Check out this fun event for all “foodies” or history buffs. There will be a Read it and Eat Culinary Conference at the W. Dale Clark Main Library on Saturday November 3rd, from 11:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m. The event is for all ages. Join former restaurateurs, Omaha food enthusiasts and historians as they discuss […]
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Energetic Upstarts
Irreverence seems to be a guiding principle in how the duo Matt & Kim operate their growing indie pop enterprise. They play their danceable, keyboard-laden songs with at an enthusiastically hurtling pace. They stripped down on video for their 2009 clip for “Lessons Learned” and their latest video for “Let’s Go”, which features a cheeky […]
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Voto Por Mi Familia, I Vote for My Family
Here’s a pop quiz. How many people in north and south Omaha are registered to vote but don’t? Five thousand? Ten thousand? Or more than twenty-five thousand? If you guessed more than twenty-five thousand you would be right. Eight thousand of those non-voting 26,000 registered voters live in south Omaha, and the Heartland Workers Center […]
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Pick: “Future Artifacts” / Weston Thomson
Nov. 2 Pick: “Future Artifacts” / Weston Thomson The Kent Bellows Studio & Center for Visual Arts, 3303 Leavenworth St. Reception 6-9 pm; exhibit open Tuesdays-Saturdays 11 am – 4 pm thru Nov. 30 westonthomson@gmail.com 402.321.7702 http://kentbellows.org/, 402.505.7161 This solo exhibition, the first for Weston Thomson, features a collection of objects and images resulting from […]
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Robyn O’Neil
Omaha born and bred artist Robyn O’Neil was invited by UNL’s Department of Art and Art History to be artist-in-residence the week of October 22 – 26. Faculty and students in UNL’s printmaking studios assisted O’Neil in printing an edition of etchings for the Under Pressure Print Club. O’Neil discussed her life and background in […]
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Morrissey postpones Lincoln show
* Morrissey has postponed a series of tour dates, including a Thursday, Nov. 1st date at Lincoln’s Rococo Theater, 140 North 13th St. in Lincoln. All tickets will be honored for the rescheduled date, which as not been announced yet. Morrissey scrapped the dates to return home to England because his mother fell ill. * […]
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Holiday Fare Sans Zombies
Now that we can walk around town without zombies lurching our way, beware a more benign menace: the invasion of holiday theater. It begins Friday with one of the darker seasonal traditions in a different form. If you’re nostalgic for the Great Depression and suicidal bankers, Bellevue Little Theater offers a stage variation on Jimmy […]
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Partly Sunny
To steal from Mother Goose (don’t worry, she’s dead): When Cloud Atlas is good, it’s very, very good; and when it’s bad, Hugo Weaving is doing a drag impression of Nurse Ratched. The ambition of writers/directors Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Twyker, working from David Mitchell’s novel, is flabbergastingly impressive. Fueled by more humility […]
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No-Town Music
At its worst, cinema verite is aimless pretense masquerading as artistic intent. At its best, it is Detropia, a documentary that adds soul to statistics, going inside the implosion of a once proud city using a sprawling, haunting approach. That isn’t to say that directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady don’t infuse the proper factual […]
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Cutting Room for October 26
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 […]