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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1998)
The following list is a brief guide to weekend events. Please call venues for more information. CONCERTS: Knickerbockers, 901 O St Friday: No Nutritional Value, The Vagrants Saturday: Swerve, JRZ System, Lower Case i Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th Su Friday and Saturday: The Heart murmurs, Little Slim and the Back-Alley Blues Band Duggan’s Pub, 440 S. 11th St Friday: Owen Much, The Debtors Saturday: LeRoy and Gypsy Eyes Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 O St. Sunday: Splitsville, Kids on Cof fee, Spelling Tuesday Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301N. 12th St Saturday: House of Blues/Southern Comfort tour, featuring Buddy Guy Sunday: Comhusker Marching Band First Plymouth Church, 20th and D streets Sunday: Faculty recital: Susan Moeser, organ Kimball Recital Hall, 11th and R streets Sunday: Music of student compos ers THEATER: Lincoln Community Playhouse, 2500 S. 56th St All weekend: “Night of the Ptero dactyls” Star City Dinner Theatre, Eighth and Q streets All weekend: “Annie” Temple Budding, 12th and R streets Friday and Saturday: “Trash My Heart” Mary Riepma Ross Fdm Theater, 12th and R streets Friday and Saturday: “Pi” Sunday: “The Thief” GALLERIES: JoslynArt Museum, 2200 Dodge St, Omaha All weekend: “Allure of the Ex otic,” “Images of the Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Collection of Joslyn Art Museum” Burkholder Project, 719 P St All weekend: The annual holiday art show “Color Me Christmas” Haydon Gallery, 335N. Eighth St Friday and Saturday: Paintings by Robin Smith ! Cross-dressing comic brings one-woman show to Midwest By Sarah Baker Senior staff writer Just in time for the holidays, a nice piece of candy is paying a sweet visit to Lincoln. But this candy - Kandi Kane, to be more specif ic - is more than just a treat. Kane, the cross-dressing comedian who does a dead-on impersonation of talk-show personality Sally Jessy Raphael, makes her first visit to Lincoln this weekend at the Q, 226 S. Ninth St, for her one woman show, “Live and Unstable: The Multiple Personalities of Kandi Kane in a One Woman Tribute to Schizophrenia.” Billed as the “Prince(ss) of Provincetown, Mass.,” where she was raised, Kane plans to expand her well-known East Coast act into the Heartland. In a phone interview from her home in Boston, Kane said she has never heard anything about Nebraska, but she is looking forward to being edu cated. “All I know is that I had to memorize it as one of the 50 states in grade school and that it was pink on the map,” she said. Kane has been a guest on numerous daytime talk shows, including “The Jenny Jones Show,” “The Ricki Lake Show,” “The Maury Povich Show,” E! Entertainment Television’s “Talk Soup” and “Fashion Emergency,” and as host of the channel’s gay-pride coverage, plus four appearances on “The Sally Jessy Raphael Show,” where she is now recog nized as a special guest. “I am official trailer-park trash,” Kane said. “I should have a tooth removed or something.” Kane said the first time she ever meet Raphael was r totally by chance, at one of her comedic performances in her home town. Raphael, who Kane was not expecting to see in the audi ence, tned to hide her identity under a baseball cap, but Kane knew better. “I kept walking by this woman in a hat and I started to wonder ‘Who is that?’Then t_i:_i _1_w_■ j iiol. i_i X XVUUX.VU XX mu XXVX, IVCUIV OOIU. UUV 1UYVAI it. She was really flattered.” Dolling herself up as a mirror image of Raphael isn’t that much of a challenge for her, Kane said. “I jump out of the ugly tree and try to get hit by every branch on the way down, and then I channel her spirit and put on red glasses,” she said. But Raphael isn’t the only parody Kane does. She also pokes fun at domestic god dess Martha Stewart, TV personality Judge Judy and Disney villain Cruella DeVil from “101 Dalmatians,” in addition to the numer ous characters she has invented herself. “I take their existing image and then tweak and twist it for comic effect,” Kane said. “I make fun of others, too. I’m an equal opportunity offender.” Kane was recently a contestant in the HBO Comedy Arts Festival - a competition encompassing 130 East Coast comedians - and took second place, making her, as she said, “The second-funniest person in New bngland. The material Kane is bringing to Lincoln on Sunday could be qualified as part of the “best of series,” she said. “First I am a comedian,” she said. “That is the basis of all my work. After that, it just turns into a three-ring-circus all about fun and laughs and skew ering hypocrisy, buffoonery and Southern Baptists.” Kane said she thought her show was popular because “it’s funny,” and she said most anyone will find laughs in her performance. “If they have a minimum-wage job or a college education, they are going to think it’s funny,” she said “They can expect to wear three pairs of Depends because they are going to pee their pants laughing.” Kane said she has been working in the comedy biz for the past 10 years, and she started out as a morning radio talk-show personality. After that, she started doing the club circuits and has been to almost all of the states “except for the Dakotas,” she laughed “If a club is called ‘Giggles’ or ‘The Comedy Shack,’ I’ve been there,” she said Kane said her only escape from her “adoring fans” comes when she occasionally returns to dress ing like a man. “If I didn’t, my fans would stalk me and ask me for panties and things,” she said. “I know, it’s shock ing. “Dressing as a guy is tough, and I think I am going straight to hell for doing it,” she added. “But I manage to look very realistic.” Kane takes the stage at the Q, Sunday night at 9 p.m. Cover charge for the show is $5, and no advance tickets are available. For more information, call the Q at (402) 475 2269. Courtesy Photo SALLY JESSY RAPHAEL loves Kandi Kane’s show, an impression of the bespectacled talk show host and her contentious guests. Kandi Kane brings her drag queen comedy act to the Q on Sunday night. Sin at Sokol Hall Garbage, Girls Against Boys to perform in Omaha on Sunday night By Jeff Randall Staff writer Whether one is religious or not, Sundays usually tend to be days of rest - a time to relax and, for the most part, recoup from a weekend of guilty plea sures. But this Sunday in Omaha, the guilty pleasures will continue to roll in as Garbage and Girls Against Boys take the stage at Sokol Auditorium, 13th and Martha streets. After only two albums, Garbage has become something of a main stream success. Aside from its musical prowess, the attention and record sales Garbage has garnered could be attrib uted to the personal magnetism of singer Shirley Manson. A sexually frank and attention demanding performer both on stage and on plastic, Manson has embraced the full-tilt rock-star persona with seemingly little hesitation. Her voice - whether a full-throated shout or a lilting whisper - has more or w «*age in a group that A.I .IIIO -: oecome a scene unto themselves - pri marily as progeni tors of the “V-Lux lifestyle” (taken from the name of their third album, “Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby”). Much like a wel fare-state Rat Pack, GVSB (as they are commonly known in shorthand) have taken the low-rent attitude of punk rock, dressed it up with suits and anes thetized it with dou ble martinis. . ^ Lead singer Scott McCloud’s sleazy voice oozes over the double-bass soundtrack on nearly every GVSB song, conjuring images of _i_i*! ii _ j __ Senior dance concert celebrates resilience This may come as a shock even to Marilyn Manson. University of Nebraska Lincoln senior dance majors have dubbed their senior project “The Beautiful People,” after Manson’s infamous tribute to the domination of weaker people. The title was chosen to illus trate the resilience of the UNL dance majors, who in the past year have struggled with a department change, revolving faculty and the threat of losing their major entirely. Courtesy Photo LED BY FAMED PRODUCER BUTCH VI6 (left), Garbage is more known for Its fiery lead singer Shirley music. Gaibage plays Sokol Hall on SiMdsy. 7
