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spent time yesterday digging dandelions from the front parkway at our house. Recent rains resulted in a bumper crop. It was tedious but we don’t use weedkillers. Doesn’t make sense to spread poisons around our living quarters so toxic Roundup, the deadly choice of millions of American, is never an option. I admit bending to social pressure in my choice to pull the weeds. I was inclined just to leave them but if we left dandelions in the front, I worried neighbors wouldn’t appreciate the fluffy seeds carrying to their yards. As I dispatched the leafy greens with the bright yellow blooms, I reflected that it is odd: We humans lust for lawns of grass, a plant totally devoid of dietary value to us yet we dig up and discard other plants that are nutritious and edible. Yesterday, along with the dandelions, lamb’s quarter, plantain and burdock found their way to our yard waste bags. All of those are highly nutritious and versatile edibles though American nonsense calls them “weeds.” We spend billions growing grass we can’t eat and more billions killing plants that we can. There are valuable, edible and medicinal plants all around us. Nature provides and humanity derides. Though the dandelions and plantains on the parkway, near where traffic exhaust and road chemicals pollute them, are not suitable for our kitchen, so-called “weeds” of all sorts can be gathered from the yard or garden. Identifying a few of them will be the goal of the next Heartland Healing sponsored foraging walk scheduled for June 1. (See HeartlandHealing.com/foraging for info.) Here are some of the most ubiquitous plants in nature’s pantry. Stinging Nettle A very common volunteer vegetable with a tremendous history as a medicine. Traditionally used to treat arthritis, joint and muscle pain, it also has beneficial properties in treating urinary and prostate problems. Nutrient-wise, stinging nettle offers bountiful amounts of silicon and potassium. The tiny spines can sting the fingers but there is a trick to picking them. Dandelion A tasty volunteer vegetable that most people can identify easily. The green leaves are a nutritious addition to any salad or can be sautéed in garlic and olive oil. All parts are useful. It’s high in vitamins C and A and potassium. The root, the leaf and the flower all have powerful medicinal uses. Burdock A prevalent plant in the Northern Hemisphere, burdock provides high levels of vitamin B6. Leaves, stems and roots are all edible but do not
confuse it with a similar looking plant — rhubarb — which has poisonous leaves. Plantain Very common “weed”, young plantain leaves are tasty in salads. Older leaves should be cooked. The seeds are edible raw or roasted. The plant can be soaked and formed into a poultice to relieve topical or joint pain. Garlic Mustard Very invasive garlic mustard should be planted in a container if you grow it in your yard, but it’s a tremendous addition to any salad. It has a bad reputation as an invasive weed and does threaten many native species in the wild. It was likely introduced to the United States by early settlers as a food source and for medicinal purposes. The leaves, flowers and fruit are all edible with a tangy garlic mustard taste. Sweet Cicely An aromatic herb with the distinctive fragrance of anise, sweet cicely is highly touted as a natural remedy for digestive disorders, colds and as a poultice. As an herb used in recipes, it is similar to fennel. Lamb’s Quarter, AKA Goosefoot, is a relative of spinach and is considered one of the most nutritious volunteer vegetables you can eat. It’s prolific and grows almost anywhere. You have most certainly pulled some from your own garden as a weed. It contains good amounts of vitamin A and calcium. It can be cooked just like spinach. Sorrel is an annual and the leaf has a distinctive citrusy flavor. It also grows prolifically and can be invasive. It’s a favorite ingredient in salads and pesto. It’s easy to identify in the wild when it is flowering, with a tall stalk of red blooms. It contains good amounts of potassium and vitamins C and A. Yellow wood sorrel As with common sorrel, the yellow-flowered version is a member of the oxalis family of plants. All of them have a citrus-y flavor and are high in vitamin C. One nice thing about sorrels is that they are fairly difficult to mis-identify and very easy to eat. Anyone who has weeded a garden or lawn has likely pulled up sorrel and tossed this valuable medicinal and food plant into the trash. Purslane Another ubiquitous edible, purslane has a creamy, smooth taste and is highly nutritious. It resembles a succulent with thick, green leaves and tumid stems. Tender, young leaves are an amazing addition to salads, soups and sandwiches. These are “weeds” you’ve seen, walked on and pulled from the yard. Learn to identify them and harvest properly and you’ll be rewarded at the kitchen table. Be well. ,
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hen I try out a new place that I don’t know much about I usually go into what I call Vague Mode. This is where I don’t go into it anticipating any particular experience and I don’t decide beforehand what I’m going to eat. I just waltz in and make a vague statement to the server and whatever happens with my meal happens. So when I went to Dragon Cafe in La Vista and the waitress asked me what I wanted to eat, I waved at the menu vaguely and said, “Well, I like chicken…” and waited to see what would happen. She suggested the General Tao’s Chicken, which I went ahead and ordered accompanied by fried rice and egg drop soup. Then I sat and waited to be dazzled. I’d heard from a few people that Dragon Cafe is really tasty, authentic, cheap and not very wellknown. It’s certainly not in a trendy area; there’s an empty building where an ill-fated Blockbuster used to stand right across from Dragon Cafe and then up the way a bit there’s a huge empty building that used to be a grocery store. This is not a place that has a slick marketing team or happens to be located in an area where people want to be seen. This is just a place that I keep hearing I need to try out, and that’s how I wound up visiting for lunch. The meal started with the egg drop soup, which had a thick consistency and plenty of egg whites. As I sipped on the soup I had a look around the restaurant and got a kick out of the décor. Chinese lanterns hang from the ceilings and a big smiling Buddha statue in the corner added to the ambiance. This place isn’t fancy, but it’s fun to look at. I also noticed “The Dragon Cafe’s Oath,” which is printed on the menus and displayed in the restaurant. It’s a rather long oath, but the gist of it is that
dish they acknowledge customers are hungry and expect good food at reasonable prices. But really, it’s a paragraph long. I pictured the kitchen staff solemnly reciting this oath before opening every day, but then my mind wandered to the scene in Fight Club where they’re in the basement reciting the rules, and then I thought about Brad Pitt without a shirt on and I forgot all about the funny kitchen scenario. Let me just say that the portions are quite large. They aren’t large in a ridiculous way, but it was more than I could eat in one sitting on my own. My entrée arrived at the table on one plate and the rice was in a separate bowl, so I was able to control my rice-to-entrée ratio. The chicken was served with broccoli and featured a tangy, spicy Hunan sauce. Right away I noticed that everything tasted freshly made. If you’ve ever eaten Chinese food that has spent some time sitting under a heat lamp, you’ll appreciate it when I say that I don’t think this food spent any time under a heat lamp whatsoever. It was fresh, it was tasty, and it was substantial. Yes, it was incredibly inexpensive, especially considering I had enough to box up and take home for lunch the next day. I wound up spending less than $8 for the whole meal. Granted I would have probably spent a lot more if I had indulged in a mixed drink or tried some of their sushi, but after seeing the portion size I knew I couldn’t order anything else. I got into a conversation with a couple who were sitting in the booth next to mine. They said they come here all the time, the food is always good, and the service is great. On my way out, the guy at the register told me that I need to come back and try the sushi, and let’s face it, he’s right. I’ll be back – so sayeth my oath. ,
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tion visit rivercityrodeo.com. All events with the exception of the rodeos and concerts are free. In addition to the Douglas County Fair, Sarpy County will host it’s own fair beginning on July 30th and continuing through August 3rd. It will be the 78th annual Sarpy County Fair. For more information visit sarpyfair.org. The Washington Country Fair will begin on July 25th and continue until the 30th. It will feature a rodeo, the Figure 8 Race and Tuff Trucks events, an antique tractor and pickup pull, tractor pull and demo derby. Visit the wcffair.com for further information. This summer will also feature a number of outdoor activities. Yoga Rock the Park will take place every Sunday in May until July 6th at 4 pm the Yoga Rock the Park event at Midtown Crossing is free and open to the public. Hundreds each week, from beginners to experts come. There are messages, integrative therapy exhibitions, vendor booths, organic food and drink vendors, and live music. There are national and local yoga teacher lead classes for adults and children. The classes are all levels and live music. 10% of net profits from ticket sales are donated to national and local causes, 5% is donated to the Give Back Yoga Foundation. For further information visit yogarocksthepark. com/omaha.html. There will be another Yoga experience, the Evento de Yoga/Yoga Event will take place at 3220 Farnam Street. This festival is a full-blown wellness festival
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with a suggested donation of $10. Proceeds from the event will benefit OneWorld Community Health Center. The Yoga event will take place on June 17th at 4:00 pm. For information call 402-734-4110. NAMI Walks is a charitable walk that takes place on June 14. It is the 12th annual event and will take place at Elmwood Park. The walk is the largest and most successful mental health awareness and fundraising event in America. The money raised will go towards supporting both local and national programs that help mental illness advocacy, research, and education. For more information visit namiwalks.org or call 402-7084980. On July 5th the Indie Omaha 5k and 10k run will occur in the historic Benson business district. The run will cross two parks and residential areas. All proceeds after expenses will go to Benson and Fontenelle Parks. Visit theindieomaha.org for more information. If your looking for family events the Omaha Heritage Festival begins on May 17th and will honor the cultures and countries that contribute to Omaha. The all day event will begin at 10 am and end at 10 pm at Lewis and Clark Landing. There will be a parade that represents 30 different nations, international food, art made by artists from different ethnic groups around Omaha. For children there will be face painting, fire works, and pony rides. There will also be several bands performing at the event. For more information visit, omahaheritagefestival.com.
