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Q UNO Walk for Refugees: Friday, April 15, 9 a.m., Milo Bail Student Center, 6001 Dodge St. A student-organized walk to increase refugee awareness and education. unomaha.edu Q Real Men Read: Saturday, April 16, 10 a.m., Washington Branch Library, 2868 Ames Ave. Black Men United and the Omaha Public Library partner to bring “real men” together to read to at-risk youth. omahapubliclibrary.org Q 1000 Crane Fundraiser: Saturday, April 16, 8 a.m., The Tea Smith, 78th and Dodge. A one-day celebration of the Tea Smith’s monthlong fundraiser donating all April green tea sales to the American Red Cross for Japan relief. theteasmith.com

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he State of Nebraska is preparing a new tool to keep track of the behavior of sex offenders out on parole. By next year, some of those on the registry will be given the option to take regular polygraph exams to monitor their behavior, and for use in their treatment.

Polygraphs are in demand because of their widespread and ever-increasing use to keep tabs on men and women listed on the sex offender registry. In several states and the federal court system, using polygraphs to track sex offenders has become a routine addition to methods like GPS electronic tracking bracelets.

“And we can do this better than a GPS,” says Bryant Crosby, who does polygraph exams for a living, “Because a GPS can tell you they are standing at the door, but it won’t tell you what they are doing.”

Now the State of Nebraska, facing an everincreasing number of sex offenders to keep track of, will be using the technology as well.

“We were looking at how do we accurately assess which ones are lower-level risks, so we are not spending all of our services, all of our resources, on these lower-risk offenders, and give them appropriate supervision,” says Cathy Gibson-Beltz, who runs the state’s adult parole system. Her department took on responsibility for monitoring sex offenders five years ago. The Nebraska State Legislature added a legal definition of who would be listed on the sex offender registry for life.

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Not all sex offenders are violent, have targeted children, or have a high risk of offending again. Corrections officials believe polygraph helps sort out which out-of-jail offenders need the most attention.

“It’s not going to tell us, oh yes, this person will, 100 percent, or no this person won’t, 100

with a conclusion, and another polygraph examiner doing a different test of the same individual and coming up with a completely different conclusion.”

The polygraph exam is voluntary for those sex offenders eligible for supervised parole. They can refuse the test and stay hooked up to an ankle bracelet. Some do, rather than taking a test designed to get them to tell the truth. ,

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A percent,” Gibson-Beltz says. “But it will put offenders on a continuum of who is at most risk and who is at least risk.”

Some research underscores the value of all this, according to Krista Forrest, Professor of Psychology at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

“Research seems to indicate that individuals who are polygraphed report significantly more victims and are more quote-unquote truthful about the behavior they have engaged in,” Forrest says. “It appears it is a useful tool.”

Forrest has done her own research on polygraph, and it’s raised some concerns as well. Results of a polygraph exam are rarely allowed into any court as evidence because the science relies so heavily on human analysis.

“One issue is training of the polygraph examiner,” Forrest says. “Polygraph examiners differ. So you could have one examiner do a test and come up

proposed cigarette tax increase appears all but stubbed out for this year.

Supporters say raising the tax would reduce smoking, avoid cutting Medicaid payments, and help balance the budget. They’ve scaled back their proposed increase, instead of tripling the tax they would double it from 64 cents to $1.28 a pack.

But when Senator Dave Pankonin of Louisville motioned to do that in the Revenue Committee, none of the other six members present seconded it. That leaves the proposal stuck in committee, and Chairwoman Abbie Cornett says that’s where it’s likely to stay, at least for now.

“I feel that this year, everyone is not willing do anything in the way of a tax increase,” she says.

“We are not killing the cigarette tax. We are going to continue to working on it in committee.”

Grand Island Sen. Mike Gloor, chief sponsor of the proposal, says what happens next will depend on the Legislature’s budget decisions.

“We still have time to work the bill and there’s an awful lot of tough decisions that are going to involve a lot of dollars that still have to be made,” he says. “So I think the bill still has a great chance of being seriously considered, both this year or next year.” , These stories were produced by NET News.

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THE TREASURER COMETH: Amount of child support payments the Nebraska State Treasurer’s office disbursed in March: $27.7 million Previous record high for monthly disbursements set last March: $27.3 million Year the state law changed to allow agencies to intercept tax returns for back child support payments: 2008 Total amount of intercepted tax returns in 2010: $13.8 million Source: Nebraska State Treasurer’s Office

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topnews Two South Omaha men, living fewer than two miles apart, were killed while being served warrants by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department in separate incidents last week.

David Cermak, 37, died in a shootout with officers at his home near Lauritzen Gardens on April 6.

The Sheriff’s Department says deputies Tom Flynn and David Heins arrived at David Cermak’s home at 329 Cedar St. April 6 to serve him with a warrant for a parole violation shortly before 12 p.m. Shots were fired. In the ensuing shootout, Flynn was wounded and Cermak was killed. Heins was transported to the Nebraska Medical Center after receiving bites from the Sheriff’s Department service dog he was handling at the scene, and is expected to recover.

Investigators believe Cermak grabbed Flynn’s gun but have yet to determine who fired weapons.

Cermak, 37, had a long history of drug related and law enforcement obstruction charges, including a previous shoot out with officers in a 2006 highspeed chase. But he had no weapons charges.

Two days later, Bradley Hartz, 44, died following a struggle with officers in his home, located a few blocks west of Rosenblatt Stadium.

On April 8, a group of law enforcement officials armed with rubber bullets entered Hartz’s home at 1420 B St. to serve him with a warrant for making terroristic threats. Following a struggle that injured four deputies, Hartz lost consciousness and arresting officers performed CPR at the scene. He died a short time later at the Nebraska Medical Center.

Douglas County Sheriff Tim Dunning said Hartz apparently suffered a heart attack during the confrontation and had shown signs of excited delirium, a typically drug-related and sometimes fatal brain disorder where subjects display extreme aggression, paranoia, physical strength and violence toward others. One deputy suffered a concussion during the struggle and another was treated for a bite wound. Two other deputies sustained hand and wrist injuries.

Hartz had two previous assault convictions and also owned two handguns. Investigations into both incidents are ongoing.

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After nearly a year off the job, a pair of Omaha police officers won’t face criminal charges on allegations that they conspired to plant evidence.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine, working with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, ruled on April 11 that there wasn’t enough evidence for the case to proceed.

Last May, Officer Steve Kult reported that he had overheard Officers Frank Platt and Kara Hindman, Platt’s girlfiend, planning to set aside marijuana confiscated during a previous stop and plant it in a suspect’s garbage. On May 13, all three officers were placed on administrative leave pending an LEE TERRY investigation.

Kult returned to work last December, while Platt filed for disability shortly after being placed on leave and eventually left the police force.

The Omaha Police Department’s internal investigation into the case is ongoing. Hindman remains on administrative leave.

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XL Pipeline’s environmental, a TransCanada spokesman said April 6 that the company was mailing approximately 90 “final offer” letters seeking easements from Nebraska landowners along the pipeline route.

Jeff Rauh said the company has agreements with 87 percent of landowners in the Nebraska Sandhills and will resort to condemnation procedures on the remaining land if necessary.

According to Rauh, the company has 83 percent of the necessary easements along the entire route of the pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, through six U.S. states, to the Gulf of Mexico.

A Merrick County landowner told the Lincoln Journal-Star that TransCanada’s offer for fewer than four acres of his land had nearly doubled recently, from $9,800 to $17,900.

The State Department is expected to reach a final decision on issuing permits for the pipeline late this year.

Terry uses campaign money to beef up home security Rep. Lee Terry will use up to $5,000 in campaign funds to install a security system at his home after the Federal Election Commission approved the expenditure April 1.

Joseph Piper, 19, died after being shot April 5 in Seymour Smith Park near 68th and Harrison. U.S. Marshal’s arrested Tyrese Phillips, 23, on first-degree murder charges two days later in Enid, Okla. Phillips was denied bail on April 11 and could face the death penalty if convicted.

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Terry spokesman Charles Isom told The Hill that the congressman was acting on a recommendation from Capitol Police after receiving an undisclosed number of threats.

The FEC ruled that Terry would not be subject to these costs if he weren’t a federal officeholder and that the expenditure did not constitute personal use of taxpayer funds.

State receives $7 million in flood relief funds The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded more than $7 million to Nebraska to help repair roadways and bridges damaged during floods last summer. In all, floods produced road damage in 24 counties GREG BOYLE last year, primarily in northeast and central Nebraska.

The state Department of Roads will determine how the funds are used.

Pastor resigns to intervene in South Omaha Rev. Howard Dotson announced April 4 that he would resign as pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church effective June 1.

“I want to focus my time and energy on intervention and prevention work in South Omaha,” Dotson wrote in an email announcing the resig-

nation. He was one of the key organizers behind the first South Omaha Violence Intervention and Prevention meeting in March.

Dotson is in the beginning stages of organizing a Nebraska delegation to visit Los Angeles to learn best practices from Homeboy Industries, the noted gang intervention group founded

by Father Greg Boyle.

Boyle visited Omaha and delivered a lecture on intervention in South Omaha in late February.

Dotson says he hopes to start a similar program in Omaha.

Shooting Rounds Alicia Sexton, 35, and Erica Veland, 26, survived after an unknown suspect fired rounds into a home at 3351 Grant St. on April 9. Police have made no arrests.

David Hembertt, 45, survived after being shot and staggering to a neighbor’s house near his home at 938 S. 54th St. on April 8. Police have made no arrests.

Otis Holford, 20, survived after being shot in the lobby of the Creighton University Medical Center, 601 N. 30th St., on April 6. Police arrested Anthony Green Jr., 26, on felony assault and weapons charges just south of the hospital shortly after the shooting.

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devotion to local products elsewhere I’m guessing that the La Vista-made lager will eventually find its way into the park.

TD Ameritrade Park has a different feel. From the outside it looks like a major league stadium. Two large stairways — one at the corner of 12th and Cuming, the other at 12th and Fahey — give the sleek glass and brick exterior a more welcoming atmosphere. Even circled with construction tape the park still looks like it’s open to the public.

Fans will discover all the modern amenities when they arrive to watch Creighton and Nebraska play Apr. 19. The seats are bigger and feature cup holders, there are wide concourses allowing a good view of the field even while standing in line at one of the specialty concession stands and the 65-foot scoreboard screen broadcasts in high definition.

From the club level you get a good look at the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge over leftfield, a suitable replacement for Rosenblatt’s Desert Dome view. That view is mostly obscured at the concourse level but you can always stare at the swooping roof of the Qwest Center, MECA’s other major addition to the city’s sporting landscape.

While TD Ameritrade Park seemingly has everything the modern fan could want, the one thing it might lack is a defining characteristic. The outfield wall is uniform and a few small pines in centerfield hardly qualify as a major landscaping quirk. The stadium looks like a world-class facility, both inside and out. It also looks like a lot of other stadiums. During a tour a week before the park’s opening I went in looking for something that made it distinctly Omaha and I left still looking.

But maybe that’s the College World Series’ job. After all, that’s why it was built, to keep Omaha’s signature event in Omaha. And it will do that quite comfortably.

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Change is sometimes hard to swallow. One of the new Reuben sandwiches you can eat while watching the newly-rebranded Omaha Storm Chasers at the newly-built Werner Park is not.

And that’s the price of progress. The old and familiar is crowded out by the new and improved.

It’s always difficult to gauge how this will be received. Can the lingering flavor of Rosenblatt Stadium be slathered over by the latest designer mustards or washed away with a wider array of beers? Is convenience more powerful than nostalgia? Omaha will begin to find out over the next seven days with the opening of Werner Park on Apr. 16, followed by the debut of TD Ameritrade Park four days later.

If New York hadn’t done it in 2009 — opening the new Yankee Stadium and Citi Field within three days of each other — this would likely be an unprecedented level of ballpark christenings for an American city. Most cities, unless they’re home to some of the oldest franchises in Major League Baseball, don’t have two stadiums of equal caliber much less open them both at essentially the same time. For better or for worse — and the din of that debate grows quieter by the day — that’s Omaha now.

I’ve been to Werner Park on a couple of occasions and it’s going to be everything a minor league park should be. It won’t feel as cavernous as Rosenblatt did for Royals games thanks to a reduced number of fixed seats, but there’s still room to go big for big events thanks to grass seating in the outfield that expands the park’s capacity to nearly 10,000. There’s a wiffle ball field, basketball court and carousel on the premises for the kids and a couple of cool bar options for the adults. It might seem strange to replicate the experience of standing at a bar watching baseball after you’ve paid for a seat, but trust me, it’s a great way to catch a game.

It will have a local feel too, from the suites named after area baseball legends to the food offered at the concession stands. In addition to the aforementioned Reuben — available in corned beef, turkey and sausage varieties — Werner Park will also feature burgers from Omaha Steaks and hot dogs from ConAgra. A minor Facebook protest has boiled up over the fact that Lucky Bucket, which is brewed a scant two miles away, isn’t on the beer menu, but given the outcry and the

The Omaha Storm Chasers open Werner Park on Apr. 15 at 7:05 p.m. against the Nashville Sounds.

On Apr. 19 Creighton hosts Nebraska at 6:30 p.m. in the inaugural game at TD Ameritrade Park. — Brandon Vogel The Jump takes you behind the local headlines. Email jump@thereader. com and look for daily updates at twitter.com/brandonlvogel.

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What we eat is defined by complex equations presented by reductionist science and the stuff comes packaged in tubes, boxes, jars, blister packs, cellophane, Styrofoam and cardboard.

The contents lists read like a science fiction novel, with words coined straight from lab experiments or oversimplifications like “natural flavors.” (Ever stop to realize we wouldn’t have to define something as a “natural” flavor if it weren’t possible that we allow ourselves to be fed “unnatural” ones?)

Of the millions of species on this planet, we are the only one that apparently has lost the ability to know what to eat without detailed instructions. And it’s obvious the system we are using is a complete failure: We are in an obesity epidemic with raging heart disease and cancers and the best our science can come up with is more nonsensical notions.

Does eating well have to be that complex and befuddling? Along with legions of others, author, educator and foodie Michael Pollan thinks not. He has popularized a phrase that makes it very simple that appears as the subhead of his book, In Defense of Food.

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

Eat food. Most Americans don’t eat food. They eat edible stuff that is sold to them in grocery stores.

Just look at the list of ingredients. “Tripotassium Phosphate, mixed tocopherols, calcium carbonate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, palmitate, canola oil, etc.” That’s from the box of Cheerios. That’s food? Have you ever even seen a canola plant? No. Because it doesn’t exist.

It’s a made-up name for the rapeseed plant, which is the real source of canola oil. Marketers thought it looked better. Those items are edible but so is dirt.

And the corporate dietary designers have lofty and ambiguous answers for including all those other “nutrients.” But they don’t look like nutrients to me.

Would you do much better in the produce aisle?

Possibly. Even there you can grab an apple and think that’s what you’re getting. But like most conventional produce, there’s much more than the food element there. Pesticides, industrial wax, modified atmosphere packaging and even modified genes that may come from any species on the planet inserted into your fruit, grain or vegetable. Are those items food?

Milk, meat, eggs — they sound like food, right?

What about the hormones, antibiotics and chemicals found in those products? Consider that food? And we haven’t even begun to cover the things that most Americans mistake for food but aren’t close. Things like diet soda or processed foods.

Author Will Clower, Ph.D. coined the term faux food in his book The Fat Fallacy. We eat things that are really fake representations of food. Over eons of evo-

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lution, the human metabolic experience learned what to do with, say, a green bean or a fig. But the body is confounded and has no evolutionary experience with tripotassium phosphate or Aspartame. The answer is to eat food, real food.

Not too much. I once asked Dr. Jeffrey Passer to tell me what proven methodology that Western science has that has demonstrated the ability to enhance longevity. He answered immediately. “The only true science we have that is proven is that if you eat less, you live longer.”

For nearly 100 years, scientists have known that lab animals will live longer if their caloric intake is restricted but nutrient levels are maintained. Eating wears out the body. The more food we eat, the harder it is on the very basic cellular level, causing small structures called telomeres to fray, leading to chromosomal damage. Cellular reproduction is hampered and new, replacement cells are harder to come by. We’re stuck with aging cells.

The key to all this is to make sure the foods we do eat are nutrient-dense. That would certainly take our diet plan away from the kinds of foods most Americans eat on a regular basis.

It’s not uncommon to see an American eat a night meal that contains more calories than an entire family’s daily caloric intake in a third world country. And it’s no surprise that data indicates that the incidence of a fatal heart attack rises for the hours immediately following a heavy meal. That prime rib buffet may look appetizing but could also be deadly.

