Jan. 5 Mitch Gettman w/ Landing On The Moon and Lonely Estates Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $7, onepercentproductions.com Mitch Gettman, who is supposedly still in high school, is producing material that usually takes decades to formulate. Similar in both sound and looks to Jeff Buckley, Gettman’s croon is also reminiscent of early […]
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Cosmic Forecast for Dec. 30-Jan. 5
Happy New Year’s everyone! Thanks for another year of PLANET POWER . I promise my CD, The ZODIAC, will be released in 2011 through my Website one sign at a time, and next week I’ll prepare my year ahead article for your amusement and perusal in The Reader ’s Jan. 6 issue. When people party, […]
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Chrome and Carcinogens in Your Tap Water by Michael Braunstein
Your relationship with Steven Soderbergh is at least as personal as mine. Soderbergh is the Oscar-winning director of such fabled films as Sex, Lies and Videotape, Erin Brockovich, Oceans Eleven and Traffic . In 2001 he became the first film director since 1938 to be nominated for Best Director Oscar for two movies in the […]
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Read More in 2011
* Here’s a New Year’s resolution you can actually keep: to read more books this year. If you’re already an avid reader, try something out of your comfort zone. There are lots of terrific books in areas other than the fiction section. When next in a bookstore or the library (you still go to bookstores […]
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Russia halts shipments from Nebraska pork plant
Russia placed a Crete, Neb. pork plant on its list of banned meatpackers Dec. 27 after the United State’s Food Safety Inspection Service said salmonella was found in meat exported to the country. The Farmland plant, a division of the world’s largest pork producer, Smithfiled Foods, will be prohibited from shipping meat to Russia starting […]
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Wheel tax faces legal challenge
A group of concerned commuters is going to court to fight Omaha’s new $50 wheel tax on employees who work in the city but live elsewhere. The tax is set to take effect Jan. 1. The Omaha Wheel Tax Coalition, led by Bellevue City Council president Carol Blood, says the new tax violates a state […]
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Day care closed, owner arrested
An Omaha day care provider is facing felony child abuse charges after she allegedly broke the arm of an 11-month-old boy on Dec. 26. Sandra Johnson, 53, was arrested Dec. 29, and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services issued an emergency order suspending her child care license effective Dec. 28. Johnson operated a […]
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State senators preparing Arizona-style immigration laws
Two state senators announced Dec. 28 that they are separately drafting new Arizona-style immigration laws to give local police more power to identify and deport illegal immigrants in advance of Nebraska’s 2011 legislative session, which begins Jan. 5. Charlie Janssen, of Fremont, and Tony Fulton, of Lincoln, told the Associated Press they couldn’t elaborate on […]
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Governor won’t reappoint chair of foster care review board
The state’s Foster Care Review Board is not a fan of Nebraska’s child welfare privatization. And it will lose two members, including its chair, after Gov. Dave Heineman announced in December he wouldn’t reappoint Alfredo Ramirez and board member Ron Albin for second terms. The move came after the board’s 2010 report in which it […]
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It’s True Update, Passing the Backbeat Baton
* This week’s 8 Days section features many of your most exciting options for an in-tune New Year’s Eve celebration set to live music, but here are two quality stragglers: The Firm w/ special guests play Side Door Lounge, 3530 Leavenworth St. The 9 p.m. show will feature classic album covers including T.Rex, Iggy Pop, […]