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Thefollowing is a brief list of
weekend events. "Please call the
venue for more information. .
CONCERTS:
Duffy s Tavern, 1412 O St.
Sunday: Joe Buck, Ronald Wax,
Driveby Honky
Knickerbocker’s, 901 OSt.
Friday: George Zip Experience,
Trizomy
Saturday: Sun Jack, JRZ System
Royal Grove,
340 W. Comhusker Highway
Friday and Saturday: 3D
St. Paul United Methodist
Church, 317 S. 12* St.
Sunday: Keelan Family and
Friends Christmas
The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14* St.
Monday: Cosmic Ripple
Tuesday: The Joe Jaknnbi Band,
The Aaron Zimmer Band
Wednesday: Jam Street
Thursday: Baby Jason and the
Spankers
Friday and Saturday: Kelley Hunt
DANCE:
Lied Center for Performing Arts,
~ JOIN. 12*St.
Saturday and Sunday:
“The Nutcracker”
THEATER:
Lincoln Community Playhouse,
2500 S. 56* St.
Wednesday through Sunday:
“Mr. Scrooge”
Mary Riepma Ross
Film Theater,
Sheldon Art Gallery,
12th and R streets
All weekend: “Twin Falls Idaho”
Star City Dinner Theatre._
8th and Q streets ,
Thursday through Sunday:
“Pump Boys and Dinettes”
GALLERIES:
Gallery 9,124 S. Ninth St.
All weekend: Allen Busch, Judy
Greff and Barbara Sullivan
Haydon Gallery, 335 N. Eighth St.
All weekend: “Small Treasures,”
all Haydon artists
Lentz Center, Morrill Hall,
14th and U streets
All weekend: paintings by Shi Hu
Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery,
Home Economics Building,
Rm. 231 East Campus
Through Friday: “East Meets
West,” an apparel collection by
Hong-Youn Kim
Rotunda Art Gallery, Nebraska
Union, 14th andR'Streets --~
Through Saturday: Studio Art
Degree Candidates Capstone
Exhibition
The Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery, 12tft and R streets
All weekend: “Black Image and'
Identity,” “Robot Colescott: Re
cent Paintings,” fJudy Burton:
Visual Nuances” and “Eugene
Atget’s Views of Paris”
New Year’s parties are plentiful
■ Lincoln offers a wide array
of upscale and toned-down
treats to send out the
century.
By Josh Nichols
Staffwriter
Nineteen more days, and it’s here.
The night of all nights, the end of
one millennium, the beginning of
another.
Have you made plans for the “unfor
gettable,” “momentous” evening?
Four years ago, at die beginning of my
college career, my friends and I would talk
about where we would be when the clock
struck 12.
Slammin’ brewskies on Bourbon Street
was mentioned. So was being a part of the
festivities in Times Square.
But somehow, I’ve blown every I
saved-up penny I had in the past four I
years. §
Damn that legal (kinking age.
At first; not doing anything on New
Year’s Eve sounded like a good idea.
I mean, there is that chance that all hell is
gonna break loose.
But since I haven’t taken the time to build a bomb
shelter stocked with bottled water and cartons of ciga
rettes, I may just as well try to find something to do
here in Lincoln.
I’ve been researching, checking all die ads and
rummaging through the junk sent down here to die
Daily Nebraskan arts and entertainment department
What I found is that a tot is going on.
Since I don’t have any specific needs or desires on
how I want to enjoy the evening, I died to explore a
variety of events that would cater to die different inter
ests of you readers.
Here are a few that caught my eye.
First, if you feel like spiffing up for the occasion
and have 80 bucks to spare, Club 1427 is having a for
mal get-together starting at 8 p.m.
The event will feature appetizers, a buffet and
champagne. Dance music will start at approximately
11:30 pjn., and the club hopes to keep the music going
until 3 a.m.
I personally don’t like dressing up and don’t have
80 bones to toss around, but I’m sure some of you
might
Another event that might spark some interest is the
New Year’s Eve “Last Dance” being put on at Pershing
Auditorium.
The concert, sponsored by Best Western Villager
Courtyard & Gardens Hotel and Best Styles
Formaiwear, will feature The Rumbles and The Bobby
Layne Orchestra.
Tickets
for this event
are $38, which gets
you stocks, cnampagne
at midnight, party favors and a commemorative cham
pagne glass.
If any of you are like me and grew up in southeast
Nebraska, you’ve probably seen The Rumbles on a
few occasions.
I personal!/ can’t see myself paying $38 to dance
to covers of “Takin’ Care of Business” and “Sweet
Home Alabama.”
If you want to get fired up for Husker football a lit
tle ahead of time, Sidetrack Tavern will be featuring its
Big Red-loving, opponent-bashing Sidetrack Band.
