Tuesday. October 6, 1993 Akts®Entertainment
Alternative band becoming ‘smashing’ success.
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By Dionne Searcey \
Senior Reporter_ (
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On the alternative scene, Smash- ]
ing Pumpkins is big. And the Chica- j
Nebraskan
lays claim
to Reuben
Lincoln boasts some great origi
nals:
Dick Cavett, skinny talk show host.
Charles Starkweather, child prod
igy of mayhem, and...
The Reuben.
You know, the sandwich?
A little corned beef, a little
sauerkraut on rye bread and voila!
The Reuben.
But, not according to Reinhold
Rebenseorf.
“Ninety percent of them, they’re
not made right,” the 80-year-old chef
said.
And he should know. Rebenseorf
claims to be the creator of the sand
w ich heard ‘ round the world: the hum
ble Reuben.
“Well, let’s say I popularized it,”
said Rebenseorf, who gave his nick
name to the popular saindwich.
The correct way to make a Reuben?
According to the master, too many
people make it with peppered corned
Rebenseorf said a real Reuben is
made with “genuine brisket.”
Then of course there’s the
sauerkraut, the thousand island dress
ing and Swiss cheese on dark rye. The
dressing is “mixed in with the
sauerkraut,” Rebenseorf said.
The resulting sandwich can be eat
en straight or grilled, he said.
“Sometimes we’d put sliced chick
en in it,” he said.
The sandwich wasn’t created un
der laboratory conditions — unless
that lab might be the discriminating
palates of fellow hotel workers.
“I was a chef for the Comhusker
(Hotel) there from ’32,” Rebenseorf
“I’d make something up and feed it
to the help."
From there the sandwich spread—
no pun intended—until almost every
dive from New York to Honolulu
offers one version or another.
And what does the fatter of the
Reuben have to say about his prodi
gy?
“It’s been a pretty popular sand
wich.”
—Mar* Baldridge
;o-bascd band is about to get bigger.
The up-and-coming rock stars will
>lay Thursday night at the Peony Park
ballroom in Omaha.
Smashing Pumpkins is a band on
he verge of going mainstream. The
land’s guitar-full melodies have
aused a commotion on the music
cene nationwide. The group’s popu
arity has even merited a feature story
n the latest edition of Roiling Stone.
The band’s success stems from its
latest release, “Siamese Dream.”
The CD expresses the peaks and
valleys of human relationships. The
tracks on “Siamese Dream” shed light
on the post-grunge, baby-band boom.
Co-produceroftheCD,Butch Vig,
explains the CD this way: “I was
trying to get the sound of things, like
coughing angels, the king and queen
of the prom setting themselves on
fire, losers getting laid, high hopes
being ripped down and fizzing out.”
The riff-heayy songs Smashing
Pumpkins is known for make a seri
ous attempt at accomplishing those
sounds.
But Smashing Pumpkins’ success
story started back with its 1991 re
lease, “Gish.”
The band members — Billy
Corgan, vocals; D’Arcy, bass guitar,
Jimmy Chamberlin,drums; and James
Iha, guitar — pulled together to put
out a CD that broke through the un
derground music scene and scored the
band a spot on the Primus tour two
years ago.
On this year’s tour, local fans have
the chance to see whether Smashing
Pumpkins members can hold their
own as headliners.
Shudder to Think will open for the
show, which begins at 7:30 p.m. Tick
ets are $12.50.
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In order to get financing for his dream hotel, Doug (Michael J. Fox) agrees to entertain Andy (Gabrielle Anwar) In the
movie “For Love or Money.”
‘For Love or Money’ worth neither
“For Love or Money”
While it rates less than two reels
on the Daily Nebraskan movie
scale, “For Love or Money” hits a
9.5 on the Velveeta cheesiness
scale.
Michael J. Fox plays Doug Ire
land, the “concierge” of the
Bradbury, a very posh hotel.
Doug can get box seats for
Broadway shows and reservations
at exclusive restaurants. He can
even save a marriage or two while
he’s at it.
“I’m a genie in a suit. Just rub
me and malce a wish,” Doug says.
