Social networking has become such an inextricable part of our everyday lives that sometimes it’s hard to remember a time before Facebook. Now that we can access these sites through our smart phones, we don’t even have to be near a computer to log on. It’s a constant barrage of status updates, new “friend” requests […]
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SUMMERTIME BLUES
There’s nothing like the blues. Born out of poverty, “the blues” was literally a way to escape the traps of depression, which many blues musicians referred to as the “blue devils.” Local musician Hector Anchondo gravitated towards the blues at a very young age. The future music junkie quickly became fascinated with the guitar and […]
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Jays Aim to Return to High Flying Ways
There is a buzz surrounding Head Coach Greg McDermott’s second Bluejay basketball squad, and, no, the youngsters haven’t been over indulging over at the NoDo nightspots. In fact, these guys have been strictly business heading into the season, and word on the street says it could be a good one, maybe even one worthy of […]
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Death by Medicine
On January 11, 2012, the national Center for Disease Control published its National Vital Statistics Report, Volume 60, Number 4. (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_04.pdf) It’s the annual list of what kills Americans. This year’s tally was notable to the mainstream media because homicide dropped out of the top 15 as a cause of death in the good ol’ […]
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Shopping in The Land of the Lost
by Tim McMahan Somehow I keep ending up at Crossroads Mall and its vast, lonely emptiness. Maybe it’s the memory of its once grand elegance that draws me in, a reminder that all things, no matter how wonderful, eventually come to an end. Crossroads seemed like perfect fodder for a column. But as I passed […]
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Cursive Goes Schizo with I Am Gemini
Released Feb. 21 on Saddle Creek Records, Cursive’s I Am Gemini is more than your typical concept album, it’s a full-blown 2-act play – or more specifically – a 2-act opera, whose plot would have been right at home performed either in ancient Greece or as an episode of The Twilight Zone. The “official interpretation” […]
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Polling Place Changes Hit Older Omaha Harder
On Primary Election Day, 82-year-old Robert Wright drove to Evans Tower on 24th Street in north Omaha from his home at 9th and Fort Streets. He heard on television that Evans Towers was a polling place. Because he hadn’t received a card in the mail telling him where to cast his vote, he figured someone […]
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2012 Douglas County Poll Closing Analysis: Process, Methodology And Analysis
Read the full story here. 2012 Voter File: The initial voter data for 2012 obtained by The Reader was not useable for this initial analysis because it did not have polling location for each voter listed. It did have a large amount of voting data that would prove useful later. The Reader obtained a new […]
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Bugs in Your Body
You’re only one-tenth the person you think you are. The vast majority of the cells that make up your body are not human. You thought your body was your own, eh? You think you’re one hundred percent human, right? Oh, sure, every once in a while a minor bacterial or viral species may cause a […]
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Box Of Moonlight
“The Fantasticks” seems to be just the sort of musical that I’ve always intended to fall in love with … it’s just that no one has ever given me a reason to do so. All that has changed with the Omaha Community Playhouse production of the poetic parable about young love confronted by the hard […]
