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Win Passes to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - |
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Win tickets to Creighton Basketball - |
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Project Censored: The Top 15 Censored Stories of 2009 - |
Project Censored, founded by Carl Jensen in 1976, is a media research program cooperating with numerous independent media groups in the U.S. Its principle objective is training Sonoma State University students in media research, First Amendment issues and the advocacy for, and protection of, free press rights in the United States. In three decades Project Censored has trained over 1,500 students in investigative research. Through a partnership of faculty, students, and the community, Project Censored conducts research on important national news stories that are underreported, ignored, misrepresented or censored by corporate media. Each year, it publishes a ranking of the top 25 most censored, nationally important news stories in a yearbook, Censored: Media Democracy in Action, which is released in September. Read these full reports and more at projectcensored.com. |
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HOOPS-A-GO-GO - |
Jays kick off regular
season hungry to make it back to the big dance
by Jason Krivanek
Listening to Creighton Coach Dana Altman assess the 2009 edition of his basketball squad is a lot like listening to him talk about his squad last year, or the year before that, or just about any team in any year that has laced up the sneakers for the Jays since moving to the Qwest Center in 2003.
“It looks like we’ll be able to score, but we need to become a much better defensive team,” said Altman, entering his 16th year at the helm. “We’ve got to become a much more physical team on the boards, and we have a lot of work to do before the season starts.” |
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Isn't it Lovely? - |
Nik Fackler’s Lovely, Still with Ellen Burstyn and Martin Landau opens in one-week engagement alongside Marcus’ Midtown Cinema
by Leo Adam Biga
After what must have seemed an eternity, Omaha’s resident ‘Film Dude’ writer-director Nik Fackler, will see his first feature theatrically screened in his hometown. An advance one-week Omaha engagement of his Lovely, Still opens the new Marcus Midtown Cinema, Nov. 6-12.
It’s at least as impressive a feature debut as Alexander Payne’s Citizen Ruth but its box office legs won’t be known until its 2010 national release. |
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Zombie Fever - |
WHY EVERYONE'S GOING CRAZY ABOUT THE WALKING DEAD AND MORE HALLOWEEN HIJINKS
Omaha Zombie Walk
is at the heart of a
renewed interest in
the living dead
by Chris Aponick
If Steve Jacobs is right, the zombie hordes that again took over the Benson neighborhood last week will only grow.
Jacobs, better known in Omaha’s punk/metal community as “Tuco,” is the organizer of the Omaha Zombie Walk, which celebrated its second year by winding slowly, hungrily around the Benson business district. Other zombie walks have cropped up across the country over the past decade, he said. |
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Women Fighting Oppression - |
Sheryl Wudunn and Sweeta Noori bring the international battle for women's rights to Kaneko this week
by Jill Bruckner Robberts
It is, after all, a small world — a shared planet as flawed as it is fascinating. And on this earth, where there are men and women, girls and boys, there will also be gender issues.
While statistics indicate ongoing career gains for U.S. women, women’s issues worldwide are often marked by a frustrating juxtaposition of hope and hopelessness. |
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Taking the Reins - |
GARNETT BRUCE LEADS OPERA OMAHA IN NEW DIRECTIONS
Cover Story by Patricia Sindelar Photography by Dale Heise
It’s a dark and gloomy October Tuesday. Wind howls outside the old Renze building — an empty, warehouse-type space with hunkering, industrial-sized heaters roaring like jet engines — near 20th and Harney. The cinderblock walls are bare, the uneven cement floor is cold, electrical outlets hang like nooses from the ceiling. It’s a setting more appropriate for a Saw movie than what's really happening here: opera rehearsals.
Folding chairs, a piano, a couple tables and a few props (trunks, pitchforks, shovels and tin cups) are scattered across the room. Tape on the cold, cement floor marks space on the “real stage,” or what it will look like when rehearsals move to the Orpheum in two days. But without the cast, it’s just a mostly-empty warehouse. |
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Omaha's Two Top Hockey Teams Look to Blast Their Competition - |
Omaha Lancers
return to Omaha
by Brian S. Allen
For seven years the Lancers have made their home at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs. Upon that jump across the river, the Lancers re-branded and called themselves River City Lancers. To my surprise, only two years later the team reclaimed its original name. And now, finally, our boys are back in town. |
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Hip Doc - |
Hippie Doctor, the play, is part of a “do-over” by hippie doctor, the man. He was once Lawrence Wendell Graber and then Dr. Strawberry the sex doctor.
But now he’s Dr. Ben Graber who wrote the play which opens next weekend, and who survived the 1960s to pen a brief essay asking, “Why not a big mulligan for life?”
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Bookish Oddyssey - |
Look in the one of the dusty front windows of the former site of The Antiquarium bookstore on the corner of 13th and Harney and you can still see the seats where Tom Rudloff, his friends and patrons would sit and philosophize about books, politics and whatever else was the topic of the day.
For almost 40 years, The Antiquarium was a fixture of not only the independent bookstore circuit in Omaha, but of the Old Market. When Rudloff decided to close The Antiquarium in 2006, patrons of the bookstore, and the music store tucked into the basement of the building, had months to stop in and pay their respects. They could acquire some seriously discounted books as Rudloff tried to sell down his inventory. Omaha’s loss turned into Brownville, Nebraska’s gain when the bookstore joined an already burgeoning book community there last April. |
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Omaha Fashion Week - |
Your guide to this year’s Omaha Fashion Week glamour
by Brent Crampton
Many thought it couldn’t happen in this decade. Few had the vision. Even fewer had the patience to pull it off — a fashion week in Omaha.
Yes, five fashion and figure-focused nights Sept. 13-19, will shape the landscape at Nomad Lounge this week. The creations of 24 head-turning local designers will be draped upon more than 130 models. Upwards of 15 salons, usually in fierce competition, will work together for the week. Coupled with 65 volunteers, it culminates on a 140-foot runway show Saturday night.
When promotions popped up last summer advertising the first Omaha Fashion Week (OFW), it was hard to take seriously since all but one of the week’s soirees were taking place at Nomad Lounge. It sounded like “Nomad Lounge Fashion Week.” No one could have predicted more than 2,000 people would attend the “Finale Runway Event” Saturday evening, making clear that an annual OFW was attainable.
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Fall Arts - |
Theater
by Warren Francke
Old, new, borrowed and blue offerings launch the 2009-10 theater season, moving quickly from sure things to appealing surprises.
Joining Quilters, old musicals dominate September with Annie Warbucks opening this week at Chanticleer in Council Bluffs, followed by Oliver at Bellevue Little Theatre and then Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat (Sept. 25-Oct. 25) at the Omaha Community Playhouse. Each put youngsters in the bright lights, with director Carl Beck staging 105 elementary and middle school kids in Joseph.
Grandpas and grandmas, aunts, uncles and cousins should attend to see them do Andrew Lloyd Webber, and it might come close to the record crowd drawn by the Biblical story in 1993. Or the spurt of musicals might help Brigit Saint Brigit’s Richard III distinguish itself as the heaviest drama in town until the Playhouse does Death of a Salesman in early 2010.
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