Mon, Dec 17, 2007
December 17, 2007
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New UNL Alert Multiple Messaging System Implemented
Students, faculty and staff at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln now will receive emergency messages wherever they want to get them. The new UNL Alert system was launched today, and the university community is signing up for the message delivery process.
"The new UNL Alert system has new services that will let the university send personalized emergency messages to computers, land-line telephones and cell phones with text and voice," said Christine Jackson, UNL vice chancellor for business and finance. more...
UNL ALERT
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
'Sheldon Survey: An Invitational' Continues
In its biennial invitational, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present works by 20 contemporary artists who are on the forefront of the development of American art today. On view through Jan. 6, "Sheldon Survey: An Invitational" includes paintings, sculpture, photography and installations.
The exhibit continues the tradition of invitational exhibitions that were held by the Nebraska Art Association beginning in 1888 and continuing through 1964. The invitational exhibition was renewed in 2005 with "Singular Expressions: A Sheldon Invitational." Many important works of art in Sheldon's collections were acquired through these exhibitions, and the works in this year's exhibition will be available for purchase. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Before The Devil Knows You're Dead and Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten. Both films will show through December 23.
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, is a suspenseful thriller directed by master filmmaker Sidney Lumet about a family facing the worst enemy of all - itself. Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended broker who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke) into a larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a suburban mom-and-pop jewelry store that appears to be the quintessential easy target. The problem is, the store owners are Andy and Hank's actual mom and pop and, when the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage lands right at their doorstep.
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In The Future Is Unwritten, from British film director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship which developed over the last years of Joe's life, Julien Temple's film is a celebration of Joe Strummer - before, during and after the Clash.
More information is available at the Ross website.
