CULTURE 
Vagos Burns Night
Jan. 22 Vagos Burns Night Barley Street Tavern, 2735 N. 62nd St. $5 or a traditional Scottish dish, 9 p.m., 21+ 554.5834, barleystreet.com The Scots are proud of many things, but high on the list is poet Robert Burns. So much so that there’s the rich tradition of the Burns supper which entails consumption of haggis and whiskey and recitation of Burns’ works. Barley Street is doing its own version of this feast...
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Band Build: A to Benefit Habitat for Humanity
Jan. 22 Band Build: A Concert to Benefit Habitat for Humanity w/ Satchel Grande, Midwest Dilemma, The 9’s, Brad Hoshaw & the Seven Deadlies and The Half Hearts Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 7 p.m., $12, onepercentproductions.com Good dance music and a good cause — what are you waiting for? With an impressive lineup including local funk bands Satchel Grande and The 9’s, and Americana music courtesy of...
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From Shelterbelt With Love 10
Jan. 20-Feb. 14 From Shelterbelt With Love 10 Shelterbelt Theatre, 3225 California St. Thurs.-Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 6 p.m.; no show Feb. 6 $15, $12 student/seniors/TAG members, $8 Jan. 20-23 $10 Thurs., Sun. and Valentine’s Day 341.2757, shelterbelt.org Get ready for tears and cheers once again at the 10th annual From Shelterbelt with Love featuring eight short plays around the theme of love — in good times and...
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Con Dios w/ The So-So Sailors
Jan. 20 Con Dios w/ The So-So Sailors O’Leaver’s, 1322 S. Saddle Creek Rd. 9:30 p.m., $5, facebook.com/oleavers Con Dios is the new local supergroup featuring the songs of Phil Schaffart. Schaffart plays guitar and sings and is ably backed by Matt Maginn on bass (Cursive), Pat Oakes on drums (Ladyfinger) and Dan McCarthy on keys (McCarthy Trenching, The Mynabirds). The band has been in “residency” at...
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Pecha Kucha Night #10
Jan. 20 Pecha Kucha Night #10 Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. 8:20 p.m., FREE/donations accepted pecha-kucha.org/cities/omaha/10 It’s the 10th edition of the internationally acclaimed 20-slides-in-20-seconds show, organized locally by Design Alliance Omaha (daOMA). Boasting and brimming with inventive tastemakers and aesthetic trend pushers, this time around is hosted by the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts curator,...
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Orphan Trail
Author Marilyn June Coffey says she tears up every time she reads this part of Teresa Martin’s story: “As she slipped her wide foot into her shoe, she felt like Cinderella donning the glass slipper. Up from ashes. She could hardly breathe. After all those school children’s taunts, after the years living with the hurtful Biekers, the years scrubbing floors, the lonely fight to be educated, after a lifetime of...
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New J.D. Salinger bio, David Foster Wallace
* What books will you be reading this year? Kenneth Slawenski’s portrait of the Catcher in the Rye author, J.D. Salinger: A Life is rumored to be the most in-depth biography yet. O: A Presidential Novel by an anonymous author that proudly claims to “have been in the room with Barack Obama” is said to be “about aspiration and delusion, set during the presidential election of 2012 and written by an anonymous...
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Joslyn’s Young Art Patrons 9th Annual Art Crawl
May 17, 2013
Joslyn's Young Art Patrons 9th Annual Art Crawl
7 PM
Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St.
Regular hours: Tues, Wed, Fri, ... more »
May 11th
Rockfest w/ Blue October, Sick Puppies and more
Westfair Amphitheater, 22984 Highway 6 in Council Bluffs
1 p.m., $15, ... more »
May 14
Stornoway w/ Horse Thief
The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St.
9 p.m., $10, onepercentproductions.com
British indie folk act ... more »
May 10
VietNam w/ Black Pus and Plack Blague
The Slowdown, 729 North 14th St.
9 p.m., $10 in advance/$12 day-of-show, theslowdown.com
May 8, 2013
See Art Better with 20/20
Free Preview: Wed May 8, 5-7 pm
Evening of Art: Sat May 11, 5:30 pm
Tickets $20
Gallery 72
1806 ... more »
May 9
Retox w/ Flesh-Eating Skin Disease and Video Ranger
Brothers Lounge, 3812 Farnam St.
9 p.m., $5 at the door
Retox members were ... more »
Of Common Ground: New Work by Teresa Schmidt - Larry Roots
May 3, 2013
Of Common Ground:
New Work by Teresa Schmidt – Larry Roots
Opening Reception: 6 – 8 pm
Modern Arts Midtown
3615 Dodge ... more »
Pick: Hue Blanc’s Joyless Ones
April 28th
Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones w/ Killer Blow and Silent Drape Runners
The Sydney, 5918 Maple St.
9 p.m., $5
By combining the ... more »
The Truth About CarilIt was the case that shattered innocence and struck fear into an entire nation, inspired artists like Terrence Malick ... more »
South Omaha native son David Krajicek’s crime writing has branded him Mr. Murder, so it’s only apt he looks the heavy ... more »
Stop by the PS Collective at 6056 Maple Street this Thursday, August 4th at 7 p.m. for the Omaha Poetry Slam Team ... more »
*Fans of horror, monsters and strange illustrations take note: artist Michael Bukowski is illustrating every monster ... more »
