* Assuming Mother Nature cooperates, this Wednesday’s Naked Words Open Mic will meet on the Nebraska side of the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge downtown at 6 p.m. In the event it rains, the event will be held at its usual location — Soul Desires at 10th and Jackson in the Old Market. Questions? Email prairie.sky@gmail.com […]
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Movieha – Omaha’s favorite movie podcast!
It’s finally time, folks. Last week was just a warm-up, a precursor, an audio appetizer for the main entree your ear tongues have been waiting to feast upon: This is officially the first episode (first REAL episode) of Movieha! Featuring 100% less factual inaccuracies, this podcast is but the first of TWO you will be […]
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Curse of Being Young
Hunx and His Punx is setting fire to the rock ‘n’ roll boys club. The California band, led by Seth Bogart (who performs as Hunx), is the openly-gay spark. He sings directly about gay love, lost and found, with plenty of nods toward seducing the straight and the not-so-sure. Meanwhile, His Punx are Shannon Shaw, […]
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Cosmic Forecast, May 5-May 11
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Happy Mother’s Day to our Mother Earth! Blessed be. Time to find what your dreams are worth. Blessed be this first week of the “Fire of God.” Time to ignite what’s right, as we emerge from the night of the year. Look around you. It’s perfectly clear. Spring is finally here. […]
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Concert Review: Bowling For Soup
My clothes are soaked with sweat, a frayed yellow wristband is glued to the hairs on my left arm, and my ears are still ringing a little. Job well done, Bowling for Soup! Last Friday’s show was at Sokol Underground, played for a sticky hive of teens and 20-somethings, with minimal airflow around us to […]
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South Takes Center
If Marcos Mora wasn’t so busy serving as the coordinator for Omaha’s Cinco de Mayo celebration he’d have no problem around this time of year working musician. Coming from one of the oldest musical families in Omaha, la familia Barrientos, Mora has music in his blood. But instead of doing a concert for the city’s […]
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The Bald and the Sweaty
In each installment of the long-running 007 series, you anxiously anticipate hearing the deliciously droll namedrop: “Bond, James Bond.” In each installment of the inexplicably long-running Fast and Furious series, you anxiously anticipate the moment in which the two bro-tastic, muscle-milk-enhanced non-characters look like they’re about to finally drop the pretense and make out. If repressed […]
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Red Sky Festival picks 311 as one headliner
The picture surrounding the line-up of the first annual Red Sky Festival is a little less mixed up, thanks to the announcement of 311 as the event’s first headliner. The Omaha-bred band will play the TD Ameritrade Park, 1200 Mike Fahey St., Tuesday, July 19. Sublime with Rome will also play inside the baseball stadium […]
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Web Exclusive: Catch a Falling Star
If the beautiful skies of Nebraska aren’t enticement enough for a rewarding road trip to Kearney this spring, a new exhibit at the Museum of Nebraska Art (2401 Central Ave. in Kearney, Neb.) by one of the region’s most provocative sculptors will be. Falling , a new figurative ceramic installation by Claudia Alvarez, gives a […]
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Tax form led Sun to Boys Town’s ‘hidden’ assets
In 1972 you had to be a member of the Boys Town inner circle to see its balance sheet. Or, as in the case of the Sun Newspapers , you had to know about a new and therefore obscure tax form filing that required nonprofits to report their financials. Even then, it took the Sun […]