:: jam factor ::

ok, so i bought a newspaper on sunday to find out
the goings on during the haymarket heydays this weekend.
but i didn't find anything. did i miss it?
so the only part of the heydays i know anything about
is this little band called jam factor.
it's a band with a bunch of great musicians and me.
we do mostly 80s and 90s dance music.
we do some inxs, david bowie, lenny kravitz & b-52s.
but then we stretch back for some stevie wonder and blondie too.
we'll be performing for the first time ever (in public anyway)
so we'd love to have some friendly faces out there.
you know, some people who will dance and yell
and generally show everyone they're having a good time.
so in case we suck, others may be fooled into thinking we're cool! :-)
so please please please come root us on.
we'll be in front of ruby tuesdays this saturday from 6-8:30.
(i was just kidding about us sucking. we don't suck.)

:: much ado about nothing ::

submitted by steve buhler (smb@unlserve.unl.edu)

Last summer, Bob Hall directed a wonderful production of Shakespeare's *Twelfth Night* at the Swan Theatre (formerly known as the Carriage House) at Wyuka Cemetery. When I saw it during the first weekend, it was the best stage version--out of several--I'd ever seen. When I saw it on closing night, it was better still. The Swan is a splendid, open-air playing space; I think Shakespeare would heartily approve of it.

This summer, Bob is directing *Much Ado About Nothing* and he's assembled a superb cast. Laura Kendall and Jeremy Kendall appear as Beatrice and Benedick; Kelli Chaves and Will Cover as Hero and Claudio; Brad Boesen as Don Pedro and Fred Stuart as his villainous half-brother Don John; George Hansen as Dogberry, Joel Story as Borachio, and Gary Hall as Leonato; and many, many more--including yours truly as Friar Francis.

The show opens on June 20. It runs Thursday through Sunday, June 20-23 and June 27-30. Show time is 7 p.m.

I'm told that tickets are $12, with discounts available (at $7.50) for students and seniors. Check with Wyuka for more certain information and to reserve your tickets--the run was sold out last year. The telephone number is 474-3600.

:: boy and his piano ::

submitted by channing roos (rooscki@yahoo.com)

Check out the attachment for my coffeehouse debut
(except its not in a coffeehouse) Hurry! it's this thursday--no cover.
Panic! (200 S. 18th) 8PM

matthew landis
www.landisarts.com/propaganda <-shh! it's a secret

twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
so throw off the bowlines. sail away from the safe harbor.
catch the trade winds in your sails. explore. dream. discover.
-mark twain