Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday! We’ve all got one. This year, Mother’s Day falls on the 13th, along with a Jupiterian conjunction of the Sun, leading to the New Moon/Mercury/Jupiter/solar conjunction and eclipse on May 20th. Take your psychological shoes off and romp unencumbered through the fertile grasslands on/of our Mother Earth. Remember, when your […]
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Pat Boone:
Pat Boone is a singer first and an actor second and recording is his favorite thing to do. He started singing with his younger brother at family gatherings while he was growing up. In grade school and high school, Boone said any time there was a call for someone who could carry a tune he’d […]
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Yo Ho No
It’s hard not to mention Chicken Run without wanting to make a joke about Mel Gibson voicing a rooster. And while that may be the lasting thought from the 2000 movie, the fact remains that it was an affable claymation adventure from Aardman Animations that holds up well when compared with the relentless CGI dreck […]
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Hot Rod Lincoln
Guitar great Bill Kirchen of Commander Cody band fame plugs in for a Sunday Roadhouse at The Waiting Room on Saturday, May 12, 7:30 p.m. He’s particularly famous for the guitar work he laid down on the classic Top 10 hit “Hot Rod Lincoln.” See sundayroadhouse.com. Benefit for Lily Former Omaha promoter Terry O’Halloran has […]
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Pablo Francisco in Omaha May 17-20, 2012
Pablo Francisco is making his annual trip to Omaha at The Funny Bone on May 17th and will be here through May 20th. Pablo has been coming to Omaha for a while now and always has a great turnout to his shows. Jeremy Lafrentz from Backstage Entertainment got a chance to speak with Pablo in […]
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Schoolyard Fight
Half of the non-partisan Omaha Public School Board’s twelve seats are up for election this year. Of the six expiring terms, two subdistricts have uncontested candidates and three subdistricts have two candidates, leaving only one subdistrict with a competitive primary – subdistrict 12. West Omaha’s Omaha Public School subdistrict 12 has five candidates, three Republicans […]
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Schoolyard Fight
Half of the non-partisan Omaha Public School Board’s twelve seats are up for election this year. Of the six expiring terms, two subdistricts have uncontested candidates and three subdistricts have two candidates, leaving only one subdistrict with a competitive primary – subdistrict 12. West Omaha’s Omaha Public School subdistrict 12 has five candidates, three Republicans […]
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A Mother’s Day Challenge: Brunch and Beyond
A Mother’s Day Challenge: Brunch and Beyond Go ahead and let the laundry pile up as the dishes lay in the sink. The lawn is not mowed. The grocery list is long. The new shirt you just put on has strawberry drippings from two seconds ago and your gray hairs are showing up like bright […]
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The Problem and Promise of Alt Weeklies
My column on The Dundee Theatre published a couple weeks ago illustrates an age-old war in the print world, a war that The Reader can’t win. But in the internet age, neither can the Omaha World-Herald or any other media outlet. When I interviewed Denny Moran about the theater, I was blind-sided by the news […]
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Pick: Quintron
May 16 Quintron & Miss Pussycat w/ Vickers, Solid Goldberg The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $10, onepercentproductions.com If your knowledge of New Orleans keyboardists only extends to Dr. John, then you need to make an appointment with Quintron, the cult-hero nightclub organist who truly embodies all of the weird, shamanistic vibe […]