Arts ©Entertainment
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Jeff Randall
Experience
dark side
on Web
So, you wanna be a gangster.
Or maybe you don’t, maybe you’re
just one of those slightly twisted indi
viduals who is utterly fascinated with
the wonderful world of crime.
Yeah, me too.
But for those of us who don’t have
the guts, the ammunition or the ambi
tion to take up a life on the wrong side
of the law, there’s always salvation on
the World Wide Web.
To start off, consider one of the
Web’s best sites. It’s called
“Crimelinks” (http://
CAPlTALNET.com/~recci/), and it has
links to information about nearly ev
ery facet of criminal behavior one
could possibly imagine.
Terrorism, electronic surveillance,
prostitution, drugs, hacking, bike
gangs and about a dozen other head
ings lead the willing webcrawler to
hundreds, maybe thousands, of sites.
In short — if you can’t find the il
legal activity you’re looking for here,
you better quit looking.
, Other sites ail Qyqr the Web offer
information for the more specialized
fan of sociopaths.
When I think of anti-establishment
and all-around scary literature, only
one name springs to mind —William
S. Burroughs.
A former drug addict and world
renowned strange guy, Burroughs has
a number of faithful fans who have
designed home pages in this great
author’s name.
Two of the best are, appropriately
enough, called “The “William S.
Burroughs Home Page”
(http://www.charm.tiet/~hrooklyn/
People/WilliamSBurroughs. ht ml and
h ttp ://www. cs. wise. edu/~garms/zach/
hl.html).
Between these two sites, you can
find bibliographies, pictures, quotes,
biographical information and miscel
laneous tidbits that will tide you over
for quite a while. I’ll bet my “Naked
Lunch” on it.
But I realize that not everyone is
crazy about the world of crime. Para
noia and fear, after all, are what the
Republicans have been banking on in
the last few years.
If you want to quell that fear (or
heighten it), there’s a good chance
you’ll find something to think about
when you “Rate Your Risk of Being
Murdered” (h ttp ;//Www. Nash vi lie. Net/
~police/risk/murder.html).
By answering questions about your
income level, your roommates, your
parents and what kind of car you drive,
this handy little Web site will tell you
whether or not you should write out
that Last Will and Testament a bit ear
lier than expected.
And for protection, where better to
run than the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation? They have a Web site (http://
wwwjbigov) that offers information cm
everything from their ongoing missions
to fight terrorism and interstate flight
to the history of the Unabomber case.
So, whether you’re a stick-up man,
a weekend terrorist or just a curious
kind of computer lover, this brief list
ing of sites should help you in getting
a head start into the underworld.
Just remember, crime doesn’t pay
(if you get caught).
Raaddl is a sophomore news-editorial
major and a Dally Nebraskan senior re
porter.
Fresh view
Rap takes the mike on stage, in debate
By Greg Schick
Staff Reporter
Heather B, best known from
MTV’s first season of “The Real
World,” donned the hat of rapper
Wednesday night in a show in the
Nebraska Union ballroom.
“I was one of the lucky ones,” she
said of the MTV series that followed
the lives of seven strangers living
together.
“Watching it and how the show
changed, I just wouldn’t do it again,”
. she said.
“The first time it worked really
well, because no one knew what was
going to happen,” she said.
She said later seasons of the
show, now going into its fifth sea
son, seemed more staged, as if the
producers were trying to force things
to happen.
Although she said doing the show
was a good experience, she doesn’t
think it launched her career.
“It gave me name and face rec
ognition, but the hip hop audience
and the MTV audience is so differ
ent.”
Heather now splits her time be
tween performing and doing nails at
Nubian Nails and Hair, her salon in
Jersey City, N.J.
“The realistic side of it is, if you
make a record and sell a million cop
ies, you don’t get to really see any
money until like maybe a year or two
after you’ve paid the record com
pany back.”
Her latest single, “All Glocks
Down” is in its 27th week on the
Billboard music charts. Her new al
bum, “Takin’ Mine” comes out early
next year.
Although her rap career has be
gun to pick up, Heather said she was
glad she had her salon to fall back
on.
“You don’t really eat week to
week unless you’re doing shows,”
she said.
“You gotta have something on the
side.”
Tanna Kinnaman/DN
Rap artist Heather B, best known from MTV’s “The Real
World,” talks about her career before a performance in the
Nebraska Union ballroom Wednesday night.
By Greg Schick■
Staff Reporter ,,
The debate in the Nebraska
Union ballroom Wednesday night
was heated.
The university was host to Pro
fessor Griff, one of the founding
members of the rap group Public
Enemy, and Curtis Sliwa, the
founder of the international Guard
ian Angels group, for a debate on
rap censorship.
