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What’s Happening A guide to entertainment in Lincoln Aug 7-Aug 13 Concerts Thursday Karaoke with Shithook (Duffy’s, 10:30 p.m.) Indigenous (Zoo Bar, 9 p.m. 8/7-8/9) Friday Fifty Lashes and Catalyst (Knikerbockers, 10 p.m.) Saturday Verbow and The Sissies (Knickerbockers, 10 p.m.) Monday Tangled In Blue (Zoo Bar, 9 p.m.) Tuesday Tommy Castro Band (Zoo Bar, 9 p.m.) Sideshow and Regulator Watt (Knikerbockers, 6 p.m., all ages show) Music (Tuesdays ire new release days for record companies) weanesoay Cadmium & Kitten ‘97 (Zoo Bar, 9 p.m.) Movies Friday “Conspiracy Theory” “Free Willy 3: The Rescue” Morrisey Ric Ocasek Pansy Division Joi The Fabulous Backstreet Boys _ Sneek Preview “G.l. Jane" at the Douglas 3 Theater this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. “Face/Off is free ^ afterwards mucus (Tuesdays an new |n||H days for videos) “Devil’s Own” ' '’■BP**'- “Lost Highway” “Crash” “Everyone Says I Love You” “The Shadow Conspiracy” Food, music join forces for Lincoln’s first RibFest By Gerry Beltz Features Editor Lick your lips and grab your bibs; ready or not, here come the ribs! Lincoln’s first RibFest will be held this Friday though Sunday outside Pershing Municipal Auditorium, 15th and N Streets. The RibFest will run from 11 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Derek Andersen, Marketing Director for Pershing Auditorium, said the idea of a festival of barbecue ribs and chicken is nothing new. “Down South, they hold festivals like this all through the year,” Andersen said. Other cities such as Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Minneapolis, Minn, and Fargo, ND, have held three and four-day festivals in the past with great success, he said. “I figured, ‘why not?,” Andersen said. Andersen said he found that the common thread to the success stories of other festivals was bringing in award-winning barbecue ven dors from all over the country, and the RibFest will be no different, with participants coming in from Illinois, Florida, Kentucky, Iowa and two from Ohio. “In fact, two of our vendors have won 130 Please see RIBS on 6 Visual effects can t save soul of heartless ‘Spawn’ By Gerry Beltz Features Editor Candy for the eyes, bile for the brain. Such is the sad scripture for “Spawn.” Computer-generated special effects have swept through the cinematic indus try faster than a horny hummingbird’s heartbeat, and while “Spawn” does have some top-of-the-line visuals, the movie itself sucks sour frog butts. Based on the hit comic, special agent A1 Simmons (Michael Jai White) decides to hang up his grenades and secret decoder ring to pursue a more lucrative career in reality with his wife Wanda (Theresa Randle, “Bad Boys”). But stan- { dard magalomaniac Jason Wynn (Martin ^ Sheen) has other plans for our hero. After getting being covered in exper imental green goo and set on fire (i.e. dying), Simmons goes to ... well, a real Please see SPAWN on 6
