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REVIEWS

I HEAR THUD By Tatiana Ballinger

ON TEN

This week’s top ten events you don’t want to miss! By Focus Omaha

LOCAL

Jay Keys Delivers a Message

HEALTH

UNMC RESEARCHERS

REAL ESTATE

THIS WEEKS FEATURE

LINCOLN

SPORTS

FINANCE

HOUSING OUTLOOK FOR 2020

HAPPY HOUR

We gathered up some of the BEST Happy Hour spots in and around the Omaha metro! Focus is your FREE Arts, Entertainment, Health, Personal Finance, & Music Newsweekly. We’ve brought all of these elements together for the Ćrst time, all in one weekly format. Our goal is to provide you, the customer, with the best possible publication to suit all of your needs.

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Jay Keys Delivers a Message By Andy Roberts

“It (prison) forced me to really learn about me,” “I like to listen to all kinds of music,” Keys stressed. “I can’t particularly say I have one Keys says of his prison time. favorite,” adding his musical palate includes His exposure to Stephen R. Covey’s book, The easy listening, country, and classical. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, was a “Anybody who is doing what they love, turning point while Keys was inside, and that especially musically, that’s my inspiration evolved into him helping teach others. there.” “I just wanted to help keep guys out of prison,” Keys emphasized he hopes to provide a voice he recalled. for those who don’t quite know how to say Keys turned a potential negative of prison time what they’re feeling. He also looks to provide inspiration to help people through hard times into a major positive. and help them move forward. “It was probably one of the best times for Keys’ mission statement: “I will strive every growth, development, and education,” Keys stated. “You can get something from that if you day to be better today than I was yesterday and better tomorrow than I am today.” decide.” Keys now has his own music company called Organic Music with one artist BMan, 18-yearold Blake Randall. They are set to release his Ćrst major project this summer. Keys met Randall’s father in prison. “It’s just been fun,” he added of working with the younger man, and big things are expected to come from it.

He added, “Love and try to suck a little less each day . . . We’re born into this world and don’t necessarily have it all together . . . life is not exactly how we want it to be.” It’s something he came up with while incarcerated but later learned someone else had already come up with the concept. It’s a concept he appears to be mastering.

Then there is Phlame Classic, his business partner, who helps with artist development and music composition, engineering and production.

Jay Keys has some music for you to hear and a story to share.

College where, with a couple of other guys, he founded Smalltown Records. That led to the release of more than ten albums and sales of 100,000-plus units.

Born in Tampa, Florida, Jason Keys grew up in the church where his “Pops” was a pastor. Now 39 years old, he started playing the organ in He then suffered a detour. church and was making beats at 16. In June of 2011, Keys was convicted of “I still play for the church,” Keys said. “I’ve unlawfully discharging a Ćrearm and never had any type of lessons, any type of sentenced to 8-to-20 years at state professional training . . . God told me I can play. corrections in Tecumseh. A little more than All I had to do to was listen.” Ćve years later he was granted parole and released his second solo project. “Dope,” Now others are listening to Keys. which came out last June and can be considered the follow-up to his Son of a “Producer Artist & Visionary - I’m a beat Preacher Man album from 2009. makin’ psycho” is how he describes himself on his Facebook page. Keys wasn’t embittered by the experience of incarceration. In fact, it seems quite the Keys graduated from Omaha North High opposite happened. School in 1998 and went to Wayne State

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Keys currently is working on new music and “Windows,” a new song, is set for a Friday online release. While it’s easy to put Keys in the hip-hop world, that would be wrong.

