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Common Sense Adds To Truancy Law Learning Community school districts announce GOAL plan for LB 800

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t’s a plan that builds on an older plan. Last year, LB 800 was signed into law. That enacted sweeping reforms in truancy prevention and juvenile justice – if a child was truant for more than 20 days of the school year, the county attorney would get involved, and the parents and children might find themselves in court or facing fines. That led to an influx of truancy cases that county attorneys had to sort through. In Douglas County, Attorney Don Kleine said his office saw over 3,000 referrals last year.

“So it’s somewhat overwhelming,” Kleine said. “But what we’re doing in that regard is setting up a system to handle those cases to get those children back into school as quickly as we can, without having to hit the court system.”

The new plan targets students in the Learning Community of Douglas and Sarpy Counties, which faces an achievement gap among minority and poor students. Flanked by superintendents from schools throughout the metro, Governor Dave Heineman said officials have forged new partnerships with the Department of Health and Human Services, after-school programs and law enforcement agencies to intervene earlier, and on the ground floor of the problem.

“From the bigger perspective, I think what you’re going to see is a focus intervening early at the school building level,”said Heineman, “working with the parents, that’ll be the major difference, and that’s where the focus should be.”

Early intervention and prevention was a critical part of LB 800. What’s different with this new approach? Omaha Public Schools Superintendent John Mackiel said an important piece is connecting parents and teachers to outside

resources and allowing the various agencies to share information about the students. It’s a part of the plan the group has named GOALS. “Research shows that nearly all unexcused absences are related to issues outside the control of the school,” said Mackiel. “Issues of family transportation, lack of medical care for members of the family, lack of daycare for a sibling in the family, homelessness all can contribute to reasons young people are not in school. So GOALS brings together a group of experts in the area of local government to analyze what we know about the challenges of students attending school.”

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One of the simplest changes that could make a big difference is the inclusion of a check box on the school’s truancy forms. Before referring to the attorney’s office, teachers and administrators can now check a box if the reason for the absence was medical. That should help prevent kids with long-term illnesses from winding up before prosecutors. Heineman said that’s just common sense.

“We have an abundance of it in Nebraska,” said Heineman. “These superintendents and the people who work for them, just use good old Nebraska common sense. Ok, some kid misses 20

days of school, he’s got straight A’s. That’s not really the kid I’m worried about today, ok? I’m worried about the student, he or she, who is consistently missing more than 20 days for a variety of other reasons, and that’s the vast majority that we’re trying to tackle.”

South Sarpy Superintendent Chuck Chevalier said the new plan, like the old, is a work in progress. “It’s the best they have today, but next summer, they’ll fine tune it further. The goal remains, however, keep as many kids as possible in school, out of trouble and out of court – now, or later in life.” ,

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he City of Fremont is budgeting for another year of judicial sparring in the case of its illegal immigration ordinance. Passed and then soon halted last summer, the ordinance aims to punish those renting to and hiring illegal immigrants. Now tied up in U.S. District Court, the city is currently being represented by Kansas Secretary of State and Federation for American Immigration Reform attorney Kris Kobach, who was retained by the City of Fremont late last year after writing the ordinance.

In addition to the $750,000 already set aside in their 2011 budget, Fremont Finance Director Jody Sanders, said they expect to ask for another $375,000 in their 2012 proposal. The additional funding is to create what she called a “war chest” for a possible loss in court.

“We have a reserve available if it goes against us and…if there should be some kind of settlement costs or damages we’d have to pay,” said Sanders. “That’s what this is designed for.”

The $1.125 million total estimate is based on recommendations from Kobach and costs paid out in cities like Hazelton, Pa., and Farmer’s

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Lay-offs are suggested for Fremont’s 2012 budget proposal in an effort to help shore up a $700,000 shortfall. Cuts to staffing in the parks, building maintenance and library department are likely. Unlike last year’s budget, which had to raise the overall property tax rate 5.8 mills to cover legal expenses, 2012’s budget proposal may allow the city to roll back that hike. That rollback, said Sanders, will be dependent upon new property valuations.

According to Sanders, $50,000 in legal fees defending the ordinance will have been spent by the end of this year. Contrary to some reports, said Sanders, Kobach is not representing the City of Fremont pro-bono, but rather at a “reduced rate” of $10,000 annually plus other incurred expenses relating to the case. Thus far, $20,000 has been paid out to Kobach establishing “attorney-client privileges,” said Sanders. Another $20,000 went to Omahabased public relations consulting group Carroll Communications. The remaining $10,000 went to various expenses Sanders said included translators, postage fees and public notices in the local newspaper. A donation-based legal fund set up on the City of Fremont’s website has raised a total of $2,843 to date, according to Sanders. Most of those funds were raised after its initial implementation. ,

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hey hover around glowing flatscreens with the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth.

Numbers and readouts declare the prognosis grim. Blips and beeps, numbers blinking indicate things could get worse before they get better. Then again, the situation could even be terminal. Watchers wonder if life support is the last chance.

Are “they” doctors and nurses worrying about a patient in intensive care? Relatives watching heart monitors and respirators as a loved one struggles?

No. The scene describes stock analysts, broadcasters and most of the rest of America watching CNN and FNN as the stock market heads downward. It’s not a human being they are worried about. Instead, it is the very real sickness that afflicts our economy.

Instead of EKGs and blood pressures, pundits watch GNPs, budget deficits, projected earnings, employment statistics and consumer confidence numbers showing a steady decline in our economic well-being. The Fed tried cash flow CPR and other cajolery. It doesn’t work anymore.

Railing against corporate greed or runaway spending, legislators ignore the actual cause of the economic collapse: A healthy economy starts with a healthy planet and we’re far from that.

No more bucks in the forest. It’s not coincidence that the words “economy” and “ecology” share the first three letters. Forged from the same Greek root “oikos”, meaning “house,” they allude to the idea of living under one roof. The health of the Earth has every thing to do with the health of the economy. The sooner we address that, the more likely we will save our slipping patient. We live under the same roof.

Humans have adopted the notion that our species is one thing, the planet Earth and all its denizens, another. In reality it is impossible to think of individual health without considering the larger organism we embody.

Self-interest blurs the big picture. That’s ironic, because seeing the big picture so obviously is in our best interest. Anything unhealthy that shows up in the big picture is an indication of something unhealthy in us.

Runnin’ on empty. It is astonishing that so few people connect the state of the planet with the state of the economy. The economy has been running on smoke and mirrors for years. Virtual reality leads to virtual profit. Both are unreal.

Since time immemorial, the economic system has been based on the salt of the earth — literally. In Roman times, soldiers were even paid with rations of salt.

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The Latin word for salt is sal and hence the word we use today, salary. Resources and commodities from the Earth have always been the cornerstone of commerce.

Wealth, and now the lack thereof, has always been based on what a generous planet has offered us.

In the earliest times, goods were simply traded.

Harvested berries or some fish were traded for a chunk of meat or a fur. In China, tea was the medium of monetary exchange. Shells and leather became “wampum” in the tales of the Old West. For centuries, gold was the ultimate basis for economic balance. Oil drove the economy of the 20th century. But always, if there were no goods, there was no deal.

Today wealth is exchanged as electrons. Funds are transferred account-to-account without any basis in reality. With the old gold standard, wealth was actually related to a chunk of the precious metal. When I gave you a piece of paper called a “dollar”, it meant you had a marker that entitled you to a tiny bit of gold that the federal government held for you in Ft. Knox.

Even though that is no longer the case, we have lost sight of the fact that our economy is still based on what we can dig, harvest or pluck from the Earth.

You don’t miss your water. A study by National Academy of Science confirmed the planet is in deficit spending mode. We are using resources faster than the planet can replace them. The study shows it takes 1.2 years for the planet to replace what humans use in one year. We’re digging a hole we may not be able to escape.

For the penultimate markers of prosperity, the well has run dry. With the exception of renewable resources (which we somehow refuse to manage to renew) we have run out. The bottom line? The planet is running out of goods. The planet is bankrupt. Our forests can’t meet our needs for wood, our oceans are running out of fish, the oil supply is near an end and we dumped the gold standard 80 years ago. Even the soil is barren and cannot support life without adding artificial chemicals to it. We have plundered a planet.

If we applied the germ theory of infection to what the Earth is suffering right now, we wouldn’t look so good. The human species would be considered the most deadly organism the planet has known. The Earth is a giant living thing and we can see how mankind has infected it much like pathogenic bacteria affect the human body. We can no longer afford to ignore that the economy is a holistic function and connected to planetary wellness.

The switch to a new economy will require relinquishing the old. The planet gets raped because man wants to own. Now that there is little left to own, value must be relocated. When we shepherd what the Earth has to offer, we will stop exploiting the Earth and each other.

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atisyahu is just getting started in his musical career that has been rolling since 2004.

That’s why the rap-reggae-rock triple threat says he really doesn’t have a set pattern or schedule for how he works as an artist.

So far the 32-year-old artist has released three studio albums, plus multiple live releases and a remix record.

His two biggest studio albums were separated by more than three years. It’s been more than two years since the last record, 2009’s Light.

But that doesn’t mean that Matisyahu has put work on a new album on the backburner.

“I’ve been working on it for about two years now,” he says. “I don’t really stop writing.”

In fact, he’s also started to work on an album after the next album. He went to the Ukraine last fall to work on lyrical content with one co-writer and has since been working with the Dub Trio to write music for that material.

Two years ago, he also started sessions, mostly for fun, with producer Kojak. Those tracks are more programmed hip-hop/pop tracks that are celebratory in nature, Matisyahu says, adding that that record is almost complete.

He still doesn’t know how, when and what will be released, though he’s thought about whether or not they could be released separately or together.

“I think they are both going to be amazing and very different,” Matisyahu says.

Until then, Matisyahu is letting the songs take on their own life, as he adds certain songs to his live shows.

In fact, it’s his reputation as a live artist that first jump-started the Hasidic Jewish artist’s career, when 2005 live album, Live at Stubb’s caught on thanks to “King Without a Crown.”

That album was such a hallmark at the beginning of Matisyahu’s career that he revisited it, by releasing Live at Stubb’s, Vol. 2, earlier this year.

“I wanted to do another live record because that’s the nature of the kind of artist I am,” Matisyahu says.

The sound of his live band set is big part of who he is as an artist and going back to Stubb’s in Austin, Tex. seemed like the sensible decision.

“I wanted to try to capture that again,” Matisyahu says.

This time, Matisyahu had a wealth of newer material, a different backing band and well, a different view of Stubb’s. His first set was recorded indoors at Stubb’s. The new one placed Matisyahu in Stubb’s sprawling backyard amphitheater.

