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the little gallery + benson underground Ćlm forum 5901 Maple St., 68104 Anderson Enterprises ---------------------------------------------15418 W Center Rd, Omaha, 68144 The Union for Contemporary Art ---------------------------------------------Anderson O’Brien Fine Art Old Market 2417 Burdette St., Omaha, 68111 ---------------------------------------------1108 Jackson St., Omaha, 68102 White Crane Gallery ---------------------------------------------1032 Howard St, Omaha, 68102 Artist Cooperative Gallery ---------------------------------------------405 S 11th St, Omaha, 68102 ---------------------------------------------THEATER Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts 724 S 12th St., Omaha, 68102 Holland Performing Arts Center ---------------------------------------------13th & Douglas St., Omaha, NE 68102 Blue Pomegranate Gallery Omaha Symphony: 17305 Davenport St, Omaha, 68118 Darlene Love Omaha ---------------------------------------------January 14 & 15 Cooper Brown Art ---------------------------------------------2215 Harney St., Omaha, 68102 Omaha Community Playhouse --------------------------------------------6915 Cass St., Omaha, NE 68132 Gallery 72 Around the World in 80 Days 1806 Vinton St., Omaha, 68108 January 20- February 12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Gallery 1516 1516 Leavenworth St., Omaha, 68102 Orpheum Theater 409 S Sixteenth St., Omaha, NE 68102 ---------------------------------------------Carolyn Dorfman Dance Garden of the Zodiac January 19 1046 Howard St., Omaha, 68102 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Rose Theater Hot Shops 2001 Farnam St., Omaha, NE 68102 1301 Nicholas St, Omaha, 68102 Thumbelina ---------------------------------------------January 14 - February 5 Joslyn Art Museum 2200 Dodge St., Omaha, 68102 ---------------------------------------------MUSEUMS Lewis Art Gallery 8600 Cass St., Omaha, 68114 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts ---------------------------------------------724 S 12th St., Omaha 68102 MANGELSEN Images of Nature ---------------------------------------------1115 Harney St., Omaha, 68102 Durham Museum ---------------------------------------------801 S 10th St., Omaha, 68108 Modern Arts Midtown ---------------------------------------------3615 Dodge St., Omaha, 68131 Great Plains Black History Museum ---------------------------------------------7400 Dodge St., Omaha 68114 Old Market Artists Gallery ---------------------------------------------1034 Howard St., Omaha, 68102 Joslyn Art Museum ---------------------------------------------2200 Dodge St., Omaha, 68102 Passageway Gallery ---------------------------------------------417 S 11th St, Omaha, 68102 Omaha Children’s Museum ---------------------------------------------500 S 20th St., Omaha, 68102 Petshop Gallery ---------------------------------------------2725 N 62nd St., Omaha, 68104 Strategic Air Command & Aerospace ---------------------------------------------Museum, 28210 W Park Hwy, 68003
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the exhibition brings the whole story of Prohibition vividly to life. American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition will be on display until January 29th at The Durham Museum, 801 S 10th St., Omaha, 68108
American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition Through January 29, 2017 Step back in time to an era of ćappers and suffragists, bootleggers and temperance workers, and real-life legends like Al Capone and Carry Nation. Created by the National Constitution Center, American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition is the Ćrst comprehensive exhibition about America’s most colorful and complex constitutional hiccup. Spanning from the dawn of the temperance movement, through the Roaring ’20s, to the unprecedented repeal of a constitutional amendment,
“Operation ‘Omaha Ivy’ ” by E. Taylor Shoop Through February 20 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily For this exhibit, E. Taylor Shoop has focused his lens on “ivy”, as an architectural element, to create his unique, kaleidoscopic compositions. The duality of “ivy”, a plant which has been viewed as both an invasive weed and a revered religious symbol, generated a strong interest and driving curiosity in
the artist.
Through February 5 “From Here to There” Art Exhibit
During the month of January the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery is presenting This show is the culmination of several a retrospective exhibit of the work of months of scouting and photographing From here to there is a two-person Nick J. Chiburis, a deceased founding exhibition of work that seeks to delin- member of the gallery. The public is the city’s collection of çivy’, Ćnding examples that encapsulate the aesthetic, eate the boundaries of the invented invited to an opening reception on Fripractical, and mythical themes associ- world and to examine ideas of cultural day, January 6,, 2017 from 6pm - 9pm memory. Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez ated with this plant genre. and the exhibit will thru January 29th. will be exhibiting her Leaning Chumbes The Artists’ Cooperative Gallery is The artist will be available at Lauritzen sculptures. Chumbes are belts of the located at 405 S 11th St, Omaha, NE Guambiano indigenous community Gardens on January 15 and February 68102 12 from 1 to 4 p.m. to discuss his work. in Colombia. Friedemann-Sánchez recontextualizes the small textiles into substantial wooden planks resembling American Minimalist sculpture, thus providing stature to a cultural tradition oppressed by centuries of colonial relationships within her native Colombia. Leigh Tarentino will be exhibiting paintings of imaginary gardens from a new series, Estates of the Realm. Tarentino’s exteriors of gardens and January 11-May 15 landscapes are simpliĆed but complex Nature Connects: in perspective and universal. Art with Lego® Bricks from here to there is part of a series of collaborative and experimental projThrough January 27 Sean Kenney’s third exhibit at Lauects facilitated by Darger HQ. Darger Destination Mars ritzen Gardens features some fanHQ connects Nebraska contempotastic NEW pieces, including a proud rary artists to the world by creating Petshop presents: “Destination Mars” peacock, a giant dragonćy, and a not collaborative working opportunities An exhibition of contemporary phoso itsy-bitsy spider, as well as a couple between local artists and national and tography from Serbia of old favorites. Compare your wing international artists with related prac- Curated by Katarina Radovic span to a beautiful monarch butterćy, tices, and develops partnerships that stand tall with a majestic buck and his beneĆt artists by providing new means en”deer”ing family, smell a giant pansy, of support through combined private go nose-to-nose with a titanic tortoise and non-proĆt sources. Darger HQ and make a splash with a friendly band also educates, enriches and exposes of birds. Inspired by nature and built the community to some of the most from more than 450,000 LEGO® piec- innovative contemporary art being es, this indoor exhibit features 13 dis- produced today. plays with larger-than-life sculptures that represent the web of incredible More information on the artists and connections that sustain life on Earth. their work can be found on their websites: Don’t miss the “Play and Let it Stay http://www.nancyfriedemann.com/ station,” where visitors of all ages can http://leightarentino.com/ create, take apart, tinker, build and grow together. Darger HQ is located at 1804 Vinton Street, Omaha. This blockbuster exhibit is included with admission, $10 for adults, $5 for children 6-12 and free for garden members and children under six.
Artists: Aleksandrija Ajdukovic, Branka Nedimovic, Dragan Petrovic, Katarina Radovic, Mihailo Vasiljevic, Srdjan Veljovic Culture of Serbia. Destination Mars will be on display until January 27th. Petshop is located at 2725 N 62nd Street in Benson.
