The Big Ten’s laying down the gauntlet as well as the welcome mat for Nebraska this autumn may get all the ink, but the 2011 fall season also hosts a number of fine arts events for the discriminating viewer after the game. Beginning this month several key area art venues will offer a play list […]
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Live Review: Dancing in the Streets
I doubt the crowd at this year’s Dundee Day rock show was expecting what it got when a sweaty, shirtless Darren Keen, a.k.a. The Show Is the Rainbow, jumped from the stage into the audience like a 250-pound Tolkien (or maybe, more suitably, toke-in’) battle dwarf, his shaggy red beard blowin’ in the wind as […]
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Aksarben Cinema voices their support of Stinson Park concerts
* First a note, courtesy of The Reader‘s publisher / editor John Heaston: There was some ado made about Aksarben Cinema and concerts at Stinson Park in the Aug. 18 issue of The Reader. Aksarben Cinema founder and president Bill Barstow contacted us last week to tell his side of the story. “As a locally-owned, independent […]
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Readiness is All: Ying Zhu
September 2 Readiness is All: Ying Zhu Peerless Gallery, 3157 Farnam St., #7108 Reception 6-9p.m., Exhibit through September 24 Wearepeerless.com, yingzhu.or Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts resident Ying Zhu has been studying building codes extensively to finish the renovation of her studio. In the Readiness is All installation, the Chinese-born artist incorporates familiar settings and […]
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The Tilted Series: Original Art by Nina Barnes
September 2 The Tilted Series: Original Art by Nina Barnes The New BLK Gallery, 1213 Jones St. Opening reception 6:30-10p.m., with WRAP party at House of Loom featuring Harouki Zombi, 9-p.m.-2a.m., FREE Thenewblk.com, houseofloom.com, geminitactics.com Norwegian native and Athens, Georgia transplant, artist Nina Barnes presents 15 mixed media pieces seeking to “capture an inner mental […]
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FASH FLOOD
In the wake of another thriving Omaha Fashion Week (Is anyone else exhausted?) there are several upcoming events to keep Omaha’s style community on their toes. Amid an eclectic mix of vintage clothing and one-of-a-kind locally crafted accessories, Old Market boutique Coriander will add an artistic collection to their space Friday. Coriander invites style and […]
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Supplementary, My Dear Watson
The fictional super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes was known to chide his simplistic sidekick, Dr. Watson. When explaining obvious steps in his line of deduction Holmes uttered that it was, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” It would seem fitting that we paraphrase Mr. Holmes when it comes to the obvious: The market for nutritional supplements, vitamins and minerals, […]
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UNO students show at The Hive…First Friday in Omaha…
A dozen University of Nebraska-Omaha art students at The Hive opens August 31, including live painting demonstrations and music by Optimal Eleven. September 2 openings in Omaha: Bill Hoover’s new work at Coriander in the lower level of the Old Market Passageway. The artist is known for his fresh and meditative images of abstract worlds […]
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Ready, Set, Go Out
On Thursday, Sept.1, England’s acclaimed young blues-rock guitarist Oli Brown starts his U.S. tour with The 21st Saloon’s 5:30 p.m. show. Brown is a 2010 British Blues Awards winner for Male Vocalist of the Year. Trout, Ana Popovic & Lil’ Ed High-octane blues-rocker Walter Trout hits the Zoo Bar on Tuesday, Sept. 6, for a […]
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Double Troubles
A slightly above-average human drama with a touch of “Twilight Zone” is a pretty fitting description for director Mike Cahill’s new film, Another Earth. He, and co-writer and star Brit Marling, take a bit of science-fiction, use it as hard science-fact and put it alongside an intimate story about guilt, fate and second chances. It’s […]