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ig sh*t is generally considered to be one of the best natural fertilizers known. Bullsh*t not so much. But bull is what pro-GMO lackeys enjoy spreading. The pro-GMO lobby has tripled its spending this year in an effort to convince consumers that it’s okay to keep genetically engineered ingredients secret in the foods we eat. It is estimated that 90 percent of all processed food in American supermarkets contain genetically altered DNA yet the Grocery Manufacturers Association, Monsanto and other GMO companies want to keep that hidden from you. I stress “American supermarkets” because most of the rest of the world labels GMO food or bans it outright. Only in America do corporate profits so drastically trump consumer rights and safety. (For example, America remains the only country in the world, except New Zealand, that allows advertising potent and dangerous pharmaceutical drugs direct to consumers.) So it’s time to dispel some of the myths that the pro-GMO cabal is foisting on the American public. Here’s what they say. And I say it’s all bull. “Genetic Engineering is just an extension of natural breeding and humans have been doing the same thing for thousands of years.” Bull. Humans have never before been genetically engineering plants and animals like this. Genetic engineering pairs DNA parts from species that could never interbreed in nature. Yes, humans have bred plants by crossing, say, one variety of tomato with another tomato. But genetic engineering does unnatural things like crossing the DNA of a mouse with a tomato, or inserting genes from a moth into an apple, a rat gene into lettuce. Genetic engineering is a radical transgenic mutation that nature would never, ever be able to accomplish. And there are unintended consequences. “GMOs are necessary to feed the growing population of the world.” Bull. Point 1: We already produce more food than the world needs. It’s distribution that is the problem. Point 2: Multiple studies have found that non-GMO food production can grow as much as GMO and even more. Point 3: Who are they kidding? The largest GMO crops by far are GMO field corn and soybeans. And nearly all of that is grown in the United States (because other countries won’t allow it). Most field corn is used for ethanol, then for livestock feed, then a small percentage is used for corn syrup sweetener and processed food. How is that feeding the world? Besides, according to a Union of Concerned Scientists report, traditional,

non-GMO techniques of growing corn increase yields five times better than GMOs. “GMOs lower pesticide use.” Bull. Studies both in the United States and abroad confirmed that “GM production was lowering yields and increasing pesticide use.” Actually, the use of glyphosate, manufactured and sold by Monsanto as RoundUp, has soared. Glyphosate is being found to be far more dangerous than Monsanto led us to believe and is banned permanently or suspended in many countries, including Mexico, France, Netherlands, Brazil. “GMOs are proven safe by testing.” Bull. Tests submitted to governments are made by the developer companies and barely regulated. In fact, independent testing is nearly impossible because companies like Syngenta, Monsanto and the other GMO patent-holders guard their proprietary seeds closely. Seed stocks are tightly controlled so researchers can’t get hold of them. As an independent study by EarthOpenSource.org states, “[no country] in the world requires longterm or rigorous safety testing of GM crops and foods. Regulatory assessments are based on data provided by the company that is applying to commercialize the crop – the same company that will profit from a positive assessment of its safety.” In other words, Monsanto tests their own stuff and says, “Sure, it’s safe.” And the USDA buys it. And did you know the EPA requires that GMO corn must be registered as a pesticide, just like any other poison bug killer? “The Bt toxin in every corn cell of GMO corn is the same as the Bt spray that is so safe, even organic farmers have used it for years.” Bull and double bull. GMO corn does indeed contain a toxin that kills bugs. It’s inside each kernel, placed there by Monsanto and other GMO companies. And organic farmers have used a natural spray containing Bt bacteria that also protects against insects. The big difference is that with external spray, hardly any of the Bt toxin persists on the corn you eat. What does can be rinsed off easily. But with GMO corn it’s inside the kernel. Try washing that off. “Bt toxin hurts only the insects that hurt corn and is safe for humans. It degrades in the stomach.” Bull. Studies show Bt toxin is not specific to a narrow range of insect pests but affects a wide variety of non-target organisms, including mammals and humans. A Canadian study found Bt toxin in the blood of pregnant and non-pregnant women and the blood supply to fetuses. It does not degrade in digestion. That’s a big bull. Grab it by the horns. Be well. ,

VISIONS FROM FIVE MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE • SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 • We can look forward to a return of early 20th century-style machine politics. An analysis of government will demonstrate that politics is always a dirty, corrupt business, but machinestyle politicking is the most democratic of any system yet used, as it genuinely

guarantees favors for votes, and so directly responds to the needs of the voter. Elections are currently won by money, but machine politics forces them to be won by winning and representing voters. Get ready for a new era of the political boss.

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crumbs ■ WANT TO PLAY? Midtown welcomed a new café recently, and although Spielbound hasn’t officially opened yet, it’s proving to be intriguing. The “soft opening” allows customers to come check out this board game café and try some of the drinks (coffee drinks, sodas, teas and beer), but the eventual goal is to have a full-fledged café complete with food offerings beyond pastries and snacks. And in case you’re wondering, yes, there are plenty of board games from which to choose to keep you occupied during your visit. spielbound.com ■ A FUNNY FOOD DRIVE Food drives don’t have to be dull. Consider the upcoming comedy show at the Pizza Shoppe Collective Sept. 20 from 8 to 10 p.m. featuring local comedians and a fully improvised comedy show at the end of the evening. Admission is $10 or $8 with two canned food item donations, but bring more to donate because Sep-

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clearest windows into a culture, and is one of the daily, simple acts of sharing. The ingredients tell us so much about what is available and about the evolution of the collective palate in the area. It tells us what people appreciate enough to share with others.” “Everything on the table tells a story,” she continues. “Whether it’s served on grandma’s plates, or if it’s the pork from the family’s hog butchered last year, getting that meal to the table will tell some story if you’re inquisitive enough to ask.” As a historian and cook, Reinhardt suggests that all meat-eaters, at some point in their lives, need to take on the task of preparing meat from start to finish. “That means taking a live animal, recognizing its life, killing and preparing it,” she says. “That connection is where I believe we truly realize the value of life and that none of it should go to waste. Buying meat in a package creates a detachment between the consumer and the animal.” If you’re not quite ready to start slaughtering pigs, appreciating your food is a good start. Although food is abundant for most of us, it’s good to pause and think about what the food situation was in Nebraska many years ago. “Pioneers survived unimaginable hardships,” says Reinhardt. “Over the winter when the meat ran out and there were only root vegetables left in the cellar, men and women would take to fishing, trapping turtles or any rodents available to have sustenance.” After talking to Reinhardt and checking out the book her publsher sent me, I feel even more compelled to examine where my food comes from and to strive to run a more sustainable kitchen in my own home, but mostly I’m just really glad I’m not a pioneer. Rodents? No thanks. Reinhardt’s book “A Culinary History of the Nebraska Sand Hills: Recipes and Recollections from Prairie Kitchens” is available on Amazon and other online booksellers. , tember is the Food Bank’s Hunger Action Month. pizzashoppecollective.com ■ DINE OUT FOR BREAST CANCER Harvest will host a special prix-fix dinner on Saturday, Oct. 11, to benefit breast cancer victims. Owner Tom Sawyer lost his wife to breast cancer in 2010, so this is a cause very close to his heart. The dinner will be staffed by volunteers and a portion of the sales, tips and donations will go directly to the cause. omahaharvest.com ■ GERMAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY’S OKTOBERFEST Friday, Sept. 19. and Saturday, Sept. 20, are the days for the 130th annual German Day at the GermanAmerican Society. $5 grants you admission to the festivities, which include food, drinks and entertainment. If you like German food (or German beer), you won’t want to miss this event. Active duty military get in free with an ID and free parking is available. germanamericansociety.org — Tamsen Butler Crumbs is about indulging in food and celebrating its many forms. Send information about area food and drink businesses to crumbs@thereader.com.

