Union for Contemporary Art - Open House

by Mary Day

April 13, 2013
Spring Open House 11 am – 3 pm
The Union for Contemporary Art
2417 Burdette Street
http://www.u-ca.org/402.933.3161

Established in 2011, The Union for Contemporary Art is a non-profit organization created in response to needs expressed by artists and those who saw the arts as an unexpendable resource to the greater Omaha community. The public is invited to UCA’s Spring Open House on Saturday,...

Pick: Acid Mothers Temple

by Chris Aponick

April 11
Acid Mothers Temple w/ Tjutjuna
The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St.
9 p.m., $10 in advance/$12 day-of-show, onepercentproductions.com

Led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto, Acid Mothers Temple is the most entrenched project of a collective of Japanese musicians that work around Makoto on various projects of drone, psychedelic, space rock and experimental music. The collective has issued more than 100...

Pick: Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers

by Chris Aponick

April 8
Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers w/ Rayland Baxter
The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St.
9 p.m., $12, onepercentproductions.com

Sometimes all it takes to get your band rolling is to film some videos of what your band does while rolling down the road in the tour van. That's been one of the secrets to Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers' growing popularity. The band has shot a series of videos called "The Van...

Pick: Stephen Bartolomei

by Chris Aponick

April 11th
Stephen Bartolomei and Comrades w/ Mike Saklar Trio and the Kevin Pike & John Kotchian Duo
The Slowdown, 729 North 14th St.
9 p.m., $8 at the door, theslowdown.com

Stephen Bartolomei is stepping out from the Mal Madrigal name that he's used on all of his previously-released albums of cinematic, experimental indie folk. The ex-Omaha resident has lived in New York City, but still often finds himself...

Christian Rothmann: Painting and Photography

by Mary Day

April 5, 2013
Christian Rothmann, “Here and There”
Opening Reception, Friday 6 – 9 pm
Anderson O’Brien Fine Art Old Market
1108 Jackson Street
Hours: Mon – Wed 10 am - 6 pm, Thurs – Sat 10 am - 9 pm, Sun 12 pm - 4 pm
402.884.0911, http://www.aobfineart.com
Christian Rothmann, “Rothmann’s Roboter”
Opening Reception, Friday 5 – 7 pm
The Moving Gallery, Garden of the Zodiac Old Market Passageway
1042 Howard...

Pick: Bronte

by William Grennan

April 4th-7th

Bronte by William Luce Starring Jill Anderson

Blue Barn Theatre

614 South 11th Street

April 4th-6th - 7:30pm, April 7th - 6pm, $25, $20/students, seniors, TAG members.

After a very successful run in 2011 at the Joslyn Castle, Jill Anderson will once again bring the soul of Charlotte Bronte to life, this time at the Blue Barn Theatre, in Bronte by William Luce. In the play, Charlotte...

Carver Bank - Bemis

by Mary Day

March 29, 2013
Carver Bank Building
Opening: Friday 6 – 9 p.m.
2416 Lake Street, Free
402.341.7130, Jessica@bemiscenter.org

Launched in summer 2012, the renovation of the Carver Bank building marked the second phase of Theaster Gates’s Town Hall project, which has been underway since 2010. Carver Bank is the site of the first African American-owned bank in Omaha. The project’s goal is for the site to become...