Welcome, spring! Barefoot people love spring. Blessed be. The Full Moon in Libra is on Palm Sunday, the 17th, so it’s still 50/50. Which “50” are you in? The same planet that rules generosity rules luck. Even as we speak, Jupiter is conjunct the Sun in mid-Aries. Forget Mercury retrograde in Aries for a dangerous […]
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Getting healthy foods to rural, inner-city Nebraska
A proposal aimed at making it easier to get healthy food in cities and rural areas is advancing in the legislature, despite questions about how effective it would be. Omaha Senator Brenda Council says when she first started thinking about her bill, she assumed it would apply mostly to cities. But she soon found out […]
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Getting healthy foods to rural, inner-city Nebraska
A proposal aimed at making it easier to get healthy food in cities and rural areas is advancing in the legislature, despite questions about how effective it would be. Omaha Senator Brenda Council says when she first started thinking about her bill, she assumed it would apply mostly to cities. But she soon found out […]
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Cirque du Soleil presents “Dralion”
3 UP, 3 DOWN April 13-17 Cirque du Soleil presents “Dralion” Mid-America Center, One Arena Way, Council Bluffs April 13-15 at 7:30 p.m., April 16 at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m., April 17 at 1 and 5 p.m., $38-$98, ticketmaster.com The high-flying acrobatics of Cirque du Soleil will be back in the Omaha metro beginning next […]
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2011 Omaha Poetry Slam Team Finals
PICK OF THE WEEK April 9 2011 Omaha Poetry Slam Team Finals OM Center, 1216 Howard St. $7 suggested donation, 7:30 p.m., 402-345-5078, omahahealingarts.com It’s been said that reading a play doesn’t do much of anything for the reader — as any Shakespeare scholar or bored college sophomore can tell you, you have to see […]
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David Dondero and Franz Nicolay
April 7 David Dondero and Franz Nicolay Slowdown Jr., 729 N. 14th St. 9 p.m., $10, theslowdown.com David Dondero is Omaha’s favorite non-native singer-songwriter. Ties to local musicians made us a perma-stop on his tours and his engaging lyrics and riffs made us fall in love — whether invoking our “real Tina Turner,” or […]
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Symphony Pops Series: Rodgers & Hammerstein “At the Movies”
April 8, 9 and 10 Symphony Pops Series: Rodgers & Hammerstein “At the Movies” Holland Performing Arts Center, 13th and Douglas Street 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; Tickets $15-$80?(402) 345-0606, omahaperformingarts.org or ticketomaha.com This may have been the music of another generation — or a couple generations ago for some readers — […]
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Omaha Beef vs. Wichita Wild
April 9 Omaha Beef vs. Wichita Wild Omaha Civic Auditorium, 1804 Capitol Ave. 7:05 p.m., $16-$45 402.346.BEEF, beeffootball.com Spring is finally here which, of course, means schools are about to close for the summer. In honor of all the hard work our nation’s teachers put into the school year, the Omaha Beef have set aside […]
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6th Annual Men of Honor Gala for 100 Black Men of Omaha Inc.
April 9 6th Annual Men of Honor Gala for 100 Black Men of Omaha Inc. Hilton Omaha, 1001 Cass St. 7 p.m., $100 patron, $1,500 table partner, more sponsorship levels available 402-934-7065, 100blackmenomaha.org Stepping up to the challenge of too many African American youths and communities falling behind is 100 Black Men of Omaha. Among […]
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DJ Scotty Boy with Bam Bam Buddha, Rhythm & Flux, and DJ Shif-D
April 9 DJ Scotty Boy with Bam Bam Buddha, Rhythm & Flux, and DJ Shif-D Whiskey Tango, 311 S. 15th St. $10, $5 for ONL Card holders, 9 p.m., 402.934.4874, whiskeytangoomaha.com Did you know there’s a DJ Times Magazine? And did you know DJ Scotty Boy has been in their Top 10 for three […]