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hotographer Janette Beckman made a name for herself in the 1970s and 1980s capturing the punk scene in her native London and the hip-hop scene in her adopted New York City. Dubbed “the queen of rock photographers,” her images appeared in culture and style magazines here and abroad and adorned album covers for bands as diverse as Salt-N-Pepa and The Police. Weaned on Motown and R & B, this “music lover” was well-suited for what became her photography niche. She still works with musicians today. She’s developing a book with famed jazz vocalist Jose James about his ascent as an artist. Her photos of hip-hop pioneers along with pictures of the Harlem biker club Go Hard Boyz comprise the Rebel Culture exhibition at Carver Bank, 2416 Lake Street. Beckman, documenting facets of Omaha and greater Neb. for a Bemis residency, will give a 7 p.m. gallery talk on Friday during the show’s opening. The reception runs from 6 to 8. The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts stint is her first residency. “This is a new experience. It’s very refreshing. It’s kind of nice to get away from your life and open up your mind a little bit,” says Beckman, who describes her aesthetic as falling “between portrait and documentary.” “I truly believe taking a portrait of somebody is a collaboration between you and the person. I really like taking pictures on the street. I don’t want hair stylists and makeup artists. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to document that time and place – that’s really important to me. I want it to be about them and their lives, not about what I think their lives should be.” Carver features a personal favorite among her work – a 1984 photo of Run DMC shot on location in Hollis, Queens for the British mag Face. “They were just hanging out on this tree-lined street they lived on. I said, ‘Just stand a little closer,’ and they did. I love this picture because it expresses so much. It’s a real hangout picture and such a symbol of the times, style-wise. The Adidas with no laces, the snapback hats, the gazelle glasses, the track suits. It just expresses so much about that particular moment in time. And I love the dappled light on their faces.” She made the first press photo of LL Cool J, complete with him and his iconic boom box. She did the first photo shoot of Salt-N-Pepa while “knocking about” Alphabet City. In L.A. she shot N.W.A. posed around cops in a cruiser just as the group’s “Fuck tha Police” protest song hit. She says her hip-hop shots “bring up happy memories for people because music is very evocative – it’s just like a little moment in time.” The early hip-hop movement in America paralleled the punk explosion in England. Both were youthful reactions against oppression. In England – the rigid class system and awful economy. In the U.S. – innercity poverty, violence and police abuse. “Punk really gave a voice to kids who never really had a say. Working-class kids and art school kids all sort of banded together and started protesting, basically by being obnoxious and writing punk songs that were kind of like poetry, expressing what their

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lives were like. There was the shock factor of wearing bondage apparel and trash bags, putting safety pins in their noses. Really giving the finger to Queen and country and all that history. It was like, ‘Fuck you, it’s not that time, we’re fed up and we’re not going to take it anymore.’” Her introduction to hip-hop came in London at the genre’s inaugural Europe revue tour.

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“No one knew what hip-hop was. It was just the most amazing show. It had all the hip-hop disciplines. So much was going on on that stage – the break dancers and the Double Dutch and Fab 5 Freddy, scratching DJs, rapping, graffiti. All happening all at once. It blew me away. “I met Afrika Bambaataa, who’s pretty much the father of hip-hop.”

Weeks later she visited NYC and “there it all was – the trains covered in graffiti, kids walking around with boom boxes, people selling mix tapes on the street. I got very involved in it.” “New York was broke. Politically it was a mess. These kids had no future. Hip-hop gave this voice to the voiceless. They were singing ‘The Message’ (by the Furious Five). Where I was living there really were continued on page 10y

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junkies in the alley with a baseball bat. It was no joke. You could see it unfolding in front of you and yet there was this vibrant art scene going on. Graffiti kids stealing paint from stores, breaking into train yards at night and painting trains in the pitch dark to make beautiful art that then traveled like a moving exhibition around New York. It was just fantastic. A real exciting time.” She got so swept up, she never left. When big money moved in via the major record labels, she says. “everything changed.” She feels hip-hop performers “lost their artistic freedom and that almost punk aesthetic of making it up as you go along because you don’t really know what you’re doing. They were just experimenting. That’s why it was so fresh.” She expected hip-hop would run its course the way punk did. She never imagined it a world-wide phenomenon decades later. “In the Æ90s with Biggie and people like that it got massive. People are rapping in Africa and Australia. Breakdancing is bigger than ever now..” While capturing its roots she didn’t consider hiphop’s influence then. “I was just in it doing it. I was just riding the wave.” Portraying folks as she finds them has found her work deemed “too raw, too real, too rough” for high style mags that prefer photo-shopped perfection. “I don’t really believe in stereotypes and I don’t believe in ideals of beauty.” She’s even had editors-publishers complain her work contains too many black people. Beckman’s surprised by Omaha’s diversity and intrigued by its contradictions. She’s shot North O barbershops, the downtown Labor Day parade, her first powwow, skateboarders doing tricks at an abandoned building and a South Omaha mural. She’s looking forward to taking pics at a rodeo and ranch. She came for a site visit in July with one vision in mind and quickly had to shift gears when she began her residency in August. “I wanted to photograph people on the street in North Omaha and I found there’s nobody on the street, so I had to try to wiggle into the community.” Her curiosity, chattiness and British accent have given her access to events like the Heavy Rotation black biker club’s annual picnic at Benson Park. That group reminded her of the Ride Hard Boyz she shot last summer in New York. “I was riding in the flatbed of an F-150 truck driven by one of the guys down this expressway with bikers doing wheelies alongside, all totally illegal. It was the most exciting thing I’ve done in years. Although it’s rebel in a way, the club keeps kids off the street and out of drugs and gangs. They’re the greatest guys – like a big family.” The end of Sept. she returns to the NewYork “bubble.” An exhibit of her photos that leading artists painted on, JB Mashup, may go to Paris. She’s photographing a saxophonist. Otherwise, she’s taking things as they come. “I try not to make too many plans because they tend to get diverted.” , Rebel Culture runs through Nov. 29. View her Omaha and archived work at janettebeckman.com/blog. Read more of Leo Adam Biga’s work at leoadambiga.wordpress.com.

