The Reader sat down with indie rock songstress Indigo De Souza to discuss her international tour, upcoming third album and imminent Maha Music Festival performance.
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Maha Fills Stinson Park With Music, People for Two-Night Return
On Friday and Saturday, July 29 and 30, the smell of wood-fired pizza and fresh gyros plumed into the air as people walked (and in some cases rollerbladed) through the crowd for the Maha Music Festival’s return to Stinson Park. Car Seat Headrest made their Maha return Friday, sending beams of red, green and blue […]
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Beaufield Berry-Fisher Is Changing Omaha’s Arts Landscape
Beaufield Berry-Fisher is expecting. She’s not pregnant, though some of the most creatively productive times of her life have coincided with pregnancy. Berry-Fisher and her husband Rob have three children. She was pregnant with her youngest, Georgia, in 2019 while writing Red Summer, the play about the lynching of Will Brown that had a wildly […]
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Rules of Engagement
(The following is a more complete version of the one that printed in the June issue of the Reader) Small businesses are no stranger to soft openings and landings as they cycle through the vagaries of even the best of economies. But leave it to an unforeseen and unprepared for pandemic to be a game […]
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Memories Made of This
Unless faced with a loaded image of an eye, a hand or any other recognizable item, viewers at an art exhibit may be left to wonder in dismay or disbelief about work that is conceptual or a mix of fact and fantasy. Explanations are often demanded of the artist by way of compensation only to […]
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More Than Meets the Eye
Artwork is often experimental, whether it is an emerging artist picking up their first art making tool or medium, or an established artist trying a different method of creating. There is usually an idea in mind that the artist has for the final product, even if that idea is not immediately evident. This is particularly true […]
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‘A Memory Held in You’
(Interview edited and formatted by contributing arts editor Mike Krainak) Last year my family and I saw the Frida Kahlo: Letters and Photographs exhibition at El Museo Latino in Omaha, Nebraska. That is when I met Allegra Hangen, the museum’s Education and Exhibitions Coordinator. We sat down at a craft table and she demonstrated for […]
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Mind Games Together
Unreal, yet real. Surreal, yet familiar. But ultimately, beyond real. “Tempos,” a solo show of 26 paintings, is all the above, and it’s on display at the Bemis Center through June 15. A virtual storyboard of Lui Shtini’s artistic growth spanning the past five years, the exhibit documents the path of conceptual and technical changes […]
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Art in the Time of COVID
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity…” So opened Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. Flash forward from the French Revolution, and it’s not a bad assessment either of […]
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Making the ‘A-list’: Best in Art in 2019
It won’t take a crystal ball, Alexa or a Ouija Board to predict that 2020 will be an eventful year with post impeachment and a pending presidential election looming heavy on the horizon. Yet somewhere amidst all the Sturm und Drang that awaits, each New Year promises personal resolutions and the hope of better things […]
