Multicultural show strives to build bridges
By Bryan Peterson
Staff Reporter
“Building Bridges and Strength
ening Alliances,” a multi-cultural
performance of music and poetry, will
be presented Thursday night in the
main lounge of the Nebraska Union.
The performance will feature two
musicians and two poets from the San
Francisco Bay area, all dealing with
themes of “unlearning” oppression.
The four performers are part of a
San Francisco-area group called New
Bridges which presents workshops in
several cities, covering issues like
racism, sexism, heterosexism and anti
Semitism.
The four will join three other people
to act as facilitators at this weekend’s
Diversity Retreat, the third such re
treat at UNL.
The retreat is full and will be at
tended by 70-75 people, according to
Peg Johnson, executive assistant to
the vice-chancellor for student af
fairs.
Gina Matkin, coordinator of the
Womens’ Resource Center, helped
set up the performance after being
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contacted by Lakota Harden, who will
be reading poetry at the performance.
The Womens’ Resource Center
joined Lincoln Women Against Ra
cism to sponsor the performance.
Malkin hopes at least 100 people
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will view the concert and “hear their
message. They are doing things im
portant to them, talking about how we
should all be working together.”
Harden said the group is present
ing the concert because they are al
ready at UNL doing the retreat.
“We’ll be looking at issues like
racism and sexism,” she said. “It’s
hard work emotionally, so we also try
to do light work, laugh and sing to
gether.”
‘ ‘This is a way to reach more people
than those who will go to the retreat,”
Matkin said. “It is an attempt to talk
about building bridges between dif
ferent communities.”
The performers use various terms
to describe their backgrounds, such
as hyphenated, multi-heritage and
multi-cultural. These differences are
brought into their performances and
into their personal lives.
‘‘We take this work into our eve
ryday lives,” said Harden. ‘‘We try
to model these things, working to
gether and overcoming differences.”
The performance will feature Donna
Keiko Ozawa, a 26-year-old Japa
nese-American who has practiced and
played guitar in the Bay area for 15
years.
Ozawa sings about her life and
heritage. One of her songs, ‘‘Train
Ride For America,” describes the
journey her grandparents took when
they were forced into internment camps
during World War II, Harden said.
‘‘She begins the song by holding
the original poster which told her
grandparents they had 24 hours to
pack,” she said.
Like Ozawa, fellow musician Gil
Guillermo performs all original mu
sic. Guillermo, of Chicano-Filipino
descent, is a teacher in Chinatown
who will perform songs about the
homeless and the possibility of re
turning to one’s heritage.
Brenda Marie Blasingamc is an
African-American Jewish convert who
will read her own poetry, which Harden
describes as ‘ ‘a more intimate look at
the relations between people.
The other poet, Lakota Harden, is
from the Minnecoujou/ Yankton
Lakota and Winnebago tribes. Harden
attended UNL while living in Lincoln
and graduated in May from UC
Berkeley.
“That is part of why 1 wanted to
bring this back, to show UNL stu
dents what the rest of the world is
like,” she said.
“My poetry is about looking, trying
to show people what I see and notice
as an original inhabitant of this conti
nent,’’ Harden said.
The performance is free and be
gins at 8 p.m.
Despite memorable moments,
‘Hardware’ is too predictable
By William Rudolph
Staff Reporter
It’s the 21st Century. Nuclear holo
caust has reduced the world to a war
tom nightmare. Countries seem in
tent on killing each other with more
and more sophisticated machines. Iggy
Pop is the voice of doomsday blaring
the bad news over radios everywhere
as DJ Angry Bob.
Sound like “Blade Runner,”
“Aliens,” or “Mad Max?” True,
“Hardware” may have a lot in com
mon with these popular films, but
writer/director Richard Stanley man
ages to add new touches to this famil
iar scenario in this low-key thriller.
As “Hardware” opens, we meet
Moses (Dylan McDcrmou), cx-Ma
rine Corps member and drifter who
scratches out a living selling scrap
technology on the black market with
his friend. Shades (John Lynch).
