* Maha Music Festival organizers have set Sunday, April 22nd for the initial line-up announcement for the 2012 event. Maha is set to return to Stinson Park at Aksarben Village Saturday, August 11 for the day-long indie music focused concert. Additionally, Omaha City Council voted earlier this month to allow the event to extend its […]
Posted inCulture
Pick: Eric Hutchinson
April 18 Eric Hutchinson w/ Graffiti6 The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 8:30 p.m., $15, onepercentproductions.com The long wait for Eric Hutchinson’s follow-up to his debut album, Sounds Like This, is nearly over. That album generated more than a million downloads among the album’s three singles “Rock & Roll”, “OK, It’s Alright With Me” […]
Posted inCulture
Pick: Caveman
April 16 Caveman w/ Betsy Wells The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $8 in advance/$10 day-of-show, onepercentproductions.com Caveman build songs on a ton of of-the-moment indie rock signifiers, putting trebly guitar lines, light bits of floating ’80s synth, ethereal, echoey production and click-clacking percussion. So forgive yourself if the band’s 2011 debut […]
Posted inCulture
Pick: Avett Brothers
April 12 Avett Brothers Pershing Center, 226 Centennial Mall South, Lincoln 8 p.m., $35, pershingcenter.com The North Carolina-based Avett Brothers now have a head full of steam, after several years of building a rabid, grassroots following on the back of relentless touring and soulfully delivered folk-rock. After a self-released album and a four-album partnership with […]
Posted inCulture
FASH FLOOD
Big D.R.E.A.M.s Weekend: BLACK FRIDAY GLAM VIP Fashion Show & After Party Are you ready for a night of couture, voodoo, funk and celebrity guests? This Friday, April 13th The Reader presents The 7th Annual Glam VIP Fashion Show. This year’s theme is fitting for a day legendary for mysterious and unusual happenings: Voodoo. Starting at 10 p.m., […]
Posted inSpecials
Omaha Health Expo 2012 Takes a Hike
After four successful years at the Omaha Civic Auditorium, the Omaha Health Expo is moving ten blocks east to the friendly confines of the CenturyLink Center. For this fifth consecutive gathering, the location seems befitting of the growth the Expo has seen in its nascent years. The Omaha Health Expo is the brainchild of Bob […]
Posted inCulture
‘Face to Face’
When Modern Arts Midtown owner-director Larry Roots first saw the work of Theresa Pfarr as a juror for Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency Program in 2006, he was instantly enthralled. “Its amazing what she can produce with just a few number of strokes,” Roots said of Pfarr’s figurative abstract oil paintings, on […]
Posted inCulture
Pick: Les Femmes Folles Presents: VOICE
April 13 Les Femmes Folles Presents: Voice The New BLK, 1213 Jones St. Opening: 7-10 p.m., Free Art Talk at New BLK, April 18, 7 p.m. thenewblk.com If you saw past Les Femmes Folles art exhibits at RNG Gallery and Peerless Gallery in 2011 you have a lot to look forward to with this third […]
Posted inCulture, Visual Arts
Women Who Weld annual show…Mike Tegland at RNG…Governor’s awards stream online…
Friday night April 13, Women Who Weld present their annual exhibit and auction at the Bancroft Street Market Gallery including metal sculpture by Sharon Boynton, Nancy Carlson, Melinda Eames, Antonella Gosselin, Linda Hoagland, Karla Karr, Diane Mattern, Deb McColley and Melody Scott. The auction benefits Dystonia Media Research. Exhibition is open April 14 & 21, […]
Posted inCulture
Stand, deliver and be heard
Poetry slams pit individuals and teams in bouts of spoken word street soliloquies that bring performers and spectators to tears and cheers the way arts and sports events do. Omaha’s long been home to a thriving adult slam scene, thanks to poet Matt Mason and the Nebraska Writers Collective (NWC), who’ve lately cultivated youths by […]