For more on Jay Keys: www.facebook.com/jiammusic.keys.7

Download his hit single “Drip” https://music.apple.com/us/album/ drip/1469112530?i=1469112838

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Author to discuss sex, power, and assault on college campuses at Feb. 27 presentation By Focus Omaha

Jennifer Hirsch, Ph.D., a co-author of the book “Sexual Citizens” will speak The fear of sexual assault on college campuses is very real and part of a broader discussion among students about consent, college life, and cultural norms. These facts and other interesting and insightful observations will be discussed when Jennifer Hirsch, Ph.D., co-author of Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campuspresents the Ćndings of years of research on the subject during a presentation at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Scott Conference Center, 6450 Pine St. on the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Scott Campus. “This book really does a great job of presenting students’ honest testimony about what is happening and it has the ability to have a huge impact on helping universities understand what is going on around sexual assault on college campuses, especially as it pertains to spaces students interact in,” said Maranda Thompson, an M.D./Ph.D. student at UNMC and president of EMPOWER, a student-led, inter-professional initiative focused on raising awareness and education of domestic and sexual violence. The event will include a discussion of the book, Q&A, and book signing. Books are available for purchase at the event, or in advance via www.sexualcitizens.com. Light appetizers will be served. Attendees are asked to register at https://sexualcitizensbooktalkomaha. eventbrite.com

Dr. Hirsch, a professor of sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, co-wrote Sexual Citizens with Shamus Khan, Ph.D., a professor and chair of sociology at Columbia University. Sexual Citizens is based on research Drs. Hirsch and Khan conducted through SHIFT, the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation, which Dr. Hirsch co-directs and Dr. Khan co-heads. SHIFT research examines the many factors that shape sexual health and sexual violence for undergrads at Columbia University. Through their research initiative, the authors interviewed students of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Their study reveals the social ecosystem that makes sexual assault predictable and explains how physical spaces, alcohol, and peer groups inćuence young people’s experiences and interpretations of both sex and sexual assault. A more informal discussion with Dr. Hirsch will be held earlier in the day at noon on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus in the Maurer College of Public Health, room 3013. Lunch will be provided for the Ćrst 75 people.

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Housing Outlook for 2020 By Focus Omaha

Housing market activity picked up in the second half of 2019 in response to lower mortgage rates. The supply of new housing will continue to increase and will reach and possibly exceed its underlying long-term trend. Demographics will continue to support the housing market, with Millennials aging and forming families, and thus searching for single-family homes in suburban areas, while Baby Boomers not having started to downsize to a signiÄ&#x2020;cant degree. Home price appreciation will be higher than last year due to the suboptimal supply of existing homes for sale, but also in line with income growth, contributing to the sustainability of market conditions. The attractiveness of large coastal knowledge-

intensive metro areas will remain, but the lack of affordable housing will drive some residents to smaller metro areas away from the coasts. Demand for apartments in attractive areas will remain strong, driven by the strength of the local economies and lack of affordable ownership options. Mid-size metro areas that can attract young families will beneÄ&#x2020;t from the rebalancing of some of the regional disparities built up over the last decade.

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FEATURE

Keep It Simple By Focus Omaha It’s 2,008.4 miles (to be precise) from Peoria, Illinois, to San Diego, California. At one time it would have seemed highly unlikely for two people to meet when they lived so far from each other.

up, so she stayed with us and helped me with recipes for a few months.”

Hector’s lays claim to have been the first restaurant to coin the term “Baja Style” which has since come to be used commonly It would have seemed even more unlikely for by other restaurants. Baja cooking is a person to strike up a relationship with their comprised of fresh ingredients like grilled fish and meat with very little seasoning: boss, and that boss is a woman. But Hector and Kathleen Garcia did just that and, after a primarily garlic, salt, and pepper. It also doesn’t feature any Cumin. layoff (leave it to defense contractors) from General Dynamics, a new opportunity for “You overwhelm the flavor of the food when Kathleen at now-defunct Inacom brought you use a lot of spices,” Garcia said. them to Omaha. It was there that in 1997 they eventually started Hector’s at the old He also was the first, as he recalls, to bring Jalapeno’s location on 84th and Center. fish tacos, a San Felipe original, to the Hector was born and raised in National City, Midwest. a San Diego suburb. His father was from Everything is made from scratch, right down Guadalajara, and his mother from Colima, to the beans, rice, and guacamole. Even Mexico. When it came time to start the the tortillas are made fresh on-site, which restaurant, Hector recalled how he would attracts a lot of the younger children who call his mother for recipe advice. watch in awe as they’re produced. Hector “She finally asked me if I wanted her to come uses a gas tortilla machine that’s like one of

just two in the area. It can make up to 500 tortillas an hour. In 1997 Hector’s moved to its current location where Hector, Kathleen - who kept her job at Inacom for health insurance reasons until being laid off in 2015 - and their son Nicolas - who was added to the family as a newborn adoptee in 1999 continue the family tradition. Some of Hector’s Highlights: Sirloin Steak sliced Mexican style and grilled Served with beans, guacamole, cilantro, onion, cheese enchilada, and tortillas. The steak is, as promised, lightly spiced and simple, but grilled to perfection. Enchilada Guadalajara Two chicken enchiladas with chihuahua cheese, green and white sauces, served with beads.

