Greek music wafts out of speakers as you walk into the basement of St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in east Omaha. The tunes are far from the only thing that sets it apart from most of the hundreds of fish fries happening around the city and state on this Friday evening. There’s no […]
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Movie about Frankenstein’s monster making a Frankenstein’s monster is itself a Frankenstein’s monster: Discuss
“A lumbering assortment of various parts poorly stitched together and bursting at the seams” is an apt description of both Frankenstein’s monster and writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s very loose remake of The Bride of Frankenstein. If the mere inclusion of the splashy, self-aggrandizing exclamation point in the film’s title, The Bride!, grates on you, save yourself […]
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Omaha sinkhole goes viral as city and MUD spar over responsibility
The dramatic video has been viewed more than 20 million times across social media. A pickup truck and an SUV pull up to a stoplight heading west at the intersection of 67th and Pacific streets in Omaha. After waiting for a few seconds, the road underneath the vehicles collapses and swallows them both into a […]
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Rhythms on the radar
The month kicks off with bluesman Tinsley Ellis, who is back with a solo acoustic show Thursday, March 5, 6 p.m. at Lincoln’s Zoo Bar. “Premier Guitar” calls Ellis “a legend of American blues music.” In Omaha, longtime K.C. harmonica player Brody Buster plays two Saturday shows. Buster’s now doing an energetic one-man-band act that […]
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‘There’s fear’: ICE arrests surge in Nebraska with 329% increase in 2025
Inside the Center for Immigrant and Refugee Advancement, the phone rarely stops ringing. The nonprofit near 42nd and Center Streets in Omaha is home to the Nebraska Immigration Legal Assistance Hotline, a resource for immigrants and refugees in search of answers. “What we’re hearing more often is loved ones or the actual detainee calling in […]
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Candidates of Nebraska 2nd District House race weigh in on Iran war
There’s a clear political divide in the 2nd Congressional District race on U.S. actions and aspirations in Iran. With Don Bacon, an outspoken voice on military operations, soon to be out of office, a crowded field of candidates hoping to fill his place are weighing in on war in Iran. Brinker Harding, the lone Republican […]
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Omaha Film Festival to highlight local, international films at annual event
More than 100 films will be shown over a six-day period during this year’s Omaha Film Festival. Celebrating its 21st year, the event will be held March 10-15 at Omaha’s Aksarben Cinema. The festival will showcase a total of 104 films, including 30 short films by Nebraska filmmakers, 37 national and international short films, 12 […]
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Omaha newspaper to be printed in Iowa
The Omaha World-Herald announced Monday that it will be shutting down its printing press at the end of March. That means Nebraska’s two largest newspapers, the World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal Star, will no longer be printed in the state. Instead, those papers, along with the Daily Nonpareil of Council Bluffs and the Sioux City […]
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Pacific Street to reopen Thursday as sinkhole repairs continue
Omaha’s Pacific Street is expected to reopen on Thursday – just over a week after a massive sinkhole swallowed up two cars as they sat at a stoplight. Omaha Mayor John Ewing and Assistant Public Works Director Austin Rowser gave the update during a Monday press conference. Ewing lauded the city’s public works department and […]
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Community, connection and culture are at the heart of House of Bah
Before becoming a chef acclaimed for his social impact, Djamil Djibril Bah-Traore, a native of Togo, West Africa, crunched numbers in corporate America. But his real passion was cooking. He left spreadsheets for cutting boards in his late 30s to follow his heart and heritage, attending culinary classes by day and driving a taxi at […]