The staff at Omaha Creative Institute knows it takes two to make art sustainable, the artist to create it and the audience to appreciate it. OCI is all about art and creativity accessible to people that aren’t necessarily a part of the arts scene. “My background is unorthodox for the job I have,” said Susan […]
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Golden Age of Theater? Lets Argue About It
Wait a week or two and we’ll lay out the entire 2012-13 theater season, one already memorable for the smash opening of August: Osage County at the Omaha Community Playhouse. But it isn’t too early to argue about just how golden these days might be. In the last decade, I’ve looked closely at live theater […]
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Movieha! – Omaha’s Favorite Movie Podcast
On Your Radar: 7 Cajas Netflix Roulette: Bad Ass 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 radio […]
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Cutting Room for August 24
For those worried that Angelina Jolie has developed something of a superiority complex since the days when she wore Billy Bob Thorton’s blood around her neck while copulating with him in a vehicle on the red carpet, don’t worry! It looks like the long rumored Cleopatra project, which would see Jolie as the Egyptian queen, […]
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Fender Blender
Everybody needs a little help. Writer/director/actor Dax Shepard could have probably used another writer, a third director (David Palmer already co-directed) and a better group of actors for Hit and Run, a movie that is a cinematic traffic accident with multiple fatalities. Comedy, drama and action were all pronounced dead at the scene, and romance […]
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Recyclists
Recyclists Premium Rush rides on cliches Ryan Syrek This is not a good movie. It’s important to establish that early on so that you can understand how an appreciation of its moving parts doesn’t fully remove one central thesis: Premium Rush is crap. It may, however, be somewhat fun crap, depending on your tolerance for […]
Posted inCulture, Visual Arts
Governor’s Residence art…Caesium Gallery opens…
Painter Ashley Spitsnogle is exhibiting fourteen of her Italian-inspired paintings and drawings in the Governor’s Residence in Lincoln thru September 24. The Residence opens the gallery in the Convention Room Thursdays, 1-4pm and by appointment. The Omaha-based artist is hosting a reception August 29, 5-6pm. Reservations resquited ashley.spitsnogle@gmail.com. ashleyspitsnogle.com. Omaha based artists Derek Courtney and […]
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Pick: ARC: The Exhibit
Pick: ARC: The Exhibit September 1 Nosh Wine Lounge, 1006 Dodge St. 8pm-close noshwine.com As part of Omaha Creative Week, new artist Gary Kudym unveils his acrylic paintings of butterflies that helped him metamorphosize his life. “ARC,” the title psyedynym stands for “Affirmation, Reinvention and Creation,” the three main inspirations of the series which is […]
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Roll into Ponzu
It’s all about the neighborhood. When Jimi D’s Food & Spirits opened four years ago, owner Jimi DiPrima didn’t have big culinary dreams or a snooty design scheme. He just wanted to make it thee neighborhood spot. Four years and a lot of pints of draft beer later – Jimi D’s pours the most Stella […]
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Pick: Elizabeth Cook
Aug. 30 Elizabeth Cook with Tim Carroll Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $10, waitingroomlounge.com “When it’s right,” Elizabeth Cook says in her bio about writing and performing, “it comes together and makes a glow in my soul, so intense it pierces a hot afternoon like a hissing firecracker.” She is a fine writer, […]