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Lincoln has much to offer in the way of
entertainment besides bars and age-restricted
clubs. For more information on any of these
activities, call the Lincoln Convention and
Visitors Bureau at 434-5335.
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Gateway Bowl: 333 N. Cotner St.
(464-5951)
Hollywood Bowl: 920 N. 48th St.
(466-1911)
Madsen’s Bowling and Billiards: 4700
Dudley St. (467-3249)
Parkway Lanes: 2555 S. 48th St.
(483-7763)
Sun Valley Lanes: 321 Apple Creek
Rd. (475-3469)
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Coffee Culture: 1311 0 St.
(438-8456)
The Coffee House: 1324 P St.
(477-6611)
The Mill: 800 P St.
(475-5522)
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Guitars and Cadillacs: 5400 0 St.
(464-1100)
Hangar 18:1118 0 St.
(435-1818)
Knickerbockers Bar and Grill: 901 0
St. (476-6865)
Pershing Municipal Auditorium: 226
Centennial Mall South (441-7500)
Pla-Mor Ballroom: 6600 W. O St.
(475-4030)
The Q: 226 S. Ninth St.
(475-2269)
The Royal Grove Nite Club: 340 W.
Cornhusker Hwy. (474-2332)
Temptations: 1600 O St.
(477-3888)
UNL Culture Center: 333 N. 14th St.
The Futz Theatre: 124 S. Ninth St.
(435-6307)
Lied Center For Performing Arts: 301
N. 12th St. (472-4747)
Lincoln Community Playhouse: 2500
S. 56th (489-7529)
Nebraska Repertory Theatre (Howell
and Studio Theatres): 12th and R
streets- Temple Bldg. (472-2073)
The Star City Dinner Theatre and
Comedy Cabaret: Eighth and Q St.
(477-8277)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Department of Theatre Arts and Dance:
12th and R streets- Temple Bldg. (472
The Wagon Train Project: 512 S.
Seventh St. (435-7776)
Adventure Golf Center: 56th and Old
Cheney Road (421-2254)
Big John’s Billiards: 399 Sun Valley
Blvd. (474-3545)
Champions Fun Center: 15th and
Cornhuskers Hwy. (438-2769)
CJ’s Paintball Adventures: 1326 S.
33 St. (438-2769)
Holiday Skate World and Family Fun
Center: 710 Hill St. (474-3866)
Lazer Quest: 6802 P St.
(465-5522)
W C Frank Family Amusement
Center: 220 N. 66th St. (467-6289)
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CHAMPIONS FUN CENTER manager Scott Bethune practices his putting skills on the miniature golf course.
Champions also offers go-carts, bumper boats as well as arcade games.
Minors seek out hot spots
Activities abound for students under 21
By Jim Zavodny
Staff Reporter
It’s another weekend in the
Lincoln, and as your 21- and-over
friends make plans to hit the bars for an
evening of drunken idiocy, you’re stuck
with nothing to do.
Believe it or not, there are other
things to do in Lincoln besides con
suming gallons of alcohol and watch
ing the Huskers kick butt in football.
Polly McMullen, president of the
Downtown Lincoln Association, can
tell you about the different things going
on in the downtown area that don’t
involve drinking.
“I think that downtown Lincoln is
becoming an entertainment center for
the community. It has the largest con
centration of restaurants and movie
theaters and also a number of interest
ing arts and cultural activities,”
McMullen said.
For example, one could spend an
evening at one of Lincoln’s many per
forming arts theaters, McMullen said.
“The Wagon Train Project is one of
the more cutting edge arts groups.
They are very much focused on newer
forms, like dance, drama and music,
which have an appeal to a younger
crowd,” she said.
And don’t forget the fossil exhibits
at the University of Nebraska State
Museum in Morrill Hall. In addition to
owning the world’s largest fossil ele
phant, Morrill Hall holds rock ‘n’ roll
laser light shows and astronomical
demonstrations in the Ralph Mueller
Planetarium.
The Royal Grove Nite Club and
Guitars and Cadillacs are unique
because they mix live entertainment
with dancing. Guitars and Cadillacs
allows a 19-and-over crowd in on
Thursday for their “Retro Night” of
dancing, and on Saturday nights for
concerts, which on Saturday are not
country bands.
At the Royal Grove, there is live
rock n’ roll music after 9 p.m. on
Tuesday and Thursday through
Saturday, but most of their shows are
either 19-or 21 -and-over.
