Tue, Nov 28, 2006
November 28, 2006
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
Hillestad Gallery Features Hooked Rugs Exhibit
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will open an exhibition Nov. 6 titled "Flower Powered: Hooked Rugs by Lulu Myers." The exhibit, which runs through Dec. 8, features rugs created by Lulu Myers (1881-1977) of Polk, who hooked more than 300 rugs over the last 10 years of her life, each one with an original design. This exhibition, curated by Mary Logue, is culled from the collections of her granddaughters and other family members and friends.
Logue wrote in her exhibition material that, "Lulu Myers started rug hooking at an age when most women are giving it up, in her early 80s. She designed all her own rugs, with a skillful and vibrant sense of color. These rugs are her vision of the floral loveliness that can be found in the prairie towns of Nebraska, grown in the fertile mind of an older woman who has raised many children, worked all her life, and still wants to do more." more...
HILLESTAD GALLERY
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Protein Synthesis: An Ancient Process with Unexpected Diversity Throughout the Living World"
Dr. Dieter Soll, Yale University
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
UNL Student Jazz Ensemble Celebrates CD Release
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Jazz Ensemble I, which includes 20 UNL students, released its first CD, Minimal Effort, on November 1. The ensemble will celebrate the CD's release at its final concert of the semester at 7:30 p.m. this evening in Kimball Recital Hall, 12th and R streets (extended). Tickets for the concert are $5 ($3 for students) and available at the door.
UNL School of Music faculty Rusty White (bass), Darryl White (trumpet), Peter Bouffard (guitar), and Tom Larson (piano), who are also featured on the CD, will join the Jazz Ensemble at the concert. Paul Haar, assistant professor of saxophone, who conducts the Jazz Ensemble, describes the CD as "eclectic." "There is a great variety from rock/fusion and swing to standards and one original composition by one of our students, Jeff Richmond," Haar said. more...
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Fast Food Nation, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Keeping Mum Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Fast Food Nation, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and Keeping Mum. All films will be showing through December 7.
When it was published in 2001, Fast Food Nation quickly became a New York Times bestseller, with its no-holds-barred, non-fiction exploration of "the dark side of the All-American meal." The big screen version Fast Food Nation is a dramatic feature penned by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and Oscar® nominee Richard Linklater, who also serves as director. Explains Linklater: "The movie is not a documentary, but a character study of the lives behind the facts and figures. I'm more interested in fiction than non-fiction. You get to the point through human storytelling."
Passionate cinephiles can be found casting quizzical glances at the erratic and often conflicting decisions made by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) as they slap ratings onto movies. So in an attempt to make sense of their working methods--which, until now, have remained shrouded in mystery--one of those cinephiles, Kirby Dick (Twist Of Faith), has made this full-length motion picture about the inner workings of the MPAA. Entertaining and informative, Dick's movie is everything a documentary should be. Revelations come thick and fast throughout, and the director skillfully creates a palpable feeling of injustice that will leave many viewers feeling the MPAA is in urgent need of a drastic overhaul.
Keeping Mum stars Rowan Atkinson as an absent-minded vicar of a rural parish who is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's (Kristin Scott Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor (Patrick Swayze), his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their charming new housekeeper, Grace (Maggie Smith), the answer to the family's prayers: a sweet, grey-haired old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house. One by one, the family members find that Grace is able to solve their problems, but they don't realize that her means are leading to a lot of ends and the population of their sleepy hamlet is rapidly diminishing.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | FAST FOOD NATION | THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED | KEEPING MUM
