It took the civil rights movement to bring segregation in the United States into sharp relief. The South was the epicenter of the racial equality battle but American-style apartheid as well as attempts to dismantle it were everywhere, including Nebraska. Omaha prides itself on hospitality yet African Americans here could not always live or or […]
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Sayers’ Rolling Soul
Hadden Sayers hits the metro for two shows this week. His new CD, Rolling Soul, drops in February. I first discovered Sayers in the mid-1990s and have been enthusiastically following his music ever since. This is Sayers’ follow up to Hard Dollar, which produced a 2012 Blues Music Award nomination for Song of the Year […]
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Chat with Corner Creperie
There are a few places in town to order crepes, but none as dedicated to the French-style stuffed pancake as this brand new space near the Creighton campus. Over my caramel latte – crafted with house-made syrup and beans from Omaha roasters A Hill of Beans – I spoke with Head Chef Chase Grove and […]
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Pick: Railroad Earth
January 22 Railroad Earth w/ Whitewater Ramble The Slowdown, 729 North 14th St. 8 p.m., $20 in advance/$25 day-of-show, onepercentproductions.com Railroad Earth have risen above their standing as one of the brightest lights in the so-called newgrass movement and honed their craft into a act that channels alternative country, folk-pop, instrumental country and Dixieland-inspired jams. […]
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Lucky Strikes Again
Lucky Peterson, born Judge Kenneth Peterson in Buffalo, New York in 1964, has shared the stage with many of the blues’ most notorious names. His story begins with a performance he doesn’t remember at the famed The Governor’s Inn, a venue his father, James Peterson, owned. A time and place he’ll never forget. “My father […]
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Southern Perspective
Rock Paper Dynamite are ready to rip through a new chapter, as they unveil RPD, their fifth EP in as many years. The EP is a product of new perspective, some of it thanks to the band’s decision to relocate to Charleston, South Carolina during the late spring and early summer of 2012. Singer Joseph […]
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Gun laws will never change (and you’re (probably) going to be OK)
The arguments for or against gun control are as useful as the arguments for or against abortion or legalizing marijuana or conservative vs. liberal or tax vs. spend or cats vs. dogs. You’re either for or against, and no one cares because their side of the argument is so galvanized that they’ll never change their […]
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Brewing Up Discussion
A journey of faith rarely follows a linear path. Eric Elnes’ path took him from a fishing boat in Alaska, through a cross-country walk across the United States, and eventuallyplaced him at Omaha’s Countryside Community Church, 8787 Pacific St., where he’s been senior pastor since 2008. On Sundays at 5 p.m., the church hosts a free, interactive […]
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Crumbs
There are still many food related activities to get you through these winter months. In fact on Thursday January 17th, you can take a class on community gardening, to learn how to start up a community garden or how to make your community garden work better. Community Gardening 101 is from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 […]
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Pick: Yuppies & Solid Attitude
January 18 Yuppies w/ Solid Attitude and Ron Wax Brothers Lounge, 3812 Farnam St. 9 p.m., $5, 21+ Yuppies are going on hiatus after headlining this bar show, as bassist Jeff Sedrel is moving away. In their absence, Omaha will be missing out on an excellent slcie of angular post-punk garage rock. Yuppies quickly evolved […]