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ward-winning filmmaker Maria Agui Carter has much to say about her new film Rebel, the story of a Latina who posed as a man to fight and spy in the American Civil War. Agui Carter will discuss the film, which recently aired as a PBS special, and its protagonist, Cuban immigrant Loreta Velazquez, following a 7 p.m. screening Sept. 25 at El Museo Latino, 4701 S. 25th St. An immigrant herself, Agui Carter is an independent filmmaker based in Mass. and founder of Iguana Films, a film and new media company making Spanish and English language works. She’s a graduate of Harvard University, where she’s been a visiting artist-scholar. In a director’s statement and answers pro-

oir until now, her story’s been marginalized and contested, even called a hoax. “She was attacked as a liar and a fraud by an unreconstructed Ex-Confederate general. Jubal Early, who read her memoir and thought her story preposterous. He was quite powerful and publicly dismissed her story. Subsequent generations generally followed his lead.” To unravel the mystery, Agui Carter consulted historians, who informed her some 1,000 women disguised as men fought in the Civil War. They confirm Loreta fought under the name Harry T. Buford at First Bull Run and was wounded at Shiloh. At some point Loreta became a spy, first for the Confederacy, then for the Union. She went by many

vided via email, she details what led her to do the 12-years-in-the-making project. “I’m a history buff, I look for interesting characters, especially women and Latinos, in American history,” she says. “I came across an original copy of Loreta’s 1876 memoir in Widener Library (Harvard).” Agui Carter found powerful themes in those accounts that speak to her experience as a Latina storyteller, immigrant to the U.S. and feminist. “I felt uniquely qualified to tell the story. I’m fascinated by the question of citizenship and national identity, having been brought here as a child undocumented and raised ‘underground’ by my mother. I felt growing up I was deeply American, but I did not have the citizenship status.” Loreta’s story touches on issues of gender, race and self-determination Agui Carter identifies with. “I identify with Loreta and sympathize with her painful struggle to find acceptance within her community. Loreta presents a Latina’s and a woman’s perspective on a time period and a war we usually think of as exclusively black and white. But this is less a story about the Civil War and more the story of a complex woman who reinvented herself to survive the impossible circumstances in which she found herself. And that reinvention of self is a quintessentially American experience that resonates with so many Americans – that idea we are not what we are born, but what we make of ourselves.” Agui Carter’s fllm answers and asks questions prompted by the memoir. “My film is a detective story trying to understand the woman, the myth and the politics of how we understand our own past.” From the time Loreta published her mem-

aliases, including Laura Williams and Loretea DeCaulp. Agui Carter’s hybrid documentary uses actors to dramatize certain scenes. “We don’t know all the exact details of her service, nor that of the other documented women who fought disguised as men because they were hiding their tracks and identities,” she says. As for why Loreta did what she did, Agui Carter says, “She had just lost her family and as a young girl she had dreamed of being a hero. It’s a complicated and deliciously twisted plot.” The filmmaker admires what Loreta did in carving out an unexpected, emancipated life and sharing her journey with the world. “Her book popularized her story of a woman who broke the rules and social boundaries that, post-war, so many were trying to reconstruct. By writing her memoirs, she allowed others to imagine that they, too, might choose their own fates and go against the grain. This was considered dangerous at a time when men were returning from war and expecting the women to go back to their old roles. “She refused to be bounded by the strictures of her time. She imagined a world for herself and went out and created it, regardless of what people told her she couldn’t do. She made the impossible possible for herself.” Agui Carter has authored a new play, 14 Freight Trains, about the first American soldier to die in Iraq – an undocumented Latino. It has reverberations with Rebel and her own family’s experience. “My mother married a Vietnam veteran who applied for citizenship for

my mother and myself. War is a terrible, painful, transformative thing and yet people believe in this country enough to put their lives on the line for it, including generation after generation of immigrants. This is a profound experience and I am drawn to these stories of people who would believe in something so much they would risk their lives for it.” She’s working on turning Loreta’s story into a narrative action feature. , See Rebel free with museum admission. Due to limited space, reservations are advised. Call 402-731-1137. For more about the film and Loreta’s story, visit rebeldocumentary.com. Read more of Leo Adam Biga’s work at leoadambiga.wordpress.com.

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■ As a part of a unique internship at The Rose Theater, local high school seniors will present The Brave Little Tailor, a script adapted by Rose playwright-in-residence, Brian Guehring, Sept. 20-21 at The Rose Theater’s Hitchcock Stage. The Brave Little Tailor is part of the teens’ year-long internship at The Rose Theater. As interns, the students commit to working more than 150 hours throughout the year, gaining valuable hands-on experience as they contribute to a variety of artistic, educational, and administrative projects. To kick off their experience, the students work on every aspect of a fully-staged play. The Rose internship offers seniors the chance to learn more about the different jobs in theater as they prepare for college, grad school and their careers. Through the Teens ‘N’ Theater program, they will spend time performing, running the technical booth, marketing, playwrighting and directing. While most have grown up taking theater classes, the experience at The Rose offers the interns an opportunity to see the world of theater in a new light. In addition to their time spent on stage or behind the scenes, they will spend time in the classroom, providing classroom assistance to the professional acting staff of The Rose. In this capacity, the interns will work directly with preschool through elementary school students in creative drama classes throughout the year. The Rose interns will come together to tell the story of The Brave Little Tailor. The show follows the adventures of a young tailor who has been discounted his entire life because he is small. The meek tailor is bullied by his boss, smothered by his mother and harassed by customers. This doesn’t stop the tailor from dreaming, however, and during one vivid fantasy, he manages to kill seven flies in one blow. Rumors spread throughout the village, growing and taking on a life of their own, until the king hears about a mighty tailor who can kill seven giants in one blow. The Rose said the message of the show is that no matter how small, weak or inexperienced you think you are, you can still do amazing things. The Brave Little Tailor is Saturday, Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 21, at 4:30 p.m. For more information on the show call 402-345-4849. — William Grennan Cold Cream looks at theater in the metro area. Email information to coldcream@thereader.com

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Wednesdays, 8 p.m. (Fox) Executively produced by Steven Spielberg, Red Band Society is the first masterpiece of the fall TV season. Nevertheless, it features a premise that practically screams “don’t watch this.” A half-dozen very sick kids live together in a hospital. If that sounds off-putting, wait till you meet Charlie (Griffin Gluck), a boy who narrates the story while unconscious. “Yeah, this is me talking to you from a coma,” he says. “Deal with it.” Given plot points about cancer and cystic fibrosis, Red Band Society might have been too sad or too sentimental. Instead, the series hits the sweet spot: It’s moving without being manipulative. Part of the secret is a sense of humor. The kids tease and taunt one another, and they’re in turn teased and taunted by a no-nonsense nurse (Octavia Spencer). But what really set Red Band Society apart are the characters and their relationships. The actors burrow deep into their roles, finding nuances in such types as a cruel cheerleader (Zoe Levin), a sharp-tongued anorexic (Ciara Bravo) and a jock facing an amputation (Nolan Sotillo). The series uses dreamy rock music to great effect, along with a Shakespeare leitmotif. With disaster on the horizon, the kids pull together like the band of brothers in Henry V: “We few, we happy few….” They dub themselves the Red Band Society, and if you can resist their charms, you’re made of stronger stuff than I am. — Dean Robbins

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FRIDAY19 Friday, Sept. 19

FIFTH ANNUAL UFO SYMPOSIUM Room 101 of CPACS at UNO 60th and Dodge, 5 p.m., $10 www.omahaufostudygroup.com

