July 17 Stone Temple Pilots Stir Concert Cove, Harrah’s, Council Bluffs 8 p.m. $40. 21 & Over harrahs.com The band famous for their rock sound with a grunge edge will perform hits including “Interstate Love Song,” “Wicked Garden” and “Lady Picture Show.” The band has emerged from a four-year cocoon and is ready to rock […]
Posted inCulture
July 16: Bookfair Benefit for Joslyn Art Museum
July 16 Bookfair Benefit for Joslyn Art Museum Barnes and Noble-Oakview, 3333 Oakview Drive 10a.m.-4p.m. joslyn.org, 402.342.3300 Activities including art and story time for kids, readings by notable authors and a visit from Joslyn Executive Director Jack Becker make the Bookfair Benefit for Joslyn Art Museum a day of fun. A portion of the proceeds […]
Posted inCulture
July 16: Listener in Concert
July 16 Listener in Concert Bemis Underground, 724 S. 12th St. Doors open at 7p.m.; show at 8p.m., $7/$5 members Bemiscenter.org, 402.341.7130 Listener vocalist Dan Smith describes the independent band’s style as “Talk Music … basically poetry and rock ‘n’ roll, or whatever music we want to make into poetry.” Based in Atlanta, along with […]
Posted inCulture
July 15-17: The O FEST
July 15-17 The O FEST Shoppes of Legacy, 168th & W. Center Rds. FREE. 402.346.8003 The Omaha community can look forward to food, fun and music as the third annual “O FEST” is taking place this weekend. The community celebration features foods from many of Omaha’s top restaurants, local music and a variety of activities […]
Posted inCulture
July 15: Opening Reception: Kjell Peterson: From the Redwood Forests
July 15 Opening Reception: Kjell Peterson: From the Redwood Forests Bemis Underground, 724 S. 12th St. 6-9p.m., FREE bemiscenter.org, 402.341.7130 “From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters, this land was made for you and me…” Lyrics by Woodie Guthrie preceded Omaha artist Kjell Erik Peterson’s exhibit opening this weekend at Bemis Underground. The […]
Posted inTheater
Red Hamlet’s Bouncing Venues
Follow the bouncing venue and you can catch up with Red Hamlet, Shakespeare with a “futurist aesthetic,” offered by the Red Theater Collective of Omaha and Lincoln. The O & L reach explains the bouncing venues: 8 p.m. Friday, July 15, at the P.S. Collective in Benson, then that Saturday at the Lincoln Community […]
Posted inCulture
Time to Weigh TAG Nominees
If you’ve seen most of the performances, it’s more fun finding who got nominated for the Theatre Arts Guild awards than learning later about the winners. Not that any playgoer wouldn’t want to attend the 43rd annual TAG Awards Gala in August. But then you face the disappointment of finding some of your favorites […]
Posted inCulture
Wheel of Fortune
“I like the spectacle of it,” said artist Tim Jag, “I love how the circus comes into your town and does this big weekend, and then they pack up and they’re gone…quite the freedom.” And that is what internationally recognized showmen Tim Jag and Gary Parkins have done for a week living in The New […]
Posted inCulture
Black and white…and read all over
If it’s true that “a picture is worth a thousand words,” often attributed to such historical figures as Confucius, author Turgenev and even Napoleon, then it must also be so that a well-chosen phrase or two can inspire the imagination. Such is the goal of Black and White and Read All Over, a new exhibit […]
Posted inCulture
Roberto Kusterle
July 14 Garden of the Zodiac Gallery 1042 Howard St. Exhibit opening from 7-9 p.m. Call 402-517-8719 for regular hours Internationally known Italian artist Roberto Kusterle will make a rare appearance in this country when he brings 30 large and medium format photographs to the Garden of the Zodiac for a two-month exhibition which runs […]