January 6, 6pm RememberedA Retrospective
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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 4
AMERICA’S PUB QUIZ THE SOCIABLE INN, 7:30P ----------------------------------------------MARK ELLIS OMAHA FUNNY BONE, 7:30P ----------------------------------------------THE FANTASTIC FIVE THE BACKLINE, 8P ----------------------------------------------DAYSEEKER, DEVIL IN THE DETAILS, NANASHI, END ME MEND ME, MY LAST REQUEST LOOKOUT LOUNGE, 8P ----------------------------------------------WRENCHES THROWN THE BACKLINE, 9P ----------------------------------------------LIGHTWORKS, VITAL ORGANS & RO HEMPEL THE DOWN UNDER LOUNGE, 9P ----------------------------------------------TITANIUM BLUE SHAMROCK’S PUB & GRILL, 9P ----------------------------------------------HOOT N HOLLER DOLLAR NIGHT WITH RAGGED COMPANY BARLEY STREET TAVERN, 9P ----------------------------------------------OPEN MIC THE BACKLINE, 10P -----------------------------------------------
SESAME STREET LIVE ORPHEUM THEATER, 10A ----------------------------------------------“THOMAS PRINZ: SMALL SCALE COLLAGES & PRINTS” GALLERY 72, 5P ----------------------------------------------THE 70’S BAND OZONE LOUNGE, 6:30P ----------------------------------------------“DESTINATION MARS” SERBIAN PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT PETSHOP GALLERY, 7P ----------------------------------------------BLUES DED SEND OFF PARTY THE 21ST SALOON, 7P ----------------------------------------------AMERICA’S PUB QUIZ NEBRASKA BREWING CO. PAPILLION, 7P ----------------------------------------------AMERICA’S PUB QUIZ VARSITY SPORTS CAFE & ROMAN COIN RALSTON, 7P ----------------------------------------------AMERICA’S PUB QUIZ TWO FINE IRISHMEN, 7:30P ----------------------------------------------AMERICA’S PUB QUIZ FARNAM HOUSE BREWING CO., 8P FRIDAY JANUARY 6 ----------------------------------------------VINYL AFTER DARK REVERB LOUNGE, 8P ----------------------------------------------- AMERICAN SPIRITS: THE RISE AND FALL OF PROHIBITION THE DURHAM MUSEUM, 9A THURSDAY JANUARY 5 ----------------------------------------------DOMINICAN PINT NIGHT INFUSION BREWING CO., 3P KEVIN KILLION LIVE ----------------------------------------------VINO MAS, 6:30P ----------------------------------------------- TBIF JERRY’S BAR, 5P ROCKOLOGY ----------------------------------------------OZONE LOUNGE, 6:30P ----------------------------------------------- MATHEW KLUBER & COLIN C. SMITH OPENING AMERICA’S PUB QUIZ MODERN ARTS MIDTOWN, 6P VARSITY SPORTS CAFE & ROMAN ----------------------------------------------COIN RALSTON, 7P ----------------------------------------------- NICK J. CHIBURIS RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBIT OPENING AMERICA’S PUB QUIZ FIREBARN SPORTS BAR PAPILLION, 7P ARTISTS COOPERATIVE GALLERY, 6P ----------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------
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FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT SERIES FEATURING BRADY WELLS FLAGSHIP COMMONS, 7P ----------------------------------------------HIGH COUNTRY AMERICAN LEGION POST #1, 7P ----------------------------------------------OMAHA MAVERICKS HOCKEY BAXTER ARENA, 7:07P ----------------------------------------------JOHN CAPARULO OMAHA FUNNY BONE, 7:30P ----------------------------------------------HAROLD HOUR THE BACKLINE, 8P ----------------------------------------------CB SKATEFEST BENEFIT FEATURING CRAB LEGS, THE SHIDIOTS, THE FAT TIMMYS, EPONYMOUS, DYING COLOR, LOOKOUT LOUNGE, 8P ----------------------------------------------THE SITCOM THE BACKLINE, 9P ----------------------------------------------KAMIKAZE PILOTS MANUAL, AARON DAVID WRIGLEY BARLEY STREET TAVERN, 9P ----------------------------------------------SINGER SONGWRITER ROUNDS | JAMES DEAN’S BIRTHDAY EDITION THE DOWN UNDER LOUNGE, 9P ----------------------------------------------A GOOD TRIP WITH SHANE MAUSS SLOWDOWN, 9P ----------------------------------------------DADDY MAC AND THE FLAK THE 21ST SALOON, 9P ----------------------------------------------CASEY DONAHEW WITH ABBY NICOLE & COUNTY ROAD & BUCKA RUSE, THE WAITING ROOM, 9P ----------------------------------------------HIFI HANGOVER OZONE LOUNGE, 9P ----------------------------------------------SKRETTA ETC. DR. JACK’S DRINKERY, 9P ----------------------------------------------DJ SAM EC PARLIAMENT PUB, 9P ----------------------------------------------CACTUS HILL REUNION TWO FINE IRISHMEN, 9P ----------------------------------------------KARAOKE O’LEAVER’S PUB, 9:30P ----------------------------------------------JOHN CAPARULO OMAHA FUNNY BONE, 9:45P ----------------------------------------------SHEILA GREENLAND BAND BUSHWACKER’S SALOON, 10P ----------------------------------------------INTERROGATED THE BACKLINE, 10P
SATURDAY JANUARY 7 “FROM HERE TO THERE” ART EXHIBIT DARGER HQ, 12P ----------------------------------------------THE GREAT TRAIN EXPO MID-AMERICA CENTER, 2P ----------------------------------------------MIXXED FIT BUSHWACKER’S SALOON, 5P ----------------------------------------------JOHN CAPARULO OMAHA FUNNY BONE, 7P ----------------------------------------------RICH PATTON LIVE VINO MAS, 7P ----------------------------------------------“DESTINATION MARS” SERBIAN PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT PETSHOP GALLERY, 7P ----------------------------------------------OMAHA MAVERICKS HOCKEY BAXTER ARENA, 7:07P ----------------------------------------------BFF WINTER DRIVE SHOW FEATURING MINT WAD WILLY, ROBO DOJO, SPIRIT FOX, & DJ JOE BENSON THE SYDNEY, 8P ----------------------------------------------TIM CLARK BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 52 NEW MEMBERS LOVE’S JAZZ & ART CENTER, 8P ----------------------------------------------ANDY MCKEE THE WAITING ROOM, 8P ----------------------------------------------COMEDIAN MAERET LEMONS FEATURING ANNA MAY SMITH THE BACKLINE, 8P ----------------------------------------------HECTOR ANCHONDO BAND & MORE THE 21ST SALOON, 8P ----------------------------------------------TAXI DRIVER OZONE LOUNGE, 9P ----------------------------------------------OK PARTY COMEDY BATTLE ROYALE LOOKOUT LOUNGE, 9P ----------------------------------------------FALLEN REIGN, THE BROKEN SKULL BAND, HAUS OF CHAINS DR. JACK’S DRINKERY, 8P ----------------------------------------------PEREGRINE, EMILY WARD, BECK & CALL BARLEY STREET TAVEN, 9P ----------------------------------------------CACTUS HILL REUNION TWO FINE IRISHMEN, 9P
