“After forty-two years in prison, how can we help them?” The first question asked after Ramsey Clark’s speech last weekend does not have an easy answer. Clark, 84, a former Attorney General who served under Lyndon Johnson, traveled to Nebraska on a humanitarian mission to visit Ed Poindexter and Mondo We Langa (David Rice) at […]
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You Stay Classy, Omaha
The topic was the future of local television news. The interrogator was a young journalist who just got her first break in the local TV news market. And the underlying theme was how the Internet and Social Media will impact both their futures. But conversation quickly turned from technology to what “news” is to a […]
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Crumbs
Emerging Terrain, whose Elevate event was this past summer, will host a Talk #2 at their studio, 1717 Vinton Street. For anyone interested in learning about an Elevate installation, you can join on Wednesday October 24 at 7:00 p.m. The Talk is free and drinks and snacks will be provided. Dante Ristorante and Pizzeria is […]
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Pick: Kevin Nealon
Friday, October 19; Saturday, October 20 Kevin Nealon The Funny Bone 17305 Davenport St, Suite 201 Village Pointe Center Friday at 7:30 PM and 9:45 PM and Saturday at 7 PM and 9:30 PM $25, 21 and over 402.493.8036 Funnyboneomaha.com I grew up watching Kevin Nealon on Saturday Night Live. Nealon started on the show […]
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Kevin Nealon (funny dude)
I will always remember Kevin Nealon as the tall, straight-faced and wry character on Saturday Night Live (SNL) from the late 1980s through the mid 1990s. Perhaps he’s better known these days as the loveable, dopey dope-smoker Doug Wilson on Showtime’s hit series Weeds, but his straight-laced voice and comic absurdity will always remind me […]
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Meet Dr. Amy Yaroch from the Gretchen Swanson Center of Nutrition
Just recently, I had an opportunity to speak with Dr. Amy Yaroch, the Executive Director at the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, about her role as Executive Director and the role The Center of Nutrition plays in the Omaha food system and how the Center of Nutrition is connected to Food Day Omaha. As an […]
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Movieha! – Omaha’s Favorite Movie Podcast
On Your Radar: The Canyons Netflix Roulette: Tomorrow When the War Began 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 October 12
As confusing as it sounds seasonally, the documentary August to June will screen in November. Specifically, on Tuesday Nov 13 at 7 pm, Film Streams (filmstreams.org) is holding a free showing of the documentary about education in collaboration with the College of Education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. There will be an audience […]
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Object of My Affleck-tion
It’s easy to thrill people when they don’t know what’s coming. Okay, maybe not easy—paging Mr. Shyamalan—but certainly less difficult than whipping up tension in a film based on a decades-old actual incident, the resolution of which is but a Google search away. Between that and having to painstakingly recreate 1970s mustaches, actor/director Ben Affleck’s […]
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If world goes “Boom!,” say yes to Shrek
boom with a small b at the Playhouse Thursday? Yes. The Bad Seed with a good cast at the Circle Theatre Friday? Yes. Chanticleer’s fund-raising cabaret in CB Saturday? Yes. A Bright New Boise at the Playhouse Monday? Yes. Shrek the Musical at the Orpheum Tuesday? “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.” The first four affirmatives […]