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A&Entertainment WtckBhJ Preview The following is a brief guide to weekend events. Please call venues for more information. CONCERTS: Duffy's, 1412 OSt. Sunday: Love Nut, June Bug Duggan's Pub, 440 S. 11th St. Friday and Saturday: Blues Notions Knickerbockers, 901 O St. Friday: Billy Hillshine, The Lotus Band Saturday: Mychicaaseal, Crush the Clown Omaha Civic Auditorium, 1804 Capitol Ave. Friday: Gladys Knight Sokol Hall, 2234 S. 13th St., Omaha Saturday: Everlast, Sugar Ray, 2 Skinnee J’s Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St Friday: James Armstrong Saturday: Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings THEATER: Kimball Recital Hall, 12th and R streets. Sunday: Symphonic Band, 3 p.m.; Faculty Recital, 8 p.m. Lincoln Community Playhouse, 2500S. Sff^St All weekend: “City of Angels” Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, 12th and R streets All weekend: “Happiness” Museum of Nebraska History, 15th and P streets Sunday: “Daddy Long Legs” starring Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron University of Nebraska Lincoln, Studio Theatre, Temple Building, 12th and R streets Friday and Saturday: “Landscape of the Body” GALLERIES: Burkholder Project, 719 P St Friday and Saturday: “Sandhills Invitational” Gallery 9,124 S. Ninth St All weekend: Recent works by M.L. Moseman, Christopher Payne, Pat Schemmer, Mary Springer Hay don Gallery, 335 N. Eighth St, Suite A Friday and Saturday: “Beauty at my Feet” featuring the art of Carol Rustad Noyes Art Gallery, 119 S. Ninth St Friday and Saturday: Oil paint ings by Faridun Negmet Zoda, twig pottery by Tony Guido Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 12th and R streets ^IHveekend: “UNL Studio Faculty Biennial Exhibition” Sandy Summers/DN LINCOLN NATIVE Ross Brockley is shooting a movie on his farm in Denton. Brockley, who wrote the film this winter, said the movie is a black comedy cen tered around Chinese agriculture, more specifically, carp farming. Actor, comedian Brockley directs his talent to carp-farming film Story by Christopher Heine % oss Brockley wants to make a film, but says he’s clue less. “I guess you could just say I don’t know what the hell I’m doing,” he said. However, the messy-haired, straggly dressed 37-year-old is either a comedian or character actor (take your pick) by trade, so one shouldn’t take his self-efface ment too seriously. Not to mention the fact that his skit-comedy and TV-commercial resume disproves the notion that the modest and reserved Brockley doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s chased the Energizer Bunny. He’s played a befuddling, cynical clown who wanted some Barq’s Root Beer “because I’m not thirsty.” He made it on the Conan O’Brien show, playing a loud, annoying person in a street scene. And now the Lincoln native is preparing to film a yet-to-be named dark comedy with much of the scenery to be shot at his farm south of Denton. Brockley is excited about the possibilities of taking his talent from the small screen to the big screen. But unlike his short acting roles in past TV ads, he can plant the punch line anywhere he wants. When talking about his upcoming project, Brockley seemed to be conceptualizing the piece as if he was preparing a good joke. Brockley believes jokes and films, despite their obvious differ ences in length, have similar char acteristics when it comes to con struction. “The cool thing (about movie making) is that you have 90 min Please see BROCKLEY on Spring5s wonders bloom early in art ■ An artist displays paint ings of wildflowers in a series called “Beauty At My Feet!’ ByLizaHoltmeier Senior staff writer Carol Rustad searched for nine years before finding one. The Prairie Fringed Orchid, a flower which used to be picked in armfuls, is now an endangered wild flower. So when Rustad found her first one, she didn’t pick it. She painted it on a canvas to share with others. “I want to share the reality of endangered species as well as art,” Rustad said. This month, the Haydon Gallery shows some works from Rustad’s col lection of nature paintings. The exhi bition, titled “Beauty at my Feet,” cel ebrates the miracles of the natural world. All of Rustad’s paintings in this Gallery Preview The Facts What: “Beauty At My Feet” Where: Haydon Gallery, 335 N. Eighth St. When: 7 to 9 p.m. Friday Cost: Free The Skinny: Painter uses nature to point out abundance of overlooked beauty exhibit use nature as their subject, but they range in size, in color and in mood. Some are linked together by sea sons. Some are linked together by medium. But all are linked by Rustad’s ' passionate, personal style. “In a group of paintings, you could easily pick out Carol’s. She has a very 1 distinctive style,” said Anne Pagel, the director of the Haydon Gallery. 1 Rustad presents her wildflowers in 1 an intimate framework. No grand, < expansive vistas for this painter. She « * * Art Courtesy of Haydon ( ‘SPRING SOLITUDE” by artist Carol Rustad is part of a collection of floral md other nature-oriented paintings. Her exhibit, “Reauty at my Feet,” ipens today at the Haydon Gallery. >refers to show her subjects tightly ramed by their environment, lending i sense of intimacy to herwork. Rustad also avoids photographic renderings of the wildflowers she loves. Rather, Rustad’s work captures Please see RUSTAD on 10 : ** tj t 'j J l i J>