Sliwa took the pro, Griff the con.
The two agreed at the start to expand
the scope of the debate to music lyr
ics in general.
Sliwa outlined a history of sev
eral musicians who advocated drugs
and alcohol, but whose downfalls
were ultimately caused by the same.
He cited Eazy-E, saying he was
an example of a greedy individual
who advocated violence and mi
sogyny, but who, when he died, de
nounced his ways.
Griff countered that censorship
was attacking the effect and not the
actual problem — racism.
Griff said there was a history of
oppression in society and that mi
norities did not have the power to
be racists, because they had no
power to wield over others.
Sliwa rebutted that minorities did
have the power to be racist, bring
ing up Ice Cube’s “Black Korea," in
which he threatens destruction of
Korean-owned businesses.
After several questions from the
audience. Griff continued his mes
sage about racism as the central
problem, saying that when slaves
were brought to America, their cul
ture was taken from them.
Sliwa countered that many white
Americans have Slavic heritage, and
the root of the word “Slavic" is
“slave." Ultimately, human greed is
to blame, he said, not a conspiracy.
Theatrix play spiritually tells
tales of Southern life, culture
By Jeff Randall
Senior Reporter
Ever since the Hatfields and McCoys first
threw down their gloves, stories of life among
the people of the Appalachians have been fre
quent and popular.
But aside from the joking
remarks about backwoods
life and violent feuds, there
are some truly humanist tales
that can emerge from the re
gion.
Romulus Linney’s “Sand
Mountain” is one of them.
The play is under production
by the University Theatre and
Dance Department’s student
production organization, Theatrix, and opens to
night at the Wagon Train Project, 512 S. Seventh
St.
Amy Gaither-Hayes, who is working toward
a master’s in fine arts in acting, directs the per
formance.
Her selection of “Sand Mountain” as one of
this year’s Theatrix productions arose from her
familiarity with Linney’s work during her under
graduate years.
Linney, a Southern playwright, bases many of
his works on Southern culture and religious
themes, Gaither-Hayes said.
“He seems to be more interested in spiritual
truth, as opposed to the religious dogma, and
that’s why his work stands out so well,” she said.
But the Southern setting in Linney’s work has
proven to be a bit of a difficulty for the decidedly
Northern cast, Gaither-Hayes said.
“The actors have really risen to the challenge;
getting the right accents and cultural characteris
tics have been hard,” she said. “It’s been a fun
problem to have to work through, though.”
“Sand Mountain” is actually two plays in one.
The first play is entitled “Sand Mountain
Matchmaking” and the second is “Why the Lord
Came to Sand Mountain.”
“Sand Mountain Matchmaking” tells the story
of Rebecca, a young widow who must endure an
unsavory procession of three suitors. But after
seeking counsel with a wise old hill woman,
. Lottie, she discovers the secret to finding the per
fect mate lies within one question for her poten
tial husbands.
Gaither-Hayes said “Sand Mountain
Matchmaking” is a humorous tale that serves as
a front for a deeper message.
“It’s about making a marriage work. It basi
cally says that the only way that can happen is
through equality, honesty and no prudishness
between die couple.”
“Why the Lord Came to Sand Mountain” is a
religious fable about the beauty of simplicity. In
it, the Lord and Saint Peter come to Earth and are
welcomed into the home of a poor mountain
couple and their 14 illegitimate children. They
then get into a match of tall tale storytelling with
hilarious results.
“Sand Mountain” opens tonight and runs
nightly through Sunday. Tickets are $5 and are
sold at the door on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The show begins at 8 each night.
Lincoln honors
first French
wine of year
By Albert Schmid
Staff Reporter
Today the world celebrates a wine made
from a grape banished from the Northern Bur
gundy region of France in 1395 by Philip the
Bold of Burgundy as an “evil and disloyal
plant”
According to tradition, Beaujolais Nouveau
is introduced to the world on the third Thurs
day in November (according to French law)
as the first French wine of the year.
Beaujolais Nouveau, a light, fruity wine
made from the Gamay Grape, is meant to be
drunk young, unlike many other wines that
need to age for years to hit their peak.
In Lincoln, the Blue Heron Wine Bar and
Bistro, at South 48th Street and Highway 2 in
the Briarhurst Shopping Center, will be the
host of the 14th Annual Beaujolais Nouveau
Party Saturday. Doors will open about 7:15,
and food will be served at 8.
The event will include the Beaujolais
Nouveau, food and dancing. Proceeds will be
donated to The Capital Humane Society.
Ken Meiers, owner of the Blue Heron, said
Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau would
be served.
“Georges Duboeuf’s is the best and most
popular Beaujolais Nouveau,” he said.
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