Playing With Fire has announced a new second location site due to continued Missouri flooding. There is only one PWF concert this year on Saturday, July 16. The event is now scheduled for Stinson Park in Aksarben Village, 67th & Center. The lineup is exciting with headliners Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings bringing their retro-fueled […]
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Few Arguments on Awards
Honors, kudos, awards, oh my! Or if you don’t feel like Dorothy fearfully facing the forests of Oz, you can ho-hum through this season of recognition for the 120 or so theatrical productions staged in the metro area. And that’s not counting the 40-odd special events listed in the Theatre Arts Guild nomination packet. TAG […]
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Bronte Sisters Fill July at Joslyn
If there are images in this attachment, they will not be displayed. Download the original attachment Charlotte and Emily grew up on a windswept heath in Northern England, never knowing they’d inspire a Bronte-saurus of a monthlong celebration in Omaha centuries later. Jill Anderson wanted to bring Charlotte to Joslyn Castle via Bronte, the play […]
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Boats on Land
“I know what I want to make art about” artist Chad Rutter said. “The themes stay consistent, though the media may change. Along a circuitous path I picked up a skill set, and have made myself a broad tool bag.” Chad Rutter grew up on a family farm near Osceola, Nebraska. Six years of doing […]
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Wasted Youth: The Strange, Sad, Violent End of The Shanks
I’ve never seen the same band two nights in a row. Never needed to. What would be the point? But the plan always was to go to both nights of The Shanks’ farewell stand at O’Leaver’s last weekend for the same reason people tune into the “farewell episode” of their favorite TV show: Just to […]
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Cutting Room for June 29
Film Streams at the Ruth Sokolof Theater (filmstreams.org) is promising what thousands of dollars in plastic surgeries and ritual sacrifices to pagan gods have not delivered: immortality. At least, that’s what I presume they’re offering with Forever Young, their ongoing series of family and children’s movies that run from July 9 to October 6. Beginning […]
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Envy Corps added to Maha lineup
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, after flood waters chased the event from the downtown riverfront area. […]
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Recycled Sounds celebrates odd anniversary
* Anybody can celebrate a 10th, 15th or 20th anniversary, so Lincoln’s used music treasure trove Recycled Sounds, 909 O St., is breaking out the deals for their 19th anniversary. The sale, which includes the store’s bulging collection of posters, goes from June 24 to June 29. Check in during the week for deals galore […]
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One Eye Open Closes, Another Opens
Flyover, Bridges new collaborative venture will be launched at the closing of “One Eye Open” on Monday, June 27, 6:30 – 10:00 pm, NewBLK Gallery, 1213 Jones Street with a live solo performance by Rebecca Lowry of “All Young Girls are Machine Guns.” Editor’s Note: Tonight’s closing party at the BLK Gallery marks your last […]
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Headline Blues
I won’t feign objectivity. Although director Andrew Rossi’s documentary Page One may center on The New York Times’ ongoing fight for survival, it’s more than that. The film is a snapshot of the collision between new media and mainstream journalism…with the latter as the bug, and the former as the windshield. Because there’s a chance […]