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Page 15 rHE Weekend in Preview The following is a brief list of weekend events. Please call the venue for more information. CONCERTS: Duffy's, 1412 0 St. Sunday: Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and Autonomadic Bookmobile Roadshow Knickerbockers, 901 O St. Friday: Deep Blue Something, Meelee Saturday: Luck of Aleia, Raymond Nothing The Royal Grove, 340 W. Cornhusker Hwy. Friday: JRZ System Saturday: Michael Hartman, JRZ System 7th Street Loft, 504 S. Seventh St. All weekend: Life Nine State Fair, Bob Devaney Sports Center Friday: Carrot Top Saturday: Semisonic Sunday: Def Leppard Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St. Friday: Mark Sailings and the Famous Unknowns Saturday: Baby Jason and the Spankers THEATER: Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, 12^ and R streets All weekend: “Limbo” Star City Dinner Theatre, Suite 100, 803 Q. St. Friday: Richard Carter GALLERIES: The Burkholder Project, 719 P St. All weekend: works by Anne Burkholder, Nancy Childs, Bill Ganzel and Ellen Smith Gallery 9,124 S. Ninth St. All weekend: works by David Alles • Haydon Gallery, 335 N. Eighth St. All weekend: works by Donna Barger Joslyn Museum, 2200 Dodge St., Omaha f> All weekend: Sandy Skoglund, “Reality Under Siege” t Lentz Center, Morrill Hall, 14th and U streets All weekend: paintings by Shi Hu Noves Gallery, 119S Ninth.St. All weekend: works by Gretchen Meyers, Susan Barnes, Evelyn Issacs, Lois Meysenburg and Tom Palmerton The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 12th and R streets All weekend: works by John Stuart Curry, Richard Diebenkorn and Charles Rain’s ‘‘Magic Realism” ^ I - ’ f Early September is not the time to budget fun or count calories By Jason Hardy Senior staff writer Every year, the International Student Association has a bazaar in the Nebraska Union that offers just about every type of ethnic food imag inable. But they don’t have cheese on a stick. For that there’s only one place to go. Yep, the Nebraska State Fair. Sure, the food isn’t authentic. It’s not supposed to be. It’s supposed to reflect the melting pot of cultures this nation has become. That’s why they sell things like Indian tacos and ninja chicken - they want to raise your cul tural awareness. Their philosophy is to bring together foods, regardless of race, color, creed or calories. Well, at least the calories part is accurate. Oh yeah, we’re going to put on some weight tonight. Near the outskirts of the State Fair midway is a covered building that houses such eateries as Rupza, A&W and other stock, fast food places. Just east of that sits what any red-blooded American can love and respect - The Beef Pit. it s impossible to miss, mostly because it’s called The Beef Pit, and it’s not a pit. Oh, they do have some beef tnougn, maa oeet. Once inside, you can’t miss all the signs tout ing the greatness of corn-fed b^ef. The workers even wear buttons that just say “Beef.” When you look around The Beef Pit, you see people who know good beef. Beef, beef, beef, beef. This ring of the State Fair food chain is brought to us by the good people of the Beef Council and the Nebraska Cattlemen. For $6, you can get a prime rib sand wich, coleslaw and corn. Every meal comes with a “bio plastic” fork thaL_ degrades after either / - ; x State Fair Events 8-9 p.m., 10 Shameless 7-11p.m. Semisonic 8 p.m. The most obvious stop after The Beef Pit is a lit tle stand that sells cheese on a stick. Cheese stand worker Jeremy CrutchfieLd described them best when he said, “It’s like a com dog but it’s all cheese inside.” And he’s right Cheese on a stick is essen tially just that: cheese stuck to » -1 eat about two or three cheeses a day. I just don’t get burned out on them,” he said. When it comes to state fair food, the c6up de grace has to be the newest addi tion to the lineup'- fried candy bars. Creating something as timeless as fried candy bars takes three ingredients, all of which are easily found at the fair. In fact, it was only a matter of time before this happened. First off, get a candy bar. Second, get a stick. Third, stick the candy bar on the stick and stick it into a batter made up of some kind of chocolate composite. Finally, stick it into the fryer, wait a few minutes, and you get another direct descendent of die com dog, but much sweeter. - For the most part, it tastes like s’mores, and once you finish one, you feel like a jumbo com dog. But that’s what it’s all about It’s the Nebraska State Fair after all. Linda Buss, candy bar cooker, said uays in me eie1 ments or two to three minutes stuck in the com or beef. The tables are set up with cardboard displays that offer fun facts every Nebraskan should know about beef and com. - Fact: Calcium Magnesium Acetate can be made from corn, and CMA is used as a de-icer for airport runways. Fact: Photographic films are made from the starch portion of com. • Fact: The com at the Beef Pit has soooooo much butter on it. Tho meal was excellent, and The Beef Pit’s only drawback is that it does n’t have a place to take a nap. „ . • . — u avivn uiiu stuck in a deep fat flyer for a few minutes. This creates a crunchy outer shejl with a melted cheesy inside. Imagine the power of one grilled cheese sandwich multiplied by a googol. That’s cheese on a stick. Please, use the power for good, not evil, like Crutchfield does. if you come to the fair, you’d better come ready to indulge yourself. There no way around it. “I mean, you’re only at the fair a couple of days,” Buss said. “You don’t come to the fair and think ‘Oh, I’m gonna watch my weight.’” No, you don’t. \ ■* V ,