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The following is a brief list of events this weekend. For more information, call the venue. CONCERTS: Duffy's Tavern, 14120 St 474- 3543 Sunday: Squidboy and the WT Duggan's Pub, 440511th St 477-3513 Friday: FAC with Blues Train and The Cruisers Saturday: The Relics Knickerbocker’s 901 OSt 476-6865 Friday: JV All-Stars, Peer Down, BB and Jumping Kate Saturday: Blacklight Sunshine and Eight Degrees Sunday: Joan of Arc and Her Fly Away Manner Pla-Mor Ballroom, 6600 W. O St 475- 4030 Friday: The Rumbles Sunday: High Caliber and Double Standard Royal Grove, 340 West ComhuskerHwy 474- 2332 Friday: Head pe Saturday: Chippendales The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St (402)435-8754 Friday and Saturday: Baby Jason and the Spankers THEATER: Howell Theatre, Temple Building, 12th and R streets 472-2073 All weekend: “All's Well That Ends Well” Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301N. 12th St 472-4747 Friday: “Celebration 100: Kurt Wfeill, An American Journey” Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, 12™ and R streets 472-5353 All weekend: Gay/Lesbian Film Festival 2000 The Star City Dinner Theatre and Comedy Cabaret, 803QSL 477-8277 All weekend; “The Mystery of Edwin Drewd” GALLERIES: Dods Place, 140 N. 8th St 476-3232 All weekend: George Sisson Haydon Gallery, 335N. (ft1 St 475- 5421 All weekend; Kirk Pedersen Noyes Gallery, 119 S. 9^ St 475-1061 Adi weekend: Max Cox, Gregg Stokke, Mary Jane Lamberson, Jo Brown, and Robert Egan The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 12th and R streets 472-2461 All weekend: Prints of Robert Mangold, “The Jam Portfolio” by S.C. Wilson and Jon Gieriich; Conrad Bakker 4 : 1. morpniM “Sootleg Detroit” Recorded live on the Cure for s«S8£i»s8S»i -- 2. The Go-Betweens “The Friends of Rachel Worth” Australian indie legends reunited 3. Nick Drake “Pink Moon” Still influencing artists like Will Oldham and Belle & Sebastian 4 Bjork “Selmasongs” New material from the Soundtrack to the movie “Dancer in the Dark.” 5. The Sea and Cake “Our Sam Prekop and friends’ fifth album 6. Various Artists "Liverpool Sound Collage” Recompiled unreleased Beatles material from the 60s 7. Black-Eyed Peas "Bridging the Gap” The Rappers who play their own . instruments 8. Underworld “Everything Everything” A small hint of what it’s like to see them perform 9. Trans Am . - “Red Line” Vocals spice up its otherwise traditionally nontraditional sound 10. At the Drive In “Relationship of Command” High-energy punk rock that was saved by Mike D Two Lied shows take fresh spin on music acts BY CRYSTAL K.W1EBE AND KEN MORTON Music lovers in Lincoln can celebrate new and old tunes this weekend in two per formances at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Tonight, the Lied Center will hold a trib ute to German composer Kurt Weill. On Sunday night, a jazz trio and the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra will be "wig ging out” at the Lied, putting a modem spin on classical music. Tonight's performance will be a col laborative effort between Opera Omaha, the Omaha Symphony and the Lied Center. The show, titled "Celebration 100: Kurt Weill, An American Journey,” will feature numbers from the composer’s operas and musicals. The first half of the show will feature Weill's opera* “The Seven Deadly Sins.” This opera, written while Weill was in Paris in 1933, is one of his best-known pieces. Weill used the opera to express his views on the moral decay of European society. Weill, probably best known for com posing the music for the song "Mack the Knife,” came to the United States in the 1930s to escape the persecution of the Nazis. while in Germany, his work reflected the tense, corruptive nature of Europe at that time. Weill’s work, after coming to America, was filled with much more hope for the future. The second half of tonight’s perform ance will feature songs from these American works. Ariel Bybee, an artist-in-residence in UNLs School of Music, will perform an aria from Weill’s opera, “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany.” Bybee, who originally performed “Mahogany” as a member of the ! Metropolitan Opera in New York City, said Weill adapted well when he moved to the United States. “Weill loved living in America and loved New York Qty,” Bybee said. Bybee also said die difference between Weill’s German and American works will be dear: “There is a stark contrast between the two periods,” she said. “I think he was kind of like a chameleon. He could write any thing anybody wanted to.” Although Weill is not widely known in the United States, Bybee thinks he is an important figure in ^^^^^“*******1 American Kurt Weill: An music. American Journey could do Opera Omaha “ey,h^ .... “and I think whcra: what he has left behind reflects -(wfiE toto „ Sunday —(CSST ni8ht> The ^ ■ ■ Randy Waldman Trio will f Melanie Falk/DN take a jazz twist on the traditional sounds of classic musicians like Beethoven, Bach Tchaikovsky. Waldman, a renowned pianist who has worked with Barbara Streisand for 15 years, developed the musical