* The big news for book lovers last week was the announcement that Borders had filed for bankruptcy protection and was closing 200 stores. The good news is that none of the three Omaha-area stores are among them. In an email to customers, President and CEO Mike Edwards assured customers that the stores are still […]
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Soda under fire from FDA
First it was high fructose corn syrup you had to worry about when it came to drinking soda. Now it’s the caramel coloring, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a public advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. Last week they urged the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of […]
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Beer Corner, U.S.A.
The Crescent Moon has not only been Omaha’s specialty beer institution for the last 11 years, it’s the anchor that is known as Beer Corner U.S.A., a cluster of local brew-focused businesses committed to providing the metro with one of, if not the, most diverse selections of quality suds. And if your mother always told […]
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NU men feeling bubble-licious
*Beat Texas. A rallying cry for most of 2010, the words became pathetic after a disastrous Texas football team beat what we thought was a very good Nebraska squad in Lincoln in October. If you knew where to look, the No Frills on Saddle Creek for instance, you could still find some of those “Beat […]
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Post-graduate Work
Mike Giron, professor of art at Bellevue University, is glad he scheduled an exhibit of former students at the RNG Gallery because that next step in an emerging artist’s career is often hard to come by after graduation. 9 , which continues at the gallery through March 6, consists of exactly that many artists who, […]
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Mortal Combat: If You Eat Food, Read This
You’re being held hostage and likely don’t know it. Two entities are locked in mortal combat with everyone on the planet caught in the middle. On one side is the overwhelming power and bloated might of Corporate Greed. On the other side are those who could literally be known as Food Freedom Fighters. The battlefield […]
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Cosmic Forecast for Feb. 24-March 2
King Neptune welcomes you into the Ocean of Devotion that is Pisces. Neptune rules the subconscious, mysticism, fantasy, music and dreams; the number “9,” the color purple and that which cannot be explained — anything indefinable. (How about ‘dem definable abs, too?). I explain the mystery of Neptune’s trident spear in/on my tune, “PISCES,” from […]
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Buzz Worthy
“A resident of Mexico. Or an American slang term for anybody from Puerto Rico, The Dominican Republic, South America or Spain.” Subtly curious definitions like these are the foundation of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’s hilarity. Other words featured in The Omaha Community Playhouse’s latest production are ridiculously difficult. The spelling of “syzygy” […]
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Goings on at the Playhouse, ‘Magical Thinking’ at the Circle
* From Sarah Palin’s Mama Grizzlies to Care Bears, from the infamous Pedobear to Smokey the Bear, all will be bared at The Encyclopedia Show, 7:30 p.m. Monday Feb. 28 at the Omaha Community Playhouse. It’s the latest innovative offering of the “21 and Over” series organized by resident director Amy Lane. Katie F-S and […]
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Opposite Sides of the Net
Dark Play “is not an easy play,” director Amy Lane warns. “I have no delusions that it’s a play everyone will like.” But she brought the script by Carlos Murillo to the attention of her drama colleagues at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, along with several other scripts featuring younger characters. It’s “very twisted, […]