The CRSociety.org website has helpful information about calorie restricted diets and nutrition.

Mostly plants. I’m still waiting for the media headline that blares: “Red meat found to reduce heart disease.” Or one that screams, “Pork chops and bacon lower rate of prostate cancer.” Yet nearly every day we see another bit of research that a certain vegetable, grain or fruit is linked to lower health risk.

PETA may have this one right. Avoiding eating animals could be good for you and for the planet. The meat-centric American diet is a killer, obviously. Time and again we hear that eating more plant-based food is more healthful. Still, Americans consume more meat per capita than any other nation. And our mortality rates and life expectancy reflect that practice.

As Earth Day approaches, there is another facet to our obsession with eating dead animals. Our method of producing meat creates more greenhouse gases worldwide than the entire transportation sector. By shifting to a more plant-centric diet we could reduce the carbon footprint of our daily bread by tons.

It may be too late to move back from the tipping point of global warming but changing dietary habits has an immediate beneficial impact and may just help you to live longer. Eating doesn’t have to be a chore, harm your health or be a scientific exercise if we follow the simple dictum: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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hen State Sen. Ken Haar drives through Iowa or Colorado and sees the towering turbines that have helped make Nebraska’s neighbors national leaders in wind-power production, “It makes me think we’ve got this great energy resource in Nebraska and we’re not using it,” he says.

Nebraska leads in potential wind power capacity, but has just nine more wind turbines than it has members on its Husker football roster. And the state is a long way from joining the country’s big 10 in renewable energy production.

Iowa is second only to Texas in wind-power generation, producing 8,799 MW* in 2010, and ranks 7th in potential** wind-power capacity.

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Colorado’s 2,430 MW in 2010 ranked 11th in the country, while it has the 12th highest potential capacity. Meanwhile, Nebraska ranks fourth in the country in potential capacity (almost 918,000 MW) but 25th in actual production with 432 MW in 2010.

But there are signs of progress. Nebraska nearly doubled its capacity in November when the 40 turbines on the Flat Water wind farm near Humboldt, and the 54 turbines on the Laredo Ridge wind farm near Petersburg, began whirling. The farms will produce enough energy to serve about 45,000 Nebraskans annually, according to the Nebraska Energy Office.

Four other projects — near Springview, Petersburg, Broken Bow and Crofton — would add another 313.5 MW when they begin operation by the end of 2012.

Powering Nebraska on renewable energy — while cutting the state’s dependence on dirty coal — is important, proponents say. But to fully harness its wind’s potential, and to cultivate the resource into a job-creating, rural-developing industry, Nebraska will have to export it like its corn. Lawmak-

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ers passed a landmark bill last year that could help the state become a leading energy exporter.

Gov. Dave Heineman signed LB 1048 into law last April, allowing Nebraska’s Public Power Review Board to consider renewable projects — wind, solar, biomass or landfill gas — that would send 90 percent of their energy out of state, while selling the other 10 percent back to the state’s public power companies. Nebraska is the country’s only state that exclusively uses public power. The board previously had to consider projects that directed energy domestically.

The bill had early success. The day it took effect, Chicago’s Invenergy LLC announced a plan to build a $448 million, 133-turbine wind farm near Elgin and Neleigh that would produce 200 MW of energy for export. The review board approved the plan, but Invenergy has yet to announce a construction date.

In Iowa, 80 businesses and 2,300 manufacturing jobs are powered by the wind industry, according to a recent study by The Environmental Law and Policy Center. Wind advocates would like to see the same thing happen here.

“There would be nothing better for Nebraska or for this country than to really embrace an aggressive, homegrown energy development,” says Rich Lombardi, a registered lobbyist with the Wind Coalition who represents developers in Lincoln.

He admits the recession has made potential investors skittish.

“We’re certainly not immune to the disturbances that are affecting all other parts of the economy,” he says. “People are probably reluctant to possibly invest.”

Haar says investment in infrastructure to transmit Nebraska’s wind power outside the state is critical. But with Republicans in control of the House, and Democrats on the defensive about government spending, Congress appears increasingly unlikely to pass a bill to create the transmission superhighway President Barack Obama has called for. An April poll conducted

by Rasmusson Reports found fewer likely voters (57 percent) now say investing in renewable energy is the best long-term investment for America compared to 66 percent in January.

Haar was one of two state senators to vote with Nebraska’s League of Conservation Voters 100 percent of the time during the previous legislative session — earning him a gold star in the nonprofit’s legislative scorecard. He says Americans are “schizophrenic” on energy.

“We’d like the energy security and like to use renewable energy sources and stuff, but we really don’t want to change,” he says. “It’s going to probably cost a little more to construct the transmission that we need, but the neat thing about renewable energies is that you pay for them up front – the capital cost is up front – and then you can predict the cost of that energy for decades, unlike the cost of natural gas, which has gone up and down, and coal, which is increasing.

Haar expects the poor economy and increased concern about rising national debt among voters will push renewable energy down on state and federal leaders’ priority lists.

“And in the long run, we’re shooting ourselves in the foot,” he says, “because there’s nobody that believes the cost of burning fossil fuels is going to decrease.”

Nebraska imported more than 14.5 million short tons of coal from Wyoming in 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

That coal generates more than 38 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), the primary human cause of climate change, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. It’s the CO2 equivalent of cutting down 1.6 billion trees a year.

“I’m a strong believer that climate change is happening, and human beings are a large part of that,” Haar says. “And I look at Nebraska’s economy, and one thing that kind of frustrates me is every ton of coal that we import from Wyoming to generate our electricity from their coal plants is helping them pay their taxes. So, if you live in Wyoming, you pay very little property tax on a home because Nebraska and all the other states are paying their property taxes.”

While consumer confidence in the economy may be limiting investment in renewable ener-

gy, other economic forces could serve as motivation, according to Lombardi.

“I think that $4 gas always has tendency to focus people on energy a little bit more,” he says.

Nebraskans are used to windmills on their landscape — they’ve been a part of the state’s energy solutions for more than 150 years, when settlers began using wooden structures to pump water for homes and livestock. Graham Christensen, public affairs director for the Nebraska Farmer’s Union, says the electrical grid’s expansion across Nebraska created “a little less need to be self-sustainable.” But the Farmer’s Union has been pushing wind power for more than 20 years.

“People kind of looked at us funny, like, ‘That’s a far-fetched idea.’ or ‘It can’t work,’” he says. “Well, we kept hammering on it as an additional crop to a diversified ag portfolio.”

For whatever reason, most Nebraskans like wind energy. In fact, 94 percent of Nebraska voters had favorable impressions of wind power, and 69 percent had strong favorable opinions in an April 2010 poll conducted by the Center for Rural Affairs, American Wind Energy Association and Wind Coalition and Energy Foundation.

“Nebraskans, and particularly rural Nebraskans, I think, everybody understands the power of the wind here. And it’s really cultural,” Lombardi says. “... This issue just unites people like no other issue does. And, for the most part, I think everybody gets that this is the direction we need to go. And I think we’re going that way.

Haar thinks he knows what the state must do to create the turbine farms that turn heads on the interstate.

“We have to try and make Nebraska attractive for wind generation,” he says. “I’m not going to make believers out of anybody about climate change. But the fact that state senators drive to Colorado, Kansas, Iowa and South Dakota and see huge wind farms — that show and tell is going to have its effect.” , * U.S. Energy Information Administration ** National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Wind Farms in Nebraska

Ainsworth Ainsworth 36 Turbines 59.4 MW Capacity

Kimball Kimball 7 Turbines 10.5 MW Capacity

Completed Under Construction/ Planned

Broken Bow Broken Bow 27 to 54 Turbines 81 MW Capacity Operational: Late 2012

Elkhorn Ridge Bloomfield 27 Turbines 81 MW Capacity Petersburg Petersburg Turbines N/A 40.5 MW Capacity Operational: Late 2012

Crofton Hills Crofton 14 Turbines 42 MW Capacity Operational: 2011

Valley Valley 1 Turbine 0.66 MW Capacity Laredo Ridge Petersburg 54 Turbines 81 MW Capacity

Salt Valley Lincoln 2 Turbines 1.32 MW Capacity Flat Water Du Bois 40 Turbines 60 MW Capacity

COURTESY NEBRASKA ENERGY OFFICE

Springview II Springview 2 Turbines 3 MW Capacity Operational: 2011

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Anthony’s is dedicated to bringing customers a truly special dining event every visit.

7220 F St. • 331.7575 anthonyssteakhouse.com Bailey’s Best breakfast in town. “King of Eggs Benedict.”

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6307 Center St. • 218.4555 blueplanetnaturalgrill.com Cascio’s Steakhouse Established 1946, 63 years of selling great steaks.

1620 S. 10th St. • 345-8313 casciossteakhouse.com Dundee Dell Omaha’s Finest Neighborhood Restaurant & Pub 5007 Underwood Ave. • 553.9501 dundeedell.com Hector’s Boasting the only Baja-style Mexican cuisine in the city, Hector’s serves fresh food with panache from Baja California and northwest Mexico.

Two Locations: 1201 S. 157th St. • 884.2272 3007 S. 83rd Plz. • 391.2923 hectorsomaha.com La Casa Pizzeria Fine Italian Dining Since 1953. Located on historic Leavenworth street in midtown Omaha, La Casa has the freshest pizza in town.

4432 Leavenworth St. • 556.6464 lacasapizzaria.net La Mesa An authentic Mexican experience, from mouthwatering enchiladas to fabulous fajitas. Top it off with one of La Mesa’s famous margaritas. Voted # 1 Mexican Restaurant eight years in a row.

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Chef Matthew Taylor finds his place at Nebraska City’s Lied Lodge and Conference Center

By Lainey Seyler

aybe the last thing chef Matthew Taylor expected a year ago was to be living in Nebraska City and working as the executive chef at the Lied Lodge and Conference Center. He was a co-owner of Rivers, an Italian restaurant in Grand Rapids, Minn., which was doing well. Then he got a recruiting call from the conference center and on a whim took a personality survey.

“It took two hours to take it,” says Taylor, “and because I wasn’t looking for a job I was completely honest. I thought, if these people call me back after this, I will be amazed.

They did and paid for a plane ticket matthew taylor to come down. I came and toured the place and I absolutely fell in love with the mission.”

The Lied Lodge and Conference Center is managed by the Arbor Day Foundation, which is a nonprofit member-based organization devoted to planting trees. The foundation has educational programs around the world seeking to inspire people to replant forests and to promote conservation. The conference center has won awards for its green efforts, and its restaurants are a part of the picture. The restaurant has access to the foundation’s many orchards, chief among them the apple orchards but also including hazelnut groves and vineyards. Chef Taylor planned out an extensive garden for this year at the Kimmel Orchard. “During the (summer) season, I rarely order anything outside the garden,” says Taylor. “We plan in the spring what we’re going to grow. In the summer, I’m waking up early in the morning and I’m getting straight-off-the-vine food.”

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homemade apple pies every year, all with apples from Nebraska City.

Taylor is able to source many of the restaurant’s food from local growers and farmers. “The mission of the foundation is to inspire people and celebrate trees,” says Taylor. “The connection of what we do in the kitchen sometimes gets lost. My hope is that I’m creating a memory with somebody through food, that they’ll say, ‘Oh my gosh, they plant trees. Is that why they care so much where their food comes from?’”

Taylor listed off a couple of the farmers he works with, Perfect 10 Ranch and TD Niche among them. He’s currently going a little crazy over the new pulled pork sandwich with pork from TD Niche.

“People forget what real, real pig tastes like. It’s simple. When you bite into the sandwich you feel your salivary glands just go,” he says.

Taylor learned this commitment to integrity at various restaurants that he worked at across the country. The chef has no formal training but showed up on kitchen doorsteps with his knives and worked for free until they gave him a job. One such place was Perugia, an old-world style restaurant in Missoula, Mont. Of the restaurant, Taylor says, “That was the first time someone talked to me about respect in the kitchen. Respecting the food, respecting the customer. Taking the food from the grower, responsibility to the ingredient to treat it with respect and then to respect what you give to the customer.”

Taylor went on to spend time at Cyrus, a Michelin two-star restaurant in Sonoma, Calif., and eventually his own Italian restaurant in Minnesota before making his way to Nebraska, a state he had been to before the Arbor Day Foundation called him.

“Very rarely as chefs do we get to truly make a difference to the world,” says Taylor. “I’m not working for a company who is trying to make a profit. I’m working for a company that everything we do is plant trees and inspire people.” , For more information on the Lied Conference Center and the Arbor Day Foundation, visit liedlodge.com or arborday.org. Call 402.873.8740 for reservations at the conference center restaurant.

n The Nebraska beef council has announced five finalists for the 2011 Nebraska’s Best Burger Contest. The contest, sponsored by the Nebraska Beef Council, resulted in over 3,000 votes for a staggering 364 establishments across the entire state. The top nominated restaurants are Stella’s in Bellevue, Dinker’s Bar and Grill in Omaha, The Cellar Bar and Grill in Kearney, Chute #3 in Scottsbluff and Ole’s Big Game Steakhouse and Lounge in Paxton. Over the next few weeks, a panel of judges will anonymously visit each restaurant to “score” the nominated burger, and a winner will be announced in mid-April. n Blue Agave Restaurant, which will take over the building left behind from Ted’s Nebraska Grill, is scheduled to open April 29.

The restaurant is an authentic Mexican grill that will feature authentic ingredients, flavors and modern twists from a chef-driven menu, which highlights the talent of Executive Chef and Culinary Partner, Jared Clarke. n Rudolph Foods, the world’s largest manufacturer of pork rinds and one of the world’s largest manufacturers of private and branded label snack products, has announced a campaign for National Pork Rind Appreciation Day. Consumers can cast their vote at VotePorkRinds.com and Rudolph’s will donate 10 cents per vote to Wounded Warriors Family Support to celebrate this quirky and nostalgic snack. n Finally, the U.S. surpassed France as the world’s largest wine-consuming nation in 2010, according to wine industry consultants Gomberg, Fredrikson and Associates. To celebrate this grape-crushing news here are few wine tastings around the Omaha area.

Join Bella Vita and their 301 Wine Club on April 20 to taste five wines and light appetizers for only $15. Call 402.289.1804 to reserve your seats.

Corkscrew Wine and Cheese will be hosting the Calera Winery Tasting Fundraiser to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The cost is $10 per person on April 28. Call 402.991.2927 for more details.

You can also celebrate Earth Day winestyle, as the Haymarket Cork and Ale Festival is April 22 in Lincoln. Tickets are $25 each.

For details on the event call 402.435.7496.

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Did you know there’s a DJ Times Magazine?

And did you know DJ Scotty Boy has been in their Top 10 for three years running? I didn’t either, but there are a lot of things you learn on an artist’s Facebook page. As a nationally touring DJ, he’s staked a reputation on his own brand of mash up, something he’s lent his home city’s name to — that being the Sin City itself, Las Vegas. And while Omaha’s club culture might be just in its starting stages, Scotty Boy’s set is sure to set a great tone for the night.

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Stefon Harris and The Blackout Holland Center for Performing Arts, 13th and Douglas streets 7:30 p.m., $19 - $45 402.345.0606, ticketomaha.com

Quick. Name a jazz vibraphonist. Can you?

Well, can you? As of five-minutes-beforewriting-this, I couldn’t either, so don’t worry.

But as it turns out, they’re out there, and very talented. Stefon Harris is a former Blue Note recording artist who’s toured the world with his vibraphone-led jazz group, the Blackout.

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Red–White Spring Game

Memorial Stadium, Stadium Dr. and T Street, Lincoln 1 p.m., $10, huskers.com What will we learn about the suped-up but more simplis- Red-white game tic Nebraska offense on Saturday? Probably not much. Bo Pelini likes to play things close to the vest in these Spring Games but it is still football — sort of. These are the practice plays that we’ll be dissecting and discussing all off-season. A ticket is your entry into the summer Huskers conversation, and if nothing else the annual scrimmage represents your only chance to tailgate outside Memorial Stadium until mighty Tennessee-Chattanooga comes to town on Sept. 3. That’s a long time to wait for some beers and brats.

— Brandon Vogel

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It’s another would-be hip, fresh, young sitcom about six friends dealing with their relationships. At the center are longtime couple Alex (Elisha Cuthbert) and Dave (Zachary Knighton), whose dramatic breakup has traumatized the group. “Happy Endings” takes the well-worn route to would-be hipness, many contrived references to being gay, to having sex, etc. Then there’s the obligatory gross-out stuff, like a joke about a mom French-kissing her daughter’s boyfriend. It all falls predictably flat, but the part that surprises me is the script’s compulsive references to really old stuff. If you’re trying to be fresh and young, would you slip in allusions to the obscure 20-year-old movie Point Break? Or to Howard Hughes, who was last a household name in the 1970s?

