Mon, Oct 06, 2008
October 6, 2008
Law Holds Second Space and Telecom Law Conference
The University of Nebraska College of Law hosts the second annual Space and Telecommunications Law Seminar Oct. 6, with the theme "Rules of the Road in Space: Satellite Threats and Other Security Issues."
The seminar, from 2-5 p.m. at the Hilton Hotel, 1001 Cass St., Omaha, is in conjunction with the Strategic Space and Defense Conference. It involves national and international experts in the space sector, including defense, commercial space ventures, satellite and telecommunications in space. more...
SPACE AND TELECOM LAW
Sheldon Presents Work From the Permanent Collection
As part of an ongoing fall series that presents works categorized by subject matter (which also includes Still Life, Portraiture, Genre Scenes, and Contemporary), the Sheldon Museum of Art presents new installations in Landscape and Figurative art. The work highlights the upcoming transformation in the permanent collection galleries.
The Figurative and Portrait galleries will highlight work by renowned artists such as Mary Cassatt and Alice Neel, but also will recognize work by artists sometimes overlooked such as San Francisco Bay area figurative artist Paul John Wonner.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Tell No One and Trouble The Water Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Tell No One and Trouble The Water. Both films will show through October 9.
In the shortcut language of a movie pitch, Guillaume Canet's delicious contemporary thriller Tell No One is Vertigo meets The Fugitive by way of The Big Sleep. That is meant as high praise. This French adaptation of Harlan Coben's 2001 best seller is the kind of conspiracy-minded mystery almost no one seems capable of creating anymore, except David Lynch in his surreal way. Watching it is like gorging on a hot fudge sundae in the good old days when few worried about sugar and fat. There are no bogus geopolitics weighing it down with a spurious relevance. Beautifully written and acted, Tell No One is a labyrinth in which to get deliriously lost. - Stephen Holden, The New York Times
How is it that Hurricane Katrina managed to revolutionize American attitudes about the environment, but somehow the very people most devastated by the storm have become refugees in their own country, and their experiences have been all but forgotten? In Trouble the Water, this voiceless population becomes vibrantly human as documentarians Tia Lessin and Carl Deal engage with native New Orleans filmmaker and musician Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband, Scott, to create a powerful, partly autobiographical survival story that reflects many of the lives of the people of New Orleans.
More information is available at the Ross website.
