No, you’re not getting an essay contrasting Jerry Longe as artist Mark Rothko in Red with Ariel Talacko as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. Suffice it to say, viva la difference. And that’s without making it three for three by catching Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus the next night, doing back-to-back Blue Barn, Creighton and the University […]
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Pick: La Traviata
La Traviata October 5th and 7th Slosburg Hall, Orpheum Theater, 409 S. 16th St. 7:30 p.m., Friday; 2 p.m., Sunday/Tickets start at $19.00 Opera Omaha wants to rock out its 55th season, so it brought big opera back. “We wanted three larger-than-life productions that would excite and energize as many music and art lovers as […]
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“Glee” Clubbed
At the point where the fist pump from The Breakfast Club becomes a plot point, shortly after a near-mute Asian girl who ate her own twin in the womb makes snow angels in another girl’s vomit, Pitch Perfect moves from “cult classic” to “recommended for any human who likes funny.” Toss in the nonchalant itty-bitty […]
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Movieha! – Omaha’s Favorite Movie Podcast
On Your Radar: The Conspiracy Netflix Roulette: The Vicious Kind 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 KVNO […]
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Ukulele Jazz
Rebecca Lowry, the heart and voice at the center of All Young Girls Are Machine Guns, may have just inadvertently made herself seem like a gin-soaked inebriate on her band’s new album, Here’s Hopin’ Tomorrow Never Comes. But while her lyrics are dappled by happenings around cocktails and corner bars, All Young Girls Are Machine […]
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Cutting Room for September 28
In what is fast becoming an annual fall tradition less likely to give you diabetes than trick or treating, Film Streams (filmstreams.org) is once more bringing The Alloy Orchestra to perform a live score to the 1925 horror classic The Phantom of the Opera on Friday, Oct 12 at 7 pm. There is nothing more […]
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Dia de los Muertos Exhibit at Bancroft…Kent Bellows 5th anniversary event…
Hoover Studios presents new work by printmaker Joey Lynch opening Oct. 5, 6-9pm in the Mastercraft Building Gallery. It will be open by appointment thru the month. billhooverart.com The Mexican American Historical Society of the Midlands presents “Music to my Bones” a Dia de los Muertos Exhibit/Celebration opening the evening of Oct. 6, at Bancroft […]
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Pick: Omaha North Hills Pottery Tour
Omaha North Hills Pottery Tour Oct. 6-7 Big Table Studios; 17171 County Rd. 25, Herman; Too Far North Wines, 111 N. 14th St., Calhoun; Dennison Pottery, 13210 N. 47th St, Omaha; Florence Mill, 9102 N. 30th St., Omaha Oct. 6: 10a.m.-7p.m.; Oct. 7: 10a.m.-5p.m. FREE Omahanorthhillspotterytour.com The eighth annual celebrated fall excursion brings sixteen new […]
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R2D2 and the AARP
First things first: although she’s only eight years younger than him, nobody will accept that Susan Sarandon would want to kiss Frank Langella on his mouth parts. That premise requires a bigger suspension of disbelief than the rest of Robot & Frank, which presumes the world now has robotic versions of Mr. Belvedere. Writer Christopher […]
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Michael Beasley follows his father John Beasley in becoming a TV-film character actor
Don’t look now but Michael Beasley is carving out a film-television career rivaling that of his powerhouse father John Beasley (Rudy, The Apostle). The nearly 20 feature and made-for-TV pics he’s booked the last few years have him on the verge of being one of the industry’s next breakout character actors. He’s doing it all […]