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Local fashion show helps fight AIDS
Lincoln talents
benefit charity
By Paula Lavigne
Staff Reporter
Several local businesses took a
“fashionable” approach to finding
a cure for AIDS on Sunday.
Various Lincoln businesses do
nated time and money to stage the
second local fashion snow designed
to raise money for the Pediatric
AIDS Research DivisionoftheGive
to the Earth Foundation. The show,
at The Edge, was the brainchild of
Steve and Jana Kaublc, owners of
the Pink Flamingo hair salon.
“This kind of event is used a lot
for AIDS funding,” Steve Kauble
said. “The people involved care a
lot. The money we raise goes di
rectly to the foundation.”
Kauble said he and his wife
created the event for many reasons.
“My wife and I like this kind of
thing. We believe in the cause, and
we’re very proud to be doing it,” he
saiu.
“We also hope il promoted ev
erybody involved."
Kauble said the local business
support was the driving force be
hind the event.
Establishments such as The
Edge, other hair salons, clothing
designers and make-up artists do-.
nated their efforts to tne show, he
said.
The donations allowed the total
amount of money raised through
ticket sales to be given directly to
the foundation, Kauble said.
Admission was $5. Ticket buy
ers also received a coupon booklet
for local businesses.
“All the money spent on the
show was eaten by local business
es,” he said. “Everybody is doing
everything for free. This is the only
way we could afford to do this and
make it worthwhile."
The clothing featured in the show
was designed by Jen Senslcr, a
local designer and wife of Rob
Scnsler, the owner of The Edge.
Kauble said the women who
participated in the fashion show
were chosen through a model call.
They all volunteered their talents
and time for the event.
Kauble said he hoped Scnsler
Jay Caktoron/DN
Model Jane Carpenter, left, and model Karen O'Hara model clothing in an AIDS benefit Sunday
at The Edge. The benefit was sponsored by The Pink Flamingo. Fashions were designed by
Jen Fensler.
and theothcrparticipantsbenefitted
from the show’s publicity. Their
participation, and increased adver
tising efforts, brought in more peo
ple than last year’s show.
“The first year, it wasn’t as
good.” he said. “We made $400
last year. Wc planned to double it
this year.”
About 150 people attended last
night’s show, Kaublc said. The
benefit raised $755.
Kauble said the audience was
surprised by the show itself.
“I don’t think it was what they
expected,” he said. “It wasn’t your
typical ‘walk down the runway’
fash ion show. There was music and
lights, and the girls danced and
interacted with each other.”
Kaublc said choreographer
Thom Stansberry was to be com
mended for his work with the event.
“It was more than just fashion,"
he said. “It was a show.”
and the othcrparticipants bene fitted
from the show’s publicity. Their
participation, and increased adver
tising efforts, brought in more peo
ple than last year’s show.
“The first year, it wasn’t as
good.” he said. “We made S400
last year. Wc planned to double it
Ibis year.”
About 150 people attended last
night’s show, Kaublc said. The
benefit raised $755.
Kauble said the audience was
surprised by the show itself.
“I don’t think it was what they
expected,” he said. “It wasn’t your
typical ‘walk down the runway’
fash ion show. There was music and
lights, and the girls danced and
interacted with each other.”
Kaublc said choreographer
Thom Stansberry was to be com
mended for his work with the event.
“It was more than just fashion,"
he said. “It was a show.”
Lied‘friends’
help center,
official says
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By Paula Lavigne
Staff Reporter
It has been said that good friends
cannot be bought, but “Friends of the
Lied” might argue that point.
“Friendsof tne Lied” is a monetary
donation program that funds perfor
mances and other functions of the
Lied Center for Performing Arts.
People who donate become a
“friend” of the Lied center. The depth
of that friendship depends on the
amount the person donates. A “Good
Friend” contributes from $35 to $49,
while a “Best Friend” gives $ 1,000 or
more. In between are “Close, Great,
Special and Fabulous friends.” These
friends, in return, receive benefits
corresponding with the amount of the
donation.
Gail McNair, outreach coordina
tor for the Lied Center, described the
program’s benefits.
“Basically, everyone who is a
‘Friend of the Lied’ receives a sub
scription to our quarterly newsletter,
the :Lieder’ which gives background
information on the theater,” McNair
said. “They receive invitations to so
cial events and information on fund
raisers too.”
Additional benefits, given to big
contributors, include invitations to
mcmbers-only events, a copy of the
“Friends of the Lied Cookbook” and
dinner and two complimentary tick
ets to a designated Lied performance.
McNair said the program has re
ceived donations ranging from $ 10 to
well over $1,000. She said the major
ity of the contributors were “Great
Friends,” those who donate SI00 to
S249.
Funding for the LiedCentercomcs
from private donations, not from state
funds, McNair said. That makes the
“Friends of Lied” program so vital,
she said.
“In the past three years, since the
program was started, we’ve received
close to$300,000,” McNairsaid. “It’s
central to the upkeep of the perfor
mances.”
Along with the donations. “Friends
of the Lied” members also can con
tribute their time to various volunteer
efforts. Positions are offered in mem
See LIED on 10
TV’s biggest brat unmasked
in cheap, amusing paperback
“The *1 Hate Breads* Book: Shannen
Doherty Exposed!”
Michael Carr it Darby
Pinnacle Humor Books
For all those “Beverly Hills 90210” fans out
there who love to hate Brenda Walsh, “The ‘I
Hate Brenda’ Book: Shannen Doherty Exposed”
has hit the cheap paperback stands.
Written by Michael Carr and Darby — the
editors of the official “I Hate Brenda” newslet
ter — the book is just like all those trashy,
flimsy paperbacks “exposing** other celebri
ties.
Except this one is funny.
Doherty has made a name for herself as the
new bad girl of Tinseltown. This book is little
more than a tabloidcsque retelling of the events
that made Doherty so infamous. In fact, some of
the sources in the book are tabloids.
Doherty’s previously published interviews
and public appearances provide the bulk of the
material, as do tabloid accounts of her violent
tantrums and drunken escapades.
The quotes from Doherty’s various public
appearances and interviews in “People” and
“Seventeen,” among others, plainly make her
out to be a less-than-gracious star. And this
book makes no bones about it.
Comments from Doherty’s co-stars are in
cluded as well, making it plain that Doherty
isn’t winning any popularity contests on the set
cither.
Carr and Darby write like teen magazines or
tabloids, using too many cliches and plays on
words. “Shando” as they call Doherty, is de
serving of nothing less.
“The ‘I Hate Brenda’ Book” is a cheesy
piece of pulp biography, an unauthorized mess
at best. It’s not particularly eloquent or enlight
ening — but it’s funny and catty and makes
mincemeat out ofboth Doherty and her “90210”
character.
It’s also a simple hour-read.
That is, if there is absolutely nothing better
to do then spend an hour reading about TV’s
biggest brat.
— Anne Steyer
David Baddars/DN