“You’re giving off a real Howard Hughes vibe here,” one friend says to another. “I feel like you’re about 10 minutes away from storing your urine in jars.” At least we’re spared the actual sight of urine in jars — but maybe not for long, depending on how desperate the writers get.

— Dean Robbins

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Music, Harris has also done time as an artist in residence at the Lied Center in Lincoln (among other places.) Now he’s coming back to Nebraska to the Holland, where the L.A. Times-named “most important young artists in jazz” will play to faces both familiar and new.

— John Wenz

FRIDAY15 April 15

The Second City presents “Fair and Unbalanced”

Holland Center, 13th and Douglas 8 p.m., Tickets start at $19 402.345.0606, ticketomaha.com the second city

Somewhere, somebody’s sitting at a bar watching Tommy Boy on the small television up in the right-hand corner. He gets to say, “I saw Chris Farley way before he was Chris Farley, man.” Do you know why?

Because one time back in 1988 or so, this guy chose to take a chance on Chicago’s famed Second City comedy troupe when they came through his town. And if you can’t reap the rewards of an “I saw them first” moment by morphing into Annoying Bar Guy every chance you get, really, what’s the point? For you, your chance at glory comes Friday, as the Second City — notorious for featuring the stars of tomorrow, today; Farley, John Belushi and Mike Meyers are just some the names on a very long and esteemed list — will perform “Fair and Unbalanced” at the Holland Center. The show consists of comedic sketches, songs, improvisations and hopefully a future star of tomorrow or two. Don’t pass up a chance to set yourself up to be Annoying Bar Guy at a date to be named later.

—Sean Brennan

April 15-16

Midnight Movie: Clerks

Dundee Theatre, 4952 Dodge St. Midnight both nights, Tickets $6, dundeetheatre.com The film that introduced the world to director Kevin Smith and convenience store roof hockey gets the Dundee midnight treatment

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Shot in black and white on a shoestring budget, this 1994 indie flick features jarringly funny dialogue about the pains of beclerks ing a store clerk.

Plus, it’s got Jay and Silent Bob. If you’ve ever had a dead-end job and been called into work on your day off, then this one’s for you.

— Jarrett Fontaine April 15-18

Omaha Storm Chasers vs.

Nashville Sounds

Werner Park 12356 Ballpark Way, Papillion 7:05 p.m., Sunday at 2:05 p.m., $6-$16.50 402.734.2550, web.minorleaguebaseball.com This weekend marks the start of the inaugural season at Werner Park for the newly renamed Omaha Storm Chasers. The leadoff match-up for the four-game series versus the visiting Nashville Sounds will be played in front of a packed house, the first sellout for the park in Papillion looking to establish an identity. Tickets can still be had for the McDonald’s Berm and standing room areas for $6 per ticket. To celebrate the opening of the new park the nighttime sky will be lit up with a fireworks display presented

by American Family Insurance. If you can’t get a ticket for opening night the rest of the weekend’s showdowns will still feature plenty of promotions, Saturday the team will host a jersey auction for the first 2,500 fans in accordance with autism awareness theme with more fireworks, and Sunday will mark the debut of the Storm Chasers’ top pitching prospect, left-handed hurler Mike Montgomery. Play Ball!

— James Derrick Schott

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Qwest Center Omaha, 455 N. 10th St. 2 and 7 p.m., $20-$97, qwestcenter.com

April 20

Timothy Schaffert Book Signing The Bookworm, 87th and Pacific 1 p.m., 402.392.2877 or bookwormomaha.com

Renowned author — and one-time editor of The Reader — Timothy Schaffert will be at The Bookworm Saturday to sign copies of his latest novel The Coffins of Little Hope. Schaffert is also a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is the founder of the Omaha Lit Fest. Go online to TheReader.com for Leo Adam Biga’s full feature on Schaffert and his latest project. The feature will also run in the print edition of next week’s Reader.

— Sean Brennan April 16

STRFKR w/ Champagne Champagne & Gardens and Villas

Washington Generals vs.

Harlem Globetrotters

It’s not easy being a lifelong Washington Generals fan. I’ve never seen them win. All-time against the Globetrotters, the Generals are something like 1-26,752. Yet, they keep showing up. Keep rolling the rock up the hill as the famous Globetrotters spin it, bounce it off each other’s butts, dunk it and keep it away from the mighty green and gold in humiliating but tightly choreographed fashion. Yes, Harlem has the fancy tricks but Washington has resolve. Mark it down. The Generals are going to make history right here in Omaha and pick up their first victory since 1971.

Don’t be the one to miss out on history.

— Brandon Vogel

The Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $10, onepercentproductions.com

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The stars have aligned for Omaha as Portlandbased electronic group, Starf***er (also known as STRFKR), makes its way to the stage. Formed in 2007, it was originally Josh Hodges’ solo project, but soon evolved into a quartet once multiinstrumentalists Ryan Biornstad, Keil Corcoran and Shaw Glassford entered the picture. Figuring out a way to market them well has always been a problem as they often have to spell their name “STRFKR” to avoid pissing someone off. Eclectic to say the least, STRFKR will often perform in women’s clothing, which has garnered plenty of disapproval from music critics, but nonetheless, they are unapologetically doing their own thing And apparently it’s working despite their not-alwaysaccessible moniker. Their new album, Reptilians, slithers with accessible, dreamy hooks and dancy synth-pop comparable to Passion Pit. STRFKR’s first record with the Polyvinyl imprint, Reptilians will hopefully earn the attention they deserve. After all, they’ve been at it for four years. It’s about time.

April 19

— Kyle Eustice

There may be no better way to spend a fine 4-20 than by taking a cinematic flashback with the Grateful Dead. This nationwide, one-night-only event is like an onscreen trip, if you will, to a Dead concert. The Grateful Dead Movie has been unavailable theatrically since its release in 1977, but tonight you can take it all in, including exclusive, previously unseen interviews with Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir that were filmed more than 35 years ago. Remember, this deadhead must-see is being offered for only one night before it’ll be truckin’ on.

— Sarah Wengert

Surreal’s 9th Annual 420 Event

Featuring Funk Trek, Mars Black, E.Babbas and more The Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $8, onepercentproductions.com

TD Ameritrade Park, 1200 Mike Fahey St. Sold Out, 6:30 p.m.

402.280-JAYS, gocreighton.com For the opening of TD Ameritrade Park, why not go big? What are the biggest things in Nebraska baseball? I mean, that aren’t an unrealistic Sarpy County Royalty Chasers (yes, I know that’s not their real name) or what is the Lincoln Saltdogs home run derby. We’ve got two Division I college teams — UNL’s Husker baseball team and Creighton’s Blue Jays — and the pairing of the two has managed to sell out the opening night of the 24,000 capacity park. If you miss this and are a Blue Jays fan, they’ll be playing a triple-header against Southern Illinois over the weekend.

— John Wenz

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Marcus Midtown, 3201 Farnam St. Village Pointe Cinema, 304 N. 174th St. 7:30 p.m., $12.50 marcustheatres.com/Movie/MovieDetail/63744

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Nebraska Cornhuskers vs.

Creighton Blue Jays Grand opening of TD Ameritrade Park

Grateful Dead Movie Event

Smokers, rev up your, bongs. It’s that time again. For the ninth straight year, local emcee Zach “Surreal” Hennings will host his “420 Event,” an event where smokers of all walks of life can celebrate the mighty marijuana plant and revel in its medicinal qualities. (If you buy that, then you’re an idiot or probably high.)

Anyway, in the past, the annual weed extravaganza has featured national artists such as DJ Rob Swift of the Xecutioners and RA the Rugged Man, but this year is a little different. “I wanted to mix it up a bit this year. I wanted to bring the hip-hop but being open to other genres that celebrate 4-20,” Hennings exclaims. “A lot of newer bands will only play with acts that are similar, and I can appreciate that, but if a theme is involved like 4-20 or Halloween, people are more willing to break out of their mold.” This year, catch Funk Trek, Lighting Bug, MO Caiaus, Mars Black, DJ E.Babbs and more for a smokin’ good time.

— Kyle Eustice

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EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO PRESENTS

1964, Robert H. Jackson, The Dallas Times Herald, Courtesy: Robert H. Jackson

Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs features 158 winning photographs, color and black and white, representative of instantly recognizable historic moments from around the world. Of the millions of photographs in newspapers each year, only two Pulitzer photography prizes are given – one for breaking news and the other for feature photography. Capture the Moment includes the winning images from 1942, the year of the rst photography award, to present day.

For admission, hours, and programming, visit www.durhammuseum.org.

Some material in this exhibition may be too intense for young children. Parental discretion is advised.

Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs is sponsored by the Douglas County Commissioners, Mary and John Wilson, and the Omaha World-Herald.

Additional support is provided by Midtown Crossing. The exhibition was developed by the Newseum, the interactive museum of news, in association with Business of Entertainment, Inc., of New York, Cyma Rubin, curator/producer.

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A PREVIEW OF A MULTI-MEDIA PERFORMANCE PROJECT WITH THE MUSIC OF PHILIP GLASS AND FEATURING VIOLIN VIRTUOSO, TIM FAIN AND FILMMAKER, KATE HACKETT. COMBINING LIVE MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AND FILM!

THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2011 / 7:00 PM / 1111 JONES STREET TICKETS ARE $10 IN ADVANCE / $15 AT THE DOOR / $5 FOR STUDENTS. TO PURCHASE TICKETS VISIT WWW.THEKANEKO.ORG OR CALL 402-341-3800.

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Local makeup pro Linda Miller is living her dream

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n After 18 years in business, Old Market boutique Retro Rocket is officially closing its doors. All non-consignment goods are on sale for $10, so head down, fill a shopping bag and say thanks to Buf Reynolds for all her hard work supporting local artists and designers over the years. Friends of Retro Rocket are also welcome to stop by on April 22 for a closing party before the shop’s last day, April 30. n The Omaha Craft Mafia is holding a spring sale on Saturday, April 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The sale will be held at the CAMP Co-working space in the Mastercraft Building located at 1111 N. 13th St. Hosted by Megan Hunt (Princess Lasertron), the sale will feature everything from fascinators to recycled jewelry.

Speaking of Princess Lasertron, the Omaha-based artist is a featured designer in Jenny Doh’s latest book, Signature Styles. The book profiles 20 creative women while showcasing everything from their workspaces to offering step-by-step design instructions. Signature Styles is available for pre-order on Amazon. com and officially launches on May 1.

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n Heading to New York on May 2 could be worth the trip, if just for the window displays at Barneys Madison Avenue. The high-end retailer is putting heiress and style icon Daphne Guinness behind glass, literally, so that the public can watch her get ready for the 2011 Met Ball.

Select pieces of Guinness’ own clothing collection will also be on display, including items from the late Isabella Blow’s wardrobe.

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hen asked if she could remember how old she as when she first realized her love of makeup, Lancôme Regional Makeup Artist Linda Miller matter-of-factly explains, “I can pinpoint the exact moment.”

Her love for cosmetics, Miller says, blossomed at a young age with the gift of a giant makeup kit. “In 6th grade, I received an Estée Lauder blockbuster for Christmas. By Easter it was completely gone.” Makeup junkies and casual fans alike know that using up a blockbuster (a large makeup kit) is not a small feat, as most would take years to use up the amount of makeup involved.

And if Linda Miller knows one thing, it’s definitely makeup. For the past 16 years, Miller has worked as a professional makeup artist, traveling between the eight states in her territory: Nebraska, Montana, Colorado, South Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Minnesota.

Starting off in the world of cosmetics as many self-starters do, Miller sold Mary Kay out of her home for a few years before realizing she didn’t want to deal with the business aspect of selling cosmetics. Switching cosmetic lines, Miller soon moved from selling Mary Kay to selling Estée Lauder in a department store at Omaha’s Crossroads mall. Before Miller knew it, she was asked to work as a Regional Makeup Artist for French cosmetic line, Lancôme.

“I serve as a regional makeup artist for special events in department stores in the eight states I cover,” explained Miller. “It’s mostly for prebooked appointments, but occasionally I work with models for fashion events in department stores like Macy’s in Chicago and Minneapolis.”

Miller also gave insight into the major differences between working with customers and models. “For everyday clients I generally give a clean and polished look. I give instruction on how to achieve flawless skin, and how to highlight your best feature. I collaborate with designers and stylists to achieve a look that doesn’t compete but compliments clothing and hair.”

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honor yet. “I was given the opportunity to work with Lancôme Artistic Director Ross Burton for five years. I learned a lot from him and gained a lot of insider information about the business. It was so exciting.”

When asked about her favorite cosmetic products, it comes as no surprise that most of Miller’s must-haves are made by Lancôme. “My favorite products are Lancôme’s Photôgenic Lumessence foundation, Maquicomplet Complete Coverage concealer, Dual Finish powder,

Artliner liquid eyeliner and Hypnôse mascara.”

Outside of Lancôme, Miller also likes MAC Cosmetic’s Cream Colour Base blush in a shade called Hush. “It looks good on everyone, and gives a natural glow,” said Miller.

The makeup artist also shared her opinion on the biggest trends in makeup for spring 2011.

“Makeup this spring is all about lip color, so use a full coverage matte lipstick as the central focus of

n French fashion house Balmain is expected to name a new creative director next week to replace Christophe Decarnin, who left suddenly just prior to fashion week in March. Rumor has it that Melanie Ward, the stylist who helped put together the fall 2011 collection in less than three weeks before the March show, may be the top contender to replace Decarnin.

On the Christian Dior front, nothing much has changed, other than the entire fashion industry’s realization that the fashion house is taking their sweet time when it comes to announcing John Galliano’s replacement.

Sarah Lorsung Tvrdik is a stylist, costumier, wife and freelance writer based in Omaha, Nebraska. Her style blog can be found at fashflood.com.

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the face. Follow with glowing skin and a shimmery eye to complete the look”. On the topic of glowing skin, Miller explained that singer/ actress Jennifer Lopez tops her list of beauty icons. “Jennifer just looks angelic,” explains Miller. “She has beautiful glowing skin and just radiates beauty.”

When asked about the biggest trend to avoid, Miller says, “Too much color on the cheeks. Spring is about a glowing, clean complexion with less blush.”

Miller’s work in the cosmetic industry doesn’t end with Lancôme. For several years, Miller has worked as a freelance makeup artist for everything Omaha fashion-related. She works on models endlessly at events such as Omaha Fashion Week, for lines like luxury swimwear brand KKINI and clothing line SuShe by J.Tracey. Miller also frequently collaborates with local fashion supporters such as photographer AJ Brown, event coordinator (and Reader Creative Director) Eric Stokes and talent agency 89 Talent Management. She also donates her time and talent to events such as Glam VIP, Fashion LOUD and The Reader’s Style Industry Nights.

In giving advice for all women when it comes to makeup, she quickly notes her opinion on the biggest beauty mistake women make.

“Women wear far too much foundation,” said Miller. “Foundation should be used as needed, not all over the face. It makes for a much more natural look.” Miller also shared that she believes that all women, from the inexperienced to the cosmetics veteran, can benefit from just a little makeup application and instruction. “Anyone from age 17 to 70 can learn to look fabulous by demonstrating how to use minimal amounts of the right products. Makeup is all about strategic placement to highlight your best feature, and less is definitely more.”

When asked about the challenges of her job, Miller stated, “My biggest challenge is also my biggest reward. Many women come to me with their beauty concerns, and I provide education on how to use something as simple as foundation. Using a little bit in the right way, can give amazing results.”

Miller’s plans are clear in her mind.

“I’d like to work with cancer patients at some point in the future,” she says. “I want to continue to be able to help wherever I’m needed, to help women feel better about themselves. Many women cry during a makeover, and I can actually see their self-esteem change while they’re in my chair. That’s my greatest reward.” ,

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n If you work downtown, consider checking out of myth, legend and deception … Schafthe Nebraska Arts Council’s “Wednesday Words,” fert explores the fragility of childhood, this Wednesday, April 13, in the Burlington Place the strength of family, the powerful Building at 10th and Farnam in the lower level. rumor mills of rural America, and the Author and screenwriter Richard Dooling (White sometimes dramatic effects of pop culMan’s Grave, Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital) ture on the way we shape our world.” It will be this week’s featured speaker. Attendees are received a starred review from Publishencouraged to bring a sack lunch. The event is ers Weekly, which praised Schaffert’s free and runs from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. “sublime” efforts, and said the book’s n Thursday, April 14, is Poem in Your Pocket Day “piercing observations and sharp, subtle at the Joslyn Art Museum at 22nd and Dodge. wit make this a standout.”

