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M-STREET DRIVE H "Nebraska's Largest Package Liquor Store" Southern Comfort $6M 750 ml I Ill X H NOVEMBER 12 PEONY PARK BALLROOM Tickets available at all »CHARGE-BY-PHONE: JAM 402-422-1212 omaha * 402-475-1212 uncolnJ Complete Line of Sportswear & Accessories • Custom Lettering • Racquet Restringing Campus Recreation Center Monday - Saturday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm 2nd Annual Anniversary r Sale November 4 - 8,1991 Brad Simmons/DN Disc jockey Deb Andersen programs half of “The Wimmin’s Show,” which airs Sundays from noon to 3 p.m. on KZUM. KZUM Continued from Page 6 Show," enters the record room and picks out a CD. At noon, she goes on the air, starting with a comment about the snow. Off the air, Mirenda explained that “The Wimftiin’s Show” is KZUM’s longest-running program hosted by and exclusively featur ing the music of women. More than 10 years old, the pro gram once was the only show of its kind on KZUM. After undergoing many format changes, other KZUM radio shows now play women’s music. Mirenda said “The Wimmin’s Show” plays women’s music, re ports women’s news in Lincoln and announces happenings in Lin coln’s gay/lesbian community. “Women’s music came out of a radical lesbian movement in re sponse to current music by females, which was mostly about ‘boys,’” she said. “Disgruntled women banded together to form several recording companies that turned out just women’s music. . “Thatmusicneverbecamemain stream. You only knew about it if you were a radical feminist or a lesbian." The women’s music industry hit its peak in the early 1980s and began to decline in the middle of the decade because of an upsur gencc of women in the mainstream recording industry. -->. I The best camouflage is the truth. Because nobody ever believes it. // [> *A morality without a moral,* said Swiss playwright Frisch of his masterwcrk, a lj Brechtlan-style parable set in Germany in the mid-1950s. His ironic comedy deals with two arsonists who effortlessly work their way into the perfect house to plot their obvious & wicked schemes Studio Theatre. 3rd Floor Temple Building - 8:00 PM Nov. 14, 15, 16 & 19, 20, 21. 22, 23 A WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT- Season Unlvcrrity Theatre Arts Box Office: 215 Temple Bldg. 12th & R Sts.. Lincoln. NE 6858140201 (402) 472-2073 ^ UNTVEHSm' OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN j But, Mirenda said, the pioneers of women’s music "really paved the way” for the mainstream women musicians who followed. Mirenda defined women’s mu sic as music by women that speaks to the issues in women’s lives. “You can now find that just as easily in the mainstream recording industry," she said. Deb Andersen programs the second half of “The Wimmin’s Show.” Anderson joined the pro gram in 1984 and concentrates on shows with themes such as domes tic violence. "Women’s music personifies women’s lives and gives voice to all women regardless of sexual orientation, race or class," she said “It’s for all women.” tsooKstore to enhance viewpoints By Lynn Kister Staff Reporter Wally Martin opened Arbor Moon Alternative Bookstore “because it’s close to my heart to empower women and people from alterna tive viewpoints." That is what her bookstore pro poses to enhance, she said. Before officially opening the bookstore in March in The Gather ing Place, 1448 E St., Marlin met with women in the community to talk about what they wanted and needed. After several meetings, she met with some women who had run a bookstore cooperatively in Lincoln. :»i<u hii ucliucu against Marling out as a cooperative and opened Arbor Moon on her own. She said she wanted “to do some thing outside the system, have a so cial system that makes people re See ARBOR MOON on 10
