FASH FLOOD

by Sarah Lorsung Tvrdik

Omaha’s biggest fashion event is right around the corner, are you excited? Around this time every year I get a few emails from friends or acquaintances asking questions about what to expect at Omaha Fashion Week. This year, I’m answering the most commonly asked questions so even first timers will have a little insight on what to expect.

What should I wear?

This is undoubtedly the question I receive most often....

Kurt Andersen’s new novel ‘True Believers’ revisits the 1960s

by Leo Adam Biga

With his new novel True Believers (Random House) Kurt Andersen takes stock of the roiling 1960s through the eyes of a fictional woman whose coming-of-age then unfolded in predictable and inexplicable ways.

Through his narrator, attorney and law dean Karen Hollander, he explores the psyche and culture of holding secrets and coming clean in the modern era of relativism. This accomplished older woman is writing a...

Pick: YAP 8th Annual Art Crawl (Art That Moves You)

by Sally Deskins

August 10
YAP 8th Annual Art Crawl (Art That Moves You)
Starts & ends at Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St., 6pm-11pm, 21+
YAP members: FREE; Non-YAP members: $25
Joslyn.org, 342.3300

Young Arts Patrons (YAP) will get six stops of private touring around some of Omaha’s finest arts hot-spots including a privileged viewing of Modern Arts Midtown’s Collectors Choice 2012 with featured and emerging artists at...

Pick: Harry and the Potters, Potter Puppet Pals

by Pete Fey

August 6th
Harry and the Potters, Potter Puppet Pals
The Slowdown
729 N. 14 Street
8 P.M., $10

Yes, they’re still a band. Since 2002, Harry and the Potters have been battling it out with The Weird Sisters for magical music supremacy, and by the looks of it they’re going strong. Early innovators of the humorous wizard rock genre, Paul and Joe DeGeorge of Norwood, Mass. have three albums under their belt...

Pick: Washed Out

by Chris Aponick

August 7
Washed Out
The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St.
9 p.m., $12 in advance/$14 day-of-show, onepercentproductions.com

Blog buzz burst Washed Out onto the national indie rock scene before the band's mastermind Ernest Greene had put out much more than a cassette and an EP. The buzz from Washed Out's cinematically-huge take on the burgeoning chillwave genre led to a Sub Pop Records signing. The indie...

Pick: My Morning Jacket

by Chris Aponick

August 7
My Morning Jacket w/ Band of Horses
Pinewood Bowl Theater, 3201 South Coddington Ave., Lincoln
7 p.m., $35.50, pinewoodbowltheater.com

My Morning Jacket have evolved from reverb-soaked, Americana-leaning indie rockers into a alternative rock juggernaut that jumps from folk to funk to slowburn soul and appeal to fans from record geeks to jam-band aficionados. Jim James leads the way with his dramatic...

FASH FLOOD

by Sarah Lorsung Tvrdik

Red Carpet Ready

Are you stressing about what to wear to Omaha Fashion Week? Need a little help with putting together the perfect look? Get ready for Omaha’s biggest fashion event with Red Carpet Ready, this Thursday at Borsheims Fine Jewelry & Gifts in Regency Court.

Red Carpet Ready is a shopping and socializing event brimming with style experts to help you get in shape for walking the red carpet at OFW...