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i I The Week! | inPreview j ! i ! j Duffy's Tavern, j 14120 St. Wednesday: Rascal Basket I Thursday live karaoke with Shithook I Duggan's Pub, 440 S. 11th St. Monday: open stage with Dangerous Dan Tuesday: Mike Douthit Wednesday: Brown Paper Bags Thursday: Rhythm Method Friday: Baby Jason and the ! Spankers j Knickerbockers, I 901 O St. Wednesday: (19 & over show ) | The Mediums and Blacklight j Sunshine Friday: (19 and over show ) Radio King and The Mercurys Saturday: Ripple Effect I The Zoo Bar, 136 \. 14th St. Monday: Boom Shako Luesdac open staee Wednesdav: The Blazers I horsda;. Josh Smith and the i-nst 1 ' '.a tarda;.. The Bel THEATER Howell Theatre, Temple Building, 121^ and R streets Luesday-Saturday; the L NL Theater Department presents “Look Back in Anger" Kimball Hall, 11and R streets Thursday and Saturday: LNL’s | School of Music presents the operas "Suor Angelica" and "Gianni Schicchi" Lincoln Community Playhouse, 2500 S. 56th St. Thursday-Saturday: The Playhouse Children's Theatre presents “A Wrinkle in Time” Wagon Train Project, 512 S. Seventh St. Thursday-Saturday: New York choreographers Sara Pearson and Patrick Widrig will pre sent “If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride,” a com munity collaborative dance work The Week in I’nexiew nets Mondays in the Daily Nebruskan and is compiled by mem bers of the arts and entertainment staff. Send all listings to The Week in Pre\iew do Daily Nebruskan, Nebraska Union 34. MOOR St. Lincoln. NE6X5XX-044X Photo s by Chris Bendet FROM TOP: COLBY GINES’ JOB keeps him constantly in the spotlight of danger. He said he relies on his “bull sense” to predict where the bull is going to move next. THE CROWD CHEERS as Gines appears in the spotlight prior to the bull-riding event. MIKE LIVERGOOD, a World’s Toughest Rodeo athletic trainer, cuts tape off of Gines’ stomach so paramedics can get a better look at his injury. ‘World’s Toughest’ bullfighter battles pain for profession By Bret Schulte Senior Reporter Bullfighter Colby Gines loves his job. Love hurts. In his relatively young career as a rodeo bullfighter, 22-year-old Gines has suffered internal bleeding, taken kicks to the face and broken several bones and always made it to work on time. "It’s all part of the job," he said as his train er tightly wrapped his abdomen in gauze. “If 1 don't do this the bills don't get paid." Friday night Gines entered Pershing Municipal Auditorium, 226 Centennial Mall South, with two fractured ribs from a bull he faced the week before. He left with separated ribs, a pair of Lincoln Fire Department paramedics and an uncertain future. Shaking the tears from his painted cheeks, Gines moaned as paramedics strapped an oxy gen mask to his face, “They’re broke. It popped. I mean they are popped'' He clutched his chest as the paramedics gently prodded his displaced ribs and arranged for an ambulance pickup. His girlfriend Marcie, who hadn’t seen him since New Year’s Day, rushed around backstage, grabbing his clothes and asking directions to Lincoln General Hospital where doctors were waiting. Earlier in the evening, Gines and Marcie, who attends school in Wyoming, commented on life in the rodeo and his career as a bull fighter. 66 If I ever quit being nervous I'm clone fighting bulls. That's when I'll be hurt bad, bad, bad." Colby Gines bullfighter “The thing about bullfighting is you're your own boss,” Gines said. “You don’t have somebody standing over you on an assembly line. You come and go as you please.” The oldest born of a roping-team couple in Idaho, Gines grew up in the rodeo and first appeared in the arena at age 7. He showed an early propensity for the cattle and danger, say ing his mom would frequently catch him rid ing off on the milking cow as a kid. By the time he was in high school Gines was a star in the rodeo club. After a few years with local community-college teams, he gained employment with “The World’s Toughest Rodeo” by age 20. Still considered extremely young for a pro fessional bullfighter, Gines rodeos around the country in addition to his employment at “World’s Toughest.” He said his name is becoming known in rodeo circles, and he is Please see GINES on 10