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I’m not generally a big fan of chicken enchiladas because they tend to be stringy and made with all dark meat. That’s not the case with the Guadalajara Enchiladas. They’re full of meat and you can taste the difference with the white meat chicken which isn’t overly spiced. This has great flavor and is a must if you’re a chicken lover! Pollo Ala Parrilla This is a seasoned grilled chicken breast with jalapeños, tomato, and onion. It’s served alongside beans, rice, and tortillas. These feature great seasoning that’s not too spicy. Again, Hector stays true to his word when he talks about the Baja style of not over-spicing. The great chicken flavor comes through the sauce- the way it’s supposed to. Hector’s 1201 S 157th Street

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Two Lincoln Originals Play at The Sydney By Tatiana Ballinger

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Omaha Mavericks By Focus Omaha

Husker Basketball By Focus Omaha

As if the Huskers needed any more bad news after losing to the Wisconsin Badgers 81-64 at Pinnacle Bank Arena, they also lost senior guard Matej Kavas to a season ending hand injury.

The Mavericks evened the season series with DU and are now 13-14 (6-6 Summit League) on the season. The Pioneers dropped to 5-22 (1-12). Matt Pile put up his third straight doubledouble with 20 points and 11 rebounds, while KP Robinson added 17 points with six assists. JT Gibson hit three 3-pointers and totaled 11 points with Ćve assists. DU was led by 28 points from Ade Murkey.

Kavas, originally from Ljubljana, Slovenia, played his Ćrst three seasons at Seattle University and was playing some of his best basketball in recent games, averaging 8.3 ppg on 50 percent shooting in the three games prior to the Wisconsin game, including an 11-point effort off the bench against No. 9 Maryland in a 72-70 loss on Feb. 11. “It is disappointing to see Matej’s college career end because of an injury,” Nebraska Coach Fred Hoiberg said. “Matej was one of the Ćrst players to commit to Nebraska when we started last spring. He believed he could help set the foundation for our program even though he had one season to play. Everyone in our program appreciates Matej, and we look forward to him having a full recovery and getting the opportunity to continue playing after college.”

The Omaha men’s basketball team returned to its winning ways Sunday afternoon and ended a four-game losing streak with a dominant 85-62 win over Denver at home on Senior Day.

A Wednesday game earlier added to Omaha’s frustration as the Mavericks fell 81-78 in overtime to Oral Roberts in Tulsa on Wednesday night.

The Huskers return to action on Thursday. Feb. 20, when Nebraska hosts Michigan State. Tipoff at Pinnacle Bank Arena is set for 7:30 p.m. and will be televised by FS1 and carried on the LearĆeld IMG College Husker Sports Network.

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Creighton Bluejays By Focus Omaha

It’s the kind of habit a basketball program likes to keep. For the 20th time in the last 22 seasons, the Creighton Bluejays have won 20 games in a season. It’s also the 30th time in school history and moved CU to No. 15 in the Associated Press Top 25, the team’s highest ranking in three years. That 20th win came after Saturday’s 93-64 demolition of DePaul. After leading 42-28 at the half, the then-No. 23-ranked Bluejays delivered a knockout burst with 23 of the Ćrst 28 points in the second half. The win moved Creighton to 20-6 on the season and 9-4 in Big East play. How good is the Big East this season? DePaul fell to 13-12 overall and 1-11 in conference play after a 12-1 start to the season that included road

wins at Minnesota, Iowa and Boston College. Ty-Shon Alexander led all scorers with 24 points on the night to match his season seasonhigh, while four other Bluejays posted doubledigits and a sixth had nine points. Earlier in the week, CU picked up its second top-10 road win of the month with an 87-82 victory at then-No. 10 Seton Hall (now ranked 12th on :ednesday The Bluejays had Ćve men score in double-Ćgures, led by 18 each from Marcus Zegarowski, Damien Jefferson, Denzel Mahoney, and Alexander. The quest for improved NCAA Tournament seeding continued Tuesday night at No. 19 Marquette.

