A show titled "Metaphors of the Heart," featuring pieces spanning Palma's career, opens today at the Sheldon Museum of Art, 12th and R streets. The Sheldon also will host a lecture given by Palma today from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (0) comments
Cornerstone Campus Ministries will host Spring Fling 2008 at the Rococo, 140 N. 13th St., to raise money for its organization on Friday at 6 p.m. It will be a new experiment, campus pastor Karen Moritz said, because it's the first time the group has put on this program. (0) comments
The local actor is making his 12th appearance on the Lincoln Community Playhouse stage with Ernest Thompson's popular dramedy about an aging couple meeting their daughter's fiancé while vacationing at their lakeside summer home. Though coming up with quick, sardonic retorts like Heckman's college line is a specialty of Norman Thayer's - the crusty retired college professor the actor will portray tonight through April 6 - Norman usually doesn't say it with a smile and wink like 83-year-old Heckman. (0) comments
Few things are as hilarious to watch as truly awkward scenes in life, and on that accord, "The Band's Visit" - the English/Hebrew/Arabic-language movie showing at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center - delivers. (0) comments
Where exactly is the line between stardom and celebrity? Moreover, why do we even care? I've wondered that since I was 9 or 10 years old, but the question has been on my mind since about this time last year when it took a homicidal rampage at Virginia Tech University to get "news" shows to stop talking about Don Imus' runaway mouth and Anna Nicole Smith's baby's daddy mystery. (1) comment