Arbiter of Taste

by Staff and Community

It’s difficult to express the impact Dave Sink had on people who make up Omaha’s independent music scene.

To countless musicians and music fans, Dave, who passed away Jan. 19 from complications of emphysema at the age of 63, was more than just the guy who ran the Antiquarium Records Store in the Old Market during the ‘90s. He was a cultural icon whose personal vision of art, music and literature helped point the...

 

Contrabland

by STAFF

by Matt Lockwood

Let's see a show of hands: Who loves Marky Mark and his funky bunch of acting skills? Is it just my hand raised? I can't see..the lights are awfully dim in here.

Well, even if I am the only one, I have no shame and raise my hand high. In submission to my disorder, this afternoon I wandered out to my local cinema to enjoy a matinee showing of Contraband. The movie picks up with Mr. Wahlberg...

 

Cold Cream 1/25

by Warren Francke

Maybe the fact that the Home and Garden Network so often airs in our house explains why I was even more taken than usual with a Jim Othuse set design for On Golden Pond at the Omaha Community Playhouse.

The large stone fireplace, the fisherman’s hats hanging on the wall, the porch—all you’d want in a lakeside summer home with the loons calling—made January go away for a few hours with Norman and Ethel. It was a...

 

3 Up 3 Down: Wale

by Kyle Eustice

February 1
Wale
7 p.m.
Sokol Auditorium, 2234 S. 13th St.
$25/adv and $30/dos

Wale (pronounced wah-lay) may not be as prevalent in the press as Rick Ross or Lil’ Wayne, but his presence is growing. The Washington D.C. native got his start in 2006 when famed producer Mark Ronson stumbled across his music and would soon score a 1.3 million dollar contract with Interscope Records.  After the label mismanaged...