MUSIC Crystal Visions Musicians snag up OEA Awards after setting the night to music by Chris Aponick As the Grammy Awards dispensed their hardware with plenty of over-the-top theatricality on television screens across the country Sunday night, Omaha’s crop of musicians celebrated their own successes with a humbler bit of pomp and circumstance. The Omaha […]
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Daily Dump for Monday (February 14)
That groundhog knows his shit, huh? In the midst of the coldest stretch of the year that fuzzy bastard said “it ends soon.” Well tickle me with groundhog fur, we’ve been swimming around in melted snow rivers as the temps have soared and with it, my mood! Rejoice for the wonder of nature and its […]
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Ryan’s Junk Drawer (February 11)
“With great junk, comes great responsibility” – Better Off Ted 1.) Cruise Hataway of rocking {filedir_1}stories/Hathaway.jpg 2.) Now that he’s fixed California… {filedir_1}stories/CGI_Arnold.jpg 3.) I owe this woman David Ellison appeared in Flyboys, was trying to get that Taylor Lautner movie Northern Lights made, and he put up some of the money for Paramount films […]
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Ryan’s Junk Drawer (February 11)
“With great junk, comes great responsibility” – Better Off Ted Finally! I made you wait for my junk too long this week, and I apologize. My junk is something that nobody should wait for, as a general rule. I’ve been trying to get people to look at my junk whenever they want for years now. […]
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You say tomato…
* Believe it or not, spring will return and things will start growing again. Now is the time to start looking for a community-supported agriculture group. Tomato Tomato, an indoor farmer’s market near 156th and Center, is having its yearly sign-up for the general public on March 1. Many other local farms start signups at […]
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Suhsi returns to O Dining
O Dining, located on the edge of the Old Market at 10th and Farnam, will not only be returning sushi to their menu, they’ll be upping the presentation as well. Over the next few weeks, the restaurant will install a kaiten sushi bar, a rotating conveyor belt that allows customers to pluck whatever sushi dish […]
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Stirred, But Not Shaken
Consider the humble Daquiri, a drink that calls for just three ingredients: sugar, rum and lime juice. What should be a refreshing, simple drink that perfectly tempers the sweet burn of white rum with the zing of fresh lime is consistently turned into a dayglo concoction that has more in common with a sugary Slurpee […]
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Rattlesnake and Bellydancing
* You might want to hang out at Metro this weekend, especially if you’d like to try Rattlesnake in its Culinary Arts Building. That’s at 7:30 p.m. Friday on the Metropolitan Community College Fort Omaha Campus. It’s not culinary exotica but an original play-acted by its author John Hardy, playing 14 characters. He’s written many […]
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Cosmic Forecast for Feb. 10-16
Meow! Greetings our first week into the Year of the Cat! Some speak Year of the Hare; but I just don’t care. They need to rid themselves of the habit of calling the Year of the Cat the Year of the Rabbit. The Cat’s where it’s at. Audibly celebrate with Al Stewart’s only hit! Visually, […]
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Heart Health Month, Scurvy and Vitamin C
England once ruled the world. Really! Sailing the greatest naval force ever assembled at the time, our friends the Brits sent their armada far and wide, girdling the globe and extending their empire. On the open sea for months at a time, thousands of miles from land, those traveling tars existed on a steady diet […]