Bring a poem and read it to the admissions desk n Beginning Friday, April 15, and running staff to receive free admission that day. If you’re through Sunday, April 17, Brownville’s Lya Joslyn member, you’ll receive an additional 10 ceum bookstore will host the 2011 Wine, percent off your purchase in the gift shop if you Writers & Song Festival in Brownville, Nebraska. offer up a poem (some exclusions apply). Later See the schedule of readings, workshops, wine that day, emcee Matt Mason will host an open mic tastings and more at: Brownville-ne.com. at 6:30 p.m., in which Pocket Poem People will n On Saturday, April 16, the Omaha Creative Inbe invited and encouraged to share their selection, stitute will present Writing The Lyric Poem: To the years of magical thinking even and especially if it’s their own.

Dredge The Silt From Your Throat, a workshop n Omaha World-Herald columnist Rainbow that’s part of the Great Plains Poetry Pile-Up at Alley Rowell will be at the Bookworm in Countryside Poyner Macchietto Architecture in the Tip Top buildVillage at 87th and Pacific (a small town in the ing at 15th and Cuming. Poet Michael Mlekoday city!) at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 14, to sign copies will discuss and demonstrate techniques and stratof her newly-released book, Attachments, which egies used by contemporary lyric poets to share has been called a “You’ve Got Mail–like tale of their private emotions and help students write their missed connections.” own. The event runs from 10 a.m. to noon. Poets of Another local author (and former Reader all stripes, from novices to experienced, published editor-in-chief), Timothy Schaffert, will be at poets, are encouraged to attend. Cost is $35 per the Bookworm on Saturday, April 16 at 1 p.m. to student; register at OmahaCreativeInstitute.org. sign copies of his new book, The Coffins of Little — Kyle Tonniges Hope. Described as a “feisty, energetic story of Comments? Questions? Want more? Email us at booked@thereader. characters caught in the intricately woven webs com. com and look for daily updates at twitter.com/brandonlvogel.

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See the exhibition that merges two collections, Sacred Images & Golden Treasures, to celebrate the cultural heritage of this large Eastern European nation.

GUIDED PUBLIC TOURS: Saturday, April 16 @ 10:30 am Saturday, April 23 @ 10:30 am Thursday, April 28 @ 6:30 pm joslyn.org | (402) 342-3300 2200 Dodge St. | Omaha, NE

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theater UNO’s Twelfth Night and OCP’s Steel Magnolias

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welfth Night and Steel Magnolias have histories of popular and critically successful productions here, but also promise new versions at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the Omaha Community Playhouse.

For UNO’s Cindy Melby Phaneuf, it’s a third time directing the Shakespearean comedy, but the first crack at doing it with 16 collegians, all but four virgins at performing the bard. For Amy Lane, the Playhouse resident director, it’s her first time in charge of the play which she originally encountered as the film with Sally Fields as M’Lynn and Julia Roberts as diabetic daughter Shelby.

“I saw Steel Magnolias with my grandmother shortly after my grandfather died,” Lane recalled.

“She was really sobbing; the story has a special place in my heart.”

UNO and Playhouse connections include the fact that Lane has directed plays in both theaters; and her Ouiser, the funniest of M’Lynn’s friends, is Charleen Willoughby, a UNO grad who played the same role in the school’s production. When the Playhouse last presented the drama in 1990, Carl Beck directed a cast with his wife Susie as Truvy, the beauty salon operator.

And Phaneuf ’s Twelfth Night cast includes Ben Beck, son of Playhouse artistic director Carl Beck and associate director Susie Baer Collins.

He plays Orsini, the lovesick Duke who opens the comedy with a mood-setting speech that begins, “If music be the food of love, play on.”

Beck is one of four cast members not new to Shakespeare. The most common advice the players hear from their director is “Act on the lines, not in between them.”

Phaneuf also urges the students to “start by understanding” Shakespeare’s language, “then find ways to personalize it.” Her two previous productions of the play included professional actors for the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, and her experience with the great playwright includes dozens of his works.

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focus on “the fragility of life.” And that theme will be manifested in another treatment that will make this play different.

Designer Steven L. Williams will use light and over two miles of black iridescent fabric imported from China “to create a transformative wonderland,” according to Kathleen Lawler, UNO theater publicist. Phaneuf stressed the fabric’s changeable qualities, illustrating “how quickly you can go from life to death.”

Lawler says the fabric can “produce images akin to the Northern Lights,” and can transport the audience from “a pitch black house to the

or costuming by Georgiann Regan that would lampoon that decade’s style. Lane’s cast includes the oft-honored Connie Lee as Truvy, veteran actress Kay Clark as Clairee and Brenda Ehrhart, returning to the Playhouse after about a 15-year hiatus, as M’Lynn.

Phaneuf ’s cast for Twelfth Night includes the oftfeatured Bill Grennan as Sebastian, Erica DeBoer as his shipwrecked sister Viola, Margaret Wilson as Olivia and Amy Schweid as Maria. The low comedy comes from Raydell Cordell III as Sir Toby Belch and Nathan McCarty as Sir Andrew Aguecheek.

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heart of a thunderstorm and back, all with the click of a button.”

For Steel Magnolias, scenic designer Jim Othuse had a a more mundane problem: understanding the intricacies of its setting, a home beauty salon. He told Amy Lane, “I’m going to rely on you” and other women familiar with the likes of Truvy’s salon.

And Katie Kresha, who plays Shelby, has relied on a fellow cast member to better understand the character’s low blood sugar problems. “Jennifer McGill, who plays Annelle, has Type I diabetes, so she worked with Katie,” Ms. Lane explained.

The director has kept Steel Magnolias in its original 1980s setting, but chose to avoid hairdos

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ments for their roles. Scotty Pace, as Feste the musical clown, bought a mandolin, but couldn’t afford the case, so he brought it to rehearsals in a baby blanket. , Twelfth Night runs April 13-16, 20-23, at 7:30 p.m., presented by UNO Theatre in the Weber Fine Arts Building, 6001 Dodge St. Tickets are $15, $10 seniors, $5 students, free to UNO students. Call 402.554.2406. Steel Magnolias runs April 15May 8, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday, at the Omaha Community Playhouse, Howard and Rhonda Hawks Mainstage, 6915 Cass St. Tickets are $35, $21 students, lower prices for groups. Call 402.553.0800.

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n The Shelterbelt Theatre is most fully on mission when it presents original plays by Omahans, and that what it’s doing the next few weekends. Only one qualifier was required in the press release headline, calling them “native” Omaha playwrights.

That’s because Monica Bauer, who wrote My Occasion of Sin, which opens Friday near 32nd and California, works as a writing fellow at Quinnipiac University back east. But she was born here and her play is set during this city’s racial turbulence in 1969.

It focuses on a South Omaha accordion player and music store owner (Jonathan Wilhoft) and a North Omaha jazz drummer (D. Kevin Williams), who dreams of restoring the Dreamland Ballroom to its former jazz glory. An accordion student (teenager Bailey Newman) discovers jazz to the dismay of her teacher and his wife (Janet Macklin), and a 14-year-old from the projects (Jocelyn Eusery) “tries to find her own voice as her world spins out of control.”

Bauer was inspired by the relationship between North O percussionist Luigi Waites and South O accordionist Johnny Swoboda. If that’s not local enough, vintage images of Omaha and Omaha families appear as the action is accompanied by jazz, polka and 1960s pop music. Like any number of plays, it finds its way here thanks to its discovery by director Roxanne Wach at the Great Plains Theatre Conference.

My Occasion of Sin runs through May 8, Thursday-Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 6 p.m.

Starting April 22, it will be followed on Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30 p.m. by another original jazzfocused play, Nobody Gets Paid by Ellen Struve.

Directed by Scott Working, it mixes live jazz with the humor of jazz life. The cast includes Carl Brooks, often seen at the John Beasley Theater, and Scott Glasser from the University of Nebraska at Omaha drama faculty among others.

It only costs an extra $5 if you paid $15 or $10, depending on which night you attend the earlier play. Talkbacks on April 22 and 23 will include playwright Bauer and Rudy Smith, who covered the 1969 riots as a photographer. n When The Second City troupe performs at the Holland Center, 8 p.m. Friday, April 15, we’re promised “no institution escapes” their “satirical eye — from the blowhards of the Beltway to the Hollywood elite.” But, given the Fair and Unbalanced title of the show, one can hope they devote special attention to the bloviators on Fox News. Tickets start at $19. Call 402.345.0606 or visit TicketOmaha.

— Warren Francke Cold Cream looks at theater in the metro area. Email information to coldcream@thereader.com.

art Open Minds Portals explores human longing in the digital Age

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n April 21, KANEKO previews Portals, a multimedia event examining modalities of creative expression.

When the finished production premiers in the fall, it means to seamlessly join live performers on stage with remote tim fain artists via video and the web to extend the limits of performance and the dynamics of human connection in the digital age.

The work of several national artists is featured, including a partita by acclaimed composer Philip Glass, verse by iconoclastic poetsongwriter Leonard Cohen, music by composers Aaron Jay Kernis (a Pulitzer Prize winner and Grammy nominated artist) and Nico Muhly (The Reader) and choreography by Benjamin Millepied (Black Swan).

Then there’s the virtuoso violin playing of Tim Fain and the video stylings of filmmaker Kate Hackett.

Fain conceived Portals on tour with Book of Longing, a Glass song-cycle adapted from Cohen’s same-titled book, but says its themes long brewed in him. For Portals, Fain performs Glass’ new seven-movement partita for solo violin inspired by Cohen’s work.

Conceptually, Portals blends private moments with public gestures, improvisation with

formality, virtual with reality. At various points Fain plays on stage and in video vignettes recorded in New York City. Music by Glass accompanies dances choreographed and filmed

by Millepied. Glass and other artists are seen in interactive, cinema verite profiles shot by Hackett, who’s also shooting concert-style footage.

Fain and Hackett are filming at KANEKO and other Omaha locations. New York City shoots are set for May. Portals’ creators want audiences to have an

intimate glimpse of the creative-collaborative process and to experience communication-performance through these channels in what Hackett calls some “dreamy metaphorical space.”

Ethereal mood pieces by Glass and Cohen articulate the longing at the heart of Portals.

Fain calls the artists “kindred spirits,” adding, “There’s a real intensity and searching quality I’ve always felt in Cohen’s poetry and music and

in Philip’s music.” About Glass, he says, “Even in his calmest textures it seems there’s almost always a real undercurrent of reaching or longing or wanting something more.” In the work of both men, he says, “that desire can become even ferocious at times.”

Fain feels a kinship with their work.

“When I perform I’m always looking for something new/different to say, to really explore emotionally what’s going on in a piece from the ground up. This searching quality, this desire to find meaning, to find beauty and power and conflict is something we share very much,” he says.

“My performing has often been described as incredibly communicative and perhaps a little bit dangerous — living on the edge and reaching for what are the boundaries and then pushing beyond that if possible, which is what I’m trying to do with this project. The overall idea behind Portals is to explore beyond the traditional confines of what a performance can be.”

Hackett, a veteran of multimedia works Ask Your Mama and 110 Project, says this co-mingling of forms “opens the audience up to experiencing live performance in a new way. I think that’s what’s really exciting about it.”

“There’s a very hopeful perspective in Portals, which is to connect all of the new forms of connection — the portals of today, with traditional art forms” says KANEKO executive director Hal France.

France says KANEKO’s “open space for your mind” makes a perfect marriage with the genrebending Portals. “It is cross disciplinary, which is

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where we think the really revealing things about creativity happen, not that individual creativity isn’t incredible, but if it’s all self contained in one unit the opportunity for it to get out into the air so that others can understand it better is less.

The more people there are, the greater the synergy possibilities.”

The project is presented as part of KANEKO’s experimental studio program, which France says supports “accomplished creative people who have an out-of- the-box idea or want to extend themselves into some new territory.” Portals, he says, fits KANEKO’s mission to “explore and illuminate creativity.”

“Our goal is to have people experience creativity but also see it in a different way that may be less mystical or at least more familiar, which hopefully makes it a richer experience,” he says.

For the preview, Fain and Hackett will provide a sampling of Portals and engage the audience about its evolution.

“It’s a very important process,” Fain says. “I hope to come away having really learned something, possibly even something that will affect the course of the project.”

KANEKO, 1111 Jones St., welcomes dialogue.

“The mere fact you can come to a place and be part of an exchange of ideas is a good starting point,” says France. “It is the common thread we see with people coming here, and we see that growing.” , The Portals preview is Thursday, April 21, at 7 p.m.

KANEKO, 1111 Jones St. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Call 402.341.3800 or visit thekaneko.org for more information.

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Old Friends—New Work reunites former 13th Street Gallery in Hot Shops exhibit

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by Michael J. Krainak

ou’ve seen these artists before, but when was the last time you saw them exclusively at one time in one place?

To encourage such, 26 members of the former 13th Street Gallery have invited you to attend their latest reunion exhibit, Old Friends—New Work at the Hot Shops Art Center, 13th and Nicholas.

Last Saturday, several hundred patrons of this 30year-old plus group flocked ????????????? to their opening and found the show worthy of the considerable attention it has received. Originally part of the Artist Co-op which thrives in its current Old Market space at 11th and Harney, several members broke off decades ago to create, arguably, edgier work on their own in a South 13th Street location.

“We all considered ourselves to be part of an Omaha renaissance in art,” said artist Robert Willits, curator of Old Friends—New Work. Creating the 13th Street Gallery seemed like the best way to continue that spirit. With this exhibit, we wanted to show Omaha that we are still doing it.”

Included in this arts reunion are Kelly Adams, Marcia Joffe-Bouska, Richard Markoff, Eddith Buis, Jeremy Caniglia, Michael Flecky, Thomas Hamilton and Dennis Wattier, among many others, some who exhibit on a regular basis and others for whom this was an opportunity to put new work in front of their public.

Photographer Larry Ferguson says reunions have additional benefits for artists and their markets.

“I feel a strong connection to my past and the people who helped support it,” Ferguson said. “What it offers to the public is a sense of history. Nobody just comes out of nowhere. Artists learn from each other.”

This might explain his contribution in this show, an homage to Harry Crook, the late entrepreneur and arts collector who passed last month. Crook had a close relationship with many area artists, and Ferguson features the fun-loving and open-minded Crook as Santa with the bare-breasted Naughty Elf Nancy on his lap in a stereoscopic image and accompanying color print.

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dence. Mike Loftus and Caniglia were former students of Willits at Creighton Prep; Willits was mentored by arts photographer Nick Chiburis, also in the show.

Reunions of any sort, family, education or the purely social offer an interesting dynamic. After five or ten years it’s often about status and one-upmanship.

At 20 or 25, people are more relaxed and accepting — of others as well as themselves. By the 30th it might be more about renewal or merely survival.

The latter seems to fit Old Friends—New Work as several artists, such as Susan Knight, James Freeman, John Miller and Bob Osco brought work so new that “the canvas was still wet when I hung it,” as Miller said.

All in an effort to say that as artists they were still “au courant.”

This is particularly true perhaps of Knight’s experimental hanging sculpture resembling red pickup sticks in cellophane, Crunch/Crack and Bosco’s large mixed media collage of storyteller Rita Paskowitz. A work in progress, this dramatic portrait is prelude to his ongoing 3-year project, a 40-foot mural in the theater lobby of Creighton University’s Lied Center.

For others, current means work made and shown in the past two or three years, such as Larry Sosso’s Free Flying People that flew successfully at RNG Gallery last year, Susan McGilvrey’s colorfully animated pitchers and vessels that were right at home at the Bemis Center two years ago and Kristin Pluhacek’s striking selfportrait, Conflict, behind a screen of emoticons that highlighted an exhibit recently at the former Jackson Artwork.

Overall, Old Friends—New Work is as fine a large group show seen in Omaha this year: an interesting mix of traditional earthenware from Duane Adams and porcelain from Thomas Hamilton to the funkier sculpture of Les Bruning, Allan Vap, Buis and Sosso; from the more realistic figurative painting of Stephen C. Roberts and Charles Novich to the disturbing imagery of Freeman and Willits.

