“Through these towns they built to change”—Arcade Fire, “Sprawl I (Flatland)” Cities are a complex sum of their parts. Designers, real estate developers, activists, non-profits, civic entities, philanthropists, politicians, and members of the general public spend their days (and lives) trying to understand and shape the built environment. But who or what in Omaha is […]
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Meditation: Slow down and get there sooner.
Sometime around 1985 was when I first heard of a doctor prescribing meditation to a patient to address a medical condition. I was impressed. I had already experienced the benefits of meditation but was surprised that a conventionally trained doctor knew that meditation improves health, that he was unqualified to teach it and needed to […]
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Wherever The Breeze May Take You
Take it on Down to Tacoville A new tex-mextaurant is opening its doors in the next few weeks. Oklahoma native Tacoville is establishing its first franchised foodery in Frederick Square on 84th and West Center early July. The menu is fairly standard and very affordable, offering a $1.29 taco. I see a quick, inexpensive lunch in your […]
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Energy Medicine in the Modern Era
The year was 1956. Barely a decade before, the word “atom” leapt across the headlines on that horrible day in August. Prior to 1945, most people other than scientists and physicists had no interest and little care about things like atoms and electrons and nuclear energy. With the abrupt eruption of the Atomic Age, the […]
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Sunshine Superman
Between the balmy, carefree beats of the Beach Boys and the edgier introspection of the Beatles, showing less grit than Dylan and more mysticism than the Rolling Stones, Donovan Leitch, known simply as “Donovan”, bounded to the top of the charts in the mid-1960s. With iconic hits such as “Sunshine Superman,” “Mellow Yellow,” “Hurdy Gurdy […]
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Power Play
Institutional critique always appears more trenchant when contained within the confines of an establishment, where it can be dissected by the very language that defines it. The Omaha Public Library is our city repository of shareable knowledge, a site open to inquiries by all comers. That exists, by its published mission, to “connect people with […]
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Child ‘Baring’
With the terrarium-like swelter of recent weeks, you might assume the current show at Darger HQ — Hothouse — was commissioned just for this summer in Omaha. But don’t expect to find tropical plants or Bikram yoga classes here; it’s a different kind of hothouse to which artists Elizabeth Kauffman (Salisbury, MD) and Luke Severson […]
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Top Ten Tips for Now
So the other day I was once again wanting to codify some behavior characteristics just to share with others. It seems to me that adjusting one’s life activities to consider these moves might be advantageous. In ascending order, I came up with this. Avoid All Chemicals. Humans have made, found or used over 55 million […]
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Health Expo 2016
Health fairs, expos and conventions are a dime-a-dozen these days. Corner drugstores, corporate call centers, college campuses, even church basements pull out a few tables, invite a few doctors with blood pressure cuffs, fancy glucose testing schemes and free pens sponsored by drug companies and set out to tell the public what to do and […]
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Girls Inc. makes big statement with addition to renamed North Omaha center
A poor inner city North Omaha neighborhood recently gained a $15 million new investment in its at-risk youth. The Girls Inc. of Omaha center at 2811 North 45th Street long ago outgrew its digs in the former Clifton Hill Elementary School but somehow made do in cramped, out-dated quarters. Last month the nonprofit dedicated renovations […]
