As winter takes hold the number of homeless moving into shelters is on the rise. Winter is the toughest time of the year and emergency shelters are focused on the most basic needs. The seasonal surge will test a budding framework helping Omahans without a place to go to recover their lives and find a […]
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Lil’ Slim Represents
This is the first year that the Blues Society of Omaha has sponsored a band to participate in the national Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge (IBC). The 28th annual event is Jan 31-Feb. 4 in Memphis, alongside the Blues Foundation’s Keeping the Blues Alive (KBA) Awards. The BSO held a competition in the spring of […]
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Cosmic Forecast, Jan. 19-Jan. 25
Happy Chinese New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choy! Welcome into the Year of the Dragon on the day after the New Moon in Aquarius, Sunday the 22nd. Take some time to check out my expanded (over 8,000 words) yearly prognostications for 2012, plus continuous additions to my Mayan meditations during this coming year at MOJOPOPlanetPower.com. […]
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Cutting Room for January 18
If you like your comedy web-based and sexually transmitted, “Herpe Betty” may be calling your name. Straight outta O-town, the first episode in the proposed ongoing series features a score by Jacob Thiele (The Faint) and stars Craig Dee (Tilly and the Wall), Sam Martin (Capgun Coup) and Thiele, along with Michelle Murphy and Joey […]
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Need To Know: Lydia Loveless
Who: Bloodshot Records recording artist Lydia Loveless When & Where: Tuesday, Jan. 17th at the Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. Tickets are $8 and the show starts at 9 p.m. Gerald Lee Jr. opens. Why: Only 21 and on her second album, Lydia Loveless is on the rise. Her rough-and-tumble alt.country sound seems already […]
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On Their Way
The first time Jared Bakewell asked his friend Nate Gasaway to start a band, Gasaway’s answer was a “no.” At the time, Bakewell had just picked up guitar, after years of playing the trumpet and the piano. The next time Bakewell approached Gasaway about starting a band, he had a newly-bought bass guitar in hand. […]
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Totally Crushing on Millions of Boys
Omaha power-pop punk band Millions of Boys’ new 10-inch record, Competing for Your Love, is a 180-gram slab of vinyl complete with digital download key, and even comes with a photo of Omaha booze palace O’Leaver’s on the cover. What more could you ask for? Well, there’s also the record’s 10 sticky-sweet rock songs that […]
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Watermarks
Like the first renowned printmaker Albrecht Durer centuries before her, Nebraska-based artist Karen Kunc has made her mark in printmaking including a monumental trip to Italy to practice her craft. Last spring, Kunc, Professor of Art at University of Nebraska-Lincoln since 1983, worked as Artist in Residence at the prestigious Venice Printmaking Studio in Italy, […]
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Saddle Creek signs Icky Blossoms
* Saddle Creek Records is officially in the Icky Blossoms business. The record label have signed the band led by Tilly & The Wall’s Derek Pressnall, local filmmaker/musician Nik Fackler and singer/keyboardist Sarah Bohling. The band has played tons of shows locally after playing their first gigs early 2011. Most recently, the band headlined a […]
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FASH FLOOD
Drawn to Fashion: The Illustrations of Mary Mitchell “I have always thought fashion illustration is a truly challenging discipline…Mary is a true artist, elegant and masterful. Her illustrations have enriched the experience of our time, and brought joy to the mind’s eye,” wrote designer Oscar de la Renta of Mary Mitchell in the foreword of […]