If you require general automotive repair, look no further. Lantz Brothers Auto Repair excels at everything from engines and brakes to oil changes and front-end work, making your vehicle work and look like it’s supposed to since opening its garage doors in 1975. With a six-bay shop and a small team of experienced ASE-certified technicians, […]
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None Too Bright
Putting The Nun II in IMAX is like serving human excrement on a gold-plated platter. “What if this sucked bigger?” is a bold theatrical gambit and a frequently used political strategy these days. Anyway, my very first review as an independent film critic will always be The Nun II, and I have to learn to […]
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Show’s Over…Reader & Weep
When Reader publisher/owner John Heaston asked me to be his Contributing Visual Arts Editor a dozen or more years ago, he did me a big favor as well as honor. He did a bigger favor by continuing a commitment to Metro fine arts coverage, a staple of Reader’s mission for more than 30 years. Whether […]
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Homy Inn: Omaha’s Good Old Fashioned Neighborhood Dive Bar
Homy Inn has been a family business since opening in 1956, proudly serving all walks of life for nearly seven decades. The bar champions being an inclusive place where you can kick back, feel safe, have a good time, and afford to drink—whether it’s one of 20 rotating local beers, champagne on tap, or one […]
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Any Given Saturday
In Nebraska, fall means football as Big Red action dominates the headlines. But the arts community has its game plan ready for Any Given Saturday, as galleries and museums fill their rosters with promising talent. What follows are those shows available at press time. Kaneko kicks off its annual Soirée celebration with another solo exhibition […]
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Arrow Towing Has Been Towing with Pride Since 1975
Arrow Towing has proudly served the Omaha-Council Bluffs metro area for almost 50 years, specializing in private, commercial, industrial, and fleet markets. Arrow Towing provides towing, recovery, equipment hauling, jumpstart, lockout, fuel delivery, winching, transloading, storage, roadside services, and accident site cleanup. Arrow Towing is capable of specialized jobs such as dredger recoveries, lifting MRI […]
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See You on the Dance Floor
“John will never shut The Reader down.” I was literally telling a newer colleague that less than a month before the announcement of the closing of The Reader and El Perico. So it was a gut punch of sorts to get the news. The Reader has been part of my life for almost all of […]
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Last Call
It’s been 20 years since Dean Dobmeier and Gary Grobeck launched their independent Sunday Roadhouse series. With the focus on Americana music, the series has played various venue homes before landing with Waiting Room and Reverb Lounge. The duo celebrates this 20th Anniversary year with the return of an audience favorite, charismatic roots-rocker Sarah Borges. […]
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Worth a 1000 Words
It’s a hackneyed expression: a picture is worth a thousand words. True enough, but for me the reverse is also accurate: a thousand words (even a hundred) can paint a picture. And that has been my experience and my reward in writing these many years for the Reader. When art and art history first piqued […]
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