Newsletter
April 2010
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Playing with Fire Playing with Fire began in 2004 as a gift to the citizens of the City of Omaha. It is a FREE concert, featuring the best in jazz, blues, soul, R & B, and rock music. Each year, thousands flock to the Lewis & Clark Landing along the banks... |
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Interview with It's True on the Eve of Their Record Release There’s a free concert in Benson. Happens twice a week, right across from Jake’s. You stand outside, around 11 o’clock or so, hug the curb, watch the bad moon rise. You listen. It’s delicate at first, all lilting harmony. But... |
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Stray Dogs and Your Safety Ahhhh! There’s nothing like spring in Omaha. The robins are singing, flowers are blooming, kids are outside playing, and people are taking their dogs for much needed walks. As good as it all sounds, it is also the time of year when most dog... |
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Artists Apply Within: No Previous Experience Required Have you ever laid on your back on a beautiful day and watched the clouds? I bet you have done this. My daughter and I did last summer. We were jumping on her trampoline. Exhausted, we laid on our backs and watched the clouds. We saw a dragon shaped... |
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Sailing to Cupcake Island If I owned a 34-foot Catalina—and let’s just pretend for a moment that I do—I would set sail immediately for a spectacular place where sugar is the main ingredient in every meal and everyone throws multi-colored sprinkles instead of... |
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Pugs 'N Wine Adoption Event An evening of free wine and adoptable pugs is the perfect way to connect with a great group of local pug rescue volunteers (plus meeting adorable, adoptable pugs isn’t bad either). Long Dog Fat Cat hosted the event, called Pugs ‘N Wine,... |
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got (Local) milk? Dairy products take first prize for the food group that caused me the most angst during the past few years as I converted my diet to local and real foods. How so? Well, for starters, this is the food group for which I have had the most difficulty... |
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Lewis & Clark Landing The Lewis & Clark Landing is a park along the Missouri River named after the 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition. It is located just north of Omaha’s downtown, and features open space, benches, and historic exhibits. Its convenient access and... |
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Pecha Kucha #8 at Barley's Tip Top The format is deceptively simple: 20 slides x 20 seconds. Pecha Kucha (pronounced pe-chak-cha) is a night of rapid fire six minute 40 second presentations. No questions, no extra time…one beer break. Started in Tokyo in 2003, Pecha Kucha... |
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soulfinger at Downtown Blues Musicians don’t play at blues bars. Cats play at blues bars. Cool cats. Downtown Blues hosts some of the coolest in town, with live music seven nights a week. Despite friends waiting in the Old Market, walking by the club on a warm Wednesday... |
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Elmwood Park Elmwood Park is a large park—Omaha’s second largest behind Levi Carter Park—in Midtown Omaha. Its 216.4 acres sit directly south of the campus of the University of Nebraska, Omaha. Founded in 1889, the park has a long history in Omaha,... |
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Finding Author Events Is Tough, Interviewing Authors Is Easy I love finding out that authors are visiting Omaha! Books seem to magically have more meaning after meeting the writer. |
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Discovering the Joy in Your Career There’s a prevalent saying with the majority of my clients looking for jobs in Omaha: I need to discover who I want to be when I grow up! |
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Tents for Haiti (from Omaha) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A culture where during normal, saner times, music pours out of every hallway, and wafts out of every open window. Here, "bringing back the music" is a lot more important than providing entertainment. It is bringing... |
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Candids from the 2010 ICAN Women's Leadership Conference The day started off with a bang, as opening speaker Sonia Choquette had the women of the Qwest Center out of their seats and dancing within minutes of the 2010 ICAN Women’s Leadership Conference’s beginning. |
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The Half Hearts, prairies/valleys, Mike Harvat, and Jettison Never at The Sydney The Sydney played host to a free concert on Thursday, April 8th, with local bands and touring acts fighting it out for…for…well they weren’t really fighting, everyone was nice…but… The evening kicked off with The Half... |
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Pothole Pandemonium I think that it’s safe to say that, after this unforgettable Nebraska winter, we’ve all been eager to get out of the house and cure our cabin fever. |
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Hot Shops - the Hottest Art in Town! Hot Shops Art Center—Omaha’s home of all that is molten. You have to go, and take the kids if you have them! Loken Forge (you know, pounding red hot iron on anvils), Crystal Forge (glass blowing wonders), and Bruning Sculpture (metal... |
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Brion Poloncic, Alex Myers, and Christine Stormberg at the Bemis Underground The well attended premiere of the Bemis Underground’s 2nd Show featured seperate solo exhibitions from Alex Myers, Brion Poloncic, and Christine Stormberg. As the beer and wine flowed, and manager Brigitte McQueen mingled with patrons, the DJ... |
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Catch Me If You Can (Says the Dog on the Run) Have you ever had a dog that took off out of the front door as soon as he saw the crack of day light? Have you ever had a dog that lived for jumping the fence every time it went outside? What about that dog that would dig its way under the fence anytime... |
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Furry Friends Need (Good) Nutrition, Too! In fostering dogs for a local rescue group, I’ve found that good nutrition can help or even alleviate physical, emotional, and behavioral problems in animals. It has been the experience with my own fur-kids that spawned me to learn all I could... |
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Gordon Shumway, The Americas, and Rooftops at O'Leavers A night of really loud rock at O’Leavers (50th and Saddle Creek), featuring locals Gordon Shumway, The Americas (Santa Rosa, CA), and Rooftops (Bellingham, WA). |
