Check my blog at HoodooRootsBlues.blogspot.com for some thoughts on the Red Sky Music Festival, July 18-23 in TD Ameritrade Park. See RedSkyFestival.com for event details. Also visit last week’s blog post (Friday, May 20) for a preview of Texas-born blues-rocker Hadden Sayers’ new CD Hard Dollar (Blue Corn Music) due out June 21. It’s Sayers’ […]
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Loom evolves into a new space
* Brent Crampton‘s five-year-old DJ night loom is about to evolve into something a lot more permanent. House of Loom, 1012 South 10th St., will be a bar, night club, art space and progressive community center, according to a release from Crampton. The venue is scheduled for a summer opening and the space, which formerly […]
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Web Exclusive: CAKE, Anyone?
It’s fairly hard to believe it’s been 15 years since an underdog band from Sacramento did the unthinkable, going way outside the box and turning a head-shaking disco anthem into a head-nodding alternative rock jam. But that’s what CAKE did, because outside the box is what CAKE does. Underdogs no more, next Thursday CAKE will […]
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Cosmic Forecast, May 26-June 1
Welcome further into Gemini. Fix up loose ends until the Gemini New Moon Solar Eclipse on June 1st. Eclipses bring reversals. I’ll talk more then. Enjoy the breath of spring. I love you all. There are no mistakes if you do what you do for the experience. Peace and love shall conquer all — the […]
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Thoyd Run
Pahdon my Runyonese, but what is a poysun ta do when woyds cannot adequately anticipate the prospect of the thoyd run of Guys and Dolls at the Omaha Community Playhouse? I posed my problem to Susie Baer Collins, who directs the musical comedy, confessing that I’ve longed for its return since seeing it first in […]
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Cold Cream’s Busy Weekend
* The last weekend in the merry month of May more than compensates for the penultimate one that was absent new theater openings. Suddenly we get Wicked, Guys and Dolls, My Big Gay Italian Wedding, Leaving Iowa and Nana’s Naughty Knickers plus the Saturday start of eight full days of drama at the Great Plains […]
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CAKE
3 UP 3 DOWN June 2 CAKE Sokol Auditorium, 13th and Martha Doors at 7 p.m., Show at 8 p.m., $38.50, ticketmaster.com It’s fairly hard to believe it’s been 15 years since an underdog band from Sacramento did the unthinkable, going way outside the box and turning a head-shaking disco anthem into a head-nodding alternative […]
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Tom DeBuse Memorial and Fundraiser
PICK OF THE WEEK May 28 Tom DeBuse Memorial and Fundraiser Hot Shops Art Center, 1301 Nicholas St. Outdoors and indoors, 3-10 p.m. Adults $10 for 10 tickets, Kids $5 for 5 tickets, Age 2 and under FREE, tomdebuse.com Much like Tom DeBuse’s life, this multifaceted memorial fundraiser will be packed with wonderful music, […]
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Hinder w/ Red, Kopek & Royal Bliss
May 26 Hinder w/ Red, Kopek & Royal Bliss Stir Concert Cove, Harrah’s Casino 7 p.m., $24, 21+, harrahscouncilbluffs.com Stir Cove kicks off its certifiably awesome summer concert series this Thursday, with shows on the horizon that include the Black Keys and Flaming Lips. Curiously, they chose Hinder, everyone’s favorite jock-rock group of 2005, to […]
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Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship Tournament
May 26-28 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship Tournament TD Ameritrade Park, 1200 Mike Fahey St. 7:00 p.m., tickets start at $17.59, 402.546.1800 or tdameritradeparkomaha.com Over the weekend our Creighton Bluejays (39-13, 15-6) swept the Missouri State Bears to give them their first MVC regular season championship since 2005 and a lockdown on the No. 1 seed for the MVC tournament […]