Wednesday, September 23, 2009

An alternative to church this Sunday

If your "Sunday best" is a new pair of Pearl Izumi bike shorts and your idea of congregating is hopping on your bike and heading out on weekend mornings for bacon rides with your friends, then you, my friends, need to keep on reading.

A Sunday in Hell, the 1977 documentary about the Paris-Roubaix bike race, will be playing for free (ah, yes, there's my favorite word again) this Sunday, September 27th at 7:30 pm at the Nebraska-famous (as opposed to world famous) Waiting Room Lounge, located at 6212 Maple Street.

The film, directed by Jorgen Leth, details one of the most dramatic of the spring classics, as racers ride (or sometimes run) over narrow, muddy, cobblestone lanes across the French countryside. Featuring such famous racers as Eddy Merckx, Roger De Vlaeminck, and Freddy Maertens, A Sunday in Hell is considered by some to be the best film ever made about professional cycling.

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