Dec. 26 Shen Yun Performing Arts Orpheum Theater, 409 S. 16th St. 7 p.m., $60-$150, 345.0606, ticketomaha.com In the more than 5,000 years Chinese culture has been in existence, it’s spawned some incredible art, music, legends, spirituality, philosophy and dance. The place to see all of those things in one breathtaking presentation is a Shen […]
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Mal Madrigal w/ Our Fox, The Bruces and Before The Toast and Tea
Dec. 26 Mal Madrigal w/ Our Fox, The Bruces and Before The Toast and Tea Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. 8 p.m., $6, theslowdown.com Winter beckons two of Omaha’s sons, Mal Madrigal’s Stephen Bartolomei and Our Fox’s Ryan Fox. Mal Madrigal headlines with an experimental acoustic indie sound that jumps from slow-burning builds, to shuffling, […]
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Little Brazil w/ Conduits, The Filter Kings and All Young Girls are Machine Guns
Dec. 26 Little Brazil w/ Conduits, The Filter Kings and All Young Girls are Machine Guns Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $7, onepercentproductions.com Many who survive Christmas Day will appreciate how amazing this show will be. You’ve got Little Brazil who never fail to throw a hype show with a blend of indie […]
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Benefit for Amber Wilkins
Dec. 27 Benefit for Amber Wilkins Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St. 7 p.m., $10, onepercentproductions.com The story is tragic on so many levels. A dump truck driver runs a red light, slams into an SUV driven by a 25-year-old mother of a 2-year-old. She was just two blocks from work. The November 5 accident left […]
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Ladyfinger w/ Back When, Answer Team & Lightning Bug
Dec. 27 Ladyfinger w/ Back When, Answer Team & Lightning Bug Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. 9 p.m., $7, theslowdown.com Ladyfinger has been laying low in 2010, after a personnel change and the launch of singer Chris Machmuller’s pop-soul supergroup The So-So Sailors. But Ladyfinger is back, ready to rip through its fierce take on […]
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Celebrate Kwanzaa w/ Omaha Public Library
Dec. 27-30 Celebrate Kwanzaa w/ Omaha Public Library Charles B. Washington Branch, 2868 Ames Ave. Times vary by day, FREE, 444.4849 omahapubliclibrary.org If you’ve never attended a Kwanzaa celebration, sample the Omaha Public Library’s four-day African-American festival. Monday, Omaha blues man Dr. Spit (of Dr. Spit and the Blues Mechanics) presents a blues harmonica workshop […]
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Nebraska keeps its House seats
The U.S. Census Bureau released its first data set from the 2010 census on Dec. 21 showing that Nebraska’s population has grown by 6.7 percent to 1.83 million people since 2000, lower than the national average but enough to keep the state’s three seats in the House of Representatives. With 12 seats changing states, (UNCLEAR […]
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Recall ruling set for Thursday
Douglas County District Court Judge Peter Bataillon is expected to rule whether or not Mayor Jim Suttle will face a recall election at 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 23. Bataillon spent the past three days hearing arguments from attorneys for anti-recall group Forward Omaha and the Mayor Suttle Recall Committee over whether the recall group violated […]
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Extra patrols scheduled for Whiteclay
The Sheridan County Sheriff’s Department will use a $10,000 grant to add patrols in and around Whiteclay, Neb., in hopes of reversing the town’s troubled reputation as the primary source of alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The money will pay for mileage and overtime hours to increase police presence in the town located […]
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Extra patrols scheduled for Whiteclay
The Sheridan County Sheriff’s Department will use a $10,000 grant to add patrols in and around Whiteclay, Neb. in hopes of reversing the town’s troubled reputation as the primary source of alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The money is part of $25,000 set aside by the state legislature earlier this year for Whiteclay. […]