Happy summer, everybody! Sorry about the money. Look at it as a symbol of the human species’ need for spiritual growth; the need for the polarity to offset/balance the totally hedonistic, 90210 view point foisted onto our current generation of TV absorbed, addicted adolescents. I’m from the first TV generation. I remember when there was […]
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Cutting Room for July 6
You may not know it, but I’m a poet. Don’t let that stale and uninspired rhyme fool you, I’ve been a participant and fan of slam poetry since I learned how to wield awkward political metaphors with staccato delivery. Film Streams at the Ruth Sokolof Theater (filmstreams.org) must be enthusiasts too because they’re bringing Greg […]
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Maha Moves
The Maha Music Festival is taking its show to Aksarben Village. The indie music-focused festival signed a lease agreement to use Stinson Park on the western edge of the midtown Omaha development. It sits to the north of Center Street at about South 64th Avenue, Maha organizer Tre Brashear says. The entire festival area will […]
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Hymn and Awe
In distinguishing between pretentious, inaccessible, pseudo-artistic prattle and actual works of genius, audiences ultimately wind up relying on Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart’s infamous method of determining what is and isn’t pornography: “I know it when I see it.” At the precise moment when writer/director Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life becomes transcendent for some, […]
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311 to sign autographs at Homer’s Music
* 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 with an in-store signing event at the Old Market location of Homer’s Music, 1210 Howard St. The signing will take place at midnight Tuesday, […]
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FASH FLOOD
LOCAL FASH ‘Tis the season for fashion at Nomad Lounge (NomadLounge.com) as loads of style events will take place at Omaha’s fashion-hub over the next few months. On Friday, July 15th A Vanity Affair fashion show will take place in support of The Micah House (MicahHouse.org), an emergency homeless shelter in Council Bluffs, Iowa. It will take […]
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Returning To Society
As the revolving doors of America’s overcrowded prisons spin ever faster, sending more ex-offenders back into society, reentry has become a major focus nationwide, including Nebraska. America has 2.2 million individuals incarcerated in prison, compared with approximately 1.6 million inmates in the Communist China, a nation with an overall population four times that of the […]
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Maha picks the Envy Corps to round out line-up
* The Maha Music Festival has added the Envy Corps to its lineup. The atmospheric danceable indie-pop band is from Ames, Ia. Maha takes place Saturday, August 13, with Guided By Voices and Matisyahu headlining. Maha is still working on details for a new site. Flood waters chased the event from the downtown riverfront area. […]
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Before & After
A semester at Creighton University told the Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood all he needed to know about his future in academics. The 17-year-old Kirkwood attended the Jesuit university in the fall of 1976, but he returned to Arizona shortly after. “It got cold, so I left,” Kirkwood told the Reader during a Monday afternoon phone […]
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Kent Bellows Studio mentor exhibit…Wanda Ewing’s new project…
The Kent Bellows Studio and Center for Visual Arts opens their Summer 2011 Mentor Exhibition on June 30, featuring new and veteran mentors Laurie Sewell, Liz Vercruysse, Stephan Grot, Peter Cales, Matthew Jones, Sarah Fettin, Dan Richters, Gerard Pefung, Steve Walsh, Weston Thomson, Amy Haney and Alex Myers. Artist Wanda Ewing recently returned from a […]