Florence Mill ArtLoft, 9102 N. 30th St. Opening reception 1:30-4:30p.m.; Exhibit through August 31, FREE Gallery hours Wed.-Sun. 1-5p.m.; by appointment, 402.551.1233 “There is a visceral sense of something beginning here,” says Florence Mill ArtLoft Director Linda Meigs of WoohYun Shim’s artistry, “Her work contemplates a philosophy of circulation and a cyclic system based on […]
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Aug. 5-6
Hot Shops Art Center, 1301 Nicholas St. Brighter Tomorrow: 5-8p.m. both nights, $3 adults per night, $5 both nights, children 12 and under FREE Parts of a Whole: Aug. 6, 6-9p.m., FREE Both exhibits through Aug. 26 hotshopsartcenter.com With the Parts of a Whole in Nicholas Street Gallery, artists Sarah Carney, Brad Miller and videographer […]
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From Vuillard to Vogel
From classical busts of emperors and Renaissance paintings by van Eyck, Holbein and da Vinci, to Rembrandt’s Baroque portraiture, portraits were a significant element of art’s earliest history. Yet, thanks to modernists like van Gogh, Cezanne and Whistler, painting one’s likeness continued to be a telling picture of not only individual personalities, but of art […]
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Hadden Sayers CD Release, Brothers Comatose, Guided By Vices
Hadden Sayers’ CD release party at Lincoln’s Zoo Bar is Wednesday, Aug. 10, 6-9 p.m.. His latest disc, Hard Dollar, is his best yet. Sayers’ Texas-rooted blues-rock puts his soulful vocals and serious guitar skills front and center in the service of mighty fine original songs. Be there. Roadhouse Gets Comatose Sunday Roadhouse presents The […]
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Divorce, Carell Style
Without a single scene of slapstick puking, accidental drug ingestion or manic violence, Crazy, Stupid, Love, the new movie from directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (I Love You, Phillip Morris), feels like some kind of long-lost comedy relic. That’s meant in the best possible sense. Although it honestly isn’t very crazy or stupid, as […]
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“Official” Blues Brothers plus Aretha
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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Coog-Coog Can Chew
The Trip isn’t a movie. That’s not criticism: It’s actually a six-episode BBC television series that was edited into a two-hour movie for easier transport and consumption. Having watched the edited version of the modestly endearing but repetitive antics of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, the thought of folks tuning in for six straight weeks […]
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Movieha – Omaha’s Favorite Movie Podcast!
Welcome back, you sexy denizens of the interwebs. Let me first congratulate you on your fine taste in podcasts. This week’s ear buffet offers entrees that include news items, movie reviews, and deep, dark confessions. Also, there are poems about this week’s releases that we shall from now on refer to as Ha!kus and not […]
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Scots Rockers Ambition v. 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 […]
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Crumbs part 1
If you’re one who bases fast food orders on calorie counts found on the restaurant’s web site or in-store, you may be surprised to learn that one in five menu items is underestimated by at least 100 calories. While researchers at Tufts University found that most caloric counts at fast food joints were accurate (80% of […]