Fri, Jan 19, 2007
January 22, 2007
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
School of Music Presents Evening of Jazz
Paul Haar will present an evening of jazz, featuring such hits as "Fried Bananas" by Dexter Gordon and based on "I Could Happen to You" by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen, Trois "Petit Pas" by Peter Bouffard based on John Coltrane’s "Giant Steps," "Thing In" by Lee Konitz based on Jerome Kern's "All the Things You Are" and so many more. Taking the stage with Paul will be Tom Larson, piano, Peter Bouffard, guitar, Rusty White, bass, and Steven Helfand, drums.
Tickets are $5 general admission, $3 for students and seniors and will be available at the door approx. one hour before the performance.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
327 KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy and Horticulture Spring Seminar - "The Convergence Of Energy And Agriculture: Implications For Research And Policy"
Kenneth Cassman, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Refreshments at 2:30 p.m.
HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Protein Self-assembly: Predicting Form and Function"
Professor David Lynn, Emory University
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM SAT 1:30PM
UNL Garden Friends Lecture - "Bulbs as Companion Plants"
Brent Heath, co-owner of Brent and Becky's Bulbs and one of the nation's foremost expert on bulbs
UNITARIAN CHURCH, SUN 7PM
Winter lecture Series - "The Climate Detective: Unraveling the Evidence for Global Warming"
CAMPUS RECREATION CENTER, FRI 11AM - 5PM; SAT 10AM - 4PM
UNL Campus Rec Sponsoring Free Interactive Festival
Get out of the cold and join thousands of UNL students, campus and community supporters as they check out the latest products, fashions, technology, services, sounds and tastes from local and national companies at an event called "Get Rec'd" Jan. 19 and 20. The two-day event is at Campus Recreation Center, in the heart of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 14th and Vine streets.
Hosted by UNL Campus Recreation, admission to the two-day interactive festival is free and all are welcome. Attendees will haul away free gifts, sample some cuisine, and enjoy non-stop entertainment. UNL Campus Recreation has one of the largest and finest collegiate recreation programs in the United States, and is recognized nationally for program quality and innovation. The facility serves more than 25,000 annual memberships held by students, faculty and staff, and community residents. more...
GET REC'D
RIFLE | NU RIFLE RANGE, SAT 9AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos
TRACK AND FIELD | DEVANEY CENTER INDOOR TRACK, SAT 11AM
Conference Challenge
MEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY CENTER, SAT 5PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Colorado Buffaloes
WRESTLING | NU COLISEUM, SAT 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Iowa State Cyclones
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Last King of Scotland Shows at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Last King of Scotland. It will play through February 1.
In The Last King of Scotland, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.
MacDonald, director of the acclaimed documentaries One Day In September and Touching The Void, makes a startlingly assured transition into fictional filmmaking with The Last King of Scotland. Working with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (The Celebration) and editor Justine Wright, MacDonald brings 1970s Uganda to pulsating life, perfectly recreating that tumultuous era. But ultimately the film belongs to Whitaker: as he shifts from charming to maniacal in the space of a short, unexpected breath, he infuses Amin with startling humanity.
More information is available at the Ross website.
