This weekend, Omahans looking to beat the heat can attend two indoor fashion shows taking place at Nomad Lounge in the Old Market. A Vanity Affair fashion show will take place Friday, July 15th. It will benefit the Micah House, an emergency homeless shelter in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Designers such as Dan Richters, Illa Ridder […]
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Cosmic Forecast, July 14-July 20
Happy Full Moon in Capricorn, as we transit the sign ruled by the Moon, the water sign of Cancer the Crab — our most sensitive crybabies of the zodiac. Now don’t lay/start that “wahhh, wahhh” routine/jive on me! If there’s something to be irritable about, you’ll find it. Wah! Wah! Here it comes. Read on. […]
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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 […]
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Mixed media–July 14, 2011
“Possessions: literary characters and the things they carried” is the theme for (downtown) Omaha lit fest’s 2011 literary-themed art exhibit October 14 at the Downtown Omaha Public Library. The lit fest is seeking ideas from artists to interpret literary artifacts — like props, objects, fashions, foods, or jewelry of famous literary characters. Examples might be […]
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Playing With Fire, Travelling Mercies, Sunday Roadhouse
This week’s big event is the Playing With Fire concert Saturday, July 16. It’s set for Stinson Park at Aksarben Village. Missouri River flood waters washed out the Lewis & Clark Landing and threatened the proposed second site. A lot of people seem uncertain about where Stinson Park is. It is the park on the […]
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Playing With Fire, Travelling Mercies, Sunday Roadhouse
This week’s big event is the Playing With Fire concert Saturday, July 16. It’s set for Stinson Park at Aksarben Village. Missouri River flood waters washed out the Lewis & Clark Landing and threatened the proposed second site. A lot of people seem uncertain about where Stinson Park is. It is the park on the […]
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Chicago’s New Vibe
With nearly enough members to fill a baseball lineup card, Kids These Days should have taken a bit of work to assemble. Instead, singer/guitarist Liam Cunningham came up with a band in barely a heartbeat. “The whole band fell together within a weekend,” he says. The band started with Cunningham and bass player Lane Beckstrom. […]
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Loosening Up
Eric Johnson is still adjusting the balances in his musical life. With a lofty reputation for guitar technique, Johnson continually strives to pull out his songwriting skills for fans. Known as a notorious studio tinkerer, Johnson has tried to find new ways to streamline his studio labor without losing his trademark sound. And he’s focused […]
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The Kid Is Alright
According to George Clinton, the chief architect of funk, the definition of funk is “to do the best you can in life and after that, funk it.” Considering his reputation, it’s ironic that Clinton’s first band was a doo-wop-style group modeled after Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. “The whole doo-wop thing was to make it […]
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Stop That Train
“Grunge f#@ked it up for everybody. It wasn’t fair at all. We were never a grunge band. You have a whole bunch of guys that used to wear plaid shirts because they were warm and now we can’t wear them anymore. It screwed everything up,” Dave Pirner says jokingly. “I’m glad you understand that because […]