What follow is a short list of additional works that deserve special mention in this exhibit: Predators and Victims by Robert Willits. Not sure this mixed media made the show but it was in the gallery earlier. Nevertheless, it is emblematic of Willit’s socio-political work that combines his newer Victims series with his previous Pig Men one. In this work, two figures, a dominant bald corporate bigwig, pink and

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prosperous, lords it over his blindfolded, anonymous lackey who sports a target on his chest. n “Studio Stories 1” by James Freeman. In black, white and grey acrylic, Freeman takes the above twofigure scenario and makes it more twisted, personal and demonic. Though the artist references Basquiat’s 80s expressive imagery, the psychodrama powerfully rendered here is all his own. n “Still Life with Candle” by John Miller. Another strong, expressionistic work in Miller’s characteristically surreal and mannered style. Running the emotional gamut with iconic motifs of fire and ice, this piece is more serene because all his demons are absent and we are left with the aftermath in this domestic tableaux. Still, there is that matter of the spilled wine on the table. n “Tree Lines, Again” by Deborah Murphy. In sharp contrast we have virtually the only two landscapes (along with “After the Flood”) in the show.

Murphy’s prismacolor rural vision is etched in exquisite, convincing detail, but curiously her habit of placing the horizon in the virtual center rather than at the top or bottom third, forces the eye to wander on either side rather than emphasizing the dominant two thirds plane, sky or land, which would better focus her POV. n “Six Above” by Charles Novich. Though his larger, bolder oil “Six Buttons” may have gotten more attention, of the two character studies on a landscape backdrop, the smaller, delicate watercolor is more successful. It more accurately reflects the angst of the huddled figure beautifully composed in right foreground of a wintry background. Second, while the larger figure is nicely enigmatic, she is diminished by her disproportioned left eye, which threatens to float off her face. n “Katherine” by Thomas Schlosser. There is much good 3D work in this show, metal, ceramic and wood but none finer than this polychromy bust in wood of a beautiful woman, august and vulnerable and captured in a moment of serene ecstasy. n “Man as Aquarium” by Les Bruning. Another superior piece of sculpture, this ceramic blend of armor and warrior in tones of weathered bronze is ancient and futuristic. n “The Pink Pregnant Lady” by Mike Loftus. Possibly the most outré piece in the show by this clever satirist, his figure ain’t no lady. Think of her as Marge Simpson on drugs as she defiantly smokes while naked and pregnant. Pity the child to be. n “Awakening Triptych” by Nick Chiburis. In this nude series of a model rising from her loveseat, a very elegant, statuesque brunette, with a figure more carved than chiseled, strikes a less erotic and more vogue-like pose on a dramatically black background. Quite beautiful. ,

n Affinity of Form: Photographs by Stanford Lipsey opens next Friday at downtown’s KANEKO. The award-winning journalist and newspaper publisher began at the Omaha Sun and works now at the Buffalo News; he also works as a fine art photographer. The show features 61 images — many large scale — and includes images of nature, landscapes and architecture. The exhibit traveled to the University of Buffalo and the University of Michigan en route to the KANEKO. Lipsey, Warren Buffett and Paul Williams won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for the Omaha Sun’s investigation into Boys Town. He’s been at the Buffalo News, in Buffalo, New York, since 1980. Lipsey and KANEKO worked together to plan a special event that coincides with the opening of his show.

Undivided Lives: A Conversation about Career and Creativity begins Friday, April 29 at 6 p.m. Panelists include Lipsey; Roger Fransecky, CEO of the Apogee Group; Molly Jarboe, online media specialist, artist and photographer; James Salhany, a researcher at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and poet; and Tom Kaminski, a stockbroker with TD Ameritrade and a sculptor. Each panelist will present short vignettes that describe their individual paths and then open for discussion with the audience.

Tickets for the lecture are $10 online, $15 at the door and $5 for students. Visit TheKaneko.org for more information or to purchase tickets. The exhibition continues through May 29. n Lincoln will play host to the University Place Arts Festival Saturday, April 30. The festival — which will be held rain or shine — features fine arts, crafts, art demonstrations, food and live entertainment.

The nearby LUX Center for the Arts will have live activities for kids, and the music and food at the event will be locally produced. The event takes place at 48th and St. Paul Avenue in Lincoln from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Local businesses are encouraged to be open during the event, and pull merchandise onto the sidewalks to add to the festive atmosphere. n The Drew Billings Foundation’s annual fundraiser is slated for Thursday, April 28, at Nomad Lounge. The foundation, formed in memory of Drew Billings, gives a $5,000 grant to an artist each year. The money goes toward the production of a performance-based artistic project. All the money raised at the event goes toward funding the 2011 grant. Billings, who died in 2009, devoted his life to the arts, and was involved in film, theater, music, business management and scholastics.

The 2011 grant winner will be announced on May 27. For more information on the foundation and the event, visit TheDrewBillingsFoundation.org.

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Old Friends-New Work continues through May at Hot Shops Art Gallery, 13th and Nicholas. For details go to hotshopsartcenter.com.

Mixed Media is a column about local art. Send ideas to mixedmedia@thereader.com.

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OpeningS

BANCROFT STREET MARKET, 2702 S. 10th St., 680.6737, bancroftstreetmarket.com. ALT, PROCESS LOW TECH: An exhibition of alternative process, pinhole and plastic camera images, opens Apr. 15-17, reception Apr. 15, 7 p.m.

ELDER GALLERY, 51st and Huntington, Nebraska Wesleyan University, nebrwesleyan.edu. SENIOR EXHIBITION: Group show, opens Apr. 19-May 15, reception Apr. 24, 2 p.m.

GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 1155 Q St., Hewit Plc., Lincoln, 472.0599, unl.edu/plains/gallery/gallery.shtml. PAPER PLANES: New work by Allen Eckman and Patty Eckman, opens Apr. 19May 1.

INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER AND MUSEUM, 1523 N. 33rd St., Lincoln, 472.7232, quiltstudy.org. SLOW ART DAY 2011: GET INSPIRED, NOT TIRED: Opens Apr. 16.

ONGOING

AGAINST THE WALL, 6220 Havelock Ave., Lincoln, 467.3484, againstthewallgallery.com. NEW WORK: Wildlife painter Jim Miklavcic and several of his students, through Apr. ANDERSON O’BRIEN FINE ART OLD MARKET, 1108 Jackson St., 884.0911, aobfineart.com. NEW WORK: Rein Vanderhill, through Apr. 24.

ARTISTS’ COOPERATIVE GALLERY, 405 S. 11th St., artistscoopgallery.com. MEMBER SHOW: Group show, through May 1.

BIRDHOUSE COLLECTIBLE, 1111 N. 13th St., Suite 123, 577.0711, biz@birdhouseinteriors.com. NEW WORK: Adam Hershey, through May 14.

BLUE POMEGRANATE GALLERY, 6570 Maple St., 502.9901, bluepom.com. THE FINE ART OF FOOLIN AROUND: Group show, featuring Linda Hatfield, LaVerne David Thompson, Naava Naslavsky and Mark Goodall, through Apr. CATHEDRAL CULTURAL CENTER SUTHERLAND GALLERY, 701 N. 40th St., 551.4888, cathedralartsproject.org. MARY IN ART: The Bruges Madonna and Other Works, opens through May 27.

CREIGHTON LIED ART GALLERY, 2500 California St., 280.2392, finearts.creighton.edu. PORTAL: Group show featuring ShunSho Fong, Aubrey Inman and Kelly Standing, through Apr. 29 DRIFT STATION GALLERY, 1745 N St., Lincoln, driftstation.org.

FIND AND REPLACE: Poetry, animation, audio/video group show curated by Jeff Thompson, through Apr. 21.

DUNDEE GALLERY, 4916 Underwood Ave., 505.8333, dundeegallery.com. ANNIVERSARY SHOW: Through Apr. 24.

DURHAM WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM, 801 S. 10th St., 444.5071, durhammuseum.org. CAPTURE THE MOMENT: Pulitzer Prize photographs, through Jul. 10. NEWSFLASH: Photography by Robert Paskach, through Jul. 10.

EL MUSEO LATINO, 4701 S. 25th St., elmuseolatino.org. MOLAS EXHIBIT: Textiles created by the Kuna people of Panama.

NEBRASKA MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS: Group show, through Apr. 16. EL CABALLO: The horse in Mexican Folk Art, through May 4.

FRED SIMON GALLERY, Burlington Building, 1004 Farnam St., nebraskaartscouncil.org. NEW WORK: Anne and Mike Burton, through Apr. 22.

GALLERY 9, 124 S 9th St., Lincoln, 477.2822, gallerynine.com.

WHERE THE OWL LIVES: Wendy Bantam through Apr. 20.

GRAHAM GALLERY, 617 W. 2nd St., Hastings, graham-gallery. com. CERAMIC INVITATIONAL: Group show, through Apr. 27.

HAYDON CENTER, 335 N. 8th St., Lincoln, 475.5421, haydonartcenter.org. WIND ON EARTH: Native American group show, through May 7, reception May 6.

HITHCOCK NATURE CENTER, 27792 Ski Hill Loop, Honey Creek, IA, pottcoconservation.com. TALL GRASS PRAIRIE- PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: Through Apr. 28.

HOT SHOPS ARTS CENTER, 1301 Nicholas St., 342.6452, hotshopsartcenter.com. OLD FRIENDS, NEW WORK: Group show, through May 1. OPS ART TEACHERS SHOW: Through Apr. 24.

JOURNEY TO WHOLENESS: Group show, through Apr. 25.

INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER AND MUSEUM, 1523 N. 33rd St., Lincoln, 472.7232, quiltstudy.org. NEBRASKA QUILTS AND QUILTMAKERS: Group show, through Oct. 2.

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 333 S. 132nd St., 572.8486, jccomaha.org. NEW WORK: Photography by Dan Thrasher, though Apr. JOSLYN ART MUSEUM, 2200 Dodge St., 342.3300, joslyn.org.

THE GLORY OF UKRAINE: Two part exhibition that forms an unprecedented celebration of this large European nation, through

May 8. FROM HOUDINI TO HUGO: The art of Brian Selznick, through May 29.

KIECHEL FINE ART, 5733 S. 34th St., Lincoln, kiechelart.com.

SHARED HISTORY: Anthony Benton Gude with works by Thomas Hart Benton and Dale Nichols, through Apr. 8.

LAURITZEN GARDENS, 100 Bancroft St., 346.4002, omahabotanicalgardens.org. A TROPICAL PARADISE: Amazing tropical plants, through Apr. WEEDS/PODS/SEEDS: New work by Kristin Pluhacek. THE LANDSCAPES: New work by Kristin Pluhacek.

Both shows through Apr. 17.

LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 48th and Baldwin, Lincoln, 434.2787, luxcenter.org. LIGHT PLAY: New work by Cathy Breslaw, through May 28. NATIONAL JURIED CUP EXHIBITION: Julia Galloway juries, through Apr. 30.

MODERN ARTS MIDWEST, 800 P St., Lincoln, 477.2828, modernartsmidwest.com. APRIL SHOWERS: Group show featuring Jacqueline Kluver, Merrill Peterson, Larry Roots, Marsha Solomon and Iggy Sumnik, through Apr. 30.

MORRILL HALL, 307 Morrill Hall, Lincoln 472.3779, museum. unl.edu. AMPHIBIANS VIBRANT AND VANISHING: Photographs

by Joel Sartore, through Nov. 30.

MR. TOAD, 1002 Howard St. LUIGI WAITES EXHIBIT: Artwork honoring Luigi Waites, through May 30.

MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART (MONA), 2401 Central Ave., Kearney, 308.865.8559, monet.unk.edu/mona. THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: Through Jun. 5, 2011. ESPIRIT: A TASTE OF ART: Hand-crafted media group show, through Apr. 16. STUDENT ART SHOW: Group show, through May 15.

THE NEW BLK, 1213 Jones St., 403.5619, thenewblk.com.

CREATIVITY IN CRISIS: A benefit show for Kent Bellows Studio, through Apr. 29.

OLD MARKET ARTISTS, 1034 Howard St., Lower Level of Old Market Passageway, oldmarketartists.com. THE SOUL OF GUATEMALA: New work by Lisa Maciejewski, through Apr. OMAHA’S CHILDREN’S MUSEUM, 500 S. 20th St., 342.6163. ocm.org. BIG BACKYARD: Through Apr. 10.

PASSAGEWAY GALLERY, 417 South 11th St, passagewaygallery.com. COPPER CREATIONS: New work by Randy Patzer, through Apr. 30.

RETRO, 1125 Jackson St., 934.7443. NEW WORK: Miss Cake & Gerard Pefung, through Apr. 30.

RNG GALLERY, 1915 Leavenworth St., 214.3061. LES FEMMES FOLLES: This group show celebrates the Woman’s body, the Woman artist and the Woman’s POV of the Woman, through May 1.

SHELDON ART GALLERY, 12th and R, UNL, Lincoln, sheldonartgallery.org. BETTER HALF, BETTER TWELFTH: Women artists in the collection, through Apr. 1, 2011. AN AMERICAN TASTE: THE ROHMAN COLLECTION: Through May 1. POETICAL FIRE: THREE CENTURIES OF STILL LIFES: Group show, through May 7.

SILVER OF OZ, 6115 Maple St., 558.1307, silverofoz.com. NEW WORK: Justin Lewis, through Apr. 30.

TUGBOAT GALLERY, 14th and O, 2nd floor, Lincoln, tugboatgallery.com. NEW WORK: Group show featuring Ben Moore, Andrew Holmquist and David Brian Dobbs, curated by Byron Anway, through Apr. 30.

UNL HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY, 35th & Holdrege, 2nd Floor, Home Econims Bldg., Lincoln, textilegallery.unl.edu. THAIS REGINA DE OLIVEIRA: A CARNIVAL OF SOUND: Through Apr. 8, reception Apr. 8, 5 p.m.

UNL ROTUNDA GALLERY, Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Lincoln, 472.8279. 5TH ANNUAL UNL STAFF ART EXHIBITION: Through Apr. 15.

UNO ART GALLERY, Weber Fine Arts Bldg., 6001 Dodge St., 554.2796. WORKS BY GRADUATES: Group show by May BFA and BASA graduates, through May 6.

UNO CRISS GALLERY, 6001 Dodge St., 554.2640, library.unomaha.edu. THE JAZZ ART OF DAVID STONE MARTIN: Through May 19.

WORKSPACE GALLERY, Sawmill Building, 440 N. 8th St., Lincoln, sites.google.com/site/workspacegallery. SELECTIONS FROM THE FORTIETH PARALLEL: MISSOURI, KANSAS, AND COLORADO: New work by Bruce Myren, through May 5.

theater oPENING

CHARLOTTE’S WEB, Nebraska Wesleyan, Miller Theatre, 51st and Huntington, 465.2384, nebrwesleyan.edu. Opens Apr. 14-

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15, 7:30 p.m., Apr. 16, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., Apr. 17, 2 p.m., $10, $7.50/seniors, $5/students.

MADAMA BUTTERFLY, Orpheum Theater, 409 S. 16th St., 345.0606, omahaperformingarts.org. Opens Apr. 15, 7:30 p.m., Apr. 17, 2 p.m., $19-$79.

MY OCCASION OF SIN, Shelterbelt Theatre, 3225 California St, 341.2757, shelterbelt.org. Opens Apr.14-May 8, Thu-Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 6 p.m., $15, $12/students and seniors.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS, Omaha Community Playhouse, 6915 Cass St., 553.0800, omahaplayhouse.com. Opens Apr. 15-May 8, Wed.-Sat., 7:30 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m. & 6:30 p.m., $35, $21/ students.

TWELFTH NIGHT, UNO Theatre, Weber Fine Arts Building, 6001 Dodge St., unomaha.edu. Opens Apr. 15-16, 20-23, 7 p.m., $15, $10/seniors, $5/students.

oNGOING

ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENIUM APPROACHES, Flatwater Shakespeare, The Haymarket Theatre, 803 Q St., Lincoln, flatwatershakespeare.org. Through Apr. 17, Thu.-Sun., 7:30 p.m., $18, $15/seniors, $10/students.

GRAPES OF WRATH, Arts Center at Iowa Western College, 2700 College Road, Council Bluffs. Opens Apr. 7-9, 7 p.m., Apr. 10, 2 p.m., Apr. 15-16, 7 p.m., Apr. 17, 2 p.m., $5.

IT’S THE HOUSEWIVES!, TADA Theatre, 701 P St., Lincoln, 402.438.8232, tadatheatre.info. Through Apr. 17, Thu.-Sat., 7:30 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m., $18, $15/Sunday.

THE MUSICAL ADVENTURES OF FLAT STANLEY, Rose Theater, 2001 Farnam St., 345.4849, rosetheater.org. Through Apr. 17, various showtimes, $16.

TWELFTH NIGHT, University Theatre, Temple Bldg., 12th and R, Lincoln, 472.4747, unl.edu/theatrearts. Opens Apr. 7-9, 12-16, 7:30 p.m., $16, $14/seniors, $10/students.

