The anticipation started building the moment the final horn blew in Fort Worth last March. Seemingly playing on fumes after key injuries left them shorthanded, the Bluejays still pushed eventual national champion Kansas to the brink. It was a three-point game with under a minute to play before falling short in the NCAA Tournament. With […]
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Omaha’s Little Shop of Oddities
Some call him Derek. A few call him Dad. But most just call him Voodoo. Derek Everhart has always had an affinity for the abnormal. But now he specializes in it, selling a smorgasbord of skulls, stuffed animal heads and other finds at Voodoo’s Odd Shop on the corner of 13th and Martha Streets. “The […]
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Not So Nebraska Nice
Once in a while a book comes along that you read voraciously, you can’t put it down and you want everyone to read it too. It hits home and you want to talk about it with everyone you know. Recent books that come to mind in that way; Untamed by Glennon Doyle, How To Be […]
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Last call coming for what’s likely Nebraska’s last video store
This story originally appeared in Flatwater Free Press. The dying light of the afternoon penetrates the storefront glass and settles upon rows of DVDs arranged not by genre, but in rough alphabetical order. Thus, Michael Myers from “Halloween” lurks on a shelf near Tracy Turnblad of “Hairspray.” Past a hand-written “DROP OFF MOVIE HERE” sign, […]
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Amid Floods and A Pandemic, Omaha Plant Store Finds Its Roots and Thrives through Adversity
Walking into (drips) botanical elements is like walking through an enchanted forest. From floor to ceiling, the store is covered with hefty leaves, creeping vines and prickly cactus hairs, broken up by rocks and crystals sprinkled between the plants. Under beaming natural light, the scent of flowers and local handmade candles consume the air as […]
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Saddle Creek Artist Indigo De Souza Talks Touring, New Music and Maha Music Festival
The Reader sat down with indie rock songstress Indigo De Souza to discuss her international tour, upcoming third album and imminent Maha Music Festival performance.
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Maha Fills Stinson Park With Music, People for Two-Night Return
On Friday and Saturday, July 29 and 30, the smell of wood-fired pizza and fresh gyros plumed into the air as people walked (and in some cases rollerbladed) through the crowd for the Maha Music Festival’s return to Stinson Park. Car Seat Headrest made their Maha return Friday, sending beams of red, green and blue […]
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Beaufield Berry-Fisher Is Changing Omaha’s Arts Landscape
Beaufield Berry-Fisher is expecting. She’s not pregnant, though some of the most creatively productive times of her life have coincided with pregnancy. Berry-Fisher and her husband Rob have three children. She was pregnant with her youngest, Georgia, in 2019 while writing Red Summer, the play about the lynching of Will Brown that had a wildly […]
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Memories Made of This
Unless faced with a loaded image of an eye, a hand or any other recognizable item, viewers at an art exhibit may be left to wonder in dismay or disbelief about work that is conceptual or a mix of fact and fantasy. Explanations are often demanded of the artist by way of compensation only to […]
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Rules of Engagement
(The following is a more complete version of the one that printed in the June issue of the Reader) Small businesses are no stranger to soft openings and landings as they cycle through the vagaries of even the best of economies. But leave it to an unforeseen and unprepared for pandemic to be a game […]
