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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
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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
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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
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