Just as I sat down with Jeanine Dickes, director of the City Sprouts community garden, her rooster crowed, signaling the beginning of my interview with the passionate individuals behind the project. The garden, situated in the Orchard Hill neighborhood, nourishes and educates hundreds of North Omaha residents from different ethnic groups and backgrounds. For refugees […]
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On And Up
When a major label executive with an extensive history in the music business makes several trips from his cushy spot in Los Angeles to a frigid basement in Omaha, there must be something special about the band. Atlantic Records A&R Jeff Blue saw something in Emphatic, Omaha’s hardest working rock band. “I flew out to […]
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Cutting Room for August 17
Whether it’s because of the quotable dialogue, the copious use of Michelle Pfeiffer in her prime or our inherent ability to accept gangsters despite their being terrible, terrible people, Scarface is massively beloved. Now, for the first time in a long while, you can see all the coke-snorting and murder on the big screen, like […]
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August 25: Therapy in Motion
The Bookworm, 87th & Pacific, 6 p.m. -7:30 p.m. Pillowwithaheartbeat.com Truffles – Truffles the Therapy Dog will be in Omaha with owner Nancy Stanley as the latter promotes her new book Pillow with a Heartbeat: The Heartwarming Tale of a Little Dog Who Finds His Big Purpose. The book is written from Truffles perspective, describing […]
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August 18: Yonder Mountain String Band
The Slowdown, 729 N 14th St, 9 p.m., $20/ADV $25/DOS, onepercentproductions.com Bluegrass has always been a genre hat has walked a fine line between either really cool or really cheesy. The banjo-laden sound has something to do with it; being an instrument that requires efficient skill and speed, but also provoking mocking of backwoods and […]
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MAHA 2011 Had Everything (Except the Crowds)
The weather was perfect. The bands were awesome. And the crowd was … well, it could have been bigger. The final “official” head count, according to MAHA Music Festival organizer Tre Brashear, was 4,000, “slightly down from last year.” A disappointment, and yet, by all other accounts, this year’s MAHA, held last Saturday at Stinson […]
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Taking Shape
Instrumental rock wasn’t the initial plan for the Answer Team. As the band was beginning, they kept seeking and finding vocalists. And each time, they kept losing them. “None of us wanted to be in an instrumental band,” drummer Brandon Bone says. But each time the Answer Team would play without a vocalist, people would […]
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Dim Light celebrates new single with release show
* Dim Light will celebrate release of a seven-inch single with a show Saturday, August 20th at Brothers Lounge, 3812 Farnam Street. The single features “For You” and “Maggas”, both of which were recorded at Sleepy House Audio, bassist Tom Barrett’s home studio. It is being released by Grotto Records, the label associated with the […]
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August 26: The Irish Minstrels: Cliff McKenna, Paddy Finney and Liam McKervey
Aug. 26 The Irish Minstrels: Cliff McKenna, Paddy Finney and Liam McKervey Holy Name Catholic Church, 2901 Fontenelle Blvd., holynameomaha.org, 6:30 p.m., $10. Three men are coming to Nebraska from Ireland as a part of their lifelong pursuit of fun and entertainment, or, as the Irish put it: the craic. These three minstrels are Cliff […]
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August 24: Derby Girl Bingo Fundraiser for Sk8 the State for MS
The Sydney, 5918 Maple St., sk8thestate.blogspot.com, 8 p.m. Sk8 the State for MS is a fundraising movement piloted by four Siouxland women who are trying to take a small step in the fight to eradicate multiple sclerosis. Last summer, thre three founding members skated 288 miles across South Dakota and raised nearly $3000. This summer, […]