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i Thisweek’seditionofTGIFwillbe presented in memory of the nice weather we had up until Thursday. Other than that, we’ve got the usual concerts, movies and other equally heartwarming entertainment options. UNL’s School of Music will make a double offering this weekend at Kimball Recital Hall. Tonight we’ll see the Jazz Ensemble under the direc tion of David Sharp. On Sunday, the Concert Band and Wind Ensemble will take the stage under the batons of pro fessors Rod Chesnult and Jay Kloeckcr. Tonight’s show starts at 8. Sunday’s show starts at 3 p.m. Both concerts are free and open to the public. At Mudslide Slim’s, 1418 O St., rock ‘n’ roll will continue to fly over Lincoln. Offerings include Marlee MacLeod and former Millions singer Lori Allison tonight. Saturday night will feature the Tom Ficke Group (with the illustrious Tom Ficke) and, in their final performance, the local guys known as Heroes and Villains. Tonight’sshow starts at 10, Saturday’s will kick off at 10:30 p.m. Both shows have a $3 cover charge. At Knickerbockers, 901 OSt.,some West Coast sunshine will make a stop tonight courtesy of San Francisco’s own Ovarian Trolley. The Criminals will open the show. Saturday will see Cadmium and Gasoline on the stage. Both shows start at 10:30 p.m. and have a $3 cover charge. Lollapalooza ’96 is on its way, kids, so what better way to get primed for the show than with the tour’s sched uled headliner, Metalliea. The music of these hard-rockin’ boys will be fea tured at this weekend’s Laser Fanta sies show tonight and Saturday. Show times are at 8 p.m., 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for UNL students with identification. Movie pickings are, sadly, a bit slim this weekend; there’s mystery, a kid’s flick and comedy. In a teen-age version of “Fatal At traction,” Mark Wahl berg gels his first starring role in “Fear.” Also, in the animation style of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” comes “James and the Giant Peach,” featuring the voices of Richard Dreyfuss and Oscar-win ner Susan Sarandon. For the comedy lovers, check out “Flirting With Disaster,” where a man (Ben Stiller) goes on a search for his biological parents (Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin). The film also stars Mary Tyler Moore and George Segal. At the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, the exotic and erotic vampire film we like to call “Nadja” will con tinue its run. The film, which features Elina Lowensohn and Peter Fonda, will show tonight and Saturday. Show t imes for tonight are 7 and 9 and Satur nay ai 1 p.m., j p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. On Sunday at the Ross Theater, the University Program Council Interna tional Film Series will continue with China’s “Red Firecracker, Green Fire cracker.” Show times are 2:30 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Admission for both films at the Ross is $5.50 for the public, $4.50 for students and $3.50 for senior citizens, children and members of the Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film The ater. Returning movies include “The Bridges of Madison County” to the Starship 9 and “Down Periscope” to the Joyo Theatre. Have something to contrtbate to TGIF? Sead Information to “TGIF," c/o Daily Ne brasfcaa Arts and Entertainment, 34 Ne braska Union, 1400 R St, Lincoln, Neb. 68588, or fax ns at 472-1761. TGIF Is com piled by the arts and entertainment stair. Steinbeck’s classic novel takes the stage By Brian Priesman Staff Reporter A new adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel, “To A God Unknownwi 11 make its world premiere tonight as Thealrix continues its 1996 spring season. “To A God Unknown” tells the story of Joseph Wayne’s spiritual and physical journey to the open lands of the West in the early 20th century. This production is a staged reading of the script, which means that unlike a full production, the cast will perform the play with scripts in hand. “The difficulty is having the script in your hands most or all of the time,” said Andrew Hayes, the play’s director. “It kind of makes the Jazz group cruises into lied Center By Lane Hickenbottom Staff Reporter For those who have always wanted to go on a Caribbean cruise, now is the chance. Well, kind of. The musical brilliance of the Caribbean Jazz Project will fill the hearts and cars of the Lied Center audience Satur day night at 8. The Caribbean Jazz Project delivers tropical pleasures that are kind to the ear and remind us of that dream vacation upon a Caribbean cruise ship. Originating as a 1993 con cert in New York’s Central Park Zoo, the Project started when a promoter came to vibes/marimba master Dave Samuels. Samuels collaborated with Cuban saxophone/clarinet great PaquiloD’Rivera and steel pan legend Andy Narell. In 1995 the Caribbean Jazz Project released a self-titled compact disc featuring