If you’re anything like me, it feels like you’ve been waiting years for HAUTE CITY to arrive. But don’t fret –it’s almost here! This Saturday May 19th, grab your husband, mother or partner in crime and head to Omaha’s Midtown Crossing for a day of shopping and an evening full of surprises. To break it […]
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Let It Go: Forgiveness Heals
With all due sympathy for those who find themselves trapped making a living from government grants, corporate funding or university purse strings, so-called scientific research is a wank. Research generally is a hollow, after-the-fact exercise providing data best used to win an argument or acquire more research funding. A friend once said to me, in […]
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Standing For Equality In the Courts
Last Saturday, a crowd of about 700 packed the Hilton Hotel’s Grand Central Ballroom at 10th and Cass to honor Chief Standing Bear and the landmark court decision made in 1879 by Omaha judge Elmer Dundy, recognizing Standing Bear and Native Americans in general as “persons” before the law. Among those in attendance were Omaha […]
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Missed Musicals Make Way for Song Cycle
Robbie Burns told me there would be weeks like this when the best-laid plans of mice and men would fall victim to the unexpected. And some lesser mortal made the point that the show and the weekly column must go on. The plan? Review Spring Awakening Thursday at the Blue Barn, then catch Happy Days […]
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Pick: Bemis Center FEA$T
May 19 Bemis Center’s FEA$T Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 724 S. 12th St. 6:30-9:30pm, $10 bemiscenter.org, 341.7130 It was a quick two-week turnaround when Bemis announced their call for proposals for FEA$T a type of community-driven crowd funding event that will give all proceeds to the most popular arts projected presented that evening. According […]
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UNL juried art competition…Omaha artist showing abroad…
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of Art and Art History is sponsoring the Nebraska National Collegiate Juried Art Exhibition to feature the work of the best undergraduate student artists from across the country. Submissions in ceramics, photography and printmaking are being accepted through May 31 at https://unlart.slideroom.com. Omaha-based artist Janelle McKain’s drawing “Hive of Perception” […]
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Cutting Room for May 11
Bogey and Bacall? Amateurs. Hepburn and Tracy? As if. All of cinema has been waiting for this moment. Cameron Diaz. Benicio Del Toro. Don’t worry, it gets even better. The movie is Agent: Century 21, which is perhaps the first movie to have product placement in its title. And the plot sees Diaz as a […]
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Movieha! – Omaha’s favorite movie podcast
I can hardly believe it. A year ago, Matt Lockwood and I began the crazy process of recording a weekly audio extravaganza to drop on your ears. And a year later, neither of us have lost interest enough to walk away. If you knew our short attention spans, you’d be amazed. So before I tell […]
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Now That’s What I Call a Drink
The bartender: You respect her because she stands between you and your drink, whether it be that first sip of cold beer at Friday Happy Hour or a nightcap at the watering hole down the street. If she’s busy, you wait. When she’s ready, you’re served. But there‘s often more to tending bar than banging […]
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Burton Did a Bad, Bad Thing
Seriously? This is what it’s come to? Johnny Depp, that delightfully oddball talent who once worked with John Waters and Jim Jarmusch, has reached the point in his career where he’s in movies that climax with a witch barfing on him. For real? After Alice in Wonderland saw director and apparently terrible friend, Tim Burton, […]