Sunday, November 18th at Le Voltaire, Escoffier, a play and classic French food *Le Voltaire is organizing a great theatrical Sunday afternoon. Starting with a fantastic local actor Marty Skomal, who is playing a great monologue of Auguste Escoffier, the most famous historical French Chef, who organized the kitchens as they are functioning today. The […]
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In Search of Coffee
Ask me if I’d like to spend some time gallivanting around town trying different specialty drinks at coffee shops and I doubt you’ll have trouble sensing my enthusiasm. In truth, I had a difficult time masking my glee about drinking coffee and labeling it research because the only thing I like better than coffee is […]
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Pick: Focus on Flora: Botanical Illustrations / Melissa Toberer
Nov. 16 “Focus on Flora: Botanical Illustrations / Melissa Toberer” Lauritzen Gardens,100 Bancroft St. Reception 2-4 p.m. Nov. 18, exhibit open daily 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., thru Dec. 31 www.tobererillustration.com www.lauritzengardens.org 402.346.4002 Bringing together art and science, this exhibit features original botanical illustrations in watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil. Representing a wide range of […]
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Bemis Feast…AOB…Alvarez…Caesium
*The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is having a FEA$T (Funding Emerging Artists with Sustainable Tactics), November 17 at 6:30 pm. The event is designed to generate support for ambitious concepts initiated by area artists. It’s a community-driven dinner with all the proceeds funding a single project that might not happen otherwise — crowdfunding the […]
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Old and New, Carol Still Seduces
You’d think there was nothing new to say about A Christmas Carol in its 37th year at the Omaha Community Playhouse. And you’d think, after the big spread in the daily about its NET documentary airing Friday, as the Dickensian delight opens, that I’d devote this space to other theater. After all, Mirror of the […]
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Movieha! – Omaha’s Favorite Movie Podcast
On Your Radar: The Grandmasters Netflix Roulette: Kill, Baby, Kill 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 […]
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Cutting Room for November 9
Are you angry at your bladder? Have you only seen Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy a few hundred times and not a few thousand? Well, get ready to punish your bladder and feast on Hobbit flesh, as Aksarben Cinema (aksarbencinema.com) is showing a marathon of the extended versions on Saturday Dec 8th. That’s […]
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Thanks but No Thanks — on Legal Marijuana
The times have changed — in most places at least. While a few states still have harsh penalties for marijuana possession (avoid Arizona, Florida or Missouri if you’re a burner), pot laws have been relaxed across most of the nation. Medical marijuana provisions exist in many states and last week, citizens of Washington and Colorado […]
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Enduring…Explosive…Exciting:
“Probably the most viscerally exciting piece ever written for the instrument.” That’s how violinist Joshua Bell described Tchaikovsky’s “Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra.” Bell performs the piece with the Omaha Symphony this Friday and Saturday. He said the piece is incredible, passionate and exciting. Bell estimated he’s played the work about a 1,000 […]
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Am I Sick?
The moment when the seemingly-perpetually-creepily-coiffed Javier Bardem caresses Daniel Craig’s thigh parts and whispers whatever the supervillain equivalent of a sweet nothing is, using whatever non-geographically distinct accent he uses this time, is the precise moment Skyfall becomes the best Bond film in decades. Why? Because of Bond’s response. Instead of recoiling, the supersexy superspy […]