Railroad Days will take place on July 12th and the 13th at five locations around Omaha families pay just $15 and will be given transportation from Lauritzen Gardens, the Durham Western Heritage Museum, Rail West Railroad Museum, Union Pacific Railroad museum, and the Historic General Dodge House. Patty O’Bryan Durham Director of Marketing points out that there is something different every year and that it is a great opportunity for families to see what Omaha and Council Bluffs has to offer. The World Refugee Festival begins on June 19th at Benson High School. The free event is presented by the Omaha Refugee Task Force. There will be a children’s carnival, fashion show, dance, educational panels, parade of flags, refugee performance, awards ceremony, health fair, lunch and more. For more information call 402-557-2431. The Strategic Air and Space Museum is featuring the exhibit, Searching for Humanity: Veterans, Victims, and Survivors of World War II. Running from Dec. 18, 2013 to June 30, 2014. Artist Matthew Placzek creates a deeply personal environment with photos, memorabilia and testimony of Nebraska Holocaust Survivors and soldiers. For more information visit sasmuseum.com. As always there are a number of art events taking place this summer. Shakespeare on the Green begins on May 23rd with the Midsummer Nights Boat’s Ride. The Omaha tradition continues this year with performances of “The Tempest” and “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged),” along with ShakesBEER on the River, a beer and food tasting. There will also be a boat parade and Camp Shakes, an event that helps kids get over their fear of Shakespeare with fun activities. For more information visit nebraskashakespeare.com. The Omaha Under the Radar Festival in July will run from July 11th through the 13th. According to their Facebook page the event is, “a forum for contemporary performance and cross-cultural pollination.” They frequently perform contemporary classical music, experimental music, modern dance, avant-garde theatre, and improvisation in multiple genres. They bring together local and non-local artists. Day passes are available for $15 and weekend passes are available for $30, they allow audiences to navigate between the various venues. A complete schedule will be announced on May 15th. Voices from the Closet is a series of 8 monologues about the struggles people face by staying in the closet. The monologues span across the globe and centuries. They tackle things like cyber bullying, the Russian criminal code banning homosexual behavior and the female escort world. Tickets are on sale now, they are $10 and reservations must be made online, which is snapproductions.com. TypecastRecast is the annual public art exhibit conceived and crafted by the anti-defamation league in the hopes that it can inspire people to live in a respectful world. Artist proposals were accepted in the winter of 2012 and the winning pieces were installed in 2013. The installations appear in North Downtown Omaha along North 12th street between Mike Fahey street and Douglas Street. There are guided tours and community conversations For more information visit typecastrecast.org. , more Summer in the City on page 10y
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anked the 64th in the Top 100 Amphitheaters in the world by Pollstar, Stir Cove has been a summer staple in the Omaha area for the past several years. Under the Harrah’s Casino umbrella, the Stir Cove Concert Series has executed some incredible shows, including BB King, Kings of Leon, The Roots, Ice Cube, and Ziggy Marley. Visit www.harrahscasinoomaha.com for more information. The annual Memorial Park Concert, which is sponsored by Bank of the West, is back. This time, it hosts the Under the Sun tour, featuring Blues Traveler, Sugar Ray, Uncle Kracker and Smash Mouth. Free to the public, the fireworks and show takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday, June 27. This is the show’s 24th year. Visit www.celebratesamerica.com for more information. Playing with Fire, one of Omaha’s annual free summer music festival, is back again with more blues, rock, funk, R&B, and soul. Playing with Fire has been going strong for the last nine years. Through grants, corporate, private and fan donations and the amazing, hard work of volunteers, Playing with Fire supports local community causes and, through its Blues Ed program, promotes music awareness and education for the children of the Omaha region. Visit www.playingwithfireomaha.net for more information. Without a doubt, the biggest band ever to emerge out of Omaha is 311. Formed in the early ‘90s, Nick Hexum, S.A. Martinez, Chad Sexton, Aaron “P-Nut” Wills, and Tim Mahoney have gone on to sell millions of records and secure an extremely dedicated legion of fans. On July 12, 311 headlines Omaha’s newest summer music event, The Grassroots Music Festival, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of 311’s sophomore effort, Grassroots. Visit www.311paradise.com for more information. The Zoo Bar has seen some legendary acts walk through its doors over the years, including Buddy Guy, Otis Rush and Bo Diddley. The Zoo Bar celebrates its 41st Anniversary with its annual Zoo Fest from July 7 – 12. It features seven to ten multiple bands indoors. The show also moves outdoors on July 11 and 12 to continue its showcase of blues, country, rockabilly, funk, soul, and rock-n-roll. Visit www.zoobar.com for more information. Hullabaloo is back for its fourth annual music festival. From July 24th-26th, Sokol Park in Bellevue will blossom with three days of camping and music. Although the lineup has yet to be announced, last year brought in a few reputable acts, which included the Gift of Gab (Blackalicous), Icky Blossoms and Aaron Freeman of Ween. This year should be just as eclectic. Visit www.hullabaloomusicfestival. com for more information. Loessfest returns to the Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park in Council Bluffs, an 85-acre preserve and recreational area located at the foot of Iowa Side of the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge, stretching both north and south along the riverfront. This is the second year for Loessfest and it remains free and open to the public thanks to the numerous sponsors supporting the event. Headliners this year include Three Dog Night and The Guess Who. Visit www. loessfest.com for more information. The beloved Jazz on the Green series continues another successful run this summer every Thursday beginning July 11 and ending August 15. Originally
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held on the grounds of the Joslyn Art Museum, it moved to the green space at Midtown Crossing in 2010. Always free of charge, Jazz on the Green rejoices in its 29th year and once again brings incredible talent to the stage. Visit www.jazzonthegreenomaha.com for more information.
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The Maha Festival has grown exponentially since its 2009 inception. As a nonprofit music festival, it’s organized and run by volunteers, and brought to the community through the support of many sponsors. With the idea of “community-building over profit,” the prospect of a homegrown music festival
had been around for years, but they finally found the right group of volunteers in 2009. This year’s headliners include hip-hop collective Doomtree, indie darlings Death Cab For Cutie and The Head and the Heart. Visit www.mahamusicfestival.com for more information. , more Summer in the City on page 12y
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f staycations are in your future this summer, the visual arts have something to offer locally other than softball, a crowded community pool and yet another summer blockbuster at a movie complex. There are a plethora of exhibitions on the docket, but key arts venues also offer hands-on learning activities, lectures and panels, even a summer camp of sorts, for all ages above and beyond their regular schedule of classes. The Bemis Center will offer teens an opportunity to participate in its new Urban Design Lab with national and local artists to re-imagine the urban landscape. There is no fee to participate, and all students in the program will be paid minimum wage for their time from 1 - 5 pm, every Tuesday - Friday between July 15 August 1, with a presentation of student work, August 5. Space is limited to 20 students. Likewise, KANEKO will be hold its’ second year of Architecture Design and Video Game Design Camps. Each week youth ages 11-15, will engage with design professionals to learn about design principles and the design process. These four-day camps provides each 16 student class with a variety of exciting exercises and fun events: Architecture Camp #1: June 16–19. Architecture Camp #2: July 14–17. Video Game Design Camp: June 23–26. Camps run 9am–4pm, Monday– Thursday. For details go to thekaneko.org.
The Union for Contemporary Art will host Swap n’ Shop, an art-filled fundraiser Friday, June 27, 6 pm at Midtown Crossing. You can swap a piece of art that no longer moves you, fits into your space or you just outgrew, for a new piece that you love. For non-swappers, no worries, everything is also for sale at $100 or less. More info will be available soon at u-ca.org. Carver Bank’s first artist-in-residents alumni, Dereck Higgins, Portia Love, Shannon Marie and Bart Vargas will present a panel discussion of their work and process at the opening of their exhibition Friday, May 30, 6-8 p.m. The exhibit will remain on view until August 16, 2014 at 2416 Lake St.6 July from 6-8 p.m. The Joslyn Art Museum will virtually bookend its special summer exhibition, Yellowstone and the West: The Chromolithographs of Thomas Moran with two key events for viewers: a members preview, June 6 with an overview by Chief Curator Toby Jurovics. The exhibit runs until Sept. 7. Sunday, Aug 24, Joni Kinsey, professor of American Art History in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa, will discuss her book Thomas Moran’s West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste. The program is free to the public. ,
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8 DAYS TOPTV “THE CARBONARO EFFECT” Thursdays, 9 p.m. (truTV)
In this new candid-camera show, skinny magician Michael Carbonaro poses as a clerk, a customer, etc., to amaze unsuspecting people with extraordinary effects. Working at a postal store, he opens a guy’s sealed package to reveal a birthday cake with lit candles. “They can’t ship it with fire,” he deadpans. “You either have to blow out the candles, or we have to put on a sticker that says it has flame in it.” The guy’s expression suggests that his perception of reality has been slightly altered. That’s the wonderful thing about “The Carbonaro Effect” — seeing how people respond when confronted with the uncanny in their daily lives. Pretending to be a grocery-store cashier, Carbonaro interacts with a customer who is completely engrossed in her cellphone. You sense that nothing on earth would make her look up from that stupid little screen—until Carbonaro smashes her avocados with a baseball bat, then magically changes them back to pristine condition. She finally looks him in the eye, her mouth hanging open. If Michael Carbonaro can restore a sense of wonder to an American public narcotized by their electronic devices, his show will not have been in vain. — Dean Robbins
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MARY CARRICK “LET’S FLY” CD RELEASE
The Slowdown 8:00 p.m.; $8 advance tickets, $10 day of show 402-345-7569; theslowdown.com Award-winning Omaha singer and actress Mary Carrick launches her solo debut album, “Let’s Fly” with a live CD Release Show. The album features a collection of reimagined classic and contemporary songs spanning great American standards, jazz, folk, country and musical theater. Carrick collaborated with J. Gawf, resident music director of Opera Omaha on the CD. Gawf serves as artistic producer and music director while Carrick co-produces. For her release party, Carrick will showcase songs from the CD as well as music by Cole Porter, Van Morrison and Harold Arlen. She will be accompanied by Gawf, piano; JB Ferguson, percussion; Steve Gomez, bass and Kate Williams, accordion. — Cheril Lee
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OMAHA PUNK REUNION 2014
The Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $10/ADV and $12/DOS waitingroomlounge.com
In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Omaha’s underground punk scene was explosive. Bands such as RAF, Mousetrap, Bullet Proof Hearts, and Cordial Spew played integral roles in keeping the scene vital. Mousetrap, in particular, pushed the boundaries of punk rock and helped define the Omaha sound. Comprised of core members Patrick Buchanan and Craig Crawford, the duo started spiting out cassette tapes and 45’s in the ‘90s, culminating with three full-length LPs, 1993’s Cerebral Revolver, 1994’s Lover and 1995’s The Dead Air Sound System. The group never attained national notoriety and eventually faded into obscurity,
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however, Mousetrap is together once again to perform this Saturday at Omaha’s Punk Reunion, along with Drop A Grand (Bill Guilfoyle), The Broke Loose (ft. Tim Cox), RAF, Bullet Proof Hearts, and Cordial Spew. —Kyle Eustice
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THE SPRING OF CREATION
Omaha Symphony’s Symphony Joslyn Joslyn Art Museum’s Witherspoon Hall 2200 Dodge St. 2 p.m. Tickets $10-$30 www.omahasymphony.org “The time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.” So go words in The Song of Solomon. Transformed into MOUSETRAP
the spirits of such words is music by England’s Ralph Vaughan Williams in the choral celebration “Flos Campi” (“Flower of the Field”). It’s part of this four-part concert. Countryman Peter Maxwell Davies chose to compose an after-wedding joyous morning in Scotland’s Orkney Islands with a bagpiper affirming the union. Italy’s Ottorino Respighi was inspired by his compatriot painter Sandro Botticelli’s Spring, The Adoration of the Magi and The Birth of Venus, creating a suite which soars with joy. Looking far beyond his borders and his day, France’s Darius Milhaud delved into jazz and African mythology to come up with the sinuous, percussive, sometimes wailing ballet “La Creation du Monde” (“The Creation of the World”). The performances spring forward, flowering with beauty and charm. — Gordon Spencer Through Sunday, June 7
ALL THE RAGE: FASHION PROVOCATIONS
Dixie Quicks/RNG Gallery 157 West Broadway, Council Bluffs Admission free, Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Mondays closed RNG Gallery is pleased to present All the Rage: Fashion Provocations, a joint exhibition of work by Eliska Morsel Greenspoon, Bonnie P. O’Connell and Eddith Buis. Eliska Morsel Greenspoon’s work is photo-based and explores the integration of the photographic image with drawing Bonnie P. O’Connell is an associate professor of art and art history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Recent studio work combines the tactile, textural qualities of hand papermaking with the mechanics of binding to create both supportive structure and metaphorical meaning. Eddith Buis taught art in junior high, high school, and gifted classes for 24 years with the Omaha Public Schools, and 15 years as an adjunct instructor for Metropolitan Community College in drawing, design and sculpture. Buis also directed public art projects for Omaha, with J. Doe, 5 summers of Leahy Mall sculptures, the Lewis & Clark Icon Project, and Bench Marks, as well as two bicycle advocacy projects.
