It’s fair to say that writer/director Michel Hazanavicius’ latest film, The Artist, is predicated entirely on a single gimmick. Oh yes, its overall conceit is a ruse, a con, a flim-flam sleight-of-hand designed to distract from a gossamer plot and startlingly unoriginal characters. And it pretty much works. Since it first hit the festival circuit, […]
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Pick: Pecha Kucha Night Omaha #14
January 26 Pecha Kucha Night Omaha #14 Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. 8-11p.m., FREE designallianceomaha.org Time to chitchat in 20×20 format again with nine creative presenters brought to you by Design Alliance Omaha. Jessica McKay of Birdhouse Interior Design, graphic designer Ben Lueders, Greg Daake of Daake Design, video production artist Django Greenblatt-Seay of Love […]
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Pick: Understanding Creativity
January 26 Understanding Creativity Series with Shelley Carson KANEKO Bow Truss, 1111 Jones St. 7p.m., General Admission $15, Students $5 Workshop Jan. 27, 9a.m.-noon, $250 Thekaneko.org, 341.3800 “Quit censoring your creative brain!” coaches Shelley Carson, PhD, a nationally recognized expert in creativity research. This Thursday at KANEKO, she will discuss how to discover paths to […]
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Mixed Media 1/25
January 28- 29, the Cathedral Arts Project at Saint Cecilia Cathedral presents the 2012 Cathedral Flower Festival, “Garlands and Garments,” with 40 Omaha flora designers exhibiting floral creations inspired by ritual clothing worn throughout the ages. Displays will include: an authentic “Swiss Guard” uniform from the Vatican, a British “Beefeater“ uniform and replicas of the […]
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Back to the Garden
Entering RNG Gallery this month might evoke the sensation of entering a garden, not unlike the one artist and owner Rob Gilmer’s father created for his family on Long Island’s North Shore. As Merritt G. “Gil” Gilmer writes in his memoirs, “Chaff from the Haymow, Musings and Memories of a Ninety-Year-Old,” “The old orchard was […]
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Esoteric therapies: They’re here
Over the past three decades, America’s curiosity and interest in traditional therapies aside from conventional medicine has grown to surprising proportions. There has always been an element of American society that investigated therapies available from alternative practitioners. But so-called alternative therapies have become almost commonplace. We are accustomed to hearing about herbal supplements, vitamin therapies, […]
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Pick: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
January 31 Ladysmith Black Mambazo Lied Center for the Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St., Lincoln 7:30 p.m., $72-$223 402.472.4747 Many of us first heard them on Paul Simon’s Graceland. Do you remember your reaction? The rest of the world learned of them when they saw The Lion King. But, wherever you first heard Ladysmith […]
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Local Author Hopes for Pie
When life gives you lemons, make pie. At least, that’s what Omaha-based writer/comedian, Tony Endelman, author of Randy Penny: Cordially F@#*ing with People and I Hope There’s Pie, a recently released collection of personal essays about his life, touches upon in his latest book. “I was always the class comedian, but never really the class […]
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The Privilege Pass
“I want to see your sources. Our library doesn’t have these sources.” A college professor was scrutinizing one of Franklin Thompson’s papers during his post-graduate studies at the University of Southern Mississippi in the mid-90s. Now an Omaha City Councilman and University of Nebraska at Omaha professor who lectures on multicultural education and race relations, […]
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Missing Marks Love
The necessity of trying their famous “mac-n-cheese” first brought me to Marks Bistro almost six years ago. After trying their steak variation, I was hooked. It was like a cheesesteak (without the bread) in your mouth – flavorful meat and four different cheeses melting together to form a perfect union. It was one of my […]