June 4-5 Nebraska State Chili Cook-off River City Star, 151 Freedom Park Rd 11:30 a.m., FREE, $5 if you want to actually try the chili, rivercitystar.com, 402.342.7827 Maybe it’s apocryphal, but someone once told me (or I read it in either National Geographic or Reader’s Digest or something like that) that chili was originally made in Texas […]
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Chatham County Line
June 8 Chatham County Line Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple Street 7:30 p.m., $15 ADV / $18 DOS, sundayroadhouse.com As far as contemporary bluegrass goes, you can hardly do better than Chatham County Line. The quartet draws their name from their home state of North Carolina, and the earthy, homespun music pays tribute to […]
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Rusted Root
June 8 Rusted Root The Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. 9 p.m., $20, theslowdown.com Pittsburgh, Penn., has been spitting out some hot artists recently. Wiz Khalifa and Girl Talk have drawn plenty of attention to the city over that past few years, but there have been a couple of other Pittsburgh groups that came along […]
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Under the Influence
Barbara Garcia dumps a shoebox-full of pill bottles onto her bedspread. “This one is for my heart,” she says, plucking a bottle from the pile. “This other one here is for migraines. And this is for depression.” The list continues. The 57-year-old Omaha native takes 25 medications for ailments ranging from asthma to breast cancer. […]
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Pick Up, Trucks
There are a few things you need if your city wants to be considered with the likes of Portland and Austin as a hip American hangout. A definable music scene is a good place to start. Bike lanes, a literal line in the street, seem to serve as a proverbial line in the sand between […]
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Bulldogs, Beavers await Jays in NCAA Tourney
Bring on the Bulldogs. The newly minted Missouri Valley Tournament champion Creighton Bluejays (44-14) will face Georgia (31-30) on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Baseball Tournament. The Jays earned the second seed in the Corvallis, Ore., regional and got a fairly manageable draw if you want to think big and consider Creighton’s […]
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Maha offers festival preview with local band showcases
* Maha Music Festival has unleashed its local band showcase line-up and it should be a great preview of what’s in store for Saturday, August 13. The showcases are curated by three of the local bands that will be playing Maha’s local stage. Those three bands were chosen by HearNebraska.org and the festival. The first […]
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Booked: Free Naked Poetry and Willa Cather
* Assuming the weather cooperates, this month’s Naked Words Open Mike will meet at the Josyln Scupture Garden at 24th and Dodge Street, Wednesday, June 1 at 6 p.m. For more information, shoot an email to prairie.sky@gmail.com. * The Willa Cather Foundation will present “A Prairie Writers’ Workshop” beginning this Thursday, June 2, running through […]
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Crumbs — Barbecue and Bahn Mi
Grandma Foster’s barbecue sauce, based in Omaha, recently took home the “Best Overall Sauce Award” at the 7th Annual Great American Barbecue Competition in Kansas City, Mo., for its Grandma Foster’s Smooth & Spicy Bar-B-Que Sauce. The company also received 1st Place in the Spicy division and 6th Place in the Mild Sauce division. You […]
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Star Empowerment
Film icon Catherine Deneuve’s first major role was as an umbrella shop sales girl in the 1964 Jacques Demy film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Now, nearly a half-century later (with a enormously successful career in between), she can be found playing the unappreciated wife of an umbrella factory owner in Potiche, the latest picture from […]