Four Shillings never short on variety BY BRIAN CHRISTOPHERSON Quick. Say Aodh O’g O’Tuama five times fast. It’s not exactly your ordinary name, and he’s not exactly your ordinary guy. “You might have trouble getting a hold of him,” singer Tom Martin said. “He’s always on the road.” The road is his home. Traveling and entertaining is his life. O’Tuama and his wife Christy Martin are Four Shillings Short, a band which has existed since 1985 but has seen many dif ferent faces. Now, the band is the couple’s baby. Throughout a number of different band members, O’Tuama has been the one face that has stayed present in Four Shillings Short since its start. On Saturday, Tom Martin will open for the band, which will perform a variety of music at 7:30 p.m. at the 7th Street Loft. The concert is presented by the Lincoln Association For Traditional Arts. “They’re completely different from anything most people have heard, and they add their own little brand of comedy to the show,” LAFTA board member Kerry Krause said. The repertoire of Four Shillings Short includes Celtic, British Isles and American folk tunes, and French Flemish songs, classical pieces and original music. Those who attend the concert will hear instruments such as the mandolin, sitar and Irish drum. Christy Martin is especially gifted at playing the sitar, and the duo shows off her playing in several numbers, Martin said. Krause said Christy Martin’s talent is refreshing. “It's unusual to hear that sitar, espe cially in Irish music, but she really does an exceptional job with it,” Krause said. The band is based out of Palo Alto, Calif., where it gained hometown popu larity, but for the most part the couple has taken the show on the road since O’Tuama and Christy Martin met in 1995. ‘It’s unusual to hear that sitar, especially in Irish . music, but (Christy Martin) really does an exceptional job with it/ Kerry Krause LAFTA board member “They travel nonstop and have really had to stay organized and make their business work on the road,” Tom Martin said. , LAFTA is just happy to have Four Shillings Short and their unusual style of music in Lincoln for a night, said LAFTA board member Rebecca Carr. “Diversity is one of the main goals of LAFTA,” Carr said. “We always want to bring in a wide range of music.” A wide range of music also brings in a varied audience to the Loft. 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The food court isn’t a food court at all; it’s more of a food island in the archipelago of the “mall.” And it's quite clean - more detracting is the South Beach color motif that is so wild you need to wear sunglasses. Until last week the food island didn’t make much of an impact on me. And then oriental and occidental forces had a col lision. East Meets West, a new restaurant, opened. For all intents and purposes, East Meets West is the token Chinese place in the food court. Amigo’s and Valentino’s both claim Lincoln as their home and stronghold. Arby’s is a national chain with a few other Lincoln stores. The most natural choice for the final spot would have been Runza, but they chose to be in another part of the 27th Street & Pine Lake Road devel opment. So anyway, we get East Meets West, which really is too bad. The worst part about this place is that East doesn’t even actually meet West. On the Food Network cooking show, Asian influences are fused with Western traditions. But you won’t find a sweet and sour com dog at East Meets West (not that you’d necessarily want to). At EMW you’ll find standard East Meets West) —( Type: Chinese food —C Where: 27th Street & Pine Lake Road —C Entree: $5-10 i of 4 stars, Chinese fare - the kind that, if someone asked you how it was, would make you shrug your shoulders and unconvincingly say “OK.” The Cashew Chicken wasn't bad, but it wouldn’t make me go back again. The portion was adequate, but the meat was slim. The Kung Poh Pork (which I ordered extra spicy) was decent but only because the spices masked the blah flavor of the dish. The Crab Rangoon were small and cold, and the restau rant was out of egg rolls. (Out of egg rolls? At a Chinese place!) The Mongolian Beef was down right bad. The only redeeming value of EMW was the nice old man behind the counter. He was inefficient and couldn’t figure out how to run the cash register, but he hurried his best, showing he really cared about the cus tomer. He even gave me some free fortune cookies. I hope that I just managed to catch EMW on a bad day, and it’s better than I had this time. The old man’s friendliness really makes me want to like it. But with this dinner as my experience, I would say go to the food court, but go straight to Amigo’s. And if you’re hungry for Chinese, visit the nearest Egg Roll King. Better yet, don’t eat lunch and go for a big meal at the Great China Buffet on O Street. Any Night Any Movie 31% Discount ) off Adult Price with Student ID www.dougiastheatres.com Movie Info Line: 441'0222 I Now showing! Ends Sunday October 15! [Check Movie Directory, Web Site, or Call for Show Times! Kung Fu visits Lied From MONKS on page 5 for Lied Center patrons, Bethea said. “They are from the heart and soul of Chinese culture,” he said. “They come straight from history, and we are privileged to have them come here.” The warriors will re-enact a day at the famous ShaolinTemple from sunrise to sunset, using a choreographed theatrical pro duction of their martial arts skills, Bethea said. “They will show what it is like to spend hours meditating and training,” Bethea said. “They put a great deal of emphasis on not only the physical aspect of mar tial arts but the spiritual aspect, too.” Parks Coble, a UNL history professor, said the hours the Shaolin monks spend meditating and practicing their martial arts are meant to cultivate Qi, an ener gy source believed to build up superhuman powers. The monks also train to show their dedication to their religion, Daoism, but Coble said the seri ous undertones won’t take away from the show. “I don’t know what exactly they will be doing on stage, but whatever it is, it'll be an amazing spectacle,” he said. “When it comes to martial arts, they are the cream of the crop.” UNL lecturer to display quilts Beginning tomorrow, quilt lovers will be able to view the works of a world-renowned quil ter who is now a UNL faculty member. "Patterns of Thought Quilted Constructions by Michael James,” opens Friday and will be dis played until Nov. 10 in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery in the Home Economics Building on East Campus, across from room 234. James, credited with helping to make quilts an art form in the 1970s, has works displayed in such museums as the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution, the American Craft Museum and the Museum of the American Queer's Society. For the past three years, he has been on the board of the International Quilt Study Center at UNL, the largest public collec tion of quilts in the world. This semester is his first as a senior lec turer at the university. “The patterns that you’ll see in the quilts assembled in this exhibition represent either direct ly or indirectly, consciously or subconsciously, my thinking process,” James said in a press release. "They are textile docu ments that reflect my search for order and for my place, as an artist, in a frequently chaotic and unpredictable world” Joyo to hold film competition The Joyo Theater, 6102 Havelock Ave., is holding a film competition Sunday that may make a filmmaker from the mid dle of nowhere closer to a full fledged career. “The Middle of Nowhere Short Film Competition" has 21 entries, each film being no longer than two minutes, in a wide range that includes animation and a documentary on rodeos in Nebraska. The show starts at 7 p.m., though doors open at 6. Admission is $2, and concessions will be available. The University Health Center will be open from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday of fall break.