As she herself puts it, Lynn Shelton has made three movies in a row featuring three characters in one location. This goes a long way in explaining not only her priorities as a filmmaker (the actor is king) but also what her movies feel like: focused and precise but still subject to eruptions. 2008’s My […]
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Zoo Bar Hosts Legend
If I could point you to just one show this year that I think is a must-see it is Jon Dee Graham & The Fighting Cocks Thursday, June 28, 6-9 p.m. at Lincoln’s Zoo Bar. Sharing the bill is Sons of 76 duo, and Sons leader Joshua Hoyer says of Graham, “He’ll burn it down […]
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Memphis Mainstays
Lucero’s latest album goes by the name Women & Work, but this is the band’s Memphis record. The band has called the Mid-South mecca home for all of its life, but singer and Arkansas native Ben Nichols is finally ready to let his longtime residency in Memphis soak through his alternative Americana sound. “Over the […]
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Crumbs June 28 2012
Have you heard of the Nebraska Wine Passport? It is a fun and creative way to tour and taste Nebraska wines while winning prizes along the way. The Department of Economic Development’s Travel and Tourism Division designed the passport program three years ago. New this year, the passport tours are themed so they can be […]
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Equality Now
On Tuesday, March 13, Equal Omaha and dozens of people packed the Legislative Chambers to hear the City Council’s decision on an equal employment ordinance proposed by District 2 representative Ben Gray. The ordinance would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In the three months leading up to the vote, city leaders, […]
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Local drummer Javier Ochoa remembered
* During the past week, Facebook has been a memorial to Omaha musician Javier Ochoa, who died of a heart attack June 19th. The 43-year-old Ochoa made his mark both as a first-rate rock drummer and as a friend to many here in town. Most recently, Ochoa played in Led Zeppelin tribute act The Song […]
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Pick: Lucero
July 2 Lucero w/ Brad Hoshaw & The Seven Deadlies The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $17, onepercentproductions.com Lucero wears its Memphis home like a badge of honor on its latest album, 2012’s Women & Work. The record is the long-running alternative Americana band’s eighth studio release and it finds their hometown’s […]
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Pick: Avett Brothers
July 3rd The Avett Brothers Harrah’s Casino Stir Cove, 1 Harrah’s Blvd. in Council Bluffs 8 p.m., $35 plus fees, ticketmaster.com The Avett Brothers hail from North Carolina, where they evolved at a time where a new folk-rock revolution seemed to be taking hold. Now Seth and Scott Avett and their bandmates have become standard-bearers […]
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In Bloom
The germination of Omaha indie dance-rock band Icky Blossoms dates back to a different sort of flower created by the band’s mastermind, Derek Pressnall. Started in 2007 as a side project to Pressnall’s main band, Tilly and the Wall, Flowers Forever was a multi-layered, psych-rock head trip, but by 2010 the band’s sound began to […]
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Homeopathy: When Less is More
It doesn’t make sense. It’s un-American. After all, bigger is better, excess is exquisite, more is the matter and Donald is trump. Then how can a medical modality based on the dilution of a solution to the point of undetectable amounts be valid? It truly defies Western logic but as Einstein said, “Not everything that […]