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SUNDAY JANUARY 8 OPERATION “OMAHA IVY” BY E. TAYLOR SHOOP LAURITZEN GARDENS, 9A ----------------------------------------------AMERICAN SPIRITS: THE RISE AND FALL OF PROHIBITION THE DURHAM MUSEUM, 9A ----------------------------------------------WEDDING ESSENTIALS BRIDAL UNIVERSITY MID-AMERICA CENTER, 10A ----------------------------------------------THE GREAT TRAIN EXPO MID-AMERICA CENTER, 2P ----------------------------------------------SCHUBERT’S 6TH SYMPHONY JOSLYN ART MUSEUM, 2P ----------------------------------------------SINGLES SUNDAY FACE TO FACE THERAPY BAR & GRILL, 2P ----------------------------------------------JOHN CAPARULO OMAHA FUNNY BONE, 7P ----------------------------------------------AMERICA’S PUB QUIZ TWO FINE IRISHMEN, 7P ----------------------------------------------NO GETTER, MOM JEANS, SPORTS, & GRADUATING LIFE REVERB LOUNGE, 8P ----------------------------------------------LIVE JAZZ WITH LUIGI INC. MR. TOAD, 9P
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TUESDAY JANUARY 10 OPERATION “OMAHA IVY” BY E. TAYLOR SHOOP LAURITZEN GARDENS, 9A ----------------------------------------------PRIL’S JAM 21ST SALOON, 6P ----------------------------------------------BILLY TROY OZONE LOUNGE, 6:30P ----------------------------------------------AMERICA’S PUB QUIZ VARSITY SPORTS CAFE & ROMAN COIN BELLEVUE, 7P ----------------------------------------------AMERICA’S PUB QUIZ LOCAL BEER, PATIO, KITCHEN, 7P ----------------------------------------------AMERICA’S PUB QUIZ VARSITY SPORTS CAFE & ROMAN COIN MILLARD, 7:30P ----------------------------------------------MALONEY’S IRISH PUB VARSITY SPORTS CAFE & ROMAN COIN RALSTON, 8P ----------------------------------------------BENSON SONGWRITER EXCHANGE REVERB LOUNGE, 7:30P ----------------------------------------------PUB QUIZ SLOWDOWN, 8:30P
OPERATION “OMAHA IVY” BY E. TAYLOR SHOOP LAURITZEN GARDENS, 9A ----------------------------------------------GOOCH AND HIS LAS VEGAS BIG BAND OZONE LOUNGE, 6:30P
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CASEY DONAHEW BAND THE WAITING ROOM FRIDAY, JANUARY 6 Casey Donahew Band, Abby Nicole and Bucka Ruse all performing at The Waiting Romm Friday, January 6th at 9pm. Tickets just $25
work for over a decade spreading and honing their Revivalist Rock, Heavy Soul & Boogie Trance music across the country. When it comes to energetic and heartfelt live music performances KLB is second to none. They have worked with, toured, and recorded alongside some of the industries Ćnest. All the while managing to avoid the pitfalls of the road and the rock’n’roll lifestyle that far to often derail a band on the verge of breaking out.
Their new album ‘Heavy Soul & Boogie Trance’ is a continuation to their ever exploring musical tastes and approach. An all analog and mostly live recording produced by Kelly Finnigan & Ian McDonald of Monophonics fame features their trademark lo-Ć sound. The record was recorded in the bay area at Transistor Studios and mixed by Sergio Rios of the stellar funk ensemble, Orgone. It is a powerful statement of road life, love & romance, a splash of social commentary, and a few old fashioned fun jams. All tied together with heavy guitar grooves, HECTOR ANCHONDO BAND & MORE funky drums, thick keys, and powerful bass. THE 21ST SALOON SATURDAY, JANUARY 7 Hector Anchondo Band will be playing The record is a follow up to their Tab Benoit produced recording Platte along with Big Daddy Caleb & The Chargers and Coyote Bill. Three bands River Runaway which showcases a more laid back and bluesy effort. The play to make for one big night. Louisiana legend helped bring to life Ticketst $10 a strong bluesy and country side that hasn’t been showcased very often from these troubadours. The recording was conceived after a swamp ride off of the Intercostal Canal of Louisiana’s bayou. Tab believed that if they were going to make a record together they’d Ćrst have to get a little taste of the swamp and experience treeverb. The sound of the music reverberating off of the water and the cypress trees. Which Tab mimics on one of the key tracks ‘Slow Down’. Through that boat ride and ‘near death experience’ KRIS LAGER BAND CD RELEASE another KLB live staple came to life, REVERB LOUNGE ‘Sunshine On The Bayou’ SATURDAY, JANUARY 7 Kris Lager Band has been hard at
KLB is spearheaded by singer, guitarist, and songwriter Kris Lager, who rips out face melting solos and hypnotic riffs. Jeremiah Weir on keyboards and percussions is the perfect melodic counterpart and always brings the high holiness to the stage. The backbeat of the band is brought to you by freestyle extraordinaire John Fairchild, who has logged seven years with the group and is a tour de force on the kit. Brandon Miller rounds out the ensemble on bass with a solid low end that holds it all together and a high kick Chuck Norris would be proud of. Be sure to be a part of this party at Reverb Lounge.
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NO GETTER, MOM JEANS, SPORTS & GRADUATING LIFE REVERB LOUNGE SUNDAY, JANUARY 8 Since winter 2015, four Omaha dudes with similar and different inćuences came together to form the band. Emo/punk songs came together with ease - their EP “Fitting” was released December 2nd, 2016 and even with recent member changes, they show no signs of slowing down. Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm Tickets just $7
FALLEN REIGN, THE BROKEN SKULL BAND, HAUS OF CHAINS DR. JACK’S DRINKERY SATURDAY, JANUARY 7 Pere Cheney Music Presents Fallen Reign with The Broken Skull Band and Haus of Chains at Dr. Jack’s Drinkery. Show is just $5 at the door.
SINGLES SUNDAY FACE TO FACE THERAPY BAR & GRILL SUNDAY, JANUARY 8
THE CARDBOARD SWORDS, BED REST AND LULAY MILK RUN MONDAY, JANUARY 9 The Cardboard Swords from Grand Rapids Michigan band members are Jeremy Dye, Sam Padalino, Tyler DeCoeur, and Luke Nowland. Enjoy the midwest emo indie music Monday night at the Milk Run. Tickets are just $5 and Show starts st 9pm.