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Alice in Chains May 24, 2014 www.aliceinchains.com
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he Massachussettsbased Staind has staked a claim as one of modern musicʼs most powerful and provocative outfits, combining aggressive hard rock energy with singer/songwriter Aaron Lewisʼs raw, heartfelt lyricism and gift for undeniable melody resulting into a magnificent, multi-platinum career. Marked by 15 million album sales worldwide, eight top 10 singles across multiple formats with three songs hitting number one, and the most-played rock song of the past decade, “Itʼs Been Awhile,” Staind has solidified their name as a top hard rock act with three out of seven albums—Break the Cycle, 14 Shades of Grey, and Chapter V—debuting at #1 on the Billboard Top 200. Lead vocalist and rhythm
guitarist Aaron Lewis, guitarist Mike Mushok and bassist Johnny April united as Staind in February 1995, and since then have ridden an endless wave of continual artistic growth and escalating success. Their third release, Chapter V, was their most evocative and inventive work to date, the album spawned yet another “Mainstream Rock” #1 hit in “Right Here,” along with further radio smashes in “Falling” and “Everything Changes.” For their seventh studio album, the band decided to dive into bleaker recesses than ever before and surfaced with their heaviest and most hypnotic album to date - the self-titled, Staind, which debuted at #5 on the Billboard Top 200 charts.
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y blending contemporary power pop with elements of the post-grunge era, Gin Blossoms briefly emerged as torchbearers of the lighter side of alternative rock. Bassist Bill Leen and guitarist Doug Hopkins
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formed the band in 1987 in Tempe, AZ. After an impressive debut EP, 1991ʼs Up & Crumbling, the Gin Blossoms rocketed out of the college pop charts and into the mainstream with their 1993 hit single “Hey Jealousy.”
two No. 1 Billboard 200 releases (Jar of Flies and their self-titled album), 14 top 10 songs on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and eight Grammy Award nominations. The band reunited in 2005 with new lead vocalist William DuVall and released their fourth studio album, the certified gold Black Gives Way to Blue, in 2009. Alice in Chains released their fifth studio album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, in 2013. A LT E R N AT I V E R O C K
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he Atlanta-based quintet Sevendust became one of the rising acts in late-ʼ90s heavy metal with an aggressive blend of bottom-heavy riffs and soulful, accessible melodies. The band, comprised of frontman Lajon Witherspoon, John Connolly
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ailing from the city of Atlanta, Georgia, Collective Soul shot to international fame with their 1993 release Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid, and their mega #1 hit “Shine.” The album was a collection of Ed Rolandʼs demos that spread quickly through the college underground circuit and caught fire, going on to achieve Double-Platinum status. After having been invited to the 25th Anniversary Woodstock concert, Collective Soul went into the studio to record their sophomore follow up. The self-titled Collective Soul, released in March of 1995, would be the album that would help define their sound of catchy melodies and
(guitar), Sonny Mayo (guitar), Vince Hornsby (bass), and Morgan Rose (drums), first appeared in 1995 and played over 800 shows alongside such groups as Creed. The bandsʼ latest release strips away their metal edge to release an album of acoustic tracks.
guitar driven songs. Containing four outstanding singles (three of which reached #1), “December,” “The World I Know,” “Where The River Flows” and “Gel,” it became Collective Soulʼs highest selling album to date. The album went Triple-Platinum and spent 76 weeks on the Billboard Top 200 charts. In 2007 the band made an exclusive deal with all Target stores to be the sole seller of their 7th Studio album, Afterwords. The fans dug it, opening at #25 on the Billboard Comprehensive Albums Chart and #5 on the Billboard Top Internet Albums Chart, proving Collective Soul was now conquering the digital world.
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.A.R. (an acronym for the bandʼs full moniker, Of a Revolution) transformed itself from an independent college band to a Billboard chart-topper over the course of a long, varied career. First, two of the bandʼs demo recordings were hawked on university campuses. Then, news spread about the bandʼs roots rock and reggae-inflected songs, which owed much to the jam band genre. Before long, O.A.R.ʼs website had turned into a highly trafficked internet destination, and the group gradually left the college scene for the bright lights of national stardom. Formed in 1996 in Rockville, Maryland, O.A.R. coalesced around lead singer/rhythm guitarist Marc Roberge, lead guitarist Richard On, saxophonist Jerry De-
Pizzo, bassist Benj Gershman, and drummer Chris Culos. Roberge had known Culos since childhood; he also played in local bands with On and Gershman. DePizzo, who hailed from Youngstown, OH, met the other Maryland natives at Ohio State, and the band made its studio debut with the release of an independent demo, 1997ʼs The Wanderer. Two years later, the switch from student band to headlining act began with the arrival of an intensely popular song, “That Was a Crazy Game of Poker,” which became a hit on college campuses. The group toured the college circuit as a result, booking shows between classes and encouraging fans to tape each show.
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O.A.R. & Phillip Phillips June 15, 2014 www.ofarevolution.com www.phillipphillps.com
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ne of last yearʼs biggest singles, the quadrupleplatinum “Home” announced Phillip Phillips as a singer/guitarist of both rare authenticity and massive pop appeal. Centering on the American Idol season 11 winnerʼs rich, raspy vocals and masterful guitar skills, “Home” served as the lead single from
The World from the Side of the Moon —a platinum-selling album that shot to #4 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart upon its November 2012 release. Phillipsʼs widely acclaimed debutalso features the platinum single “Gone, Gone, Gone,” as well as a host of numbers that flaunt the 22-year-old Georgia nativeʼs songwriting chops.
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orn April 30, 1933, the iconic Texas singer-songwriter Willie Nelson has earned a permanent position in pop musicʼs pantheon with unforgettable songs that combine the sophistication of Tin Pan Alley with the rough-and-tumble grit and emotional honesty of country music. His six-decade-spanning catalog includes more than 60 studio albums in addition to live recordings, soundtracks, collaborations with other artists and more. A songwriter of rare and precise elegance, Willie brought the worlds of pop and country together on the radio in the early 1960s penning evergreen classics like “Crazy” (Patsy Cline), “Hello Walls” (Faron Young), “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Billy Walker), “Night Life” (Ray Price) and others. By the mid-1970s, Willie Nelson had become an indelible superstar in his own right,
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as prime mover of a revolutionary and thriving outlaw country music scene. The Red Headed Stranger, Willieʼs first album for Columbia Records in 1975, catapulted the artist into the pantheon of archetypal popularity, making his name familiar in country and city households across America and around-the-world. A seven-time Grammy Award winner, Willie Nelson has received numerous accolades including American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, Country Music Association Awards and others. He is a co-founder of Farm Aid, an annual series of fundraising events which began as an all-star benefit concert.
avin DeGrawʼs powerful new album MAKE A MOVE is a victorious and creative musical return. On the follow-up to 2011ʼs Sweeter, Gavin DeGraw has experienced a creative and commercial renaissance displaying his even more focused vocal and artistic talent, his assured energy, musically expanded palette, and sharp, detail-driven lyrics. The first single, “Best I Ever Had,” is the most up-tempo thing DeGraw
has done yet, charging out of the gate with a galloping rhythm and lively horns. Based in San Francisco, Matt Nathanson has evolved into one of the premier songwriters and dynamic performers on the music scene today. His 2007 album Some Mad Hope yielded the smash single “Come On Get Higher,” which has sold more than 2 million copies to date, as well as the subsequent hits “Car Crash and “All We Are.” C O U N T RY / B LU E G R A S S
Willie Nelson & Alison Krause July 11, 2014 www.willienelson.com www.allisonkrause.com
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lison Krauss is a bluegrass virtuoso who effortlessly bridges the gap between roots music and country, rock and pop. Since signing with Rounder records at the age of 14, Krauss has sold over 12 million albums and won 27 Grammy Awards, the most for any female and the second most of any recording artist in Grammy history.
