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Weekend
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The following is a brief list of
weekend events. Please call the
venue for more information.
CONCERTS:
Duffy’s, 1412 0 St.
Sunday: Clean Plate Club,
M80, Mercy Rule
Duggan s Pub, 440 S. 11th St.
Friday and Saturday:
Rockin’ Fossils
First Plymouth,
20th and D streets
Friday: “Hunchback of
Notre Dame”
Knickerbockers, 901 O St.
Friday: Gabe Cahill Band,
Spooey POW, Miss Ogyny
Saturday: The Mediums,
The Chezwicks
Pla Mor Ballroom,
6600 WO St.
Friday: The Rumbles
Sunday : Sandy Creek
Royal Grove,
340 W Comhusker Highway
Friday: Steve Vai
Saturday: Frog Pond
Rogers Center for Fine Arts,
O ’Donnell Auditorium,
50th Street and
Huntington Avenue
Friday: Leah F-rdy
Saturday: Nebraska
Intercollegiate Choral
Festival finale
Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St.
Friday: The Self-Righteous
Brothers
Saturday: Paul Galaxy
and the Galactix
Sunday: Lil* Slim and
the Back-Alley Blues Band
THEATER:
Lied Center, 301N. 12th St
Friday: “Cats”
Mary Riepma Ross
Film Theater, 12th and R streets
All weekend: Gay/Lesbian
Film Festival
Mueller Planetarium,
Morrill Hall, 14^ and U-streets
Friday and Saturday:
Pink Floyd
All weekend: Laser Visions
Star City Dinner Theatre,
Eighth and Q streets
All weekend: “Sweeney Todd”
Studio Theatre,
12th and R streets, 3rd Floor
Friday and Saturday:
“The Lion in Winter”
DANCE:
Creighton University,
Lied Education Center
for the Arts,
24th and Cass streets
Friday and Saturday:
“Nebraska Dancing” with
the Omaha Modem Dance
Collective
GALLERIES:
Haydon Gallery, 335 N. Eighth
St. "
All weekend: works by Marcia
Goldenstein and Tom Riesling
Costumes courtesy of Boog’s Rock and Roll Boutique
Photos by Mike Warren
Story by Jason Hardy
Halloween lets
the good go bad,
the bad go good
Eating candy com, stealing pumpkins and putting
razor blades in candy apples are a few ways to have fun
on Halloween.
Putting cyanide in fruit punch is also fun.
This is a joke. As will be your friend when he or she
dresses like a bimbo this weekend.
It’s inevitable. Given an excuse, in this case a socially
accepted night of dressing like a freak, people will
indulge their risque side and push the boundaries of taste
to the edge and beyond. ’
In other words, it’s a night for guys with huge breasts
and tight cheerleader outfits.
Trick or treat.
“Guys don’t really seem to be going for ‘macho’
here,” said Ann Meier, manager of Thingsville in
Gateway Mall. “Nurses and cheerleaders are pretty pop
ular.”
Ironically, it seems women are after the same effect
this season.
“Yeah, they definitely look for the skimpy ones -
however they can get away with wearing as little as pos
sible,” Meier said.
According to Phyllis Spahn at Fringe and Tassel
Costumes, 735 O St., other popular characters this year
have been Austin Powers, gangsters, cowboys and Elvis.
She said Fringe and Tassel, despite being open all
year, orders extra stock for the Halloween season.
“The trade magazines try to keep us up to date on the
Please see HALLOWEEN on 13
COUNTERCLOCKWISE FROM TOP: THE HIRED gun from the West
waits outside The Tam O’Shanter Lounge and Steakhouse on 25th
and 0 straefciTHE FRENCH maid is as happy trick-or-treating as
she is bringing adult beverages to her new friend, the guitar
slinging cowboy, at The Tam O’Shanter Lounge. AFTER A long day,
even a dominatrix needs time to ponder her thoughts.