As you sit outside and look at the stars, the few you can actually see in the city, you may begin to ponder about if we are the only ones out here. But, wait, what was that flashing to your left? Or when you just get out of seeing a scary movie and as you climb into bed, you get up to check in your closet once more because… what if? Ponder no more, instead, attend the fifth annual University of Nebraska at Omaha UFO Symposium, organized by the MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) Study Group at UNO. Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) and the paranormal will be discussed, questioned and debated with a variety of local and regional guest speakers and experts on UFOs and paranormal activity. Detailed information about the event including the schedule, guest speakers and more can be found on their website. Tickets will be available the day of at the door and if you’ve ever been curious about the paranormal or UFOs this event is your chance to discuss and question with others who may hold some of your answers. — Mara Wilson

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THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR & OTHER ERIC CARLE FAVORITES

The Rose Theater, 2001 Farnam St. Fri: 7 p.m. Sat: 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. Sun: 2 p.m. Tickets: $18, www.rosetheater.org

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Friday, Sept. 19

PERFORMANCE BY DAN SMITH OF LISTENER Project Project, 1818 Vinton St. 6-9 p.m., Free to public projectprojectomaha@gmail.com

Metro arts entrepreneurs Joel Damon and Josh Powell have regrouped to bring another version of their always entertaining DIY events, this time to Vinton Street. They call this current collaboration “Project Project,” “an experimental space that focuses on promoting and enhancing the experience of art, music and lectures in our community.” This latest installment features the artwork of notable Lincolnite, and

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an entrepreneur himself, Nolan Tredway to South Omaha with his latest edgy narrative and visionary paintings, long a favorite to Metro viewers. Tredway is currently the co-director of Tugboat Gallery in Lincoln, while operating his own studio/gallery space there as well. Though the award-winning Tredway may be best known as a painter, his

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marionette short film series, Milk, has been shown nationally and his multi-media work includes toy and t-shirt design. Honors include the Ida M. Vreeland Award and a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Fellowship. Dan Smith, the lead singer of the spokenword rock band Listener, will perform both solo works and select songs form his band’s catalog. His performance will take place after the art opening nearby in the River City Saloon on Vinton. Smith will be joined by special guests Kris Rochelle of Red Sweater Lullaby and Dan Olsen of Sack of Lions. Tredway’s exhibit will continue until Sept. 28 by appointment only. —Michael J. Krainak

Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia has landed here, offering superb puppetry in a production presented by The Rose. Two exceptional Canadian artists, Jackson Fowlow and Graeme Black Robinson manipulate a wide variety of figures in what is called “black light” puppetry. Dressed entirely in black, they move the figures against a black background, thereby becoming invisible. They create marvels with two wonderful, complex creatures, a chameleon and a caterpillar. The chameleon moves in delightful comic fashion given that its personality is jolly and entertaining. The caterpillar becomes a marvel of sinuous, beautiful grace. Most other visual elements are flat pieces which resemble Carle’s illustrations. Everything about how this 45-minute offering looks and sounds is bound to appeal to children of all ages and to delight adults, despite the evident simplicity of each story. — Gordan Spencer

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Upload your events online at thereader.com/events Questions: listings@thereader.com ONGOINGCULTURE Digifest South 2014 - 9:00 am | Free CenturyLink Center Omaha An annual digital arts festival and tech expo that celebrates how digital technology combined with artistic creativity has helped our modern society progress. Participants include Academy Award Winner Moonbot Studios, Sci-Port Louisiana’s Science Center, the Robinson Film Center, and many more. The event exhibits digital art genres made possible by the latest technologies. Nebraska Wesleyan Elder Gallery Exhibit - 10:00 am | Free O’Donnell Auditorium, Rogers Center for Fine Arts Professor Emerita of Art Susan Horn explores family, friendships and Nebraska through photographs spanning 34 years. Nebraska National Collegiate Juried Exhibition - 12:30 pm | Eisentrager-Howard Gallery This third annual art exhibition features the work of the best undergraduate student artists from across the country. Each year three different media disciplines are featured. This year’s exhibition includes ceramics, photography and printmaking. More than 75 artists have been accepted into this year’s exhibition, including 14 from UNL. Kim Reid-Kuhn - All Day | Fred Simon Gallery Kim Reid holds a BFA in Fine Art from UNO. After graduating, Kim pursued a personal studio practice, teaching, and curating. She won the OEAA in 2013 for Best 2D Artist, in 2013 and 2012 for Best Two Person Show, and in 2010 and 2011 she was nominated by the OEAA for the Best Emerging Artist and Best Solo Exhibition Award. Wearable Art Show- Arlene Wohl - 10:00 am | Free Anderson O’Brien Fine Art Old Market Arlene Wohl comes from California to show her hand-woven designs at the Anderson O’Brien Fine Art Gallery in the Old Market. You Know What? F%$# the 80s! - 7:00 pm | $30 (includes dinner) Apollon Most of us think of the 1980s are nothing but teased hair, bangles, Player’s Jackets, and endless repeats of The Breakfast Club on beta. Trust us. It’s much, much worse. The Apollon invites you on a journey into the decade that spawned MTV, Nickelodeon, and Emilio Estevez. We’ll battle Goonies, Gremlins, and Terminators. We’ll Double Dare you to bleach your hair and fist pump Ferris Bueller right in his smarmy face. Lauritzen Gardens Antique & Garden Show - 10:00 am | $15 Lauritzen Gardens Discovery is waiting at The Lauritzen Gardens Antique and Garden Show and the Countess of Highclere Castle, aka Downton Abbey, will be the featured speaker. The four-day event provides educational experiences from world-renowned experts, home decorating inspiration with Mary McDonald of Bravo TV’s ‘Million Dollar Decorators’, and culinary inspirations, plus one-of-a-kind shopping opportunities all set within Nebraska’s premier botanical center. The Drowsy Chaperone - 7:30 pm | $20-$40. Adult: $ 40 Student: $25, for groups of 12 or more: Adult: $30 Student: $20 Omaha Community Playhouse The Drowsy Chaperone is a delightful look into the world of a musical theatre super fan. The show’s narrator invites us into his home to share with us his favorite musical comedy from the 1920s. As he turns on his record player, the musical bursts to life and his home transforms into the show’s set. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - 7:00 pm | The Rose Performing Arts Center Featuring evocative music, innovative puppetry, and stunning black light visual effects, The Very Hungry Caterpillar comes to life on The Rose stage courtesy of the renowned Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia. Oklahoma - 7:30 pm | $18 Bellevue Little Theatre ‘Oklahoma’ opened on Broadway in 1943 and has seen Broadway revivals as well as a glorious movie. This classic, the first written by Rogers and Hammerstein as a team, is set in 1906 against a backdrop of impending statehood for Oklahoma. Annie Jr. - 7:30 pm | $10-$20. $20 for Adults, $16 for Seniors, and $10 for Students. Chanticleer Community Theater This 90 minute show takes you on a journey with adorable red headed orphan Annie who’s on a mission to find her parents making many friends (furry and otherwise) along the way. You’ll be positively charmed by every

member of this talented young cast, entirely ages 8-18, Leapin’ lizards! The Intern Project - 4:30 & 7:00 pm | $6 The Rose Performing Arts Center Each year, The Rose Theater’s high school interns offer a unique, ambitious production showcasing their talents as well as an exciting story from the diverse world of theater for young audiences. Nebraska Wesleyan Theatre Production: Pillars of Society - 7:30 pm | $5-$10. $10 adults, $7.50 seniors, $5 students Miller Theatre Nebraska Wesleyan performs Henrik Ibsen’s ‘Pillars of Society.’ Karsten Bernick’s entire life is a lie he’ll do just about anything to protect. Johan Tonnesen knows the truth. And when he threatens to set the record straight, Bernick wishes he could set his troubles off to sea, never to return. Maybe he can...