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Warm Wraps, Fashion Scarves
fur) worn around the neck for warmth or to offset one’s décolletage, then scarves certainly date back at least to the 17th Century. If, however, we deĆne the scarf as a piece of fabric -
By The Focus Staff With the winter cold having arrived, it’s a great time to talk about scarves, and by the way have you ever wondered where they came from? Beginning with ancient Egyptians and touching upon Croatian, Chinese and French cultures, scarves, wraps and shawls have quite a lengthy history. For thousands of years, men and women on every continent and in pretty much every culture have worn lengths of fur, soft hide or woven fabric for warmth, to soak up sweat, for ceremonial or religious reasons, as protection from wind and dust, as a mark of status, or simply to appear attractive.
tied around or draped across the body, then scarves date back much, much further. The 0erriam-Webster deĆnes scarf as a broad band of cloth worn about the shoulders, around the neck, or over the head So who invented scarves?
No one really knows who is responsible for the creation of the If we deĆne the scarf as a printed silk scarf. It is believed they originated square, then scarves have really only in Ancient Rome and the purpose of been around since the late 19th or them was to keep clean. Their original early 20th Century. If we deĆne the scarf as a piece of fabric (or feathers or name was “sudarium” which is Latin for
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“sweat cloth.” And yes, the old forms of scarves were as appealing as their names suggest . . . the scarves were used to wipe sweat from one’s face when it got hot.
History Highlights:
The African American headwrap holds a distinctive position in the history of American dress, both for its longevity and for its potent signiĆcations. It endured the travail of slavery and never passed out of fashion. The headwrap represents far more than a piece of fabric wound around the head. This distinct cloth head covering has been called variously “head rag,” “headtie,” “head handkerchief,” “turban,” or “headwrap.”b The headwrap usually completely covers the hair, being held in place by tying the ends into knots close to the head.b
10 A.D. - Romans wore a linen kerchief or “sudarium” (Latin for “sweat cloth”) knotted around the waist or around the neck.b
A scarf worn by a Muslim is called a hijab. It’s a veil traditionally worn by Muslim women in the presence of adult males outside of their immediate family and usually covers the head and chest. The term can further refer to any head, face, or body covering worn by Muslim women that conforms to a certain standard of modesty. Hijab can also be used to refer to the seclusion of women from men in the public sphere, or it may denote a metaphysical dimension, for example, referring to “the veil which separates man or the world from God”.
230 B.C. - Warriors of the Chinese Emperor Cheng don scarves made of cloth, which mark military rank.b
1261 - Egyptians adopted a dance style known today as belly dancing. Costumes include a scarf-like belt worn low on the hips. 1600 - Croatian mercenaries wear scarves to signify rank.b 1783 - The Third Duke of Krakow is said to have invented the knit scarf in this year. b 1786 - Napoleon Bonaparte is said to send his Ćrst wife Jos«phine de Beauharnais cashmere scarves from India during his travels. 1810 - Renowned composer Beethoven falls in love with Therese Malfatti and in hopes of winning her heart, adopts a new look including fashionable suits, shirts, and silk neck scarves. 1837 - Queen Victoria comes to throne and popularizes fanciful accessories such as scarves. In the Victorian era in particular, these
accessories aid to differentiate between the upper, middle and lower classes. 1856 - Burberry, maker of iconic plaid scarves, is founded. 1900 - Isadora Duncan, considered by many to be the mother of modern dance, popularizes long ćowing scarves. Ironically, Duncan died as the result of a freak accident during which her long scarf was caught in the wheel of an automobile.b 1914 - The knitting of scarves becomes a patriotic wartime duty in the United States. 1930 - Fur scarves are at the height of fashion in France.
1970 - It is popular to wear scarves as a headband across the forehead and wrapped around the waist and chest as a shirt. Today scarves are used for style and to keep warm on a cold day! Stop into Paperdolls for a great selection in vintage fashion. SOURCES: http://www.dresslikeme.co.uk/scarf. php http://www.joyofbellydancing.com/ bdhistory2.html http://www.scarfworld.com/scarf_ information/history_of_scarves/index. cfm http://www.merriam-webster.com
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The Sound of Music By The Focus Staff
mother’s” familiar Sound Of Music. They’re tearing off the varnish of the past from one of the great glories of our theatergoing experience and making it fresh! He says that this is an opportunity that they’ve longed to create.
seven years older than Liesl! bShe may be many things — a country lass, a climber-of-trees, a young renegade, but she is clearly NOT an established star! bHow interesting! b “I’ve always believed Maria was a ‘starmaking’ part, rather than the leading role we remember from the movies and our experience; so I went looking for someone with star-making magic.” b On his new leading lady, who takes over the role from Kerstin Anderson: “You often wonder if lightning ever strikes twice? b “Our original Maria in THE SOUND OF MUSIC, an undergraduate sophomore from Pace University, was just such an original — and as a truly youthful “discovery” in her theatrical debut, she pretty much shattered both expectations and all previous molds. bSo when it came time for her departure, one wondered if the entire event might change into something very different. “….and then, Charlotte Maltby walked through the door. bThe daughter of celebrated writer and director, Richard Maltby, Jr, she was, of course, theatrical royalty personiĆed; but was I prepared for her poise, her naturalness, her timing, her elegance? bNo, I was not. bWas I prepared for that voice — one of the richest and most powerful I believe I have ever heard in a theatre before? “No, I most assuredly was not. bAnd
yet, there she stood — and the tears in my eyes as I heard the Ćrst notes of THE SOUND OF MUSIC testiĆed that we were in a small age of theatrical miracles: bthere was lightning once more, pure, and anything but simple. “Our discovery now is your pleasure; we are blessed by not only the continuing gift of this “sleeping beauty” of a musical, but more so by the refreshing talent that is somehow inevitably attracted to perform in it.” Featuring music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, suggested by The Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp. This new production is directed by Jack O’Brien (credits include: Hairspray, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Coast of Utopia), choreographed by Danny Mefford (Fun Home, The Bridges of Madison County and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) and music supervision by Andy Einhorn (Bullets Over Broadway, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Brief Encounter, The Light in the Piazza). The design and production team is comprised of Douglas W. Schmidt, set design (Tony Award® nominee: 42nd Street, Into the Woods); Jane Greenwood, costume design (2014 recipient of the Special Tony Award® for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), Natasha Katz, lighting design (Five-time Tony Award® winner: An American in Paris, Once, Aida, The Coast of Utopia, The Glass Menagerie) and Ken Travis, sound design (Aladdin, Newsies,
Kerstin Anderson as ‘Maria Rainer’ Photo By: Matthew Murphy
There’s a new production of The Sound Of Music that will be hitting the stage from January 24th-29th at the Orpheum Theater. Directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O’ Brien it will be part of the Omaha Performing Arts’ Broadway Series. Tickets start at $35 and are available now at the Ticket Omaha box ofĆce located inside the Holland Performing Arts Center, 1200 Douglas Street, by calling (402) 345-0606 or online at TicketOmaha.com. Director Jack O’ Brien says that this production is no longer “your
Introducing CHARLOTTE MALTBY as Maria Rainer in her national tour debut Director Jack O’Brien had this to say about casting the iconic role of Maria: “I was privileged to actually see Mary Martin in the original production — as I was myself just a junior at the University of Michigan. bShe was a great star, and she was giving a ‘great star’s’ performance. bShe was at the apex of her career, and she was both brilliant and 46 years old. b “But in reading it privately, something caught my eye: bMaria is probably, as a postulant, no more than six or
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Kerstin Anderson as ‘Maria Rainer’ and the von Trapp Children Photo By: Matthew Murphy
rson as Mervin Foard as ‘Max Detweiler’, Kerstin Ande ge’ Geor tain and Ben Davis as ‘Cap hy Murp Photo By: Matthew
Memphis). Casting by Telsey + Company/Rachel Hoffman, CSA. On March 2, 1965, “The Sound of Music” premiered inside New York City’s Rivoli Theatre and today remains one of the most popular Ćlms of all time. Adjusted for inćation, the Oscar-winning movie is still the thirdlargest grossing Ćlm in history, trailing only “Gone with the Wind” and “Star Wars”. Although many liberties have been taken in Hollywood to juice up the 1949 book, “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers,” such as three of the children being omitted from the Ćlm and the Von Trapps being married more than a decade before they ćed Austria, the story manages to take you back to a time when a family that had to overcome tremendous struggles during a very tumultuous time period managed to Ćnd a common bond and endure.
