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Rage & Type II — ... —-■— Umbra I 233 N. 48th Suite Q between the Target and Super Saver. 466-6066 Dragon Dice - 3 Health fMKfffl Motion Make the move to For those who want to see the up close action off the local sports scene HIGHLIGHTS On SCORES PMT / FEATURES Ijj * / (of local sports) 1* ^— CahleVision ch. 47 » 421-0330 Revelry fills holiday weekend With All-Hallow’s Eve just around the comer, costuming and treats may be on the mind. The holiday weekend is full of entertainment. • Kelly Hunt plays at the Jones Street Brewery in Omaha, 1316 Jones St., tonight and tomorrow night. Each show starts at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance, $6 the day of the show. • Tomorrow night, the Bemis | Gallery, 614 S. 1 lthSt.,housesthe Halloween Ben efit Bash. The idea is to “BE SOME BODY (else).” The event starts at 7 p.m., with music from the Twang Daddies. Prizes will be given for costumes. Tickets are $25. •Tonight at Knickerbockers, 901 O St., check out The Billy’s and Kab. Dwindle plays with Ezra Saturday night. Both shows start at 10:15 p.m., and cover is $3. • Candlebox attacks Civic Audito rium in Omaha with Sponge and Our Lady Peace on Sunday. Dows open at 7:30 p.m., and tickets are $17.50. •The Wannabes, touring in support of its album “Popsucker,” plays at Mudslide Slims, 1418 O St., Sunday night. The show starts at 10 p.m., and cover is about $3. • The Hurricane, 1118 0 St., fea tures several shows this weekend. To night, check out the Secret Skin CD Release Party with Janitor Bob. The show starts at 10 p.m. Saturday, Side show and Giant’s Chair take the stage in a 10 p.m. show. Strutter, the KISS tribute band, blows fire and rocks Mon day night. And if you dress up like KISS, you get in free. Doors open at 8 p.m. • Peggy Myo-Young Choy per forms “Dancing Outside the American Dream: The History and Politics of Asian Dance in America,” from 11 a.m. to noon in Room 304 of Mabel Lee Hall, 14th and Vine streets. A second performance, “Dancing in the Steps of Masters: An Asian Perspec tive on Dance,” takes place at the Lin coln Women’s Club, 417 S. 14th St., from 24 pm. tomorrow. • “Richard IIP’ wraps up this week end at the Howell Theatre in the Temple Building. The show starts at 8 pm. More information is available from the box office at 472-2073. •Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group, regulars to the Prai rie Home Companion, perform at First Plymouth Church, 2000 D St., at 7 Sunday night. Tickets are $8 for adults, $4 for children. • “The Tender Land,” an opera performed by students in UNL’s School of Music, continues this weekend at the Johnny Carson Theatre, with an 8 pm. show each night and a 3 p.m. matinee Sunday. Tickets are $8, $4 with a stu dent ID. • The Turtle Island String Quartet plays at the Lied Center for Performing Arts tomorrow night at 8. Tickets are $20, $24 and $28, and half-price for students. RANDOLPH VACUUMS I pTj I Good stuff. Create the perfect disguise! See the white pages for Goodwill locations. Natural Foods Grocery 1618 South St. 475-9069 Live Music! Ham - 1pm Oct 14 - Dave March Oct 28 - Chris Sayre Cartoonist s compelling, dark tale carries film By Patrick Hambrecht Movie Critic “Crumb” is a wonderful film, eas ily one of the best movies of the year. Currently playing at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, Terry Zwigoff s documentarytells the story of one of America’s strang est men with stun ning naturalism. “Crumb” is Robert Crumb, the most impor tant underground cartoonist of the 20th century. His character “Fritz the Cat” starred in the first X-rated animated movie, directed by film innovator Ralph Bakshi. The “Keep on truckin’” design he created be came as recognizable and overused as Ziggy during the ’60s and ’70s. During the six years in which “Crumb” takes place, Crumb sneers and whines through everyday life with hilarious pathos. Savagely, he guards his art from being exploited by obnoxious businessmen and re bukes amazing offers from entertain ment leaders. The ’60s visionary rails against yuppies, society, urban sprawl, mod em music, and briefly, everything else. A misanthrope with a self esteem problem, Crumb’s constant facade as a sneering nerd appears pathetic. He snivels about how girls never liked him, complains about his fans, and then cackles about how women can’t get enough of him — now that he’s famous. Crumb is one of the most comi cally bitter, though oddly likable, characters ever to appear in film. But his grumbling demeanor ap pears increasingly heroic as the film shows how easily he could have gone insane — like both his brothers. Like modem contemporaries Dan Clowes and Peter Bagge, Crumb’s eccentric older brother taught and molded him into a cartoonist. The elder Charles Crumb is an amazing artist who has been crippled I Film: “Crumb” Director: Terry Zwigoff Rating: R Grade: A Five words: American genius rails against world by his father, his peers and his own sensitivity. Max Crumb is similarly destroyed, becoming a destitute sex offender. Only Robert, propelled by his an ger and indignation, escaped the Crumb curse. Now Charles Crumb, as the film first shows him, is an imppteat, drugged recluse, still living with his mother. Max is an obsessive spiritual hermit, performing excruciatingly painful rites upon himself. The mystery of what could have warped and devastated the Crumb artists so severely hangs over every thing Robert does. The real irony is that Crumb’s artwork could actually be considered inferior, compared to his brothers Charles and Max. It is not his artistic talent, but his ability to disguise his sensitivity to the outside world that allows Crumb to rise to greatness. Y et the tragedy of the Crumb broth ers is only one of many stories told in Zwigoff’s movie. Woody Allen would have been glad to write the scenes between Crumb and the women in his life, including his witty wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb. The controversies over Crumb’s art are discussed at length in the movie, and he is confronted by harsh opinions from critics and feminists alike. This documentary is inescapably dark, creepily suspenseful, humanis tically uplifting — but above all, authentic. Historically and psycho logically dazzling, “Crumb” is the most important movie about an American family in years. “Crumb” continues at the Ross Theater today through Sunday and Nov. 2 to Nov. 5. ---■—| Swick Continued from Page 11 writing published dozens of times in several magazines and literary journals. But, Swick said, 13 years of success hasn’t made the task of writing an altogether easy one. “Everything’s hard,” she said with a laugh. “It’s hard to force yourself to actually sit down and do it.” Ideas come easy, Swick said. Finding a way to make those ideas come together proves more diffi cult. “Once I start writing, I can work with the characters and let the story grow organically. But making what they do turn into something be yond the action, giving those char acters meaning, that’s the hard part.” When giving advice to unpub lished writers, Swick said, she tries to encourage them to have pa tience and faith in their work. “You need to have reasonable expectations, because it’s a pretty long process. But if you believe in what you are writing strongly enough and work with what you have, things will start happening for you.”