October 7 Jill Rizzo: Love Dundee Gallery, 4916 Underwood Ave. Reception 6-9 p.m., Exhibit through October 23, FREE Dundeegallery.com, 505.8333 Artist Jill Rizzo names her creative inspirations as travels to California and Colorado, relationships, memory, sound, losses, gains and how her mind processes makes sense of it all. The ethereal images of animals, plants, and […]
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MSSNGR: Functional Art Works: Steve Gordon, Jr. aka RDQLUS
October 7 MSSNGR: Functional Art Works: Steve Gordon, Jr. aka RDQLUS The New BLK Gallery, 1213 Jones St. Opening reception 7-10 p.m., exhibit through October 23, FREE After hours, House of Loom, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Thenewblk.com, rdqlus.com, houseofloom.com Brand designer, creative director, author, strategic thinker, fashion designer and artist Steve Gordon of RDQLUS Creative, is […]
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‘Belt Gets Creepy Again, Beasley Does Wilson
The Shelterbelt promises that Shelterskelter 16 opens Oct. 6 with “a great mix of creepy, spooky and darkly humorous” plays, including one by Omahan Jeremy Johnson, the other eight by playwrights from New York to California. They run right through Oct. 31 with the “definitely not for little kids” caveat. While tickets generally cost […]
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Ma Ma Ma My, Toyota
Nebraska Non-Profit Organizations Receive Free Vehicles Last week three Nebraska non-profit organizations received free vehicles courtesy of Toyota’s “100 Cars For Good” national program. The celebration at Performance Toyota of Lincoln included Lincoln-based Food Bank of Lincoln and Lighthouse After School Program, as well as Arbor Day Farm of Nebraska City. The much-publicized “100 Cars […]
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Barn’s Bugs Not Pleasant But Powerful
Seeing four plays in less than a week was my autumnal pleasure, but it turns out I’m reviewing the least pleasant of the bunch, Bug at the Blue Barn. Not that there’s anything wrong with being unpleasantly provocative. If I want pleasant, I can walk my dog and savor the fall colors. If I […]
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Movieha – Omaha’s Movie Podcast!
This week is a week like no other for Movieha. We tackle the terrible Bellflower, pontificate on what makes the perfect Robocop, ponder a big question, and craft some fine haikus. All in a week’s work. Give it a listen and meet me on the other side for the trailers we discussed. On Your Radar: […]
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John Sorensen’s Decades-Long Magnificent Obsession with the Abbott Sisters
John Sorensen is like many Nebraska creatives who left to pursue a passion. The Grand Island native and longtime New York City resident worked with master filmmaker Alexander MacKendrick (The Sweet Smell of Success) and Broadway legends Lewis and Jay Presson Allen (Tru). He founded a New York theater troupe. He’s developed a radio series. […]
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“Resonant Tide”
Creighton University’s current exhibit, Resonant Tide, on view at its Lied Art Gallery, welcomes a broad appreciation for creativity through traditional and contemporary perspectives of its faculty and alumnus. Part celebratory of Creighton’s new president Timothy R. Lannon, S.J. (the first Creighton alumnus to head the University), the exhibit is also a tribute to the […]
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Food For Thought
The uneasy place which race inhabits in the collective American psyche leaves most discussions of the subject to academics, activists or attorneys. But its reality permeates much of the social-cultural fabric. Rhetoric about race is common. Conversation, less so. In these politically correct times, with a topic so tinged by the emotional weight of the […]
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Cosmic Forecast, Sept. 29-Oct. 5
“If we are the diggers/miners of gold of/for the gods, then their speech must be of such epic proportions that their words would seem as a humming silence to/for us.” These words are the start (Inshallah) of my newest/next work. That’s what we need — a new start. In 2 short weeks it’s the Full […]