Sept. 24-26 Antique and Garden Show Lauritzen Gardens, 100 Bancroft St. Fri.-Sat. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $10; $25 for Five Minutes to Fabulous w/ Julia Knight, 346.4002 omahaantiqueshow.org lauritzengardens.org With fall officially marking the calendar, flora, a little fauna and a for-sure helluva a good time means a day spent at the […]
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Fences
Sept. 24–Oct. 10 Fences John Beasley Theater, 3010 Q St. Thurs.-Sat. 6:30 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. $27, $22 students/seniors, $15 Thurs. 502.5767, johnbeasleytheater.org The John Beasley Theater opens its 11th season with August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Fences. Focusing on the emotionally charged relationships of the Maxon family, Fences “offers a brutally honest portrayal of […]
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Oktoberfest
Sept. 24-25 Oktoberfest Huber-Haus, 3578 Farnam St. Fri. Noon-2 a.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-2 a.m. FREE, 345.1708, beercornerusa.com In the old country (Germany), way back in the day when there was no refrigeration, you had to stop brewing beer in spring because it was too hot to brew during the summer months. The last brew was […]
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Omaha Nighthawks vs. Hartford Colonials
Sept. 24 Omaha Nighthawks vs. Hartford Colonials Rosenblatt Stadium, 1202 Bert Murphy Ave. 7 p.m., $10-$35, nighthawkstickets.com Nelly’s going to be there, are you? The Omaha Nighthawks announced last week that the Grammy-award winning rapper would perform at halftime of the team’s season opener at Rosenblatt Stadium in what looks like one of the biggest […]
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Linoma Mashers 25th Anniversary Show
Sept. 24 Linoma Mashers 25th Anniversary Show Gator O’Malley’s, 12143 W. Center Rd. 9 p.m., FREE, myspace.com/linomamashers Born from the ashes of the Hutsuts and rising repeatedly to bring joy to the world, the Linoma Mashers unleash their seriously fun mix of ska, reggae and island music for a night to remember. Even if you […]
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Lovely, Still
Sept. 24 Lovely, Still Marcus Midtown Cinema, 3201 Farnam St. Village Pointe Cinema, 304 N. 174th St. Times/prices vary, marcustheatres.com Midtown, 345.0102; Village Pointe, 898.7469 It’s back. Just when it looked sketchy for Lovely, Still getting a national release, the shot-in-Omaha pic — written and directed by hometown filmmaker Nik Fackler, starring Martin Landau and […]
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Suck it, Damon!
The Town proves Affleck is on the rise With The Town, writer/director/star/unfair-target-of-derision Ben Affleck pumps two armor-piercing rounds into jokes about his being the lesser of the creative forces behind his joint Oscar win with hetero-life-partner Matt Damon. Eff that noise, whatever Affleck’s staggeringly brilliant freshman directorial effort Gone Baby Gone didn’t prove, this clip-emptying, […]
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Easy A FTW
It’s fitting that the review of a movie about whoring through words should start with a verbal money shot, in the form of a pull quote: Easy A is easily the funniest movie of the year. Sporting chlamydia as a subplot, discussion of vagina gnomes and multiple Huckleberry Finn–based biracial gay sex jokes, first-time screenwriter […]
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Devil’s Day Out
Death rides an elevator in Dowdle’s Devil I’m claustrophobic in my day-to-day life, but at the movies, I’m a sucker for all things small and confined, from Ingmar Bergman’s stark chamber dramas to George Romero’s original Dawn of the Dead. Just put some people and some tension in a room and I’m there. With that […]
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Burning Flames
Several shows with some of the biggest names in roots and blues music grace local performance spaces this week. Taj Mahal, W.C. Clark, Tab Benoit and Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi are on tap. Legendary Taj Mahal in Lincoln The Bourbon Theatre and the Zoo Bar present a rare Nebraska performance by the great Taj […]