This week’s episode is a veritable all-you-can-eat buffet of entertainment, with filling dishes that include the latest movie news, a bad-ass trailer for an upcoming smaller film, a dissection of Ryan Gosling’s accent, a look into Paul Giamatti’s hairpiece, and two dark confessions alongside a haiku tray for dessert. EAT UP and meet me on […]
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Restaurant Industry Award Nomination Time
James Beard Foundation 2011 Award Nominations The James Beard Foundation Awards Committee announced an open call-for-entries for the 2011 James Beard Foundation. James Beard Foundation is the country’s pre-eminent culinary awareness organization. Nominations for the Restaurant and Chef Awards can be completed and submitted online at www.jamesbeard.org/awards as of noon EDT on October 15. Downloadable […]
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Bluffs Bound
The last Sunday brunch at Dixie Quick’s “blink and you’ll miss it” location at 19th and Leavenworth felt mostly nostalgia-free. Overheard conversations focused more on movies and irritating co-workers and less on how this would be the last time people would be eating French toast with sexual chocolate in Nebraska. A father ordered his son […]
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Brave Women Go West to Nicodemus
Susie Baer Collins got ready to direct Flyin’ West, the story of brave black women who homesteaded in Kansas, by driving south last summer to Nicodemus “in the middle of nowhere.” She’s known for going to great lengths to prepare her Omaha Community Playhouse assignments and it’s not that Nicodemus is so terribly far away […]
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Fall Fury: The Reader’s Fall Fashion Directory
Death of Auto-Bling Kristen Geissinger of Statement “The jeans with the bedazzled backs are O.V.E.R. I can’t believe I just said ‘bedazzle.’ Can you imagine Karl Lagerfeld ‘bedazzling’ couture? ” Kristen Geissinger, a petite woman with a fantastic smile, tugs at the cap of her water bottle as we glance at the soft animal prints […]
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Cosmic Forecast, Oct. 13-Oct. 19
Thank you, Wakan Tanka, the Amerindian spirit of the plains, for such beautiful weather during this marvelous Indian summer of 2011. See what a set of unified good vibes can accomplish as we surf with/amidst the waves of nature, together. When you run out of things to do, you/we can always study Mother Nature. Eventually, […]
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Nosferatu
Friday, October 21st Nosferatu Film Streams, 1340 Mike Fahey St. 7 p.m.; $8 Film Streams Members; $12 Non-Members; $10 Students, Seniors, Military www.filmstreams.org Nosferatu As part of its Silents in Concert series, Film Streams will screen F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent vampire film, Nosferatu. The German horror film stars Max Shrek as Count Orlok. “Others” will […]
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Pick: An Evening With Gillian Welch
October 13 An Evening With Gillian Welch Rococo Theatre, 140 N 13 St., Lincoln $25 General Admission, $27.50 Reserved 8 p.m. Etix.com Gillian Welch writes and performs songs steeped in timeless Appalachian flavor and gives her compositions just enough modern edge to create something entirely new yet somehow immediately recognizable. She and partner/ guitarist extraordinaire […]
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Project Censored 2012
Now in its 35th year, Project Censored, a media research program at Sonoma State University, has examined the coverage of news and information to identify what it calls Modern Censorship — “the subtle yet constant and sophisticated manipulation of reality in American mass media outlets.” Every year the program releases its list of the Top […]
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Pick: The Green Home Tour and Expo
Oct. 15 The Green Home Tour and Expo The Harper Center, Creighton University, 2500 California Plaza, unomaha.edu, FREE, 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., $5. A sampling of items being focused on during the 2011 Green Home Tour and Expo: the benefits of sustainable design, urban re-development, walk-able neighborhoods and mixed-use design. These subjects are going to be […]