The Tenaska Center for Arts Engagement will soon be the latest building on a campus which already includes the Holland Performing Arts Center and Steelhouse Omaha. The center is currently under construction on 12th Street between Dodge and Douglas streets in downtown Omaha. Sabrina Weiss, the Vice President of Development for Omaha Performing Arts, said […]
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Longlegs spied her
Jump scares are to horror what farts are to comedy: They are inarguably effective but arguably the lowest-hanging (magical) fruit. The highest echelon of terror fare comes when audiences aren’t temporarily afraid but deeply disquieted. Longlegs ain’t packed with jump scares. It is silent but deadly. It is gonna disquiet you. It’s gonna disquiet the […]
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Gone too soon: Remembering John Heaston
John Heaston’s life was too short, but he accomplished many things during his long publishing career. To his family, he was son, brother, uncle, and life partner. To his friends and colleagues, he was a Puck-like character, an optimistic dreamer who could talk practically anyone into anything. To Omaha, however, he was an unlikely – […]
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Hush your butts
A Quiet Place: Day One is the opposite of summer fun “Be quiet or die” is (A) a philosophy far more people should be forced to adopt and (B) seems an insufficient concept to fuel three full-grown movies. Yet hear we are. You see what I did there? “Hear” we are… Sorry, but if Jim […]
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Salvation, The WB Network be thy name?
For the bulk of its running time, writer/director Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow feels mislabeled as horror. Sure, it has hallucinatory images of a demonic ice cream cone and Fred Durst is in it, but it isn’t “scary” scary. Until the end. Until you realize this is a neon-hued nightmare about being slowly […]
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‘I Be Black Girl’ nonprofit opens permanent location in North Omaha
I Be Black Girl (IBBG), a reproductive justice nonprofit, opened its first brick-and-mortar in North Omaha. Called the Anarcha Center, the location officially opened during a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday. The Anarcha Center will serve as a physical space for IBBG to serve, educate and empower black women, girls and femmes in Nebraska. “This […]
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Emotions Are Dumb and Hard
Watching brilliant folks celebrate and mourn John Heaston, our beloved Reader leader, has been a hell of a thing. He was a hell of a guy, so that’s fitting. I haven’t written about his passing. Not because I don’t care. The opposite. Very much the opposite. Much like my reviews – and odd as it […]
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Omaha bar’s ‘Jell-O Shot Challenge’ raises money for food banks across the country
The first pitch of this year’s College World Series will be thrown in Omaha Friday, but across the street from Charles Schwab Stadium another annual competition to raise money for food banks across the country is already underway. Rocco’s Pizza and Cantina was buzzing Thursday afternoon on the first day of the annual College World […]
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John Heaston 1971-2024
John William HeastonJanuary 23rd 1971 – May 31st 2024 Obituary Born to Omaha’s Irish-German Catholic father Bill and Baltimore’s German Jewish mother Dorris, an adventurous pair that met serving in Vietnam, John had one very privileged upbringing as an Army brat, rich in love, laughter and confidence, never wanting for anything except a personal computer […]
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John Heaston Leaves a Tremendous Legacy
The founder and visionary leader of The Reader, John Heaston, died on Friday, May 31 after a four-year battle with cancer. His brother, Ben Heaston said, “John was diagnosed with leukemia in 2020, shortly after our father passed away. John fought like a warrior for four years but ultimately, his body couldn’t take it.” Ben […]