Urban Wine Company still has plenty of wine, but it’s getting into creative cocktails in a big way. According to manager Angela Reding, changes have been happening at the Old Market wine bar for the last year, but have been accelerated by the arrival of new general manager Martin Janica (who is also well-known in […]
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More Crumbs, More Easter Brunch Specials — and beer, too
* “Celebrity Apprentice,” Donald Trump’s reality show on NBC, delivers on crazy, this time thanks to another bizarre Gary Busey performance. The contest featured local company Omaha Steaks, who held a charity viewing party at the Holland Performing Arts Center on Sunday. Celebrities in attendance were former Huskers star and current Detroit Lion Ndamukong Suh […]
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Blue Bird announces new EP, Shelterbelt Theatre brings the jazz
* Blue Bird, fronted by singer Marta Fielder, have released a new EP, Metamorphosis . The five-song set is the band’s first release and is available as a download via CDBaby.com. The band recorded the EP at ARC Studios with A.J. Mogis. The seven-piece band describes their sound as mixing “influences of folk, soul, doo-wop, […]
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Street Art
What fashion magazines and reality TV shows expose in design studios and on the runway, 82-year-old photographer Bill Cunningham has found on the streets, night and day, of New York City. Vogue , Elle , “Project Runway,” “All On the Line” and their ilk may have the cachet and ratings, but Cunningham’s weekly photo essay, […]
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Signposts to ‘Arabia’
Secrecy still shrouds most of what is contained on the Black Lips’ sixth studio album, Arabia Mountain , but two pre-release video clips point towards two different directions for the Atlanta flower-punk act. The video for “Go Out & Get It,” sung by drummer Joe Bradley, is a garage popper filled with goofy, drunken antics […]
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Dodging traffic and tornados with The Rural Alberta Advantage
The Rural Alberta Advantage keyboard player, Amy Cole, had every reason for sounding distracted. You try riding through road-rage fueled traffic on Interstate 5 in Los Angeles in a van pulling a trailer while the rest of your band is shouting directions in the background — the same silver 2003 Dodge Caravan, incidentally, which carried […]
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Weekly Horoscopes
What Jesus complex? I’m just hangin’ out in my front room. Happy Easter everyone! And at last, have a Happy Spring! See ya at the always-rainy day Earth Day? Maybe they should hire an Astrologer? If you’re so inclined, at last it’s time to fast, get right and travel light. There are no mistakes. Peace […]
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Omaha Central High School Foundation presents Peter Buffett
3 UP 3 DOWN April 28 Omaha Central High School Foundation presents Peter Buffett: “Life is What You Make It: A Concert and Conversation” Omaha Central High School Auditorium, 124 N. 20th St. 7 p.m., $25 for students, $50 general admission, $75 for general admission and VIP reception, 402.556.1996 How friends and partners online at […]
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Aaron Lewis
April 21 Aaron Lewis Harrah’s Convention Center, 1 Harrah’s Way, Council Bluffs, IA $30 ADV / $35 DOS, 8 p.m., harrahscouncilbluffs.com, 712.329.6000 Aaron Lewis was born in Vermont and raised in Massachusetts. So if there’s one thing the vocalist from monkey-metal band Staind knows, it’s about being a country boy. He tells us about his […]
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Martin Lawrence
April 28 Martin Lawrence The Omaha Music Hall, 1804 Capital Ave. 8 p.m., $55-$87, ticketmaster.com Most people identify Martin Lawrence with the hugely successful sitcom, “Martin,” which ran from 1992-97. He loved his girl Gina and couldn’t stand her friend Pam. Before that, he got his start in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing, and […]