Matisyahu says that the live records give his fans a view into what he’s creating as he and his band work together. The sound changes and evolves over the course of touring. It’s something that doesn’t always come out in the studio.

“If I could, I would make a live record after every tour,” he says.

The performances, Matisyahu says, also keep getting better and better. It’s a commitment to live music that started forming when Matisyahu was just a music fan, deep into listening to Phish. That band’s marathon jams showed him just what power music could hold for a listener in a concert setting.

“Being exposed to those shows as a teenager really shaped my views of what the live show could be,” he says.

There’s a spiritual, almost religious, feel that can be communicated in playing music live. For Matisyahu, that element is combined with his true spirituality, as he sings about his Hasidic Jewish faith and relates teachings and other elements of faith through song.

“What I’ve tried to create with my music is an experience,” he says.

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So unlike Phish, he’s more of a song-oriented artist. The trip he’s trying to take people on differs from the jam-band scene, though he strives to create moments for improvisation, where he and the audience can get lost in the music.

“That requires more courage than playing song straight ahead,” Matisyahu says.

The hip-hop and reggae elements also diverge Matisyahu’s style from the guitar-driven rock show, as his music is heavy-bass, rhythm-oriented stuff.

Lyrically, Matisyahu says he’s weaving one cohesive fabric. He can intersperse them and have them make sense, which is what he does when he freestyle raps during band improvisations on stage.

“Really what I’m doing is singing one song,” he says.

“It all fits together. It’s all one narrative.”

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Guided By Voices Highlights MAHA

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hen the Guided By Voices reunion tour was announced in June 2010, Matador Records deemed the band’s configuration “the Classic Lineup.” Even the GBV logo was reworked in the same colors and font as Coca-Cola, another American classic.

It was the perfect moniker for a lineup that drove GBV’s mid-’90s golden era -- frontman/singer/songwriter Robert Pollard, guitarist Mitch Mitchell, drummer Kevin Fennell, bassist Greg Demos, and Pollard’s partner in crime, guitarist Tobin Sprout, who penned such GBV classics as “Awful Bliss,” “Atom Eyes” and “It’s Like Soul Man.” For the uninitiated, a quick GBV career summary: It started when grade school teacher Pollard got together with friends from a number of local Dayton bands and jammed in his garage. From 1986 through 1993 the band put out seven recordings, none of which caught the ear of anyone outside southern Ohio.

After ‘93’s Vampire on Titus was released on Scat Records, music insiders began figuring it out. Following a series of New York shows, the band began to attract an interesting group of fans, including The Breeders, Thurston Moore, Peter Buck, Peter Wolf, Ray Davies and the Beastie Boys.

Then in ‘94, the year of Kurt Cobain’s death and the beginning of the end for grunge, along came Bee Thousand, GBV’s homemade opus that positioned the band as indie rock legends. Pollard and Sprout had an uncanny ability to write short, sweet pop songs with hooks that you couldn’t get out of your head. Sprout’s 4-track recordings ushered in what would come to be known as the “low-fi” craze. Suddenly, for better or worse, hiss-filled CDs that sounded like they were recorded for about $10 in someone’s basement “studio” were all the rage among indie bands. Sounding good meant sounding bad.

During this era, the classic lineup would make some of GBV’s most famous recordings, including Propeller, Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes and Under the Bushes Under the Stars.

But all good things come to an end, right? GBV split up in ‘06. Pollard went on to a solo career. So did Sprout, who was also nurturing a fine art career and a family. And that, it seemed, was the end of the GBV story.

Until this reunion, but even that has to end sometime. The band’s appearance at the MAHA Music Festival this Saturday at Stinson Park will mark the thirdto-last show of this reunion tour.

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We caught up with Tobin Sprout to find out what happens next: The Reader: How did the “Classic Lineup” happen?

What convinced the band to get together for these shows?

Tobin Sprout: Matador asked us to reunite for their 21st Anniversary show in Vegas (2010). After that was announced we were getting offers from all over the country to play, so we ended up doing a 21-city tour.

Then added New Year’s and other weekend shows.

We have four more shows to do ending in September, about a year from the time we started the reunion. It was sort of the plan to put it to rest after a year.

What’s it been like playing with Bob and the rest of the band again?

It’s been good; everyone is having a great time, picking up where we left off.

What have been the best and worst parts about this tour?

The best part is playing in GBV again, I never thought for any reason it would happen. But Matador gave us an opening and we just have gone with the flow. It has been great to be with the band and see the fans again.

Flying is the worst part. It never really used to bother me, but now it does, not really for the danger because it’s safer than driving, or even the high up in the air part, just the checking in, waiting, waiting, checking, sitting in a very small area. Maybe I’m becoming claustrophobic.

Have you ever talked about writing and recording new GBV material?

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Yes, we have talked about it, and you never know it could happen. The reunion happened.

Within the past three or four years, there has been a revival of garage bands, and certainly a lot of these upand-comers have been influenced by GBV. The GBV set was singled out as one of the best at the Pitchfork Music Festival. What’s it like knowing that your music is having an impact on a different generation?

Glad to hear Pitchfork said it was one of the best. It was considered by NP (defund them) R, as one of the worst shows in Seattle. If we help carry and pass the torch, that’s great. It’s all about the songs. There are people in every generation that seem to get that.

How has being in a band changed since the early ‘90s?

Cell phones, laptops, e-mail have made touring seem a lot easier -- being able to stay in touch with home and not have to deal with finding a phone (that works), phone cards, etc. I can always be reached now.

What advice would you give those just starting out?

I would say if this is what you want to do, write songs, and write songs. Then go on tour and play them, and don’t sign anything until you have your lawyer look at it.

What are you going to do after the tour ends? Are you working on any solo material or with another band?

I’ll be working on my art, music and painting. Bob and I might do an art show together; right now it’s being called “The Big Hat And Toy Show.” No date has been set, and I will also need time to get more work together. (I’m) also writing more on my book, Elliott -- April and Elliott, the story continues.

Your paintings are amazing. Will you now refocus your efforts on your fine art?

Thanks, I never really lose focus. I still manage to paint and write between shows, and I’m always making notes, and sketching ideas in my head on tour.

Will GBV ever reform again for another tour?

I don’t know. Maybe Finally, what should we expect from GBV when we see you at the MAHA Festival?

The Big Hat And (Amazing) Rock Show, for all the great Omaha and visiting GBV fans, and fans to come.

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Cursive needs no introduction

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f you’re reading this in anticipation of the upcoming third annual MAHA Music Festival, you probably don’t need an introduction to Cursive.

There’s no need for flowery descriptions of frontman Tim Kasher’s insightful lyrics and angsty vocals, no need to describe the band’s sometimes bombastic rock sound or the dramatic flow and pump of their music. There’s no need to remind you that Kasher and

crew were instrumental in putting Omaha on the national music map, that they are part of the Trinity (along with Bright Eyes and The Faint) of acts that launched Saddle Creek beyond a sleepy local label to one of world relevance, and there’s certainly no need to note that it’s beyond fitting Cursive is playing as part of this year’s homegrown Maha festival.

“It seems like the MAHA people are doing a great job,” says Kasher in a recent phone interview.

“I imagine this will be something that will go on for awhile.”

Cursive’s current lineup includes Matt Maginn on bass, Ted Stevens on guitar and Cully Symington on drums. Cellist Gretta Cohn was a member of the band from 2001 through 2005 and her more-thancompetent string work provided a unique sonic flavor. Steve Pedersen (Criteria) was an original member on guitar before moving to North Carolina for law school. Original drummer Clint Schnase left in 2005 after recording five albums with the band.

Schnase will return to the band for a one-off reunion performance at MAHA. “It’s just a one-off deal,” Kasher says. “I think Matt and Clint were out and the idea just kind of came up.”

While Cursive is currently in the studio, recording locally at A.R.C., Kasher has recently been touring in support of his first solo record, The Game of Monogamy (out last year on Saddle Creek). After leaving Omaha for the sunny beaches and smogfilled skies of Los Angeles, he was looking for a new spot, a fresh locale with new characters and a different kind of inspiration. He landed in the northern CURSIVE

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outpost of Whitefish, Montana, a small town bordering the southern entrance to the scenic Glacier National Park. Amidst the tundra and grizzlies, Kasher recorded Monogamy. It’s a record that rises to the high-bar he had already set with Cursive and his other project, The Good Life.

“I moved to Whitefish because I was looking for a sense of adventure,” Kasher offered. “I lived in L.A. for a few years and I had been wanting to live in different places. The population of Whitefish is about 8,000 but they have a really nice studio up there. I was up there for the winter and it was a great experience. It stays consistently colder up there through the winter but it’s not as bad as an Omaha winter.”

Cursive is an Omaha institution. The band’s urgent energy along with Kasher’s intelligent and reflective lyrics has taken them to national recognition. Perhaps most important, the band hasn’t missed a beat: continuing to put out relevant albums that showcase maturity and musical growth. Nobody could accuse Cursive of putting out the same album repeatedly, a pitfall that seems to affect more and more bands in the current climate of file sharing, social networking and declining record sales. ,

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Cursive plays The Maha Festival Saturday, Aug. 13 at Aksarben Village. The festival starts at 12 p.m. and will also feature Guided y Voices, Matisyahu, J Mascis, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Envy Corps, So-So Sailors, Somasphere, Noah’s Ark Was A Spaceship, The Machete Archive and The Big Deep. Tickets are $30. For more info visit mahamusicfestival.com.

Learn why the Ice Age was much more than snow and ice!

Meet extinct creatures on a forest walk.

Investigate the life of a saber-toothed cat.

Discover a baby mummified mammoth.

Explore a bone hut and creativity cave.

Dig for fossils.

Open Daily Fontenelle Forest Nature Center 1111 North Bellevue Blvd Bellevue, NE 68005 402-731-3140 fontenelleforest.org

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Rhizosphere Farm: The Price of Beets

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erra Sorenson drove up in a golf cart wearing pigtails and a dirty off-white newsboy cap. Today is CSA harvest day.

It’s 8:30 in the morning and she along with her business partners Matthew Hall and Max Brummond already have a thick coat of soil caked to their arms and legs.

“Hi,” she said popping out of the cart to shake my hand before unloading armfuls of dark, red Chioggia and Detroit Dark beets onto a makeshift farm stand table. “It’s nice to meet you.”

In a few short hours Rhizosphere Farm CSA members will arrive to pick up stacks of Montovano fennel, bunches of beets, tri-colored Dragon carrots, Tendercrisp celery, Crimson Forest onions and Bintje potatoes. The food is as glorious as the art of harvesting is humble. The trio spent the morning hunched over in near-100 degree weather to unearth one vegetable at a time, shaking dirt from produce, washing it and making it presentable for the buyer. The work is difficult, but something about it speaks to them.