‘Maria Rainer’
Saturday, January 28 – 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM Sunday, January 29 – 1:30 PM & 7:00pm For more information, please visit https://www. ticketomaha.com or www. TheSoundOfMusicOnTour.com https://www. OmahaPerformingArts.org www.facebook.com/ TheSoundOfMusic www.twitter.com/ SoundOfMusicwww. instagram.com/ SoundOfMusicOnTour
Kerstin Anderson as ‘Maria Rainer’ Ben Davis as ‘Captain George’ Photo By: Matthew Murphy
Julie Andrews may not be present, but this is still sure to be a production hit and fun for the whole family! THE SOUND OF MUSIC will play Omaha’s Orpheum Theater: Tuesday January 24 – 7:30 PM Wednesday, January 25 – 7:30 PM Thursday, January 26 – 7:30 PM Friday, January 27 - 8:00 PM
Kerstin Anderson as ‘Maria Ra iner’, Ben Davis as ‘Captain Ge orge’ and the von Trapp Children Photo By: Matthew Murphy
Mervin Foard as ‘Max Detweiler’ Photo By: Matthew Murphy
Kerstin Anderson as ‘M aria Rainer’ Photo By: Matthew Mu rphy
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Douglas County Historical SocietySecond Sunday Series By The Focus Staff Douglas County Historical Society’s monthly program, Second Sunday Series, begins again for 2017 with a presentation entitled “Mormon Pioneers at the Missouri 1846-1852” given by Elder Jay Crandall on Sunday, January 8 at 2 p.m. Elder Crandall currently serves as the Director of the Mormon Trail Center at Historic Winter Quarters. Following displacement from Nauvoo, Illinois, the Mormon migration found itself in what is now the Florence neighborhood during the harsh winter of 1846-1847. Elder Crandall’s presentation will cover this time period exploring why the Florence site was chosen, what daily life in the settlement was like, how the group became connected with the Civil War, and where the journey continued following their departure.
this group with settlement and shelter during the trek along with the broader context of the this moment in the Mormon migration. The Second Sunday Series consists of once per month presentations that serve to highlight a diverse range of topics related to Douglas County and covering various periods of our community’s history. The Second Sunday Series is offered free of charge to DCHS members as a beneĆt of their membership. We welcome all community members interested to attend $5 and due to limited space we ask all to RSVP either by phone at 402-455-9990 or email at Members@ DouglasCoHistory.org
Douglas County Historical Society’s mission is to preserve and enliven historical insight in Douglas County The history of the Mormon migration is a story of American pioneers making Nebraska. Please visit our website www.DouglasCoHistory.org to learn the difĆcult journey west to settle and craft a better life. Elder Crandall’s about the Society’s programs, services, and other upcoming events. presentation will illustrate how the Florence area of Douglas County provided
Douglas County Historical Society Building
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Mormon Pioneers at the Missouri 1846-1852
For those that are interested in becoming members: Membership costs include- Individual $35 Free Admission to Crook House Museum, Quarterly Newsletter, 10% off Merchandise at Gift Shop, 20% off
all Research Services at the Library Archive Center, reduced prices on classes that the Society offers, and free admission to the Second Sunday Series and e-mail updates. For more information contact the Society at 402-455-9990 or Members@ DouglasCoHistory.org.
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“She’s steered the ship pretty well.” In an economy like the United States, there are too many things going on for an individual in that position to be too political, he said.
The Markets and the Economy After the Fed +LNe By Andy Roberts
The Fed also indicated three more increases are likely in 2017. “That’s their prediction,” said Creighton University Economist Ernie Goss. In 2015, he pointed out, it was predicted there would be four but we only got one.
When the Federal Reserve Board closed its two-day meeting in December, it surprised no one with a quarter percentage rate hike. It was the Ćrst rate hike in more than a year and only the second in a decade. The rate is a benchmark that determines how much it costs Ćnancial institutions to lend to one another. That means it costs more for banks to borrow money which then makes it cost more for banks to loan that money to you.
Yellen’s term expires in January of 2018, and Goss indicated John Taylor of Stanford would be his pick to replace her.
While Goss looks for the economy to expand at a higher rate in the coming year, it is his feeling that job growth will not be as fast as we might like due to a lack of skilled workers and other factors. The stock market, he feels, will not experience the same rate of growth in 2017 it has seen since the election. “I think it’s a little over-exuberant,” Goss said.
“He’s more of a supply-side economist.” He looks for growth in the economy of 3-to-3.5 percent as the best we can hope for, while the market is now The Federal Reserve Board has not “I think they’re closer to being right been at fault, in Goss’s opinion, for the looking at 3.5-to 4 percent. this time as the inćationary pressures economy’s 2 percent growth in the last are greater,” Goss stated. “The chances eight years, a Ćgure he pointed out as Other moves can be expected to are we’ll probably get the three rate stimulate growth in the economy, with being the slowest since the 1950s. hikes this year.” one thing almost certain. “The problem has been in the White Investors don’t seem fazed, and Goss House,” Goss said, with over-regulation “We’re going to see a tax cut for said they may be overly optimistic at earnings, earned abroad brought home and clamp downs on business and a the moment. at a lower rate,” Goss stated. “That’s a failure to incentivize business. done deal.” “They see everything as positive now. “The Federal Reserve has been along They don’t see the speed bumps,” he stressed. While the market is currently priced for smooth sailing, that could change if we see speed bumps like more Fed rate hikes, or if promised infrastructure spending fails to materialize under the new Trump administration, or if anticipated tax reform doesn’t happen. “I think they (investors) see it (the future) as more positive than I do, but I’m an economist,” Goss said, adding that economists are less likely to look at things through “rose-colored glasses.”