style and recently released a CD called “Wigged Out,” which contains much of the music that will be performed Sunday Carlana Fitch, Lincoln Symphony Orchestra executive director, said the con cert will include "quite a variety” of sounds. Some of the music the trio will perform has been arranged specifically for Sunday’s concert. For other numbers, the trio will join the orchestra, which also will perform by itself a few times. Waldman said the idea of wigging out comes from music history. "Classical music earned its nickname - long-hair music - because many of the great composers wore elaborate wigs, which was the fashion custom of their times,” Waldman said in a press release. “We decided to boldly take ‘wig’ music where no jazz band has gone before - to the outermost limits of musical imagination.” Playing with Waldman are bass player John Patitucci, who works with fusion key board legend Chick Corea and drummer Terri Lynne Carrington, the house drum mer for the “Arsenio Hall Show” and Sinbad’s late-night TV show “VIBE.” “Each of them are quite a performer in his or her own right,” Fitch said. Wigged Out Lincoln Symphony Orchestra i -* 'Dr. T' characters solid; ending twisted BY SAMUEL MCKEWON The incredulous stares at the end of Robert Altman’s “Dr. T and the Women” was well earned; a conglomeration of eccentricity and high society that sets itself down squarely in absurd comedy for a final course deserves some sort of shock value. There's a lot to like here, not the least of which is Richard Gere, the smooth, kind title character Sullivan Travis, a Dallas gynecologist who most consider “the lucky kind of doc tor,” tending to the needs of Texas’ finest and best-dressed sisters. He is equally surrounded by a family of women: A wife on the verge of a breakdown (Farrah Fawcett); two daughters, one a Cowboy’s alternate cheerleader (Kate Hudson), the other a JFK conspiracy buff (Tara Reid); a newly divorced sister-in-law (Laura Dern) with three young daughters and an affinity for high-line champagne; and a golf pro (breezy, sexy Helen Hunt), who turns Dr. T’s charm on its head. Altman is a director unshak able in his craft; his list of impor tant films - “Nashville,” “The Player,” "Short Cuts” - has never been disputed. He uses a tech nique of overlapping dialogue in the clinic, which makes the chaos flow clearly enough to detect two or three plots at once. Slowly, through the scenes at the clinic, and at Dr. T’s Dallas home, a plot begins to brew. Much won’t be exposed here; part of experiencing an Altman film, his second written by Anne Rapp, is watching the layers peel off. Hudson’s character, Dee Dee, is gearing up for a wedding of convenience, while Dr. T deals with the mounting pressure of his quibbling clientele. His head nurse, played by Shelley Long, has long past stepped over the boundaries of normal, orderly care for her boss. “Dr. T and the Women” takes alternate shots at the Dallas high life, while embracing these women in the same scene - breathless, pushy, over-shopped showpieces who make their hay at charity auctions and city council meetings, attempting to honor a woman for one of the Metroplex freeways. Altman has received feminist criticism for the portrayal of these women, who, if one takes some time to discover, most cer tainly persist in that area. Altman accurately pointed out in an interview that Dallas has no mountains nor lakes and is separated from the pop culture of the East and West coasts. The city is an island of glass and money. These women seek sanctuary in palatial malls, look fabulous and occasionally storm off in huffs of anger. A careful examination of the movie reveals admiration, not antago nism, if one pays long enough attention. These women are countered by Hunt’s character, Bree, both uninhibited in bed, dialogue and courtly manners. The chemistry between Bree and Dr. T flows, and Gere is better in scenes where he’s not asked to work as the aggressor. But Hunt’s charac ter doesn’t attract the absolute adoration she seems to receive from Altman; a twisty conclu sion takes care of that. What to make of the end, which calls upon “Magnolia”? Who knows. It makes a tenuous point at best. A more linear end would have been preferable. The key here is the portrayal of Altman's women, a rare breed for sure. It’s an acquired taste that lasts. Children's Museum celebrates new opening The Lincoln Children’s Museum will be celebrating its new digs this weekend. The museum, which is relo cating to 1420 P St, will gain near ly 30,000 square feet with the move. A slew of activities is sched uled for the grand opening of the new museum Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5p.m. Tickets are at a premium, but any that remain will be sold at the event. High-energy Iowa band appearing at Duffy's Duffy’s Tavern has adapted the slogan “Saving the World One Rock Band at aTime,” and Sunday night, the club presents its latest attempt in its never-ending quest. Squidboy, a four-piece band from Des Moines, Iowa, puts on a great show, combining a hard rocking sound with catchy melodies. The show begins around 10 p.m. .J . **