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rage iu Planetarium upgrades theater, visual format Theater renovations and a new visual format will make this year’s “Christmas Laser Fantasy’’ dif ferent and better, according to Jack Dunn, coordinator of the Univer sity of Nebraska-Lincoln Mueller Planetarium. Seats in the theater now face the same direction, allowing for a three-section screen format to improve visual effects, Dunn said. Now in its fifth year, the laser show combines a mixture of Christmas carols and effects like laser light, slides and videos. “We create, from music, light images, both abstract and specific, that we hope interpret the music,” Dunn said. Featured artists will be Mannheim Steamroller, Ric Swanson, The Boston Pops and Liona Boyd. Show times are at 2 and 3:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and Dec. 16,17,23 and 24. Tickets, on sale in the planetarium lobby one half hour before the show, cost S3.50 for adults and $2.00 for chil dren 12 and under. 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Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince have just released their second album “And In This Comer.” The two have included a wide variety of subjects in their humorous songs. The Fresh Prince sings of his dream of beating Mike Tyson in the boxing ring in “I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson.” And he also tells how he chased down a car thief in “Who Stole My Car?” Something new, for the rap group is a duet in which it fights for the attention of a young lady. It is Jazzy Jeffs first song in front of the turn table instead of behind it Jeff isn’t quite as quick as the D J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince Prince or as articulate in his rapping style but he can carry his own in this music group. However, don’t look for Jeff and the Prince to trade places. I’ve seen Jeff dance and if the Prince had to beatmix you might end up hearing Lawrence Welk rather than a steady beat. - . New York gets taste of Lincoln band's music liy r.miij Kosenbaum Senior Reporter For nine years Charlie Burton and the Hiccups have been rocking Lincoln, and now New York is getting a taste of the band. The group has been traveling to New York about three times a year, playing clubs ranging from punk bars to “upwardly mobile, yuppie type bars,” Burton said. “We’ve started to get a little foothold there,’’ he said. Fans can expect a new release from the group in about two or three weeks titled “Green Cheese,” which will be available on cassette or compact disc only, Burton said. “Those that have heard it say it sounds more like us than the other records we’ve done.” “Green Cheese” is the band's fourth recording. oui, Burton said, it s ditticult to describe the group’s sound. “Someone recently said it was heavy metal country,” he said. “It’s a platypus of influences.” Burton said the band, made up of Phil Shoemaker on guitar, Dave Robel on drums and Dave Boye on bass, has “worked out a balance together over the years. ’ ’ “Like a baseball team, some times we get in slumps, but we do keep getting belter,” he said. “I feel as though I’m getting better at writing.” He said the group isn’t together out of a desire for a record deal with a major recording company. “That’s not the motivating fac tor, he said. “Well, maybe it is a little bit.” Lincoln fans of Charlie Burton and the Hiccups can see the group on New Year's Eve at the Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St. Ballad singer to perform l he Women s Words and Music Committee of the University Pro gram Council will sponsor a concert Sunday featuring Sue Fink. Fink is appearing in Lincoln to promote her new album, “True Life Adventure,” composed of songs that are “stories of risk and adventure,” said Gina Matkin, coordinator of the Women’s Resource Center and ad viser to the Women’s Words and Music Committee. Matkin said Fink’s music is set in a rhythm and ballad style and Fink delivers a “high-energy stage per formance." Fink works as a solo act, using pre recorded music and synthesizers in her performances. She writes and plays all the music she uses, Matkin said. "Everything you hear is some thing she s written and performed," Matkin said. Fink has appeared on the Tonight Show and has toured in Singapore as well as in the United States. She also gave voice lessons to Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Matkin said.