Janet Yellen
“It’s just not smart,” Goss emphasized, adding Esther George, president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, is a good representative for the Midwest.
for the ride,” Goss said. “There’s some things he (President Obama) could have done, should have done, he didn’t do.”
President-elect Trump has criticized Fed chief Janet Yellen, but Goss stopped short of saying there is friction between her and the incoming administration. “I don’t know if ‘friction’ is the right word,” Goss stated. “The presidentelect . . . has talked about the Federal Reserve . . . and the politicization of it.” Goss said the Fed historically has been “pretty apolitical” with a slight lean toward the administration. Yellen is, Goss emphasized, more of a Keynesian (liberal) economist than he is, but:
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Therapy Bar & Grill By Andy Roberts and Focus Staff
The road that takes one down the path to becoming a good culinarian often isn’t an easy one, and Chef David Ramirez is a perfect case in point. “I started off as a dishwasher at Millard Roadhouse”, and it was there he gained his passion for food. After working under Chef Deke at Jackson Street Tavern he continued on at Tish’s Restaurant in Council Bluffs, and after 1 years he Ćnally found the opportunity he had been dreaming of with a chance to run his own restaurant at Therapy Bar and Grill. While his passion is for Italian cuisine and pasta, the menu offers just about everything from ćatbreads to burgers, and nachos to wraps. “I make everything down to the salsa from scratch and it’s made to order”. David and his brother Elmer run the Nachos show and are preparing to start their own catering business as well. They have plans for DE Food Creations to be The beef is seasoned well and the salsa is fresh and ćavorful. I’m initially up and running by spring. scared anytime I see a white cheese sauce, but
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this is blended to creamy perfection and you can tell it’s fresh and not from a can.
Wings -
Anxiety Burger –
From the citrus BBQ sauce to the Jamaican rub, the ćavors are good but not overpowering. Wings are crunchy and ćavorful and in the case of the citrus BBQ it was nice to not have so much sauce applied to them that it leaves you a mess.
A 1/2 pound cheese-stuffed burger with grilled mushrooms, onion, applewood-smoked bacon, topped with a fried egg and fresh avocado. This is the regular’s favorite!
Crazy Cook Wrap Fresh ground beef, pico, and all of the Ćxin’s, all wrapped in a crunchy cheesy tortilla. The cheese is melted on the outside, which is the secret behind the crunch. You have to try this wrap, despite the crazy name!
They also have fresh soups that are made daily, and if you’re a soup fan you won’t be disappointed. Don’t be scared that this is located inside a bar as this is deĆnitely a step above your average bar food. Stop in for lunch or dinner. They have great hours from Mon.-
Bufuque Chicken Bacon Wrap Just like the title says, if you like ćatbreads, you deĆnitely wan to try this. Even though I didn’t get to it immediately, the ćatbread wasn’t soggy, which was a deĆnite plus in my book. Thurs. 11am-10pm and Fri. and Sat. from 11am- midnight. With a gym right across the street, they offer both light and heavier fare. Visit Therapy Bar and Grill online at https://www.facebook. com/Therapy108/
Loco Burger All burgers are made to order and cooked to your temp style. Juicy and not overcooked, it is deĆnitely a solid burger. The huge avocado slices made this one work for me!
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Post Holiday Weight Loss Tips By The Focus Staff Now that the holidays are over, it’s time to tighten our belts in preparation for spring (Hopefully in a few months).
Here are a few products that Jane at Jane’s Health Food Store suggested may help you with, if this is your New <ear’s 5esolution. <ou can Ćnd all these products at her store or check her Facebook page for specials! https://www.facebook.com/ janeshealthmarket/
Unroasted coffee beans have become popular after being featured on “The Dr. Oz Show.” They contain compounds called chlorogenic acids. After being roasted these acids are greatly reduced which is why the same effects are thought to not be produced by coffee. The extract is sold in pill form and can be found at any local health food store. It’s also important to note that the documented effects for weight loss aren’t long term and there isn’t enough evidence to conĆrm how effective or safe it may be.
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luhum, meaning “wound in the ćesh” or “abscess” referring to the ćoral odor and is native to India. It can also be found sold under the active ingredient name of Slimaluma which ha generally been recognized as safe since 2006. It is used as an appetite suppressant and when consumed raw or cooked
is also said to have glucose reducing properties. There are no known dangerous side effects.
said to decrease appetite and prevent your body from storing food fat. A word of caution: Make sure to consult your health food expert on dosage and quality as a 2005 study in Food and Garcinia CambogiaChemical Toxicology found that high Another Dr. Oz favorite, this is a tropical doses of gardenia cambogia extract fruit from Indonesia which is also known caused testicular atrophy and toxicity in as tamarind fruit. Its rind contains a mice. Ouch!! compound called hydroxycitric acid (HCA), So iif you need a little boost to help with your weight loss needs, whether real or which is you p perceived, make sure to exercise and ffollow a healthy diet as well. Note to sself. Until next week, Stay Healthy O Omaha!! S Sources: Janeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Food Store, rreference.com, ask.com, Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s H Health, wikipedia.
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“A lot of our gigs come from word of mouth these days,” Forney said. “When we were Ćrst starting out, getting gigs involved making a lot of phone calls.”
&URVVĆUH By Eddie Torrez CrossĆre. It’s a term that brings to mind many images. You probably don’t want to stand in the middle of one, but if you’re talking about the ace local country band by that name, you’ll probably end up dancing anyway.
CrossĆre formed in Omaha in June 2010. It was obvious from the time bass player Walter Killam, guitarist Gary Groves, and drummer Steve Ruhwein, auditioned David Forney to sing lead start that they had something special. Intense rehearsals were followed by a July 4th weekend gig at Little Rickey’s in North Bend. Later that year Ruhwein had to step aside for medical concerns and the band added veteran drummer Buck Weyerman. The lineup was set. Forney thinks the band’s hard work on its three-part harmony vocals that makes them stand out. “We think we have really strong vocal performances,” he said. “Add to that the
fact we’re all just great friends.” The others, Forney stated, are all experienced musicians with him being the relative newcomer. He joined the band after singing lots of karaoke and sitting in with a few local groups.
Since CrossĆre no longer is trying to play every possible show, they look to play three or four times a month, and the band can be a little more selective, he pointed out, noting the music scene has changed signiĆcantly during the time the band has been together.
“I found country music to be a performance style, more than a music style,” Forney said. Lots of blues and soul, he acknowledged, can be found in pop, rock, and country. So, when you see CrossĆre you will hear not only songs by Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Garth Brooks, Toby Keith, Alan Jackson, and Kenny Chesney, you also will hear The Doobie Brothers, Eagles, and more.
“Half the bars we used to play at when we were Ćrst starting out are no longer around,” Forney recalled. “I swear it’s not our fault.”
