In the 1990s Omaha native Jaime King’s fresh face and lithe body graced the runway fantastic for the likes of Gucci and Alexander McQueen in New York and around the globe. She did provocative shoots for Vogue, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Cosmopolitan and other trendy mags. She appeared in music videos. She was a Revlon girl in […]
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What a Trowel Can Do
A trowel doesn’t mean much to most people. A rather ordinary garden tool, it’s used to dig a small hole in already tended soil. It’s the final resource needed for growing to begin, with a quick stab of the soil and downward pull of dirt particles from their neighboring companions, in goes the plant – […]
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German Food Galore
Many Omahans can claim some form of German ancestry, and it really shows, not just in the number of hard-to-pronounce surnames, but also with the popularity of German restaurants. In a quest to find a few German gems in Omaha, I recently visited three distinctive local eateries. My first stop was on bustling Leavenworth Street, […]
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Saturday in the Park
To the small group of people holding signs along an overpass over Dodge Street: What, dear friends, is the point? Motorists will glance up and read their signs, and if they agree they’ll honk and think to themselves, “Good for you.” And if they don’t agree, they’ll scowl and stare ahead, turn up their radio […]
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Pick: Scott H. Biram
March 13 G. Love & Special Sauce w/ Scott H. Biram The Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. 8 p.m., $20 advance/$25 day-of-show, onepercentproductions.com Scott H. Biram may not be the headliner of this show, but his 2011 album Bad Ingredients certainly bears the marks of a talent worthy of headlining bigger stages. And the best part is […]
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3 Up: Raekwon
March 12 Raekwon with Freddie Gibbs Bourbon Theatre, 1415 O St., Lincoln, 7 p.m., $20 in advance/$25 day-of-show, bourbontheatre.com As one of the nine original members of the infamous New York City hip-hop collective, Raekwon The Chef helped make Wu-Tang a permanent part of rap history. After branching out on his own in 1995, Raekwon […]
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Pick: Chevelle
March 14th Chevelle w/ Middle Class Rut and Janus Sokol Auditorium, 2234 S. 13th St. 7 p.m., $25 in advance $25 day-of-show, sokolunderground.intuitwebsites.com or ticketmaster.com Riff driven and still providing audiences with a gut-crunching dose of straight up rock, Chicago based band Chevelle will be shaking loose the well-worn floorboards upstairs at the Sokol Auditorium as part […]
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Short and Sweet
The seventh annual Omaha Film Festival opens this week at Great Escape Theatres with a well-earned reputation as one of Movie Maker’s Top 25 Film Festivals worth the Entry Fee. It’s a reputation one group of entrants, the Nebraska Short Film Makers especially appreciate as many of these emerging artists launch their careers in this […]
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Short and Sweet
The seventh annual Omaha Film Festival opens this week at Great Escape Theatres with a well-earned reputation as one of Movie Maker’s Top 25 Film Festivals worth the Entry Fee. It’s a reputation one group of entrants, the Nebraska Short Film Makers especially appreciate as many of these emerging artists launch their careers in this […]
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Rainy Road Records announces new releases
* Rainy Road Records is preparing two new cassette-only releases by two of Omaha’s dirtiest, most dangerous garage punk acts, Peace of Shit and Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Arabia tape is the first out, with a 15-song salvo that will also serve as the four-year-old band’s swan song. The band, which rose out of the […]