Previously on Ryan Bingham plays Omaha: The then-soon-to-be Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter and his backing band, the Dead Horses, played a loose, fun set that ran nearly two hours, thus rewarding the patronage of a light Sokol Underground crowd that numbered somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 heads. It’s a show Bingham says he can’t recall after […]
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Local photographer hits the road
* Omaha photographer Dana Damewood hit the road last weekend as part of her latest project: two weeks on the road with a long-haul truck driver. Damewood has been planning the project for months; she is on the road with a female truck driver, sending updates via social networks and taking photographs along the way. […]
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Style and Sounds
Four women artists are showing work focused on two trends — fashion and music — as part of two separate shows opening Friday in Lincoln. For Lincoln artist Meghan Stratman, art and music are intertwined. So much so that each piece in her Gallery 9 show of new work Louder than Sirens is based on […]
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Fash Flood
GLOBAL FASH Spring and fall, spring and fall. As it hardly seems possible that the majority of fall 2011 Ready-to-Wear fashion has passed with Paris Fashion Week closing this week, a few notable fashion events remain. Los Angeles’ ever-improving Fashion Week is set to begin March 15 and fashion’s wild card, Tokyo Fashion Week, is […]
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Dan Sperry: Anti-Conjuror
3 UP, 3 DOWN Sunday, March 20 Dan Sperry: Anti-Conjuror Orpheum Theater, 409 S. 16th St. Show at 7 p.m.; Tickets $29 to $44; $65 VIP tickets available includes meet-and-greet, front-row seating and autographed photo ticketomaha.com, 345.0606, dansperry.com “America’s Got Talent” Season 5 semi-finalist Dan Sperry will bring his offbeat style of shock illusion to […]
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“Futurama” Producer Patric Verrone
March 3 “Futurama” Producer Patric Verrone University of Nebraska-Lincoln Student Union’s Auditorium 1400 R St., Lincoln, 6 p.m., FREE, unl.edu Sometimes concepts for events couldn’t seem more meant to be. Take Thursday night, when the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Law is sponsoring a discussion about the future of film, television, music and journalism in […]
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RGb: Modern. Digital. American. Photography
Opens March 4 RGb: Modern. Digital. American. Photography Through March 25 The New BLK Gallery 1213 Jones St., thenewblk.com Photographer Bill Sitzmann has crazy, innovative ideas — clay prints with varnish applied to them, no glass, more of an automotive feel, shiny — things painters have done, not photographers. The Omaha-based artist is the nephew […]
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Nebraska Wesleyan’s Big Event Presents: T.J. Miller
March 4 Nebraska Wesleyan’s Big Event Presents: T.J. Miller O’Donnell Auditorium, 5000 St. Paul Ave., Lincoln 9 p.m., $15 (Free for Wesleyan students), 402.465.2412, nebrwesleyan.edu Denver native and Second City alum T.J. Miller will be bringing his stand-up to Nebraska Wesleyan’s annual Big Event. Big Event has always been great about bringing in comedy up-and-comers […]
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“Three Stooges” Shorts
March 5 “Three Stooges” Shorts Film Streams, 1340 Mike Fahey St. 4 p.m. through March 17 (Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays only) $4.50-$9, 933.0259, filmstreams.org. In 1925, few would have thought that Ted Healy’s vaudeville act would become an American institution. More than 85 years later, one can’t mention great American comedy without the “Three Stooges” […]
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Consistently Inconsistent
If there was one thing the Creighton basketball team was consistent at all season it was being inconsistent. Momentum came and went. Close losses dot a 2010-11 schedule that saw them finish 18-13 overall and 10-8 in the league. The Missouri Valley Conference title came down to the last game of the regular season with […]