Playing With Fire Returns

by B.J. Huchtemann

After calling it quits at the beginning of the year, Playing With Fire has gotten a reprieve. The concert event will be back for one show again this year. Playing With Fire has a new presenting sponsor, FirstComp Insurance. This summer’s show will be Saturday, July 28, back on the Lewis & Clark Landing on Omaha’s riverfront.

“'Playing with Fire' continues our search for additional sponsors like FirstComp to...

 

Mute and Cute

by Ryan Syrek

It’s fair to say that writer/director Michel Hazanavicius’ latest film, The Artist, is predicated entirely on a single gimmick. Oh yes, its overall conceit is a ruse, a con, a flim-flam sleight-of-hand designed to distract from a gossamer plot and startlingly unoriginal characters. And it pretty much works.

Since it first hit the festival circuit, this black-and-white silent film has been generating major awards...

 

Lincoln Calling

by Michael J. Krainak

Seven years after opening its Underground space to experimental, emerging artists, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts has evolved one step further with its first exhibit in 2012, Transceiver, which continues through Feb. 11.

Transceiver, an exhibition of non-traditional media curated by Lincoln’s Drift Station, is the first of an open series of shows that feature regional artist-run venues or groups that...

 

To Live Forever:

by Cheril Lee

Saturday, February 11^th-Sunday, June 3^rd, 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;...