November 2004
If you know of an event you think would get some people out of the house, tell me about it!

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Woyzeck - Temple Studio Theatre 7:30pm

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Woyzeck - Temple Studio Theatre 7:30pm

Electric Soul Method - Zoo Bar 9ish

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Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile - LCP 7:30pm

Woyzeck - Temple Studio Theatre 7:30pm

Ministry & Thrill Kill Kult - Royal Grove

First Friday Art Receptions - Various Art Houses

A Taste of Wine and Broadway - James Arthur Vineyards 7:30 & 9pm

Myths, Dreams and Shamanism - OM Center 7-10pm

The Music of Bach and the Baroque Era - Midland Lutheran College 7pm

Friday Eve Jazz - Crescent Moon Coffee 7-10pm

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NU Football at Iowa St.


Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile - LCP 7:30
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Woyzeck - Temple Studio Theatre 7:30pm

Dream Analysis Workshop - OM Center 10am-5pm

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Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile - LCP 2pm

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Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile - LCP 7:30pm

Pride & Prejudice - Haymarket Theatre

Nebraska Brass -
First Presbyterian Church 7:30pm

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Bobby McFerrin - Leid Center 7:30


Pride & Prejudice - Haymarket Theatre

Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile - LCP 7:30pm


Catie Curtis - Loft at the Mill 7:30pm

Friday Eve Jazz - Crescent Moon Coffee 7-10pm

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NU Football at Oklahoma


Pride & Prejudice - Haymarket Theatre

Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile - LCP 7:30pm

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Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile - LCP 2pm

Pride & Prejudice - Haymarket Theatre

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Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Knickerbockers 9ish

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Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile - LCP 7:30pm

Pride & Prejudice - Haymarket Theatre

Grace - Loft at the Mill 7:30pm

The House of Blue Leaves - Howell Theater 7:30

Corporate Comedy Showcase - Cornhusker 7:30pm

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Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile - LCP 7:30pm

Bistro Night!!! - LCP


Pride & Prejudice - Haymarket Theatre

Grace - Loft at the Mill 7:30pm

The House of Blue Leaves - Howell Theater 7:30


Friday Eve Jazz - Crescent Moon Coffee 7-10pm

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Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile - LCP 7:30pm

Pride & Prejudice - Haymarket Theatre

Grace - Loft at the Mill 7:30pm

The House of Blue Leaves - Howell Theater 7:30


Ken Burns - Rococo Theatre

Brother Trucker - 49'r Lounge 9pm

Rodney Carrington -
Blackjack's Underground 8pm

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Lyp-Schtick - 9th Street Basement 9pm

Ted Kooser's 'The Blizzard's Voices' - Blue River Art Barn 7pm

Pride & Prejudice - Haymarket Theatre

That 1 Guy/Suzy Dreamer - Duffys

Grace - Loft at the Mill 7:30pm

Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile - LCP 2pm

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Grace - Loft at the Mill 7:30pm

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Grace - Loft at the Mill 7:30pm

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NU Football vs Colorado

Nine Live Cats - Duggans 9ish

Friday Eve Jazz - Crescent Moon Coffee 7-10pm

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Grace - Loft at the Mill 7:30pm

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Grace - Loft at the Mill 7:30pm

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dec 1

The House of Blue Leaves - Howell Theater 7:30

dec 2

The House of Blue Leaves - Howell Theater 7:30

dec 3

The House of Blue Leaves - Howell Theater 7:30


Friday Eve Jazz - Crescent Moon Coffee 7-10pm

dec 4

The House of Blue Leaves - Howell Theater 7:30

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:: Brother Trucker ::

for roots rock on Saturday, November 20th

The 49'r Lounge gave Midwest Dilemma one Saturday in November that we could bring in any out-of-towner that we wanted. Without much hesitation we decided on Brother Trucker, currently signed to Trailer Records. MD played a show with them in Des Moines at the House of Bricks last year and have been waiting for just the right time to bring them home.

"Well, the four lads in Des Moines' Brother Trucker are definitely rockers (okay, rockers with gnarly country roots peeking through), but there ain't a Rock Star among 'em. Not that they're boring, by any means - it's just that this organic combo is too grounded in the cold, hard facts of life on the wrong side of the tracks to waste any time on juvenile fantasies. For way too many folks, it's a freakin' jungle out there, and that jungle is exactly where this band chops and stacks its wood."
- JIM MUSSER - NO DEPRESSION

for more information on these guys goto:
www.brother-trucker.com
www.trailer-records.com

The show will start at 9pm with Matt Whipkey, singer/songwriter and frontman of Anonymous American kicking things off. Brother Trucker will go on second and Midwest Dilemma will round off the night. We look foward to seeing all of your smiling faces. Please visit www.midwestdilemma.com and listen to our music online.

:: Crescent Moon ::

Every Friday is “live jazz” from 7PM to 10PM featuring local and regional jazz artists.

Saturday Night Acoustic Series: (8PM to 10PM)
October 30 – Emanon (acoustic folk/pop duo)
November 6 –Brian Gerkensmyer (solo acoustic guitar and vocals)
November 13- Michael Murphy (Omaha singer/songwriter and Indian flute player)
November 20 – Jon Long (solo acoustic guitar and vocals)
November 27- Shawn Cole (solo singer/songwriter)

Crescent Moon Coffee House
8th & P in Lincoln's Haymarket
435-2828

:: Steve Martin's Picasso At The Lapin Agile ::

Science Takes on Art as Einstein Confronts PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE by Steve Martin

In an unexpected time warp the other night, patrons of the Lapin Agile, a nondescript Paris bistro, were transported back to the year 1904, as upstart young scientist Albert Einstein tangled in a war of words with as-yet unknown Spanish painter Pablo Picasso.

