August 7 My Morning Jacket w/ Band of Horses Pinewood Bowl Theater, 3201 South Coddington Ave., Lincoln 7 p.m., $35.50, pinewoodbowltheater.com My Morning Jacket have evolved from reverb-soaked, Americana-leaning indie rockers into a alternative rock juggernaut that jumps from folk to funk to slowburn soul and appeal to fans from record geeks to jam-band aficionados. […]
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FASH FLOOD
Red Carpet Ready Are you stressing about what to wear to Omaha Fashion Week? Need a little help with putting together the perfect look? Get ready for Omaha’s biggest fashion event with Red Carpet Ready, this Thursday at Borsheims Fine Jewelry & Gifts in Regency Court. Red Carpet Ready is a shopping and socializing event brimming with […]
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Ghosts in the LP
Singer songwriter Simon Joyner would very much prefer that you listened to his new double album, Ghosts, as it was intended to be heard: Played on a record player. Unlike other artists who over the past few years have made their recordings available on vinyl as a sort of kitschy gimmick or nod to a […]
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‘Log Lines’
When you walk up to the windows of Peerless Gallery, it’s as though you’re looking at a framed piece of art. Upon entering, you engage Heidi Bartlett’s canvas. Bartlett, a Nebraska-bred mixed media artist crafted Peerless Gallery into Log Lines via wood, cut paper, deer hide and feathers. About a dozen tree logs line the […]
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Belt Busy with Instant Plays & Quiche-Eating
If the Theatre Arts Guild gave a TAG award for the most interesting way to end July and enter August, it would go to the Shelterbelt Theatre and its leaders, Craig Bond and Ellen Struve. The Belt jumped from Crash! Boom! Pow! to Instant Theatre Boot Camp and the remounting of 5 Lesbians Eating a […]
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Bemis Art Talks paradise…Jennifer Homan at Fred Simon…
August 2 at Bemis’ First Thursday Art Talk, hear artist-partners Hendrikje Kuehne and Beat Klein (Basel, Switzerland) talk about how they formed the ideal landscape from the theme of paradise gardens from historical paintings for their latest series of works. LA-based artist Brian Porray will discuss how he spins his personal history and obsessions with […]
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Movieha! – Omaha’s Favorite Movie Podcast
NEW MOVIEHA?! I won’t keep you from a discussion of the trailer for Grabbers, the Aurora shooting, Grabbers,The Dark Knight Rises, or Tyrannosaur. We talk about stuff, you listen to us talk about stuff. It’s a good deal. Hit us up after you listen for a few trailers. On Your Radar: Grabbers I love creature features. This looks like […]
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Cutting Room for July 27
If ever there was a time Nebraskans were amenable to discussions of an impending water crisis, this would be the time. So it’s a good thing that Film Streams (filmstreams.org) and the Nebraska Chapter of Engineers Without Borders are collaborating on a discussion and screening of the documentary Last Call at the Oasis on Aug […]
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Savage Beauty and The Beasts
They should hand out oxygen tanks before each screening of Beasts of the Southern Wild because writer/director Benh Zeitlin’s debut feature film takes your breath in the very first scene and plays keep away with it for more than 90 minutes. When people kvetch about the abundance of remakes and sequels while whining about how […]
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Who Watches The Watch, Man?
Seeing as how it has an extraterrestrial plot, let’s describe The Watch using an astronomical metaphor. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade are like comedic planets that orbit a central, burning sun…and that sun is made entirely of penis jokes. Someone spent $70 million to make a movie in which aliens only […]