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Courtesy of Trauma Records Bush rocks Omaha Sunday By Jeff Randall Senior Reporter If you thought angst and noise were a thing of the past for today’s bands, you haven’t heard Bush. But if you have, • • ? Sunday night’s l 'v • . concert featuring r|T n n fP r t toe London-based ft *11 quartet could be Preview just the ticket. I nusnwmoeper | forming at the 1 Omaha Civic Au I ditorium Music I Hall Sunday night at o. fellow mod em rock bands Hum and the Toadies will open. Since its inception two years ago, Bush has steadily gained a following both in its native England and the United States. Their popularity ex ploded earlier this year with the re lease of the band’s biggest single to date, “Everything Zen.” That single comes from “Sixteen Stone,” Bush’s debut full-length album. In July, Bush released a CD super single with “Little Things” and two other unreleased tracks. The CD also contains a CD-ROM portion divided into six different sections. With audio samples of 11 tracks from “Sixteen Stone,” the CD also has and band members’ explanations of each song’s background. Videos for “Everything Zen” and “Little Things,” live pei%t mances, interviews, a memory game, and candid backstage footage arej^fe included. The CD also preview!" Bush’s site on the World Wide Web. Bush’s sound has been compared to the stripped-down American ga rage band tradition and the layered, distortion-filled rock that was popu larized by bands such as Nirvana, Mudhoney and Soundgarden a few years ago. The band’s lineup includes Robin Goodridge (drums), Dave Parsons (bass), Nigel Pulsford (guitar) and Gavin Rossdale (vocals/guitar). Tickets for Sunday’s concert are $15.50 and are available through Ticketmaster. Dedicated DJ returns to KEZG to do ‘Star After Hours’ Ru fiorru Rolf? Senior Reporter Love is in the air. - Thursday night marked the pre miere of “Star After Hours” on KEZG FM (107.3), a radio show featuring romantic songs and dedications for anyone who can use a phone. Christine Lee, program director for KEZG, said the creation of “Star After Hours” was in response to the need for an adult-oriented music dedi cation program. “We wanted to offer an alternative to what other stations are offering,” she said, “but something which isn’t geared toward the teen-age audience.” This new program is also being implemented to help slow things down as the sun sets on another day. “We have been playing regular programming at night,” Lee said, “but after 9 p jn., we thought we could slow things down a bit.” The idea for a late-night show fea turing romantic music had been bounc ing around for some time, but only I recently did pl^ns begin to solidify, I Lee said. I “We ’ ve been thinking about doing this for a couple of months, and last month we decided ‘Let’s do it.’” One of the first steps toward bring- | ing the show to life was finding some- ^ one who could make the show a sue- * cess. That someone was Jennifer Page, I who came back to KEZG in April. Page said she had a good feeling about the show, and wasn’t at all nervous. “I’m very excited, and I think we ’re ready for it,” she said. “I think good things will come out of it.” Other radio stations also feature similar programs, and Lee said some of the inspiration for “Star After Hours” was drawn from those. “These^are great shows,” Lee said, “but we wouldn ’t want to copycat. We either keep up with the pack or get left See RADIQ-on 9 Travis Heying/DN Jennifer Page, an on-air personality for KEZG-FM (107.3), plays love songs and dedications on the new “Star After Hours.” .. —— Courtesy of Gramercy Pictures Chazz Palminteri stars as U.S. customs agent David Kujan in MThe Usual Suspects.” Movie plot far cry from ‘usual’ Flashbackfilm creates suspenseful situations for five men of crime And now, the award for slowest starting movie of the year goes to ... “The Usual Suspects!” The only thing that holds this film back from a higher rating is those first 30 to 40 minutes. After that, the qual ity grows in leaps and bounds. r—--- Director/pro MOVIG ducer Bryan Rauiauu Singer achieved new lew great success at me Sundance Film Festival with his first film, “Public Access.” For “The Usual Suspects,” he assembled a -- lineup of quality based not on box-office receipts, but on good old-fashioned talent. Eventually, the film solidifies into a very enticing, riveting tale of five criminals brought together into a po lice lineup, but end up being “asked” by an unseen crime boss to pull off a $91 million heist. The film is detailed in flashback by the gimpy con man Roger “Verbal” Kint (Kevin Spacey, in an amazing performance), telling what he knows to U.S. Customs Agent David Kujan (Academy Award nominee Chazz Palminteri). The team consists of Kint, cop tumed-thief Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), hardware expert Hockney (Kevin Poliak) and entry men McManus and Fenster (Stephen Baldwin and Benicio Del Toro, respectively). They have no choice in the matter. Not only is each person in danger because of inadvertently costing this crime boss millions of dollars from past capers, they have loved ones who will be killed unless he cooperates. One nice little twist for these char acters is how each holds back pieces of his past, leaving shadows and holes for both the partners in crime and the audience to fill. It sounds like a below-average crime drama, but it is so much more. The insights to the characters — and the gray areas that are never cleared up — mix absolutely wonderfully, and the storyline twists near the end only add quality to the overall film. But it is quality that the film badly Movie: “The Usual Suspects” Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Poliak, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Qiazz Palminteri Director: Bryan Singer Rated: R Grade: B Five Words: Slow starter, but great ending 7 4|tyjt needs after the cosmically-tedious first 30 minutes. At the screening I at tended, at least one person was snor ing. • Performances are all top-notch, especially for Byrne and Spacey, each giving his character a fine edge—one cautious and strong, the other weak and scared. Overall, if the first half-hour could have had some flavor added, “The Usual Suspects” would be an A-movie. “The Usual Suspects” should be seen at some point, if not just for the plot twists. As is, the film is worth seeing, but not worth a stampede to do so.