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