Killam is North Texas native who grew up on classical music with his initiation to live performance coming by playing punk rock before cutting his chops in the Dallas Honky Tonks. He plays bass and Bushwackers, mandolin while serving as CrossĆre’s primary writer of original material. Gary Groves hails from San Diego and credits his love for the guitar to two talented uncles. Once a rhythm player, his lead skills are now much in demand.
Whiskey Roadhouse and various Fremont bars are among the more regular stops when they aren’t playing other types of events. Forney said business is not as good these days as one might expect for a country band. J.P. “Buck” Weyerman is in the Nebraska Music Hall of Fame for his work with The Ogden Edsl Wahalia Blues Ensemble Mondo Bizzario Band. His percussion skills have been heard on studio sessions and radio spots in Omaha, L.A., and elsewhere. He sat in a few shows with CrossĆre and knew he wanted to be a full-time member. Now a polished frontman, Forney says rodeos, street dances, wedding and dance halls make for CrossĆre’s best gigs.
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CrossĆre is proud to offer some originals. “We have an album we put out in 2011 that’s called Need to Know,” he said. That music had been bouncing around in the heads of CrossĆre members before they felt they had the right lineup. It had international Internet radio play and was followed up last year with Beer Under the Bridge.
“National acts do extraordinarily well when they come to town,” he said. Forney said he can’t Ćgure out why local bands don’t do better, but many local country bars don’t book live bands. That often has CrossĆre competing against all “We’re pretty proud of it,” Forney said. the other cover bands. Even with two albums of material, That said, Forney makes it clear that Forney and the band are more CrossĆre is not simply a country cover interested in playing and having fun band, and says he developed a new than achieving greatness. understanding of the genre when The Rolling Stones played Omaha in 2006 “We Ćgure we’re all too old and fat for with Brooks and Dunn as the opening that,” he said with a chuckle. “We’re act. doing this to have fun. The thrill of being on-stage, he acknowledged is something
only other performers will know. When there is a lull in their schedule, the guys just have to get together and jam. With an attitude like that, there had to be a good story about one of those
nights when CrossĆre was making sure the audience had a good time. Playing at a Council Bluffs bar to a small crowd, Forney decided to put on the best show he could, and jumped on a table. At and admitted 250 pounds, he
caught the chair with the point of his boot, landing on top of it without missing a note. “I had a pretty awful bruise the next day,” he admitted.
Feb. 11 at the Corner Bar in Fremont and Feb. 17 at Bushwackers. tp For more info on CrossĆre Visit http www.crossĆrecountrymusic.com
<our next chances to see CrossĆre are
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College %DVNeWEDll By Andy Roberts & Focus Staff CREIGHTON BLUEJAYS
This team is not perfect, but the ćaws can be improved and a deep run in the NCAA Tournament remains a possibility. The rest of the league schedule isn’t easy, with the Big East having the top RPI of any conference in the country. No easy wins here. Next Games: Wednesday at St. John’s, Saturday at Providence.
NEBRASKA CORNHUSKERS
Creighton Bluejays 13-1 (1-1 Big East) It has been a year to remember and a start to a season that will go down as historic. Creighton rolled out to a 13-0 start with wins over six teams from the “Football Five” leagues and a solid 89-75 win of probably NCAA Tournament participant Seton Hall in the Jays’ Big East opener.
Is this the same team that recently lost to Gardner-Webb and left Head Coach Tim Miles reeling in the locker room for 30 minutes before addressing the media? If a person wasn’t familiar with the team and only paid attention to conference play, the Huskers would appear to be a force to be reckoned with. Gone are the Facebook posts CenturyLink Center was alive on Saturday as No. 1-ranked Villanova, the about holding tryouts for the general public. Nebraska is 2-0 in the B1G Ten defending national champs, came to town. More than 18,800 nearly blew the for the Ćrst time ever, and the Ćrst time in conference play since the 2005-06 roof off the arena, but the Bluejays fell season. The Huskers haven’t won their 80-70 after taking several early leads and surging back on repeated occasions. Ćrst two conference road games since 1979-80. The defending champs were simply too good that day – and Philadelphia native Gone for a moment are the long stretches when NU seems to forget how Maurice Watson, CU’s All-American candidate at point guard struggled with to score and allows teams like Maryland foul trouble against his hometown team. to go on a 17-0 run. Lost players, youth, and injuries are all removed from our memories when you’re winning. Tai Still, AP voters noticed the effort and Webster had a magical reverse layup kept Creighton in the Top Ten.
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moment in the second half of the Maryland game that, if all you saw was from that point, made the Huskers look like Villanova. But not too fast! This team still has a lot of work to do. And as agonizing as they can look during their scoring lapses, that seem to date all the way back to Danny Nee, don’t forget they’re young and Tim Miles has breathed new life into something that had some fans asking for his head. This team, while they’re far from Creighton, seems to be on the upside and who cares anyway when you’re winning!
Omaha Mavericks 7-8 (0-2 Summit League)
Next stop: A great chance to go 3-0 against Iowa in Lincoln on Thursday
Make no mistake, this team is scrappy, entertaining, and is not down for the count. Derrin Hansen’s club will have something to say about who wins the league and they’re going to be a tough out in the Summit League Tournament at Sioux Falls in early March.
UNO MAVERICKS
UNO battled through an extremely challenging nonconference schedule, taking on all comers and Ćnishing that part of the slate at 7-6. The schedule makers did the Mavs no favors, sending them on the road to open Summit League play at South Dakota (an 86-69 loss) and to North Dakota State on New Year’s Eve (cruel) where they fell 82-70.
With Ćve players from Omaha high schools and one from Fremont, it’s well worth your while to take a trip to Baxter Arena. Next Games: Wednesday, Fort Wayne in Omaha, Saturday at South Dakota State.
