Arts ©Entertainment
Tuesday, August 30, 1994
Page 9
Scott Bruhn/DN
Customers eat Monday at Jabrisco’s, the new restaurant in the Haymarket. It is located
at 700 P St.
Jabrisco’s serves dishes
with American influences
By Joel Strauch
Senior Reporter
Lincoln’s Haymarkct has a new
eating cstabl ishment that’s serving
up a variety of dishes influenced by
restaurants around the country.
Scott Boles, a co-owner of the
new restaurant Jabrisco’s, said, “If
we say that we’re a pizza and pasta
place, people think Italian. But we
serve dishes that we have seen pre
pared differently around Ameri
ca.”
The other co-owners of
Jabrisco’s (JAy-BRIan-SCOtt) in
clude Jay Jarvis, Brian Boles —
Scott’s brother — and investing
partner Dr. Rodney Baslcr.
“Brian takes care of all the busi
ness plans and financing and Jay
takes care of recipe developments
and designed and runs the kitch
en,” Scott said.
“I pretty much just bus tables,”
he said, laughing. “No, I do cus
tomer service and public relations.”
Jabrisco’s is located next door to
Lazio’s, the other restaurant that
the trio owns.
“We had thought that sales at
Lazio’s would slip a bit after we
opened Jabrisco’s,” he said. “But
that hasn’lbecn the case, and we’ve
been pleased.
“We knew that since we were
opening up next door, we had to be
different in as many ways as possi
ble.”
To get diversity and different
styles for their new restaurant, the
owners did a little research.
“When we heard that the space
was available, we tried to decide
what to put in there,” Scott said.
“We started traveling to see what
was popular in larger markets
Jabrisco’s has taken influences
from as far away as Atlanta, Las
Vegas and Chicago and used them
to create its own unique style of
restaurant.
“We developed all our dishes
ourselves,” he said. “But a lot of the
themes and concepts arc the things
that we liked best about difTcrcnt
places.”
But the owners knew that strat
egies that worked in a large metrop
olis might not necessarily do the
trick in Lincoln.
“We had to tailor it as much as
possible to the Lincoln market,” he
said. “You can’t just take some
thing from somewhere else, plop it
down in Lincoln and expect it to
work.”
Jabrisco’s has sim ilar patrons as
its neighboring restaurant, Lazio’s.
“I ’ vc seen all walksoflifc repre
sented in our clientele,” Scott said.
“Like Lazio’s, we strive to keep
service and presentation down-to
earth. We have no pretensions about
being formal. We want to be very
casual.”
Jabrisco’s has been open since
Aug. 3 and has been quite success
ful.
“We’ve been doing really well,”
Scott said. “Sales arc definitely ex
ceeding our projections.”
Besides its diverse array ofdish
cs, Jabrisco’s has other aspects that
make it an enticing place to dine.
Jarvis, who is in charge of the
Quik Facts
Restaurant: Jabrisco’s
Opened: Aug. 3
At: 700 P St.
Hours: 11:00a.m. to 10:30a.m.,
seven days a week
Trademark: Focaccia bread
Comment: Not your garden
variety pizza and pasta
kitchen, said, “We’ve got a wood
fired pizza oven and all our food is
made fresh daily. We also serve
focaccia bread with every meal.”
The server brings the bread to
the customer’s table and mixes red
pepper and olive oil for a dipping
sauce.
“We saw some restaurants do
ing it and thought it was a cool
idea,” Scott said.
The bread isagreat horsd’oeuvie
for the pizza or pasta. The Mid
night Special, a pepperoni pizza
with mushrooms and cream cheese,
was a thin-crusted, chunky-toppcd
dish that makes a great meal for
two.
Jabrisco’s also has a take-out
menu and lunch spec ialsduring the
week.
“We have pasta dishes that arc a
lunch-sized portion at a reduced
price,” Scott said.
Jabrisco’s is located at 700 P St.
in the Haymarket.
Widows’ Peak gives
audiences a break
from mindless movies
By Jim Cihlar
Staff Reporter
“Widows’ Peak,” the film cur
rently showingat the Mary Ricpma
Ross Film Theater, is a stylish,
light-hearted, uplifting movie.
Entertaining throughout, the
movie also offers some insight.
Discussing the end of her relation
ship in “Widows’ Peak,” Mia Far
row’s character, MissO’Hare, says
something to the effect of: The
end came about not really because
of anythi ng he d id or said, but from
her having too high expectations
of him. Nope, can’t relate to that at
all.