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Bread & Jam - 1:00 pm | Free Western Historic Trails Center Acoustic jam. The 21st Future of Blues Festival - 6:00 pm | The 21st Saloon The Josh Garret Band, The 24th Street Wailers, and Shawn Holt and the Teardrops, don’t miss out on the great night of music we have planned. Acoustic Music Thursdays - 7:00 pm | Free Two Fine Irishmen We Came as Romans - 7:00 pm | $18.50-$20 The Bourbon Theatre To date, Understanding What We’ve Grown To Be and the band’s debut-full-length, To Plant A Seed, have sold over 183,000 copies combined. Mark Clinton, Piano - 7:30 pm | Free Kimball Recital Hall Reggae Night - 8:00 pm | Free The Hive Lounge Freestyle Battles/Ladies Night - 7:00 pm | $5 The Underground Bar & Grill The first 16 Mcs to sign in will battle that night for $50 in cash prize/ bar tab. It’s also ladies night with great drink deals and this is a 21 and up show. Besides the battles we will be showcasing local hip hop acts. To set off the show is local group rap addicts and to end the show is local act ghost the incredible. The 402 - 6:30 pm | Free Midtown Crossing End of Summer Concert Series Not only is this a great venue for music, but The 402 will be shooting a music video. Structured Chaos - 8:00 pm | Free Backline Improv Theatre A full night of long-form improv at its finest, jam-packed with many of Backline’s best teams. If you love forms, this night is for you. OK Party - 8:00 pm | $7 ADV, $10 DOS The Waiting Room Lounge OK Party started a few years ago as a group of guys that wanted to put on comedy shows they would want to attend even if they weren’t performing. Shows that featured comedy that didn’t pander to the lowest forms of humor. I’m Shmacked Cornhusker’s Doorbuster 9:30 pm | $27-$100 The Bourbon Theatre Featuring Heroes x Villains. Comedy Stiles Open Mic - 10:00 pm | Free Stiles Public House Hosted by Preston Tompkins. Nebraska Wesleyan Visions and Ventures - All Day | Free O’Donnell Auditorium, Rogers Center for Fine Arts This symposium brings to campus national experts to address prominent issues. This year’s symposium is concluded with Saru Jayaraman, director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California-Berkeley. Jayaraman is also the cofounder and co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United.

FRIDAY SEP 19

Clutch - 7:30 pm | $20-$25 Sokol Auditorium Earth Rocker, Clutch’s new album is a solid, straight-up rock and roll album, exactly what the band had in mind for their tenth studio album, now that their Weathermaker Records label is fully up and running. It’s a concise, efficient and balanced album. Cold River City - 8:00 pm | The Hive Lounge I Am the Avalanche - 8:00 pm | $12 Sokol Auditorium Rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The group’s name comes from a lyric written by Vinnie Caruana for a song which was later discarded. LOCH 22 Productions Launch Party - 8:30 pm | $10 The Slowdown Omaha Premier Launch Event features Omaha’s own Pearl Jam Tribute

Band, Tenclub. The newly-formed Production Company aims to support the local artist and will present, Virgin Mary Pistol Grip, who plans to release their debut album on this night. This event will focus on an award-winning caterer as well as thousands of dollars’ worth of prizes/raffles. Live Music - 9:00 pm | Free Horseshoe Council Bluffs Casino Artillery Funk with Through The Stone, Avian, & Fizz - 9:00 pm | $7 The Waiting Room Lounge A 4 piece funk rock group that has been honing its sound for the past 7 years and turned it into a sure fire booty shakin/face melting party. TKO Presents - 9:00 pm | $5 Hideout Lounge TKO Presents a great hip hop show for the people featuring live performances by: Scru Face Jean TKO D Damage Jabee (Emmy Award Winner) Staxx And aan intense CBA Battle, Tommie Brown vs Deception. Apostacon - 12:00 pm | $15 DoubleTree by Hilton It’s called a conference, but it’s more like an all-weekend party with likeminded nonbelievers of all types. It’s held on International Talk Like a Pirate Day weekend (on purpose) and we have a lot of fun with the Pirate theme, as well as the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Don’t forget to come to the legendary costume party known as the Meat Ball. German Day/Oktoberfest - 5:00 pm | $5 German-American Society The Omaha GermanAmerican Society invites everyone to celebrate their 130th German Day with the great tradition of Oktoberfest, authentic Bavarian dancers and traditional German singers, live bands, games for kids, and plenty of food and beverage. The festival continues on Sept. 20th, 11:30 am - Midnight. KANEKO Open Space Soire - 6:30 pm | $75$500 The Kaneko This organization’s annual fundraising event that also serves as the kickoff for the upcoming season by unveiling the forthcoming blockbuster exhibitions. Guests will get a sneak peak at the three highly anticipated creative design exhibitions, Cedric Hartman Selected Works, Olson Kundig: Anthology and Wallace Cunningham: reality an idea. “Interrogated” - 10:00 pm | Free Backline Improv Theatre Audience members volunteer to come up on stage and confess something they’ve gotten away with in their life, then we send them back and perform scenes based on that information. Arena: Champions vs. Challengers - 11:00 pm | Free Backline Improv Theatre Each teams gets 20 minutes to win your vote to come back next week.

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Problem - 8:00 pm | $21-$23 The Bourbon Theatre The 26 year old Artist Problem aka Jason Martin is also known for being a writer, producer, engineer, song arranger and father. Problem was born in Germany, raised in Compton. Life & Breath for Alexis - 8:00 pm | $10 The Waiting Room Lounge COTA Fundraiser presents an awesome night of great live music with The Filter Kings, Snake Island!, John Klemmensen and the Party & Pyrate. All proceeds go towards a double lung transplant; Alexis has Cystic Fibrosis. Live Music - 9:00 pm | Free Horseshoe Council Bluffs Casino Taxi Driver at the Ozone - 9:00 pm | Free Ozone Lounge Project [101]: d[oor]s - 6:00 pm | Free Howlin Hounds Coffee Doors have a been a popular subject matter in every genre for many over the years and it’s time we at Project 101 gave it a go. Local artists from all walks have worked over the last 4 months to bring you their interpretations of doors as a theme. PWP - Live Pro Wrestling!! - 6:30 pm | $10 Council Bluffs National Guard Armory University of Nebraska Football - 7:00 pm | Free University of Nebraska-Lincoln Wheels of Steel - 7:15 pm | $20-30 100 Block, Council Bluffs This event celebrates the impact that Railroads have had on Council Bluffs History. This fun night bike ride is 10.9 miles long and will make a loop around the western part of Council Bluffs. Participants are encouraged to decorate themselves and/or their bikes with the railroad theme, the most creative will be awarded prizes. Stephanie’s Comedy Showcase - 8:00 pm | $10 PS Collective September is Food Bank’s

