If you’ve driven by the QLI campus near 72nd and Sorenson Parkway on a Tuesday evening in the spring or fall and heard music emanating from the grounds, there’s a good reason. It means the nonprofit organization is welcoming another local singer or band to the 60-acre campus to raise the roof and entertain residents, […]
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‘Shit’ Happens
“I don’t like gross things—and a lot of the SHIT SHOW, like the Sweatshop Gallery, is gross–but it’s genius,” Zoe Kuhn, daughter of artist Kim Darling, said of the live performance-exhibit that premiered October 12 at The New BLK Gallery. Genius, perhaps, certainly a local art revival of sorts, the SHIT SHOW features visual artists […]
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Alexander Payne’s ‘Nebraska’ comes home to roost
In 1968 Francis Ford Coppola led a small cinema caravan to Ogallala, Neb. for the final weeks shooting on his independent road picture The Rain People starring Shirley Knight. Joining them were future fellow film legends George Lucas, Bill Butler, Robert Duvall and James Caan. Now a road pic of another kind, Nebraska, is underway […]
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Pick: The Whigs
October 29 The Whigs The Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $10, onepercentproductions.com Athens, Ga.-based the Whigs have always been adept at tapping into the power part of “power trio”, highlighting the loud, raw and big-sounding parts of their elemental rock ‘n’ roll. Even when singer Parker Gispert slows down for a simple, heartfelt […]
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Laugh as Earth Goes Boom
boom offers more than the crash of a kettle drum to herald the end of the world. For me, at least, it entertained first and saved the thought-provoking part to continue days after the lights went down on the Howard Drew space at the Omaha Community Playhouse. And it helped me overcome what I’d feared […]
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Being Near Emma Watson
Reconciling the public’s fascination with Emma Watson’s blossoming sexuality with realizing the first time she was on-screen she was 11 years old is really difficult. Doing so in a movie where her character’s sexuality is fundamentally warped because of an experience at 11 years old feels like a pretty clear indictment of said fascination. So […]
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Take the Psycho Path
With massive mainstream media marketing rollouts and the box office boons reaped by free social media, movies so rarely surprise us these days. Shock cameos are spoiled in the space of a tweet, while most trailers render buying the proverbial “movie cow” moot when you got the “third-act milk” for free in the preview. Guess […]
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Cutting Room for October 19
Now’s as good a time as any to tell that confused, wayward soul out there that Malcolm X was a civil rights leader and not the bald telepathic leader of the X-men. Maybe just take them to Film Streams (filmstreams.org) where the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation will buddy up with the theater to hold a […]
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Movieha! – Omaha’s Favorite Movie Podcast
On Your Radar: The American Scream Netflix Roulette: Extract 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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Pick: Lit Undressed
Oct. 24 Lit Undressed House of Loom, 1012 S. 10th St. 8 p.m. (doors open a t 7 p.m.) $10 cash at the door, 21+ omahalitfest.com/; facebook.com/houseofloom; esotericvelvet.com/ Under this mask,another mask.I will never befinished removingall these faces. ~Claude Cahun WOMEN IN DISGUISE is the theme for the fourth and final Lit Undressed. The […]