It’s a good time to be a DJ in Omaha. There are scores of venues available (the Waiting Room, House of Loom and even restaurants/bars like Blue and Roja, just to name a few), and the competition is getting cutthroat. So who is Enso? Not just another DJ. His name is Derrick Calloway, and he […]
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Ones to Watch: Omaha Fashion Week 2011
Reported in cooperation with Jessica Stensrud Omaha Fashion Week 2011 by the numbers: more than 4,000 attendees, 1,125 participants, 125 volunteers, 39 designers, three very special guests and two very determined and dedicated event organizers. Nick and Brook Hudson, the husband-and-wife team behind what has grown into one of the Midwest’s biggest fashion events, say […]
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Radio Day
Public radio’s popular Whad’Ya Know?, headlined by creator-producer-host Michael Feldman, comes to the Holland Performing Arts Center for a live, two-hour road show Aug. 13. Produced by Wisconsin Public Radio and distributed by Public Radio International, Whad’Ya Know? calls home base the Monona Terrace in Madison. Eight times a year cast and crew leave the […]
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Movieha – Omaha’s Movie Podcast!
This week’s episode invents the term “Deucing the Vowels,” perpetuates the use of “Ben and Jerry’s” as a term for male genitals, repeats the phrase “pec juice,” and presents the news, reviews, and tomfoolery you’ve come to expect. We’re still the only podcast out there rocking haikus to preview this week’s upcoming releases. There’s probably […]
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World of Winter
I recently met Jes Winter (officially) while working at Urban Outfitters. I’d seen a few photos, but heard many of her hauntingly beautiful songs. I had been exchanging e-mails with the driving force behind local favorite, the Jes Winter Band. She smiled and told me: “This is so funny, but it’s kind of magical. We were […]
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Cosmic Forecast, Aug 11-Aug 17
Happy Fool Moon in Aquarius! Anything can happen! Let’s discuss it all — and the Aquarian Age possibility — at the Holy Smoke Year of the Cat Vou Dou Lounge (where the magique happens) at 6118 Military, on Saturday, from 1:00 p.m. ’til two minutes of 2:00…and please bring seven bucks you don’t need anymore […]
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Fremont Builds Anti-Immigrant Defense Fund to $1.1 million
by Lindsey Peterson The City of Fremont is budgeting for another year of judicial sparring in the case of its illegal immigration ordinance. Passed and then soon halted last summer, the ordinance aims to punish those renting to and hiring illegal immigrants. Now tied up in U.S. District Court, the city is currently being represented […]
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Common Sense Adds to Truancy Law
It’s a plan that builds on an older plan. Last year, LB 800 was signed into law. That enacted sweeping reforms in truancy prevention and juvenile justice – if a child was truant for more than 20 days of the school year, the county attorney would get involved, and the parents and children might find […]
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Know Your Farmer
Terra Sorenson drove up in a golf cart wearing pigtails and a dirty off-white newsboy cap. Today is CSA harvest day. It’s 8:30 in the morning and she along with her business partners Matthew Hall and Max Brummond already have a thick coat of soil caked to their arms and legs. “Hi,” she said popping […]
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Cutting Room for August 10
Stop! You’re eating wrong. And I don’t just mean the way you hold a spoon, which is really just astonishingly incorrect. On Tuesday, Aug 30, Film Streams (filmstreams.org) and Whole Foods Market Omaha are presenting a special screening of Forks Over Knives, which is sadly not a documentary about a cool new hand game that […]