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IWo-night rock fast hits Lincoln
By Ann Stack
Senior Reporter
It’s not quite Woodstock, but it’s the closest
thing you’ll find to a grand scale rock spec
tacle in Lincoln this weekend.
A two-night bill featuring eight local bands
is looking to be one of the hottest events hap
pening this Friday and Saturday, provided you
won’t be at the high school swimming and div
ing championships.
The show is a benefit concert for Model
United Nations, a student organization com
prised of UNL and high school students. This
is a group modeled on the actual United Na
tions, said Elaine Leonard, the group’s secre
tary and treasurer.
“We’re an organization that does a simula
tion of the United Nations at a conference ev
ery spring,” she said. “We simulate two of the
general assembly committees and one of the
security councils.”
The benefit show is to help Model UN cover
the costs and expenses of the convention, which
is being held March 12-15 in the Nebraska
Union, she said.
A great aspect of the show is the diversity
of the bands involved. Every band is different,
and both nights run the gamut of musical styles,
so don’t expect to hear the same thing twice.
There’s everything from rock to lounge to alt/
country.
Friday night’s lineup consists of: Tony
Lamar doing an acoustic set, and then later
singing with his hard-rock group, Mondello,
the jazzy, funky, hom-infused Kid Quarkstar
and Omaha rockers Six Speed Universe.
Saturday’s show features Blacklight Sun
shine, the alt/rock/country group China Digs
(along the lines of Uncle Tupelo), the punk
edged bill-e-ROO-bin and the trippy lounge
rockers SupaLounge.
The man in charge of putting that bill to
gether is UNL senior English and psychology
major Calvin Webb. Webb is the driving force
behind Spydrwebb Productions, a music-related
company dedicated to the promotion of inde
pendent local and national talent.
He said the show was originally going to be
just a one-night concert with his band,
SupaLounge. However, he said he tries to pro
duce at least one “full-scale local band fiasco”
a year, and decided the time was right. He nar
rowed the field down to about 14 bands before
selecting the eclectic eight featured in the ben
efit show.
“I scouted out the local scene, and I wanted
to pick bands that would be entertainers, con
sidering it’s purely for exposure,” he said. “I
also wanted to offer a diverse experience.”
Webb began his business three years ago,
after transferring to UNL from Michigan. He
was a singer in three different bands there, and
he began his company as a reaction to the treat
ment his bands received.
“That’s where my passion is—I wanted to
give people the opportunity to emerge in the
scene,” he said. “I want to give them the chance
I never had.
“I’m determined to help other bands suc
ceed,” he said. “I mean, there are Billboard
junkies and there are people like me — who’s
to say who the Top 40 bands should be? Tell
me who’s No. 41, or No. 141.”
Another facet of Spydrwebb Productions is
label representation. Webb represents three
record labels: Deep South Records, Homegrown
Music and Aware Records.
Friday’s benefit show will be at the Wagon
Train Project Space, 512 S. Seventh St., at 8
p.m. Admission is $4. Saturday’s show will be
in the Nebraska Union’s Centennial Ballroom
at 8 p.m. The cost for that show is $4, $3 with
a student ID.
Bizarre antics
occur backstage
on Grammy night
By Larky McShane
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Backstage at the
Graimhys: glitz, glamour, star-gazing.
- Don’t believe it.
Behind the scenes at the 39th annual
awards Wednesday were artists hyping their J
upcoming records, a scuffle between
shutterbugs, silly questions and sillier an
swers. This is the stuff you thankfully didn’t
see during CBS’ three-hour televised ex
travaganza.
There was Jewel’s explanation for her
see-through dress: “Sometimes I don’t know
when to feel fear. Tomorrow I’ll be going,
' What was I thinking?”’
There was the most bizarre question of
the night: Paul Anka, who wrote the theme
for “The Tonight Show,” was asked by one
reporter if he could have lived off the royal
ties from that one song.
“I would imagine,” he deadpanned, “it
depends on how one lives.”
Who s got a new album coming out?
Anka. Herb Alpert. Steve Winwood. Seal.
Aretha Franklin. Did any of them win
Grammys this year? No, but that didn’t stop
‘em from plugging their products.
It was 5:28 pjn. when the first winner
thanked God for a Grammy. The envelope,
please: It’s Keb’ Mo’, cited for best contem
porary blues album. He was also the first
winner to thank his mother.
In a bizarre tableau moments later, Keb’
met the press just as fellow winner Hillary
Rodham Clinton was about to arrive. A Se
cret Service officer, oblivious to the ongo
ing Q&A, boomed, “Ladies and gentlemen,
the first lady is coming.”
Grinning widely, Keb’ replied, “No prob
lem,” and graciously surrendered the stage.
The night’s first ugly incident occurred
before a single celebrity sighting or award
presentation. A slightly bemused publicist
reported a scuffle between photographers
battling for position inside the empty Madi
son Square Garden.
Harmonica great James Cotton had no
trouble winning a Grammy for best tradi
tional blues album. He did have trouble find
ing a match for his cigarette in the smoke
free Garden.
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Former ‘In Living Color’ stars miss their ‘Booty Call’
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Sketch comedy-style capers wear thin on big screen
By Jeff Randall
Film Critic
Two men, two women, one dog and a de
stroyed condom could—if placed in the right
hands — make for a good comedy.
“Booty Call” has all of these things. All of
them, that is, exgept for the right hands.
Starring “In Living Color” alumni Jamie
Foxx and Tommy Davidson, “Booty Call” had
the potential to be an edgy and well-meaning
satire on the current state of single life and the
futility of relationships based solely on sexual
ity.
Instead, it degenerates to a series of before
seen comic setups and haphazard deliveries that
only hit their desired targets a few times.
Bunz (Jamie Foxx) and Rushon (Tommy
Davidson) are two swinging buddies who, much
to Bunz’s chagrin, are being driven apart by
— of all things—a woman.
In the meantime, Rushon’s girlfriend of
seven weeks, Nikki (Ihmala Jones), is contem
plating whether or not to consummate their
relationship. But she is worried that Rushon
will try anything to impress Bunz, so she in
vites her friend Lysterine (Vivica A. Fox) along
on their date to keep both of the boys in line.
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As the date progresses, however, the two
couples end up in separate rooms with the same
ideas. Unfortunately, Rushan’s last condom is
destroyed by Killa the dog (played convincingly
by Killa the dog), and Bunz and Jamie are
forced into the streets in search of rubberized
protection.
The rest of the film follows the series of
mishaps and diversions that occur during their
quest. The result is a disjointed and almost
schizophrenic film that seems made up of in
dividual sketches rather than a single script.
Director Jeff Pollack, who is probably best
known as executive producer and co-creator of
television’s “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” has
only one previous feature film under his belt,
and it shows in this film. The camera wok is
stationary to a fault, and the editing follows
television’s long-established setup/punch line
formula throughout the film.
Davidson, who has earned his reputation
through years of better-than-average stand-up
and sketch comedy work, seems out of place in
this sophomoric comedy.
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