It’s Christmas Eve, and Moses is
bringing home a present for his girl
friend Jill (Stacey Travis), an artist
who lives alone, barricaded in a secu
rity apartment. Since Jill likes to work
with metal, Moses is surprising her by
bringing her the bits and pieces of the
M.A.R.K. 13, a defunct robot he’s
found abandoned out in the Zone, a
post-nuclear desert wasteland.
Delighted with her new present,
Jill incorporates the robot’s parts into
a collage to represent the babies she’ 11
never make, because the government
is planning on enforcing sterilisation
of all couples. Then she and Moses do
the dirty deed accompanied by a throb
bing soundtrack from Public Image,
Limited.
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though they play the Top 40 game.
Guitarist Re Beach, who attended the
Only alt is not well with Jill. Not
only does she have her problems in
her relationship with Moses to con
sider, she also worries about the sLate
of the world today. And she’s got a
creepy Peeping Tom neighbor, the
disgustingly obese and sweaty Lin
coln Weinberg, Jr. (William Hootkins),
spying on her through a telescope and
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whispering obscene suggestions over
the videophone.
Little docs Jill know that watching
the couple’s shenanigans will acti
vate the M.A.R.K. 13, and that once
awakened, the robot will rebuild
himself and decide to kill everything
that he can get his metallic hands
upon.
And little docs anyone know that
the M.A.R.K. 13 has been programmed
to be a virtually indestructible killing
machine that ruthlessly will go after
its prey.
In fact, its name comes from the
Mark 13 in the Bible: “...and no flesh
shall be spared.” That about sums up
the robot’s mission.
After this, “Hardware’s” plot
becomes very reminiscent of “Ali
ens,” with the lone woman trapped in
a complex, stalked by a creature with
all sorts of lovely ways to injure her.
But “Hardware” isn’t really a
clone. Writer/dircctor Richard Stanley
has worked at developing his charac
ters. We actually learn about Jill’s
relationship with Moses - they argue
about her art and her fears for the
future. And Tom Lincoln Weinberg
Berklee College of Music, became a
hotshot studio wizard, lending his licks
to the Bee Gees, Fiona, Howard Jones
and Chaka Khan. Paul Taylor plays
guitar, keyboards and sings for Win
ger. And last but not least, Rod Mor
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Jr., the Peeping Tom, adds a pathetic
note as he remembers the first time he
saw Jill when he installed the security
system in her apartment: she made
him a cup of coffee, doesn’t she
remember?
Without spoiling anything, it’s safe
to say that “Hardware” r. ay end as
one might expect -- but there arc still
a few twists on the damsel-in-distress
situation. Everything docs not end
rosily, with the happy couple riding
off into that blood red nuclear sunset.
The special effects arc impressive
in a mailcr-of-fact way. The audience
is treated to viewing particularly in
genious ways of being murdered by
robots.
And watching the robot reassemble
itself from the bits and pieces of Jill’s
metallic sculpture actually seems
obscene.
“Hardware” is not a great film.
Even with good performances by its
unknown cast, atmospheric sets, an
excellent, driving soundtrack and one
of the best love scenes in a shower in
recent memory, the film still has a
few too many stock elements of the
sci-fi, post-nuclear human vs. tech
nology genre to make it entirely
memorable.
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have a distinctive charm. Movie
goers who only expect the routine
number of naked babes, gore, spills
and chills might be disappointed by
the intelligent script and credible
performances. But they can rent
“Aliens” instead. The restofusmay,
in fact, be pleasantly surprised.
“Hardware” is showing at the State
Theatre, 1415 0 St.
genstein drummed for Dixie Dregs
for years, and was named “Best Pro
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Drummer for four years running.
Vixen is an all-female metal band
that has supported acts like the Scor
pions, O/./y Osbourne and Bad
Company.
Their latest album is “Rev ItUp,”
the follow-up to their self-titled de
but. The first single off the album is
titled “How' Much Love?”, a power
ful rock tunc with that good old radio
attraction. On “Rev It Up,” the band
attempts to spit out a tough, no-non
sense attitude, competing with tough
guys like Winger in the world of
metal. Critics have spewed mixed
responses to the release.
Tickets for tonight’s show arc S20.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Show starts
at 7 p.m.
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