“Working this way with the rhythms of nature. Working with plants, soil, air, does wonders for me physically and mentally,” said Terra. She acknowledges she’s the kind of person who spent much of her life bouncing from one job to the next. Many of her roles, if viewed in isolation, might seem random, but when framed in the context of her life today it’s obvious each was a stepping stone to building her life as a farmer.

Rhizosphere Farm was founded just inside of Waterloo, Neb., in 2009. The farm is sustaining itself, but not without the sacrifice of health insurance for all three owners, and the extra work of seasonal jobs, tending bar or helping customers at Trader Joes. The trio leases the

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land from several people with the hope of owning their own someday.

“A lot of people choose a name based on location, but when Matthew and I decided to farm we didn’t even have land at the time. Rhizosphere is that top layer of soil where the roots get their nutrients. It’s where all the magic happens. It seemed like a good idea to pay homage to that layer of soil,” she said.

Her love for agriculture grew slowly from experiences as a Peace Corp Worker in Mali. It was there that she first realized a community could feed itself without the use of chemicals and survive. Her desire to effect social change continued when she took on the role of community activist in Oregon. From there she assumed the role that put all the pieces of her life together from a career and personal perspective – an apprentice at Horton Road Organics, a farm 45 minutes outside Eugene. It’s where she met Matthew and they gained a hands-on education in delivery

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mechanisms, and green house and field management. Terra soon realized her social ideals could come to fruition through farming.

“There is such a difference in your food when it is grown in your backyard or by your neighbor.

It is so nourishing and tastes so much better than getting something from miles and miles away,” Terra said. “The people who are drawn to local and organic food see that and are making a difference. We have CSA members who have families, the people at market, the chefs – we have this triumvirate of people who eat the food that we grow. It’s very inspiring.”

As we walked the farm Matthew and Max were wrist deep in dirt, digging up and shaking out potato plants. It’s apparent by their efforts to dodge our photographer that they are comfortable letting Terra serve as the face and voice of the farm, but it’s also apparent that each partner has a role in making the 2.5 acre farm a success. Max, who spent the last two years working with the couple, officially joined as a partner this season. He is passionate about foraging, which helps to diversify the products offered by Rhizosphere, especially in the sparser parts of the season. Although each person has a specialty, Terra highlighted Matthew and Max’s ability to problem solve and innovate, essential skills in farm life where each year brings new challenges. If a problem is identified they will find a farmer’s solution for it.

n La Casa Pizzeria and their Classic Hamburger pizza was just named one of best pizzas in America. The editors of Food Network Magazine set out to find the best pizza in each state and now, in the September issue, they reveal the winners. The winning pizzas vary from by-the-book classics like the sausage pizza at DeLorenzo’s in Trenton, N.J., to brash pies that break every rule, like the Mashed Potato pie at Portland, Maine’s Otto pizza and the Crab Rangoon pie from Fong’s Pizza in Des Moines. The September issue of Food Network Magazine hits news stands August 9. To read more about the top pies in every state, visit http://www.foodnetwork.com/50bestpizzas. n Forks Over Knives, a new documentary that examines the relationship between the food we eat and the illnesses that affect ail of us, will be screened at Ruth Sokolof Theater Tuesday, Aug. 30, at 7 p.m., presented by Film Streams and Whole Foods Market Omaha. Tickets are $9 and complimentary food will be served prior to the show, courtesy of Whole Foods Market.

For more information, contact Casey Logan at 402.933.0259 n Food and Spirits Magazine and DishOmaha. com presents the first installment of Bands, Booze and BBQ Aug. 29,at The Waiting Room.

The food competition and barbecue throwdown is to benefit the local chapter of the American Culinary Federation and their scholarship program. For just $15 attendees can taste some of the best barbecue in town while listening to live music from Sarah Benck and 24 Hour Cardlock.

A panel will judge the participants in six categories and attendees can cast their votes for the People’s Choice award. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Food is served at 7 p.m. If you can’t attend the first installment, check out part two Wednesday, Oct. 5, at the Waiting Room.

— John Horvatinovich Crumbs is about indulging in food and celebrating its many forms. Send information about area food and drink businesses to crumbs@thereader.com

An ongoing debate among politicians, families and farmers large and small involves the price of food. It’s one problem the Rhizosphere team hasn’t quite solved.

“The price of growing food is still high.

An ongoing dialogue is needed,” explained Terra. “People look at food and say, ‘Wow that’s expensive.’ If you realize what it takes to actually grow it you might not think so.”

It’s difficult to argue the price of beets when standing in the field. As morning came to a close and the sun began to burn brighter, Terra hopped into her golf cart and drove to the back acre. She had eggplant and Swiss chard to tend. , Rhizosphere Farm is located just outside of Omaha, in Waterloo, Neb., 3650 N. 252nd St., 402.779.3127, www.rhizospherefarm.com

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8 d ays TOPTV “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Sundays, 9 p.m., HBO

Larry David’s sitcom about his own life as a calculating Los Angeles TV writer is as brilliant as ever in its eighth season. David is the Mozart of deviousness, capable of seemingly endless variations. You might have read that Larry’s character will head from Los Angeles to New York during the season. The plot twist comes in this week’s episode, and I guess I shouldn’t tell you how it comes about. I’ll only say that it’s the result of sneakiness, lying and cowardice over an incredibly trivial matter. But you probably already figured that out.

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Friday, Aug. 12

Brandi Carlile w/ Ivan & Alyosha The Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. 8 p.m., $26 advance/ $30 day-of-show onepercentproductions.com

Brandi Carlile’s great, mostly-overlooked 2009 album Give Up the Ghost shed most of Carlile’s overt adult-pop urges in favor of a rougher, more engaging trek through Americana-dappled singersongwriter fare. Her previous two records carried similar moments, but never at the stripped down, intimate level she displayed on Ghost. It featured a duet with her hero, Elton John. Elton John. While Carlile has yet to release a studio album follow-up, her recently released live album, Live at Benroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony pairs her working band with a 30-piece symphony to bring added lushness to the rugged beauty of her songwriting.

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Young Arts Patrons

Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St. 6:30-11 p.m. Free for YAP members $30 for non-members Joslyn.org 402-342-000 Joslyn’s Young Arts Patrons (YAP) offers engaging social events for a new generation of viewers who want to connect with the area’s rising “creative class.” YAP members and those wishing to either join this Friday’s sojourn and/or the organization must be between the ages of 25-40. The crawl begins at 6:30 p.m. with a museum-provided shuttle, and ends with an after party at blanc, burgers & bottles. In between, participants will visit several venues to view current shows. They include: Nolan Tredway’s Lost Ends at the New BLK Gallery, Josh Powell at in COMMON, Peerless Gallery’s Streets of Gold featuring Markus Merkle and Jeff King’s new work at RNG Gallery. Payment for the event must be made in advance to ensure reservations as space is limited.

—Michael J. Krainak

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Through Oct. 23

Fix by Trenton Doyle Hancock

Sheldon Art Museum, 12th & R streets Lincoln, sdmission free, hours vary daily Sheldonartmuseum.org, (402) 472-2461 The Sheldon features 18 prints from the Fix portfolio of Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock as part of the museum’s focus on African American artists. In a style partly influenced by surrealism and abstract expressionism, Hancock populates his imaginary sagas with two sets of creatures: the meat-eating Mounds, half-animal, half-creatures, who are preyed upon by the evil and colorblind Vegans. Though interesting and entertaining visually on their own, the artist’s narratives are really allegories to satirize the contemporary art market which he considers addicted to luxury and novelty and headed toward self-destruction. An accomplished painter, textile and print maker, Hancock was a featured art-

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ist on PBS’s special, Art21. All 18 prints from Fix have recently been acquired as part of Sheldon’s permanent collection.

—Michael J. Krainak

The band disbanded in 2003 and singer Gavin Rossdale pursued a solo career. They are together again and shooting for a fall release of their fifth studio effort, The Sea of Memories.

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Nebraska Balloon & Wine Festival Coventry, South of 204th & Q streets 5 p.m. – 11p.m., $12 ahead, $15 day of Showofficeonline.com/NebraskaWineBalloonFestival

Bands, balloons and wine tasting, if this sounds like your kind of Saturday night then the Nebraska Balloon & Wine Festival is the place to be. This is your chance to see a magnificent array of hot air balloon launches while enjoying time with the family or some casual wine tasting. The festival will feature a variety of wines to enjoy while watching the beautiful aesthetics and enjoying the sounds of some of the area’s best local bands. Ticket offer admission along with five tastes of wines with a Souvenir Wine Glass (while supplies last).

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Stir Cove at Harrah’s, 1 Harrahs Blvd Council Bluffs, 8 p.m., $30, stircove.com Alternative rockers Bush will provide Saturday night’s alternative to indie rock, as they take fans back to the dawn of grunge-pop. The English band took up the cause of the burgeoning alternative nation of the early 1990s and injected a sense of melody and pop-craftsmanship. That knack for melody sent their debut, 1994’s Sixteen Stone, sky high, thanks to the hit single “Glycerine”.

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Nashville Pussy with The Dwarves, Moustache and Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles Bourbon Theater, 1415 O Street, Lincoln 8 p.m., $15 advance, $18 day of show (402) 477-4776

In the mood for some straight up, shot-and-a-beer rock and roll? Fire up the hot rod and point it towards Lincoln’s Bourbon Theatre this Tuesday, August 16th for the musical right/left of the Dwarves and Nashville Pussy.

The Dwarves are touring in support of their new album “The Dwarves Are Born Again,” another volley in their ongoing bid to offend on all levels. Though their stage shows often have to be seen to be believed, they’re more than a novelty act. There’s a lot to like when it comes to their unique amalgam of rock, pop and punk.

Headliners Nashville Pussy are no strangers to these parts, and their potent blend of southern rock, AC/DC and Motorhead always hits the spot.

Be sure to swing by the merch table to pick up a patently offensive Dwarves shirt (I have no idea what the designs are, but it’s a pretty safe bet you won’t be able to wear it to church) as well as Nashville Pussy’s “Live in Rennes,” a full show from 1998 you can only buy directly from the band.

Get there early (openers Moustache don’t disappoint and don’t you want to see what Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles are all about? How can that disappoint?) and wear clothes you don’t care about. It’ll be sweaty, messy and loud.

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Lost Ends show at New BLK excels as ‘mystery unsolved’

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sculptural installation, The Hunt, whose push/pull impact on its audience had the desired effect.

“I desire a more psychological, emotional response from my viewer,” Tredway said. S everal works here are paradoxically pleasing and disturbing, or at least intriguing thematically, and quite in keeping with Lost Ends’ show statement. Especially its assertion that the viewer is thrust into “the story in the middle, without context … every page is the first page …. It is creating a mystery from clues, forgetting to be solved.”