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M-F 4:30-6P $2 Bud and Bud Light
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Sounds Like a Joke (1) Spencer Hanvey, 22, was charged with four burglaries of the same MedCare Pharmacy in Conway, Arkansas, in October and November, using the same modus operandi each time to steal drugs. (Bonus: Oddly, the drugs were not for obsessivecompulsive disorder.) (2) If You See Something, Say Something: Hamden (Connecticut) High School was put into lockdown for an hour on Dec. 15 features are scrambled or upside By Chuck Shepherd when a student was seen running in down. In December, a research team the hallway, zig-zagging from side to from the Netherlands and Japan side, swinging an arm and leaping into published Ćndings that chimpanzees the air. Police were called, but quickly are the same way -- when it comes to learned that it was just a 12th-grade recognizing other chimps’ butts. That suggests, the scientists concluded, that boy practicing a basketball move and sophisticated recognition of rear ends pretending to dunk. [Arkansas Online, 12-7-2016] [New Haven Register, 12is as important for chimps (as “socio15-2016] sexual signaling,” such as prevention of inbreeding) as faces are to humans. The Aristocrats! [Washington Post, 12-6-2016] Low-Tech Pervs: (1) A camera-less Alan Ralph, 62, was arrested in Sarasota, Suspicions ConĆrmed Florida, in December after being seen Humanity has accumulated an on surveillance video in October in estimated 30 trillion tons of “stuff,” a Wal-Mart stooping down to the according to research by University ćoor to peer up the skirt of a woman. of Leicester geologists -- enough (2) John Kuznezow, 54, was charged to Ćt over 100 pounds’ worth over with invasion of privacy in Madison, every square meter of the planet’s Wisconsin, in November after he surface. The scientists, writing in the Anthropocene Review, are even more was discovered, pants down, up a tree outside a woman’s second-ćoor alarmed that very little of it is ever bedroom window. [WFLA-TV (Tampa), recycled and that buried layers of 12-6-2016] [WMTV (Madison), 11-8technofossils that deĆne our era will 2016] clutter and weigh down the planet, hampering future generations. (Don’t Bright Ideas just think of “garage sale” stuff, wrote LEAD STORY -The Immigrants Wanted to Believe: Mother Nature News; think of every Oh-So-Sweet Dreams For about 10 years, organized crime single thing we produce.) [Mother rings operated a makeshift U.S. Nature News, 12-7-2016] The Hastens workshop in Koping, “embassy” in a rundown pink building Sweden, liberally using the phrase in Accra, the capital of Ghana, issuing Finer Points of the Law “master artisans” recently, unveiled ofĆcial-looking identiĆcation papers, A federal appeals court agreed with a its made-to-order $149,900 mattress. including “visas” that theoretically jury in December that Battle Creek, Bloomberg News reported in permitted entry into the United Michigan, police were justiĆed in December on Hastens’ use of superior States. The U.S. State Department shooting (and killing) two hardly construction materials such as pure Ćnally persuaded Ghanian ofĆcials to misbehaving family dogs during a steel springs, “slow-growing” pine, close it down, but it is unknown if any legal search of a house’s basement. multiple layers of ćax, horsehair lining purchasers were ever caught trying to Mark and Cheryl Brown had pointed (braided by hand, then unwound immigrate. The “embassy,” with a U.S. out that their dogs never attacked; to ensure extra spring), and cotton ćag outside, had well-spoken “consular one, an ofĆcer admitted, was “just covered by ćame-retardant wool ofĆcers” who reportedly collected standing there” when shot and killed. batting. With a 25-year guarantee, an about $6,000 per visa. [Ghana eight-hour-a-day sleep habit works out The ofĆcers said that conducting a Business News, 12-2-2016] thorough search of the premises might to $2 an hour. (Bonus: The Bloomberg have riled the dogs and threatened reviewer, after a trial run, gave the Weird Old World their safety. (Unaddressed was “Vividus” a glowing thumbs-up.) (1) Wu Jianping, 25, from China’s whether a dog might avoid being shot [Bloomberg News, 12-2-2016] if it masters the classic trick of “playing Henan province, complained in dead.”) [Battle Creek Enquirer, 12-21- November that he had been denied The Job of the Researcher home loans at several banks for not 2016] Humans are good at recognizing providing Ćngerprints -- because he faces, but exceptionally poor at has no arms (following a childhood recognition when the same face’s accident) and “signs” documents by
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holding a pen in his mouth. He was not allowed to substitute “toeprints.” (2) Classes were canceled in early December in the village of Batagai in the Yakutia region of Siberia when the temperature reached minus 53 Celsius (minus 63 Fahrenheit) -- but only for kids 15 and under; older children still had to get to school. Yakutia is regarded as the coldest inhabited region on the planet. [China Daily, 11-22-2016] [The Sun (London), 12-82016] Sex Toys in the News (1) The government in Saxony, Germany, chose as third-place winner of its 2016 prize for innovation and start-up companies the inventor of the ingenious silent vibrator (leading to shaming of the economy minister Martin Dulig, now known as “Dildo Dulig”). (2) An unknown armed robber made off with cash at the Lotions and Lace adult store in San Bernardino, California, in December -- although employees told police they angrily pelted the man with dildos from the shelves as he ran out the door. [The Local (Berlin), 11-25-2016] [KNBC-TV (Los Angeles), 12-14-2016] Least Competent Criminals Not Ready for Prime Time: (1) Leonard Rinaldi, 53, was arrested in Torrington, Connecticut, in November following his theft of a rare-coin collection belonging to his father. The coins were valued at about $8,000, but apparently to make his theft less easily discoverable, he ran them through a Coinstar coin-cashing machine -netting himself a cool $60. (2) James Walsh was arrested in Port St. Lucie, Florida, on Dec. 12 at a Wal-Mart after carting out an unpaid-for big-screen TV. Walsh said he had swiped a TV on Dec. 11 with no problem -- but failed to notice that, on the 12th, the store had a “shop with a cop” event at which St. Lucie County deputies were buying toys for kids. [WTIC-TV (Hartford), 11-16-2016] [WPEC- TV (West Palm Beach), 12-12-2016] Recurring Themes =imbabwe’s hyperinćation remains the most storied, but Venezuela is catching up. In mid-December, the government declared its largest-currency bill (the 100-bolivar note) worthless, replacing it with larger denomination money (after a brief cash-in period that has ended and which some drug dealers were likely shut out of). The
100-bolivar’s value had shrunk to 2 cents on the black market. Stacks of it were required to make even the smallest food purchases, and since wallets could no longer hold the notes, robbers feasted on the “packages” of money people carried around while shopping. [Wall Street Journal, 12-132016] The Passing Parade (1) In October, Chicago alderman Howard Brookins Jr. publicly denounced “aggressive” squirrels that were gnawing through trash cans and costing the city an extra $300,000. A month later, Brookins was badly injured in a bicycle collision (broken nose, missing teeth) when a squirrel (in either a mighty coincidence or suicide terrorism) jumped into one of his wheels, sending Brookins over the handlebar. (2) In October, ofĆcials of Alaska’s Iditarod reafĆrmed an earlier decision to allow mushers to use mobile phones during the 2017 race; “purists” maintain that phones destroy the “frontier-ness” of the event. [Chicago Tribune, 11-22-2016] [Alaska Dispatch News, 10-28-2016] A News of the Weird Classic Update: Every several years, News of the Weird helpfully reminds readers of what is one of the planet’s most bizarre local customs: the Christmas tradition in Spain’s Catalonia region of decorating Nativity scenes with Ćgurines of traditional Catalonians and famous people, each squatting to answer nature’s calls. The update this year, of course, is the availability of squatting Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, joining past presidents (including the all-time best-seller, President Obama), Queen Elizabeth and Pope Francis. (Perhaps the leasttone-deaf explanation for the tradition is that if the manger is fertilized, the coming year’s crops can be expected to ćourish.) [New <ork Times, 12-6-2016] Thanks This Week to Stan Kaplan, Rob Zimmer, and Alan Magid, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors. COPYRIGHT 2017 CHUCK SHEPHERD
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