Paper Airplane, the latest masterpiece in Kraussʼ illustrious career, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country, Bluegrass and Folk Album Charts. Her band includes: Jerry Douglas (Dobro, lap steel, vocals), Dan Tyminski (Guitar, mandolin, lead vocal), Ron Block (Banjo, guitar) and Barry Bales (Bass, vocals) with Krauss on lead vocal and fiddle.
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ince releasing their self-titled debut album in 2010, The Band Perry have ascended to dizzying heights. Fronted by Kimberly Perry and rounded out by her younger brothers Neil and Reid, the band has notched a string of hit singles, including the quadruple-platinum “If I Die Young” (which climbed to No. 1 on Billboardʼs Country and AC charts), the platinum “You Lie,” and the Country No. 1 “All Your Life.” Theyʼve also enjoyed sold-out tours and a showering of honors, including multiple
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even albums into one of country musicʼs most-respected and mostunpredictable careers, award-winning singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley continues to grow. His latest evolution comes in the form of Riser, a project released earlier this years that stands as his most personal to date. Written and recorded in the year following his fatherʼs death, the album draws its title from “Iʼm A Riser,” a song about resilience and determination. “Iʼm A Riser” works as a commentary on spiritual, personal and societal recommitment, but it also
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ormed in 1967, signed in 1971, and fronted by iconic vocalist Kevin Cronin since 1972, REO Speedwagon is a band where the main constant over the decades is a never-ending desire to give their all to their fans, year in and year out. Formed loosely in the late ʻ60s at college in Champaign, IL, REO (named after the precursor to the light truck) rode to gigs in station wagons, hopping from small gigs to even tinier gigs, just to get their name out. It worked, as fans quickly realized there was much more going on herethan your
REO Speedwagon ounting Crows is an American rock band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1991. The band consists of Adam Duritz (lead vocals, piano), David Bryson (guitar), Charlie Gillingham (accordion, keyboards), Dan Vickrey (lead guitar), David Immerglück (guitar, banjo, mandolin), Jim Bogios (drums) and Millard Powers (bass). Counting Crows gained popularity following the release of its debut album, August and Everything After (1993), which featured the hit single “Mr. Jones”. They have sold more than 20 million albums worldwide and received a 2004 Academy Award nomination for their song “Accidentally in Love”, which was included in the film Shrek 2.[2][3][4] The bandʼs influences include Van Morrison, R.E.M., Mike + The Mechanics, Nirvana, Bob Dylan and The Band.
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applies to the competitive battlefield of the music industry. Itʼs particularly appropriate for an album about rejuvenation delivered by Bentley. “Life in general has a way of knocking you down,” Bentley says. “Itʼs different reasons for different folks – could be personal reasons, could be family reasons, your job, drugs, alcohol. That song really applies to anybody thatʼs lived. There have always been those moments when we have to get back up and get on our feet. They are defining moments…breakthrough moments.”
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Singer Adam Duritz and guitarist David Bryson began playing San Francisco coffeehouses together, performing under the name Counting Crows. The name was taken from One for Sorrow, a British divination nursery rhyme about the superstitious counting of magpies, a member of the crow family. Duritz heard the rhyme in the film Signs of Life, which starred his close friend, actress Mary-Louise Parker.Developing a following in the Bay Area and deciding to expand the band, Duritz and Bryson kept the name as they added members.
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ACM, CMA, and CMT Music awards, as well as Grammy, Teen Choice, AMA, ACA, and Billboard Music award nominations — all of which has cemented the sibling trio as one of the hottest acts in recent history. The bandʼs second album, Pioneer, lives up to its name. “The idea of a pioneer is very modern,” Reid says. “It reflects the idea of putting one foot in front of the other when youʼre unsure how to get where youʼre going. Itʼs about marching forward and making noise.”
amed in honor of a sketch by the Monty Python comedy troupe, Toad the Wet Sprocket became one of the most successful alternative rock bands of the early ʻ90s, boasting a contemporary folk-pop sound that wielded enough melody and R.E.M.-styled jangle to straddle both the modern rock and adult contemporary markets. Singer Glen Phillips, guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning
average college party band. By the early ʻ70s, the bandʼs unrelenting drive, as well as non-stop touring and recording, jumpstarted the burgeoning rock movement in the Midwest. It carved a path that was eventually followed by STYX, Kansas, Cheap Trick and more. Platinum albums and freeform FM radio staples such as “Ridinʼ The Storm Out” followed, setting the stage for 1980ʼs explosive Hi Infidelity. REO rode the top of the charts with a RIAA-certified 22 million albums sold in the United States. A LT E R N AT I V E R O C K
Counting Crows with Special Guest
Toad the Wet Sproket July 26, 2014 www.countingcrows.com www.toadthewetsprocket.com and drummer Randy Guss formed the group in 1986 in their native Santa Barbara, California. After honing their sound in local bars, the bandmates entered a nearby studio in 1988 and recorded their debut LP, Bread and Circus, in eight days at a cost of $650. Originally sold as a homemade cassette in Santa Barbara record stores, the album eventually made its way to the Los Angeles offices of Columbia Records.
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rimming with imagination, energy, and genre-smashing scope, Fitz & The Tantrums defied the odds to become an indisputable phenomenon, a charttopping, show-stopping modern pop combo unlike any other. Now, with their spectacular Elektra Records debut, More Than Just A Dream, the Los Angeles-based sextet have ramped up the timeless songcraft and soul sonic force that made them a worldwide sensation to fashion a
Fitz and the Tantrums July 27, 2014 www.fitzandthetantrums.com
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rctic Monkeys are an English indie rock band formed in 2002 in High Green, a suburb of Sheffield. The band consists of Alex Turner, (lead vocals, lead/ rhythm guitar), Jamie Cook (rhythm/ lead guitar), Nick OʼMalley (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Matt Helders (drums, backing vocals). Former member Andy Nicholson (bass guitar, backing vocals) left the band in 2006 shortly after its debut album was released.
kaleidoscopic milestone that delivers on the promise of their 2010 breakthrough, Pickinʼ Up The Pieces. From the charged back-and-forth between co-lead vocalists Fitz and Noelle Scaggs to the incontrovertible power of The Tantrums in full flight, More Than Just A Dream is the sound of a great band taking it right to the edge. “The only rule in making this record was that there were no rules,” says Fitz.”We didnʼt limit ourselves.”
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The band have released five studio albums. Their debut album became the fastest-selling debut album in British music history, surpassing Elasticaʼs self-titled album The band have won seven Brit Awards—winning both Best British Group and Best British Album three times, and have twice been nominated for Grammy Awards. Arctic Monkeys were heralded as one of the first group of acts to come to the public attention via the Internet.
Arctic Monkeys July 30, 2014 www.arcticmonkeys.com
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ans of the hit series can see this seasonʼs talented Top Ten Finalists live when the AMERICAN IDOL LIVE! tour returns this summer. AMERICAN IDOL LIVE! gives fans the unique opportunity to be up close and personal with Season 13 Finalists C.J. Harris, Jena Irene, Caleb Johnson, Jessica Meuse, MK
Nobilette, Alex Preston, Dexter Roberts, Majesty Rose, Malaya Watson and Sam Woolf. Past tours have featured stars such as Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia, Adam Lambert, Scotty McCreery, Phillip Phillips, Candice Glover and many more.
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oster the People is an American indie pop band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 2009. The group is composed of Mark Foster (vocals, keyboards, piano, synthesizers, guitar, programming, percussion), Jacob “Cubbie” Fink (bass and backing vocals), and Mark Pontius (drums, percussion). [2] The groupʼs music, described as melodic dance-infused pop and rock, spans many genres. Foster founded the band in 2009 after spending several years in Los
Angeles as a struggling musician and working as a commercial jingle writer. After Fosterʼs song “Pumped Up Kicks” became a viral success in 2010, the group received a record deal from Startime International and gained a fanbase through small club shows and appearances at the music festivals Coachella and South by Southwest. After releasing their debut album Torches in May 2011, “Pumped Up Kicks” became a crossover hit on commercial radio in mid-2011, reaching number one.
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Foster the People August 5, 2014 www.fosterthepeople.com
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o Lita Ford, the title of her new solo album Living Like A Runaway has two deep and distinct meanings: The first refers to her first band The Runaways, which she was a member of between 1975 and 1980, achieving her international breakthrough. The second reason is of a
much more personal nature: “There have been days in my life when I ran away, when I was unhappy and had to get out of my previous life.” Lita is considered one of the most important female representatives of the rock genre. Being a founding member of the Runaways, one of the first girl groups.
