Mon, Jun 15, 2009
June 15-19, 2009
NET Television's "Recession Survival Guide" Offers Consumers Money-Saving Tips
Did you know that the average household wastes 14 percent of food purchases? Or, that 75 percent of the electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the product is off? With economic news in the headlines everyday, Nebraskans are looking for practical ways to survive the current recession and make ends meet at home.
UNL Extension experts will explain money-saving tactics to stretch your grocery dollars, trim your family budget and make your home more energy efficient in the NET Television production "Recession Survival Guide," airing Tuesday, June 16, at 8 p.m. CT on NET1 and NET-HD. The program repeats on NET1 and NET-HD on Tuesday, June 16, at 11 p.m. CT and Thursday, June 18, at 9 p.m. CT. It also airs Sunday, June 28, at 8 p.m. CT on NET2. more...
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM, TUE NOON
Tuesday Talk - "Behind The Scenes of an Installation"
Jonathan Gregory, graduate student
Introducing the Future Design of UNL.edu
A process within the UNL Web Developer Network to create a refreshed and reimagined UNL.edu has culminated in a reference design, presented to WDN last week. The design is currently being coded into a new version of UNL site templates and is set for release on August 17, one week prior to the beginning of fall semester. Read more about the new design here.
VIEW A SLIDESHOW FROM LAST WEEKS EVENT
Jazz In June Continues With Kendra Shank Quartet
Now in its 18th season, the Jazz in June concert series will present Tuesday evenings of great jazz in the great outdoors on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. Organized by the Sheldon Art Association, the Berman Music Foundation and the UNL School of Music, this year's free jazz series is presented by Baylor Evnen. The concerts begin at 7 p.m. and draw thousands under the trees on the plaza west of Sheldon Museum of Art, 12th and R streets.
This week, the Kendra Shank Quartet presents a jazz vocalist with crystal-pure tone, powerful musicianship and elastic phrasing. Shank has won rave critical notices and fans internationally. She headlines in clubs and festivals across the United States and abroad, captivating audiences with her genuine warmth, emotional depth and musicality. Shank came to jazz during a residency in the late-1980s in Paris. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Hunger and Sugar Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Hunger and Sugar. Hunger will show through June 18, while Sugar will play through June 25.
Renowned English video artist Steve McQueen's feature film debut, Hunger, is a cinematic punch to the gut. McQueen brings a visceral intensity to his retelling of the hunger strike instigated by Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and several other detained Irish Republican Army members in the early 1980s, who were determined to live in a Northern Ireland free from British rule. In prison, Sands and other IRA members--including Davey Gillen (Brian Milligan) and Gerry Campbell (Liam McMahon)--at first protest by refusing to wear the standard prison garb, but soon, they take their protest dangerously further. McQueen comes from an experimental background, and it shows. He and co-screenwriter, the acclaimed Irish playwright Enda Walsh, blow all the prison movie clichés out of the water. They break their film into three distinct acts. In the first, Gillen and Campbell are tormented by prison guards and made to suffer in a cramped, feces-smeared cell. In the second, Sands and Father Moran (Liam Cunningham) have a startling battle of wits--and emotions--that occurs in a dazzling extended one-take sequence. Lastly, we watch as Sands slowly withers away to nothing. It's impossible not to make a political film out of this furiously political material, but McQueen chooses to concentrate on the more visceral, tactile elements of the story to drive his point home. Hunger is one of the more exciting directorial debuts of recent memory.
Sugar follows the story of Miguel Santos, a.k.a. Sugar, a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro De Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty. Playing professionally at a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, Miguel finally gets his break at age 19 when he advances to the United States’ minor league system; but when his play on the mound falters, he begins to question the single-mindedness of his life’s ambition.
More information is available at the Ross website.
