school student,
there lives at least one good yuk
generating crack about school food.
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It’s usually something keen and
perceptive like, “What’s green and
lumpy and gross and makes you
throw up?’’ Answer: school food.
The East Campus Union cafeteria,
however, long has been regarded as
an exception to the traditional image
of school food. The cafeteria, which
serves residents of the Burr-Fedde
residence halls, provides a huge vari
ety of high-quality foods at excep
tionally reasonable rates.
A recent visit to the union cafete
ria demonstrated the high level of
satisfaction a discriminating cheap
skate can find there.
The food service is divided into
several areas, each serving a certain
type of food.
Initially, the diner is greeted with
the “Hot Foods” area. The day this
reporter dined, the menu included
chicken lasagna, hot roast beef sand
wiches, and liver and onions as the
main entrees. A person could aug
ment one of these entrees with a vari
ety of vegetables and gravies.
Meal is always a risky option in a
school-related cafeteria, but a sam
pling of the hot roast beef sandwich
was excellent and cheap, only $1.90.
Mary Pat Finn, a junior who said
she eats at the union daily, feels very
confident about the food served, even
the meat.
“I’m not real worried about the
meal,” she said.
The cafeteria also offers a grill
serving burgers, fries, chicken sand
wiches, and other grilled delights
which several union patrons spoke of
highly.
Finn and two other UNL students,
Kandis Thompson and Kristen
Moore, spoke highly of a man they
only know as Bob, who takes special
care when working behind the grill.
For breakfast, Bob once made a
teddy bear pancake that was very
cutej Finn said.
In addition, one can find an
enormous variety of desserts, salads
and beverages. A new item that is
very popular is the Mexican line,
which serves several types of Mexi
can treats like tacos and nachos.
Lorraine Ridgeway, a salad
prephrer for the cafeteria, said that
the Mexican food “goes over real
well.”
Director of Food Services for the
Nebraska Union Dick Williams said
some of the things that go into mak
ing the union such a good place to eat
are the pride that the staff takes in its
work and the non-profit nature of the
cafeteria.
“We just look to break even. A
private restaurant is out to make as
many bucks as they can,” he said.
Before assuming the East Union is
a garden paradise of gastronomic
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The East Union cafeteria
delights, let it be known that some too many onions."
meals don’t go over real well. Overall, however, the union is an
"The Cornish hen was more than I excellent source of inexpensive
could deal with," Moore said. meals that warrants a visit by every
"The only thing I couldn’t eat was miserly food connoisseur on campus,
the chili," Thompson said. "It had Save the jokes for ValiDine.
The Pixies to stop m Lincoln tonight
By Mark Lage
Staff Reporter
The Pixies, one of the fastest rising
and one of the best alternative acts of
this decade, will be roaring into Lin
coln tonight for a performance in the
State Fair Park’s Agricultural Hall.
This is really a special treat for
Lincoln music fans. Since the closing
of the Drumstick, a Lincoln nightclub
which closed in August 1987, it has
become common not to expect bands
of this middling commercial status to
make a stop in Lincoln. The Flaming
Lips is one exception to this rule.
The Pixies, a Boston band, have
been together only for about four
conm^I
years now, and is enjoying a solid,
barely-underground success with its
third album, “Doolittle.” The
lineup: Black Francis, guitar and
vocals; Joey Santiago, guitar; Kim
Deal, bass; and David Lovering,
drums.
The Pixies’ breakthrough in this
country came with 1988’s "Surfer
Rosa,” featuring the casual, affect
ing grind of “Gigantic” and the
straight-ahead, loony grit of “Bone
Machine.” *
“SurferRosa” also sees the Pixies
generate the kind of total abandon
that seemed unthinkable before
them. On “Oh My Golly” and
“Broken Face,” the band races al
most immediately to the point of
skidding out of control and somehow
holds it there for a while, never for
getting to hook.
For Pixies fans in England,
“Surfer Rosa” was merely the fol
low-up to “Come On Pilgrim,” an
eight-song record which band mem
bers claim actually was intended as a
demo. Whether that is true or not, it
was good enough to secure them a
following in that country. Among
other things “Pilgrim” admits to is
| singer Black Francis’ obvious sex
and-violence lyrical debt to Lou
Reed.
Photo courtesy Andrew Catlln
Pixies
The first two records are outshone
by the band’s latest release,
“Doolittle.” The rough edges are
smoothed out here, without stifling
any of the band’s energy, power or
variety. The grunge of “Wave of
Mutilation” or r‘Gouge Away”
Lakes majestic, other-worldly quali
ties, or is more tightly arranged into
“Dead,” or “Number 13 Baby.”
The Pixies have developed new
ranges of subtlety on the album. The
band's acoustic guitar recording al
ways has been among the best sound
ing, but on “Doolittle” it is com
bined into wonderful layers on songs
like “Here Comes Your Man,” and
“La La Love You.”
It is always difficult to tell how a
band’s recorded sound will translate
to the stage, but the Pixies must be as
good as any. Except for occasional
extra guitars on “Doolittle,” the
sounds on its records were all made
by the instruments that they will
bring on stage #with them. There
won't be anything missing.
They should be road-tested by
now. They have been circling the
country for the last few months. Ear
lier this fall they were as close as
Kansas City, Mo., opening alter
nately for the Cure and Love and
Rockets.
Magazine reviews lead one to
expect loud, brash and faithful rendi
tions of the band’s recorded songs,
interrupted occasionally, if at all, by
covers. And they arc the headline act
here, so one need not waste $20 on
something as bad as Love and Rock
ets just to sec them.
Instead, the audience will be see
ing the Zulus open up for the Pixies.
The Zulus arc a New York-based,
metal lie-alternative band which af
ter years of hard luck, may be poised
enough to sell records at the national
level.
Tickets for the show arc $10 $8
with a student ID and $12 at the door, j
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Documentary shows
evolution of comics
By John Payne
Staff Reporter
“Comic Book Confiden
tial,” the latest documentary
from veteran fiimmaker Ron
Mann, takes a nostalgic trip
through a 55-year-old medium
that only recently has come to be
recognized as a valid art form.
Profiling 22 of the most sig
nificant artists working in com
ics today, the fi lm exam ines how
comics have changed over the
years — with regard to both style
and content.
Cartoonists such as William
M. Gains, co-creator of “Mad
Magazine,” are interviewed.
Gaines recalls the 1954
Kcfauver Senate Hearing on
Juvenile Delinquency in which
his EC horror comics eventually
led to the censoring and banning
of most comics of the gore
genre. File footage of comic
book burnings ana subcommit
tee testimony arc interspersed
effectively with recent inter
views of the artists involved.
Mann already has established
himself as an intelligent
filmmaker and interviewer with
previous efforts like “Poetry in
Motion”, and “Imagine the
Sound,” two documentaries
devoted to different means of
artistic expression - poetry and
new-age jazz. .
“Comic Book Confidential”
continues on this theme, and
won the 1989 Genie Award
(Canada’s Oscar) for best docu
mentary.
“Comic Book Confidential”
is showing tonight through Sun
day, with screening times at 7
and 9 p.m. tonight, Saturday and
Sunday, and matinees Saturday
at 1 and 3 p.m. and Sunday at 3
and 5 p.m.