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eoffrey Royce Rojas (born May 11, 1989), known by his stage name Prince Royce, is an American singersongwriter and record producer from The Bronx. At an early age, Royce took an interest in music and into his teenage years, began experimenting with music and writing poetry. In March 2010, he released his eponymous debut studio album, which generated two commercially successful singles,
Prince Royce August 20, 2014 www.princeroyce.com
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exter Holland (vocals, guitar), Noodles (guitar), Greg K (bass) and Pete Parada (drums) are The Offspring, one of rockʼs most exciting and enduring bands. The band are on tour in support of their latest album, Days Go By, with producer Bob Rock, featuring the top 10 single “Days Go By.” The Offspring have performed over 1100 shows
ock legends Pat Benatar and Neil “Spyder” Giraldo have just announced plans to keep their 35th Anniversary Tour rocking fans through the summer with an additional 35 concerts added coast to coast. The powerhouse duo behind one of the largest arsenals of rock hits including “Love is a Battlefield,”“Hit Me with Your Best Shot, ” “Heartbreaker” and more will be headlining solo concerts nationwide “Itʼs hard to believe that so much time has passed. Weʼre excited to be celebrating this personal and musical milestone. The summer tour should be an incredible, shared experience with the audience.” “From the very beginning our chemistry was undeniable,” remarked Neil Giraldo. “This is the driving force behind everything we do. After 35 years of playing together, weʼre looking forward to the summer tour and the future, which will surely be... adventurous.”
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“Stand by Me” and “Corazón Sin Cara”. Both songs reached number-one on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart while “Corazón Sin Cara” reached number-one on the US Hot Latin Songs chart. The album itself reached number-one on the US Billboard Latin Albums and Tropical Albums charts. He also received three awards at the Billboard Latin Music Awards in 2011, which included Tropical Album of the Year. PUNK ROCK
across the globe and sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. Their 1994 release Smash remains the highest-selling album of all-time on an independent label. Among the bandʼs best-known hits are the rock anthems “Self Esteem,” “Come Out And Play (Keep ʻEm Separated),” “The Kids Arenʼt Alright” and “Youʼre Gonna Go Far, Kid.” reeminent punk band Bad Religionʼs signature brand of sonically charged humanist dissent seems as relevant as ever. On their newest record, the storied band deliberately revisits and refines the powerful and melodic Southern California sound they helped to
Together, with Benatarʼs mezzo-soprano vocal range and Giraldoʼs trailblazing work as a guitarist, producer and songwriter, Pat Benatar and Neil “Spyder” Giraldo have forged one of the most successful partnerships in rock & roll history. Since their initial collaboration 35 years ago on the debut album “In The Heat of the Night,” they have sold more than 26 million albums and charted 19 Top 40 singles, earning four consecutive Grammy Awards and three American Music Awards. Billboard Magazine ranked Benatar as one of the most successful female rock vocalist of all-time. Her emergence as a fearless, fighting force has helped forge a path for other female rock stars around the world. In addition to the arsenal of more then 100 songs heʼs written, produced, arranged and recorded for Benatar, Giraldoʼs helped create hits for legions of other artists.
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September 11, 2014 www.offspring.com www.badreligion.com define on albums such as Suffer, No Control and Recipe For Hate. “We went back to our original mission statement of short concise bursts of melody and thought,” co-songwriter and guitarist Brett Gurewitz explains. “The intent was to record stripped down punk songs
without sacrificing any conceptual density.” The band began in the sprawling suburbs surrounding Los Angeles. As insurgent teenage punks they offered an impassioned musical counterpoint to a dystopian culture of consumerism and anti intellectualism.
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Against the Grain - 9:00 pm | $5 The Zoo Bar 136 North 14th Street Lincoln, NE 68508 Join us from a night of great live music you will not want to miss! Peter Karp and Sue Foley - 5:00 pm | The 21st Saloon 4727 S 96th St. Omaha, NE 68127 On the heels of Blind Pig recording artists Peter Karp and Sue Foley’s 2010 critically acclaimed and artistically daring collaboration ‘He Said - She Said’ comes their next exciting CD: ‘Beyond The Crossroads.’ A high voltage, plank spankin’, piano boogyin’, slide guitar stompin’ bluesrockin’ CD Acoustic Music Thursdays - 7:00 pm | Two Fine Irishmen 18101 R Plaza Omaha, NE 68135 Join us every Thursday night for some great live acoustic music. Actual time may vary. Chad Stoner - 7:00 pm | Ozone Lounge 7220 F St Omaha, NE 68127 Join us every week for some of the best live entertainment around! Protomartyr - 9:00 pm | $8 The Slowdown Omaha 729 North 14th Street Omaha, NE 68102 In a city full of brilliant people with dead-end jobs and dampened by bitter-cold winters, playing music offers a cheap outlet. Protomartyrs taut, austere rock was incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with beer cans and cigarette butts and warmed, feebly, by space heaters. Capitol Ave. - 9:00 pm | $7 The Waiting Room Lounge
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6212 Maple St. Omaha, NE 68005 Capitol Ave isnt just another band, act, or musical group. Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska, Capitol Ave. is a movementit is the collective creative force of three artists striving to tell their story. Although Capitol Ave. was formally founded in 2012, the groups origins run much deeper. Prairie Creek Ramblers - 6:00 pm | The Zoo Bar 136 North 14th Street Lincoln, NE 68508 Head out every week for some great live music to get you moving! Acid Mothers Temple - 9:00 pm | $5$7 The Bourbon Theatre 1415 O Street Lincoln, NE 68508 Join us for some live music.
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loneliness (the horrible kind), moving on, and letting go (of people, places, and things),’ lyricist/guitarist Jenn Wasner reveals. Mary Carrick CD Release Show - 8:00 pm | Free The Slowdown Omaha 729 North 14th Street Omaha, NE 68102 Mary Carrick is a dynamic singer whose agile voice and evocative interpretation harnesses an impressive stylistic range. This Omaha based vocalist who is a familiar face on stages across the metro area and the Midwest performs live at The Slowdown The Daily Grind - 9:00 pm | $6 The Barley Street Tavern 136 N 14th St Omaha, NE 68508 Join us every week for some of the best live music around!
Honey Boy Turner - 5:00 pm | The Zoo Bar 136 N. 14th Street Lincoln, NE 68508 Head out every week for some great live music to get you moving!
John Doe - 9:00 pm | Two Fine Irishmen 18101 R Plaza Omaha, NE 68135 Head out every week for some of the best live music around!
Hi-Fi Hangover - 7:00 pm | Free The Loose Moose 4915 N 120th St Omaha, NE 68164 Join us every Friday and Saturday night for some of the best live music around!
3D In Your Face - 9:00 pm | The 21st Saloon 4727 S 96th St Omaha, NE 68127 3D In Your Face is the nation’s number one 80’s hair metal tribute band. Big Hair, loud guitars, and more makeup than your mother on date night.
Eckophonic - 7:00 pm | Ozone Lounge 7220 F St,Omaha, NE 68127 Join us every week for some of the best live entertainment around! Wye Oak - 9:00 pm | $13-$15 The Waiting Room Lounge 6212 Maple St. Omaha, NE 68005 Wye Oak wrote what became Civilian between December of 2009 and July of 2010. The songs ‘are, as a whole, about aloneness (the positive kind),
n Sweatshop Gallery will present artwork by Texan Tim Kerr, whose musical fingerprints lie on several strains of punk and garage music. The show will open Friday, May 16, with live music from Killer Blow, Solid Goldberg, Snake Island! and The Broke Loose. Kerr was a founding member of Austin’s trailblazing 1980s skate punk act the Big Boys, who alongside acts like the Dicks helped pave an iconic and distinct strain of Austin punk rock that still influences that city today. Kerr subsequently turned his attention to producing a gassed-up, lacerating strain of garage-punk bands, mainly out of the Sweatbox in Austin. Meanwhile, Kerr played in bands including the Lord High Fixers and Poison 13. Kerr’s visual art is now takingcenter stage. n Meet Omaha Under the Radar, an upcoming
Zodoe - 9:00 pm | $7-$9 The Bourbon Theatre 1415 O St., Lincoln, NE 68508 Also featuring Interstate IFM, Kam, and Jraw.
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Student Recital - 11:00 am | University of Nebraska at Omaha 6001 Dodge St Omaha, NE 68182 Head out and enjoy a student recital.
local performance festival that seeks to combine the worlds of contemporary musical composition with live performances of theater and dance. The festival runs Thursday, July 10, through Sunday, July 13, at four downtown Omaha venues. Organizer Amanda DeBoer says the event will be headlined by performances from Ken Vandermark and Tim Daisy. The festival seeks to foster collaboration, conversation and exploration across its multi-discipline performances. Catch a preview of the festival’s programming Monday, May 23, at the Bancroft Street Market, 2702 S. 10th St., with a bass, percussion and vocal performance Recitations by Georges Aperghis and Tierkreis by Karlheinz Stockhausen. For more information about the festival, visit undertheradaromaha.com. — Chris Aponick Backbeat looks at music in the metro area. Email information to backbeat@thereader.com
New Day Trio - 3:00 pm | Free Omaha Bicycle Company 6015 Maple St Omaha, NE 68104 Come on out for a night of live music.
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Hott 2 Trott - 7:00 pm | Ozone Lounge 7220 F Street Omaha, NE 68127 Join us every week for some of the best live entertainment around! Projekt Luna - 7:00 pm | $5 Sokol Auditorium 2234 S. 13th St. Omaha, NE 68108 Experimental, Metal, Alternate heavy fiffs with rap, singing, and screamed vocals. Omaha Punk Reunion 2014 - 9:00 pm | $10-$12 The Waiting Room Lounge 6212 Maple St. Omaha, NE 68005 The Second Omaha Punk Reunion returns to reunite friends from the 80s and 90s underground music scene. This weekend will feature a triple threat mix of music, art and carousing with Omahas original Chuckheeled, low-brow finest. The first Punk Reunion was in 2008. Bruce Spingsteen Tribute - 9:00 pm | $5 The Barley Street Tavern 2735 N 62nd Street Omaha, NE 68104 Join us every week for some of the best live music around! El Dub - 9:00 pm | $5 The Zoo Bar 136 North 14th Street Lincoln, NE 68508 Join us from a night of great live music you will nto want to miss! Naked Sunday - 9:00 pm | $4-$5 Uncle Larry’s 2200 Proctor St Fremont, NE 68025 Will be at Uncle Larry’s in Fremont for a 2015 school supply drive. The show costs $5.00 at the door unless you donate a school item then it’s $4.00 at the door. The Booty Clap, JSTR - 10:00 pm | $8-$10 The Bourbon Theatre 1415 O Street Lincoln, NE 68508 Dance musics newest underground star JSTJR is poised to take the mainstage, with more than 3 dozen records released in 1 year and a talent in crafting pop friendly African and Latin-inspired bass music.
