Nov. 24 “Modern Makers / Handmade Omaha” Bancroft Street Market, 2702 So. 10th St. 12-6 p.m., $3 cover www.facebook.com/handmadeomaha www.misscake.com Handmade Omaha is showcasing their first annual Modern Makers Holiday Indie Art and Craft Sale. Jil Bunnimit aka Miss Cake has brought together a growing collective of Omaha artisans interested in all things handmade. The […]
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Printmakers…Bemis Carver Bank…Bay
The Hot Shops Art Center is featuring “Pulled From the Matrix”, prints and the matrix from which they’re made, through November 23. Printmaker Amy Haney originated the idea. Lori Elliot-Bartle, Julie Sopscak, and Judy Haney assisted in the process of curating, promotion, and installation. The 23 printmakers featured at the Hot Shops Gallery used a […]
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A Man Did
A humble suggestion: Force the chittering, self-serving partisans in Washington who increasingly prefer filibusters over floor votes to watch Lincoln. Director Steven Spielberg’s latest provides a character sketch, not of its titular president, but of America’s political process. While hundreds of thousands of sons and fathers killed each other mere miles from where the House […]
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Pick: Criteria
November 24 Criteria w/ Landing on the Moon and Ideal Cleaners The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $8, onepercentproductions.com Steve Pedersen is cutting loose from the confines of lawyer-dom to rock out with his sizzling indie rock band Criteria, in what has started to become a post-Thanksgiving tradition. The Pedersen-fronted band last […]
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Pick: Desert Noises
November 27 Desert Noises The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $7, onepercentproductions.com Utah-based quartet Desert Noises play a brand of indie rock perfect for the sort of big sky wilderness of Utah’s semi-arid landscape. The band travels from pastoral to jangly guitar rock that build in kaleidoscopic moments, rich in overlayed vocal […]
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Movieha! – Omaha’s Favorite Movie Podcast
On Your Radar: Europa Report Netflix Roulette: A Good Old Fashioned Orgy 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 […]
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Let’s Kill Rock
Mark Sultan has re-enlisted with his deadliest co-hort, King Khan, in order to incite their own holy war to reclaim rock ‘n’ roll. Sultan and Khan have reformed the King Khan and BBQ Show, after suspending operations following a tense trip to Australia. In the interim, Sultan spent a busy 2011 releasing his own one-man […]
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Cutting Room for November 16
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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Games++ Comes To Omaha
The secret theme was “metamorphosis” – the keyword that the entire competition would be centered around. Last Saturday, artists, writers, designers, programmers, hackers, and game enthusiasts all joined together at The Bemis Underground Arts Center to participate in a ten hour game development competition called Games++. Starting at 9am, participants began to develop their own […]
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Falling Down 12 Steps
The ubiquitous hyperbolic after-school-special-type of dramatization of the perils of alcoholism has lost its teeth; it no longer delivers a social bite so much as it gets drool everywhere. Thus, in many ways, what Smashed wanted to do is something necessary, as we need a reboot of our cultural cautionary tale that ditches the wailing […]