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The following list is a briefguide to
weekend events. Please call venues
for more information.
CONCERTS:
Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 OSt
Sunday: Exit 159 and Meele
Duggan’s Pub, 440S. 11th St
Friday: Self-Righteous Brothers
Saturday: Eye of die Storm
Knickerbockers, 901 OSt
Friday: Clever and Swerve
Saturday: Floating Opera and
Darktown House Band
Sunday: Frantic Flattops and The
Glenmount Popes
Royal Grave, 340 W. Comhusker
Hwy.
Sunday: Digital Underground
Wagon Train Project, 504 S. 7th
St
Friday: David Roth
Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St
Friday and Saturday: Billy Bacon and
the Forbidden Pigs
Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater,
12th and R Streets
All weekend: The Return of the
Gay/Lesbian Film Festival
Star City Dinner Theater, 8th and
Q Streets
All weekend: Little Shop of Hor
rors
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Lincoln Community Playhouse,
2500 S. 50* .
All weekend: Big River
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Howell Studio Theater, 12th andR
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Friday and Saturday: Theatrix
‘Tales of the Lost Formicans”
GALLERIES:
Jo slyn Art Museum, 2200Dodge
St, Omaha
Saturday: Opening of “Allure of
the Exotic”
Burkholder Project, 719 P. St
“Prairie Horizons” watercolors by
Anne Burkholder, South galffry:
“A New Venue” featuring handmade
Jewelry by Nancy Childs
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Hay don Gallery, 335 N. V* St
Saturday ..
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Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery,
12th and R Streets
“Different Voices: New Textile Art
from Poland”
“The Latino Spirit: Hispanic Icons •
and Images” " .
“Legible Forms: Contemporary
Sculpiural Books”
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Courtesy Photo
THIRD EYE RUND, the heed that racketed from obscurity with
the candy-like radio bit “Semi-Charmed Life,” leads MTV's
Campus Invasion tour on Saturday when it plays Pershing
Auditorium with Eve S. The MTV tour kicks off in Lincoln before
moving on to other university campuses. „
MTV to bring bands, videos,
sex infonnation to campus
By Jason Hardy
Senior staff writer
It was 1981 when the world met
MTV and music videos invaded
homes all across America.
Seventeen years later, die network
famous for defining a generation is
invading campuses across the country
armed with catch phrases and bands
straight from the “buzz bin.”
In an attempt to connect with col
lege audiences, MTV will kick off its
“Campus Invasion” on Saturday with a
free daytime “interactive” festival for
students from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 pjn.
on the greenspace north of the
Nebraska Union.
The day’s events will culminate
with a concert by alternative cheese
balls Third Eye Blind and opening
band Eve 6 at Pershing Auditorium,
226 Centennial Mall South. Both
bands have signed on for the duration
of the College Invasion tour, which
will attack Western Illinois University
after its weekend in Huskerland.
While Third Eye Blind is famous
for annoyingly catchy tunes like
“Semi-Charmed Life” and “How’s It
Going To Be,” Eve 6 is a fresh new pop
group complete with piercings and tat
toos ^- of course its members were most
likely clinging to bowl cuts and flop
hairdos until Sugar Ray hit it big last
year. Eve 6 is riding the up and coming
rocket of altema-stardom with its
increasingly popular single “Inside
Out”
The intraactive festival includes an
experimental music section complete
with die latest in music enhancement
software so students can mess up pre
recorded music and videos. MTV is
even going to teach students how to
play guitar or other state-of-the-art
electronic instruments. No more lone
l
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Two bands to share Knickerbockers’ stage
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The show will be the first time in
Darktown’s five-year career that the
band has played with'Lincoln’s own
most eclectic ensemble, Floating
Opera.
Darktown will also mafce its new
album, “Hot Tongue fand Cold
Shoulder,” available to the Lincoln mar
ket for the first time at Saturday’s show.
t Darktown plays a second release
show for Omaha, audiences at The Stork
Chib on Sundhy, where it appears wilh
Lullaby for the Working Class.
Richard Rebarber, associate profes
sor of mathematics at University of
Nebraska-Lincoln and chief composer
for Floating Opera, said the two bands
will be co-headlining Saturday’s Show.
He said his band plays last only because
Floating Opera has the hometown
advantage.
“They are the most compatible
opening act we’ve had. Wi® both a lit
tle quieter than the average band that
considers itself to be slightly alterna
tive,” Rebarber said. l7? ;
One way the two bands differ,
though, is the way they present them
selves on tiie stage, Rebarber said.
“Who we are on stage depends very
much on Heidi (Ore, Floating Opera
vocalist) and Lori (Allison, also a vocal
ist). We have two of the best lead singers
in the state, if not the country.
“We have yet to establish a band
Please see HOUSE on 13
Courtesy Photo
Led by Bill Hoover (top center) and his wife Renee Lesema Hoover (top
right), Barktown House Band has become one of Omaha's most interesting
rock acts. The sextet plays almost twice as many instruments as it has
members, including Hie handsaw, the aceordioa and the violin.