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twenty one pilots - 7:30 pm | $20$25 The Bourbon Theatre 1415 O Street Lincoln, NE 68508 In its purest form music acts as a conduit of self-expression thats free from the conventions of society and that spirit of fearlessness lies at the core of twenty one pilots, a group whose musical vision is completely their own. Luigi, Inc. - 9:00 pm | Free
Mr. Toad’s Pub Omaha 1002 Howard St. Omaha, NE 68102 Since 1975, Mr. Toad has brought you the finest Jazz Omaha has to offer in our Library. The legendary Luigi Waites held court there for nearly 35 years until his passing in April of 2010. The gig goes on as Luigi would’ve wished, with his band ‘Luigi, Inc.’ holding down the fort with their cool sound. Mushroomhead - 8:00 pm | $20 The Waiting Room Lounge 6212 Maple St. Omaha, NE 68005 Mushroomhead are one of the most unique and adventurous alternative metal bands working today. Known for their stunningly theatrical live show and artsy masks, this innovative band has forged new ground in the rock world and influenced many other bands to push the envelope and bring art into rock.
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Emily Bass - 5:00 pm | The Zoo Bar 136 N 14th Street Lincoln, NE 68508 Join us for Piano Hour! Zoo Bar House Band - 7:00 pm | $3 The Zoo Bar 136 N 14th Street Lincoln, NE 68508 Head out every Sunday for a night of live music. Mike Gurciullo and His Las Vegas Big Band - 7:00 pm | Ozone Lounge 7220 F St. Omaha, NE 68127 Join us every week for some of the best live entertainment around! Morrissey - 7:00 pm | Cover Charge Rococo Theatre 140 North 13th Street Lincoln, NE 68508 Join us for this night of live music you will not want to miss. Songwriter Open Mic - 9:00 pm | Free The Barley Street Tavern 2735 N 62nd St Omaha, NE 68104 Sign up starts at 7pm. Talk to the bartender to get on the list. 15 minute sets (including set-up/tear-down time). Here’s your chance to show off your own music.
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Jazzocracy - 6:00 pm | Free The Zoo Bar 136 N. 14th Street Lincoln, NE 68508 Head out on Tuesdays for some great music! DJ Relic Soul Party - 9:00 pm | Free The Zoo Bar 136 N. 14th Street Lincoln, NE 68508 Join us for an all vinyl night!
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Ray’s Piano Party - 7:00 pm | Free Mr. Toad’s Pub Omaha 1002 Howard St. Omaha, NE 68102 Led by local legendary pianist Ray Williams, our every other Wednesday bash goes from 7:00 to 10:00 (or later, Ray’s easily kept when the crowd is rapt). From jazz to showtunes to classical to blues to sing-alongs, Rays keeps the crowd hopping with whatever songs are needed. No cover. Much fun! Johnny Ray Gomez - 7:00 pm | Ozone Lounge 7220 F Street Omaha, NE 68127 Join us every week for some of the best live entertainment around! Celebrate Omaha Gives! - 7:00 pm | Free The Slowdown Omaha 729 North 14th Street Omaha, NE 68102 Celebrate Omaha Gives! with Omaha Girls Rock, Hear Nebraska, Opera Omaha and Maha Music Festival. Music from Twinsmith, Laura Burhenn (of The Mynabirds), Op2mus, Edem along with MC’s Tara Vaughan and Michelle Murphy. For every Boulevard purchase, $1 will go to support the hosting organizations. Bourbon Anniversary Local Showcase - 9:30 pm | Free The Bourbon Theatre 1415 O Street Lincoln, NE 68508 Celebrate the Bourbon Theatres 5th Anniversary showcasing local music. Featuring Josh Hoyer & The Shadowboxers, and Freakabout.
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■ Race by David Mamet, the Omaha Playhouse’s latest production in the Howard Drew Theatre, presented plenty of challenges for director Amy Lane and cast. Lane’s Husband, an attorney in Omaha, provided some interesting legal perspective for the actors going into rehearsals. “There’s a lot of legal aspects of the play that he came in and was very helpful in discussing with the actors. But mostly, he talked about thinking like a lawyer,” Lane said. “That changed a lot of how we looked at different scenes. Thinking about it as an actor was different than thinking about why they would be bringing up certain topics and strategizing all the way throughout. That was really fun.” The design of the show was very simplistic. Race is a very minimal play. There’s only one setting with very few light and sound cues. The focus, Lane said, is clearly on the actors, on the dialogue, and on the plot. “We wanted the focus to be on this discussion and dialogue of these hot button topics,” Lane said. “It’s very minimal but very realistic. It was fun to create it. Everybody here at the Playhouse has said that when the show is done they want that office to be theirs!” One of the challenges in rehearsal for the actors was tackling the dialogue known throughout the theatre world as ‘Mamet-Speak’. David Mamet is known for having a very unique writing style that involves lots of repetition, short sentences, constant interruption, and a very distinct use of punctuation. Lane described it as a ‘jazz of literature’. “It is, in some ways, like learning how to speak another language,” she said. Lane also said that the issues brought up in the show raise needed questions and conversations not only in the theatre world, but in Omaha and the nation at large. “In American theater right now, the question of diversity is huge,” Lane said. “There’s more and more writers of color bringing their own voice to the scene which is very important. Of course, many of those writers are asking for roles that have actors of color. This is something that, especially in the American theatre scene, is happening a lot. And here is David Mamet, a white man, giving his take on this conversation. What is happening with our nation in regards to race and prejudice? What do we feel about it?” Race runs through June 8th at the Omaha Community Playhouse. — William Grennan Cold Cream looks at theater in the metro area. Email information to coldcream@thereader.com
PHOTO EXHIBIT CHARTS A MAP QUEST BEYOND REALITY
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hen Mexican artist Humberto Chavez says, “I don’t believe in reality,” he’s not merely being coy. He is being true to his muse and
his roots. Like many artists, Chavez is simply saying that objective reality doesn’t exist. Yet reality for him is more than just a philosophical conundrum of perception; you know, the one about the tree falling in the woods? Nor does he entirely plug into the North American credo: “Life is what you make it.” For an artist, there is an a priori step. Just as significant as its creation, life or reality for Chavez, is what you imagine it to be. His latest “imaginings,” 23 color photographs, are currently on display through June 10 at the Garden of the Zodiac in the Old Market Passageway. Sponsored by the Moving Gallery of the Old Omaha Association, this selfcurated exhibit, Instructions to cross a street, is his first in several years. Ostensibly, the show’s imagery traces a personal route taken by the artist during travels in 2013, focusing on four frequently traversed streets in Montreal, Quebec and Omaha as well as views from a hospital room and his studio in Mexico City. Chavez began the project as an exploration of the arbitrary nature of habit replete with photos, a video and a diary during a three-month period, but no doubt
a recent illness and convalescence that interrupted his sojourn played a vital part in the musings of this photo manual of instructions. The photos themselves are shot mainly through storefront windows with the odd exceptions of his surgical scars and studio wall that remind the viewer of the axiom regarding “best-laid plans.” The series includes two images of very ordinary homes in Omaha that also seems at odds with his playful sauntering and perhaps that’s his point. Maybe their isolated anonymity houses inhabitants waiting for instructions to open their minds as well as their front doors and cross the street on a journey of their own. According to his show statement, Chavez received his own set of “instructions” from the late French author Georges Perec, for whom fixed constraints of language, or in this case, locale, allowed him to expose a new perspective on familiar relationships. Whether writing or photographing, a new reality is created through these strategies: First, observation and immersion into everyday experience; second, personalization and identification; formulating an artificial structure to the experience that allows for fourth; multiple interpretations and points of view. In this way, Chavez’s series of images serve less as a personal narrative and more “as a conceptual framework
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for finding transformative magic in unassuming rituals.” In other words, he lets his imagination take him down four separate streets with the same attitude expressed by the recently deceased Latin American author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who believed that no writer should begin each day knowing where he was going—either with his art or his life, presumably. “There is a lot of magical realism in Mexico,” Marquez has said. As a researcher at the National Institute of the Fine Arts in Mexico City, as well as an author himself specializing in photography and semiotics, Chavez understands how the illusion of reality is “greater” than reality itself. To that end he sets the stage for this exhibit with his manipulative set piece, “Scandale,” that entices the viewer, who first sees the image through Zodiac’s storefront window. The title of this 2D/3D mix of female portrait and mannequin may be deceptive, but not its intent—to lure one into the gallery via its “Alice through the looking glass” illusion. After all, who can’t resist a scandal? Or, for that matter, an adventure in unexplored territory. Once in the gallery, the viewer is treated less to a scandal and more to a montage of glances that cleverly fix “broken” boulevards in three separate cities into a single street of fantasy and familiarity. “Broken” because like continued on page 26 y
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y continued from page 25 the “Accidental Tourist,” Chavez says he constructs a manual of instructions in order “to feel normal in a strange place.” He also ironically refers to his manual of coping as “broken” because his instructions break with a reality either imposed upon one or one not to be trusted. By devising his own instructions, he can thus create his own meaning, his own art, his own way. It’s a lesson for anyone who considers art as a way of life and not a hobby. Thus Chavez’s photographs reveal not an aimless wanderer but a visual poet not unlike Wordsworth and Thoreau but in a different time, space and medium. Like the latter, once forearmed with his manual of instructions, he is “master of all I survey, my right there none to dispute.” And as with the former, Chavez’s visual poetry is “the spontaneous overflow of emotions recollected in tranquility.” Which is to say that, despite devising his own method of photographing reality through a reflective looking glass or any other contrivance, as well as a lens, the “meaning” was often only revealed later in the process of viewing multiple images rather than just one. Perhaps what it revealed most to him is that photographs—and a few well-chosen interviews with storeowners intended for his next book—are his way of connecting to the world. As with most exhibits conceptual in nature,
it can be said that the whole is often greater than the sum of its parts. This was true of past installations by Chavez in Omaha, most notably Tiempo Muerto at the Bemis Center in 2005, and it’s true also for Instructions to cross a street. Consequently several of the 23 images here may strike the viewer as rather pedestrian. Considering that the exhibit is not destination or object-oriented, “pedestrian” rather fits his variation on “a walk in the woods.” Even the most ordinary photos are the product of his seeing, inquiring and inventing a comfort zone that is part real, part magical. The net result as seen here illustrates a holistic point of view no matter how fragmentary or arbitrary a world we live in. We only need to learn how to navigate it. “To cross the street,” Chavez says, “would mean to go over the imaginary route of a person who organizes the experience of a walk from different cities. In fact, it’s a continuous street that goes through time and space and forms a single block…[through] a screen of memories.” Certain works in the show speak more effectively and eloquently regarding Chavez’s “screen of memories,” which he symbolizes through multiple layers of reflection and alternative perspectives. This is especially true of the striking “Theatre du nouveau monde” in Montreal and the playful “El vaquero importa” shot in Omaha.