Other than palette, it does seem at first that the paintings in particular have little in common content-wise. Since the viewer is unable initially to even identify the mystery, let alone attempt to solve it, one must conclude that for Tredway, art remains the most mysterious “thing” of all. Something better indulged

n 2007 mixed media artist Nolan Tredway had an anti-Cartesian moment in the Bemis Underground that resulted in a terrific collaborative exhibit featuring many current and former Lincolnites.

“Anti” because in response to Descartes’ familiar “cogito ergo sum” (“I think, therefore I am”) Tredway countered with “I live, therefore I think,” as espoused

by Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset, an admitted influence on his work.

Among other things, Ortega nolan tredway’s In the shadows believed one must forge “a project of life” unencumbered by convention or given structures. Whatever the project, art included, life must be experienced before “figured out.” And, in the end, may ultimately remain an enigma.

Four years later, Tredway, one of the region’s most gifted and original voices in the visual arts, still has a lot on his mind as evidenced in his current exhibit, Lost Ends, at the New BLK Gallery. The show features paintings, sculpture, mixed media and video from this prolific artist who is driven partially because “I have too many ideas that will haunt me.”

So much so that Tredway has participated in over a half-dozen shows in the past few years with two more next month, and a collaboration with Amy than explained unless and only in a personal, indiMorin and Rob Quinn in December at the new RNG vidual way. in Council Bluffs.

N ot surprisingly, art is a bit of a paradox for TredTredway has promised himself to take 2012 off way. Art, he says, “is everything without function. Art and create work marking a new direction. As with is a non-functional object,” at least in a conventional this current show, his new and traditional media will manner. To demonstrate, he painted over a large finlikely remain deceptively whimsical in nature, but he ished canvas given to him by fellow artist Jake Gillespie, feels it’s time for a change in his point of view, if not then made a video of the transformation in stop animahis visual style. tion for titled How to Destroy a Jake Gillespie Painting.

“I’ve been pretty intellectual in the past,” Tred- The video is at least as interesting as the new Untitled way said despite his preference for puppetry, doll-like painting, if not more so, thus demonstrating art’s elufigures and fantasy narratives, regardless of medium. siveness and unconventionality.

“I almost never let my personal life affect my work.

If art is its own reason for being, it’s a reality But there have been a lot of changes and intensity re- that only gets more complicated and elusive daily, cently and I’m seeing less detachment in my work.” a lesson that casts a wide net, which Tredway says There are 11 large and medium format oil paint- he learned from his father. “My father told me that ings, two series of smaller works including five Cigar everybody has one piece of the truth, and until you Box Creatures and seven Robots, and three videos not know everyone, well … there are more people living for sale. In addition, there is one bizarre three-piece today than ever.”

Despite the quixotic nature of this quest, Tredway continues to add his piece of the puzzle to the conversation in search of the Truth of such mythemes as love, power, revenge and others that reveal the human condition. That makes him more the seeker than seer in spite of the visionary tone that haunts much of his work.

And if his narratives which smack of such stylistic influences as magic realism and fabulism seem deliberately obtuse or fall short of total disclosure, maybe it’s because his art “starts as an argument, then I often try to confound my own argument.”

Thus the core of Lost Ends is structured more around engagement than revelation, both for the subject and the viewer, creating the mystery, relishing it, “forgetting to be solved.”

Visually, Tredway’s aesthetic, particularly in his midsize and larger works, features a subdued palette that eschews primary colors in favor of secondary ones with many tonal variations.

His figures are doll or childlike, when not puppets or creatures, simple and mostly innocent but increasingly expressive and emotional.

Many figures, including those in Unravel, In the Shadows and Algebra have an “ooh, oh or aha” moment that Tredway challenges or leaves incomplete. In Unravel, a wide-eyed young woman holds a thread attached to something that lies outside the frame, a virtual signature piece for this show and the artist’s vision in general.

The book-laden children of In the Shadows sit around a possible instructor and share that same wide-eyed, lip-pursing gaze of Unravel; but Tredway, as he often does, measures this communal moment via the social commentary of its title with a lone nonwhite child clearly out of the picture and the loop. His socio-politico conscience carries over to the satire of And That’s When We Knew We Had Made a Terrible Mistake which cleverly comments on a certain pipeline in the Nebraska Sand Hills being ruptured while making castles in the air.

More puzzling is the scenario in the oddly-titled Algebra, with its two children gazing at a dove they apparently released from the chest of a deer or elk they just killed. As with two other works, Sacred Sciences and Geometry, Tredway seems to make the case continued on page 21 y

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n The House of Representatives recently voted down The Walberg Amendment to cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts by another $10 million. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Lincoln voted twice in support of the NEA. n The Kent Bellows Studio exhibits the culmination of work by their young artists in Indivisual through August at their studio, 3303 Leavenworth St. It features individual works of art and collaborative projects in a variety of media. Sales benefit the young artists and future programs at the studio. n In the W. Dale Clark Library, Nebraska Women’s Caucus for Art presents Oh, The Places We Go!: An Altered Book Show, exhibiting the book as an art object through painting, collage, rubber stamping, tearing, cutting, or “any creative means.” Transformed books on display through Aug. 31. Nebraskawomenscaucusforart.blogspot.com. n The lichen in Lincoln opened Look More Ways Than Left and Right last weekend with drawings

by Victoria Hoyt, Emma Nishimura and Alison VanVolkenburgh. They are University of Nebraska-Lincoln Master of Fine Arts candidates, showcasing “their love for the tiny and compulsive,” through Aug. 26. n People You Should Know also opened last weekend in Lincoln at Handmade Modern in Parrish Studios, featuring the quirky paintings of Omaha artist Kelli Smith. The show, running through Aug. 27, also displays the jewelry of gallery owner Sara Bucy for the last time; Bucy will move her jewelry studio home and hire an employee for the gallery, as the business is going so well. n In Benson, Silver of Oz Gallery opened Recycled … A Body of Work from the Soul of the Dumpster, recycled art by Benson artist Lori Livingston-Hubbell through the month. Photographer Tom Loftus opened his month-long show at the Benson Grind, attempting to “challenge the status quo” of photography as masses know it with his sardonic imagery. n Political cartoonist Jeffrey Koterba exhibits at Gallery 92 West in Fremont, his first area exhibit in over eight years. The show runs through Aug. 31. See 92west.org for details. n The Hive Lounge, 1951 St. Mary’s Ave., is looking for artists’ submissions to feature in monthly exhibitions, as well as performers of all types for future events. The space includes three walls with specialized lighting with room for approximately eighteen medium-sized paintings, according to the website. Thehiveomaha. com for details. ­­­—Sally Deskins

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n Lil Scoutie Sighting: For style-conscious more time with Mondo? Head over to Nofans heading to MAHA music festival Saturday, mad Lounge at 1013 Jones St., where the Aug. 13, be sure to stop by Scout: Dry Goods OFW finale show will take place at 8 p.m., & Trade’s mobile shop, affectionately known as with doors opening at 6 p.m. Mondo, Lil Scoutie. The minds behind style site Esoteric along with popular British blogger Rock Velvet will be on hand to celebrate as part of n Roll Bride will be attending the finale their 100 days of cultural goodshow as guests of Princess ness, while photographing Lasertron. Visit princesslathe best in local festival style. sertron.com or omahafashThose who stop by and show ionweek.com for additional Lil Scoutie some love will have event information. a chance to win VIP tickets to n Volunteers Needed for Omaha Fashion Week, which inOmaha Fashion Week: With cludes runway-side seats and a Omaha Fashion Week apVIP pre-show cocktail party or a proaching a need is brewing $150 gift certificate to Omaha’s for hardworking, passionate mondo guerra Flat Iron Cafe. Aksarben Village volunteers to help create is located at 67th and Center a superior experience for Street in Omaha. Visit esotericvelvet.com or fashion fans in the coming weeks. OFW ilovescout.com for more information. runs from Aug. 22-27 and volunteers are needed n Mix & Mingle with Mondo: Additional details to serve as designer liaisons, backstage crew, have surfaced regarding “Project Runway” sea- admissions staff and more. Feel you fit the bill? son 8 finalist Mondo Guerra’s visit to Omaha Visit omahafashionweek.com/volunteer to apply. for Omaha Fashion Week 2011. Mondo will Non-profit groups with large numbers of volunbe in town Saturday, Aug. 27. to appear at a teers available should email info@omahafashfundraiser for the Nebraska AIDS Project at The ionweek.com for the opportunity to receive a Max, at 1417 Jackson St. This event will take donation from OFW for their organization. place from 3 to 6:30 p.m., is sponsored by The — Sarah Lorsung Tvrdik Max and hosted by The Imperial Court of Nebraska and Princess Lasertron. Seven dollars Sarah Lorsung Tvrdik is a stylist, costumier, wife and freegets you in the door, along with appetizers and lance writer based in Omaha, Neb. Her style blog can be found chat time with the “Project Runway” star. Want at fashflood.com

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that art, science and nature are not mutually exclusive but rather interdependent.

Tredway’s two most perplexing allegories remain the personal title piece, Lost Ends and the disturbing Making Things Work. In the former, a beautiful, frightened child-woman flees a burning shed, her hair fluttering across her face in the same direction as the smoke escaping the shed, a detail not to be underestimated. Whatever her conflict, the artist paints the scenario not with realistic detail but through a filter of emotional, gestural markmaking, an indication of his increased involvement in his narratives.

But nothing else perhaps best exhibits Tredway’s darker vision of what it is to be driven as an artist than Making Things Work. In it, a maggoty, childlike figure crawls up a supine swan sporting a human façade, attempting to feed it a piece of “fruit,” all the while defecating as it climbs. Though Tredway says he is that child, it’s not an image of him best known by family, friends and fans of his work. Nevertheless he is known for a satirical, probing sense of humor and it is interesting that he doesn’t spare himself, no matter how you interpret this troubling portrait of the artist.

Tredway simply understands and expresses what poet Dylan Thomas meant when he wrote, “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees / Is my destroyer.” That it can also be an artist’s “destroyer” is the risk they take, another mytheme “waiting to be solved.” ,

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tainly not a hyper AM shock jock or zenned-out FM host, either.