Hunger Action Month, this comedy show is also a Food Drive. A donation of 2 canned food items will get you in for $8. There will be standup and improv comedy. There will also be a free raffle and prizes will be awarded during the show. Saturday Night Show - 9:00 pm | Free Backline Improv Theatre

SUNDAY SEP 21

Lake Street Dive - 5:00 pm | $20 The Slowdown Omaha Lake Street Dive find themselves on the cusp of stardom, though they insist they will always be the same people whose stage outfits once consisted of matching sweater vests. Music in the Park - 6:30 pm | Free Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park The Rough & Tumble In Concert - 7:30 pm | $20 suggested artist donation Folkhouse Omaha The Rough & Tumble are two scarecrows in a cornfield, two pairs of hands stealing the same piece of candy, a dust devil that traveled seven states to get to you only to make you cry. Luigi, Inc. - 9:00 pm | Free Mr. Toad’s Pub Omaha Sunday Night Trivia - 7:00 pm | Free Two Fine Irishmen

MONDAY SEP 22

Kongos - 7:00 pm | $21 Sokol Underground A rock band of four brothers Johnny, Jesse, Dylan and Danny Kongos. Sons of British singer-songwriter John Kongos, they grew up in London and South Africa, and are now based in Phoenix, AZ. Jonah Sirota, Viola - 7:30 pm | Free Kimball Recital Hall UNL faculty member Jonah Sirota will perform a recital featuring composer Robert Sirota’s Compendium de Lumine. The recital’s program, titled ‘New Works for Viola,’ will also include the world premiere of Rodney Lister’s Complicated Grief and Damon Lee’s Still Untitled for Viola and Digital Tanpura. Movie Night - 8:00 pm | Free The Hive Lounge Pub Quiz - 9:00 pm | Free The Slowdown Omaha Open Mic - 9:00 pm | Free Barley Street Tavern Pinback - 9:00 pm | $15 The Waiting Room Lounge Pinback have delivered record after record of mightily addictive indie pop since their inception in the late 1990s. Perhaps too melancholic and thoughtful to function as escapist entertainment, that same sense of depth is what made them one of the most reliable bands in indie rock’s threedecade history.

TUESDAY SEP 23

Glass Animals - 8:00 pm | $15 The Slowdown Omaha Glass Animals vocalist and songwriter David Bayley draws influence for both music and artwork from his involvement in the world of medicine and neuroscience (at just 22 yrs old, he has studied both) creating a sound with its roots spread between the electronic and live instrumentation. The result is the warm, narcotic space between a downbeat, slow-burning groove and electro-pop catchiness. Open Mic Night - 9:00 pm | Free Venue 51 This is an acoustic open mic as well as spoken word performances, time slots not guaranteed. Larry & His Flask - 9:00 pm | $12 The Waiting Room Lounge A high energy, five-piece carnival of a band that incorporate rock, folk, bluegrass, soul, brass band, punk and alt-country into their own unique sound. This is a band that has to be seen to be believed. Nebraska Wesleyan Visiting Writers Series - 6:00 pm | Free Elder Gallery, Rogers Center for Fine Arts Fiction writer David James Poissant, author of The Heaven of Animals: Stories. Poissant’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune, Glimmer Train and The New York Times. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida.

WEDNESDAY SEP 24

CHVRCHES - 8:00 pm | $20 Sokol Auditorium In little more than twelve months CHVRCHES have come out of nowhere to be everywhere. There’s a lot to catch up on since they posted their first song, Lies, online last May a place in the top five of the BBC Sound of 2013, sell out headline tours in the UK and US and a triumphant awardwinning appearance at SXSW. ROAR: A Drum & Bass Night - 9:00 pm | Free The Bourbon Theatre Featuring Intrinzic, Blac Senseone, Moegli and Vlach. The War on Drugs - 9:00 pm | $15 The Waiting Room Lounge Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs reside at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then with each song they pull off the scaffolding to reveal what sticks, keeping only what’s absolutely necessary. Taco’s and Trivia - 8:30 pm | Free Two Fine Irishmen Comedy Open Mic - 10:00 pm | Free Barley Street Tavern

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SATURDAY, OCT. 11 ~ 2-10 P.M. FEATURING

RETAIL TOUR ~ SECOND SATURDAY ART WALK AND

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Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement toward healthy, affordable, and sustainable food. Think of it as an Earth Day for food! Food Day’s goals are to raise awareness about food issues among broader public, strengthen and unify the food movement, and improve our nation’s food policies.

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FOOD DAY PRIORITIES: n Promote safer, healthier diets n Support sustainable and organic farms n Reduce hunger n Reform factory farms to protect the environment & animals n Support fair working conditions for food and farm workers

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Roots, Blues & Lake Street Dive

he 21st Saloon hosts one of their popular, multi-band roots shows Thursday, Sept. 18, 5 p.m. at 96th & L. Performers include charismatic Louisiana blues artist Josh Garrett and his band plus Canadian roots and rockabilly act The 24th Street Wailers. Shawn Holt & The Teardrops make a special appearance. The band is fronted by Lincoln’s own Shawn Holt and features Levi William with the late Magic Slim’s rhythm section. Holt is the son of Magic Slim and the band was recognized with the prestigious Blues Music Award for Best New Artist Debut Album at the 35th Annual Blues Music Awards in Memphis. They were acknowledged for their debut disc, Daddy Told Me, on Blind Pig Records. BluesEd band Set in Stone opens the show. Roadhouse Dive Dean Dobmeier’s and Gary Grobeck’s Sunday Roadhouse concert series brings back Lake Street Dive for a show at Slowdown Sunday, Sept. 21, 5 p.m. The band was fairly unknown when they played a Sunday Roadhouse gig in November of 2012. Since then they have been the subject of a big buzz on both the pop and Americana scenes. Their music is not really Americana, unless you extend the definition to include classic American pop vocals. But Lake Street Dive is something special, mixing lustrous

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vocal harmonies with excellent musicianship. Tickets are available at sundayroadhouse.com where you will also find the fall Sunday Roadhouse schedule, which includes separate performances by Curtis McMurtry (Oct. 19) and his father James McMurtry (Nov. 16). Blues Challenge Finals The Blues Society of Omaha (BSO) hosts the Nebraska Blues Challenge finals Sunday, Sept. 21, 4 p.m. at The 21st Saloon. Hector Anchondo Band, Church House Blues Band and Drew Jude & The Cool Tones perform. The band receiving the most votes from a panel of judges will represent the BSO at the Blues Foundation’s 2015 International Blues Challenge in Memphis. Hot Notes Minneapolis roots, classic country and blues band Doug Otto & The Getaways plays Barley Street Tavern Thursday, Sept. 18, with local favorite Cajun roots group The Prairie Gators. Check out The Getaways at dougottoandthegetaways.com. The Prairie Gators have a Barley Street residency with special guests every Thursday in September, cover is only $3. The Taste of New Orleans food truck will be on hand to bring some classic Louisiana food to 62nd Street. Blues-rock guitar sensation Coco Montoya plugs in at Lincoln’s Zoo Bar Tuesday, Sept. 23, 6-9 p.m. Mr. Sipp, 2014’s International Blues Challenge winner, plays The 21st Saloon Thursday, Sept. 25, 6-9 p.m. ,