But while he is busy fulfilling
everyone else’sdreams, Doug real
izes he has his own. He wants to
build a luxury hotel, a project he
has envisioned “down to the mar
ble in the bathrooms.”
Unfortunately, since Doug
doesn’t have S3 million to spare, he
ends up running favors for Chris
tian Hanover (Anthony Higgins,
“Young Sherlock Holmes”), a very
demanding investor who asks Doug
to “baby-sit” his mistress for him.
The mistress turns out to be
Andy Hart (Gabrielle Anwar,
“Scent of a Woman”), a woman
Doug has been trying to get a date
with for some time. <
Gosh, what will happen? What
will Doug choose, love or money?
Will Doug and Andy end up to
dreams fulfilled?
Probably.
While Fox insists he is trying to
' break free of his childlike roles,
this is the same kind of bumbling
fenius role that he played in “The
ecret of My Success/’
Hey, why sugar coat it? The en
tire cast here is wry mediocre,
even the usually good Bob Balaban
(“Altered States’5). Balaban appears
as an Internal Revenue Service
agent set on bringing Doug down
for all of the $100 tips he has re
ceived—but has failed to disclose.
Director Barry Sonnenfcld (“The
Addams Family”) should hope this
film gets buried somewhere and
forgotten.
If you’re heading towards “For
Love or Money,” go looking for
low and saw your money.
—Gerry Beitz
Lincoln band maintains low profile despite new label
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By Gteftn Antonuccl
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Ten years on the Lincoln music scene are
starting to pay off for the band For Against.
The band began recording its first album for
its new label, Dutch East Records, yesterday. In
December the trio will play the College Music
Journal seminar in New York City as one of 400
international bands.
“We’re rolling,” drummer Paul Engelhard
said.
Vocalist and bassist Jeffrey Runnings said
the new album, which follows the release of the
CD “Aperture” on Independent Project Records
two months ago, will be a more timely repre
sentation of the band.
“This album is the one we want to make,” he
said.
Runnings said For Against’s sound has got
ten heavier, like a “big anvil on the side of my
head.”
Guitarist Steve Hindrichs, who has played
with Lincoln bands Playground and The
Gladstones, said the sound has become “dark
er ”
All three members attribute the band's evo
lution to straightforward, more collaborative
songwriting. Since they have known each other
for so long, Engelhard said they could be
comfortable with each other.
Runnings is the last of the original For
Against lineup, which played its first show in
1984 at Lincoln’s legendary club The Drum
stick.
The trio put out two critically acclaimed
albums under the Independent Project Records
label: “Echelons” in 1986 and “December” in
1988, both recorded at Black Sea Studios in
Lincoln with Randy Watson.
Watson, in addition to playing with local
band The Return and teaching English at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, still serves as
For Against’s “mentor,” Runnings said.
In 1989, drummer Greg Hill and guitarist
Harry Dingam III left and later joined The
Millions.
After a year of “drugs and depression.”
Runnings joined up with Hindrichs and
Engelhard, who had played with the bands
Holiday and A1 House of Fun.
The reformed For Against, together for four
years, has released two singles, one for Inde
pendent Project and one for New York’s Part
Trance Records. The singles caught the ear of
a New York attorney, who helped the band land
a deal with Dutch East.
But the band continues to keep a low profile
here at home, playing about once a month.
Runnings said the light schedule is the result
of a change in the band’s priorities.
“We do play a lot, practicing three nights a
week,” he said. “We just don’t play a lot in front
of people.”
Engelhard cited the plight of bands whose
fan base drops off because they play too many
shows with the same songs.
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Our Interest Is In new mate
riel and getting It on tape.
— Engelhard
drummer, For Against
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“Our interest is in new material and getting
it on tape,” he said.
As far as long-term goals, For Against is
happy to be on an independent label and living
in “relaxed, complacent” Lincoln.
“We just want to record our music, get it
heard and continue playing because we enjoy
it,” Engelhard said.
But according to Runnings, if the opportuni
ty arose to relocate, ‘Td go in a second with
these two handcuffed to me.”
For Against will perform with The Spinanes
on Oct. 20 at Duffy’s. Cover charge is $3.
See BAND PHOTO on 10
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