Tue, Apr 17, 2007
April 17, 2007
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
Author Chuck Klosterman Speaks at UNL
The University Program Council (UPC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln presents Chuck Klosterman tonight in the Nebraska Union Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The event is free for UNL students with a valid student NCARD. Tickets for the general public (including UNL faculty and staff) are available at the door for $3.
Chuck Klosterman is a best-selling author and journalist whose work has appeared regularly in SPIN magazine, Esquire, and on ESPN.com. Most well known as a pop-culture critic, he has authored four books including Sex, Drugs, & Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto and Killing Yourself to Live.
NEBRASKA UNION, 1:30PM
Speaker to Discuss Portrayal of Candidates by Bloggers, Mainstream Media
Bob Somerby, editor of The Daily Howler, a prominent political blog that de-constructs The New York Times, will appear at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln April 17 to discuss the mainstream press coverage of recent presidential elections, especially the history-altering 2000 campaign which sent George W. Bush to the White House.
In his talk beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. (room posted), Somerby will discuss the contention that the mainstream press corps has a liberal bias. For eight years in The Daily Howler, Somerby has described what he calls the press corps' "War against Gore" -- the negative coverage which, he contends, almost surely changed the outcome of the closest presidential election in history. more...
sculptures by Del and Martha Pettigrew
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, APRIL 17-27
Pettigrews to Create Clay Sculptures in Public at Great Plains Art Gallery
Artists Martha and Del Pettigrew of Kearney will create two clay sculptures as interactive artists-in-residence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Gallery April 17-27. Martha Pettigrew will create a sculpture approximately 40 inches tall of a Plains Indian woman. Del Pettigrew will create a sculpture approximately 27 inches tall of a Great Plains animal. Both sculptures will ultimately be cast in bronze and become part the museum's permanent collection.
The public, including tours from Lincoln Public Schools, will be able to observe and interact with the artists while they work. The Pettigrews will be sculpting from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m., April 17-21 and 24-27, and 2 to 4 p.m. April 22 at the museum, 1155 Q St. The program is made possible by the Elizabeth Rubendall Foundation. more...
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
NEBRASKA UNION, 1:30PM
Lecture - "Blogging vs. Mainstream Media"
Bob Somerby, editor of The Daily Howler
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar
Dr. Frank Frerman, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
SOFTBALL | BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, 5PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Iowa State Cyclones
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, 6:35PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Creighton Bluejays
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Inland Empire, Killer of Sheep Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Inland Empire and Killer of Sheep. Both films will show through April 26.
The Namesake is the story of the Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old. Though parents Ashoke and Ashima (Irfan Khan, Tabu) long for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take great pride in the opportunities their sacrifices have afforded their children. Paradoxically, their son Gogol (Kal Penn) is torn between finding his own unique identity without losing his heritage. Even Gogol's name represents the family's journey into the unknown.
With Inland Empire, David Lynch - creator of such mind-bending works as Eraserhead and Lost Highway - delivers his most avant-garde, abstract, and impenetrable vision yet. A three-hour fever nightmare of a motion picture, INLAND EMPIRE takes the basic structure of Lynch's 2001 masterpiece, Mulholland Drive, and spins it even further out of control. Laura Dern's multi-fractured performance is downright heroic. She gives the film the human grounding that it so desperately needs. Not for the fragile or timid, Inland Empire is a full-blown assault to the senses.
More information is available at the Ross website.
