It began in November 1992. I was a few years out of college at UNO, already working full time at Union Pacific, but still writing about underground music, something that I’d begun doing as the editor of the college paper and as a freelance writer for The Metropolitan and The Note, a Lawrence, Kansas, regional […]
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The Big Deep, Millions of Boys celebrate release shows
* If you have yet to read our cover story this week, go back and check it out. It’s a series of submissions from local artists, musicians and friends of Antiquarium Records‘ founder David Sink, who passed away late last week. There’s more contributions online at thereader.com as well. Anybody with an interest in Omaha’s […]
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Picks: Blind Pilot
Feb. 1 Blind Pilot The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $12, onepercentproductions.com The music on Blind Pilot’s second full-length We Are The Tide casts the Portland band in a different shade than their folky indie-pop debut 3 Rounds & A Sound. Singer Israel Nebeker says that’s a testament to the band’s growth […]
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Pick: The Lemonheads
Jan. 26 The Lemonheads w/ Meredith Sheldon The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $15, onepercentproductions.com Evan Dando is revisiting his landmark Lemonheads album It’s a Shame About Ray, as he and his band trek across the country this winter. The band will play through the track listing of the album each night. […]
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Certainty in The Hand of Fundamentalists
In the first sentence of Frank Schaeffer’s most recent memoir Sex, Mom and God, he promises to explain how his family helped push the Republican Party into the embrace of the Religious Right and also chronicle his family’s “complicity in several murders.” Schaeffer grew up home-schooled in a fundamentalist evangelical enclave in Switzerland known as […]
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Count The Love
Let me count the ways that love came my way last week in a dozen different performances. What stands out from On Golden Pond at the Omaha Community Playhouse, the nine playlets in From Shelterbelt with Love 11 and the Blue Man Group? The latter first: The drum-banging blue aliens don’t speak, so they don’t […]
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FASH FLOOD 1/25
The month of March might seem far down the road, but Omaha Fashion Week’s spring shows will be here in the blink of an eye. Join OFW at their brand new venue, KANEKO, for four days of the Midwest’s best up and coming fashion designers. Wednesday, March 21st marks OFW’s first ever Survivor Style Show; […]
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Cold Cream 1/25
Maybe the fact that the Home and Garden Network so often airs in our house explains why I was even more taken than usual with a Jim Othuse set design for On Golden Pond at the Omaha Community Playhouse. The large stone fireplace, the fisherman’s hats hanging on the wall, the porch—all you’d want in […]
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Crumbs 1/25
Dunkin’ Donuts Announces New Restaurants in Omaha, Nebraska and Sioux City, Iowa Dunkin’ Donuts, announced the signing of a multi-unit store development agreement with existing franchisees, Savoureux Corporation, for 12 new restaurants in North Omaha, Nebraska and Sioux City, Iowa with the first restaurant planned to open in 2013. Savoureux Corporation, led by former University […]
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Movieha – Omaha’s Movie Podcast!
Episode 38 of the greatest podcast to ever be hosted by guys named Ryan Syrek and Matt Lockwood is here! We talk about all sortsa stuff this week, including space jockeys, bellies that are Delhi, and we even discuss Gary Oldman’s medication levels. Give your ears a yum yum and meet me after for the […]