Omaha’s biggest fashion event is right around the corner, are you excited? Around this time every year I get a few emails from friends or acquaintances asking questions about what to expect at Omaha Fashion Week. This year, I’m answering the most commonly asked questions so even first timers will have a little insight on […]
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‘Wild’ Animals
When it comes to images of children, flowers and animals, most photography hovers between the “sure thing” and the cliché. In Wild: Animals in Contemporary Photography, the current exhibit sponsored by the Moving Gallery, curators Matthias Harder and Maren Polte successfully demonstrate how an ordinary subject can be raised to the level of fine art. […]
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Kurt Andersen’s new novel ‘True Believers’ revisits the 1960s
With his new novel True Believers (Random House) Kurt Andersen takes stock of the roiling 1960s through the eyes of a fictional woman whose coming-of-age then unfolded in predictable and inexplicable ways. Through his narrator, attorney and law dean Karen Hollander, he explores the psyche and culture of holding secrets and coming clean in the […]
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Get Acquainted with Annie Baker
Add this to your “timing is everything” list. FAUST (Fine Arts University Student Theatre) will better acquaint us with the work of Annie Baker, just a week before her play Aliens would have been overshadowed by a huge opening at the Playhouse. Its second weekend will compete with August: Osage County, the award-winning dark comedy […]
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SF artist in Omaha with Kent Bellows Studio…
San Francisco-based Urban Artist Char Boogie is visiting Omaha via Kent Bellows Studio and Impact One Community Connection. The self-taught aerosol artist will give youth workshops, complete a mural in North Omaha, host a Community Conversation and make an appearance at the Maha Music Festival August 11. The “Urban Art in the Community” Dialogue will […]
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Pick: YAP 8th Annual Art Crawl (Art That Moves You)
August 10 YAP 8th Annual Art Crawl (Art That Moves You) Starts & ends at Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St., 6pm-11pm, 21+ YAP members: FREE; Non-YAP members: $25 Joslyn.org, 342.3300 Young Arts Patrons (YAP) will get six stops of private touring around some of Omaha’s finest arts hot-spots including a privileged viewing of Modern […]
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Movieha! – Omaha’s Favorite Movie Podcast
Welcome to another installment of Movieha, the softest, most cuddly thing you’ve put in your ears since Snuggles the bear was made into Q-tips. This week, we talk up Emma Stone and terrible sequels (those are separate). We also explore the trailer for Starbuck, which has nothing to do with Cylons, geek out over Beasts of the Southern […]
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Cutting Room for August 3
Whereas I simply come out and make feisty editorial comments about the Aurora shootings, some people—cough, Aksarben Cinema (aksarbencinema.com), cough—actually do something to directly help. The theater has begun collecting donations at the box office to be given to the Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance (coloradocrimevictims.org). Think of it like this: If you buy a […]
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Um, Forgettable
If you’ve ever seen an online profile picture, chances are you’re familiar with the pursed-lips, craned-neck, supposedly slimming contortion known affectionally as “the duckface.” Total Recall is the sci-fi tale of a quasi-postapocalyptic duckface war between Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel, with Colin Ferrell as the judge. At least, that’s what this remake of an […]
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Healthcare with Legs
In showbiz, when a play or a movie has box-office longevity, we say it has “legs.” The same could be said for traditional medical therapies that have lasted for thousands of years. When we consider that early hunter-gatherers probably noted the good effects of some plants they ate and the bad effects of others, we […]