Daggers and axes and swords, oh my! It’s a bloody Julius Caesar that opens this summer’s free Nebraska Shakespeare Festival Thursday in Elmwood Park behind the University of Nebraska at Omaha campus. The Bard calls for “three and thirty” stabbings in the six-man dagger assault on the title Roman, so director Alan Klem, a co-founder […]
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Pick: Dessa
June 23 Dessa The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $8/adv, $10/dos, onepercentproductions.com Doomtree, the Minneapolis indie hip-hop super group, has been on a long and grueling road, but the 7 hard-working artists have finally started to get the recognition they deserve since emerging in 2001. While it’s most certainly a “boys club,” […]
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Cutting Room for June 15
Did you like District 9 but feel that it’s metaphor about apartheid could have been even more obvious? Never fear! Director/writer Neill Blomkamp’s secretive new movie, Elysium, has just had its plot revealed, and it is even more obvious-er. Set in the year 2159, the move follows a man (Matt Damon) who tries to leave […]
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Glee-ve It Alone
Let’s not do this, okay? Let’s not use nostalgia to forgive the unspeakable things we did to fringe, denim and the musical scale in the 1980s. Other than the 1985 Chicago Bears and that time Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire, there is nothing even worth remembering about that shameful decade, when men were Men […]
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Pick: Power of Nine
Power of Nine June 22 Bancroft Street Market, 2702 S. 10th St. Reception 6-9pm, exhibition open June 23-24, 12-4pm; June 29, 6-9pm; June 30-July 1, 12-4pm Studio.boyer@gmail.com for details The Power of Nine lays in the strength of each individual artist in the upcoming exhibition curated by interdisciplinary artist Jody Boyer. The ideas that brings […]
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Somewhere Over the Bemis
My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky. – Wordsworth This weekend, if everything goes as “planned,” a universally shared phenomenon will appear in all its colorful glory above the five-story Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, twice a day for 20 minutes each, until Sept. 12, 2012. Man-made, but no less […]
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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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Pick: UnEarthed: A Collective Show of Art and Poetry
June 15-17 UnEarthed: A Collective Show of Art and Poetry Bancroft Street Market 2702 S. 10th St. Opening Reception Jun. 15, 6 p.m., Poetry Reading Jun. 16, 7 p.m. Slake your yearning to fraternize with the artsy types at UnEarthed: A Collective Show of Art and Poetry this weekend at the Bancroft Street Market, 2702 […]
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Indecent Bro-posal
That’s My Boy isn’t just so bad that you would rather play a fun game of “scratch my retina with chicken wire” for 90 minutes; it’s so bad that writer David Caspe and director Sean Anders should be legally prosecuted for crimes against humanity. If this is what we’re capable of as creatures living in […]
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Review of J.Coco
I was conflicted with the news that Jennifer Coco would be leaving the The Flat Iron Cafe to start her own restaurant, J. Coco. At first I was excited to try the new dining experience and enjoy her cuisine, however then I became nervous – what if it wasn’t up to the culinary level of […]