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...

Pick: Old 97s

by Chris Aponick

Sept. 11
Old 97s w/ Those Darlins & Rhett Miller solo
The Slowdown, 729 North 14th St.
9 p.m., $20 in advance/$25 day-of-show, onepercentproductions.com

Stuart Ransom Miller, serial lady killer, and his band the Old 97s will revisit 1997 and Too Far To Care, the album that best brought together the Texas act's collision of stomping, boozy country-rock and melodic British Invasion pop sensibilities. The band...

FASH FLOOD

by Sarah Lorsung Tvrdik

On Thursday, September 6^th, celebrate with local boutiques all over Omaha for nationally celebrated event, Fashion’s Night Out. Omaha Fashion Week and local jewelry designer Elisa Ilana are both holding exclusive events, among many other local boutiques and businesses.

Join Omaha Fashion Week for a bus tour around the city, stopping at hot shopping destinations including an OFW Pop Up Boutique, Togs, Skyz...

Give Gun-Toting Guy a Big Hand

by Warren Francke

Squeezing dozens of upcoming shows into an 800-word preview of the theater season, like a Thanksgiving feast, provides lots of left-overs to munch here in the weekly Cold Cream.

For example, add this note to our recalling that last season’s Blue Barn offering of the Vibrator Play and this year’s stunning August: Osage County both grew out of staged readings in the Omaha Community Playhouse 21 & Over series. Come...

Pick:  Fresh Gunk: New Work by Colin C. Smith

by Sally Deskins

Fresh Gunk: New Work by Colin C. Smith
September 7
Modern Arts Midtown, 3615 Dodge St.
Reception 6-8pm, exhibition thru Sept. 30
Modernartsmidtown.com, 502.8737

“Fresh Gunk” introduces viewers with Colin Smith’s recently produced brightly colored graphic paintings and sculptures on display thru September at Modern Arts Midtown. His challenging, spatial works are known for their combination of minimalism and...

Taste Big Maggie, Guinness at Brigit

by Warren Francke

The Brigit St. Brigit Theatre company opens its latest Irish play to start their 20^th anniversary season with historic momentum, not to mention a free Guinness tasting this weekend.

Big Maggie not only brings Delaney Driscoll back in the title role, but follows growing development of support staff to aid artistic director Cathy Kurz and executive director Scott Kurz in their mission of producing classics and...