The former is notable for its twisted hall of mirrors, startling red palette and upside-down perspective that transforms a restroom into a kaleidoscopic theater of its own. The latter pokes fun at a billboard in Omaha’s Breck Apt. building that pictures three cowboys and reads “El Vaquero Imports.” Like the Marlboro Man, yet another commercialization of the Western male macho image. Perhaps this exhibit’s signature piece is the complex “(Ext.) Krieghoff ” taken in a gallery in Quebec featuring Cornelius Krieghoff ’s painting “Le Bateau a glace.” Yet, as with this show’s introductory work, “Scandale,” this image is layered in meaning, this time with both reflections of wall sconces behind the photographer and a shadowy one of himself taking the photo. Obviously, Krieghoff had his own vision for his four men in a sailboat at sea, but what we see here is what Chavez saw and photographed. Overall, it reinforces the concept that no single idea or object was ever made in a vacuum, or exists in an isolation of time and space. Everything we know and accomplish is done so through filters of memory and the imagination. They are a vital set of instructions to any path one takes, crosses or creates. , Instructions to cross a street continues through June 10 at The Garden of the Zodiac Gallery, 1024 Howard St. in the Old Market Passageway. For more information, contact 402.517.8719 or vmercer3@cox.net
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overtheedge LIFESTYLE COLUMN BY TIM MCMAHAN
That MOTHER****ING Food Express
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e are a divided people. We fall on opposite sides of issues that define us as conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats. We are separated on the subjects of gun control, abortion, the death penalty, and a woman’s right to be paid the same as a man for the same work performed. We disagree on whether the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) is a good thing. We differ on the theory that human activities are a primary cause of global warming. We are even divided on the very concept of God and man, on the existence of a Higher Power. But despite all these differences, there’s one thing we all agree on: We hate that soggy heap of garbage that lies at the end of our driveways every Thursday morning. An invention of the Omaha World-Herald, Food Express is an abomination we all know is slowly filling our landfills with white plastic bags stuffed with useless, unread newsprint. It is defined by the World-Herald as “ROP and preprint advertising product delivered on Wednesdays in Douglas and Sarpy Counties to subscribers and/or non-subscribers for Total Market Coverage.” It is defined by everyone else as unwanted garbage legally tossed onto our property as punishment for not subscribing to Omaha’s only daily newspaper. From the World-Herald’s point of view, Food Express (probably) makes good marketing sense. It’s an easy pitch by the folks who sell their ads to provide the highest-density coverage for their potential customers’ advertising dollar. I can hear it now: “Look, people get Food Express whether they want it or not!” says the savvy World-Herald huckster. “It’s the analog version of the annoying pop-up ads that litter our website! They cannot be avoided!” Oh, yes they can. At least once a month someone I follow on Facebook explodes with a “G**damn Food Express!” post asking how to stop the frickin’ “Bag of Savings” from showing up in their driveway. Stopping delivery is a simple-yet-annoying matter of calling the Omaha World-Herald’s Customer Service Desk Monday-Friday 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. (7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends) at (402) 346-3363 and telling them to please, for the love of God, stop delivering Food Express to your house. That information has been out there for a long time, but for some, it’s not enough. Facebook hate pages have begun popping up, including “I Hate Food Express,” which asks that you join if you “want to dump off all of your Food Express bundles at the front doors of the WorldHerald,” and “Slow the Food Express,” which is “Dedicated to stopping the Omaha World Herald’s Food Express from appearing unwanted throughout Omaha each week.” The latter Facebook page has nearly 500 followers, most of whom I would guess already have made the phone call to the World-Herald stopping delivery, but
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are still pissed whenever they drive to work and see Food Express bags littering neighborhood streets like soggy turds left behind by Omaha’s biggest unleashed mutt of a newspaper. They wonder why the World-Herald is allowed to casually litter their streets with garbage when they know if they tossed a candy bar wrapper out the window they could (rightfully) be cited for littering. And yet here is a once-respected business entity not only littering, but writing its name on every piece of litter. Well, someone at the World-Herald is listening to all the bitching. Specifically Dennis Cronin, the paper’s circulation director, who last Tuesday, May 6, sent a “Food Express Update” to Omaha Neighborhood Alliance Members. In it, Cronin states (sounding like a scientist describing a fight against an insidious disease) that “The Omaha World Herald continues to review the stated concerns about delivery of Food Express and believes we are making progress.” Caught in a war with itself, the World-Herald is siding with those organizing against it. Cronin, clearly on our side, said they’ve heard the “feedback” and even met on two occasions with Omaha city officials and representatives from several neighborhood associations. And as a result, the World-Herald has put together a four-point plan to combat the “Food Express Problem” (my description, not theirs). The plan: — Adding contact information to the Food Express bag to let customers know how to contact them with any delivery issues (i.e, the phone number to stop delivery). — Studying the possibility of porch delivery in certain areas, namely those where it’s extremely difficult for the carrier to get the Food Express out of the public right of way (i.e, our streets and sidewalks); — Improving their “sweeps” program whereby someone from the World-Herald picks up Food Express bags that have not been picked up and thrown away by residents by Friday afternoon. and — “Committing to improving our community outreach and collection of feedback.” Missing from the list, of course, is simply stopping the program or making Food Express delivery by “request only.” If we wanted your plastic bag filled with worthless advertising we would have asked for it. But we all know that will never happen because absolutely no one wants more advertising delivered to their door. The only thing more annoying than Food Express is when it begins showing up in your driveway…again. We gave into the World-Herald’s demands. We called the customer service desk and asked to halt delivery. And it worked… for a while. Then, out of the blue, the white plastic bag o’ shit began showing up again, forcing me to walk to the end of my driveway, pick it off the ground and toss it in the recycling bin with a hearty “Motherf***er!” Afterward, I did the only thing left to do: I walked back inside, sat in my office and began writing this column. ,
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Holt Wins, Karp-Foley, Big Jam
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incoln musicians Shawn Holt and Levi William were honored in Memphis Thursday, May 8, when Shawn Holt & The Teardrops took home the Blues Music Award for Best New Artist Debut. Shawn Holt heads the band he took over from his father, Magic Slim, with Slim’s rhythm section Christopher Biedron (bass) and Brian “BJ” Jones (drums). (Correction and apologies for last week when I had the incorrect name for the drummer.) Levi William joined the band on second guitar when Holt took over the band. The group’s excellent debut CD on Blind Pig Records, Daddy Told Me, won them the honor. Shawn Holt has been playing for a number of years and was tapped before Magic Slim’s illness and passing to join The Teardrops and then to lead the band. See blues.org for the full list of winners. Sue Foley & Peter Karp The always-wonderful Sue Foley and Peter Karp are in Omaha Thursday, May 15, 6-9 p.m. at The 21st Saloon with their band. They have released two great musical collaborations on Blind Pig Records and put on a marvelous live show. Foley was born in Canada but spent many years in Austin where she recorded a number of celebrated blues albums for the Antone’s Record label and
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toured extensively. Karp is also a veteran musician who broke into the New York City scene with an “art-blues-punk” group. Visit reverbnation.com/ karpfoley. Also performing are The Ori Naftaly Band and Katy Guillen & The Girls. Jammin’ for Mental Health The sixth annual Jammin’ Away the Blues event for mental health awareness is Saturday, May 17, at Lincoln’s Duggan’s Pub, 440 S. 11th St. Doors at 6 p.m. and music starts at 7 p.m. Performing are Delta Groove recording artists Mitch Kashmar and Kevin Selfe & The Tornadoes plus Deak Harp and Honeyboy Turner Band. Selfe has received over 15 Muddy Awards from the Pacific Northwest’s Cascade Blues Association. Acclaimed harmonica player Mitch Kashmar is also based in the Pacific Northwest and has worked with and recorded with many of the blues genre’s greats. Harmonica player Deak Harp has been influenced by many classic blues artists and currently lives in Clarksdale, Miss. The all ages event is sponsored by the Mental Health Association of Nebraska. Tickets are $20 advance and $25 at the door. See mha-ne.org/jamminawaytheblues. Hot Notes Chicago’s Nick Moss plays The Hive Friday, May 16, 9:30 p.m. Josh Hoyer & The Shadowboxers and AZP play Lincoln’s Zoo Bar Friday, May 16, 9 p.m. ,
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hoever said, ‘Money can’t buy you friends’ clearly hasn’t been on the Internet recently,” wrote The New York Times in April, pointing to various social media support services that create online superstars by augmenting one’s Facebook “friends,” Twitter “followers” and Instagram “likes.” The reporter described how, by paying a company $5, for example, he immediately acquired 4,000 “friends,” and had he splurged for $3,700, could have had a million on his Instagram photo account. Such services have been around for two years, but earlier, cruder versions (sometimes, just unmonitored email addresses) are now sophisticated “bots” -groups of computer code created on algorithm farms in India and elsewhere -- that “behave” on social media with original messaging (often “drivel,” wrote the Times) as if they were real people.
