Lincoln Arts Festival to move downtown Saturday and Sunday
(WorldNews Entertainment)

After 18 years at SouthPointe Pavilions, the Lincoln Arts Festival is moving downtown. The move of the festival that brings 110 artists from 20 states was triggered by the new Scheels store at SouthPointe. The large building eliminated much of the parking on the east side of the mall. So the lots on the mall´s west side, where the festival had been held, are needed for customer parking. But Deb Weber, executive director of the Lincoln Arts Council, which sponsors the festival, said the move had been contemplated long before the Scheels store was constructed. `We´ve been thinking for five or six years that we were overgrowing the space at SouthPointe,` she said. `But they...