Picks: Moreland & Arbuckle

by Chris Aponick

Sept. 13
Moreland & Arbuckle
The 21st Saloon, 4727 South 96th St.
5:30 p.m., $10

The emerging blues-duo of guitarist Aaron Moreland and singer/harpist Dustin Arbuckle combine broke-ass Delta blues, rural stomp and garagey blues-rock like they've lived in these rootsy styles their whole lives. The Kansas act, which is rounded out by a drummer, tours extensively in the region, but have started to gain a...

Pick: Wild Nothing

by Chris Aponick

Sept. 14
Wild Nothing w/ DIIV, Betsy Wells and Sun Settings
The Sandbox, 2406 Leavenworth St.
9 p.m., $10 in advance/$12 day-of-show, mooseriot.com

Jack Tatum spent the last years of college watching the songs he recorded in his bedroom turn into a full-fledged band. That band is Wild Nothing and now the recently-graduated Tatum is devoting his full attention to making music. The bedroom indie-pop songs...

Legally Blonde, 1776 Join Lips & Teeth

by Warren Francke

Alert readers with eidetic memories caught me promising to make the case that this might be called a golden age for theater here. But I didn’t pin down a date to get it done, so consider the following excuse for a delay.

Ideally, all three openings this weekend would be delivered by directors whose work would support my hint that women directors are the 24-carat keys to the golden age claim. They’d add to the...

Omaha’s Andy Now in New Normal

by Warren Francke

Now that we’re seeing Andy Rannells daily in promos for The New Normal, don’t be a johnny-come-lately and say, “Yeah, he’s the Creighton Prep grad who starred in that big Broadway hit, Book of Mormon.”

Maybe you saw him first during the London Olympics as NBC began pushing the new television sitcom. A clip showed Andy as Bryan Buckley with his male partner as both volunteered when asked, “Who is going to be the...

Pick: Elements and Principles: Works on Clay and Paper

by Sally Deskins

Sept. 14
Elements and Principles: Works on Clay and Paper
RNG Gallery, 157 W. Broadway, Council Bluffs
7-10pm reception, exhibit thru Oct. 7, FREE
712.256.4140, dixiequicks.com

James Freeman is known for his exploration with various two-dimensional media to create dreamlike figures. For this show the currently Omaha-based artist is exhibiting surreal figurative drawings in graphite, charcoal, pastel and...

Music, Exhibits and Dance, Oh My!

by Cheril Lee

BALLET NEBRASKA

Ballet and opera are two great art forms that work great together. New this season, Ballet Nebraska hits the stage with Opera Omaha. Artistic Director Erika Overturff said the ballet will join the opera on all of its productions this season: La Traviata, The Magic Flute and Bluebeard’s Castle.

Highlights this fall include the company’s annual mixed repertory program, Momentum. The production...

A Trip Back to the Gilded Age

by Tressa Eckermann

One of the most legendary books of all time comes to Omaha, in what the library hopes will be a city wide book club.

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize winning, 1920 novel about forbidden romance in the Gilded Age Old New York, was chosen as the 2012 Omaha Reads Program book. The program is a local version of “One book, One city,” a national program that aims to get entire cities reading the...