The Entrepreneurial Spirit We All Scream: (1) In April, Haagen-Dazs announced it will introduce two new ice creams (thankfully, only in Japan): carrot orange (with bits of pulp and peel) and tomato cherry (made from tomato paste). (2) A South Wales ice cream maker (“Lick Me I’m Delicious”) announced in April that it has perfected an ice cream containing about 25mg of Viagra per scoop (though it is not yet generally available). -- Marketing Challenges: (1) In January, London’s Daily Telegraph found three British companies in competition to sell deodorant supposedly made especially for women’s breasts. According to one, Fresh Body, “We’re replacing ‘swoobs’ -- dreaded boob sweat -- with smiles.” (2) Owner Christian Ingber recently opened a sandwich shop in Gothenburg, Sweden, named “A F***ing Awesome Sandwich.” An American expatriate told
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Stockholm’s The Local news service that Swedes think English “curse words” are “cute and charming.”
Leading Economic Indicators While Medicare continues to be among the most costly federal services, and U.S. doctors continue to drop out of the program because of paltry fees for some procedures, other specialists are rewarded with such outsized compensation that almost 4,000 physicians were paid $1 million or more for 2012 and about 350 of those totaled nearly $1.5 billion, according to Medicare records released in April 2014. Ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen of West Palm Beach, Fla., took in more than $20 million and treated 645 Medicare patients with a total of 37,000 injectable doses of Lucentis (a much more expensive drug than the popularly regarded equivalent, Avastin), according to Business Insider. (In fact, taxpayers could have saved more than $11 million with Avastin on Melgen’s billings alone, according to an April Washington Post analysis.) -- Visitors to the New York City office of Clear Channel radio station group chairman Bob Pittman are greeted exotically as they step off the elevator by a “tunnel” of “fine mist.” However, a spokeswoman told a New York Post reporter in March that it “isn’t for cooling or humidifying,” but to impress advertisers, in that Clear Channel knows how to project the advertiser’s logo against the mist. (Clear Channel, the Post reported, is $21 billion in debt and has laid off “thousands” of employees.) Science Fair Medical Marvels: (1) China’s Chengdu Commercial Daily reported in March that Liu Yougang, 23, finally had surgery to remove that whistle he had swallowed when he was 9. He had been experiencing worsened breathing -- and had been making “shrill whistle
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sounds” nightly after falling asleep. (2) London’s Daily Star featured Sarah Beal, 43, of Arley, Warwickshire, England, in a March story demonstrating her skin condition in which writing words on her skin makes it puff up for about an hour before it recedes. It is referred to by doctors as the “Etch A Sketch condition” (formally, dermatographia), and despite occasional pain, she described it as “cool” and a “party trick.” -- The Job of the Researcher: Cornell University graduate student Michael Smith, disappointed at the paucity of research on the pain of honeybee stings, decid- e d t o evaluate the stings himself (but in line with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 on safe self-experimentation). Smith’s protocols required five stings a day on various body locations for 38 days -- at least three on each of 25 body areas. The worst, according to his pain index, were the nostril (9.0) and the upper lip (8.7). -- North Carolina’s Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is already well known to News of the Weird readers for creating functional organs in the lab (most notably, perhaps, growing a human bladder and a rabbit’s penis). In an April article in the Lancet, the program announced that it had implanted artificial vaginas in four women in the U.S. A functioning vagina, the director told BBC News, “is a very important thing.”
Intelligent Design Par-tee! (1) In a springtime rite in Narcisse, Manitoba, tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes slithered out of pits in March so that writhing males could hook up with “pheromone-spewing” females. London’s Daily Mail called it the largest gathering of snakes on the planet -- with balls of males wrapped around females. (2) Once again this
year, the Toads on Roads charity in Sleaford, England, called for volunteers in February to police a highway where post-hibernating female toads carry horny males on their backs across a road to mate in marshes. Without help, said the charity, up to two-thirds of the amorous toads would not survive oncoming cars.
More Names in the News Universal Knowledge Allah, 36, charged with stealing a Stradivarius violin from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster (February); Theodore Edward Bear (aka Ted E. Bear), 29, charged with attempted murder, Great Falls, Montana (December); Ms. Cameo Crispi, 31, arrested for arson in Uintah County, Utah, charged with purposely leaving a pound of bacon frying on the stove to set her ex-boyfriend’s kitchen afire (March); Mr. Bai Ting, 28, charged with biting a police officer in Singapore (April). Ms. Sue Yoo, an Asian-American lawyer mentioned in a BBC News magazine story on whether one’s name is destiny (April). Perspective The maximum penalty a drunk driver can serve in Missouri for causing another’s death is 15 years in prison -- which is the same penalty handed down last year by Circuit Judge Kenneth Pratte to a brother and sister whose crime was getting caught with 20 marijuana plants (12 mature, eight sprouts), which they insisted were for personal needs. In fact, David and Natalie DePriest had not even taken the case to trial -- but had pleaded guilty, expecting, of course, minimum jail time (normally maxing out at about 120 days in prison, according to Missouri Department of Corrections statistics cited by Huffington Post). (David DePriest, though a licensed gunsmith, received seven more years jail time for having a rifle a quarter-inch shorter than permitted in Missouri.) ,
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et’s start with something that’s apparently really, really hard for edgy comedy people to grasp: jokes about rape or the N-word suck, and you suck for using them. Yes, you are allowed to make them; they aren’t illegal or anything. But saying “nothing is off-limits in comedy” makes you sound like a pretentious wang who thinks humor is some kind of miracle drug. Laughter isn’t literally “the best medicine,” so until a rape or race jokes cure cancer, feel free to knock it off, jagwagons. To recap: If you want to be edgy, feel free to wrap a huge human dong around someone’s neck like a necklace or show frat boys making dildos out of their own members, both of which are featured in the wholesome R-rated comedy Neighbors. But do not have generally likable white comedian Ike Barinholtz use rape as a punchline and drop two N-bombs (one of them while doing a President Obama impression). Don’t worry; these three jokes do not form the entire basis of my reaction to the film, which is generally pretty
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funny, even if it is a cut below much of this group’s last outing, This is the End. I’ve just had it with the national dialogue on whether certain things are funny. They’re not, and you’re stupid if you think so. It probably seems like that was a lot of time spent on one tiny aspect of Neighbors, but there’s really not much going on here. Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) are new parents who square off against the frat that moves in next door, led by Teddy (Zac Efron) and Pete (Dave Franco). While the couple initially tries to be cool and cling to their youth, engaging in hallucinogenic shenanigans before reminding the youngsters to “keep it down,” they quickly begin assaulting one another with increasingly immoral actions. Oh, and there is a killer lactation scene. The funniest part of watching Rogen play a manchild finally forced to grow up is realizing that he probably only has a few years left during which he can play an underachieving stoner before that character goes from comedic to tragic. Watching him and
Byrne run full-speed into the brick wall of uncoolness that awaits all of us is an interesting comedic viewpoint rarely explored. Also refreshing is Efron’s willingness to go “full A-hole.” His drunken self-entitlement and loose grasp on reality evokes images of real-life spoiled young celebrities, who will remain nameless until Rogen calls them names on the Howard Stern show. The problem with Neighbors is that it isn’t quite as funny as it needs to be to buoy such a simplistic premise. The supporting cast is fairly horrid, including Barinholtz in specific, and the tone shifts too often between realistic and ridiculous. Still, Byrne is a show-stealing riot, and the whole debacle is funny enough to count as light, giggly summer fluff. Hopefully, the next time Rogen and his regulars get together, they’ll pack more pound-for-pound laughs, ditch the faux-edgy tasteless quips and keep all the other raunch they want. GRADE = B-
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n If you’re one of the people who doesn’t think that science and facts are a matter of opinion, you’re likely a fan of finding a source of energy that won’t turn our planet into Tatooine. Askarben Cinema has found the future of energy! Or at least are showing a documentary called The Future of Energy: Lateral Power to the People Thursday, May 29, in partnership with SolarCon Renewables of Omaha. The film is an upbeat look at some renewable energy issues, including a look at Greensburg, Kansas, a town that gets all its energy from wind. Given certain politicians in Kansas, I’m going to just assume that the air the town harvests is hot and originates from human mouths. n Rumor has it that Chris Hemsworth, he of Thor and rippling muscles, is being sought after for the Mel Gibson role in a remake of Lethal Weapon. Except, there isn’t really much uniqueness to the Lethal Weapon concept. So, another way of saying this rumor is: “Chris Hemsworth sought to star as a cop opposite a black actor.” n Star Trek 3 won’t be directed by JJ Abrams like the last two, as he moved a few far, far away galaxies over. Instead, it’s looking more and more like it will be directed by Roberto Orci, who is really bad at everything. He’s half of the writing duo that ruined Transformers and The Amazing Spider-man and happens to be a public 9/11 truther, which makes him gross as well as bad at everything. Actually, there’s another way of saying this story too: Ryan is no longer looking forward to Star Trek 3. n Good news, guys! Judd Apatow is finally giving us that on-screen pairing we’ve wanted for a while now, as he has cast LeBron James and Method Man in his upcoming movie Trainwreck. I’m sure there’s some kind of joke about the result that this casting will have in conjunction with the film’s name. Oh, got it: This is gonna wreck LeBron’s training! Nailed it. —Ryan Syrek Cutting Room provides breaking local and national movie news … complete with added sarcasm. Send any relevant information to film@thereader.com. Check out Ryan on Movieha!, a weekly half-hour movie podcast (movieha.libsyn.com/rss), catch him on the radio on CD 105.9 (cd1059. com) on Fridays at around 7:30 a.m. and on KVNO 90.7 (KVNO.org) at 8:30 a.m. on Fridays and follow him on Twitter (twitter.com/thereaderfilm).
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