On April 21, KANEKO previews Portals , a multimedia event examining different modalities of creative expression. When the finished production premiers in the fall, it means to seamlessly join live performers on stage with remote artists via video and the web to extend the limits of performance and the dynamics of human connection in the […]
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The Coffins of Little Hope
Timothy Schaffert’s new novel The Coffins of Little Hope (Unbridled) takes its elegiac tone from Essie, the elderly obit writer and sage of a fading ag town. Her inquisitiveness and intuition make her the apt narrator for relating this rural gothic tale of faith on trial. Schaffert, founder-director of the Omaha Lit Fest and a […]
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Cutting Room for April 13
It’s fitting that a movie with “thief” in the title is about to be part of a crime, as Alfred Hitchcock’s classic To Catch a Thief is getting remade. Although we don’t know as of now who will replace Grace Kelly and Cary Grant — thank goodness those two are so easily replaceable — we […]
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Did you miss me?
I feel like this particular blog post is like running into an ex-girlfriend or boyfriend (or, if you’re lucky…both) months after a mutual breakup. I have this overwhelming urge to thrust my hands deep in my pockets to avoid nervous gestures (I get really handsy when I’m worked up) and a desire to look down […]
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Out in the Street
“I had no plans to make a film like this,” says director Matt Porterfield. He’s speaking from Los Angeles, where he’s promoting his latest picture, Putty Hill , which has its Omaha premiere on Friday at Film Streams. It’s his second feature, after Hamilton in 2006 (which will screen on Sunday), and it has gotten […]
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3 UP 3 Down with DJ Scotty Boy
April 14 DJ Scotty Boy with Bam Bam Buddha, Rhythm & Flux, and DJ Shif-D Whiskey Tango, 311 S. 15th St. $10, $5 for ONL Card holders, 9 p.m., 402.934.4874, whiskeytangoomaha.com Did you know there’s a DJ Times Magazine? And did you know DJ Scotty Boy has been in their Top 10 for three years […]
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Cold Cream
* My first awareness that Andy Rannels was starring in the hit Broadway musical Book of Mormon, by the “South Park” creators, came when a unidentified photo looked familiar. You couldn’t miss that gleaming smile of the fuzzy-cheeked kid who always looked like he’d just been hatched. Now, of course, everybody knows it’s the young […]
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Cutting Room for April 6
While theologians and atheists continue to spar over the existence of an eternal creator, The Reader can officially confirm that the devil is 100 percent real. The proof? Ashton Kutcher is teaming up with Justin Bieber in a romantic comedy. No, they won’t play each other’s love interests, as that would be too original and […]
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Stir announces rest of 2011 line-up
Stir Concert Cove revealed the rest of its initial 2011 summer line-up last night at a party held inside Harrah’s Casino. A July 5 Black Keys show had been announced long ago — in fact, it’s been sold out for quite some time, too — and Mumford & Sons (June 14) were announced as somewhat […]
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Wild at Art
The RNG Gallery and its partnership with Dixie Quicks Restaurant is leaving town sometime this summer to set up new residence across the river but not before making a strong statement about what Council Bluffs can expect via contemporary art. Last Friday, members of CB’s Chamber of Commerce lunched on Chef Rene Orduna’s Southern and […]