Arts ©Entertainment
Tuesday, November 21, 1995 Page 11
Thanksgiving feast
Holiday weekend a cornucopia of entertainment
By Jeff Randall
and Gerry Beltz _
Senior Reporters
Thanksgiving is more than turkey,
stuffing and cranberry sauce. It’s more
than family, friends and fun.
It’s entertainment.
Or at least there is plenty of entertain
ment to be found on this Thanksgiving
weekend. So, after the big meal and the
little nap are over, consider some of these
entertainment options to top off the
official start of the holiday season.
If music is your bag, check out the
following events.
The good tunes start tonight in Omaha
when the Temptations take the stage at
the Orpheum Theater.
These Motown recording artists made
their names — Otis Williams, David
Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Melvin Franklin
and Paul Williams — widely known in the
1960s and 1970s with a string of hits that
remain popular to this day, including
“Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “My Girl,”
“Get Ready,” “Papa Was a Rolling
Stone,” “I Can’t Get Next to You” and
“Psychedelic Shack.”
The group has since endured a number
of lineup changes, but their distinctive
style and impeccable talent remain as
crowd-pleasing attributes to this
day. The current lineup is
Williams, Ron Tyson, Ali
Ollie Woodson, Theo
Peoples and Ray
Davis.
Laura Love, a
Lincoln native and
daughter of
Omaha-based saxophonist Preston Love,
will open the show. Over the past 15
years, Laura Love has performed nearly
every style of music on stages throughout
North America.
Love now tours in a four-piece band
with electric bass, acoustic guitars,
accordion and drums. She describes her
most recent musical work as “Afro/
Celtic,” a blend of African and Caribbean
rhythms with more Western harmonies
and instruments.
Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. concert are
$29.75, $24.75 and $19.75, with discounts
available for students and senior citizens.
In a slightly different vein, Alanis
Morissette and the Rentals will perform
Friday night at Omaha’s Mancuso
Convention Hall in the Civic Auditorium.
The concert is sold out.
Morissette is touring in support of her
multi-platinum debut, “Jagged Little Pill.”
She opened eyes and ears last summer
with her chart-topping single “You Oughta
Know” and has followed that success
with her latest single, “Right Through
You.”
The Rentals will open the show. This
band is also touring in support of its debut
album, entitled “The Return of the
Rentals.” Featuring Matt Sharp and Pat
Wilson, the bassist and drummer for
Weezer, the Rentals perform
pop-rock music that is
reminiscent of the Cars
and other melodic
synthesizer-driven bands of the 1980s.
And in an even more different vein,
legendary crooner Tony Bennett will
perform at Omaha’s Ak-Sar-Ben
Coliseum Thursday through Sunday.
Bennett has been performing to sell
out crowds since the 1950s,
when his career first started
to take off. In 1962, the
singer became an
international star after the
success of “I Left My
Heart in San Fran
cisco,” for which he jjk
won two Grammy
Awards. m)
Bennett mounted M
a major comeback
into the popular
music world in the
past few years with
albums such as
“Steppin’ Out” and
the Grammy
Award
winning
“Perfectly
Frank.”
General admission tickets
are $ 15. Reserved tickets for
members are $65 per couple. Showtimes
are 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday
and 2 p.m. Sunday.
But if the tickets for the bigger events
seem a bit out of student budget limita
tions, there are plenty of smaller but
equally entertaining shows in Lincoln.
At Knickerbockers, 901 O St.,
Saturday night will see the return of the
Omaha alternative rock band The
Criminals, as well as Suckerpunch. The
cover is $3 and the show starts at
approximately 10 p.m.
The Chicago blues will be alive in
Lincoln all week long as Magic Slim and
the Teardrops make a five-night stand at
the Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St. The cover
for the concerts tonight and Wednesday i
$4, the cover for Friday’s and Saturday’s
shows is $5. Music starts each night at 9
For those more visually inclined,
Thanksgiving weekend
will also offer a number of long
awaited films. This weekend doesn’t
just mark the beginning of the
Christmas season for shoppers, after
all.
“Priest” continues its run at the
Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater. The
ffilm runs Friday at 7 and 9 p.m.,
Saturday at 1,3,7 and 9 p.m., and
Sunday at 3,5,7 and 9 p.m. Tickets
are $5.50 for the general public
and $3.50 for members,
students and seniors.
A number of holiday
season films open
Wednesday:
“Casino” (R)
^ —Director Martin
Scorsese takes a
look at the seedy,
mob-infested Las
Vegas, with Robert
DeNiro as a casino
operator, Joe Pesci as his
right-hand man and
Sharon Stone as Ginger,
? DeNiro’s love interest
and requisite vamp in
** general.
“Mick of Time”
(PG)—Johnny Depp moves into the
action genre. Gene Watson (Depp)
and his 6-year-old daughter are
kidnapped by police impersonators, and
he is given 90 minutes to kill the
governor, or his daughter will be
murdered.
“Money Train” (R) — Woody
Harrelson and Wesley Snipes are
together again as two security guards
going after a subway train carrying
millions of dollars in subway fares,
dubbed the ‘money train.’
“Toy Story” (G) — In the first
completely computer-animated film,
Woody (Tom Hanks) is a cowboy doll
who must make room for the new toy
s on the block, Buzz Lightyear (Tim
Allen). The computer animation gives
life not just to Woody and Buzz, but
also to many other toys including little
army guys, Mr. Potato Head, and an
Etch-A-Sketch.