April 16 STRFKR w/ Champagne Champagne & Gardens and Villas The Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $10, onepercentproductions.com The stars have aligned for Omaha as Portland-based electronic group, Starf***er (also known as STRFKR), makes its way to the stage. Formed in 2007, it was originally Josh Hodges’ solo project, but soon evolved into […]
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Washington Generals v. Harlem Globetrotters
April 16 Washington Generals v. Harlem Globetrotters Qwest Center Omaha, 455 N. 10th St. 2 and 7 p.m., $20-$97, qwestcenter.com It’s not easy being a lifelong Washington Generals fan. I’ve never seen them win. All-time against the Globetrotters, the Generals are something like 1-26,752. Yet, they keep showing up. Keep rolling the rock up the […]
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Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. Creighton Blue Jays Grand opening of TD Ameritrade Park
Tuesday, April 19 Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. Creighton Blue Jays Grand opening of TD Ameritrade Park TD Ameritrade Park, 1200 Mike Fahey St. Sold Out, 6:30 p.m., gocreighton.com, 402.280-JAYS For the opening of TD Ameritrade Park, why not go big? What are the biggest things in Nebraska baseball? I mean, that aren’t an unrealistic Sarpy County Royalty Chasers […]
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Grateful Dead Movie Event
April 20 Grateful Dead Movie Event Marcus Midtown, 3201 Farnam St. Village Pointe Cinema, 304 N. 174th St. 7:30 p.m., $12.50 marcustheatres.com/Movie/MovieDetail/63744 There may be no better way to spend a fine 4-20 than by taking a cinematic flashback with the Grateful Dead. This nationwide, one-night-only event is like an onscreen trip, if you […]
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Surreal’s 9th Annual 420 Event
April 20 Surreal’s 9th Annual 420 Event Featuring Funk Trek, Mars Black, E.Babbas and more The Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $8, onepercentproductions.com Smokers, rev up your, bongs. It’s that time again. For the ninth straight year, local emcee Zach “Surreal” Hennings will host his “420 Event,” an event where smokers of all […]
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Gardens of Delight
Thanks to artist Kristin Pluhacek, Lauritzen Gardens can currently boast more than its usual relief from winter doldrums and environs. Pluhacek’s current show, Weeds/Pods/Seeds and the Landscapes enjoys a suitable home at the garden’s 100 Bancroft St. location in South Omaha with its own seasonal palette, connection and inquiry for the viewer to embrace. There […]
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Whirling Crops
When State Sen. Ken Haar drives through Iowa or Colorado and sees the towering turbines that have helped make Nebraska’s neighbors national leaders in wind-power production, “It makes me think we’ve got this great energy resource in Nebraska and we’re not using it,” he says. Nebraska is among the country’s leaders in potential wind power […]
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Booked: Poems in Your Pockets, Author Signings and More
* If you work downtown, consider checking out the Nebraska Arts Council’s “Wednesday Words,” this Wednesday, April 13, in the Burlington Place Building at 10th and Farnam in the lower level. Author and screenwriter Richard Dooling ( White Man’s Grave , Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital ) will be this week’s featured speaker. Attendees are encouraged […]
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Twelfth Night, Steel Magnolias
Twelfth Night and Steel Magnolias have histories of popular and critically successful productions here, but also promise new versions at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the Omaha Community Playhouse. For UNO’s Cindy Melby Phaneuf, it’s a third time directing the Shakespearean comedy, but the first crack at doing it with 16 collegians, all […]
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A Tale of Two Ballparks
Change is sometimes hard to swallow. One of the new Reuben sandwiches you can eat while watching the newly-rebranded Omaha Storm Chasers at the newly-built Werner Park is not. And that’s the price of progress. The old and familiar is crowded out by the new and improved. It’s always difficult to gauge how this will […]