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An ‘awesome’ is a review of a great event or business or person or place around town. Read all of the reviews here…or write your own if you dare!
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ASTD Nebraska Announces 2014 Board of Directors Awesome Event |
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ASTD Nebraska Chapter Announces CHAMPION OF LEARNING AWARD Awesome Event |
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Free Steak Night #2 Awesome Event |
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Strike a pose Awesome Event Four designers showcased their skills last Friday. At some point, they had to set aside that Midwestern plague of modesty and say, nope, I'm doing this. "This. This is what I did. This is my very best at this moment. What do you have to say about it?" |
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Massage benefits you can learn firsthand Awesome Business Listing National Massage Therapy Awareness Week is October 23-29. Oasis Massage and Spa is celebrating by hosting an open house Tuesday, Oct. 25, from 3 to 7 p.m. The spa, located at 689 N 132nd St., will be offering free samples of different kinds of massage. |
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Have you been to Peerless yet? Awesome Business Listing Peerless is an art gallery and project worksite created by husband-and-wife dynamic duo Daphne Eck & Caleb Coppock. You can check out their exhibitions and to stop in to see work emerge as it is created on-site at Omaha's Midtown Crossing. |
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Barbeque Flavored Comedy Awesome Event This Thursday if you smell barbecue and hear laughter, then you're probably near Mojo's Smokehouse in Aksarben Village. Austin Anderson, Kevin Grace, Heather Jones, and others perform in the 1st Mojo's Jokehouse weekly comedy open mic. All shows are free! |
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Good One Awesome Event Tig Notaro will be at The Sydney Lounge in Benson September 2nd. Comedian Zachary Peterson reviews her new CD, "Good One". |
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Rhythm Awesome Event The roots of House Music are alive and well in Omaha. Last weekend @ The Side Door Lounge three of Nebraska’s most renown vinyl DJ’s got back to their musical roots. “Rhythm” was a night dedicated to the sounds of house music from a yester-decade era. |
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Green Is Good. And Gourmet, Too. Awesome Business Listing A hungry restaurant reviewer enters The Grey Plume and leaves charmed, satisfied, impressed, informed, and absolutely certain to return. |
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Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam rocked Film Streams Awesome Event The Taqwacores, by Michael Muhammad Knight, was unique: a fictional account of a Muslim punk movement that eventually spawned a real life tour and movie. Film Streams and Project Interfaith co-sponsored the film and the panel discussion that followed. |
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Omaha Nighthawks take on Las Vegas Locos Awesome Event The Omaha Nighthawks, the UFL's newest team, have enjoyed strong support thus far. Though the visiting Las Vegas Locomotives may not have been as interesting as the tailgate—or the cheerleaders—there's still an awful lot to like about the UFL experience. |
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Reasonable Attendance for Omaha's Rally for Sanity Awesome Event Skeptics said Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity was nothing more than a liberal rally to ridicule Tea-Partiers and right-wing pundits. I was pleasantly relieved to experience a crowd of Omahans that was promoting reasonable behavior and discourse. |
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Pug-O-Ween 2010! Omaha's Largest Pug Gathering! Awesome Event Pug-O-Ween is Omaha's largest annual pug event, featuring over 600 human participants...and a whole lot of pugs! Click to see pictures of the event and the companies that helped make this important Pug Partners of Nebraska charity fund raiser possible. |
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Omaha Lit Fest and Literary Bibliophilia Awesome Annual Event Day 2 of the 6th annual (Downtown) Omaha Lit Fest, with more reports from the KANEKO, including talks with authors Mary Helen Stefaniak, Tim Schaffert, and Melanie Bejamin, and artist/illustrator Peter Kuper. |
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Omaha Zombie Walk 2010 Awesome Event The Third Annual Omaha Zombie Walk was a huge success, as hundreds upon hundreds of zombies took over downtown Benson. The unique event is family friendly and a photographer's dream: zombies of all ages posed, shuffled, and searched for—what else?—brains! |
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2010 Walk for the Animals Awesome Event Nebraska Humane Society's 2010 Walk for the Animals was a huge success. I walked with our family and family's dogs and had a very fun morning! |
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Purifying the CalmDome through Art and Music Awesome Business Listing The CalmDome was part of the Bemis Center's Hopey Changey exhibit. The Purification of the CalmDome was a unique concert and interactive art happening designed to see it off, with performances by the Chiara String Quartet, Ember Schrag, and Daniel Higgs. |
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My Day at MAHA #2 Awesome Annual Event A blog entry from another MAHA Music Festival ticket winner, Debbie Sailors. Read Debbie's thoughts on the ride up from Lincoln, the packed MAHA lineup, and her favorite new Omaha band. |
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Bright Eyes, Cursive Rock the Concert for Equality Awesome Event The Concert for Equality was the most important concert in Omaha this summer, a mix of music and politics in reaction to the Fremont illegal immigrant law. Bright Eyes, Cursive, a reformed Desaparecidos, and more performed at the sold out Benson show. |
