Fiery Louisiana bluesman Tab Benoit plays Knickerbockers in Lincoln on Friday, July 29. Multiple-award winner Janiva Magness is a don’t-miss artist. She brings her powerhouse blues and soul to The 21st Saloon this Thursday, July 28, at 5:30 p.m. “What Should We Do? Run?” Kris Lager Band’s van caught fire while driving home from South […]
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Are Hot Flashes Revelations To Men?
The show winding up this weekend at the Circle Theatre is called Hot Flashes: Revelations of the Dangerous Age, but one of these days men won’t find such scenes so eye-opening. Not if they’ve encountered this one as well as Menopause: the Musical and The Vagina Monologues. Director Roxanne Wach, who also directed The V […]
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Medicine from Mummies
Western medicine has made some amazing advances in the past century or so. Its ability to market itself and affect so much of the world’s economy is impressive. The number of pharmaceutical and chemical interventions that Western medicine’s drug merchants have introduced to the marketplace and acquired governmental approval for is astounding. But have methods […]
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Movieha – Omaha’s Favorite Movie Podcast!
Welcome once more to Movieha, the podcast voted most likely to change your life (that vote had an accuracy of 0-100%). This week sees another minor squabble between myself and Matt Lockwood, as well as a truly horrid Netflix pick, some particularly newsy news, and more crowd-pleasing haikus (because what pleases people like haikus? Answer: […]
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Poetry Versus
Although awarded points for its use in wooing the opposite sex, poetry has long carried a cool index below the cultural Mendoza line. Emotionally resonant? Yes. Culturally significant? Sure. Bad ass? Not so much. Things began to change in the mid 1980s, when Chicago’s Marc Smith created a “poetry slam,” a competition in which writers […]
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Eating Seasonally: Savoring and Saving Summer
The next few months mark the beginning of food hedonism. Once the gloomy rain of spring subsides and the billowing heat of summer drips sweat at our temples, we know a fruit and vegetable bounty is near. There is something wholeheartedly satisfying about gorging ourselves on berries and melon so sweet it’s almost shameful to […]
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A Black is Beautiful Celebration the Whole Community can Partake In
Through August 1 Native Omaha Days Various sites, venues Hours, prices vary www.nativeomahans.com Let’s get this out of the way right now: Native Omaha Days is not just for “black folk.” Yes, this biennial community reunion is a largely African-American celebration, but it features way-cool events open to everyone. Thursday Social mixer @ Native Omahans Club Welcome […]
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FASH FLOOD
Do you follow event, interior design or fashion blogs? Consider yourself self-motivated and fashion forward? Two local businesses might be looking for you. Local brand communication and event production firm STEP Group, Inc. and bridal designer and blogger Princess Lasertron are looking for interns in the Omaha area. For more information on STEP Group’s internship, […]
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Bryce Coulton: Omaha’s Salami Guy
Bryce Coulton’s voice has a slow New Jersey swagger. He speaks deliberately and with precision much in the same way he maneuvers a curved boning knife across the leg of a butchered pig. The morning of our interview I watched as he sliced segments of the animal in the back kitchen of Dundee’s Pitch Pizzeria […]
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Overarching plan for North Omaha development now in place
Recent adoption of the North Omaha Village Revitalization Plan into the city master plan gives direction and impetus to energizing a stagnated, disinvested area never fully recovered from decades-ago civil disturbance and urban renewal. Unanimous approval by the Omaha Planning Board and City Council sends a strong signal to public-private funders and developers the plan […]