* Alice In Chains is set to headline the first announced outdoor show of 2013. The alternative rock band will take the Pinewood Bowl Theater, 3201 South Coddington Avenue in Lincoln, Friday, May 24th. Bullet For My Valentine and Halestorm are also scheduled for the show. Tickets are $39.50 and go on sale Friday, January […]
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Karaoke Kicks Off New Year
The Live Broadway Karaoke event for the Omaha Playhouse’s 21 & Over programming, now in its third year, has become the unofficial theatre kick-off for the new year. After having their fill of family dinners, office parties, and new year’s celebrations, the theatre community shakes off the snow and comes back together to enjoy the […]
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Cosmic Forecast, Jan. 17-23
Let’s take it back to the “Primitive Beauty.” The media hype surrounding the “end of the world” had/has it all wrong. (Whatever sells, right?) The focus of the Aztec, Mayan and Incan culture’s galactic synchronicity around December 21st-23rd should have emphasized not the end — but rather, a/the new beginning. I can feel it. Before […]
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Two Old Market fixtures celebrate milestones
Signature Old Market spot M’s Pub celebrates 40 years in business this year. It’s a milestone for any independently owned restaurant. But reaching four decades takes on added meaning because when M’s opened in 1973 (a planned 1972 opening was delayed), the fledgling Market’s survival looked unsure. The Market though went from counter culture social […]
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Pick: JESÚS JIMÉNEZ, TRANSACTIONS/TRANSACCIONES
Jan. 17– March 17, 2013 JESÚS JIMÉNEZ, TRANSACTIONS/TRANSACCIONES The Moving Gallery, 1042 Howard St. Opening Reception: 7 pm – 9 pm, Thursday, January 17, 2013 Regular hours: Tues –Sat 12 pm – 7 pm, Sun 12 pm – 4 pm http://www.facebook.com/#!/amovinggallery?fref=ts, 402.517.8719 The Moving Gallery is exhibiting the photographs of Jesús Jiménez at its Garden […]
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Nebraska Arts Council Exhibition
The Nebraska Arts Council’s Fred Simon gallery has been featuring a select number of exhibitions since 2005. Located in the historic Burlington Building, 1004 Farnam St.it is a sought after venue by Nebraska artists. On view now is a two-person show, Chad Fonfara, Glass (Kearney)/Travis Hencey, Drawing (Chadron). The dual installation of Fonfara’s glass and Hencey’s […]
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You’ll Need a Haneke
Oh, hell no. Why you gotta do us like that, writer/director Michael Haneke? Is life not already emotionally dense enough that you have to go and drop Amour on us just to remind us how finite and precious this human experience is? This is the sort of film you don’t watch first thing in the […]
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Mile-High Rock Bottom
By the ghost of Ernest Hemingway: Is anything more consistently compelling than the narrative of a brilliant, talented soul undone by uncontrollable addiction? Flight is an old spin on an old tale, focusing on a hero without a heroic bone in his body and a liver that hates him. Director Robert Zemeckis and writer John […]
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White People Nearly Died
The 2004 tsunami that struck Eastern Asia was the sixth deadliest “act of God” in recorded history and quieted just under 300,000 lives. The first major motion picture to tackle the subject, The Impossible, is about a group of white folks who get injured and significantly inconvenienced while brown people all around them die in […]
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Cutting Room for January 11
There is little question that when The Beatles sang that “the best things in life are free,” they were referring to Aksarben Cinema’s Free Family Flicks, which are happily not saved for “the birds and bees.” In fact, they are extended to anyone who hits up Enterprise Bank, Learning HQ, Ponzu Sushi and Grill, Jones […]