Stop by the PS Collective at 6056 Maple Street this Thursday, August 4th at 7 p.m. for the Omaha Poetry Slam Team Sendoff Show. The team (Steven Evans, Jake Narofsky, Patrick Sather, Tessie Stednitz, and Ben Wenzl) will be headed to Boston to take on the rest of the country in this year’s National Poetry […]
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City Council Meeting 07/26/2011
“If in fact we lose the talent, I’m confident Omaha can find fresh talent,” Councilman Franklin Thompson stated, “…but it does hurt.” Despite criticism that failing to pass the contract could result in lowered standards for competitive wages and higher turnaround rates for officers, the Omaha City Council refused to pass the Police Management contract […]
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Cosmic Forecast, July 28-Aug 3
Time to play it dynamic. Feel the pulse — the heartbeat — over this Leo/Leo New Moon (conjunct Venus) this Saturday. The blues is just/right around the corner. The blues will still be here next week, when once again we speak. I suggest you fill your basket with joy to balance out your fate before […]
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NAC seeks submissions, support…KC architects talk at Bemis…Textile art at JCC Gallery…
Omaha artist David McLeod presents a variety of his works at the Fred Simon Gallery through August 12, including his mixed media “Similar Stamps” series. The NAC is taking applications for Nebraska visual artists to display in the Fred Simon Gallery for the 2012/13 season. Applications are due August 31. NAC, which receives ample funding […]
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Cutting Room for July 27
Charlie Kaufman’s only directorial effort, the genius work of art that is Synecdoche, New York, broke my brain in half. Thus, announcement of his forthcoming sophomore effort fills me with equal parts glee and a desire to purchase of copious amounts of aspirin. It comes with the inauspicious title Frank or Francis and the simplistic […]
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3 Questions With Cold Cave
July 31 Cold Cave w/ Austra, Touch People The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $10 advance/$12 day-of-show, onepercentproductions.com There’s a sense of anonymity, of hiding, when it comes to Cold Cave. The album covers don’t feature principal member Wes Eisold. Instead there’s a picture of a woman on each. Inside, the starkness […]
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Digital Leather album imminent
* Digital Leather‘s next release Infinite Sun is now somewhere in the wide world of shipping. The records will first be sent to San Diego’s Volar Records, the label releasing the record. The first batch of special edition vinyl then goes to people who pre-ordered the record via Digital Leather’s Kickstarter.com fund raising campaign. Kickstarter […]
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Getting Warped
Against Me! has played in just about every sort of venue Omaha offers. And the Florida indie-punk band is set to add a parking lot to the mix, as they hit the Westfair Amphitheater in Council Bluffs as part of the 2011 Vans Warped Tour. Bassist Andrew Seward can remember all of his metro tour […]
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Birdhouse Event & More
Jessica McKay of Birdhouse Interior Design has been not-so-patiently waiting to announce an upcoming special event that should be going on your calendar as you read this. On December 2nd, HOME: A Birdhouse Interiors and Art Exhibition will kick off with a very special speaker, Erin Loechner, creator and editor-in-chief of the internationally popular design […]
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Every new record at your fingertips? Meet Spotify
As I write this I’m sitting in a lodge in Breckenridge, Colorado, with no Internet access and I’m listening to the latest by Death Cab for Cutie using red-hot music streaming service Spotify. Spotify is the latest import from the Sweden that is promising to revolutionize how we listen to new music. It became available […]