Hangar 18 may be the most under
appreciated dance club in Lincoln,
though The Q may argue that they hold
that title. Both promote all-night dance
affairs for their patrons, but unfortu
nately, there is always a 19-and-over
restriction at the Hangar 18, and
Tuesday nights are usually the only day
minors are allowed to enter The Q.
Hangar 18’s DJs are play old school
hip-hop, techno and popular dance
music and also help promote all-ages
rave parties in local warehouses. The Q
plays “progressive dance music,” and
can be described as the club for people
with “alternative” lifestyles.
Perhaps the best all-ages concert
and dance venue in Lincoln is the Pla
Mor Ballroom, located five miles west
of downtown Lincoln on 0 street. Their
shows are geared towards people who
like country music, and almost all of
their events are for all ages.
Even though Folsom’s Children’s
Zoo & Botancial Gardenshas the word
“Children’s” included in the title, don’t let
the name fool you, said Sandi Witkowicz,
deputy director of the Lincoln
Convention and Visitor’s Bureau.
“(The zoo) is still a very interesting
place for people of all ages because of
the beauty of the Botanical Gardens
and its relaxing atmosphere,”
Witkowicz said.
“Over the last year they have
expanded the total zoo area, and over a
third of the more than 300 animals
inside are on the threatened or endan
gered species list.”
The kid inside all of us still likes to
play games now and then, and you
won’t have any trouble finding this
type of entertainment in Lincoln with
five different bowling alleys and a
number of other places that offer all
ages fun. Witkowicz said that the go
karts at Champions Fun Center and the
laser tag at Lazer Quest are popular
attractions. And there’s always minia
ture golf at the Adventure Golf Center.
Witkowicz said activities are locat
ed close to campus, so even if students
didn’t own cars, they can still do things.
These are both bonuses, but she gave
an even better reason for wanting to
live in the Lincoln.
“1 think the fact that Lincoln is a
family-oriented city and is safe is very
important, and maybe a college student
doesn’t think about things like that,”
Witkowicz said. “But knowing that you
can walk back from downtown to the
campus without having to worry about
being attacked is very reassuring.”
Listeners
find variety
on local dial
By Jeff Randall
Staff Reporter
It’s on 24 hours a day. It's free. It’s
radio.
And even though most of the
time, turning on the radio is like gam
bling with your recreational time,
informed gamblers can find stations
worthy of their ears.
Close to home, KRNU (90.3 FM)
is run by students at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. Offering a virtual
grab-bag of musical selections rang
ing from acapella glee clubs to lo-fi
rock to hip-hop, KRNU is commer
cial-free radio that gives Lincoln lis
teners a chance to hear music they
normally wouldn’t hear on other sta
tions.
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ticism, KZUM (89.3 FM) is a com
munity-run station that features
theme shows covering jazz, R&B,
world music, country and countless
other genres. The station also fea
tures talk shows and news programs.
The remainder of Lincoln’s radio
stations is pretty much a genre-spe
cific lineup.
Classic rock and country fans are
in hog’s heaven, as most of the dial is
dominated by the two big C’s of the
music industry.
KIBZ (106.3 FM) is a staple of
many Lincolnites’ radio diet, offer
ing up enough Aerosmith, Credence
Clearwater Revival and “get the Led
out’’ nuggets to satisfy even the most
ravenous rock appetite. Other such
stations include The Eagle (92.9 FM)
and the Fox (101.9 FM).
un tne twangy side, country
music is served up by Froggy (98.1
FM) and KZKX (96.1 FM).
The recent demise of the Edge
(which was replaced by the Fox) left
many local listeners lamenting the
demise of “alternative rock” in
Lincoln. To fill the void, stations
such as KKNB (104.1 FM) and
KFRX (102.7 FM) have picked up
some of the scraps, playing occasion
al modern-rock numbers by artists
such as Natalie Imbruglia and
Smashing Pumpkins. KFRX also
throws out the ear candy, with teen
rock hit-makers such as Hanson,
Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls.
And for fans of old-school rock
and soul, the radio can be a user
friendly tool. KOOL (105.3 FM) and
Omaha-based station KGOR (99.9
FM) give somewhat comparable
mixes of Top 40 hits from the ‘70s on
back. KOOL earns extra points for
hitting on some lesser-played songs
by artists such as Sam Cooice and
Otis Redding, to name a few.