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id you follow the Apple announcement last week? Needless to say, I’ll be replacing my broken-screened iPhone 5 with an ultra-slim 6 some time in the next two weeks. And how about the Apple Watch! Gotta have one of those, right? Starting at $349, maybe not. I’m waiting to hear the first Apple Watch joke, something along the lines of “It works like the iPhone; if you’re on AT&T, it drops a few minutes out of every hour…” *rimshot!* But maybe the most interesting announcement was when Tim Cook trotted out seminal ’80s rock band U2 and proceeded to give away the band’s new album, Songs of Innocence, to anyone with an iTunes account. I figured something like this would happen eventually, but who would have thought that U2 would become the poster child for this model? But the fact is, U2 didn’t just give away its new album. The Wall Street Journal had the skinny behind the album promotion. From the article: “We’re not going in for the free music around here,” Bono joked on stage. Apple didn’t pay a traditional wholesale price for each of the 500 million albums. Instead the company paid Universal and U2 an undisclosed lump sum for the exclusive window to distribute the album. Universal plans to piggyback on the big push for Songs of Innocence to promote the band’s 12 older albums, a critical factor for a veteran rock band.” The article went on to say the album’s first single would be used “as a central element of a global, 30-day television advertising campaign for its new iPhones and Apple Watch. The campaign is believed to be worth around $100 million, according to a person familiar with the talks.” Of course most people won’t know the financial backstory and will assume U2 just gave it away, further enforcing the idea that recorded music has become (or is) essentially worthless. Especially when it just “shows up in your iTunes library” like magic. We’re only a year or so away from an era when all the monster pop acts — Shania, Katy Perry, Gaga, Jay Z (i.e., the VMA acts) — give away downloads of their new albums as a matter of course, just to get the music out there before they go on tour, just like U2 has done. I’m not sure where that leaves the little guys (and labels) who still count on revenue from album sales. And at what point does the RIAA quit going after people who illegally download music, figuring what’s the point when some bands are giving it away and it’s all available online via Spotify anyway?

Bleak. As for the quality of the new U2 record, someone online equated U2 to Coldplay last week when all this was going down, and goddamn if that comparison isn’t apt. The new U2 album indeed has the same listless, floating-yet-blank, forgettable quality as a Coldplay record. After listening to it a couple times, I played it for my wife as we drove out to my father’s house for his birthday. After three or four songs, Teresa said, “I’ve heard enough. It’s boring.” I switched over to the band’s classic 1987 album The Joshua Tree and in no time we were both singing along to “With Or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” as the open fields flew past along Highway 75. You have to wonder if Bono and Co. ever listen to their older stuff and ask themselves when the spark went out? Can you believe there was a time when U2 was considered subversive? I still remember when I first heard tracks off War on Z-92, spun by none other than Slats Gannon, who knew he was playing something new and different. In 1983, most people were rocking to “Mr. Roboto,” Flashdance, Duran Duran and Prince. I was on a steady diet of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, as were most teen-aged nerds and dirt heads who lived in the outer banks we call Fort Calhoun. Songs like “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” and “New Year’s Day” not only rocked but had something the music in that era lacked — underlying political meaning. Certainly more so than, say, Loverboy’s “Hot Girls in Love.” U2 music sounded important. Furthermore, I experienced the genius of U2’s live album Under a Blood Red Sky while driving around in my 1978 Ford Fiesta with my first real girlfriend, who eventually stole my Under a Blood Red Sky T-shirt and never gave it back. What I’m saying here is that I wasn’t just experiencing the music, I was experiencing LIFE. Can a veteran artist like U2 today produce music as vital as when they first made their mark? The question ignores the basic premiss that “new” almost always trumps “familiar.” And that’s become a problem in this “Free Music Era” when kids can get their hands on anything they want in seconds and are more apt to be attracted to a shiny new object than the dull second or third release by the band that was hot two years ago. I have no doubt a lot of great music has been dismissed outright by the new generation without ever being heard because the performers are “yesterday’s news.” You’re lucky if you get one hit record these days (especially if you’re an indie band). Follow-ups can be a bitch. “New Arcade Fire? No thanks, I already own Funeral.” Do kids even listen to entire albums these days? Smart ones do. I wonder how many of those smart kids listened to Songs of Innocence before they deleted the literally worthless album from their iPhones. ,

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icholas Felton’s latest annual recap of his personal communications data is now available, for just $30. Key findings, graphically presented, of Nicholas’ busy 2013 (according to a report by FiveThirtyEight.com): He received 44,041 texts and 31,769 emails, had 12,464 face-to-face conversations and 320 phone calls (all detailed by communicatee, from where, at what time, in what language). He reported 385 conversations, for example, with female cashiers, and that 54,963 exclamation points were used across all methods of written communication. (The 2012 report went for $35, but is, along with 2010 and 2011, “sold out,” according to feltron.bigcartel.com). [FiveThirtyEight. com, 8-24-2014]

Can’t Possibly Be True The U.K.’s Barnet Council got aggressive in August against a landlord in Hendon, in north London, who had defied an earlier order to stop offering a too-small apartment for residential rental. Landlord Yaakov Marom said tenants were still eager for the room even though the entryway required most people to drop to all fours, since it was less than 28 inches high (and therefore a fire-code violation). Council officers checking on the earlier order against Marom found a couple still residing there, paying the equivalent of $685 a month. [The Guardian, 8-22-2014] -- When he was 19, Rene Lima-Marin (with a pal) robbed two Aurora, Colorado, video stores at gunpoint and, winning no favors from the judge, received back-to-back sentences totaling 98 years. In 2008, eight years into the sentence, Lima-Marin was mistakenly released and until this year was a model citizen, employed, married with a son, on good terms with his parole officer. How-

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ever, the mistake was found in January, and he was returned to prison, and according to his lawyers in their August appeal, the original sentence has been reimposed, thus moving his release date to the year 2104. [KMGH-TV (Denver), 8-22-2014] -- Among the more than 350 convicted violent felons whose right to carry guns has been restored over the past six years by the state of Georgia were 32 who had killed another person and 44 who were sex offenders, according to an August report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. As pointed out by ThinkProgress. com, among those who once again can carry is Dennis Krauss, a former Glynn County police officer convicted of raping a woman after a traffic stop. According to the 2003 Georgia Court of Appeals decision affirming his conviction, Officer Krauss had drawn his service weapon and said he wanted to anally penetrate the woman with it. (However, he was convicted only for his extortionate demand for sex.) [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 8-23-2014] -- On Aug. 21 and 22, in front of Linwood Howe Elementary School in Culver City, California, traffic officials posted a towering parking regulation sign pole (reportedly, 15 feet high) with at least eight large white signs, one on top of the other -- in familiar red or green lettering, restricting access to the school’s curb lane. Each sign contains orders either to not park or to park only under certain conditions, each with its specific hours or other fine-print limitations. The mayor ordered the signs replaced on Aug. 22. [KABC-TV (Los Angeles), 8-22-2014]

