House of Pain was rowdy. Anyone that grew up in the 90’s surely remembers that hip-hop anthem, “Jump Around.” Everlast, one of the three members of that group, split from the other two in 1996 to pursue a solo career which, believe it or not, actually earned the Irish-American rapper a Grammy Award for Best […]
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One Tough Choice
The growing success of City & Colour became impossible to ignore for Dallas Green. So did the trickiness of balancing the acoustic indie folk solo act with his status as a member of Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. Green had spent a decade with Alexisonfire, but as City & Colour took off on its own rapid […]
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Pick: Mates of State
November 16 Mates of State The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $13, onepercentproductions.com Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel have grown together as their long-running band Mates of State as grown up. The drums-and-organ duo started by cranking out highly-caffienated full-throated indie pop just as the two started dating. In about four years, […]
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Transition Game
It will be a year before the University of Nebraska-Omaha men’s basketball team steps up to a full Division I schedule in the Summit League, and four years before the “transition period” is over and UNO is eligible for NCAA Tournament play, but it already feels like things are happening. The Mavs are moving, not […]
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Recapping a week filled with shows
* For some reason, the first week of November brought on a glut of must-see clubs shows both in Omaha and Lincoln, While I missed Manchester Orchestra in Lincoln and A.A. Bondy in Omaha, headlining sets by Real Estate, Conduits and David Bazan created a memorable week of music. The week’s highlight was undoubtedly the David Bazan show at Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 […]
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FASH FLOOD
Create & Bitch Are you a local designer or crafter looking for a break in your weekend routine? Create & Bitch is here for you. On the second Friday of every month, grab your supplies and head down to CAMP Coworking Space in the Mastercraft Building located at 1111 N. 13th Street in North Downtown […]
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These iPhone Apps are Apropos
So you just spent four hundred bucks on a new iPhone. Sounds hard to swallow if all it that you got was a cell phone. But if you look at it as a multi-purpose point-and-shoot digital camera, video camera, videophone, music and video player, web browser and paperweight, it’s not a bad deal. Further, if […]
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Beat on the Bard
In what can only be explained as an embarrassing oversight, Anonymous was not released anonymously. This maniacally boring period drama was directed by none other than Roland Emmerich, helmer of Independence Day and 1998’s Godzilla, and a member (alongside Michael Bay, Brett Ratner and others) of the “Fast Food Filmmakers Club.” This means that his […]
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Don’t Resist Adult Onset Beatlemania
Most of us would need help from our evil twin to catch all the theater openings the next two weekends. I’ll start with the one that closes quickest, RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles, not only because it runs so briefly—8 p.m. Friday and two shows Saturday—but to see how the touring company compares with […]
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November 16: Octopuses Garden Art Alliance Annual Fundraiser
The Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. 7-11p.m., $12/$8 students octopusesgarden.org The Octopuses Garden Art Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to “strengthening community interaction through visual, literary and performance arts” has been celebrating diversity by providing opportunities to foster self-expression since 2008. “We collaborate with other non-profits, schools, neighborhood associations and local businesses throughout Omaha in hosting […]