This Weeks Issue
Meat of the Meets
Dec 16, 2009 — The City Weekly’s Meeting the Band series is still going strong after nearly two years...
Crappy Awards Column, IV
Dec 16, 2009 — Oh yes, it’s the end of the season and oh yes, it’s high time for another Crappy Awards Column...
Sparkling Crystal
Dec 16, 2009 — Since 1997, one of the better Asian restaurants in the metro has been Jade Palace in Bellevue...
Arts & Entertainment
Art
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Art: Show me, Teach
Dec 11, 2009 — There is nothing quite like a mentoring program to dispel that old adage, “those who can’t do, teach.” No matter the field of study or creativity...
Art: Focused Abandon
Nov 25, 2009 — The colorful, vibrant abstract art of Terry Rosenberg has been described as “action paintings” and “gestural renderings.” That they are visual interpretations of dance and athleticism would suggest too that Rosenberg’s drawings and paintings are his poetry in motion...
Art: 3-way Harmony
Oct 22, 2009 — It is obligatory for a university art gallery to offer faculty and student shows, and they are often more than perfunctory...
Art: Library Renewal
Sep 24, 2009 — The next time you make a gallery crawl in the Old Market area downtown, be sure to include the W. Dale Clark Library...
Music
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Meeting the Band
Dec 16, 2009 — A restless sort of soul always searching for some kind of salvation in new opportunities in new towns, it’s no wonder Jeremy Holan eventually turned to the ways of Woody Guthrie...
Meat of the Meets
Dec 16, 2009 — The City Weekly’s Meeting the Band series is still going strong after nearly two years...
Meet the Band: Jason Ferguson
Dec 11, 2009 — 2009 has been a year of change for one of Omaha’s most respected guitarists, Jason Ferguson...
Meet The Band: Underwater Dream Machine
Dec 02, 2009 — Bret Vovk is a unique character. From his ruffled hair to his beat-up tennis shoes (which tag along with ragged jeans, holey T-shirt and tattered suede jacket), Vovk is a man who stands on the edge of both agitation and serenity...
Movies
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Film: 'Brothers' Keeper
Dec 11, 2009 — Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) and Grace (Natalie Portman) were teen-age sweethearts...
Kathman's Review
Dec 11, 2009 — OK, this is rare, so take note: a single camera sit-com just about as cleverly written as “Arrested Development,” filled with a gay couple more likable than anyone on “Will & Grace,” a woman more “ethnic” sounding than Rosie Perez and parenting techniques more screwed up than something on “Wife Swap” is the No. 1 new comedy on television...
Film: Kill Me, Ninja
Dec 02, 2009 — An early trailer for “Ninja Assassin” was proud to announce the film’s connections to “The Matrix” – it was a “From the producers who brought you …
Kathman's Review
Dec 02, 2009 — ABC’s freshman comedy “The Middle” seems to think it has a clever title. See, middle-aged and middle-classed mom Frankie (“Everybody Loves Raymond’s” Patricia Heaton) is kind of having a mid-life crisis and she lives in the middle of America (Orson, Indiana – although some Omahans might think anything that close to the Great Lakes is practically East Coast)...
Theater
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Theater: ‘Christmas in New England’
Dec 02, 2009 — “It was like déjà vu all over again,” the eternally confused Yogi Berra once quipped...
Theater: Broadway Bound?
Dec 02, 2009 — It’s not often that an out-of-state house-hunting trip includes a top-to-bottom inspection of a commercial property, but such was the case when Stephanie and Sam Taylor pondered a 2007 move here from San Diego...
Shows
| Chats with VFC and Heidi Joy | November 29, 2008 |
| Bemis Art Auction | November 22, 2008 |
| The Guitar Hero Effect | November 8, 2008 |
| Halloween Post | November 1, 2008 |
| Halloween Pre | October 25, 2008 |
| Mindless Talk | October 11, 2008 |
Promos/Commercials
Blogs
Artist of the Week
Vital Stats
Hometown: Omaha
Members: Rev. Jeremy D. Holan, Daniel Dean Leonard, Eric Anthony Elsworth, Cassandra Margret Brostad, George Anton Prescott Jr.
On the Web: myspace.com/travellingmercies
Catch him live: Thursday, Dec. 17 and Saturday, Dec. 19 at the Barley Street Tavern
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