CULTURE 
Three Up and Three Down with Goth Ball’s Snake Island!
Hard rockers and Omaha Entertainment Award-nominated Snake Island!, headline this year’s annual Goth Ball — and fittingly so since this year’s GB theme is “Venom.” Lead guitarist Allan Schleich took time to discuss with The Reader the band’s first studio release, nudity and what and what makes their sound unique compared to other bands in Omaha.
You guys had a photo shoot for the Goth Ball show this Saturday...
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Artist Chris Raschka Visits Omaha
Saturday, February 25th
Artist Chris Raschka
Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St.
10 a.m.-12 p.m., FREE
(402) 342-3300
Artist Chris Raschka Visits Omaha
Joslyn Art Museum is presenting "BRAVO! Chris Raschka" in the museum’s Mind’s Eye Gallery. The exhibit is comprised of almost 60 of the artist’s award-winning illustrations.
Raschka’s artwork centers on everything from jazz legends Thelonius Monk and John...
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American Teacher - Banking on Education
Four years was a long time to work on a film. Ninive Calegari, author of best selling Teachers Have It Easy and producer of the resultant movie, “American Teacher” explains, “We were able to start filming right away. But the main reason the project took so long was that most of the time we had only $232 in the bank.”
Lack of funding and long hours aren’t new to Ninive Calegari. She spent ten years teaching in...
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Pick: Red Wanting Blue
Feb. 9
Red Wanting Blue
The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St.
9 p.m., $8, onepercentproductions.com
Red Wanting Blue may just be turning up on the radars of those who love honest, hooky heartland rock, but the band has been around 16 years since forming on the campus of Ohio University. The band, led by singer Scott Terry, now calls Columbus, Ohio home. Terry's deep, road-roughened voice is the highlight....
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A Scientific Litmus Teset
Power comes with responsibility, believes Dr. John Janovy, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences at University of Nebraska Lincoln.
"An ability to clearly articulate an understanding of basic evolutionary biology equivalent to that given in a freshman course,” he says, “should be a litmus test for scientific literacy among people in positions of power.”
On the 203rd anniversary of Charles Darwin’s...
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To Live Forever:
Saturday, February 11th-Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum
Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge Street
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 10 a.m.– 4 p.m.
Thursday, 10 a.m.– 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, noon – 4 p.m.; * $8 adults; $6 senior citizens (62 and older) & college students (with valid ID); $5 age 5-17, Free admission for ages four and younger and Joslyn members;...
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Mark Nizer’s 3D Live Show
Sunday, February 12th
MARK NIZER’S 3D LIVE SHOW
Orpheum Theater, 409 South 16th Street
7:30 p.m.; Tickets range from $19-$35
MARK NIZER’S 3D LIVE SHOW
MARK NIZER’S 3D LIVE SHOW is the next production in Omaha Performing Arts’ Family Series.
Nizer says this is the only live 3D show in the world. There are portions of the show where his live performance separates out into...
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Feb. 26
The Reverend Horton Heat w/ Larry & His Flask and the Goddamned Gallows
The Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St.
8 p.m., $20, ... more »
Pick: Unhung: Created by Design
Feb. 23
Unhung: Created by Design
Osborn Family Gallery, University of Nebraska-Omaha Criss Library, 6001 Dodge
Reception ... more »
Pick: Audio Drawings / an interactive sound exhibition by Caleb Coppock
Feb. 24
Audio Drawings / an interactive sound exhibition by Caleb Coppock
Peerless Gallery, 3157 Farnam St. Suite 7108
Reception ... more »
Artist Chris Raschka Visits Omaha
Saturday, February 25th
Artist Chris Raschka
Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St.
10 a.m.-12 p.m., FREE
(402) 342-3300
Artist Chris ... more »
Pick: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Pavement is a band that probably should have never broken up, however, had they not; lead singer Stephen Malkmus never would have ... more »
Pick: Face FWD: A Gerard Pefung Solo
Feb. 17
Face FWD: A Gerard Pefung Solo
The New BLK, 1213 Jones St.
7-10p.m., FREE
thenewblk.com, 403.5619
Omaha and Cameroon-based ... more »
Pick: Joseph Broghammer, New Works
Feb. 17
Joseph Broghammer, New Works
Anderson O’Brien Fine Art Old Market, 1108 Jackson St.
Reception 6-9p.m., Exhibition thru Mar. ... more »
Feb. 17-Feb. 19
The Marriage Contract
The Jewel Box Theater at the Scottish Rite Center, 202 S. 20th St.
Friday and Saturday, 7:30 ... more »
South Omaha native son David Krajicek’s crime writing has branded him Mr. Murder, so it’s only apt he looks the heavy ... more »
Stop by the PS Collective at 6056 Maple Street this Thursday, August 4th at 7 p.m. for the Omaha Poetry Slam Team ... more »
*Fans of horror, monsters and strange illustrations take note: artist Michael Bukowski is illustrating every monster ... more »
Booked: Pigs, Poetry and Prognostication
