Mon, Jun 22, 2009
June 22-26, 2009
New Hubbard Rhino Barn at Ashfall Promises Unique Fossil Experience
Visitors to the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park near Royal can share the same joy and adventure as the paleontologists who discover fossils each day in the newly opened Hubbard Rhino Barn.
The new building covers 17,500 square-feet -- eight times larger than the one it replaces -- and allows for the discovery and protection of many more fossils and enhances the experiences for visitors to the unique park. Visitors experience a firsthand look at the extinct animals preserved exactly as they died, and all new fossil excavations are carried out in their full view. more...
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Jazz In June Continues With Bill Wimmer & Project Omaha
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.
During the 2007 Vail Jazz Festival, saxophonist Bill Wimmer had the inspiration of putting together a group of friends and musicians who have played with each other on gigs through the years. Last May they recorded live at the Kelly Liken restaurant in Vail and the result is the "Bill Wimmer Project Omaha," a CD released in April showcasing classic modern jazz from Dexter Gordon through Tina Brooks with stops at Joe Turner and Tony Williams. Project Omaha musicians include Wimmer on saxophones, Gulizia keyboards and vocals, Dave Stryker guitar, Tony Mark Luebbe base, Joey Gulizia percussion and Victor Lewis drums. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Home and Sugar Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Home and Sugar. Both films will play through June 25.
In Home, Inga (Academy award winner Marcia Gay Harden) is a poet who wants to buy and restore a house she is drawn to that reminds her of her childhood home. Her distant husband Hermann (Michael Gaston) sees little value in it or many of the things she loves, and Inga realizes that many things in her life are coming full circle. Her crumbling marriage is a stark contrast to her relationship with her 8-year-old daughter, (Eulala Scheel, Ms. Harden's real life daughter) with whom she shares her hopes, fears and inner-most thoughts following her recovery from breast cancer. By day their lives seem magical, full of cloud watching, kite flying and lazy summer drives. But at night, Inga is troubled by her marriage, its lack of intimacy and her fear of her own mortality. By weaving optimism into her life’s story it is in her own writing that she hears the echo of her mother’s journey and experiences the revelation that allows her transformation.
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.
