Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St., 6:30-11 p.m. Free for YAP members, $30 for non-members Joslyn.org 402-342-000 Joslyn’s Young Arts Patrons (YAP) offers engaging social events for a new generation of viewers who want to connect with the area’s rising “creative class.” YAP members and those wishing to either join this Friday’s sojourn and/or the […]
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Backbeat 8/4
* Saddle Creek Records’ love of JEFF the Brotherhood is not hard to discern, as you can often spot a label staffer wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the two-piece Nashville band’s name. While Backbeat always assumed that would lead the Creek to signing the fuzzed-out, stripped down Weezer acolytes, that as yet to happen. But […]
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An Electronic Touchstone
Jimmy Tamborello is best known for his work as a member of The Postal Service, where he teamed with Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and in 2003 released the gorgeous Give Up which is still Sub Pop’s second-best selling record of all time (behind Nirvana’s Bleach). However, he has been releasing well-received electronica records […]
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Speed! Nebraska Riots! 120 Minutes Returns! Tony Bonacci Directs!
Filling in some blanks as we head into two weeks’ of MAHA Music Festival coverage … I mentioned that I was in beautiful Breckenridge, Colorado, last week enjoying some well-deserved R ‘n’ R (that’s rest and relaxation, not rock ‘n’ roll). Because of that personal holiday, I missed this year’s Speed! Nebraska Soapbox Riot — […]
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Settling In
A case of cheap domestic lager, a sun-baked front porch and a cracked-open front window, so the sounds of a dusty blues record, Eddie Hinton side or Mendocino, could be heard floating from inside to out. And Patrick Sweany avoiding yard work, talking about his 2011 album That Old Southern Drag and how he left Ohio […]
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Inviting Nebraska Dreams
by Lindsey Peterson Crete, located in southeast Nebraska, is a town not unlike many other rural towns. It faces an increasing immigration population and a burdened education system. And, like others, it’s scrambling to find ways to handle an influx of students and parents who don’t speak the language. What does make Crete different is […]
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Planet Power 8/4
Greetings! Happy middle of the season of the Sun. Keep cool and enjoy the power and the love, as Venus is transiting Leo, hand-in-hand with the Sun, ’til August 21. The Fool Moon is in Aquarius on Saturday, August 13th, at three ’til 2 a.m. LEO (7.23-8.22) Ahhhh … Time for you to look gooood! […]
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Fash Flood 8/4: Omaha Fashion Week
Paging Project Runway Fans: Omaha Fashion Week announces the attendance of two special guests at fashion week events this year. Season eight Project Runway finalist and fan favorite Mondo Guerra (lovemondotrasho.com) and one of Britain’s top bridal bloggers, the Rock n Roll Bride, otherwise known as Kat Williams (rocknrollbride.com). Stay tuned for further details regarding OFW’s […]
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Cold Cream 8/4: The Official Blues Brothers Revue
It’s a summer custom at the Omaha Community Playhouse to import a theatrical package of light seasonal fun. In recent years, they’ve brought us an entertaining scholastic nun and man as cave man. But neither of these worthy predecessors sounded as much fun as next week’s The Official Blues Brothers Revue as publicized by the […]
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Scots Rockers Ambition vs. Romance
The title, Rooms: a Rock Romance, gives you a good idea of the genre, but what about the “Rooms”? One hint comes from this comparison of the couple, a romancing pair of musicians: “She longs to see every room in the world — he longs to stay in his.” She’s bubbly ambitious Monica and he’s […]