On Saturday, May 19, Check out Haute City at Midtown Crossings; an interactive pop-up shopping and food event that turns Omaha’s Turner Park into a stylish mecca. Sample, taste and shop from 12p.m. to 6p.m. Blanc Burgers and Bottles, Dante’s Pizzeria, Ingredient and Corkscrew Wine and Cheese are a few of the many options for […]
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Industry expert to host music workshops
* Musicpage.com founder David Codr will be hosting three workshops centered on helping bands improve their promotion skills May 14 – 17. Codr gives his Guerrila Promotion seminars across the country, drawing on his experience booking shows, managing bands and running the Musicpage.com website and its predecessor, the Music Phone Book publication. Musicpage.com, which launched […]
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FASH FLOOD: A Mother’s Day Gift Guide
Here’s to the women who not only birthed, bathed and toileted you, but loved you through your less than attractive teenage years. The Reader’s locally focused Mother’s Day gift guide has the perfect gift suggestions for any mom, from the stylish to the sporty –and even those that claim to not need anything (don’t fall […]
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Choose Poison-Free Food to Send a Message
Billboard along Cornhusker Highway in Lincoln: “Nebraska #1 for Parkinson’s Disease. Why?” That’s the report we got from writer Steve McFadden on the Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society listserv last week. McFadden went on to tell us that he looked into that headline further and found that the Nebraska Chapter of the American Parkinson’s Disease Association […]
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The Truth About The Whipkey Three
Matt Whipkey takes compliments with suspicion. When told that the new Whipkey Three album, Two Truths, sounds like “a Whipkey record,” he immediately raised an eyebrow. “Is that a negative thing? Does that mean it’s stagnate? That there’s been no development?” he said over Sunday morning coffee at Caffeine Dreams. It’s only after it’s been […]
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Bemis under the Rainbow…Vinton Universally Human festival…Agrarian Art in Florence…
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts announced the launch of Michael Jones McKean’s The Rainbow: Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms, a series of twice-daily summer visual events where a rainbow created using sunlight, renewable energy and captured rainwater, will appear. Tours, art talks and an exhibition catalogue will accompany the work which […]
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Pick: Full-Time: Struggle and Satisfaction in Working America
May 11-20 Full-Time: Struggle and Satisfaction in Working America Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library, UNO, 60th and Dodge St. Performances Fri-Sats, 6:30pm, Suns. 12:30pm, exhibit open during library hours Performance tickets $10-30, exhibit FREE Apollonomaha.com The Apollon, “a multi-genre arts and entertainment hub” based in Omaha, produces its first hometown multi-media event with […]
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Meet Beasley’s Boys Next Door
Add Amy Laaker to the long list of capable women directors who do so much to make theater here strong and diverse. She brought The Boys Next Door back to the John Beasley Theater and created a warmhearted evening with four men who completely disappear into their roles as mentally handicapped residents of a group […]
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Cutting Room for May 4
Slimmer though he may be, Jonah Hill has developed a new hunger…to be taken seriously. Rumor has it that he is in talks with Martin Scorsese to appear in The Wolf of Wall Street, which sadly is not a documentary about the jerks who trade futures being devoured by wildlife. The adaptation of a memoir […]
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Like a Joss
This was going to be a rabid, frothing defense of the superhero genre, complete with impassioned pleas that appealed to cinematic intellectuals who are apt to dismiss such films. But Tom Hiddleston, who ironically plays the evil Loki in The Avengers, got there first…and he straight-up crushed it. Damn you, Loki! Does your villainy know […]