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Just two days
and so many
great options
Another weekend and Lincoln is
your only hideaway. Join the club.
So if you’re stuck alone with noth
ingto do, here are a few suggestions
of how to spend your time, other
than studying.
For movies this week, you have
your choice of pachyderms, postal
works or poetry, as three films open
in Lincoln today.
“Larger Than Life” stars Bill
Murray as a down-on-his-luck man
whose relative dies and leaves him
a very big inheritance — an el
ephant.
uear uoa is me second turn
from ex-”Talk Soup” guru Greg
Kinnear. Kinnear stars as a man who
is sentenced to work in the U.S.
Postal Service (and isn’t that the
worst kind of punishment any of us
can imagine).
Kinnear works in the Dead Let
ter Office. There are three types of
mail that the DLO can’t do much
with.letters to Elvis, Santa and i
God! Kinnear starts answering the
third.
“William Shakespeare’s Romeo
and Juliet” makes its way into the
modem era with an adaptation that
uses the original dialogue and up
dated everything else.
The film stars Leonardo De
Caprio and Claire Danes as the two
star-crossed lovers, with handguns
instead of rapiers. Gee, I wonder if
they die in the end.
Saturday night the union will be
alive with Turkish music and food
as Turkish Night sweeps through.
Admission is $9, and festivities start
at 7:30.
At the Lincoln Community Play
house, “A Raisin In The Sun” opens
this weekend. The play tells the
story of a family’s trouble to break
out of poverty. The show is tonight
and Saturday night at 7:30 and a 2
p jn. show will play Sunday.
Ann Chang-Bames will put on
a piano recital at Kimball Recital
Hall Sunday at 3 pjn. The recital
will feature the music of Bach and
Isaac Albeniz.
Tonight at the Lied Center, 60
performers from Tibet will perform
both song and dance, using instru
ments such as 12-foot-long trum
pets, cymbals and a form of triple
tone singing known as “The Awe
some Voice.” Tickets cost $28, $24
and $20 for adults and $14, $12 and
$10 for children 12 and under. The
show starts at 8.
Saturday the Lentz Center for
Asian Culture will hold the open
ing ceremonies for the Buddhist
monks from the Sera Je Monastery
in India. The monks will create a
sand mandala (a circular design
containing concentric geometric
forms and images of deities) ova
seven days, and then destroy it on
Nov. 9. The opening ceremonies
start at 10 ajn.
TGIF is compiled by staff re
porter Cliff Hicks.
Eclectic sound brings artists together
They are touring with Gaffney’s
regular guitarist, Danny Otto, and
Bacon’s nephew, drummer Matt
Yansch. Bacon plays the electric and
the upright bass, and Gaffney plays the
accordion and acoustic guitar. They
Sandy’s Bar
moving in to
new location
From Staff Reports
Sandy’s Bar, 122 N. 11th St., is
moving.
But for those of you who swear by
their locally famous “Elk Creek,” take
heart — they only moved a couple of
blocks.
Tonight Sandy’s will open its new
doors at 1401 O St., and will officially
become a member of the bar scene in
the heart of downtown.
The decision to move, co-owner
Judy Dickerson said, was made with
Lincoln residents — especially Stu
rt Ante_in minrl
“It makes Sandy’s more available
to our target market,” Dickerson said.
“It’s a responsible move by us to bring
us closer to the students.”
The move also brings Sandy’s
closer to its original home at 101 N.
14th St., what is now I Can’t Believe
It’s Yogurt. The bar moved to its
present location about 13 years ago,
Dickerson said.
Dickerson and her husband Daryl
said they planned to have the new
building open for business late this af
ternoon or early tonight, while the old
one remains open.
“We’re both really confident we’ll
be ready to open,” she said.
But Dickerson said that in just a
matter of months, the old Sandy’s will
become the home of Lincoln’s only
true jazz venue, Rogue’s Gallery.
“It will be sort of like the Zoo Bar,”
she said, “but more jazz-oriented.
There isn’t any place like that in -Lin
coln right now.”
Rogue’s Gallery will lend itself to
positive reception from an older crowd,
she said, because of its proximity to
the Lied Center for Performing Arts
and the Haymarket.
But for now, the Dickersons are
concentrating on becoming part of 14th
and O streets bar cluster.
“It was important to us to move
closer to the rest of the college bars in
Lincoln.”
take turns sharing lead and backup
vocals.
Gaffney and Bacon are only out
together for a month, and the Lincoln
dates are the midpoint for the tour. This
is Gaffney’s second trip to Lincoln;
Bacon is almost a regular, performing
in Lincoln five or six times a year.
The two cite influences from San
Antonio’s Sir Douglas Quintet to
Johnny Cash and Otis Redding.
Growing up so close to the border,
it’s easy to see where the influences
come into play.
“We mix all different types of
American music,” Bacon said. “Coun
try, rock, blues, swing—we try to hit
all the bases. There’s something for
everyone in there.”