The cost to get into the tavern will be $3 at the door.
The message on die tavern’s phone said the laser
light fireworks display going on at midnight would be
visible outside the barfs backdoor.
Patrons will be allowed to step outside and watch
die display at midnight and rejoin the party inside at its
conclusion.
This could probably be a good time but would just
be a repeat of what I did the night before every other
Husker game this year.
So I probably won’t do that, either. I mean, this is
the millennium we’re talking about
| If
you ’re
looking for live music
as you usher in the next century, downtown Lincoln
and other bars around town will have a lot to offer.
Baby Jason and the Spankers will play Duggan’s
Pub, the Fishheads will play P.O. Pears ami the Heart
Murmurs with Magic Slim and the Mezcal Brothers
will perform at die Zoo Ban
These are just a few of the many places offering
live entertainment I can’t begin to list them all.
I personally still don’t know what I’ll be doing or
where I’ll be for the big night
Maybe I’ll stay with my gut feeling of all hell
breaking loose and return to die safety of my rural
hometown of Beatrice.
I’ll just pick up a six-pack of “Old Mud,” grab an
old AC-DC tape and find a raging bam bash going on
somewhere in the country.
I know, it sounds a little hick. But that’s where I
grew up.
So will I have an exciting, memorable evening?
Probably not
A fun evening?
Well, I’ll have to do my best to make it one-and so
will you.
Film tackles humor of illegal fish breeding
By Shelley Mika
Staff writer
A man and a vision.
That’s the easy way to describe
“Carpula,” the Nebraska-made film by
write/diiector/producer Ross Brockley.
But there’s more to the movie - and
the story-than that
The man in the movie is Janis, an
older, seemingly senile man. His vision
is to build breeding grounds for carp
and tolapia, two species of fish that are
illegal to breed.
The man behind the movie is
Brockley, a stand-up comedian and
actor-turned-filmmaker. His vision was
to make a movie rife with dark humor
and an interesting set built primarily on
Brockkyh Denton farm.
Put the two men and their visions
together, and you have “Carpula.”
The filming of “Carpula” began
about nine months ago, after Brockley
worked on a general script for three to
four months.
John Andrews, who helped
Brockley with the editing, casting,
sound and cinematography of
“Carpula,” said Brockley’s discovery of
the tolapia fish first spawned the idea
for the movie.
“The idea came from Ross explor
ing organic gardening, and he stumbled
across this fish called tolapia,” Andrews
said.
With further research, Brockley
found that breeding tolapia, as well as
carp, is illegal in the United States.
“And then he saw the humor,”
Andrews said. “It would be hilarious if
all this guy wanted to do was raise fish,
but he can’t”
“So we called Game and Parks to
see what they would do, and they said
they’d have to bring out the full regalia.
That became the idea for die climax of
die movie. We worked backward from
there.”
Just as Janis doesn’t let the Game
and Parks Commission stop him, nei
ther did Brockley, who actually built the
ponds for the set on his property.
“Ross said to himself, Tm not
going to build all these ponds and film it
without actually breeding the fish,”’
Andrews said.
And that he did. What was once
merely a fictional story was now
becoming a reality for Broddey.
As Andrews and Brockley filmed
the main characters mission, they were
visually representing Brockley’s actual
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The idea came from Ross exploring organic
gardening, and he stumbled across this fish
called tolapia. And then he saw the humor.”
John Andrews
‘Carpula’ crew member
work on his self-made fish farm.
“Every time Ross made a move on
his carp farms, we had to be out there
filming,” Andrews said.
The result is a very set-driven film
with a number of eye-catching nature
shots.
Most of “Carpula’s” cast was com
prised of locals, many of whom were
friends of Brockley and Andrews. In
fact, Andrews, his wife Miriam Kawa,
his 1-year-old son and his father are in
the movie. Brockley plays the main
character’s son-in-law, while Kawa
plays his wife.
But the main credit goes to Terry
Luce as the main character. Andrews
said he mid Brockley were discussing •
the film at O’Rourke’s Tavern when
they stumbled upon Luce.
“We were having all of these con
versations about the film, and he
nudged into it from time to time,”
Andrews said. “He’s very intelligent,
and finally Ross said, ‘Hey, would you
be interested in playing this character?’”
Luce had his work cut out for him,
as most of the scenes were improvised
“Ross had a basic outline, and he
coached the actors before we’d go into
every scene. He knew what he wanted to
come out of it, but he let the actors just
run with it,” Andrews said
The final version of “Carpula” has
yet to be released. Andrews said the
editing process isn’t quite finished, and
some scenes and dialogue will have to
be rewoikfidAs it stands right now, itfe a
film with a documentary feel but with a
lot more humor.