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tag 14-Aug 20
Concerts
Thursday
Karaoke with Shithook (Duffy’s, 10:30 p.m.)
King Ernest (Zoo Bar, 9 p.m.)
Robbie Fulks (Knickerbockers, 10 p.m.)
Friday
Jimmy Johnson (Zoo Bar, 9 p.m.)
Wuf and Shaking Tree (Knickerbockers, 10 p.m.)
Saturday
TaDDa ana i raxx (z.oo Bar, y p.m.j
Ditch Witch and Shithook (Knickerbockers, 10 p.m.)
Pears-A-Palloza (P.O. Pears, 5 p.m., music from Fishheads, One More Time,
Confidentials, Self-Righteous Brothers, Nuclear Bees and On the Fritz
Sunday
Self-Righteous Brothers, Third Degree, Jumpin’ Kate, McGoverns (Zoo Bar, 3 p.m.)
Funk-O-Matic (Duffy’s, 10 p.m.)
Manday
Big-Daddy & Authorized Personnel, Julius & The Windows (Zoo Bar, 9 p.m.)
Tuesday
(Open Stage, Zoo Bar, 9 p.m.)
Wednesday
Larry Gamer and His Boogaloo Blues Band
(Zoo Bar, 9 p.m.)
Music
Ildesdays are new release
days for record companies)
Billy Joel
Fleetwood Mac
Flying Burrito Brothers
Lords of Acid
WhK
(Tuesdays are new release days
far videos)
Movies
Friday
“Event Horizon”
"Steel"
“Copland”
“Money Talks" at the Plaza 4 Theaters, stay
for “Spawn"
viivoi i review
“G.l. Jane” at the Douglas 3 Theaters, stay for
“Face/Off” (Sat. at 7:30 p.m.)
Retnraini Navies
“The Lost World”
“Gone Fishing”
Sernmer Him Classic Series
“National Lampoon’s Vacation” (Thur. at 9 p.m.,
free at the grassy area north of Kimball Hall)
(It On Itan Riepma Mss Htai
Theater]
“The Daytrippers’ (Thur.-Sun.)
New restaurant offers
food with southern touch
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By Amy Keller
Staff Reporter
Many Americans try different kinds of food
from all over the world, from Chinese to
Mexican to Italian, but sometimes they don’t
realize that their own country has good food.
That was the idea behind Southern
Hospitality, a new restaurant in Lincoln that
opened a month ago, said owner Chauncey
Blakely. Located at 1317 North 10th Street,
Southern Hospitality features a variety of foods
with a southern flair, such as red beans and rice,
gumbo and barbeque beef sandwiches and ribs.
The restaurant is owned by Blakely and his
wife, Michele. Their son and daughter also
help with the business.
Blakely said that he wanted to have his
whole family involved in the business to show
his children that “the only way to keep a restau
rant is to keep it family-oriented.”
Blakely said that part of his reason for
opening Southern Hospitality was that he has
always enjoyed food and was a sorority cook in
the past, as well as a manager of several restau
rants. These included a strictly barbeque eatery
in Lincoln called Chauncey’s Place and the
I think we have
something that can touch
everyone's taste buds."
Chauncey Blakely
co-owner of Southern Hospitality
Acreage in Roca, Nebraska.
He also said that he had always wanted to
do something to highlight southern cooking
and not many restaurants in Lincoln serve that
type of food, so Southern Hospitality was the
natural outcome of that desire.
Jason Morehead, a senior advertising major
at UNL and first-time customer at Southern
Hospitality, said that he thought the restaurant
was a good addition to the other types of food
served in different restaurants throughout the
city.
“I think that it’s good for Lincoln to have a
variety of food,” Morehead said.
Please see SOUTHERN on 10
Gibson, Roberts shine
in ‘Conspiracy Theory’
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By Jeff Randall
Film, Critic
The recent glut of wild-eyed ideas about
government conspiracies - ranging from
UFO cover-ups to the JFK assassination - has
become one of the first recognizable cultural
mainstays of the ‘90s. Individual theorists are
popping up all over the Internet, television
and talk radio; and even though most people
consider their theories to be largely implausi
ble, if not ludicrous, the paranoid few still
manage to get plenty of air time.
So it was only a matter of time before
somebody made a movie to make fun of ‘em.
Richard Dormer and Joel Silver, the duo
behind the “Lethal Weapon” trilogy, took up
those expected reins, and “Conspiracy
Theory” is the result.
Mel Gibson stars as Jerry Fletcher, a cab
driver who inundates his passengers with his
own personal conspiracy theories on every
thing from fluoride in drinking water to
Oliver Stone films. He spends his off-the
clock time typing up and mailing his own
newsletter, “Conspiracy Theory,” and fawn
ing over Justice Department attorney Alice
Sutton (Julia Roberts).
Alice and her co-workers are somewhat
irritated by Jerry’s persistence - he tends to
burst into the office unannounced and bom
bard them with his ideas, which even he
admits are pretty much unable to be proven.
But six months ago, Jerry saved Alice from a
The Facts
Title: “Conspiracy Theory”
Stars: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick
Stewart
Director: Richard Donner
Rating: R (violence, language)
Grade: B
Five Words: “Theory” fails to prove self
pair of muggers, so she tolerates his crackpot
theories.
But what if Jerry’s theories aren?t entirely
wrong? What if he got a couple right, and a
few mysterious individuals weren’t too happy
about it?
That’s where “Conspiracy Theory” starts
to take off, emerging from a series of half
funny scenes into a full-fledged action
thriller, the kind that the Donner-Silver team
has made into somewhat of an art form.
Not much can be revealed about the film’s
plot beyond that, except that Patrick Stewart
plays the villain, an oddball figure who - for
some reason - must stop Jerry at all costs.
Gibson’s and Roberts’ performances make
the film, however. Gibson’s portrayal of Jerry
skirts a line somewhere between Brad Pitt in
“12 Monkeys” and Jack Nicholson in “One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Despite a few
Please see CONSPIRACY on 9