Some days I still wake up and can’t believe Donald Trump was president. I remember feeling the same shock the morning after the election; that the whole thing had been a strange dream, that it couldn’t have happened. The feeling never left for all the years Trump was in office. […]
Little Brazil is back with a new album that, in my humble opinion, is their best ever. I write the above without any explanation assuming you and everyone else knows who Little Brazil was, is and will be. Because if you live in Omaha, listen to indie rock and know […]
What are record reviews in this age when most people have Spotify and can listen to everything? Instead of telling you where you should spend your money, record reviews are like signposts pointing you to where you should spend your time, or to keep you from wasting it. With that in mind, these […]
The last time I saw Eric Stoakes was on a hot summer evening on the patio outside of O’Leaver’s. We both were there to see whatever band was playing in the club that night. I was wearing my usual jeans-and-T shirt combo. Eric — always the height of fashion — wore dark pants […]
Maybe, if you’re lucky, the next time you call for an Uber or Lyft after a hard night of partying, you’ll get Matt Whipkey. He’s the guy who drives the black 2010 Chrysler Town and Country. The guy with the perfect hair. “OK, here’s a weird one I […]
We used to close out the year at The Reader with our “Year in Review” issue, but after we went from a weekly to a monthly publication a year ago the editors moved the “year in review” to the January issue. I guess it’s a completists’ approach, so as to be able […]
It all started earlier this summer. I was flipping through my Facebook feed when I saw a confusing post by a local musician. It was an apology written as if she was being held prisoner and forced to write a confession. The post didn’t mention what exactly she was apologizing for, only that it had […]
On the surface, it seems difficult to explain the concept behind Hi-Fi House, a private club that charges members anywhere from $75 to $1,000 a year for the privilege of playing its record collection on its stereo systems. You might naturally say to yourself, “I could buy a whole bunch of records for […]
It was only a few days until Teresa and I were headed east to Cape Cod for a vacation. This trip wouldn’t be the first time we visited the cape. Teresa’s parents had lived in Dennis, MA, and we’d visited them a decade or so ago, eventually going back to […]
One of the first things that crossed my mind when the Affordable Care Act — a.k.a. ACA, a.k.a. Obamacare — finally passed and was signed all those years ago was how the legislation could impact artists and musicians. In the back of my mind, I thought Obamacare would liberate the creative set, for […]
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