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2011 WINE, WRITERS AND SONG FESTIVAL, Brownville, NE, brownville-ne.com.

AARDBAARK, The Bookworm, 87th & Pacific, 392.2877, bookwormomaha.com, 6 p.m. Amiable adult readers discussing books almost always read by kids. (2nd Thursday.)

COMEDY NIGHT AT THE SIDE DOOR, 3530 Leavenworth St., 8 p.m., $5. Every Thu. DAN SENOR, UNO Thompson Alumni Center, 6705 Dodge St., unomaha.edu, 8 p.m. Lecture, “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle.”

THE NEBRASKA LECTURES, Nebraska Union Auditorium, 14th & R. St, unl.edu, 3 p.m. “A Battle for the Children: Indigenous Child Removal in the United States and Australia from 18801940”.

POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY, Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St., joslyn.org, 6:30 p.m.

ROXANA SABERI, Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 313 N. 13th St., Lincoln. unl.edu, 7 p.m. Iranian-American journalist gives a presentation, “Courage Under Fire”.

RAINBOW ROWELL, The Bookworm, 87th & Pacific, 392.2877, bookwormomaha.com, 6 p.m. Author will sign Attachments.

JOE TORRY, Funny Bone, Village Pointe, 17305 Davenport St., funnnyboneomaha.com, 493.8036, 7:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 15

2011 WINE, WRITERS AND SONG FESTIVAL, Brownville, NE, brownville-ne.com.

CONSTELLATION NE II, Guest House Inn, 5450 Cornhusker Hwy. GREAT PLAINS POETRY PILE-UP, Kimmel Theatre, Midland University, 900 N. Clarkson St., Fremont, 7 p.m. Poets from around the country compete for $1800 in prizes.

art/theater listings

NO NAME READING SERIES, Zen’s Lounge, 122 N. 11th St., Lincoln, unl.edu/noname, 4 p.m., FREE. Featuring Cody Lumpkin & DeMisty Bellinger.

THE SECOND CITY PRESENTS “FAIR & UNBALANCED”, Holland Center, 1200 Douglas St., omahaperformingarts.org, 8 p.m., $19-$44.

TWYLA HANSEN, Omaha Public LIbrary Florence Branch, 2920 Bondesson St., omahalibrary.org, 4 p.m. Nebraska writer Twyla Hansen will present “Playing Around with Words: Reading, Writing and the Creative Process.”

JOE TORRY, Funny Bone, Village Pointe, 17305 Davenport St., funnnyboneomaha.com, 493.8036, 7:30 p.m, 9:45 p.m.

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2011 WINE, WRITERS AND SONG FESTIVAL, Brownville, NE, brownville-ne.com.

CONSTELLATION NE II, Guest House Inn, 5450 Cornhusker Hwy. GREAT PLAINS POETRY PILE-UP, Kimmel Theatre, Midland University, 900 N. Clarkson St., Fremont, 4:30 p.m. Poets from around the country compete for $1800 in prizes.

JOE TORRY, Funny Bone, Village Pointe, 17305 Davenport St., funnnyboneomaha.com, 493.8036, 7:30 p.m, 9:30 p.m.

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2011 WINE, WRITERS AND SONG FESTIVAL, Brownville, NE, brownville-ne.com.

CONSTELLATION NE II, Guest House Inn, 5450 Cornhusker Hwy. JEFFREY MARTIN, The Bookworm, 87th & Pacific, 392.2877, bookwormomaha.com, 1 p.m. Author will sign 3:16.

JOHN H. AMES READING SERIES, Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors, Bennett Martin Public Library, 136 South 14th St., Lincoln, 2 p.m. James Cihlar.

SUNDAY SCIENTIST, Morrill Hall, 14th & Vine St., Lincoln, unl. edu, 1:30 p.m. “The Fascinating World of Fruit.”

JOE TORRY, Funny Bone, Village Pointe, 17305 Davenport St., funnnyboneomaha.com, 493.8036, 7 p.m.

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DUFFY’S COMEDY WORKSHOP, 1412 O St., Lincoln, 474.3543, myspace.com/duffystavern, 9 p.m. (every Mon.) THE ENYCLOPEDIA SHOW, Omaha Healing Arts Center, 1216 Howard St., 345.5078, omahaslam.com, 7:30 p.m., $5 suggested donation. Vol. 2 - “The Moon”.

POETRY AT THE MOON, Crescent Moon Coffee, 816 P St., Lincoln, 435.2828, crescentmoon@inebraska.com, 7 p.m. Open mic and featured readers. (every Mon.)

tuesday 19

10TH ANNUAL MALCOLM X FESTIVAL, Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 6001 Dodge St., unomaha.edu/blst/.

88 IMPROV, Pizza Shoppe Collective, 6056 Maple St., 8 p.m, 88improv.com, $5. The audience helps create the show. (1st & 3rd Tue.) INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP, The Bookworm, 87th & Pacific, 392.2877, bookwormomaha. com, 6:30 p.m.

SHOOT YOUR MOUTH OFF, The Hideout, 320 S. 72nd St., 504.4434, myspace.com/shootyourmouthoff, 9 p.m. Spoken word, comedy, music and chaos (every Tue.)

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10TH ANNUAL MALCOLM X FESTIVAL, Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 6001 Dodge St., unomaha.edu/blst/.

ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC FOR MUSICIANS & POETS, Meadowlark Coffee & Espresso, 1624 S. St., Lincoln, 8 p.m., 477.2007. Hosted by Spencer. (every Wed.) MIDWEST POETRY VIBE, Irie, 302 S. 11th St., 9 p.m., poetry, R&B, Neosoul music, live performances, concert DVD and food and drink. (Every Wed.) PEOPLE’S FILM FESTIVAL: GARBAGE WARRIOR, McFoster’s Natural Kind Cafe, 38th and Farnam, 7 p.m., FREE. Imagine a home that heats itself, that provides its own water, that grows its own food. (every Wed.) POET SHOW IT, 1122 D St., Lincoln, 9 p.m. Hosted by Travis Davis. (1st & 3rd Wed.) J. MEDICINE HAT, Funny Bone, Village Pointe, 17305 Davenport St., funnnyboneomaha.com, 493.8036, 7:30 p.m.

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Full-time Pornographger New Pornographers’ Kathryn Calder is more than a fill-in

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Calder plays an even more prominent role on the band’s fifth album, Together. Released last May on Matador Records, the album was a departure from the New Pornographers’ more inward-sounding, intimate recordings, to something more, well, robust. Opening track “Moves” launches with a guitar-and-cello riff that would feel right at home on a latter-day Zeppelin album before it lets go into a piano bounce and frontman Newman’s familiar, groovy summer-time vocals. Neko Case takes over for track two, the swinging “Crash Years,” while Dan Bejar’s sin-

arly in the interview with New Pornographers vocalist/keyboard player Kathryn Calder I figured I’d try a bit of a joke.

Calder said she was recovering from a solo show played the night before in Duncan, a small town an hour north of her home of new pornographers Victoria, British Columbia. While people mostly know her from her New Pornographers role, she said a few also remember her work with former band Immaculate Machine, as well as from her solo album, Are You My Mother?, released last fall.

“I haven’t done many solo shows yet,” she said. “I’ve planned a little tour in a spot when I knew New Pornographers weren’t going to be doing anything. It makes it easier.”

It was here that I suggested that if Calder needed more time to nurture her solo career, she could always hit up fellow New Pornographers vocalist Neko Case to fill in on her parts while she was gone, which resulted in Calder’s good-hearted, if ister snarl is front and center on big-pop rocker not polite, laugh at my rather lame joke.

It’s a joke because part of the reason Calder “Silver Jenny Dollar.” Mixed among it all is was asked to join New Pornographers in 2005 was Calder’s sweet vocals, giving the band its distinct to fill in for Neko Case when Case is away doing harmonic sound.

“I was more involved in this one than any a solo tour. Calder first began working with the band on 2005’s Twin Cinema album. “I wasn’t re- other record,” Calder said, adding that she spent ally in the band yet,” she said. “The reason they a lot of time at Little Blue recording studio in invited me in was to see how well I’d fit in with the Woodstock, N.Y. “We hadn’t heard the songs besound. I guess we were recording in early 2005 for fore I arrived at Woodstock. You get played these Twin Cinema and in June I had my first five dates songs and have to jam them out.”

It wasn’t until after the recording that Calder with the Pornographers. That was the trial period, and I guess they were happy with it,clearly. In Au- discovered that the album would be dedicated to her mother, Lynn Calder. “She had just passed gust they just started to invite me along.”

Calder is credited with back-up vocals and pi- away in July 2009,” Calder said. “We went to reano on that album. By the time 2007’s Challenger cord in September. The songs were written by that was released, she was a full-blown Pornographer, point and I was still reeling obviously and they having spent the past two years touring with the dedicated it to her, and I thought that was nice.”

More than any other New Pornographer’s band. “Carl (Newman) gave me a more promialbum, Together is a mix of the band’s generous nent role of that record,” she said.

vocal talents. “Carl even said that it’s the first album where he thought he was singing the least,” Calder said. But having that much talent means that — like Calder and Case — everyone has side gigs. As A.C. Newman, Carl Newman had something of a hit with 2009’s Get Guilty (Matador Records), and Bejar is known as much for his other band, Destroyer, as for New Pornographers, having released arguably one of the best albums so far this year with Kaputt, on Merge Records.

Because of all these side projects, you never know who you’re going to see when New Pornographers rolls into your town.

For next Thursday’s show at The Waiting Room, Neko Case will be along for the ride, while Bejar most likely won’t be, Calder said.

“We have various incarnations for all eventualities,” she said of the ever-changing line-up. “We have the ability to play as a six-piece, sevenpiece and as an eight-piece.

On our last big tour we were a 10-piece.”

With Bejar gone, Calder said the band will “just fill in his parts and won’t play that many of his songs. We can also play some of his songs with Carl singing Dan’s parts.

It’s just how it has to be.”

With Case along on this tour, Calder said the two will be doing a lot of singing together. “Carl is very clever when he arranged it,” Calder said. “I play piano and play the same thing whether she’s there or not. I’m always doing my thing anyway. She sings her songs and I sing with her, and we’ll sing at the same time, providing a powerful female assault.”

Calder said to expect a seven-person line-up at The Waiting Room “and there will be lots of singing and foot stomping, and I’ll even bring out my accordion for one song. It’s going to be a lot of fun.” And that’s no joke. ,

The New Pornographers plays with The So-So Sailors, Thursday, April 21, at The Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St. Showtime is 9 p.m. Tickets are $22 adv. / $25 DOS. For more information, visit onepercentproductions.com.

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n Congratulations to Stir Cove and Harrah’s Casino for announcing a rock-solid line-up of initial summer shows. The Flaming Lips (August 4) and Ben Folds (July 8) shows highlight the announced shows, which so far, are light on the usual summer glut on classic rock. Stir organizers have promised more shows to come. Check out the complete show list, ticket prices and more at StirCove. com. n MAHA Music Festival is up next, as the organizers of the August 13 event at Lewis & Clark Landing have set April 25 as the date that they will reveal the lineup for their third annual outdoor concert.

After hitting a home run with last year’s featured headliners Spoon and The Faint, this will definitely be a good one. n Where that leaves Red Sky Festival, set for July 19-24 at and around the TD Ameritrade Park in north downtown, remains to be seen. Nary a peep has been heard from the mysterious cabal of LiveNation kingmakers and Metropolitan Entertainment and Convention Authority powerbrokers responsible for putting on Omaha’s supposed answer to Milwaukee’s Summerfest.

Here’s hoping we won’t wait too much longer to see just what Red Sky will be all about. n Mynabirds’ Laura Burhenn has been quite busy. Her band has opened several recent Bright Eyes tour dates, which means double-duty for Burhenn as she is currently a member of Bright Eyes’ touring line-up. In the middle of all of that, the Mynabirds have put together a new video for “L.A. Rain”, a track off of 2010’s What We Lose In the Fire We Gain in the Flood. The black-andwhite video, shot and edited by Shervin Lainez, is a mini tour documentary. Also, my eyes might deceive me, but I’m pretty sure I spotted Lewis Black in there. Nice cameo! Just around the corner are planned autumn studio sessions for the next Mynabirds record, once again with Richard Swift producing. n Atlanta, Ga.’s Biters provided a great Friday night set of throwback glam-punk that was a fun homage to the New York biters Dolls and more.

The show at the Slowdown, 720 North 14th St., also featured fellow Atlanta act the Booze, who played a Stones-indebted rock strut.

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he dim, squalid confines of The Underwood Bar are a fine place to drink yourself into oblivion while playing a game of pool or pinball. They’re not such a fine place to conduct an interview, especially with four bands simultaneously. But that’s where Conduits drummer Roger Lewis decided would be the best place for what would turn into chaos.

Crammed between the pool table and glowing digital jukebox in the back of the bar sat Lewis and Conduits band mate Jenna Morrison; InDreama frontman Nik Fackler with his bandmate — legendary bass player Dereck Higgins; Icky Blossoms mastermind Derek Pressnall, and the hardest working guy in local music, Darren Keen, the genius behind Touch People. If you go to The Slowdown this Friday night you will hear all of these musicians and their band mates perform together on one bill, maybe for the one and only time (though there’s talk of repeating the line-up sometime in Lincoln).

The occasion for this grand collective is the release of a duo 7-inch split — one song from each band on two vinyl records. Morrison said J.J. Idt, who plays in both Conduits and Icky Blossoms, came up with the idea, and then “one link led to another.”

It sounded like a great story, but somewhere before Lewis bought me a second Rolling Rock and after one of the fat, bearded locals plugged the jukebox and began belting out lines to Vanilla Fudge’s “You Keep Me Hanging On,” I realized that it was all going to get lost in the noise and confusion of trying to reign in six people talking from six different angles.

And that the project’s real story centered around the music, anyway. The recordings break down like this: “Misery Train” by Conduits is a perfect slice of the band’s trademark dream-pop sound, dim and faraway, with Morrison’s angelic voice burning through the mist like a distant beacon, safe and familiar and strangely comforting in its ghostly beauty.

Icky Blossoms’ “Perfect Vision” is a pop gem, a mid-tempo hand-clapping slacker anthem that’s a combination of Jesus and Mary Chain and Love & Rockets, with Pressnall standing right in the middle of it all, singing presumably with eyes half closed lines like, “Nothing to do but get high in the afternoon.”

Opening with icy synth tones, InDreama’s “Reprogram” evolves into proggy electronic drunk-funk.

As much an art piece as a rock song, the track defines Fackler as a Midwestern version of Beck, unafraid to reach out and try something different for difference’s sake, but never losing sight of the melody.

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ing chords and tones, with Keen’s voice emerging strangely through the floor boards with lines like, “Sometimes a sound is just a sound.”

Side-by-side, each song is starkly different, and yet somehow there’s a sonic thread — a dreamy vibe — that binds all four together into a cohesive whole.

These four bands stand at the vanguard of a new direction of Nebraska music, a clear departure from the singer-songwriter fare that so brazenly defined the scene over the past decade.

In fact, all the bands are second-generation outgrowths of former projects. Icky Blossoms was born out of Pressnall’s Flowers Forever (which was a side project of Tilly and the Wall); InDreama is a bastard child of Fackler’s The Family Radio; Conduits includes veterans of Eagle Seagull and Son Ambulance, while Touch People is a third concurrently functioning incarnation of Darren Keen, who’s better known for his persona as The Show Is the Rainbow.

The duo splits are an introduction to all four bands, which despite their obvious differences make sense collectively. Consider these singles as a crossroads where all four meet before spinning off once again in their own directions. We can expect to hear full lengths or other recordings by all four at some point later this year. But for now, they’re all together, at least for one night.

“This scene is more accepting of general weirdness,” said Keen, who despite frequently playing in both Lincoln and Omaha has always been viewed by some as an outsider. “Omaha and Nebraska music has evolved from its labels. Now it’s like any other cool city. Seattle, for example, is more than just grunge.”

“We’re in a period in Omaha music where there are so many kick-ass bands out there,” Lewis said.

“It’s a kick-ass-band overload!”

Fackler, who is more well known as the writer and director of indie film Lovely, Still, said seeing Conduits perform “genuinely inspired me. I got that feeling again to put a band together.”

“We all are just friends,” Pressnall added, “and while this hasn’t exactly been thought out, we’ve all been very inspired by each other. When I see these bands, I just want to go home and push myself creatively.”

From there, the conversations rose to a fever pitch and I started to lose my balance. Like a wise Jedi master or an all-knowing Buddha or what he really is — the veteran of some of the area’s most important legacy bands — Derek Higgins simply looked at me, smiled and summed it all up perfectly. “Can you feel it?” he asked quietly between three conversations.