“It’s a mix of Mexican and West
ern that’s played mostly on the border,”
Gaffney said. “It’s not really blues, but
a lot of it comes from blues. Country
is blues.”
Gaffney’s band has been together
for 13 years, and have five albums to
their credit. Forbidden Pigs have been
together for 12, and have three albums.
The men equally split the materia
they do live, playing half Forbidder
Pigs and half Cold Hard Facts songs
as well as whatever the mood inspires
Ryan Soderlin/DN
BIL1Y BACON plays the upright bass and sings while Danny Ott
plays the guitar at the Zoo Bar Wednesday night.
Wednesday night, they covered Count
Basie’s “Take Me Back Baby” and
Creedance Clearwater Revival’s
‘Tombstone Shadow.” (That track also
appears on Forbidden Pig’s second al
bum.)
The boys genuinely seem to be hav
ing fun together—it’s not just a show.
In the middle of a slow, sweet acousti
cal ballad, Forbidden Pigs’ “You Don’t
Know,” they let out loud whoops and
catcalls. The chemistry between all the
members of the touring group is very
good.
Jim Garver, vice president of the
Lincoln Board of Education for Dis
trict 3 and self-proclaimed Zoo Bar
regular, said he was enjoying the band.
“They sound really good,” he said.
“It’s an evolving show; it Changes as it
goes along. It makes it interesting.
They’re road-tested professionals.”
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Play portrays struggle, survival
By Liza Holtmeier
StaffReporter
Audiences attending the UNL
Theater Department’s production of
“A Shayna Maidel” should come
equipped with Kleenex.
The play, set in 1940s Brooklyn,
depicts the struggles of a Jewish
family in the aftermath of the Holo
caust. The character of Lucia, who
has been in a Swedish hospital af
ter surviving Auschwitz, has been
reunited with her family after years
of separation.
To prepare for the show, the cast
and crew were involved in a vari
ety of research. Cast members took
language lessons in Yiddish and at
tended temple, while Director
Karen Libman and her designers
visited the Jewish Community Cen
ter in Omaha. . \
The group also spoke with Bea
Karp, a Holocaust survivor who was
in a concentration camp in France.
Jacque Camperud, who plays
Rose in the production, said visting
with Karp was the highlight of her
preparation.
“She wasn’t a figure who was
looking for sympathy,” Camperud
said. “She was feisty and fiery and
full of life.”
The play also does not tiy to cre
ate sympathy for the survivors, but
rather to provide a greater appre
ciation and a better understanding
of the people who lived through and
were affected by the Holocaust.
Though the family in the show
is affected dramatically by the Ho
locaust, Libman and cast explained
that the show has a more universal
theme as well.
“Every family has to face things
together and then face each other,”
said Amy Gaither-Hayes, who plays
Lucia. “It’s just that with this fam
ily; it’s the Holocaust that rips them
apart.”
“Most everyone can identify
with the family element in this play,”
Libman said. “There are some sad
moments. There are some hysteri
cally funny moments.”
The overall effect of this mix
ture of emotions, she said, is that
the audience will ultimately feel
uplifted.
“I think they may feel exhausted
because of the emotional catharsis
the characters go through, but I see
them leaving uplifted,” Libman
said.
The intense emotional subject
has proved to be a challenge for the
cast.
“It’s so hard not to cry. That
would be my first instinct... but we
must contain that emotion so that
the audience gets the full effect,”
Camperud said.
Libman also said that occasional
breaks were needed during rehears
als for the actors to collect them
selves, and tissue boxes were spread
around backstage.
“It’s a very moving piece ...
what we call a ‘six Kleenex piece,”’
she said.
Gaither-Hayes said that facing
her character’s loss of a child and
acting the emotions out every night
has been difficult.
“I have a son of my own and los
ing a child is the most horrible thing
I can think of,” she said.
Amid the surrealism and intense
emotion, the show also promises to
provide information on the Jewish
culture.
“Even though I was raised in a
Jewish community, no one else in
the cast was,” Libman said. “This
is a play about a culture that is not
common in Nebraska.”
“A Shayna Maidel” will run
through Saturday and from Tuesday
through Nov. 9 in the Studio The
ater of the Temple Building. The
play begins at 8 pm; tickets are $10
for the public and $6 for students.
By Ann Stack
Senior Reporter
There’s a place close to the border,
just west of the blues, where salsa
meets swing and roots rock slams head
long into Tex-Mex honky-tonk.
That’s about where you’ll find Billy
Bacon and Chris Gaffney. The two art
ists, sans-respective bands, are featured
tonight and Saturday at the Zoo Bar,
136 N. 14th St.
Hailing from the San Diego area,
Bacon is with the band Forbidden Pigs,
and Gaffney is with Cold Hard Facts.
Although the two met eight years
ago at a show in Tucson, they never
played together. When the opportunity
to tour together came up, they took the
proverbid plunge.
“The tour was booked as a Forbid
den Pigs tour, but the guys in the band
didn’t want to go out,” Bacon sdd. “So
I decided to go out with Chris. We’d
dways tdked about touring together;
we finally just did it.”