Another game, another shutout victory for Creighton men’s soccer. The No. 3 Jays beat St. Mary’s 1-0 on Sept. 24, running their shutout streak to seven games. Things are about to get more difficult. Creighton will face top-ranked Maryland on the road Friday, then head to No. 7 Indiana the following weekend. Sandwiched in between […]
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MONA exhibits…Omaha artist news…
The Museum of Nebraska Art recently opened The Oregon Trail: Francis Parkman’s Collection of Native American Cartes de Visite running through December 17. The exhibit includes journals detailing the artist’s Oregon Trail visit. Why Is It Art? through April 2012 explores how styles in art have evolved and what influences artists; with selections from the […]
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Omaha North Hills Pottery Tour
October 1-2 Omaha North Hills Pottery Tour Big Table Studios, 17171 County Rd 25, Herman; Too Far North Wines and Wine Tasting, 111 N. 14th St., Fort Calhoun; Dennison Pottery, 13210 N. 47th St., Omaha; Florence Mill, 9102 N. 30th St., Omaha FREE Omahanorthhillspotterytour.com Catch the fall breeze and maybe a teapot this weekend at […]
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daOMA Presents Michael Rock
September 29 daOMA Presents Michael Rock Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St. Reception 6p.m., Program 7p.m., FREE Joslyn.org, 342.3300 Michael Rock, professor of design at Yale University School of Art, will help keep the Omaha design community connected to the outside world Wednesday. Rock will discuss his wide range of projects including strategy for Prada […]
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Bug’s Intensity Relieved by Levity
The Blue Barn calls the play Bug “a psycho thriller,” and others have called it “every bit as sleazy and violent’ as Killer Joe, another drama by Tracy Letts. One source warned against “violence, nudity and cigarette smoke,” while another simply said, “Don’t bring anyone who likes clean escape entertainment” to this “blood-drenched thriller.” […]
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Good Vibrations — the Cure for Hysteria
Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is bringing the story of a miracle cure to the big screen in a new movie titled Hysteria. The film documents a little-known area of Western medicine that the medical establishment would probably like to forget. By the early 1900s, Western medicine had succeeded in eliminating a scourge, once common in the 1800s, […]
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Location, Location
Many landscape painters consider the representation of space as their primary goal. Other landscape painters focus less on rendering space primary to one location and treat it more conceptually. This is painter Caolan O’Loughlin’s approach as he expands one’s understanding of landscape through a time-honored process that unites past and present both in time and […]
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What’s Popping
Something new popping with Orville Redenbacher’s Popping Corn Orville Redenbacher’s Popping Corn, a brand of ConAgra Foods, is shaking up microwave popcorn by adding a flavorful twist to one of America’s favorite snack foods. The popcorn brand has introduced Orville Redenbacher’s Flavors, individually wrapped bags of microwave popcorn that come with separate seasoning packets, allowing […]
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The Bell of the Bawl
Bellflower wants badly to burn. It so yearns to catch fire that cinematographer Joel Hodge appears to have frequently smeared ash on the lens and scrambled the color palate, so that bright reds and oranges practically ignite the screen. Alas and alack, beyond a sizzlin’ visual look, Bellflower is less flame and more smoke … […]
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Fall Food Fundraisers
Last week I was storming around the house looking for something, but could not quite remember where to look. I opened this door and that door, gazing between here and there, but no luck. I then asked my wife and of course, she knew. “It’s upstairs, in the board game closet,” she said with confidence. […]