*The Nebraska beef council has announced five finalists for the 2011 Nebraska’s Best Burger Contest. The contest, sponsored by the Nebraska Beef Council, resulted in over 3,000 votes for a staggering 364 establishments across the entire state. The top nominated restaurants are Stella’s in Bellevue, Dinker’s Bar and Grill in Omaha, The Cellar Bar and […]
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There is an appropriate amount you’re allowed to like horror movies
Like I said, we’re shaking things up on this blog. That means more essay-type stuff while I’m working towards the unquestionable impending awesomeness that shall be the Reader’s movie podcast. Now, before I get all wordy up in here, hella props to Dan J who dropped me a line with a few suggestions for that […]
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Cold Cream: Shelterbelt keeps it local, original
* The Shelterbelt Theatre is most fully on mission when it presents original plays by Omahans, and that what it’s doing the next few weekends. Only one qualifier was required in the press release headline, calling them “native” Omaha playwrights. That’s because Monica Bauer, who wrote My Occasion of Sin, which opens Friday near 32nd […]
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Weekly Horoscopes
We are all cosmic surfers, getting around amidst the waters of life. Astrology is one of the harbingers of the which and the way of any cosmic waves. I humbly owe everything to it. It turned my life around. Find your cosmic catalyst, and find who you are… Surf naked! You’ll know you’re hanging 11 […]
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Red–White Spring Game
PICK OF THE WEEK April 16 Red–White Spring Game Memorial Stadium, Stadium Dr. and T Street, Lincoln 1 p.m., $10, huskers.com What will we learn about the suped-up but more simplistic Nebraska offense on Saturday? Probably not much. Bo Pelini likes to play things close to the vest in these Spring Games but it is […]
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Stefon Harris and The Blackout
April 14 Stefon Harris and The Blackout Holland Center for Performing Arts, 13th and Douglas streets 7:30 p.m., $19 – $45, ticketomaha.com, 402.345.0606 Quick. Name a jazz vibraphonist. Can you? Well, can you? As of five-minutes-before-writing-this, I couldn’t either, so don’t worry. But as it turns out, they’re out there, and very talented. Stefon Harris is a […]
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The Second City presents “Fair and Unbalanced”
April 15 The Second City presents “Fair and Unbalanced” Holland Center, 13th and Douglas 8 p.m., Tickets start at $19, ticketomaha.com or 402.345.0606 Somewhere, somebody’s sitting at a bar watching Tommy Boy on the small television up in the right-hand corner. He gets to say, “I saw Chris Farley way before he was Chris Farley, […]
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Midnight Movie: Clerks
April 15-16 Midnight Movie: Clerks Dundee Theatre, 4952 Dodge St. Midnight both nights, Tickets $6, dundeetheatre.com The film that introduced the world to director Kevin Smith and convenience store roof hockey gets the Dundee midnight treatment this weekend. Shot in black and white on a shoestring budget, this 1994 indie flick features jarringly funny dialogue […]
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Omaha Storm Chasers vs. Nashville Sounds
April 15-18 Omaha Storm Chasers vs. Nashville Sounds Werner Park 12356 Ballpark Way, Papillion 7:05 p.m., $6-$16.50 402.734.2550, web.minorleaguebaseball.com This weekend marks the start of the inaugural season at Werner Park for the newly renamed Omaha Storm Chasers. The leadoff match-up for the four-game series versus the visiting Nashville Sounds will be played in front of a […]
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Timothy Schaffert Book Signing
April 16 Timothy Schaffert Book Signing The Bookworm, 87th and Pacific 1 p.m. 402.392.2877 or bookwormomaha.com Renowned author — and one-time editor of The Reader — Timothy Schaffert will be at The Bookworm Saturday to sign copies of his latest novel The Coffins of Little Hope. Schaffert is also a professor at the University of […]