Block 16 is extending their hours to include dinner. Starting on Friday June 22, Block 16 will run their dinner menu Thursday through Saturdays from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. For more information go to www.block16omaha.com West Omaha opens Cherryberry Self Serve Yogurt Bar at 156th and Pacific. With rotating flavors and toppings like fresh […]
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The Return of Baseball
Pauli’s isn’t Pauli’s anymore. The old bar on an old stretch of Leavenworth Street used to be a hub of activity during the College World Series. Sometime in the early-1980s the ESPN talking heads made it their home base following telecasts and with that the crowds came. It never made much sense. The bar wasn’t […]
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Cosmic Forecast, June 21-June 27
Happy summer! Read Cancer to find the answer… MOJOPOPlanetPower.com d CANCER (6.22-7.22) Food’s the answer ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬— but what is it you/we truly seek, when you/we eat? You’ll find out after these next 4 weeks. June 19th marked a Gemini/Cancer Cazimi New Moon. Anything far out happen just before noon? Replay, recalculate and reiterate on July […]
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Gender equity in sports has come a long way, baby
Participants in girls and women’s sports today should be forgiven if they take for granted the bounty of athletic scholarships, competitive opportunities, training facilities and playing venues afforded them. After all, they’ve never known anything else. Their predecessors from two generations ago or more, however, faced a much leaner landscape. One where athletic scholarships were […]
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A Fashionable War
The new Mynabirds album, Generals, is slowly growing on me, despite initially being turned off by singer/songwriter Laura Burhenn’s quasi-political message and the accompanied “New Revolutionists” pseudo-feminist marketing effort, which seems to equate fashion with protest. Whether it’s basic issues of reproduction (or as I like to call it, “a woman’s right over her own […]
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Athletic Supporters
The body of a pro athlete is his or her tool. If it doesn’t work, they don’t work. Same in college athletics. At major universities, scholar/athlete play big-time sports because it’s important to them. Maintaining a finely tuned piece of equipment covers all the bases, from nutrition to skills, mental acuity to physical rehabilitation after […]
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FASH FLOOD
Junkstock A reminder for vintage, antique and junk enthusiasts –Junkstock will take place this weekend, June 22nd-24th on a historic dairy farm located at 315 South 192nd Street (keep an eye out for the aqua VW Junkstock bus). Junkstock is a gathering of vintage vendors coming together for one weekend only for a junk-shopping extravaganza. Hours […]
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Looking for the best food at the CWS…
The College World Series has turned Omaha into the place to be and a place to eat for two weeks in June. With the second year in its new home at the TDAmeritrade Park, the city and visitors look to be loving it. And everywhere I looked people were eating. I am a CWS newbie […]
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DVD Discovery: Three Nose-ring Circus
Films about filmmakers making films are filmmakers’ favorite kind of films to make. Why? Because people who make movies know the inherent metaphors and obvious allegories that go hand-in-hand with the process of moviemaking. The problem is, this can feel like either “inside baseball” or pretentiousness when presented to people who don’t “get” the guts […]
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‘Dirty Haiku’ project goes live at House of Loom…
“It is not easy, to think about you always, I am left bereft.” Poet Heather Sticka’s favorite of her “Dirty Haiku Project”—not as sexy as some—“Hot water, pink skin, cherry blossom and rose smells, Bubble clad beauty;” “Your kiss surprises. Push me up against the wall. Take me. Oh, god…Yes…” Last winter, Lincoln-based musician (Tsumi) […]