The “point” of Sinners, a rip-snorting vampire-centric music video, is not that “human beings are the real monsters.” The point of Sinners is a stake, driven through the heart of monsters of all-kinds, fanged or not. It is also that the most important thing in life is having a good time with the ones you […]
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Cause & Culture: New playground aims to provide inclusive play
As a parent of young children, I can attest that all we want for our kids is to see them thrive. The first years, when they are so young and impressionable, feel so delicate. Nothing makes your heart soar higher than seeing their joy, and nothing cuts quite as deep as seeing them hurt or […]
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Memories don’t have to be about war to hurt
In the last week, I saw the movie Warfare, and I learned that someone who used to write here in the film section at The Reader died. Maddeningly, painfully, for the second time in less than a year, I find myself crafting something that is closer to a eulogy than it is a movie review. […]
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Record Store Day expected to be biggest yet
Record Store Day is this weekend, and Nebraska’s locally-owned shops are gearing up for one of their biggest days of the year. Record Store Day started in 2008, after a group of independent record store owners and employees got together as a means of celebrating and spreading the word that record stores still exist. At […]
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Garden Party grows in Aksarben
Omaha native, singer-songwriter, and music educator Madeline Reddel is taking her Garden Party festival out of her backyard and moving the event to Sonny’s at Aksarben The free festival will feature an all-women-fronted lineup on Mother’s Day weekend. The artists announced include Abby Holliday from Nashville, Tennessee, as the headliner, Autumnal from Fort Collins, Colorado, […]
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To Have and to Hold (at Gunpoint)
Casting Michael Fassbender as a militant wife guy who hates liars is certainly a choice when the Wikipedia on his personal life is just right there. Ew. If it helps you endure that knowledge, Black Bag isn’t a sweet love song to marriage so much as a synth-jazz tune about loyalty. Equal parts Who’s Afraid […]
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Fresh, live & happening here
Scott Keeton, Chris Cain and James McMurtry return to the metro while new music is on tap from artists like Chris O’Leary, Eddie 9V and Omaha’s own Mitch Towne.
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Omaha native leans into personal civic engagement legacy
When Omaha native Rebekah Caruthers considers her work for Washington D.C.-based Fair Elections Center, she’s satisfied to know she’s continuing a history of family activism. Since 2021 she’s served as executive vice president of the nonpartisan center, which does advocacy, litigation and poll worker recruitment. FEC is the plaintiff in cases opposing restrictive voting laws. […]
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Stothert, Ewing poised to face off in Omaha mayoral race
Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert will face off against John Ewing in the city’s general election on May 13. As of 10:25 p.m. Tuesday, all early ballots cast before election day and election day votes were counted. Stothert, a Republican running for her fourth term, recorded 25,056 votes. Ewing, a Democrat, had 21,623. In her victory […]
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New archbishop appointed to lead Archdiocese of Omaha
Pope Francis accepted Omaha Archbishop George Lucas’ resignation Monday and appointed the new archbishop, Bishop Michael McGovern, as his replacement. Lucas, who served as archbishop of the Omaha diocese for 16 years, submitted his resignation in June 2024 after he turned 75, something the Catholic Church requires of archbishops. Lucas welcomed McGovern on a livestream […]