You may know Alexandria Ewing for her work creating ethical, organic beauty and self-care items through her boutique business Balance Botanica. Her belief is that products should be good for your skin, body and the world around you. You may also know her from her mentoring work and for teaching culinary arts through Step-Up Omaha!, […]
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Best of the Big O: 2019 Readers’ Choice – Personal Shopping and Services Winners
Best Barbershop The Beard & Mane – Reader’s Choice Best of the Big O Tight Cuts Barber Shop – Reader’s Choice Lauren @ Victor Victoria – Reader’s Choice Red Hot Barber Shop – Reader’s Choice Parlour 1887 – Reader’s Recommend Alliance barbershop and supply – Reader’s Refer CUVA CUTS – Reader’s Refer Lady Janes – […]
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View from The Top
An argument could be made that nightlife in the Blackstone District is somewhat more laid back than the bustling, rowdy downtown area and a little less alternative than the Benson neighborhood. Blackstone has its own unique concept and style. When I heard news of a rooftop bar opening up in this particular district, I […]
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Omaha Health Expo This Weekend
Omaha Health Expo This Weekend Cardiologist Richard Collins said it succinctly. “If I’m in the ER with a heart attack, I don’t want the doc to come in and put a broccoli sprig on my chest. (https://www.theseedpharm.com/) ” Dr. Collins was speaking during an interview on the Heartland Healing television program and at the time […]
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Bars Were Dangerous Even Before COVID-19
The true miracle of Road House is that Patrick Swayze is able to spin-kick above his head while wearing pants that come up to his nipples. All hairstyles here are basically crime scene footage of how we once murdered the ozone layer. Every shirt on every character is a billowy fabric stolen from the corpse […]
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News to Use: Expo, Covid & More
News to Use: Expo, Covid & More For the 13th year in a row, the Omaha Health Expo went off without a hitch; in the midst of an official pandemic, no less. Loyal Heartland Healing and Reader readers will remember that the Expo was established by Bob Mancuso and the family at Mid-America Expositions with […]
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‘Homecoming’
The Union for Contemporary Art presents a new solo exhibit, Angela Drakeford:Homecoming, opening July 11th. Installation artist and sculptor Drakeford examines the healing power of plants and the home garden as a sanctuary of healing and comfort. Building on personal memories, and a palette of real and artificial plants, period furniture, textiles and other domestic […]
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants by Michael Braunstein There’s an irony about the terms “alternative medicine” and “traditional medicine.” They are used exactly backwards. Ask the average American to describe “traditional” medicine and they’ll tell you it is the kind found at the behemoth hospital centers. It’s where medical doctors use drugs, surgery and […]
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Build the Wall. Be Immune.
Build the Wall. Be Immune. Corona bologna by Michael Braunstein Bioweapon? Superbug? Freak of nature? Zoonotic lunchmeat? Well, we don’t know exactly what this newest novel virus officially named COVID-19 is all about. And in fact, it doesn’t really matter. Whether relatively benign or stealthily virulent, what anyone in their right mind would want to […]
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Hundreds of PPP Loans Went to Fake Farms in Absurd Places, including Nebraska
This story was originally published in ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. by Derek Willis and Lydia DePillis The shoreline communities of Ocean County, New Jersey, are a summertime getaway for throngs of urbanites, lined with vacation homes and ice cream […]