“Can you see how all of us are connected? There’s something going on here.” , Conduits, Icky Blossoms, InDreama and Touch People play Friday, April 15, at The Slowdown. Tickets are $7, show starts at 9 p.m.

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NICK MOSS & THE FLIPTOPS, (blues) 5:30 p.m., 21st

Saloon, $9.

ZAK C, (DJ) 9 p.m., 415, FREE. CAMERON MCGILL & WHAT ARMY, BRYAN ROGERS,

MANNY COON, (folk) 9 p.m., Barley St. Tavern, $5.

UNDERWATER DREAM MACHINE, VAGO, DIM LIGHTS,

CONCHANCE, MATT COX, (various) 8 p.m., Bourbon.

KYLE HARVEY, LONELY ESTATES, DOWN WITH THE SHIP, ALL YOUNG GIRLS ARE MACHINE GUNS, MIDWEST DILEMMA, (various) 8:30 p.m., Duffy’s.

THE AFTERDARKS, (rock) 9 p.m., Gator O’Malley’s.

READER RECOMMENDS

STEFON HARRIS & BLACKOUT, (funk/jazz) 7:30 p.m.,

Holland Center, $19-$45.

VOXHUAL BROADCAST, NAT RUNGE BAND, (rock) 9 p.m.,

Knickerbockers.

VIRUS WOLF, (rock) 8 p.m., LiV Lounge.

STEVE SPURGEONS, (acoustic) 9 p.m., Myth, FREE. NEAL DAVIS, (jazz) 6:30 p.m., Ozone, FREE. SWAMPJAM, (blues) 8 p.m., Perry’s Place, FREE. TOM MAY, CURTIS AND LORETTA, (folk) 7 p.m., Pizza

Shoppe Collective.

AMERICAN COUNTRY SHOWCASE, (country) 5 p.m.,

Rednecks, FREE. DARK DARK DARK, HONEY & DARLING, (rock) 9 p.m.,

Slowdown, $8.

B.O.L.D., NEOS. B, BARD, RED “THA DON”, YANKEE KID AND RITEZ, AND MORE, (hip-hop) 6:30 p.m., Sokol

Underground, $9/adv, $12/dos.

SARAH BENCK, KELSEY NORD, (singer-songwriter) 9 p.m.,

Sydney, $5.

JR HOSS, (acoustic) 9 p.m., Two Fine Irishmen, FREE. THE WONDER YEARS, FIREWORKS, SUCH GOLD, MAKE DO AND MEND, LIVING WITH LIONS, (rock) 7 p.m.,

Waiting Room, $12/adv, $14/dos.

NOCTURNAL BUNNIES, (cover) 9 p.m., Whiskey

Roadhouse, FREE. LIL’ SLIM BLUES BAND, (blues) 9:30 p.m., Zoo Bar, $5.

FRIDAY 15

QC, COSGROVE, (DJ) 9 p.m., 415, $5.

CAPTAIN OBVIOUS, (cover) 9 p.m., Arena, FREE. DAPHNE WILLIS, JASON KUTCHMA, LEE MEYERPETER,

KORBY LENKER, (singer-songwriter) 9 p.m., Barley St.

Tavern, $5.

CORDIAL SPEW, WITNESS TREE, MITCH GETTMAN BAND, HONEY & DARLING, ANSWER TEAM, (various) 8

p.m., Bourbon.

BLUE HOUSE, THE RENT TO OWN HORNS, (cover) 9 p.m.,

Brewsky’s Park Drive, FREE. 5 SIMPLE FOOLS, (cover) 9 p.m., Chrome, FREE. DISCOURSES WITH THE DIVINE, (rock) 8 p.m., Cultiva.

DRUNKEN INTENTIONS, (rock) 10 p.m., Dinkers, FREE. HELLO FROM GHOST VALLEY, END IN RED, FLIGHT

METAPHOR, LEPERS, BLUE BIRD, (various) 8:30

p.m., Duffy’s.

DECKER, (cover) 8:30 p.m., The Grove, $5.

MARIACHI LUNA Y SOL, (mariachi) 6:30 p.m., Hector’s.

READER RECOMMENDS

J BEATS, (hip-hop) 7:30 p.m., The Hole, $6.

EDDIE SPAGHETTI OF SUPERSUCKERS, HA HA TONKA,

(rock) 9 p.m., Knickerbockers, $10.

LEMON FRESH DAY, (cover) 9 p.m., Loose Moose, FREE. ASHLEY RAINES & THE NEW WEST REVUE, (rock) 9:30

p.m., O’Leaver’s, $5.

ROUGH CUT, (cover) 9 p.m., Ozone, FREE. PHOENIX RISING, (rock) 8 p.m., Pizza Shoppe Co, $5.

CACTUS HILL, (cover) 9:30 p.m., red9.

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DROWNING IN THE PLATTE, KARATHOS, GAROTED, GO AT FRED, (rock) 9 p.m., Shamrock’s.

CONDUITS, ICKY BLOSSOMS, IN DREAMS, TOUCH

PEOPLE, (indie/rock) 9 p.m., Slowdown, $7.

GREG PLACE, (acoustic) 7 p.m., Soaring Wings, FREE. WHAT DWELLS WITHIN, GIVE TO THE WINDS, WORDS

LIKE DAGGERS, AT WAR WITH GIANTS, GLASGOW,

VERENDUS, (rock) 6:30 p.m., Sokol Underground, $8.

READER RECOMMENDS

ENSEMBLE A.M.I. PERFORMS RUSH’S “EXIT... STAGE

LEFT”, (rock/tribute) 7 p.m., Strauss Center, $12, $8/

students.

ON THE FRITZ, (cover) 9 p.m., Two Fine Irishmen, FREE. ANESTATIC, NEVER DIVIDED SKIN’D, (rock) 9 p.m., Venue

162, $5.

SECRET WEAPON, (cover) 9 p.m., Waiting Room, $7.

LEGACY, (cover) 9 p.m., Whiskey Roadhouse, FREE. JAMES WESLEY, (rock) 9 p.m., Whiskey Tango.

UNCUT, (acoustic) 9 p.m., Your Moms Downtown Bar. BUCK & FAVER, (blues) 5 p.m., Zoo Bar, $5.

GOODING, (rock) 9 p.m., Zoo Bar, $8.

SATURDAY 16

GLENN OKADA, KENNEDY, (DJ) 9 p.m., 415, $5.

THE LABELS, (cover) 9 p.m., Amerisports Bar, FREE. FISHHEADS, (cover) 9 p.m., Arena, FREE.

READER RECOMMENDS

THE BEAT SEEKERS, BLUE BIRD, TRAVELING MERCIES,

(rock/folk) 9 p.m., Barley St. Tavern, $5.

2011 HIP HOP SUMMIT WITH ACEYALONE, (hip-hop) 7

p.m., Bourbon.

THE SLANGS, (cover) 9 p.m., Chrome, FREE. COOL IT, ACTION!, TIME HAMMER, DUST FROM 1000 YEARS, (rock) 7 p.m., Cultiva, FREE. CASTALIA TRIO, (chamber) 8 p.m., Ethel S. Abbott

Auditorium, $32, $8/students.

MATT WALLACE FUSION FORCE, (jazz) Havana Garage.

ANDO EHLERS, JIMMY HOBBS, (rock) 7 p.m., Hole, $6.

TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT: THE MUSIC OF THE EAGLES,

(symphony) 8 p.m., Holland Center, $25-$70.

FLATFOOT 56, THE KILLIGANTS, (rock) 9 p.m.,

Knickerbockers, $12.

THE SLANGS, (cover) 9 p.m., Loose Moose, FREE. KING OF THE CUT W/ DJ KWICKSTARR, (DJ/rock) Louis.

READER RECOMMENDS

MASSES, KETCHUP & MUSTARD GAS, THE PHOTO ATLAS, THE ANSWER TEAM, (rock) 9:30 p.m.,

O’Leaver’s, $5.

RYAN MCLEAY, (acoustic) 7 p.m., Oscar’s.

ROUGH CUT, (cover) 9 p.m., Ozone, FREE. ADA JANE, (rock) 9 p.m., Pizza Shoppe Collective, $5.

D*FUNK, (cover) 9:30 p.m., red9.

RECKLESS ONES, TH’EMPRIES, BLACKTOP RAMBLERS,

(rockabilly) 8 p.m., Sandbox, $7.

MONKEYPUZZLE, (rock) 9 p.m., Shamrock’s.

CASTALIA TRIO, (chamber) 8 p.m., Sheldon, $35.

AFTER THE FALL, AURASING, THE WRECKAGE, WE BE

LIONS, (rock) 9 p.m., Slowdown, $7.

EVICTED, FADED BLOCK, (rock) 9 p.m., Stir Live, $5.

KID COMA, MASARIS, (DJ) 9 p.m., Sydney.

ROYAL 5, (cover) 9 p.m., Two Fine Irishmen, FREE. JASON BOLAND AND THE STRAGGLERS, NATHAN WADE,

(country) 9 p.m., Uncle Ron’s, $20/adv, $25/dos.

STRFKR, CHAMPAGNE CHAMPAGNE, GARDENS AND

VILLA, (dance/rock) 9 p.m., Waiting Room, $8.

WICKED FUN, (cover) 9 p.m., Whiskey Roadhouse, FREE. MATT GAGNE BAND, (blues) 9 p.m., Your Moms Downtown

Bar, FREE. BRAD CORDLE BAND, (blues) 9 p.m., Zoo Bar, $8.

SUNDAY 17

SUNDAY GOLD W/ GREG K, (DJ) 9 p.m., 415, FREE. PASTEL PISTOL, POWERFUL SCIENCE, DANGEROUS

PONIES, (pop/rock/electronic) 9 p.m., Duffy’s.

READER RECOMMENDS

GALVANIZED TRON, MIKE FANTASTIK, LYRICAL FRONT,

(hip-hop) 9 p.m., Hideout, $5.

THE DECEMBERISTS, JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, (indie/

rock) 8 p.m., Holland Center, $35.

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SPRING CONCERT, (classical) 2

p.m., Lied Education Center Main Stage.

LINCOLN CIVIC ORCHESTRA, (classical) 4 p.m., O’Donnell

Auditorium, FREE. PANGEA, ZANZOA, MORPHEU, (jazz) 7 p.m., red9, $5.

KATIE LOGAN, (acoustic) 2 p.m., Soaring Wings, FREE. REALITY DA BO$$, AJ THE DREAD, K3RD DA KLUTCH, &

MORE, (hip-hop) 6 p.m., Sokol Underground, $12.

GORILLA PRODUCTIONS BATTLE OF THE BAND, (rock) 5

p.m., Waiting Room, $8/adv, $10/dos.

AUDITION NIGHT W/ MONKEYPUZZLE, (cover) 7 p.m.,

Whiskey Roadhouse, FREE. TOASTED PONIES, (blues) 3 p.m., Zoo Bar, $5.

NEBRASKA BLUES CHALLENGE PRELIM W/ BLUES OR

CHESTRA, SON OF 76 & THE WATCHMEN, LIL SLIM’S BLUES BAND, LEVI WILLIAM, (blues) 7 p.m.,

Zoo Bar, $5.

MONDAY 18

SONGWRITER SHOWCASE, 8 p.m., Barley St. Tavern, FREE. ACOUSTIC OPEN STAGE, 7 p.m., Bourbon, FREE. TIM KOEHN ACOUSTIC JAM, (blues) 8:30 p.m., Dueces.

DIM LIGHT, SLOW SKATE, (rock) 9:30 p.m., O’Leaver’s, $5.

MIKE GURCIULLO AND HIS LAS VEGAS LAB BAND, (jazz)

6:30 p.m., Ozone, FREE.

READER RECOMMENDS

JON BRODEUR, (pop/rock) 9 p.m., Side Door.

CAT ISLAND, DANGEROUS PONIES, PHARMACY SPIRITS, SHIPBUILDING CO., (rock) 9 p.m., Slowdown, $5.

THE SUBMARINES, NIK FREITAS, (indierock) 9 p.m.,

Waiting Room, $10/adv, $12/dos

TUESDAY 19

VIC NASTY, (DJ) 9 p.m., 415, FREE. ROYAL BANGS, HIGH ART, DJ SPENCE, (rock/DJ) 9 p.m.,

Duffy’s.

FORWARD FERRETT, JAROD HAYES, (rock) 9 p.m.,

Knickerbockers.

HUNTINGTON TRIO, (jazz) 7:30 p.m., O’Donnell Auditorium.

TWO PAIR, (acoustic) 6:30 p.m., Ozone, FREE. KRIS LAGER BAND, (blues/rock) 9 p.m., Slowdown, FREE. COLLIE BUDDZ, NEW KINGSTON, LOS RAKAS, (reggae) 8

p.m., Waiting Room, $17/adv, $20/dos.

TROUBADOUR TUESDAY, 9 p.m., Zoo Bar, $4.

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MIKE ZITO, (blues) 5:30 p.m., 21st Saloon, $9.

MILLIONS OF BOYS, THE EASTERN SEA, (rock) 9 p.m.,\

Barley St. Tavern, $5.

TIM KOEHN ACOUSTIC JAM, (blues) 8 p.m., Brass Monkey.

NWU JAZZ ENSEMBLE, (jazz) 7:30 p.m., Brewsky’s Jazz

Underground, $6, $5/students.

REGGAEJUNKIEJEW, STONEBELLY, JET EDISON, (reggae/

hip-hop) 9 p.m., Duffy’s.

PAISTY JENNY, (rock) 8:30 p.m., The Grove, $5.

BAMF 2011 W/ BLACK ON HIGH, THE DIVE KINGS, EDGE

OF ARBOR, MORE, (rock) 9 p.m., Hideout FREE. JR HOSS, (acoustic) 7 p.m., Loose Moose, FREE. BOZAK & MORRISSEY, (oldies) 6:30 p.m., Ozone, FREE. THE CIVIL WARS, WHITE DRESS, (acoustic/rock) 9 p.m.,

Slowdown, $10.

FUNK TREK, LIGHTNING BUG, MO CAIAUS AKA JIMMY HOOLIGAN, MARS BLACK, E. BABBS, (various) 9

p.m., Waiting Room, $8.

GARY DARLING, (acoustic) 9 p.m., Your Moms Downtown

Bar, FREE. CHRIS DUARTE, (blues) 6 p.m., Zoo Bar, $10.

DAVID VIDAL, SON OF 76 DUO, SCOTT ALLAN KNOST,

(blues) 9:30 p.m., Zoo Bar, $5.

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Pizza Shoppe Collective, 6056 Maple St., 556.9090, pscollective.com Qwest, 455 N. 10th St., qwestcenteromaha. com Side Door, 3530 Leavenworth St., 504.3444.

Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St., 345.7569, theslowdown.com Sokol Hall, 2234 S. 13th St., 346.9802, sokolundergound.com The Sydney, 5918 Maple St., 932.9262, thesydneybenson.com Stir, 1 Harrahs Blvd., Council Bluffs, harrahs.com Venue 162, 162 W. Broadway, Council Bluffs, 712.256.7768, myspace.com/ venue162 Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St., 884.5353, waitingroomlounge.com Whiskey Roadhouse, Horseshoe Casino, 2701 32nd Ave., Council Bluffs, whiskeyroadhouse.com Your Mom’s Downtown Bar, 1512 Howard St., 345.0180 Zoo Bar, 136 N.14th St., Lincoln, zoobar. com

UPCOMING SHOWS

Life as a musician means continual evolution. With their sixth album, The King Is Dead, The Decemberists illustrate the power that comes from this kind of creative call-and-response. Inspired by a move to a more rural area outside the band’s base of Portland, Oregon, they started working on the kind of project they had long been thinking about—a set of more stripped-down, country-based songs.

