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Magic realist poet
to give reading
“Today, wild parakeets awoke/
confused to find themselves chatter
ing/ in a strange patois.
Today, even the ants are tourists,/
and the iguana, camouflaged as a
mirror,/ has forgotten his true reflec
tion.”
- Stuart Dybek, “Today,
Tonight”
Stuart Dybek, a novelist, poet
and professor, writes prose and poet
ry combining naturalism with magic
realism. In his work, he takes every
day items from the real world and
makes them mythic in proportion.
On Thursday, Dybek will visit
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
to read from his work.
Dybek writes almost exclusively
about his birthplace, Chicago’s
southwest side. When Dybek was
bom in 1942, this neighborhood was
populated by working-class Poles,
Czechs and Hispanics. The Roman
Catholic Church was also a formida
ble presence, attempting to bridge
the gap between the ethnic groups.
Dybek explored his memories of
this place in “The Coast of
Chicago,” a collection of seven short
shorts and seven longer stories. The
stories are joined together by their
setting and their themes as well as by
Dybek’s style.
Dybek has also written another
collection of stories, “Childhood
and Other Neighborhoods,” as well
as a collection of poetry, “Brass
Knuckles.”
He has received a Guggenheim
Fellowship, and his work has been
reprinted in “Best American Short
Stories” and “O. Henry Prize
Stories.”
In the Spring 1998 issue pf
Ploughshare, Dybek said, “When I
first started writing, I thought it
would be about saying something. I
don’t think that now. I think of writ
ing as making something. I don’t
know if it’s a paradox or just foggy
thinking to believe language ... can
in some way or another lead you to
something unsayable.”
Dybek will read at 7:30 p.m. in
the Dudley Bailey Library, 228
Andrews Hall.
Photographer celebrates
Southwestern culture
Through the photography of
Laura Gilpin, the landscape and peo
ple of the Southwest come to life.
“Laura Gilpin: Photographs of
the Southwest” is a comprehensive
overview of Gilpin’s work featuring
more than 40 photographs. It is a
traveling exhibit on view in the
Great Plains Art Collection in Love
Library, 13th and R streets.
Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) trav
eled through the Southwestern
region of the United States and the
Yucatan from the 1920s through the
mid ’60s.
Her photographs include inti
mate portraits of the people,
dwellings and landscapes of the
Southwest.
In the early ’30s, Gilpin began
focusing her photography on the
Navajos. She continued photograph
ing these people for almost half a
century, and it is these images for
which she is best known. The images
were compiled in publications of her
work, including “The Pueblos: A
Camera Chronicle” and “The
Enduring Navajo.”
Martha A. Sandweiss, the former
curator of photography at the Amon
Carter Museum in Fort Worth,
Texas, said in her publication “Laura
Gilpin: An Enduring Grace” that
Gilpin never considered herself an
“artist; rather she was simply a ‘pho
tographer’ who, for more than half a
century, practiced her profession
with a consummate craftsmanship
and a great love for the world that
she captured with her camera.”
The Great Plains Art Collection
will have the exhibit on display until
Oct. 29.
Drew Carey takes
show to stadium
CLEVELAND (AP) Comedian
Drew Carey punches his hand into the
air near the goal line of Cleveland
Browns Stadium as thousands of fans
chant his name.
A dream episode on Carey’s top
rated ABC sitcom, “The Drew Carey
Show”?
No, it’s Carey taking a break from
filming to acknowledge the thousands
of Clevelanders who came decked out
in orange and brown to play Browns
fans for the show’s Sept. 29 episode on
the team’s return to the National
Football League.
A moment after receiving his wel
come from the crowd, Carey is poking
fun at them, drawing a laugh that echoes
through the 72,000-seat stadium.
“Hey, good luck looking for your
face on TY” he tells those who waited in
line for hours to be part of the crowd on
the show. More than 10,000 fans
streamed through the stadium.
Although Carey’s show takes place
in Cleveland, the cast has been on loca
tion only once before in the city on Lake
Erie. The musical opening of the show
was shot three years ago at several well
known spots, including the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame and Jacobs Field,
home of the Cleveland Indians.
The show decided to move off the
sound stage and into the real world
when the writers suggested an episode
on the return of the Browns. Most of the
22-minute episode, the second of the
season, is shot at the Browns stadium.
* The show has Carey’s character, his
gal pal Kate (Christa Miller) and side
kicks Lewis (Ryan Stiles) and Oswald
(Diedrich Bader) trying to get tickets.
When that fails, they sneak into the sta
dium. (Not very likely, but hey, it’s TV)
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Wagon Train provides culture
WAGON from page 16
Dorfman said what makes the
WTP such a great experience for
artists is that it’s hands on.
