Three new retailers will join Omaha’s Village Pointe Shopping Center as it celebrates its eighth anniversary in 2012. Women’s retailer Love Culture and athletic wear retailer lululemon will launch new locations along with newly opened eye care franchise, Pearle Vision, at the popular shopping center. As firsts to the Omaha retail market, lululemon will open […]
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Pick: Dundee Cycles Presents: Roubaix
April 6 Dundee Cycles Presents: Roubaix Peerless Gallery, 3157 Farnam St. Reception 7-9p.m., exhibit thru April 26 Wearepeerless.com, shopdundeecycles.com Dundee Cycles believes that “all bicycle consumers should be allowed to ride a bike that fits their cycling lifestyles.” The custom bicycle design, assembly and repair shop to open in late spring in Midtown Dundee, recognizes […]
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Pick: Journey to Wholeness: 2nd Annual Abuse Survivors Art Show
April 6 Journey to Wholeness: 2nd Annual Abuse Survivors Art Show The Kent Bellows Studio and Center for Visual Arts, 3303 Leavenworth St. Reception 6-9pm, exhibition thru April 22 Kentbellows.org Art can be a powerful method of healing. The hope of the artists of Journey to Wholeness is to raise awareness of art as a […]
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KANEKO’s creative presentations…MAM opening and Omaha First Friday…
KANEKO presents Keith Sawyer: Group Genius and The Creative Process April 5, and Keith Sawyer: Collaboration and Creativity Workshop April 6. Sawyer, PhD, a professor of education, psychology and business at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of the country’s leading scientific experts on creativity, collaboration and learning. The author of twelve books will […]
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“Warren’s Herald” theme, tight writing excels
“We are the World, we are the Herald, we are the ones who put the paper in your driveway,” sang the ensemble at the Omaha Press Club show last Saturday. For the record, it was arguably the best of those shows which are much better live than on Cox cable. If you read about it […]
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Movieha! – Omaha’s favorite movie podcast
Having survived the madness surrounding The Hunger Games, we’ve got a podcast you…KATNISS….get it? Like it sounds like “can’t miss!” Kind of? Not really? Okay then. This week we talk about the real Bully, the MPAA. We also discuss a Kazakhstaccident, the trailer for a foreign action extravaganza, The Hunger Games, the Netflix Roulette selection […]
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The Great Migration comes home
The 20th century migration African-Americans made from the South to the North and West expanded black enclaves across the nation. While Omaha didn’t experience a huge influx like Chicago or Los Angeles, it was enough to alter the cultural and socio-economic landscape. This epoch movement went little examined outside scholarly circles and literary works until […]
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From Booth to Oswald, Assassins Turn Dream to Nightmare
If you haven’t seen the Stephen Sondheim musical Assassins, you’re not alone. Neither has D. Scott Glasser who directs the story of John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald and other killers of presidents opening April 11 at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. I somehow skipped it when Chanticleer did the only metro area production […]
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Jazz Gives the Blues
In America, the term “adult animation” still conjures up images of inappropriate drawings, an alarming genre enjoyed by a thankfully small subgroup of the human race. But for the rest of the world, cartoons are more than just a way to sell Happy Meal tie-ins. As France showed with Persepolis and Israel demonstrated with Waltz […]
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T.J. Miller Interview with Backstage Entertainment
T.J. Miller is an actor and comedian appearing at The Funny Bone in Omaha, NE, from March 29th – April 1st. T.J. has appeared in well-known movies with actors such as The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard with Jeremy Piven, Unstoppable with Denzel Washington, and Our Idiot Brother with Paul Rudd, just to name a […]