Daily Grub Cookbook Elle Lynch, former chef and owner of Daily Grub, published her first cookbook, DG at Home: The Favorites. Lovers of the restaurant that lasted only a year have been longing for Elle’s creative take on vegan food. DG at Home features recipes for eight Daily Grub favorites including the ancho cashew cream, […]
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Cosmic Forecast Jun 7-Jun 13
The CD “Zodiac,” an amalgam of my love for music and the beauty of astrology, produced by 7 times 7 Records, is ready. It comprises 12 tunes for the 12 signs, plus my celestial intro, “Candle Song.” Please, if it be your will, light a candle in the dark, slip it in and experience my […]
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Polling Place Changes Hit Older Omaha Harder
On Primary Election Day, 82-year-old Robert Wright drove to Evans Tower on 24th Street in north Omaha from his home at 9th and Fort Streets. He heard on television that Evans Towers was a polling place. Because he hadn’t received a card in the mail telling him where to cast his vote, he figured someone […]
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Anatomy of an Election
It takes months of planning, last minute details and tight organization to make an election go smoothly. “Election Day is the part that everybody sees,” said Election Commissioner Dave Phipps in his office at the Douglas County Election Commission on 115th and Davenport Streets. “Nobody wants to really know what happens and how you get […]
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2012 Douglas County Poll Closing Analysis: Process, Methodology And Analysis
Read the full story here. 2012 Voter File: The initial voter data for 2012 obtained by The Reader was not useable for this initial analysis because it did not have polling location for each voter listed. It did have a large amount of voting data that would prove useful later. The Reader obtained a new […]
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Designing a Community: CoHousing Comes to Nebraska
I noticed the spotted hen making its way towards me as I took notes during the outdoor meeting discussing a new cohousing community in Papillion. Out of the corner of my eye, I watched it slowly head my direction, unblinking eyes focused on my granola bar, with its beak slightly open. Snatching my snack away, […]
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Rallying Point
Generals, the new Mynabirds album, starts by unsettling a familiar place. On opener “Karma Debt”, Singer Laura Burhenn croons over a slow-burn ballad that contains hints that the band is about to steer away from the modernized take of vintage ’60s pop that was at the heart of the band’s 2010 debut, What We Lose […]
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
The story began last Thursday night with a phone call. The guy on the other end of the line: artist/adventurer/professor Tim Guthrie. We’ve only met once, at a Dereck Higgins concert, though I’d seen Guthrie out and about at other rock shows. He’s the animated guy who’s “really into it,” the guy you wish you […]
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Bank of the West Celebrates America concert seeks opening act
* Rainy Road Records is enjoying new digs at the Mastercraft Building 1111 North 13th St. The local label specializes in cassette tape releases, though label owner Kevin Cline is preparing an vinyl LP version of Baby Tears’ Rusty Years album for release. Also on the label’s schedule is a new Snake Island! cassette, which […]
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FASH FLOOD
Designer Courtney Zurcher of InezGill recently relaunched her website with an all new knitted accessory collection and focus. We sat down with Zurcher to learn about her new collection and to find out what’s next for her popular line. Tell us about the InezGill relaunch and the new focus of your brand. “I wanted to […]