I’ve been putting this off because there hasn’t been any “home run” albums released in the past few months. Nothing has really spun my head like releases from earlier this year by Sun Kil Moon or Strand of Oaks or Courtney Barnett. Plenty of good music has been released, but I’m finding it harder than […]
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Check Out the Art
Yo, Omaha artists! We really get along well, don’t we? Sure, there’s this and that but on the whole we are a large and supportive group. Take the group show The Science Fair from a few years back as an example. Nearly 100 artists and musicians showed at Urban Storage over the course of two […]
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I Want a New Drug
This week, I write about…drugs. Yes, drugs. Because to an extent, I’m a virgin to the topic. I’ve never taken drugs. I’ve never even smoked weed before, as odd as that sounds considering I’ve spent a good part of the past 20-odd years writing about rock bands and rock music and rock shows where no […]
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U2’s Great (boring) Album Giveaway
Did you follow the Apple announcement last week? Needless to say, I’ll be replacing my broken-screened iPhone 5 with an ultra-slim 6 some time in the next two weeks. And how about the Apple Watch! Gotta have one of those, right? Starting at $349, maybe not. I’m waiting to hear the first Apple Watch joke, […]
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Fashion Week stakes tent for runway couture
Omaha Fashion Week, the Midwest couture festival that pops up twice a year in the most unexpected places, is one of those signifier events that confirms this isn’t your parents’ city anymore. It has returned to the much ballyhooed but sill largely undeveloped Capitol District after being there last year. If the 10th Street and […]
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Omaha performer recalls her friendship with Johnny Cash
With impresario Gordon Cantiello’s new tribute show The Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash at The Waiting Room, it’s only natural to consider what makes the singer-songwriter of the title so enduring. The king of hard-scrabble, honky-tonk infused with gospel, country, folk, blues and rock, became a living legend with his Man in […]
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Playing Favorites: The 2Q 2014 Album Reviews Roundup
These days I’m introduced to most new music via streaming services. Yes, I still receive the occasional download from an artist’s label and/or promotion company (or from the artist him/herself), but when something new breaks on a given Tuesday, it’s first heard online via NPR First Listen or that destroyer of the music industry, Spotify. […]
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Something Old, Something New
Not many artists have approached the challenges and contradictions of making art quite as astutely as Colin Smith. There is experimentation with materials and process and he creates his art taking into account space and form. Through a multilayered application of paint, pigments and resin Smith is able to create a consciousness within his pieces […]
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Slouchers of the World, Unite!
Before I begin talking about this new, high-tech invention called the Lumo Lift, I must explain my affliction — an affliction that has haunted me most of my adult life, one that I’ve never been able to escape. I’m a chronic sloucher. I don’t know how it happened, I don’t know how I got this […]
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Art and community meet-up in artist’s public projects
Omaha artist Watie White’s humanist public art projects reveal the narratives of transitional urban neighborhoods. The dynamics of locations and the people living there shape his site-specific works. Three 2014 projects, one completed and the others in-progress, all connect to community organizations whose social justice missions “align” with his own. “The kind of organizations I […]
