* Maha Music Festival has finalized all but one spot on its 2012 line-up. The event, scheduled for Saturday, August 21st at Aksarben Village’s Stinson Park, will now include Michigan indie folk band Frontier Ruckus and Omaha’s own the Mynabirds. Local stage will include the already-announced Eli Mardock, along with UUVVWWZ, Icky Blossoms and Lincoln’s […]
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Pick: Best Coast
May 29 Best Coast w/ JEFF the Brotherhood The Slowdown, 729 North 14th St. 9 p.m., $15 in advance/$17 day-of-show, onepercentproductions.com Best Coast’s debut Crazy For You gained a heap of buzz on the simple, fuzzy, buzzy pop songs that bore Bethany Cosentino’s plainspoken lyrics about love, heartbreak and wishing you could confide in your […]
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Pick: Son Volt
May 24 Son Volt w/ Matt Cox The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $15, onepercentproductions.com While Jay Farrar is known mostly for his hand in guiding alternative country pioneers Uncle Tupelo, the long-running Son Volt may just be his signature project now. Son Volt’s first three albums, released between 1995 and 1998, […]
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Cosmic Forecast, May 24-May 30
Ahhh… Gemini — the breath (air sign) of spring. In astrological mathematical parlance: Aries + Taurus = (the duality of) Gemini. Ahhh…the ability to perceive both sides of the truth — at the same time! Let’s have some fun! Time to talk, talk, talk, talk, talk — and eventually communicate? Me first… MOJOPOPlanetPower.com c GEMINI […]
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FASH FLOOD
Summer is definitely in the air, can you feel it? Arriving with the season are a slew of new boutiques and salons to keep you looking fresh this summer. Check out a few of my top picks from all over the city. Parlour 1887, 6068 Maple Street Benson’s newest addition, Parlour 1887, is an Aveda concept salon with a […]
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River Riot 2012 with Backstage Entertainment
Like every year, the Omaha area is always in anticipation about who the bands will be performing at River Riot. When 89.7 The River announced this year’s lineup, it proved it was going to be another great show. This year there were five bands playing on Friday, May 11th with After the Fall opening followed […]
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Sunburned Eyeballs and Other Cautionary Tales
You don’t have to have a weather app to know it’s been a warm spring and that summer is leering right around the corner. As Earth transits the annual circle of the Sun, our axial tilt leans the Northern Hemisphere more directly into the radiant glow. More than in winter, sunlight comes intensely to us […]
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Get On Up
It was a full house for the finale of the Club 1200 series, sedately sitting at their cocktail tables with drink and food service, when New Orleans-based Big Sam’s Funky Nation took the stage on Saturday night. Drummer Chocolate MILK, guitarist Andrew Bock and bass player Eric Vogel started with a groove before lead men […]
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Pick: Monte Kruse EARTH
May 24 Monte Kruse: EARTH Garden of the Zodiac Gallery, 1042 Howard Street Reception 7-9pm, exhibit thru July 7 517.8719 The nude has been a subject in art since the idealized figures of ancient Roman sculpture. Some contemporary artists have taken a more modest and personal approach, accentuating the beauty of the human form in […]
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inCOMMON veteran art show…Skate for Change at New BLK…
Shawna Foster, a Nebraska National Guard veteran, organized War is Trauma, a pop-up exhibit May 25 at inCOMMON featuring art created by veterans and for veterans by JustSeeds Artist Cooperative with images addressing “a range of topics and advocate for stopping the redeployment of traumatized soldiers, the GI’s right to heal, supporting past and present […]