“It’s grass roots,” he said. “It doesn’t
have a corporate feel. The staff is small
but knowledgeable and friendly, and
(Lamphere) creates situations where
you feel as though you are a part of the
community.” \
The WTP will continue its them^on
home this year with a project calfedv,
“Homeland.” The performance is in
cooperation with the Onsite
Performance Network, which produces
site-specific performances.
This performance will take place in
what is considered the center of the
community: a football field.
“We were trying to find the spiritual
center of the community,” Lamphere
said. “We wanted to know what unites
the community. It turned out to be
Nebraska football.”
Football is something that all
Nebraskans respond to, she said. That’s
the driving force for the performance
scheduled for May 19 at Seacrest Field.
The show includes^ tailgate party,
four marching bandsfAmerican Indian
dancers and drummers, a gospel choir
and father-and-son football players.
“Most of our energy is going toward
this right now,” Lamphere said. “We are
trying to focus our work. We are trying
to centralize on the idea of home.”
Part of this focus includes trying to
get the attention of college students,
who are a majority of the community.
Although the WTP has a loyal core
following, most of their audience con
sists of people 50 and older.
“The student body eludes us,”
Lamphere said. “College is such an
incredible time in your life, and I think
that students need to sample everything.
Then, they can compare and contrast. It
is a wonderful exploration experience.
We just haven’t figured out the key to
get to the university.”
That’s not to say there aren’t any
young audience members at the WTP.
For the past two years, the Wagon
Train has worked with the Survival
Skills program for at-risk youths, a pro
gram run through the YWCA.
The program members have attend
ed a number of performances and pro
duced a few of their own.
Tiffany Mullison-Kauffman, who is
in charge of the program, said the
youths have put on eight educational
productions about HIV and AIDS.
“The Wagon Train had a wonderful
space, and they were willing to share it
with us,” she said. “We decided to take
advantage of that, and we are hopeful
that we will be able to perform there
again.”
Mullison-Kauffman said the youths
are also encouraged to interact with the
diverse group of performers brought in
by the Wagon Train.
“The artists will do exercises and
activities with the kids during their
stay,” she said. “They are given the
opportunity to expose these kids, who
would not normally be offered this
experience, to different types of art.”
The Wagon Train begins its seventh
season this year with a performance by
Ann Carlson titled “Grass/Bird/Rodeo.”
The performance will be at the 7th
Street Loft, 504 S. Seventh St., and is
free to the public. It will also feature live
chamber music by Lincoln’s Summit
String Quartet.
Lamphere hopes this new season
will attract new audience members.
“We hope people will realize that
the Wagon Train is a really surprising
gem in the Lincoln culture scene,”
Lamphere said. “I hope people will
respect and value what we have to offer ]
them. i
The
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Project 1
1999/2000
Who: Ann Carlson
"Grass/Bird/Rodeo'
featuring live chamber music
by Lincoln's Summit String
Quartet
Where: The 7th Street Loft, 504
S. Seventh St.
Who: Sean Curran Company
Irish Dances/Local Flavor
featuring performances by
the Lincoln Irish Dancers
and Chris Sayre
Where: The 7th Street Loft, 504
S. Seventh St.
JarMW 7;3&pm
Who: Liz Lerman Dance
Exchange
"In Praise of Home"
Where: McDonald Theatre,
Nebraska Wesleyan
University Dept, of Theater
and Communicatio.
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Who: The Exchange Project
Junebug Productions
Teatro Pregones
Roadside Theater
Where: Johnny Carson Theater/Lied
Center for Performing Arts,
UNL
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Who: Ruby Nelda Perez
’Dona Rosita's Jalepeno
Kitchen"
Where: McDonald Theatre,
Nebraska Wesleyan
University Dept, of Theater
and Communication
Matt Haney/DN
“I enjoy bringing artists to Lincoln,
rhey come here and can’t get over how
lice everyone is. It’s really nice to be
lble to show off the community.”
Zoo Bar hosts Duarte s blues-rock
DUARTE from page 11
has.
But comparisons aside, Duarte has
also picked up his own style, and many
see Duarte taking blues rock ’n’ roll to
new levels of creativity and honesty.
“He’s influenced by a lot of jazz
guys that Stevie Ray Vaughan and
Hendrix weren’t into,” Boehmer said.
“And he can play jazz incredibly well.
He can go ahead and do a three-night
set of nothing but jazz. He just doesn’t
very often.”
For the most part, Duarte sticks
with his trio, the Chris Duarte Group,
and has released two albums with them,
which were both critically acclaimed.
Boehmer said the Chris Duarte
Group continually draws a big crowd.
Maybe it’s because of his talent, maybe
it’s because of his dedication or maybe
it’s just luck.
Then again, maybe that’s just what
happens when you’re a legend, or at
least, soon to be one.
Concert Preview
lie Facts
Who: The Chris Duarte Group
Where: The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St.
When: 9 p.m. Friday
Cost: $10
The Skinny: Soon-to-be legendary blues
guitarist here for one night only.