In our third and final Omaha Fashion Week designer preview, we sat down with local designer Jane Round to get the exclusive details on her latest collection. Tell us a little bit about the inspiration behind your fall/winter 2012 collection. For this latest collection I’m presenting nine looks and drew inspiration from the deep sea. […]
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FASH FLOOD
In our third and final Omaha Fashion Week designer preview, we sat down with local designer Jane Round to get the exclusive details on her latest collection. Tell us a little bit about the inspiration behind your fall/winter 2012 collection. For this latest collection I’m presenting nine looks and drew inspiration from the deep sea. […]
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Clean Green this Spring
The vernal equinox has arced the heavens and we’re into the season of spring. (Though it feels more like summer.) If you have an urge to straighten things up around the house or apartment, to shine and clean those areas that have become dingy and dusty during the winter, or maybe to spend an afternoon […]
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Bring Back Laura Marr in “One for the Road”
Blame me and everyone else who writes about theater. We missed the boat on encouraging you to see the funniest play of the season. It closed last weekend, and that means you also missed the best comedic performance in many a season. The play was Willie Russell’s One for the Road at the Circle Theatre, […]
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Re-enrolling in the Aisles
Around the time when Deputy Chief Hardy (Nick Offerman) goes off on a whisker-thinly veiled diatribe about the death of original thought and the lazy recycling of past ideas that kinda sucked to begin with, you realize 21 Jump Street knows how terrible it should be. In the subsequent scene, when Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) […]
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SXSW Day 3: Bob Mould, Grimes, Icky Blossoms, The Men, Eleanor Friedberger, more…
I’m writing this at 30,000 feet above some place between Austin and Omaha where dinosaurs once roamed the earth before the great Ice Age wiped it all away, long before anyone cared about weeklong music festivals in Austin, TX. I recently had a conversation with another Omaha music critic who was giving me grief for […]
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SXSW Day 3: Icky Blossoms, Big Harp, The Mynabirds, Grimes, Yacht
[EDITOR’S NOTE: The Reader is teaming up with Hear Nebraska to cover SXSW this year. HN editor-in-chief Andrew Norman’s stories will run right here at TheReader.com. And you can find more Hear Nebraska coverage reviews, photos and videos at hearnebraska.org.] Last year at SXSW, we created a quick event on Facebook for a Nebraska meetup […]
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Southern Soldiers: SXSW Day Four
Finally, a sweat-soaked, beer-spilling revelation of rock ‘n’ roll at this year’s South By Southwest Music Festival. Here’s to you, Henry Clay People! And Joey Siara, you’re my dude now. Come to Nebraska soon to get drunk and kick out the jams. I first saw the Henry Clay People when they opened for the Airborne […]
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Indigenous music celebrated in Nebraska Roots concert
Indigenous themes take center stage for a March 24 Omaha Conservatory of Music concert that culminates the school’s “Nebraska Roots: Native American Music of the Omaha Indian Tribe” curriculum. Original Native music handed down through the generations will be performed in authentic fashion and juxtaposed with modern interpretations of Native music. The program is also […]
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Pick: Prouty Place Spring Art Show
Prouty Place Spring Art Show March 24-25 Gallery at Prouty Place, 4825 S. 25th St. FREE, Sat.: 6-9p.m., Sun: 1-4p.m. johntheartwelder@hotmail.com John Prouty hosts his Annual Spring Art Show with new work by ten local artists, including Prouty who is known for his minimalist, nature-inspired steel and glass sculpture. Other artists included in the show: […]