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Friday, 4/15/11 9:00PM @ ThE waiTing rooM SECrET wEaPon

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SaTUrday, 4/16/11 9:00PM @ ThE waiTing rooM STARF•CKER

SaTUrday, 4/16/11 9:00PM @ Slowdown aFTEr ThE Fall

SUnday, 4/17/11 4:00PM @ ThE waiTing rooM gorilla ProdUCTionS

Monday, 4/18/11 9:00PM @ ThE waiTing rooM ThE SUBMarinES

TUESday, 4/19/11 8:00PM @ ThE waiTing rooM ColliE BUddZ

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4/20/11 SURREAL’S 9TH ANNUAL 420 EVENT 4/20/11 THE CIVIL WARS 4/21/11 THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS 4/22/11 FOUND FOOTAGE FEST 4/22/11 BACK WHEN 4/23/11 ME2 4/25/11 THE BLACK LIPS 4/26/11 HED PE / MUSHROOMHEAD 4/26/11 HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS 4/27/11 JUNIP

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4/29/11 CORNMEAL 4/30/11 CANNONISTA 4/30/11 MOGWAI 5/4/11 THE FELICE BROTHERS 5/4/11 HUNX AND HIS PUNX 5/5/11 JONATHAN RICHMAN 5/6/11 THE NADAS 5/6/11 OF MONTREAL 5/7/11 BLUE OCTOBER ACOUSTIC 5/7/11 THE OMAHA ROLLERGIRLS

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“One of the most original, moving, and accomplished American independent films in recent years.” —The New Yorker

“A classic for a new generation! Mia Wasikowska (ALICE IN WONDERLAND) is splendid. Michael Fassbender (INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, FISH TANK) is superb.” —Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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had no plans to make a film like this,” says director Matt Porterfield. He’s speaking from Los Angeles, where he’s promoting his latest picture, Putty Hill, which has its Omaha premiere Friday at Film Streams. It’s his second feature, after Hamilton in 2006 (which will screen Sunday), and it has gotten quite a lot of good attention lately, not least from Richard Brody of The New Yorker and from Roger Ebert.

Putty Hill is mysterious and moving; a fully realized work. It feels complete and confident — like a great film from a great director. But without such an unusual combination of circumstance, luck and pure talent, it might not have happened.

The movie he planned (and still plans) to make was called Metal Gods, a coming of age story about a “group of small time punks and drug dealers”.

“We decided we were just going to cast (Metal Gods) and find locations and do all the development work in hopes that we’d find the money,” he explains. “But it was still hard to find the financing. We had to switch gears and try to do something else that incorporated the people and places we wanted to see on screen.”

Those places include the unkempt streets of Porterfield’s working class Baltimore neighborhood. And the people are the non-professional cast that populates Putty Hill. In the film, we learn that a local kid has died from an overdose. And then we go out to meet the neighborhood.

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The Adjustment Bureau A sweet fable with angels dressed as “Mad Men” fans.

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Battle: Los Angeles A lobotomized Black Hawk Down with space invaders.

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Black Swan (on DVD) It’s like Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” ... only with more sexytime.

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Cedar Rapids The most fun you’ll ever have with insurance agents.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (ON DVD) Let’s not say the magic is fading, let’s say it is time for the final abracadabra.

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There’s Cody (Cody Ray), who presides over a local skate park, telling us a bit about his recently deceased acquaintance and a lot about the kids who frequent the park. There’s also Zoe (Zoe Vance), who’s just returned to town, not so happily, to attend the funeral. Sky (Sky Ferreira) has returned for the funeral as well, and is staying with her estranged ex-con father Spike (Charles Sauers), a blonde behemoth of a man who does tattoos in the living room.

We watch them (and several others) playing paintball and going swimming. We hear their hushed conversations, in a darkened, smoky bedroom or while wandering through the trees. And we join in at the wake, one afternoon in a local bar, as they all gather to remember their friend. A voice frequently interrupts these observations and poses questions directly to the characters. They aren’t always able to reveal much about the kid who died, but they indirectly reveal volumes about themselves, their lives and their world.

Hamilton, Porterfield’s debut feature, is set in the same neighborhood and focuses on the relationship between Joe (Christopher H. Myers) and Lena (Stephanie Vizzi), which has become strained since the accidental birth of their son. But like Putty Hill, Hamilton is more concerned with the observation of behaviors, environments and the passing of time than with psychoanalysis or explosive dramatics.

These films were cast with people from the area, mostly non-professional actors, a simple necessity for many small pictures, but still no small feat to pull off.

“You have to make your cast feel really safe, and in an environment where they’re able to take risks,” he says. “It’s a tricky proposition for people to be themselves or perform versions of themselves, especially if they’ve never done it on camera.”

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But on the same note, he adds, “You can do different things with non-professionals. There’s a lot of potential that excites me. Potential for some kind of more objective truth, maybe, or authenticity.”

The films feel very much like companions to one another, but the shooting circumstances were very different. Hamilton was fully planned while Putty Hill grew out of improvisation. And the first was shot on costly and less-forgiving 16mm film, while the latest was shot on HD video.

“Its true that when you shoot film, especially on a low budget, you really have to be careful.

You can’t do a ton of coverage. And that worked for Hamilton. I think I learned some things and found a kind of minimalist, formal aesthetic that I wanted to continue to play with,” he says. “(Putty Hill) was a lot more collaborative in some ways. Hamilton was very clearly mapped out, and Putty Hill was just five pages on paper, and I think it lent itself to shooting on HD. I don’t think we could’ve pulled this film off shooting on 16mm or something like that.”

A week of meeting with friends, other filmmakers and watching HBO’s “Eastbound and Down” are on the agenda in California before he heads to Omaha with these two remarkable pictures. Of L.A., he adds as only a true independent director would, “It’s beautiful here, but I wouldn’t want to make a film here.” , Putty Hill is playing at Film Streams, 1340 Mike Fahey Street, from April 15 – 21. Director Matt Porterfield will be present for a Q&A following the 7 p.m. screening on Friday the 16th. Hamilton is playing on Sunday, April 17 at 1 p.m..Visit filmstreams.org for more information.

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n It’s fitting that a movie with “thief” in the title is about to be part of a crime, as Alfred Hitchcock’s classic To Catch a Thief is getting remade. Although we don’t know as of now who will replace Grace Kelly and Cary Grant — thank goodness those two are so easily replaceable — we do know that the script will be written by Josh Stolberg. So no worries there; you definitely want the guy who last wrote Piranha 3D to pen your Hitchcock remake. n Don’t laugh until I’m done. Keanu Reeves wants to star in Man of Tai Chi, which is a kung-fu movie. He wants to play the bad guy (who, given the title, will presumably be called “the villain of tai chi”). The thought of Reeves as an imposing baddie in a martial arts movie is snicker worthy, but here’s where waiting to laugh pays off: He’s directing it. You may now chortle freely. n The following joke is not mine, and while I don’t know who initially said it, repeating it is vital. Dish Network bought Blockbuster this week for $320 million. Now the joke: Actually, they only paid $20 million, the rest were late fees.

Oooh, bankruptcy burn! n On a disturbing and sad note, Lindsay Lohan’s name is now only linked to roles based on true stories of horribly broken women. The latest rumor has her playing Manson family victim Sharon Tate. It’s easy to use her as a punch line, but it’s kind of unsettling to watch someone who seems to be auditioning for her final role as a human sacrifice to some unseen pop culture deity who thirsts for the blood of starlets.

— Ryan Syrek

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Dirty Filth

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200-exhibit installation on the history of dirt and filth and their importance in our lives opened in a London gallery in March, featuring the ordinary (dust), the educational (a video tribute to New York’s Fresh Kills landfill, at one time the world’s largest), the medical (vials of historic, nasty-looking secretions from cholera victims), and the artistic (bricks fashioned from feces gathered by India’s Dalits, who hand-clean latrines). Dirt may worry us as a society, said the exhibit’s curator, but we have learned that we “need bits of it and, guiltily, secretly, we are sometimes drawn to it.” Capping the exhibit, leaning against a wall, was what appeared at a distance to be an ordinary broom but whose handle was studded with diamonds and pearls.

Government in Action!

The CIA recently won two court rulings allowing the agency to refuse comment about its former contractor Dennis Montgomery — rulings that issues involving him are “state secrets” (despite strong evidence that the main “secret” is merely how foolish the agency, and the U.S. Air Force, were to pay Montgomery at least $20 million for bogus software following 9-11, according to a February New York Times report). Montgomery, a small-time gambler who said he was once abducted by aliens, convinced the two agencies that his sophisticated software could detect secret al-Qaida messages embedded in video pixels on Al Jazeera’s news website. According to the Times report, Montgomery has not been charged with wrongdoing and is not likely to be, since the agencies do not want their gullibility publicized.

For about a year, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has been facilitating

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Mexico’s increasingly bloody drug wars by turning a blind eye to U.S. gun sales to the cartels — even though those very guns account for some civilian deaths as well as the December fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. According to the senior ATF agent who supplied evidence to CBS News, neither the Mexican government nor many U.S. officials were aware of the program (called “Fast and Furious”) until mid-March. ATF allowed the sales so it could track the guns’ locations, to facilitate, at some future date, bringing indictments against drug traffickers.

Until recently, many pregnant women at risk of delivering prematurely could be aided by an obstetrician-recommended workup of a chemical compound, at a cost of about $10 to $20 a dose. However, in February, the Food and Drug Administration approved a specific commercial version, K-V Pharmaceutical’s Makena, which K-V began pricing at $1,500 a dose (citing its need to recoup “research” costs).

K-V also began threatening dispensers of the workup compound, since FDA had anointed Makena with “market exclusivity.” (Update: FDA changed its mind in March and announced that providers of the workup compound could continue to offer it.)

News That Sounds Like a Joke The manager of the Channel Islands Co-operative store in the British territory of Jersey acknowledged to BBC News in November that a shopper’s complaint was justified and that refunds would be made. The customer believed she had been overcharged by about five pounds (about $8) because, while weighing fruits and vegetables, the clerk had been leaning over so that her breasts accidentally increased pressure on the scale.

COPYRIGHT 2011 CHUCK SHEPHERD. Visit Chuck Shepherd daily at NewsoftheWeird.blogspot.com or NewsoftheWeird.com. Send Weird News to WeirdNewsTips@yahoo.com or P.O. Box 18737, Tampa, FL 33679. Illustrations by Tom Briscoe (smallworldcomics.com).

Britain’s Border Agency announced the firing of an immigration officer in January. The man had apparently turned sour on his marriage, and while his wife was on holiday with her family in Pakistan, he quietly added her name to the terrorist list of people not allowed into the country.

Police Blotter Tough Guys: In Houston in February, Christopher Harding, 23, was sentenced to three years in prison for beating up his mother (who is disabled and requires a caretaker) and yanking out her dentures.

In Long Beach, Calif., in February, police arrested two 19-year-old men, Kirk Lewis and Daniel Bard, and charged them as two of the three men they sought in the robbery of a 5-year-old girl.

I n t ra - G e e k- C o m m u n i t y Crime: In March, a teenager was charged with attempting to rob the Fun 4 All comic-book store in Southfield, Mich., with a homemade bomb (that looked realistic but turned out to be harmless) and presenting a list of the specific collectors’ merchandise (not money) he wanted.

After the clerk balked at the demands, the robber relented, paid cash for a few of the items on the list, and left. When arrested later, he called the incident a “social experiment.”

Timothy James Chapek, 24, was charged with burglary in March after he broke into a house in Portland, Ore., and took a shower. Unknown to him, the resident was in another part of the house and came, with his two German shepherds and a gun, to confront Chapek through the closed bathroom door, while calling 911. Fearing the dogs and the gun, Chapek simultaneously dialed 911 himself, begging that officers come

quickly and arrest him. (Chapek, later released on bond, was re-arrested two days later in Chehalis, Wash., while, according to police, loading shoplifted goods into a stolen car.)

Least Competent Criminals Not Ready for Prime Time: Jason Davis was sentenced in December in Burlington, Iowa, to five years in prison for one crime, but still pending is his August 2010 arrest for shoplifting at Westland Mall, which ended with Davis passed out after making a crime-scene booboo in his pants.

Michael Trias, 20, was arrested in March in Mesa, Ariz., after a botched residential burglary. According to police, Trias had come in through a window but had landed in a clothes basket made of PVC and netting, and become entangled. His flailing attempts to free himself alerted the homeowner.

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e are all cosmic surfers, getting around amidst the waters of life. Astrology is one of the harbingers of the which and the way of any cosmic waves. I humbly owe everything to it. It turned my life around. Find your cosmic catalyst, and find who you are… Surf naked!

You’ll know you’re hanging 11 or 12 (for you wahines) when you learn that there are no mistakes, and that peace and love shall conquer all. Surf ’s up in one week, when once again we speak.

— MOJOPOPlanetPower.com a ARIES (3.21-4.20) Feel the Power? Add the Love. Gain the Wisdom. Become impeccable. Adapt to the harmony of the spheres. You are the leader. If you can’t or aren’t suited to lead, find someone who can/is. Follow them until you are conversant with their techniques. Choose the most successful ones and make ‘em yours. Add subtlety to your repertoir/ arsenal. Now, when the omens suggest the time is ripe, take over and become the leader you were meant to be. This be the truth, from Michael P. b TAURUS (4.21-5.20) One more week of lollygaggin’ around in the spring rain. Here comes the Sun for you, on April 21st, as your ruler Venus leaves its sign of exaltation in Pisces and begins another journey around/ through the Zodiac into Aries till midMay; bringing new beginnings, new starts and new initiations. Why are you here? Why were you born?

What have you acquired? What do you need to acquire to feel involved in a successful incarnation this time around? Too heavy, or not heavy enough, Cream Puff? You give love, you get love. You don’t, you won’t. Guess how the MOJO knows? c GEMINI (5.21-6.21) One more week of Mercury retrograde and all the confusion resulting from the lack of succinct communication that goes/ comes with it. Only then can we start to put it all back together. Redirecting mistake$ can work for u$. A potentially ENORMOUS idea is adorning, as retrograding Mercury conjuncts Jupiter continuously till its exact conjunction and manifestation on the afternoon of May 11th. It happens at a party or gathering of some kind (11th House). Electricity “May” be a key? Create your outline now. d CANCER (6.22-7.22) The Full Moon in Libra is on Sunday the 17th, at 9:44 p.m. It marks our switch of seasons to spring; the balance and the harmony of transition. Sleep late (Sunday) and avoid the early morning oppositions. Then, turn your world upside down! Stand on your head for five minutes a day and see/feel the difference in six mind-expanding months.

Ahhh ... yes, I know ... wouldn’t it just be easier to nibble some more doughnuts and watch T.V. in your bathrobe? Omaha-itis? How does the MOJO know? e LEO (7.23-8.22) Work the inherent craziness all around you to your advantage. Gauge the impact

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and find a way to make some money from it. Rebellion amongst (your?) children offers a key. Let others make the moves, and then “clean up” in a week, when next we speak. Time to be creative. f VIRGO (8.23-9.22) Please read Gemini. Don’t you hate that? How does the MOJO know? Hey! You got another week in the barrel, Matey! (Ask your sailor friends what that means.) It’s gonna take time (Saturn in opposition to Mercury retrograde in Libra) to recreate the harmony. Too bad you’re such a perfectionist. Naaah ... just kidding! Put it where it beloooongs. f LIBRA (9.23-10.22) OMG! You poor thing!

How can you handle this much opposition? Here’s a little hope: The Full Moon is in your sign on Palm Sunday, April 17th, at 9:44 p.m., Omax time. A BIG PLAN will be born on that day — from a fiery partner. You’re halfway through a/your project. Turn around and become what you want to be. Hang on, for Venus’s sake. Your future is full of hope. Well, OK ... 50/50? h SCORPIO (10.23-11.22) How are the psychic know-it-alls of the zodiac doing? It’s your turn next. Your mystique lasts one more week, and then it’s time to pragmatically start all over again. Put your bare feet back upon the bare Earth. Walk barefoot for hours amongst the flowers. When you return, your power is found within partnerships. Give it all away and then test everyone — like usual. i SAGITTARIUS (11.23-12.21) Ahhh. To rise above it. If only you could, right? Oh well, maybe I’ll take a walk ... an older symbol (your father, parent, boss, “old man,” probation officer, judge...) of authority is concerned with “your harmony.” You(‘ll) know better. That’s the value of ADD. You’re moving too fast to slow down and listen. There really is no ADD. It’s just still being a child. (Some of us “indigos” didn’t buy it.) What’s your favorite color? j CAPRICORN (12.22-1.20) Wow! One more week for you to just shut up and “woodshed.” You need some new material anyway. (Yeah, don’t we all?) Hey! I’ll shut up if you’ll shut up! k AQUARIUS (1.21-2.19) I know, you’ve got your own drama. You’ll have to leave all your soon-to-be “old friends” behind. You’ll have new behinds to get behind, and must leave those old behinds behind.

Saturnians: Please read Capricorn. Uranians: Time for mystical meditations by the waters... l PISCES (2.20-3.20) OMG! Here comes the power you crybabies were/are always crying for!

“Why doesn’t every[any]body believe [in] me!?”

Sound familiar? Sound too familiar? Your mystical ruler, Neptune, just entered your sign for the next 14 years. Here comes the magique that a free and purified subconscious can afford us. The power will still prove to be subtle, since only about 3 percent of humanity can handle it. ,

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