Who’s ready for an early January weekend jaunt to frosty Winnipeg next year? If you’re a UNO hockey fan that trip could be a reality as the Mavs and the University of North Dakota are reportedly close to finalizing a deal to play a game in Manitoba’s capital city Jan. 7, 2012. I’ll confess to […]
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Fearless, Flawless Box Office Predictions for January 21
Why would people see a movie this weekend? Don’t they know they have to spend Friday night shopping for goodies for Sunday’s Bears game, spend Saturday doing the necessary voodoo and sacrifices, and spend Sunday morning crying, breathing into a bag, and then trying not to barf as the Bears attempt to go to the […]
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Ryan’s Junk Drawer (1/21/11)
“With great junk, comes great responsibility” – Better Off Ted You can always tell how excited I am by my junk. If my junk seems all peppy and wild, it’s probably a good indication that I can’t wait for what this weekend will bring. There’s no doubt in my mind that given the Chicago Bears […]
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Things You Should Buy Me (Volume 62)
Make you a deal: If you somehow have the ability to influence that outcome of the Bears/Packers game on Sunday, you can feel free to never buy me anything again provided you get me a Bears “W.” I would be able to even offer more than just not buying me something. I would give you […]
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Envelope Pushing Expletive
You could credit Bob Fischbach’s review (“Shock factor feels out of place, but message resonates”) for the sold-out house for Shopping and F***ing. But it ran Saturday so that doesn’t explain the full house Friday. Was it the title F-bomb disguised as “Expletive” in the aforementioned daily? Was it the warning about “very explicit sex” […]
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Next Generation
UNO communication professor Chris Allen recently returned from a two-week needs assessment trip to Afghanistan. His journey was part of a federally funded journalism faculty-student development program between the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Kabul University. As Afghanistan attempts normalization in this post-Taliban era, the nation’s indigenous media uneasily co-exist with Islamic law and […]
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Sticks and ’Bones
Before you start questioning the source of the band name here, I offer one word to clarify: Trombone. The brass family instrument is usually found in Big Band Jazz, Dixieland Jazz, Ska and occasionally in other genres as a token or backing sound. But how often have you heard music where the trombone is the […]
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Pizza Shoppe Celebrates Sweet 16
Sixteen years ago when The Pizza Shoppe opened at 6056 Maple Street, Benson was a much different neighborhood. As music venues popped up, including one connected to The Pizza Shoppe called The P.S. (or Pizza Shoppe) Collective which opened around 2005 (Full Disclosure: I booked shows at the venue years ago), the area became a […]
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Backyard Notions
These “predictions” have dragged on long enough. In my defense, other than complaints about live reviews, I get more feedback about my annual predictions column(s) than anything I write. People just love being told what’s going to happen (or maybe they love being told what to do). Just to be clear: There is no “insider […]
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Tuesday’s Daily Dump (1/19/11)
Doodily doo…nothing to see here today…no news that would send shockwaves across the interwebs, wrinkling the brains and uncorking the loins of nerds or anything…squiddy squoo…I’ll just sit here twiddling my HOLY ANNOUNCEMENT (that isn’t the 10 commandments), BATMAN!!! We bagged ourselves a kitty! Anne Hathaway, who I’m on the fence about as an actress […]