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SoundCloud Gets Funding By Focus Omaha

No Love Lost For ‘RiskOn’ Even As Virus Fears Lure Safe Havens By Focus Omaha

Risk-on mood waned slightly towards the end of the week as a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases raised doubts over the outbreak’s peak. Yet, the markets’ broader resilience, with equities hitting new highs during the week, and VIX slipping below 15, reflects expectations of a rebound in Chinese growth post the nearterm impact. Coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19) continues to wallop China’s economy, which houses 99% of the total 64,441 infected cases, and all but 3 of the 1,383 deaths so far (a death rate of 2.1%), while 6,983 patients have reportedly recovered. The virus has spread to 24 countries globally. This week saw a near twofold increase in total infections, as China began to include ‘clinically diagnosed’ cases in its figures, leading to a spike of +15,000 in a single day. Also, officials cut the total death toll by 108, which were ‘double-counted’. Abrupt changes and accounting errors have raised doubts over Chinese data reliability, including from U.S. officials. Weak growth confirmed in 4Q19 for the EZ while Germany stagnated. U.S. manufacturing data was broadly steady. German GDP stagnated in 4Q19 (after a slightly upward revised 0.2% QoQ 3Q19) driven by slowing consumption as well as falling exports and equipment investment. The moderation in the EZ growth was confirmed at 0.1% QoQ in 4Q19 (from 0.3%). On the other hand, U.S. retail sales figures were marginally revised downwardly, the core report in January, increased 0.3% in line with expectations (Prev: 0.6% MoM), while the control group was unchanged. Moreover, industrial production declined slightly to -0.3% MoM in January (Cons: -0.2% MoM; Prev: -0.4% MoM)

with the capacity utilization index fulfilling consensus estimates. Finally, preliminary U. of Mich. sentiment for February inched up moderately (100.9; Cons: 99.5; Prev: 99.8), consolidating consumption growth. Safe-haven bonds remain well demanded this week amid COVID-19 spillover concerns, with the UST yield hovering around recent lows (10Y yield 1.58%), and the German Bund declining slightly further (to -0.4%), dragged also by weak EZ industrial production. Meanwhile, the search for yield benefited peripheral bonds, with their risk premium narrowing further this week. In FX markets, the USD further strengthened, underpinned by positive economic data and safe-haven flows. The EUR depreciated, hitting levels below EURUSD 1.085, dragged by weak economic data and rising political concerns in Germany. The risk reversal and speculative positions are also turning more negative on the euro. In EM, the RMB appreciated slightly to a whisker below the USDCNY 7 threshold, while idiosyncratic factors weighed on the ARS, the TRY and the BRL. The TRY depreciated (-0.5% in the week) despite the regulator tightening controls on TRY swaps. In Brazil, the central bank intervened to limit BRL depreciation, undermined by weak data and comments from the Finance minister suggesting he is comfortable with a weaker BRL.

SoundCloud, the music streaming company that has been described as the “YouTube of audio” because of its profusion of usergenerated content, raised $75 million in funding from satellite radio giant SiriusXM, owner of streaming giant Pandora, which has an ad partnership with SoundCloud.

chairman), and the other co-founder Eric Wahlforss leaving last year. It’s been a much quieter business in recent years as a result.

The funding will be used towards product development and launching new services, the companies said in a statement.

“SoundCloud’s three consecutive years of strong financial performance directly reflect the success of our creator-led growth strategy,” said Kerry Trainor, current CEO of SoundCloud, in a statement. “We have an exciting roadmap focused on deepening the connections between creators and listeners that fuel creator discovery, career growth and the evolution of music culture on SoundCloud. We’ve built a great relationship with SiriusXM through our highly successful Pandora ad sales agreement, and their investment gives us added capital flexibility to accelerate our vision and take advantage of strategic opportunities as they arise.”