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$1 million, to provide a small level of assistance, including help to the 764,000 people whose low income qualified neither for Medicaid nor Obamacare subsidies. The Tampa Bay Times reported in August that according to the most recent tally, the nine private plans under Florida Health Choices had registered 30 people (26 of whom receive only discount plans for prescription drugs or vision care). [Tampa Bay Times, 8-28-2014]

Wait -- What? Guests at the May wedding of Shona Carter-Brooks in Ripley, Tennessee, reported that the bride’s idea for integrating her month-old daughter into the ceremony consisted of tying her (“well-secured,” she said later) to the long train of her wedding dress, dragging the child as the bride walked the aisle. Carter-Brooks was forced to take to her Facebook page in defense: People always “have something negative to say,” she wrote, but her wedding was “exclusive and epic.” [People.com, 6-2-2014] -- For their first anniversary in August, Londoners Dan MacIntyre and Dunya Kalantery decided on an odd commemoration: their outsized fascination with their city’s notorious 2013 crisis over the 15-ton “fatberg” that clogged a sewer line. They giddily donned waders and went exploring for more masses of the congealedoil-and-sanitary-wipes, but told The Guardian that they mostly encountered only smaller chunks. (Update: Their timing was off; a “fatberg” “as long as a 747” was spotted in a sewer in west London about a week later.) [The Guardian, 8-19-2014] [Sky News, 9-1-2014] First-World Dilemmas Plastic surgeons, first in University of Missouri research in 2000 and recently in a study by Singapore doctors in the journal of the American Society

for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, have postulated that the “ideal” navel is basically vertically shaped with slight hooding -- and, of course, an “innie.” The earlier study “analyzed” photos of 147 females aged 18 to 62, while the Singapore surgeons gazed at shots of 37 Playboy playmates and used a computerized tool to measure “vertical ratio,” “midline horizontal position,” length “from the xiphoid process ... to the lower limit of the vulvar cleft,” and how nearly oval-shaped the belly buttons were. [Today.com (NBC News), 8-22-2014]

The Aristocrats! (1) Inmate Corey McQueary, 33, passed away in Jessamine County, Kentucky, lockup in August of a methadone overdose. According to state police, another inmate had soaked a pair of underwear in methadone when he was out on release, then brought the item to the jail for McQueary, who tore off piece after piece and swallowed them. (2) Ten years ago, New York City skyscraper heir Robert Durst beat a murder charge by claiming selfdefense, and now lives more quietly in Houston. However, police in that city accused Durst in July of, “without provocation,” urinating on a cash register in a CVS store, “drenching” a candy rack. [News4SanAntonio, 8-26-2014] [Houston Chronicle, 7-23-2014] Least Competent Criminals Unclear on the Concept: A 20-yearold woman was arrested in Seattle in August after calling police to complain that she was being harassed by a man who was following her. Police arrived to find that the “stalker” was simply trying to get his phone back after the woman stole it from him while he was napping on a bus. [KOMO-TV (Seattle), 8-12-2014] ,

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o the whole time, Michael Fassbender wears this giant, papier-mache-style head and mumble-sings gibberish lyrics about things like snags in the carpet while other people play instruments they created out of things like toothbrushes. Welcome to Frank, a movie that is somehow nowhere near as pandemonium-inducingly insane as it sounds. In fact, it’s surprisingly sincere and legitimately sweet for a film that centers on music as an outlet for the mentally unwell. The movie is called Frank, but we start with Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), who is very bad at writing songs. He tries to draw from the world around him, but it turns out “Girl in blue, do you know the girl in red” is not an anthem-inspiring question. As luck would have it, Jon stumbles upon a band that has just lost their keyboard player to a mental institution. They ask him to play in their gig that night, which he does for all of two minutes before the temperamental Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal) goes full Johnny Rotten and starts knocking over equipment, ending the show. Jon is enamored with this charismatic lead singer with the giant fake head. When they offer him another chance to join them, he does, no questions asked. Only to discover he should have asked questions. The band semi-abducts him to a cabin so creepy and secluded, Jason Voorhees Realty must have rented it out. Then they stay there for nearly a year, recording an album that makes Arcade Fire sound like Katy Perry. Jon tweets and blogs the whole experience, which gets the band invited to South by Southwest. But when you have a head as big as Frank’s, you don’t have the luxury of having any more success or anxiety crammed in there. Things begin to fall apart, as the movie pivots from an exploration of the artistic process to a symposium on the use of art as therapy. Gleeson is great as the “straight man,” the audience’s surrogate, asking things like “how does he eat?” As the only seemingly sane character, he does a magnificent job showing there’s no difference in the humanity of the “well” and “unwell.” Gyllenhaal is luminous and powerful as Clara, a tempestuous thundercloud shaped as a rocker grrl.

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But this is Fassbender’s show. Jon Ronson and Peter Straughn’s script is clever, and Lenny Abrahamson’s direction is lithe and appropriately pithy. But Fassbender, stripped of facial expressions (unless he dictates them from beneath his headgear) and kept to a minimal amount of dialogue, uses body language and hand gestures to deliver a complex, nuanced character. By the end, you know Frank. You love Frank. You root for Frank. But most importantly, as a character with authentic mental illness, you understand him. Frank is genuinely odd, not some premeditated

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n In an age of Kickstarter shenanigans and other tomfoolery, here comes some positive news: Dan Mirvish has made good on a 20-year-old promise. When his investors on Omaha (the movie) first backed his project, it had to seem like a bit of a longshot. No, these investors will not be retiring on this unexpected windfall. One of the checks I saw was for $8.14. But the thing about patrons of the arts is this: we don’t fund things (just) to profit. Seeing Dan symbolically (more than anything else) acknowledge people who let him make his movie is a sweet reminder of the positive relationships that can (and should) occur between the funded and the funders of cinema. n I was super relieved to find out that Running From Crazy, a documentary screening on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m. at Film Streams’ Ruth Sokolof Theater (filmstreams.org), is not about my reaction to seeing a clown. Instead, it is a documentary about the impact of mental illness on multiple generations of the Hemingway family. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion, and it is in advance of “A Time for Hope and Healing” luncheon that The Kim Foundation is hosting and at which Mariel Hemingway will be the keynote speaker. I’ve always wondered what “keynote” means. I realize I could Google it, but I was kind of hoping it would be organically revealed to me by now. What? I have different hopes and dreams than most. n We live in the strangest possible timeline. Follow along: Bill Murray will not be in Ghostbusters 3. As of now, all that is known about Ghostbusters 3 is that it will feature female leads. Someone asked Murray, who will not be in Ghostbusters 3 who he thinks should be in Ghostbusters 3. He said Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Emma Stone and Linda Cardellini (you know her, just Google). Now someone asked Wiig, who has not been approached about Ghostbusters 3 if she would do Ghostbusters 3, and she said yes. Not that they wouldn’t have been considered anyway, but if any of those ladies wind up in Ghostbusters 3, it is sure going to look like a random reporter’s question to Bill Murray is responsible. Also, that’s the most number of times anybody but Dan Aykroyd has ever said Ghostbusters 3. —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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