The movie takes place in a
small town in Ireland in the 1920s.
A clan of matriarchs, all wealthy
widows, rule the town. The sensi
tive balance of power is disrupted
by the arrival of a mysterious,
beautiful newcomer played by
Natasha Richardson. She strikes
up an unexplained rivalry with
Farrow’s character, which is me
diated by the rul ing matron, played
by Joan Plowright.
Widows’ Peak is the best mov
ie showing in town. A comedy and
a mystery, it is cute, funny and
charming — the kind of movie
that makes you leave the theatre
feeling great.
This is the first “period” movie
I have seen that actually made me
believe I was watching a different
era.
Farrow turns in a definitive
performance as a bitter frump; it is
her best role to date. Her final,
1 ingcring close-up, showcasing her
r
oddly translucent skin, her deter
mined stare and her agelessncss, is
a personal vindication for Farrow,
following the scandal that accom
panied the end of her relationship
with Woody Allen,
Richardson is serenely gor
geous Edwina Broome, the new
comer to Widows’ Peak, She
brings humor and style to her per
formance.
Joan Plowright, the widow of
Laurence Olivier, gives a power
ful, eye-opening performance as
the commanding and yet cuddly
matron with nervesofsteel, whose
world is set on end. She looks like
the grandmother from Hell.
What more is there to say? Go
sec this movie. In the dog days of
summer, when movie audiences
arc bombarded by such mindless
Hollywood leftovers as “The Col
or of Night,” “Widows’ Peak” is
refreshingly enjoyable.
The movie runs Thursday
through Sunday.
Quik Facts
Movie: “Widows’ Peak”
Rating: PG
Stars: Mia Farrow, Joan
Plowright, Natasha
Richardson
Director: John Irvin
Grade: B+
Five Words: humor, mystery in
ensemble Film.
Courtesy of Fmeline Features
Natasha Richardson, left, and Mia Farrow star in
“Widows’ Peak,” now playing at the Mary Riepma
Ross Film Theater.
Bike-a-thon to raise awareness of symphony music
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
Johann Sebastian Bach never
went rolling down the Alps on a
Diamond Back dirt bike in biker
shorts and a helmet, but the Lin
coln Orchestra Association pairs
the two together in Bike for Bach.
LOA’s promotional bike-a
thon will feature a leisurely ride
along Lincoln’s scenic routes and,
ifluck prevails, a prize at the end.
Amy Deng, one of the bike-a
thon’s coordinators, said the pur
pose of Bike for Bach was to “have
a fun afternoon and to get people
interested in the symphony.”
Deng said Bike for Bach was
not a race. Participants have a
choice of three routes varying in
length of three to 15 miles. All
routes begin and end at Antelope
Park, cast of Folsom Children’s
Zoo.
“We’re targeting everybody,
anybody that likes to bike,” she
said. “It’s to go have fun, enjoy the
park and cat ice cream.”
The association’s volunteer
group chose a bike-a-thon as a
promotional event because it
seemed to appeal to a w idc variety
of people.
“When you drive down any
street or walk on any bike path,
there arc so many/bikcs,” Deng
said. “There are so'many students
who like to bike, but there aren’t
real ly many bi ki ng events for peo
ple in Lincoln.”
Bike for Bach is co-sponsored
by Bike Pedalcrs and the Walton
Trail Co. The two businesses have
donated prizes that will be given
away at the end of the event.
These prizes include bicycle
helmets, lights, pumps, locks, a
Diamond Back bike and a Sym
phony 5000 membership. The first
500 participants who arc over 14
years old will receive a free T
shirt.
While having fun, Deng said,
she hoped people would consider
attending Lincoln Symphony Or
chestra performances. Symphony
5000 allows an individual, for$95,
to become a symphony patron and
receive two tickets each to two
concerts. Student tickets are half
price.
“(The symphony) might give
students another option to think
about rather than ordering a pizza
or watching a video,” she said.
Both Bike for Bach and LSO’s
first concert are on Sept. 10.
“There arc no footballs games,
no holidays and nothing else go
ing on, so i t should be a free day for
most people,” Deng said.
Bike for Bach begins at 3 p.m.
at Antelope Park Area 4. The routes
follow Normal Blvd. down to
Highway 2 bike paths.
Registration is $10 for adults
and $5 for students and senior
citizens. Children under 14 and
current members of Symphony
5000 can participate for free.
Register at Russ’s IGA, Bike
Pcdalcrs or Walton Trail Co., or
by calling LOA. Registration con
tinues up to the day of the event.