Josh Rouse spent several years up until he was 12 in Paxton, Neb., way out west in Keith County. Then he left Nebraska to live with his father in Georgia and then 45 minutes outside of Nashville. While he still returns often to visit his mother in Paxton, Nebraska locales have never figured into his […]
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Dedicated to Teaching And Students
Dr. John Mackiel served the Omaha Public School District for 40 years, first as a reading and English teacher at Burke High School and for the last 15 years as superintendent, overseeing $254 million in school improvements, legal challenges to the state’s school finance system and the formation of the Learning Community. He retired from […]
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Full Circle
Maha Music Festival headliner Garbage built their career on a stockpile of smart, alternative rock songs crafted with whipsmart pop sensibilities. Their self-titled debut in 1995 launched mega-hit “Only Happy When It Rains” and several other successful singles followed. The band is the partnership between Nirvana producer Butch Vig, his compatriots Steve Marker and Duke […]
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Go on and Lie to Me
I knew when she started looking through her inventory screen at Barnes & Noble that the cute little clerk would come up craps. I’d already done the online research. They’d already expunged the book from Amazon and a half dozen other websites. But I thought I’d try. Just for the heck of it. The story […]
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Baby Tears set LP release date
* Baby Tears will release their Rusty Years album on vinyl August 24th. The band’s platter of noise rock/garage punk hybrid cacophony is currently available for pre-order on rainyroadrecords.com. The band has also released a video for “Hypochondriac Wetdream” off the album. The clip, which can be viewed on vimeo.com, was filmed in the 100-degree […]
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Pick: Last Summer on Earth Tour
August 9th The Last Summer on Earth Tour Stir Cove, 1 Harrah’s Blvd. in Council Bluffs 7 p.m., $40.50, stircove.com If you grew up on alternative rock radio in the 1990s, then the Last Summer on Earth Tour just might transport you back in time. Four of the era’s most tuneful hitmakers will join forces […]
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Crumbs
Save the date for this Friday August 10th for Omaha’s first Food Truck Festival. The event is hosted by the Old Mattress Factory and Bomb Digs Gourmet Food Truck. There will be drinks, food and entertainment all held in the Old Mattress Factory parking lot at 501 North 13th Street. From 4:30 p.m. to 9:00 […]
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In Search of Breakfast
Mere words cannot describe the warm affection I feel toward the breakfast meal. I consider myself quite the breakfast aficionado, so it only makes sense that I would venture out to various breakfast spots in town in search of the best place I could find where the food is delicious and the menu delightfully varied. […]
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Junk Food or Junk Fuel? Both are bad news.
Pushing their pipedream versions of renewable energy, energy independence and national security, Congress and the White House gave us the current law that subsidizes the ethanol industry (and others). It was called the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The disastrous results of that federal foray into capitalist cronyism include our current crisis surrounding ethanol production […]
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The Politics of Thrashing
In the on-again off-again world of indie rock band Desaparecidos, when Conor Oberst calls you drop what you’re doing and run to his side, right? Not at all says Desaparecidos guitarist Denver Dalley. “Well, maybe to some extent, but it’s not like anyone abandoned any commitments.” Over the phone last week, Dalley quickly ran down […]