Instead, he’s a cross between acerbic Groucho Marx and wry Dick Cavett. Feldman engages audiences with ironical, quick-witted, verbally adroit, ad-libbed responses that needle. He says he fits squarely in the “Jewish, rapid-fire, wisecracking tradition,” adding, “The closest to me was my father, who was sort of like that. He was very funny and did a lot of asides, like little jokes to the camera, only I was the camera when I was a kid. So, to me, it’s Dave Feldman humor.”

ublic radio’s popular Whad’Ya Know?, headlined by creator-producer-host Michael Feldman, comes to the Holland Performing Arts Center for a live, twohour road show Aug. 13. Produced by Wisconsin Public Radio and distributed by Public Radio International, Whad’Ya Know? calls home base the Monona Terrace in Madison.

Eight times a year cast and crew leave the friendly confines to take their melange of talk, topical humor, quiz show and jazz sets on the road. Saturday marks their second Omaha stop in a decade. KIOS, which airs the show here, is sponsoring the appearance, plus a post-show VIP reception, as a fund raiser for its listener-supported programming.

Watching radio can be a treat or a let down for fans who usually only hear it.

“People seem to like it when they come,” says Feldman. “They always say, ‘Boy, it’s much better in person.’

That’s what I get a lot. That, and, michael feldman ‘You’re not nearly as homely as you When you suggest he stops just short of dissound on the air.’ You’re either too short or too tall or you’re ‘exactly like I thought you were.’ All paraging people during bits like the Whad’Ya Know Quiz, he begs to differ. of them are insulting, actually.”

“You know, honestly, I think if you did a The cult of personality that attends radio lies in the imagination. The figure behind the voice content analysis of it you’d see there’s very little insulting or even coming up to insulting. A becomes whomever the listener conjures.

Radio’s known to attract its share of quirky nudge is much different than an insult. A nudge talking heads. As a former English teacher and is where you can say something to someone that cabbie, Feldman qualified as a misfit with a du- has a little spin to it, a little meaning to it. That’s bious skill set when he fell into radio in 1977. called nudging. But it’s more playfulness. I’m a WORT’s Jack Mitchell discovered him. Feldman ‘nudgist,’ I guess.”

And a mensch. This gentle provocation is left for Chicago’s mega-WGN, but returned when where he shines and sometimes even falls flat. An Mitchell greenlighted Whad’Ya Know.

He’s hardly a model of charisma with his awkward pause can make good radio, too. It’s all smart-alecky, neurotic, quasi-authoritative per- in the timing and the comeback. Sharp repartee sona. He expresses opinions on news items in is where the show lives.

“That’s the long and the short of it, that’s what one-liner monologue-style, but you won’t mistake him for a blow-hard or an expert. He’s cer- makes it work or doesn’t,” he says. “But usually it

works and it’s totally because of the interactions of the people who come or call in; occasionally the people I’m interviewing, but mostly it’s the rank and file. It’s an audience-driven show, so my skill if I have any is getting it out of them. That’s what I consider my job to be.”

If there’s a template for this coaxing, teasing interplay, he says it’s the live performer who fixes on ripe-for-the-picking targets with lines like: “Hey, where you from?” A beat. “Is she really with you?’ And that’s sort of what I do,” he says. “It’s embarrassing, but I’m like a nightclub singer doing patter.

Singling out people in the audience and giving them a hard time or whatever. It’s somewhat along those lines I must admit.”

Making it all resonate with 1.4 million regular listeners, as Feldman does, is quite a feat. “I don’t want to jinx it, but it’s been going 25 years, which is really unbelievable.”

The team of Feldman, announcer Jim Packard, musical coordinator-band leader John Thulin, bassist Jeff Hamann and drummer Clyde Stubblefield, enjoys amazing continuity. “We’ve only had one change in all this time,” says Feldman.

The whole gang will be here for the 9:30 a.m. Omaha program. The show goes live at 10 a.m. Feldman will be armed with plenty of Omaha tidbits by then. Researching where the show tours is a process he enjoys.

“It’s stimulating because you try and actually learn about where you’re going, so it’s really quite interesting and as a matter of fact I like it very much. I don’t have a feel yet for what’s making Omaha tick, but I intend to find out.”

Helping him flesh out the Omaha zeitgeist will be some special guests: Omaha World-Herald cartoonist Jeffrey Koterba, whose memoir Inklings has been well-received; and musician Tim Kasher, best known for his work with the bands Cursive and The Good Life, and now with a new solo album out, The Game of Monogamy. , Show tickets range from $25 to $45 through Ticket Omaha. VIP tickets are $100. Call 402-557-2558 or visit www.kios.org. Read more of Leo Adam Biga’s work at leoadambiga.wordpress.com ,

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n Jane Noseworthy, the former Miss Nebraska who starred often at the Omaha Community Playhouse and the now-departed Dundee Dinner Theatre, plays Portia these days at the Colorado Springs TheatreWorks.

If you’re not up to driving that far for Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, consider this description of the venue: “The idyllic environs of the Rock Ledge Ranch near the Garden of the Gods.” Wish Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre could find something that sounds so appealing for their new home.

The blonde, green-eyed Jane belongs to the Screen Actors Guild (four films with unfamiliar titles) and she’s an Equity actor landing professional jobs with Utah Shakespeare, and playing Carrie in Carousel in Los Angeles. My favorite memory of Ms. Noseworthy is not from her many musical roles, but as the innocent in search of a sidekick in Wonder of the World at the Playhouse in a cast that included the late great Pam Carter.

Shakespeare dominates her recent credits.

She was Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew.

The Denver Post described her Rosalind as “playful and completely winning” with “her gender comparisons often drawing cheers.” It’s not too late to catch her in Colorado, where she continues as Portia through Aug. 27 with a company that recently became the seventh in the state to contract with Actors Equity. n ‘Tis the season when it’s tempting to declare the fall theater season underway early. The recent opening of the Candy Project’s Rooms: a Rock Romance is a touch too early and belongs in that company’s usual summer slot.

We won’t count the Official Blues Brothers Revue at the Playhouse because it comes closer to being a small-scale touring company with its visiting cast as Jake, Elwood and Aretha Franklin. But the Playhouse still gets opening honors next week with Becky’s New Car, billed as a “contemporary, captivating” comedy/drama by Steven Dietz.

We’re told a woman who says she needs new shoes “really wants a new job,” and when she says she wants a new house, “she wants a new husband,” and new car means “a new life.”

Sounds like something fresh to start the new season, which means just that.

Next up: SNAP! Productions plans Next Fall Aug. 26-Sept. 18 with Todd Brooks directing “a provocative look at faith, commitment and unconditional love.” Then get ready for three weeks of Broadway’s The Jersey Boys at the Orpheum in September.

—Warren Francke Cold Cream looks at theater in the metro area. Email information to coldcream@thereader.com.

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BEMIS CENTER, 724 S. 12th St., 341.7130, bemiscenter.org.

ART TALK: Opens August 4, 7 p.m., artists-in-residence Lucrecia Troncoso, Lisa Iglesias and Sopie Barbasch discuss their work.

ONGOING

THE 815, 815 O. St., Suite 1, Lincoln, 261.4905, the815.org.

ARTISTS ON THE EDGE: Through August AGAINST THE WALL, 6220 Havelock Ave., Lincoln, 467.3484, againstthewallgallery.com. 9NATURA: New work by Michael E. French, opens August 5, through August ANKENY ART CENTER, 1520 SW Road, Ankeny, IA, 515.965.0940, ankenyartcenter.com. NEW WORK: Donna McConkey. NEW WORK: Joyce O’Brien. Both shows through August.

ARTISTS’ COOPERATIVE GALLERY, 405 S. 11th St., artistscoopgallery.com. NEW WORK: Group show featuring Duane Adams, Carol Meis Ellington, Dona Golden and Virginia Ocken, through August 28.

BEMIS UNDERGROUND, 724 S. 12th St., 341.7130, bemiscenter.org. FROD THE REDWOOD FORESTS: New work by Kjell Peterson, through August 13.

BIRDHOUSE COLLECTIBLE, 1111 N. 13th St., Suite 123, 577.0711, biz@birdhouseinteriors.com. SNAPSHOTS AND OTHER WORKS: New work by Christina Renfer Vogel, through September 3.

BURKHOLDER PROJECT, 719 P St., Lincoln, 477.3305, burkholderproject.com. FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTION: New work by Al Rhea and Richard Markoff. FOLLOWING THE LINE: New work

by Lorinda Rice and Tom Quest. Both shows thorugh August CATHEDRAL CULTURAL CENTER SUTHERLAND GALLERY, 701 N. 40th St., 551.4888, cathedralartsproject.org. NEW WORK: Paintings by Dan Boylan, through August 31.

DRIFT STATION GALLERY, 1745 N St., Lincoln, driftstation. org. N/EN-: New work by Angeles Cossio and Jeff Thompson, through August 28.

DURHAM WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM, 801 S. 10th St., 444.5071, durhammuseum.org. GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER: The life and work of an extraordinary man, through Oct. 30.

EL MUSEO LATINO, 4701 S. 25th St., elmuseolatino.org. INDEPENCIA, REVOLUCION Y LIBERTAD: Contemporary graphics, through August 25.

FRED SIMON GALLERY, Burlington Building, 1004 Farnam St., nebraskaartscouncil.org. NEW WORK: Paintings by David McLeod, through August 12.

GALLERY 9, 124 S 9th St., Lincoln, 477.2822, gallerynine.com.

ALUM9: CATCHING UP WITH OLD FRIENDS: Group show, through August 28.

GALLERY 92 WEST, 92 West 6th St., P.O Box 335, Fremont.

NEW WORK: Jeffrey Koterba, through August GOVERNOR’S RESIDENCE EXHIBITION, 1425 H St., Lincoln, nebraskaartscouncil.org. NEW WORK: Bob Rooney, through September 2.

GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 1155 Q St., Hewit Plc., Lincoln, 472.0599, unl.edu/plains/gallery/gallery.shtml. PORTRAITS OF THE PRAIRIE: Watercolor paintings and ink sketches by Richard Schilling, inspired by Willa Cather, through September 15.

HANDMADE MODERN, Parrish Prjoect, 1416 O St., Lincoln, sarabucy.com. PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW: New work by Kelly Smith, through September 30.

HEART OF GOLD JEWELERS, 2634 N. 48th St., Lincoln, heartofgoldjewelers.blogspot.com, 325.0465. NEW WORK: Featuring new pieces by local artists in pottery, jewelry, wood carving, glasswork, and photo prints, through August HISTORIC GENERAL DODGE HOUSE, 605 3rd St., Council Bluffs, 501.3841, dodgehouse.org. IN MEMORY OF... THE ART OF MOURNING: Examines a family’s response to loss and mourning in the late Victorian period, through Oct. 23.

THE HIVE LOUNGE, 1951 St. Mary’s Ave. LINCOLN ARTISTS AT THE HIVE: Group show, through August HOT SHOPS ARTS CENTER, 1301 Nicholas St., 342.6452, hotshopsartcenter.com. PARTS OF THE WHOLE: New work by Bradley Miller, Sarah Carney and Mike Machian, through August 26.

INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER AND MUSEUM, 1523 N. 33rd St., Lincoln, 472.7232, quiltstudy.org. NEBRASKA QUILTS AND QUILTMAKERS: Group show, through Oct. 2. EL-

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EGANT GEOMETRY: AMERICAN AND BRITISH MOSAIC PATCHWORK: Through Jan. 1, 2012.

JOSLYN ART MUSEUM, 2200 Dodge St., 342.3300, joslyn.org.

JOSLYN TREASURES: WELL TRAVELED AND RARELY SEEN: Through August 28, featuring some of the Joslyn’s most traveled objects. WHY GROW UP? ETIENNE DELESSERT: Self-taught artist who reaches both children and adults with imaginary creatures and landscapes, through September 4.

KENT BELLOWS STUDIO, 3303 Leavenworth St., 505.7161, kentbellows.org. INDIVISUAL: Experience the culminating exhibition of work by the young artists of the the studio, through August KIECHEL FINE ART, 5733 S. 34th St., Lincoln, 420.9553, kiechelart.com. CONTEMPORARY SUMMER SHOWCASE: Group show, through Oct. 7.

KIMMEL HARDING NELSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 801 3rd Corso, Nebraska City, 874.9600, khncenterforthearts.org. MIRROR, MIRROR: New work by Ann Gradwohl, through August 25.

KRUGER COLLECTION, UNL Architecture Hall, 10th and R, Lincoln, 472.3560, krugercollection.unl.edu. DESIGN PROCESS: Explores the steps a designer takes, runs through Mar. 16, 2012.

LAURITZEN GARDENS, 100 Bancroft St., 346.4002, omahabotanicalgardens.org. OUTSIDE KANEKO: Through September 15, over 50 sculptures and drawings by Jun Kaneko.

THE LICHEN, 2810 N. 48th St., Lincoln, thelichen.com. LOOK MORE WAYS THAN LEFT AND RIGHT: New work by Victoria Hoyt, Emma Nishimura, and Alison VanVolkenburgh, through August LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 48th and Baldwin, Lincoln, 434.2787, luxcenter.org. TREELINE: NATURE’S ICONIC FORM: Group show that pays homage to the noble stature and presence of trees, through Nov. 1. NEW WORK: Pottery by Susan Dewsnap. CONTINUANCE: New work by the 16 Hands Pottery Tour group.

MODERN ARTS MIDWEST, 800 P St., Lincoln, 477.2828, modernartsmidwest.com. PEOPLE: new work by Byron Anway, Richard Chung and Tom Rierden, through August 27.

MORRILL HALL, 307 Morrill Hall, Lincoln 472.3779, museum. unl.edu. AMPHIBIANS VIBRANT AND VANISHING: Photographs

by Joel Sartore, through Nov. 30. FREE THURSDAY NIGHT ADMISSION: Every Thursday from 4:30 to 8 p.m., through August WILDLIFE AND NATURE: Amateur photography exhibit, through September 5.

MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART (MONA), 2401 Central Ave., Kearney, 308.865.8559, monet.unk.edu/mona. THE NEBRASKA SUITE: New work by Enrique Martinez Celaya. A POW-POW OF ART: Native American works, through August 21. OUR PEOPLE, OUR LAND, OUR IMAGES: Indigenous photographers, through August 7. TWO KINDS OF HOME: The life and works of Myron Heise, through August 28. NEBRASKA NOW: Photography by Dana Fritz, through Oct. 2.

THE NEW BLK, 1213 Jones St., 403.5619, thenewblk.com.

LOST ENDS: New work by Nolan Tredway, through August 23.

OLSON-LARSEN GALLERY, 203 5th St., Des Moines, IA, 515.277.6734, olsonlarsen.com. THREE TAKES ON PHOTOGRAPHY: Group show featuring Peter Feldstein, David Ottenstein and Dan Powell, through September 3.

OMAHA’S CHILDREN’S MUSEUM, 500 S. 20th St., 342.6163. ocm.org. DINOSAURS DAWN OF THE ICE AGE: Stomping and roaring robotic dinosaurs are invading the museum, through Jan. 8.

PARALLAX SPACE, 1745 N St., Lincoln, parallaxspace.com.

TAKEAWAY: New work by Danny Sullivan, through August PASSAGEWAY GALLERY, 417 South 11th St, passagewaygallery.com. OIL AND TEMGER: New work by Jody Anderson and Elmer Miller, through August 31.

PEERLESS, 3157 Farnam St., wearepeerless.com. STREETS OF GOLD: New work by Markus Merkle, through August 27.

RNG GALLERY, 1915 Leavenworth St., 214.3061. THE NEWEST EDITION OF WHAT YOU’VE BEEN MISSING: New work by Jeff King August 14.

SHELDON ART GALLERY, 12th and R, UNL, Lincoln, sheldonartgallery.org. THE HARMON AND HARRIET KELLY COLLECTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART: Works on paper, opens through September 25. DECISIVE LINE: Drawings by Dan Howard, through September 18. PLAYING ON PAPER: New work by John Martin, through Jul. 24. NEW WORK: Grant Wood, through Oct.

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2. HISTORIES: Works from the Sheldon Permanent Collection, Opens August 5-Jul. 15, 2012.

SILVER OF OZ, 6115 Maple St., 558.1307, silverofoz.com. RECYCLED... A BODY OF WORK FROM THE SOUL OF THE DUMPSTER: New work by Lori Livingston-Hubbell, through August SP CE, Parrish Prjoect, 1416 O St., Lincoln. NEW WORK: David Bush, through August TREDWAY GALLERY, 1416 O St. MISCELLANEOUS RELICS: New work by Jar Schepers, through August TUGBOAT GALLERY, 14th and O, 2nd floor, Lincoln, tugboatgallery.com. BIG TEN: new work by Mike Scheef and J. Lynn Batten, through August 29.

WORKSPACE GALLERY, Sawmill Building, 440 N. 8th St., Lincoln, sites.google.com/site/workspacegallery. FIRESIDE TALES: New work by Bridget Murphy Milligan, through September 1.

theater oPENING

THE OFFICIAL BLUES BROTHERS REVUE, Omaha Community Playhouse, 6915 Cass St., 553.0800, omahaplayhouse.com.

Opens August 12-21, Wed.-Fri., 7:30 p.m., Sat., 5 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m., $30. The only Blues Brothers Revue that captures the rock and roll essence of the original classic film & has received the stamp of approval from Dan Akroyd and John Belushi’s widow.

oNGOING

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, TADA Theatre, 701 P St., Lincoln, 402.438.8232, tadatheatre.info.

Opens August 4-28, Thu.-Sat., 7:30 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m., $20. The most humorous spelling bee in ages hits the stage in Lincoln for an evening of can’t miss entertainment.

ROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE, The Candy Project, Bancroft St. Market, 2702 S. 10th St., 680.6737, bancroftstreetmarket.com.

Opens August 4-5, 11-14, 18-20, 7:30 p.m., $18, $15/students.

This romance shows the budding love story of two would-be rock stars forced to choose between fame and stability in their relationship.

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AARDBAARK, The Bookworm, 87th & Pacific, 392.2877, bookwormomaha.com, 6 p.m. Amiable adult readers discussing books almost always read by kids, come join for this enjoyable book club that allows adults to explore books not often explored by adults. (2nd Thursday.)

COMEDY NIGHT AT THE SIDE DOOR, 3530 Leavenworth St., 8 p.m., $5. This weekly comedy night gets the laughs rolling and keeps them coming.

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MIDWEST HUMANIST AND FREETHOUGHT CONFERENCE, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Milo Bail Student Center, 6001 Dodge St. A weekend conference exploring thoughts and ideas related to humanism and free-thought, as well as the place such dialogues have in society.

MOVIES IN THE PARK: TANGLED, Bayliss Park, Council Bluffs, bluffsarts.org, 9 p.m. As the sun sets and the air cools nothing quite makes a summer evening complete like an outdoor movie in the park.

BOBBY LEE, Funny Bone, Village Pointe, 17305 Davenport St., funnnyboneomaha.com, 493.8036, 7:30 p.m, 9:45 p.m. American actor and comedian who is best known for his membership in the recurring cast of the live comedy series MADtv from 2001 to 2009.

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MICHAEL FELDMAN’S “WHAD’YA KNOW?” LIVE BROADCAST, Holland Center, 409 S. 16th St., omahaperformingarts. org, 9:30 a.m. The humoros take on trivia has captured Ameri-

can audiences for many years as millions of listeners tune in each week & this week the people of Omaha get a chance to see the magic happen live and in the studio.

MIDWEST HUMANIST AND FREETHOUGHT CONFERENCE, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Milo Bail Student Center, 6001 Dodge St. A weekend conference exploring thoughts and ideas related to humanism and free-thought, as well as the place such dialogues have in society.

POETRY SLAM & OPEN MIC, Omaha Healing Arts Center, 1216 Howard St., 345.5078, omahaslam.com, 7:30 p.m., $7 suggested donation. The longest-running slam in Omaha continues on for another month.(2nd Sat.) SHERLOCK HOLMES BOOK CLUB, The Bookworm, 87th & Pacific, 392.2877, bookwormomaha.com, 10 a.m. (2nd Saturday.) Prepare for the next installment of Sherlock Holmes on the silver-screen by discussing the many tales concerning his exploits from the pages of literature.

BOBBY LEE, Funny Bone, Village Pointe, 17305 Davenport St., funnnyboneomaha.com, 493.8036, 7:30 p.m, 9:30 p.m. American actor and comedian who is best known for his membership in the recurring cast of the live comedy series MADtv from 2001 to 2009.

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BOOKS AND BAGELS, The Bookworm, 87th and Pacific, 392.2877, bookwormomaha.com, 11 a.m.

MIDWEST HUMANIST AND FREETHOUGHT CONFERENCE, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Milo Bail Student Center, 6001 Dodge St. A weekend conference exploring thoughts and ideas related to humanism and free-thought, as well as the place such dialogues have in society.

BOBBY LEE, Funny Bone, Village Pointe, 17305 Davenport St., funnnyboneomaha.com, 493.8036, 7 p.m. American actor and comedian who is best known for his membership in the recurring cast of the live comedy series MADtv from 2001 to 2009.

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DUFFY’S COMEDY WORKSHOP, 1412 O St., Lincoln, 474.3543, myspace.com/duffystavern, 9 p.m. Free comedy workshop (every Mon.) POETRY AT THE MOON, Crescent Moon Coffee, 816 P St., Lincoln, 435.2828, crescentmoon@inebraska.com, 7 p.m. Open mic and featured readers Liz Clark Wessel, Shelly Clark Geiser and Marge Saiser. (every Mon.)

