Sharon Jones was born exactly one month before my mother. That’s pretty remarkable these days, in a business increasingly obsessed with youth, where only legendary, once-svelte young women, are still allowed to make music at her age. But, with no offense to my darling ma, the energy and zeal seeping from Jones’ every pore and […]
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The Big Deep wins opening slot at Maha
* Congratulations to The Big Deep for winning the audience vote at the Omaha Entertainment & Arts Awards summer showcase, which took place July 8 and 9 in downtown Benson. The local indie-folk Americana band will open the Maha Music Festival Saturday, August 13 at Aksarben Village. * The Omaha Girls Rock camp is underway […]
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Around the Table
There’s a short distance between 60s’ psychedelic pop and the acoustic pop that peeked out from first-generation college rockers like R.E.M., the Feelies, the Church and the Go-Betweens. Both elements were present when I first saw the Fresh & Onlys, as they trekked across 2009’s South By Southwest festival; but so was a weirder, darker […]
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Booked: Author Signings and Free Books for Kids
Check out some free poetry and music this Thursday at Tunes in Independence Square in downtown Ralston (77th and Main St. in the gazebo to be exact). Music is provided by Joey Gulizia & The G Notes; the poetry comes from Greg Kosmicki. The event runs from 6:30-8:30 p.m. and the first 200 attendees can […]
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Cutting Room for July 13
Although they must be using Andy Rooney’s bedtime as the threshold by considering 8 p.m. to be “late,” the Joslyn Art Museum’s “Late ‘Til 8” extended evening hours will feature 3 documentaries presented in collaboration with the POV series from PBS (provided the GOP hasn’t made PBS DOA by that ETA). The three documentaries will […]
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Man(agement) Slaughter
Let’s face it: Nobody likes their job anymore. For the past few years, those of us lucky enough to punch a clock have clung to our job like a leaky rubber raft in a sea of economic uncertainty. We keep waiting for a bigger, better boat to rescue us, but none ever do. Meanwhile, our […]
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Norwegian Troll Binge
Seemingly assembled from the recycled limbs and organs of cult films from various genres, Troll Hunter is an endearing little Frankenstein’s monster of a movie. Although writer/director André Øvredal uses the exhausted imaginative crutch that is the fake-documentary format, he does so with alternating strokes of whimsy and horror. Had his bearded, burly central character […]
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July 12: A Community Discussion with Lavie Raven: Urban Art in the Community
July 12 A Community Discussion with Lavie Raven: Urban Art in the Community Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 724 S. 12th St. 7 p.m. Free. http://www.kentbellows..org Presented by the Kent Bellows Studios, Brigitte McQueen, Director of The Union for Contemporary Art, will facilitate the discussion with Raven. Raven founded the University of Hip-Hop in Chicago, […]
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July 10: Speaking of the Elders, Intertribal Stories of Survivance
July 10 Speaking of the Elders, Intertribal Stories of Survivance Rose Theater, 2001 Farnam St. 2 p.m.; suggested $10 donation but any free-will donation appreciated 402-238-7088 Get a glimpse of Native American culture when elders from the Oglala Sioux, Omaha, Winnebago and Cheyenne nations deliver testimonies of survival, and Native actors/readers preview a play by […]
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July 9: Red Sky Showcase: The Confidentials, Steve Villamonte & the 808 Band, and more
July 9 Red Sky Showcase: The Confidentials, Steve Villamonte & the 808 Band, Cleo’s Apartment and Matt Gagne & the Blues Experience Deuce’s Lounge, 12107 Emmet Street 7 p.m., $5, (402) 505-8138 The final showcase to help select the local bands performing at the inaugural Red Sky Music Festival features three Omaha bands and one […]