The answer was obvious, really. Was it the low point of his career? “Yeah, I think so,” Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez said on Monday. “It” was a reference to last season’s 48-17 loss at Wisconsin, the Huskers’ first conference game as a member of the Big Ten. Martinez threw three interceptions during a 5-minute-plus stretch […]
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Horseshoe to host charity country concert to benefit Food Bank
* Horseshoe Casino, 2701 23rd Ave. in Council Bluffs, will host its 10th Annual Canfest: A Concert For Hunger Wednesday, Oct. 24th inside the Whiskey Roadhouse at the casino. The 8 p.m. concert will feature country acts Kix Brooks, Casey James and Craig Morgan and all ticket proceeds and food donations collected at the event […]
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Pick: Marcella Marathon Reading
Oct. 6 Marcella Marathon Reading Benson Branch Library, 6015 Binney Street 1-6 pm, more information at http://www.facebook.com/events/343920705696714/ Marcella was the revolutionary novel written in 1973 about a young Kansas girl’s emotional transition into womanhood during World War II. The work was groundbreaking because it was the first English-written novel to use female autoeroticism as its […]
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Of Sound Mind and Opinion
This week’s column is a return to my old indie music critism schtick. Because I still listen to music — lots of it — and have more than 20 years’ experience writing about it, which I think gives my critical analysis a modicum of relevance. Or maybe not. The role of the music critic has […]
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Crumbs
How was Omaha Restaurant Week? Hope many of you were able to get out and eat for great prices and a great cause. Due to such great success, The Grey Plume is extending their Omaha Restaurant Week prix fixe menu through the end of the month. Menu will change for available ingredients but the prix […]
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Pick: Hospitality
October 3 Hospitality w/ TEEN The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $10, onepercentproductions.com Hospitality play an unassuming set of sturdy, guitar-centered indie rock, fronted by the cheerful yawp of singer/guitarist Amber Papini. The band is firmly entrenched in the art and practice of writing pop songs, highlighted by tracks like “Friends of […]
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Pick: The Wombats
Sept. 27 The Wombats w/ Morning Parade and The Royal Concept The Slowdown, 729 North 14th St. 9 p.m., $10 in advance/$12 day-of-show, onepercentproductions.com In a recent history of exurbent, punchy British rock bands, the Wombats jumped forth in the near immediate wake of acts like the Kaiser Chiefs, the Kooks and the Arctic Monkeys […]
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The Great Omaha Chocolate Festival
Year two of the Great Omaha Chocolate Festival at UNO celebrates one of popular culture’s great food indulgences. Organizers of the September 30 event, which benefits the Omaha Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, say chocolate’s diversity will be highlighted in displays by 44 vendors. Sample wares ranging from cupcakes to cookies to […]
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CFLs: When a Green Light Means Stop
The Feds have backed off a little on the mandate that would have made the old-fashioned incandescent light bulb a thing of the past. In 2007, Congress passed a law that would have taken regular light bulbs out of the marketplace by now. But last year, Congress didn’t repeal the law. They did the next […]
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Brand Xenu Man
Writer/director/demigod of modern American cinema Paul Thomas Anderson—or PTA as his peeps call him—has a filmography so stunning that merely making a very good movie means it’s his worst one yet. So, with a heavy heart comes the news that The Master isn’t outright the best film of the year; it’s only one of the […]