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$5 COMEDY NIGHT, Pizza Shoppe Collective, 6056 Maple St., 8 p.m, 88improv.com, $5. Every week comedy takes the stage to warm up the audience with laughs, laughs and more laughs.

INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP, The Bookworm, 87th & Pacific, 392.2877, bookwormomaha. com, 6:30 p.m. A discussion of espionage novels and spy novels for fans of the extremely intriguing genre.

SHOOT YOUR MOUTH OFF, The Hideout, 320 S. 72nd St., 504.4434, myspace.com/shootyourmouthoff, 9 p.m. Spoken word, comedy, music and chaos (every Tue.) One of the longest running and wildest open mics in Omaha, come and check it out.

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unny story: I recently met Jes Winter (officially) while I was working at Urban Outfitters one day, just by chance. I had only seen a few photos, but heard many of her hauntingly beautiful songs. Slowly, I pieced it together and realized she was in fact the girl I recently had been exchanging e-mails with and the driving force behind local favorite, the Jes Winter Band. It was certainly a strange coincidence. She smiled and told me: “This is so funny, but kind of magical. We were meant to meet.”

That day, Winter had the task of picking out outfits to wear to her CD release party Aug. 11 at the Waiting Room. It will also be her last show in Omaha for awhile, as she’s packing up and heading to Nashville soon.

“I want to evolve into more of a one-womanband using vocals and guitar loops. I plan to record with a couple of producers in Nashville.

They plan to publish and license my music to TV, movies and other artists,” she says.

Appropriately, Winter’s new album is titled Bloom, symbolic of both her big move and new solo endeavor.

“It is all about coming into my own,” Winter explains. “It is an album that I wrote plainly based from what was laid on my heart: personal experiences and understanding love and relationships. It’s a very personal seven-song album.”

In listening to Bloom, it’s clear that she has progressed as an artist and as a young woman. Winter believes a solo career has allowed her to expand her horizons and learn more about herself.

“A part of me got lost being with a band. It’s easy to lose yourself when working with four other people from different backgrounds. The guys from the Jes Winter Band taught me so much and helped develop me into the artist I am today. I have so much love and respect for them. I had to come to a really hard decision to break away and reconnect with my true songwriting and playing style.”

Winter then took on the title of solo artist.

She focused on her music and writing, and created what she believes to be her most personal album to date.

‘The songs were written the past year, which has been one of change. Past relationships, new love, becoming a solo artist, traveling, and just maturing as a young woman in her 20s. I have always written about love. It’s why I believe we are put on this earth. To be taught to love one another.”

Scott Gaeta, who also performed all the instruments, produced the album. All songs were written by Winter, who considers songwriting to be her original passion.

“My mom taught me at a very young age how to journal,” she said. “It took me time to figure out my strengths and weaknesses with writing. Writing poems always seemed to be my strength.”

In addition to writing, Winter loved music at a young age as well.

“I loved music so much that when I would get in trouble with my mom, she would ground me from the radio instead of the TV.” She would sing at church and school and perform with friends on her dad’s flat trailer, which eventually became the stage. Winter recalls the moment when her two passions finally merged.

“When I was 16, I had an epiphany. It was made very clear to me that I needed to turn my poems into songs and learn an instrument.”

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n Between torrential downpours Thursday, I caught two distinctly different live music events. The day started early at Westfair Amphitheater in Council Bluffs for the 2011 Vans Warped Tour. The sprawling summer road show is amazingly organized. It crams a bucketload of bands into one day’s worth of shows and then pops up a day later in a different city. What originally was billed as a punk and pop-punk event has increasingly become a showcase for mealymouthed metal screamers. Christian emo-metal acts August Burns Red and The Devil Wears Prada brought hordes of kids to the main stage, while secularist screamers like The Acacia Strain and Winds of Plague gathered their devoted followers. Then there were the bands that didn’t seem to quite fit the rest of the Warped Tour mold. I zeroed in on those. Americana rockers Lucero played to a small, but loyal audience; a portion of which shouted requests, which frontman Ben Nicholls happily attempted to play, even if he wasn’t sure of quite how it went. A two-piece horn section added soul to the Memphis band’s sorrow-soaked whiskey rock. The Menzingers kicked off the day with a scorching set, one that conjured an image of Against Me! with an added dose of punk venom, or a version of The Hot Snakes that focuses on anthems inside of searing guitar.

English band Sharks are an exciting, young bunch of Clash acolytes, playing wiry punk rock with working class vigor. The Aggrolites brought soul and early rock ‘n roll sounds to a reggae beat. As I was preparing to see Against Me! the rains started. I got soaked as Big D & the Kids’ Table danced through their fun-loving set of jokey ska tunes. After that I took cover until it was time to trek across Council Bluffs to Stir Cove at Harrah’s for The Flaming Lips. As I arrived Cloudland Canyon was wrapping up its swirling, psychedelic instrumental odes to Animal Collective. The Flaming Lips took the stage much the way they did when they played Stir Cove in 2006. Frontman Wayne Coyne ventured out on top of the crowd in his inflatable space ball, then the band’s stage show filled the air with floating balloons and confetti. Meanwhile, the set itself seemed to run short on songs, omitting quantity for long-form noise jams.

And she did just that. After awhile, Winter realized she could translate her poems into songs easily. She asked for a guitar for Christmas and taught herself to play chords.

Some of her early influences were ’90s grunge bands like Nirvana (much to the chagrin of her parents, who only allowed Christian music). Lately, she credits Kings of Leon, Florence and the Machine, Adele and Regina Spektor as some of her favorites. She also admires local acts such as Sarah Benck, Tara Vaughan, Rock Paper Dynamite and Matt Cox. Winter has toured and performed with some of these artists, as well as others throughout the Midwest. In her new ventures, Winter is working on performing in Paris as well as China next year. , Jes Winter’s Bloom CD release party is Thursday, Aug. 11, at the Waiting Room at 8 p.m. She will be performing music from her new album with special opening guests Sarah Benck, Boring Daylights and Matt Cox. Bloom will be available on iTunes and Pandora. For more information, go to www. jeswintermusic.com

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Lord knows, it wasn’t easy. Along the way, their rugged path was filled with unexpected turns, frustrating indecisiveness, and last-minute demands.

And though everything is in place just days before show time, as is the case with any outdoor festival its success is far from guaranteed -- even the best-made plans mean nothing in the face of monsoon rains.

But why even consider such a bleak possibility?

Regardless of the weather, they’ve got a lot to be proud of. Saturday’s MAHA concert will mark the third-to-last appearance ever of Guided By Voices (see story pg. __), as well as a reunion of the original Cursive lineup (with powerhouse Clint Schnase on drums) and a rare Midwestern festival appearance by J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. It’s going to be a veritable smorgasbord of classic indie rock.

On the downside: You won’t see a single female musician on stage the entire afternoon. Not one.

It’s a fact that MAHA organizer Tre Brashear said couldn’t be avoided, despite all of their efforts.

“Realistically, I think it shows how in demand female performers are,” he said of the scheduling challenge. “We made several offers (to female-fronted bands) because we think it’s important, but just couldn’t get it done. Looking back, the time we ‘lost’ waiting for commitments that didn’t happen impacted our ability to secure female artists, because those female artists were committing to other shows during that time.”

In fact, Brashear said dealing with indecisive bands was the hardest part of piecing together this year’s program. “We received several tentative commitments that ended up backing out,” he said.

In the end, he was more than satisfied with the final lineup, so much so that this year MAHA marketed beyond the city limits. “We have advertised more nationally,” Brashear said. “Also, our street team work has been much more regional, with people at the 80/35 Festival, Pitchfork, Lollapalooza and Kanrocksas.”

But despite the extra marketing, tickets sales are “pretty comparable” to last year at this time, he said. “Although this is also when we see a surge, after people have seen the weather forecast and know that they have no other conflicts that weekend.”

Brashear said ticket sales comprise roughly half of MAHA’s revenue, with sponsors filling in the other half. “We don’t have a set number of tickets that we have to (sell) to keep doing MAHA, but sales do matter in terms of showing that this whole effort is ‘worth it,’” he said.

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“Since we started doing this, much has changed,” Brashear said. “There’s Kansrocksas, Red Sky, indie shows at Stir, increased success by 1% (Productions).

Heck, even Hullabaloo (held last week at River West Park) is meeting a need for ‘camping and music,’ Given all that, ticket sales matter because they show that people like our event and think it is different than what is out there. Positive comments in social media are nice, but people ‘vote’ with their money.”

They also vote with sponsorships. MAHA continues to attract support from some of the area’s largest companies, including TD Ameritrade (main stage sponsor), Kum & Go (local stage sponsor) and Weitz Funds. This year Whole Foods joined the project as a sponsor, vendor, even filling the bands’ riders.

That extra help will come in handy, as the seemingly unending Missouri River floods forced the event from its former home at Lewis & Clark Landing to Stinson Park at Aksarben Village. Despite the benefit of Stinson’s fixed stage, the move from the Landing will mean higher costs for things like fencing, generators and overnight labor (everything has to be cleared out by Sunday morning, in time for the weekly Farmer’s Market).

Helping them figure out how to pull it off was last month’s Playing With Fire concert that featured Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings -- an event that also had been moved from Lewis & Clark Landing to Stinson Park. By watching PWF, Brashear and his team not only saw how their event could look and sound, they saw ways to improve on PWF’s event design.

“We learned that you need to work to integrate the east side of the area so it doesn’t get ‘forgotten’ with all the activity on the north and west ends,” Brashear said. “We also learned that the park is so big that you need to have a satellite beer/drink stand.”

As a result, MAHA is moving the entrance and the drink ticket windows to the northeast corner of the park, on Mercy Street, forcing patrons to walk past the vendors, which this year includes Mangia Italiana, Parthenon and eCreamery. Featured nonprofit organizations, such as Omaha Girls Rock, Joslyn Art Museum and Omaha Public Library, will see their tents located on the park’s east end to improve foot traffic in that area.

“As for the satellite drink stand, we’ll have one located along the south side, in addition to the primary tent on Mercy Street,” Brashear said. Refreshments will include Lucky Bucket Lager and IPA, PBR, Coors Light, Mike’s Hard Lemonade, three kinds of premade mixed drinks, and for you teetotalers, Pepsi products, Red Bull, iced tea and bottled water.

Sounds like they got it all covered. Even Accuweather is predicting 82 and sunny. Will it be a record year for MAHA? Buy a ticket and find out. ,

LAZY-I is a weekly column by long-time Reader senior contributing writer Tim McMahan focused on the Omaha music scene. Check out Tim’s daily music news updates at his website, lazy-i.com, or email him at lazy-i@thereader.com.

