Thursday, July 6, 1995 Page 7
Lincoln’s downtown coffee shops
frequented, fancied by students
Dawn Brunke
Start Reporter
Since the 1960’s coffee shops have
been popular with college students.
Downtown Lincoln is home to many
of the city’s coffee shops, some of
which cater directly to students.
The Coffee House, 1324 P Street,
is the closest to UNL and one of the
more popular. They are open from
about 7 a.m. until midnight, serving
15 different flavors of coffee, spritzers,
fruit juices, hot apple cider and hot
chocolate, Italian sodas and various
espresso drinks.
Seventy-five percent of the clien
tele is college-age, said Nate Simpson,
an employee at The Coffee House.
“The atmosphere is relaxed,” he
said. “It’s a good place to study or
hang out.”
The Coffee House offers smoking
and non-smoking areas. They also
have various works of art displayed
around the shop. Simpson describes
the atmosphere of The Coffee House
as pleasant and friendly.
“Not only are the employees
friendly, the customers are too,” he
said.
Another of the more popular cof
fee shops is The Mill Located in the
Haymarket district, 800 P Street, The
Mill offers a more rustic atmosphere
than other local coffee shops.
With the open brick walls and wood
booths, the atmosphere is similar to
the Haymarket itself. The Mill is also
a great place to study or play a heated
game of chess.
The Mill offers a variety ofespresso
and cappuccino drinks, various coffee
flavors, fruit drinks and cookies. One
can also find numerous varieties of
coffee beans and unique coffee mugs
to buy.
The Mill is completely smoke free
and is generally full on weekend eve
nings. They do, however, offer out
door tables to allow for more custom
ers.
One of the newer coffee houses in
Lincoln is Le Cafe Shakes, 1418 O
street. Le Cafe Shakes was originally
created to be the stage for under-21
alternative concerts and has now de
veloped an identity of it’s own.
The store still hosts alternative
shows on weekends and some week
days, and it has grown into one of the
more popular places to hang out and
meet people for high school and col
lege students.
Small coffee shops seem to spring
up and fade out quickly throughout
the city. The newest coffee shop in the
downtown area is Bagels and Joe. The
shop is an addition to Homer’s Music
located at 1339 O street.
Whatever the reasons—to study,
hang out or meet new people—check
ing out one of the local coffee shops
may be well worth the time and money.
Tanna Kinnaman/DN
Aya Horikawa, a senior business administration major, and Taku Hirai, a junior agribusiness
major, study while enjoying the coffee and atmosphere at The Mill, 800 P st.
Apollo takes you on impossible oumey
By Gerry Beta
Features Editor
Thank goodness “Apollo 13” wasn’t brought
out by Disney. Otherwise Gary Sinise would be
singing, nobody would have nipples and Kevin
Bacon’s role would have been replaced by a
cute otter that could sing “Blue Moon.”
Even if you know how it will end, “Apollo
13” is a very riveting piece of work.
Photo courtesy of Universal
(left to right) Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon and Tom Hanks star as the crew of an ill
fated lunar mission in “Apollo 13.”
Director Ron Howard has again created a
magnificent piece of cinema to go with his other
cinematic jewels including “Backdraft,” “Par
enthood” and “Night Shift.”
This time, he takes moviegoers into space to
explore the ill-fated journey of the Apollo 13
mission.
Nowadays, all of the NASA mistakes and
delays happen while the ship is still on the
ground, but on April 13,1970, that was not the
case with the Apollo 13 mission.
Movie: “Apollo 13”
Stan: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin
Bacon, Gary Sinise
Director: Ron Howard
Rating: PG-13
Grade: A
Five Words: true account of dangerous
journey
Mission Captain Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks),
and crew members Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and
last-minute replacement Jack Swigert (Kevin
Bacon) find their lives in peril after a qua
druple-failure occurs during their flight.
“Houston, we have a problem,” a now-fa
mous understatement transmitted by Lovell.
The dangers were many: suffocation from
lack of oxygen, asphyxiation from excess car
bon dioxide, freezing from loss of power, or an
eternity of floating around space in an alumi
num can with no recycling center in sight.
However, the Apollo 13 astronauts and the
ingenious Mission Control crew (led by Gene
Kranz, played by Ed Harris), vowed to perse
vere and find a way to get everyone home safely.
Every performer involved in “Apollo 13”
comes through beautifully; it would be impos
sible to say that one rises above all the rest.
Hanks, Bacon and Paxton are great as the
astronauts. Harris is superb as flight director
Kranz, and Sinise does a great job as Ken
Mattingly, who was droppea from the mission
within days of launch due to medical orders
(which later turned out to be a false alarm).
If anyone gets a prize here, it should be
director Ron Howard. He went to painstaking
lengths to ensure realism and authenticity for
this film and refused to rely on stock footage for
one second of screen time; every frame of this
film is 100% original.
The special effects are stupendous, particu
larly the zero-gravity conditions. Usingthe KC
135—an airplane used by NASA to simulate
weightlessness—the cast and crew prepared to
shoot a film in zero-gravity.
The running time is a bit long (140 minutes),
but it is worth every second. Check it out.