Reliable sources say the entire incident between Einstein and PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE was artfully orchestrated by comic actor Steve Martin, who, in his first comedy for the stage, played fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as the two geniuses traded words with infectious dizziness. A re-creation of the absurd twist of fate will be presented at the Lincoln Community Playhouse studio theatre November 5-21, 2004.

Einstein, 25, employed by day in a patent office, was heard to say that at night “the stars come out in my head.” Everyone in the bar viewed this statement with relative skepticism, but knew for sure they had a fruitcake on their hands when he started scribbling mathematical formulas on the table top.

Young artist Picasso, 23, arrived moments later and, according to barmaid Germaine, added to the surreal evening by claiming, “There’s nothing in my way any more. If I think it I can draw it.” And he, too, began defacing the table top with a line drawing.

From that moment on, the competition heated up between the two geniuses, each claiming that his ideas would change the world. Insults were exchanged at dizzying speed: Picasso called Einstein a fake; Einstein fired back, “Maybe you’re an idiot savant. And hold the savant.” Soon everyone in the bistro was chiming in – arguments raged all night about romance, humor, art, talent, time and space.

And in one final surprise, everyone was caught off guard by a young dark-haired singer from the future who was oddly protective of his shoes. By the end of the evening, all had reconciled, posed for a group photo, and joined together in a toast to the Twentieth Century.

Friday, November 5, 7:30 PM
Saturday, November 6, 7:30 PM
Sunday, November 7, 2:00 PM*

Thursday, November 11, 7:30 PM
Friday, November 12, 7:30 PM
Saturday, November 13, 7:30 PM
Sunday, November 14, 2:00 PM

Thursday, November 18, 7:30 PM
Friday, November 19, 7:30 PM
Saturday, November 20, 7:30 PM
Sunday, November 21, 2:00 PM

:: Ken Burns ~ Presented by the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation ::

Saturday, November 20 ~ $35 per person
Rococo Theatre ~ 7 pm

For tickets or more information call 435-3535.

:: J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos ::

Borrowing a page from the “play book” of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Organ Vesper Series, 1517 South 114 Street in Omaha, will present a complete performance of J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos on Thursday, November 18 at 7:00 p.m.

Each holiday season, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents the complete Brandenburg Concertos as its gift to the New York area. The Organ Vesper Series will present these chamber music masterpieces as it pre-holiday gift to the Omaha-Lincoln community.

Performers for this unique concert will be drawn primarily from the Omaha Symphony as well as Lincoln musician, Dean Haist, performing the solo trumpet part in the 2nd Concerto. Conducting the concert will be Hal France, Artistic Director of Opera/Omaha and Ernest Richardson, Resident Conductor of the Omaha Symphony.

Tickets for this benefit concert are $20 for adults and $10 for seniors and students.

For more ticket or concert information, contact Dana Sloan at 333-7466 (ext. 4), or email dana.sloan@organvesper.com, or see the Organ Vesper Series website at www.organvesper.com.

Tickets will be available at the door, but advance purchase is recommended.

:: That One Guy/ Suzy Dreamer & Her Nightmares ::

Mike Silverman, a.k.a. That One Guy, and his "Magic Pipe", a plumbing fixture made into a musical instrument, is perhaps THE most unique artist touring the country today! Mike lays down a unique blend of drone, funk, drum-n-bass, and other styles. His use of other self-made instruments including the Magic Pipe, electric saw and electric boot, (yes, an electric cowboy boot!) makes his frequent comparisons to other artists such as Primus, and Frank Zappa come as no surprise.

That One Guy has recently been signed to Ani Defranco's Righteous Babe records, and has been featured on CBS, NBC, FOX, Univision, and CNN, so he's well on his way to becoming a worldwide phenomenon, but don't take Starcityscene.com's word for it, read what others have had to say:

"That 1 guys tunes are 'eargasms' lingeing sublimely in your subconscious long after the show ends."..."All we as an audience could do was sit rapt, mouths gaping, and witness this amazing spectacle."
-Sylvia W. Chan, SF Bay Guardian

Like a one-man band plucked from the pages of Dr. Seuss, That 1 Guy delivers earthshaking future funk from "the magic pipe" to accompany his madcap lyrics about turbo snails, meat storms, and weasel pot pies."
-J.G., Bass Player Magazine

"Necessity is the mother of invention. But in the case of Mike Silverman's slamming, futuristic funk act, That 1 Guy, the normal rules of biology just don't apply."
-Andrew Gilbert, Billboard/Express

Lincoln's own Suzy Dreamer & Her Nightmares are well on their own way to becoming a phenomenons in their own right. Playing an unusual blend of psychedelic pop and heavier rock, with lyrics taken directly from singer, Kristen Bailey's dream journals, the band churns out a style of indie rock all their own.

Here's what Lincoln Journal Star entertainment reporter L. Kent Wolgamott recently had to say about the band:

"With lyrics lifted from Kristen Bailey's dreams, the songs on "Rare Rocks & Gems" are distinctly personal and strange. There's a song about meeting up with "JFK, Jr." and his sister Caroline, searching for "Brendan Gonzales," being in a "Rolling Stones Video" when the Stones were young and cheery little tunes about "Dead Synchronized Swimmers" and "Melting Monster High School." Musically, Suzy Dreamer and Her Nightmares works in basic guitar-rooted pop, but there's something a little spooky and baroque about their approach that fits the lyrics perfectly."

http://www.that1guy.com
http://www.suzydreamer.com
http://www.starcityscene.com
http://www.orangewhipproductions.com

November 21st, 2004
Duffy's Tavern
10:00 pm