Happy 11/11/11! Maybe there are 11 steps to heaven. Happy Full Moon. Change is coming soon. Time to regenerate, before it’s too late. Who you gonna winter with? Who is it you want to kiss? You win or you lose, depending on how you choose… MOJOPO, the magique of the Blues. —MOJOPOPlanetPower.com h SCORPIO […]
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Cosmic Forecast, Nov. 10-Nov. 16
Happy 11/11/11! Maybe there are 11 steps to heaven. Happy Full Moon. Change is coming soon. Time to regenerate, before it’s too late. Who you gonna winter with? Who is it you want to kiss? You win or you lose, depending on how you choose… MOJOPO, the magique of the Blues. —MOJOPOPlanetPower.com h SCORPIO […]
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Tartuffe
Thursday, Nov. 17th-Sunday, November 20th Friday, Nov. 25th, Monday Nov. 28th, Tuesday, Nov. 29th, Saturday, Dec. 4th & Friday, Dec. 9th Tartuffe Joslyn Castle, 3902 Davenport Street. All shows at 7:00 p.m. $25 adults; $20 seniors, TAG members & military. 402-502-4910; www.bsbtheatre.com Tartuffe Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre Company presents Tartuffe select days in November […]
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Live, Touring and Local
Damon Fowler makes his 21st Saloon debut on Thursday, Nov. 10, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Living Blues magazine calls Fowler “a roots guitar guru in the making.” The Chicago Sun-Times writes “Make way for the next big-time guitar slinger.” Critics compare his guitar riffs to Johnny Winter and Jeff Beck with slide playing influenced by Duane Allman. […]
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Cutting Room for November 9
From the “Because You Demanded It” File: Jennifer Lopez is producing a live-action version of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Originally a video game with the sick desire to actually educate players about geography, the elusive titular character had a game show in the 1990s and an animated cartoon before fading into an […]
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Winds of Plague
Had your fill of hip-hop, electronic music and indie-rock? Try deathcore band, Winds of Plague, who are headlining this year’s Thrash and Burn Tour. What’s deathcore, you ask? It’s a blend of death metal and hardcore punk defined by its excessive use of blast beats and breakdowns. The California-based group is one of the only […]
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Younder Mountain String Band
As if this week’s North Mississippi Allstars show at Slowdown isn’t enough, Colorado’s Yonder Mountain String Band makes a stop in Lincoln to further squash your thirst for jam bands. The progressive bluegrass quartet has generated a massive following of loyal fans since the group’s 1998 inception. Much like Phish or The Grateful Dead, Yonder […]
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North Mississippi Allstars
In an era where people are “playing” laptops and MPCs more often than ever, it’s refreshing to see some good ol’ fashioned stringed instruments hitting the stage. The North Mississippi Allstars have a few other tricks up their sleeves. Drummer/keyboardist Cody Dickinson plays the electric washboard while brother, guitarist/vocalist Luther Dickinson plays a cigar box […]
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Help Wanted
Some Huskers were pulling for Wisconsin when it played Michigan State the week before Michigan State came to Lincoln. But Tyler Legate wasn’t among them. “I was hoping for a good game,” the senior fullback said on the Monday after. A Wisconsin victory would have helped Nebraska in its quest to win the Big Ten’s […]
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Speed! Nebraska Turns 15
When the invitation went out via Facebook for this Friday night’s Speed! Nebraska 15th Anniversary rock show at The Brother’s Lounge, the first thing that went through my mind was: Has it really been five years since we did that Speed! Nebraska 10-year anniversary cover story in The Reader? That story, published June 28, 2006, […]