Dec. 14, 2012 – June 30, 2013 The Art of Puebla El Museo Latino/The Latino Museum, 4701 S. 25 St. Regular hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10 am – 5 pm, Tuesday & Thursday 1 pm – 5 pm, Saturday 10 am – 2 pm; Free to Members, Active Military with ID, Children under 5, General […]
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Small Town in Small World: Joy and Horror
The joy of the rock musical Beehive and the horror that came to Newtown, Connecticut, left me contemplating our small town in a small world. Omaha seems a small town when we find The Waiting Room lounge nearly full a few minutes before the 1 p.m. performance of the rock revival, and the management finds […]
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Beehive Just Gets Better
They lined up 20 years ago outside the Howard St. Tavern, waiting to hear Beehive bring back 1960s rock n’ roll. And they packed The Waiting Room on Maple Street 200-strong Saturday to hear the same songs. Dylan, et al, tell us times are achangin’, so you expect the voices of Sue Booton, Ginny Herman, […]
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Dwarfing Expectations
We are masters of cynicism, proudly sporting a black-belt in backlash. If this generation of critics, pseudo-critics and armchair-article-writing audience members given the bully pulpit of social media has any legacy, it will be bitching for bitching’s sake. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is awesome by the literal definition of the word, in that its […]
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Cutting Room for December 14
Cutting Room provides breaking local and national movie news … complete with added sarcasm. Send any relevant information to film@thereader.com. Check out Ryan on Movieha!, a weekly half-hour movie podcast (movieha.libsyn.com/rss), catch him on the radio on CD 105.9 (cd1059.com) on Fridays at around 7:30 a.m. and on KVNO 90.7 (KVNO.org) at 8:30 a.m. on […]
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Movieha! – Omaha’s Favorite Movie Podcast
On Your Radar: Unforgiven (Japan) Netflix Roulette: Stake Land Please sign up for our RSS feed HERE, download our podcasts and rave about us in the comments section of iTunes HERE, follow us on Twitter HERE, and become a fan of us on Facebook HERE! You can also listen to our bit we do for […]
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Holli-dazed and Reviewed
There is a difference between a guide to holiday movies and holiday movie guide. The former is simply a tour of cloying Christmas-time flicks you know by heart and the latter is a battle plan, a plan of action, a roadmap to maximizing your entertainment during whatever vacation you have managed to squirrel away for […]
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Ten Ways to a Healthy 2013
The New Year looms. Multitudes will be resolving change. Resolutions always seem to center around self-improvement and healthier lifestyle choices. We hear all the standards but these aren’t the everyday list. Eat real food. Sounds simple but if you shop a normal grocery, you’ll see most of the “food” there is processed, heavily. You’ll have […]
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Entrepreneur and craftsman John Hargiss invests in North Omaha
The subtle twang in the voice of stringed instrument-maker and roots musician John Hargiss betrays his southern Missouri Ozarks origins. As a boy he learned acoustic guitar under his musician-craftsman-woodsman father’s instruction. As a young man he mastered constructing guitars under “that old man,” the wood harvested from walnut trees the father felled and the […]
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The Truth About Caril
It was the case that shattered innocence and struck fear into an entire nation, inspired artists like Terrence Malick and Bruce Springsteen to create some of their finest work, and would be forever associated with Nebraska. The two week killing spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate would capture the world and is still […]