July 8 Ben Folds Stir Cove at Harrah’s Casino, 1 Harrah’s Boulevard 8 p.m., $35 in advance/$40 day-of-show, 21 and up, http://www.stircove.com Ben Folds’ biggest hit has always been a sidestep from what makes Ben Folds such a captivating musician. 1997’s “Brick” off of Ben Folds Five’s Whatever & Ever Amen painted Folds as a […]
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July 8: LOUD at The Sandbox: Music, Art and Party
July 8 LOUD at The Sandbox: Music, Art and Party The Sandbox, 2406 Leavenworth St. 9 p.m. – 2 a.m., $5 21+, $8 18+ 402.504.2714, search for “The Sandbox” on Facebook Places Artist Leslie Diuguid is painting live at the LOUD event at The Sandbox, 24th and Leavenworth, July 8. Diuguid will literally lay down […]
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July 7: Art Talk featuring Mia Feuer, John Peña and Wendal A. White
July 7 Art Talk featuring sculptor Mia Feuer, new media artist John Peña and photographer Wendal A. White Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 724 S. 12th St. 7 p.m. Free. http://www.bemiscenter.org Through her massive pieces, Mia Feuer’s creates illusions of architectural elements like bridges, cranes and military checkpoints in states of potential or collapse. John […]
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Big Harp: One Attempt at a Perfect Life
Somewhere on a sun-baked highway in Southern California drives the Senseney family. Presumably in a mini-van. Behind the wheel is father, Chris, navigating the straight-arrow route from their home in Los Angeles to Palm Springs. His wife, Stefanie Drootin-Senseney, leans over and adjusts a strap on the car seat that holds baby Twila, age 11 […]
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Hot Week For the Blues
Alvin & Zoo 38, Blues Fests, OEAA Showcase It’s a huge weekend for music with three big festivals for blues and jazz fans and the OEAA Summer Showcase in Benson. Dave Alvin’s Friday night set at The Zoo Bar 38th Anniversary Street Fest is a don’t-miss show. A searing guitarist and songwriter, Alvin only hits […]
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Rooftop Ravers
Tiempo Libre Kicks Off Jazz on the Green Growing up in Cuba, members of the hot Miami-based Latin band, Tiempo Libre, studied classical music at Havana conservatories. Popular music was deemed subversive and thus forbidden. That included their native timba, but most especially American music. Hungry for what they were denied, the players clambered atop […]
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Rock Steady
Omaha’s 10th annual Riverfront Jazz and Blues Festival is one thing the Missouri River flooding isn’t stopping. Despite Mother Nature’s recent attack on the Midwest, the show, as they say, must go on. The two-day event has been moved to the legendary Orpheum Theater, a more than suitable replacement. Organizer Tim Clark is determined to […]
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Loom to host open ‘House’, Saddle Creek opens shop
* 311 have added to the hometown celebration surrounding their July 19 headlining slot at the inaugural Red Sky Festival and the corresponding release of their tenth studio album, Universal Pulse: They will be signing albums at the Old Market location of Homer’s Music, 1210 Howard St. The signing will take place at midnight Tuesday, […]
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Mixed media–July 6, 2011
According to Tim Barry, Building Manager at Hot Shops Art Center, the building is intact as long as it doesn’t rain. “Our problem is that when the streets flood, there’s water in the boiler room … Every time it rains, Public Works and the engineers come out and work around the clock to fix it […]
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Gift Horses
For many people, artists included, horses have represented little more than an object, albeit one of beauty and strength, whether on a field of honor, a Western landscape or racetrack. From earliest cave paintings to the more refined work of Classical and Renaissance artists including da Vinci and Dürer; from the equine portraiture of Rubens […]