October 9 – 11 Hinaya Kyoto Wearable Art/Fashion Show Anderson O’Brien Fine Art Gallery Countryside Village, 8724 Pacific Street 10 am – 5:00 pm Appointments available: call Anne Fenner at 402.598.4898 Akihiko Izukura’s chic, wearable art is known for its distinctively modern, yet traditional style inspired by ancient kimono techniques from Kyoto, Japan. They specialize […]
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Pick: Miss Representation Screening and Panel Discussion
October 10 Miss Representation Screening and Panel Discussion UNO’s Strauss Performing Arts Center 7:00pm www.omahawomensfund.org Filmmaker, speaker, former actress, and women’s advocate, Jennifer Siebel Newsom will be hosting a special screening of her 2011 Sundance documentary, “Miss Representation” at UNO’s Strauss Performing Arts Center. The film explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women contribute to […]
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Pick: Walking Tour and Grand Jubilee for “The Great Findening”
October 11 Walking Tour and Grand Jubilee for “The Great Findening” Tours starts outside the old Nomad Lounge, 1013 Jones St Tickets cost $10, and can be purchased the day of. Call for reservations 402.606.1176 Feeling tied down by the evil forces of seriousness, mundanity, and human suffering? Blue Barn’s Witching Hour provides the remedy […]
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Pick: Dinosaur Jr.
October 17 Dinosaur Jr. w/ Shearwater The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $20, onepercentproductions.com One of the last times Dinosaur Jr. came to town, I braced myself for a torrent of noise guaranteed to bring about quick and sudden deafness. When the band started playing, I quickly adjusted to the volume and […]
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Pick: Bob Log III/Cheap Time
October 11th Bob Log III and Cheap Time The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $10, onepercentproductions.com Arizona’s Bob Log III has gained a reputation for making the one-man-band act into a human spectacle. He plays fingerpicked, Delta blues-inspired rock while drumming with his feet on his homemade set up. On stage, he […]
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Start Halloween with a David Bowie dance party
* House of Loom, 1012 South 13th St., will host the perfect glam-rock beginning to the Halloween season Friday, October 12th. Moonage Daydream, a dance party tribute to David Bowie, will feature DJs spinning nothing but the Thin White Duke. Costumes inspired by any era of Bowie’s career are encouraged, with the night’s hosts The […]
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President Romney?
The morning after, while soberly watching the post-game analysis on MSNBC, the pithy Morning Joe hosts seemed not only resolved at the outcome of the previous night’s debate, but slightly relieved if not contrite about the obvious fact that President Obama didn’t just lose the debate, Mitt Romney won it. Decisively. A deep sense of […]
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Pick: Norah Jones
Friday, October 12th Norah Jones Orpheum Theatre 409 South 16th Street 8 pm, Tickets: $51.50 – $63.00 Though she’s worked with everyone from Ray Charles and Dolly Parton to Outkast and Mike Patton since releasing her colossal debut album in 2002, Norah Jones is probably still best known for soothing, piano-laced tunes like “Come Away […]
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Kevin Lawler…Pecha Kucha #16…New BLK’s SHIT SHOW…
Kevin Lawler, Artistic Director of Omaha’s Great Plains Theatre Conference (or, “Director of Lostness,” as he is so-called on the “National Institute for the Lost” organization that produces “highly crafted, original performance that fosters the exploration and celebration of life within the community”) recently finished a three-day, 70-mile trek around the city-limit of Omaha in […]
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Coal’s Assault on Human Health
Alan Lockwood, M.D., is a man with a mission — to educate the public about the health effects of burning coal. “Research on toxins has been my life’s work in one form or another,” he said. Lockwood spoke last week to two Omaha audiences, including a presentation at the UNMC School of Public Health. Lockwood, […]