Don’t let its title, Golden Guts, deter you from seeing the new exhibit in the Bemis Underground featuring new mixed media on paper, canvas and panel from Kim Reid Kuhn and Josh Powell. While Golden Guts doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, despite its forced alliteration, its inspiration, concept and realization are mostly pleasing and […]
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Spezia Is Not Just for Lunch
Spezia is easy to overlook, because it’s so consistently good. I work down the street from Spezia, and it’s the popular choice for our holiday parties and going-away luncheons. Its back rooms are often filled with professional groups, so I am probably not the only one to think of Spezia as a “business lunch place.” […]
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Armageddon It?
Writer/director Lars von Trier hates earth and everyone on it. Don’t believe it? See Antichrist. Maybe that’s why Melancholia, a film that eventually gets around to pondering the end of the world, feels a bit more like a fantasy than a nightmare. As one of his characters ponders the extinction of the planet, she sums […]
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Serious Sandwiches — and Scrambles — at Worker’s Take-out
Omaha’s downtown dining culture is marked by plenty of fancy joints. That’s all fine and good when you’re out on the town, but where to turn when you just want … lunch? A desk covered in paperwork only has room for one to-go container, so it’d better be good. Luckily, the folks at Worker’s Take-out […]
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Cosmic Forecast, Dec. 1-Dec. 7
Happy December. Mercury is retrograde ’til after the 13th. Try not to sign or commit to anything, and try to keep your sense of humor ’til after then. That’s my/our Zen ’til we meet again… Your friend, MOJOPO —MOJOPOPlanetPower.com i SAGITTARIUS (11.23-12.21) Philosophers, wanderers, panhandlers, world travelers, mysteries of the universe unravellers. Teachers, disseminators, composers, […]
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Davina Dazzles & Lash’s Toy Drive
“A modern day, female version, of Louis Armstrong,” that’s what Elmore magazine calls Davina Sowers of Davina & The Vagabonds. Since the release of their latest disc, Black Cloud, the Minneapolis band has been racking up rave reviews. A track from the new disc was chosen for an NPR Song of the Day feature. Downbeat […]
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How to Use Celeriac
In case you haven’t noticed grocery stores are working diligently to be beautiful. I, for one, can hardly enter the whirring doors of a supermarket without being mesmerized by the glistening stacks of blushing pink ladies and rounded columns of orange carrots with green fronds flowing. And somewhere, usually tucked between green and white ribbed […]
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Cutting Room for November 30
Aksarben Cinema (aksarbencinema.com) must want to join Dundee Theatre (dundeetheatre.com) on the nice list this year, as the theater has also added Santa’s Cool Holiday Festival to their lineup for Dec 15-18. Chock full of quirky goodness, including the hallucinatory holiday cookie that is Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, this exciting blend of merriment and […]
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Navigating Diverse Waters
The Omaha Public School district maintains its own research department that measures what and who is in its classrooms. Omaha’s largest district churns out daily lessons to more than 50,000 students in 84 schools. About 67 percent are minorities, speaking 100 different languages. Navigating this complexity requires training and some required reading. The book OPS […]
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WINTER MUSIC ISSUE: Top 20 Local Bands
Tim Kasher Players: Tim Kasher (G,V) Recordings: The Game of Monogamy (2010, Saddle Creek); “Cold Love” b/w “Just Don’t Get Caught” 7-inch (2010, Saddle Creek); “Delirium Tantrums” (w/Conduits) b/w “Tightropes, Guillotines, Thin Ice, Landslides” 7-inch (2010, Saddle Creek); Bigamy: More Songs from the Monogamy Sessions (2011, Saddle Creek) Why You Care: Between his primary gig […]