We’re asking what the valuation is with this round and will update when and if we hear more. According to PitchBook, SoundCloud was valued at $500 million back in 2017. SiriusXM describes the deal as a minority investment that is related to the ad partnership in which Pandora resells SoundCloud’s inventory on its programmatic platform. Together the two serve an audience of 100 million unique listeners in the US, the company said, and SoundCloud hit a forward revenue run-rate of $200 million for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2019. The deal with SiriusXM is a positive development for SoundCloud and could represent a reversal of fortunes for the business. Originally founded in Berlin in 2007 — one of the early movers in music streaming startups that also saw the rise of Spotify — SoundCloud has seen some significant ups and downs in its life. Reportedly once an acquisition target for Twitter and later Spotify, the company never quite converted those talks into deals, in part because of the asking price and the overhang of licensing issues and related business models. As an independent startup — with street cred and a long roster of creatives using the platform to try out new things and send their songs and other sound-based work into the world — the SoundCloud of yesterday never really managed to surmount the licensing and larger monetization issues that all streaming companies face, despite raising a hefty $404 million in funding.

European equities reversed early gains, while U.S. equities opened broadly flat before Close to running out of money at one point, President’s Day holiday on Monday. In Asia, China’s CSI 300 recovered from earlier losses. it restructured, laying people off, with one founder, Alex Ljung, stepping down as CEO as it raised emergency funding (he is still

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But even as it has laid low, it has continued to grow, and this deal is evidence that it’s definitely not done for yet.

It’s a tempting thought to wonder if this could convert into an acquisition of SoundCloud by SiriusXM. Indeed, it does provide a complement to Pandora and potentially fills a gap both for an international audience — over 200 million tracks from 25 million creators with listeners in 190 countries — and also more original content. Those who have used the platform to debut original music include Billie Eilish, Post Malone, Bad Bunny, and Khalid. “SoundCloud’s unique platform serves a vital role in today’s music ecosystem where new artists are discovered and build their fan base, and established artists experiment and connect directly with their fans in highly effective ways,” said Jim Meyer, Chief Executive Officer of SiriusXM, in a statement. “We admire SoundCloud’s loyal and growing audience, its offering for creators, and its reputation and popularity in global music communities. We believe this is another opportunity to continue creating value for SiriusXM stockholders by investing in expanding digital audio platforms.”

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Broken Valentine’s Day Club By Tatiana Ballinger

by night and guitar teacher by day. This project has oodles of material streaming on Bandcamp from the past eight years, all the way up to late releases from 2019. It is only a matter of time before we see this dedicated Omaha artist reap the beneĆts of their effort on the big screen in one way or another with familiar, breathy vocals and essence of overcast Americana. This dark indie project will be swooped by Hollywood when the time is right. Whipkey’s band adorned his performance with a sparkling Rickenbacker and calm rhythm sections. Omaha saxophonist I.O. and commissioner Brian Joseph Tait joined the collective of rays, the crux of two midwestern transplants that is the Spanish punk band Las Cruxes. Jeff Compulsions of the scene are far, few, and in between our life as human beings. Unexplained Lambelet will be joined with José Tápia on the upcycled Ludwig from a friendly distancer Death and Las Cruxes joined together underneath a towering 5G testing plant at Dr. donating to us thirty-somethings. Loud, heavy keys by Mark Pommels will be met with Jack’s Drinkery out west on Valentine’s Day Arlene Tápia’s for a not-so-secret show at 2020 to somehow honor the fact that we all the sidewinder cafe of Omaha, Pageturner’s have some weird personal lives we need to Lounge, thanks to beautiful hair man, David forget about. Nance who will also be joining us for the Burger Revolution, March 7, 2020, at Brother’s Local lightworkers Julie and John from Mere Shadows, Jacob Pilgrim, Dean, and other fans Lounge. came to the emotional support of two bands WHAT’S YOUR FOCUS? this night at a local watering hole in the cold, chaotic wind. www.focusomaha.com Vocalist and lead guitarist of Unexplained Death, Matt Whipkey is a writer and musician

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