south-of-thc border rhythms. Samuels, D’Rivera and Narell will play along with pianist Dario Eskenazi, bassist Oscar Slagnaro and drummer Mark Walker. D’Rivera has called the Project’s music a melting pot of a melting pot, a type of music that requires a sense of humor. David E. Sharp, director of jazz studies at UNL’s School of Music, will oiler two pre performance talks 55 minutes before and again 30 minutes before the performance in the Lied Center’s Steinhart Room. Tickets for the show are $22, $18 and $14, half-price for students. actor feci like he’s in a rehearsal.” The actors are doing a staged reading of the play so they can get full legal approval from Steinbeck’s family. “It has not been put into a form that can be submitted to the Steinbeck family for legal ap proval,” Hayes said. “Of course there is an inter est in preserving the integrity of Steinbeck’s works.” Hayes has more than a passing interest in the success of the play. The playwright, Gloria Gaither, is his mother-in-law. Hayes said Gaither was a Steinbeck scholar and had done the play as part of her graduate studies. “She wasn’t sure if she wanted it to be a screenplay or a movie of the week or a stage play,” lie said. * Hayes said that switching from dramaturge to director has been his biggest problem with the piece. Hayes said Gaither’s adaptation stayed very close to the novel. “It’s extremely faithful, in that all of the dia logue was pulled from the novel.” Steinbeck’s visual style of writing assisted in the effort to bring his book to the stage, Hayes said. “To A God Unknown” plays tonight and Sat urday at the Wagon Train Project, 512 S. Seventh St. on the third floor. The performance starts at 8 p.m., and admission is free. Photo courtesy of Heads Up International Ltd. The Caribbean Jazz Project is (from left to right) Dave Samuels, Paquito D’Rivera and Andy Narell. The group will perform at tne Lied Center on Saturday night. Young artists show off work By Patrick Hambrecht Senior Reporter The genius of Barbie, Ludwig van Beethoven and Pablo Picasso is just one of the themes explored by Lincoln artists of all ages in the “Mentoring a Generation of Women Artists” show by the Nebraska Women’s Caucus for Art. To encourage and train girls in art, the caucus’ mentoring program selects girls from the community to participate. Some of the pieces cre ated by these young artists are fea tured, along with the work of profes sional women, in this show at the Burkholder Project, 719 P Street. A surprise hit, Omaha seventh grader Evan Thompson’s painting “Ode to Joy” celebrates freedom and classical music in brilliant pri mary colors. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Thompson’s mentor, Mary Beth Fogarty, played Beethoven’s mas terpiece to her to help inspire her and provide extra stimuli for inter preting the event. The result was one of the strongest pieces of the gallery show, an angelic statement of thrill ing grace. About half of the show is made up of Anne Burkholder’s “Love Letters to Picasso,” a long.series of tributes to the Spanish artist. Each piece in the series has a Pablo Picasso chocolate candy wrapper in the cen ter, printed with a painting by the famed artist. The wrappers are framed by arranged rectangles of decorated paper, signed by Burkholder to Picasso, like a hand made Valentine. Burkholder said her “love let ters” were inspired by a Picasso slide show she saw 40 years ago, which was one of her first introduc tions to modem art. “I thought, ‘Wow, this stulT is really great,’” Burkholder said of the slide show. “It was all kinds of news, intellectually. “When a friend gave me this box of chocolates, I thought, ‘Gee, that would be really neat to do some thing with them.’ It’s kind of a play on love letters.” Corrie Suhr’s “How To Make A Girl” commands attention, just as it did when it appeared in the UNL Undergraduate Show in March. Her cupcake-pan assemblage of ink prints combines resentment with nostalgic kitsch in a surprising, pretty way. The segregated black prints seem at once cute and regal, imply inga strongmeaning for Barbie dolls, curling irons and other feminine objects of consumer culture. The Women’s Caucus show will be on display through April 30. The Burkholder Project is open from 10 a.m. to 3 pan. Admission is free. ‘Nobody’s Fool’ author to read on Saturday By Gerry Beltz Senior Reporter On Saturday night, acclaimed author Richard Russo will give a fiction reading at Love Library Au ditorium at 8. The event is free and open to the public. Russo wrote the novel, ‘‘Nobody’s Fool,” which was made into a major motion picture starring Paul Newman and Melanie Griffith. For his reading Saturday night, Russo will take selections from his new novel, “Occam’s Razor,” which is still in progress, said Kate Flaherty, managing editor of the Prairie Schooner. “He’s hoping to finish it this sum mer,” she said, “and it should come See RUSSO on 13