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Garrett is a roots star on the rise. Check joshgarrettmusic. com for more. He and his great band plug in at Lincoln’s Zoo Bar Saturday, Aug. 13, after 9 p.m.

Also at the Zoo: An Omaha musician who has transplanted to Austin, Cass Brostad, brings her Guided by Vices tour featuring new Austin friends Mandy Rowden and Charlie Mason to the Zoo Thursday, Aug. 11, after 9 p.m.

On Friday, Aug. 12, it’s jazz with The Darryl White Quartet after 9 p.m. Keyboardist Nick Semrad performs with acclaimed trumpeter Darryl White, bassist Seth Ondracek and guest percussionist Dana Murray. Murray has played with Wynton Marsalis and Norah Jones. Visit zoobar.com for details.

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English Guitarist Russ Tippins: Pacific Street Blues radio show host Rick Galusha presents England’s Russ Tippins Band at Gator O’Malley’s Thursday, Aug. 11, after 9 p.m. Galusha is enthused about “Tippins’ mix of Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) vocals over Humble Pie arena bluesrock [guitar] styling.” See russtippins.com and KIWRBlues.PodOMatic.com.

21st Saloon Blues: Thursday, Aug. 11, Texas guitarist Andrew “Jr. Boy” Jones rocks the 21st.

On Thursday, Aug. 18, it’s Chicago blues-rocker Ronnie Baker Brooks. Shows start at 5:30 p.m. See OmahaBlues.com.

Hot Notes: Kim Bowen hosts Slowpoker’s, a Neil Young tribute band, visiting from Italy. They have a welcome acoustic jam at the Benson Grind on Friday, Aug. 12, 8 p.m.

The full Slowpoker’s band plays The Waiting Room Sunday, Aug. 21 at 8 p.m. See reverbnation.com/slowpokers.

Lincoln’s Ribfest Aug. 11 through 14 features great music including The Derailers and The Bel Airs. See pershingcenter.com/ribfest.

The Ruthie Foster show scheduled for Glenwood, Iowa, Aug. 13 is cancelled. ,

Hoodoo is a weekly column focusing on blues, roots, Americana and occasional other music styles with an emphasis on live music performances. Hoodoo columnist B.J. Huchtemann is a Reader senior contributing writer and veteran music journalist who has covered the local music scene for nearly 20 years. Follow her blog at hoodoorootsblues.blogspot.com.

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RUSS TIPPINS BAND, (Blues) 9 pm, Gator O’Malley’s.

NATE BRAY, (Jazz) 6 pm, Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen, FREE. ESCAPE THE FIRE, FORWARD FERRETT, (Rock) 9 pm,

Knickerbockers.

BLUE BIRD, MACHINEGUN MOJO, (Rock) 9 pm, Mojo

Smokehouse & Ales, $5.

ENVY ACOUSTIC TRIO, (Folk/Singer-Songwriter) 9 pm,

Myth Martini Bar, FREE. THE LEPERS, SNAKE ISLAND, DIGGER, (Rock) 9:30 pm,

O’Leaver’s Pub, $5.

SMOOTH JAZZ THURSDAYS FEAT. GEORGE WALKER,

(Jazz) 6:30 pm, OzoNE Lounge at Anthony’s

Steakhouse, FREE. KRIS LAGER, (Rock) 9 pm, Pizza Shoppe Collective, $5.

BURGUNDY AND GRAY, (Blues) 9 pm, Rick’s Boatyard Cafe.

THE SHIDIOTS, THEM DAMNED YOUNG LIVERS, THE FALL DOWN DRUNKS, FILTHY FRESH AND THE SCUMBAGS, (Rock/Punk) 9 pm, Shamrock’s Pub &

Grill, $5.

KMFDM, ARMY OF THE UNIVERSE, 16 VOLT, HUMAN

FACTORS LAB, (Rock) 8 pm, Slowdown, $25.

STEVE LUCKY AND THE RHUMBA BUMS FEATURING MISS

CARMEN GETIT, (Jazz) 7 pm, Turner Park, FREE. THE JES WINTER BAND, MATT COX, THE BORING DAYLIGHTS, (Folk/Singer-Songwriter) 9 pm, Waiting

Room, $7.

SKRETTA ETC., (Cover Band) 9 pm, Whiskey Roadhouse

(Horseshoe Casino), FREE.

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ANDREW “JR. BOY” JONES, (Blues) 5:30 pm, 21st Saloon,

$9.

RASPUTINA, SMOKE FAIRIES, (Rock) 7 pm, Bourbon

Theater, $13.

BIG SCOTT ALLAN, (Cover Band) 9 pm, Firewater Grille,

FREE.

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READER RECOMMENDS

GUIDED BY VICES TOUR WITH CASS BROSTAD, MANDY ROWDON, CHARLIE MASON, (Rock) 9 pm, Zoo Bar,

$5.

RACHAEL MCLEOD’S CD RELEASE WITH THE LIGHTNING

BUGS, (Rock) 6 pm, Zoo Bar, $5.

FRIDAY 12

MOON JUICE, (Cover Band) 9 pm, Arena Bar & Grill, FREE. THE BLUES MECHANICS FEATURING DR. SPIT, (Blues) 9

pm, Bob’s Tavern.

FOR RICHARD OR PRYOR, SPUTNIK KAPUTNIK, (Rock) 9

pm, Bourbon Theater.

SHOOT TO THRILL, (Cover Band) 9:30 pm, Chrome

Lounge.

TIJUANA GIGOLOS, (Blues) 6 pm, Duggan’s Pub, $5.

DOWN TO HERE UNPLUGGED, (Cover Band) 9 pm,

Firewater Grille, FREE.

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SARABANDE, (Jazz) 7 pm, Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen, FREE. ACADEMY OF ROCK, (Rock) 6 pm, Knickerbockers.

XENIA RUBINOS, TOM FICKE, (Folk/Singer-Songwriter) 9

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LEMON FRESH DAY, (Cover Band) 9 pm, Loose Moose,

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READER RECOMMENDS NEW LUNGS, BIRTHDAY SUITS, SOLID GOLDBERG,

(Rock) 9:30 pm, O’Leaver’s Pub, $5.

GRAND THEFT GIRLFRIEND, (Cover Band) 9 pm, OzoNE

Lounge at Anthony’s Steakhouse, FREE. CHRIS SAUB, (Cover Band) 6:30 pm, Shadow Lake Towne

Center, FREE. THE DIVE KINGS, THE MINNAHOONIES, HOOKSHOT,

(Rock) 9 pm, Shamrock’s Pub & Grill.

BRANDI CARLILE, IVAN & ALYOSHA, (Folk/

Singer-Songwriter) 8 pm, Slowdown, Advance: $26;

DOS: $30.

SWAMPBOY BLUES BAND, (Blues) 7 pm, Soaring Wings

Vineyard, $5.

WORDS LIKE DAGGERS, SHADOW OF INDRA, TAKING STRIDES, ENSLAVED SANITY, HOPEFORTHEFALLEN, AFTERMATH, (Rock) 6 pm, Sokol Hall & Auditorium,

Adults: $10; Students: $8.

READER RECOMMENDS

DEBBIE GIBSON, TIFFANY, (Pop) 8 pm, Stir Concert Cove,

Advance: $25; DOS: $30.

FEVER AND THE FUNKHOUSE, (Cover Band) 11 pm, Stir

Live & Loud, FREE Cove After Party.

HI-FI HANGOVER, (Cover Band) 9 pm, Two Fine Irishmen,

FREE. NASHVILLE REJECTS, (Country) 9 pm, Uncle Ron’s.

THE END IN RED, VOODOO METHOD, WE BE LIONS, AGAINST THE ARTIFICIAL, CIVICMINDED, (Rock) 9

pm, Waiting Room, $7.

BLUE HOUSE, (Cover Band) 9 pm, Whiskey Roadhouse

(Horseshoe Casino), FREE. DARYL WHITE QUARTET, DANA MURRAY, (Blues) 9 pm,

Zoo Bar, $6.

BLUES PROJECT, (Blues) 5 pm, Zoo Bar, $5.

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CAPTAIN OBVIOUS, (Cover Band) 9 pm, Arena Bar & Grill,

FREE. KEEGAN DEWITT, MADI DIAZ, (Folk/Singer-Songwriter) 9

pm, Bourbon Theater.

ACADEMY OF ROCK, (Rock) 6 pm, Duffy’s Tavern.

BLUES MECHANICS, (Blues) 9 pm, Fort Crook, FREE. THE JACKS, (Blues) 9 pm, Gator O’Malley’s.

NIGHT SHAKERS TRIO, (Jazz) 7 pm, Jazz, A Louisiana

Kitchen.

HALF DEMON DOLL, (Rock) 6 pm, Knickerbockers.

GHOST TOWN RADIO, GUILTY IS THE BEAR, (Rock) 9 pm,

Knickerbockers.

THE LABELS, (Cover Band) 9 pm, Loose Moose, FREE. RISE FROM RUIN, VAGO, ILLUMINATI, IN THE ATTACK, HOOKSHOT, CALLING CODY, FROM DUST, SECTION

8,, (Rock/Metal) 3 pm, Louis Bar and Grill, Advance:

$12; DOS: $15.

WGO SOUL REVUE, (Cover Band) 9 pm, OzoNE Lounge at

Anthony’s Steakhouse, FREE. LEMON FRESH DAY, (Cover Band) 9:45 pm, Red9.

HIDDEN AGENDA, (Rock) 9 pm, Shamrock’s Pub & Grill.

THE FIRM, (Rock) 9:30 pm, Side Door Lounge, FREE. SALVATION ARMY RELIEF BENEFIT WITH ECKOPHONIC,

GROOVE PUPPET, (Cover Band) 9 pm, Slowdown, $5.

VITOSUS, COLDSWEAT, PAISTY JENNY, COINCIDE,

ILLUMINATI, (Rock) 6 pm, Sokol Hall & Auditorium,

$7.

READER RECOMMENDS

MAHA MUSIC FESTIVAL W/ GUIDED BY VOICES, J

MASCIS, MATISYAHU, CURSIVE, THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT, (Rock) 12 pm, Stinson Park at

Aksarben Village, Advance: $30; DOS: $35.

BUSH, (Rock) 8 pm, Stir Concert Cove, Advance: $30; DOS:

$35.

ALTER EGO, (Cover Band) 11 pm, Stir Live & Loud, FREE

Cove After Party.

MAHA AFTER PARTY WITH DJ M BOWEN AND DJ SLEEPY HOUSE, (DJ/Electronic) 9 pm, Waiting Room, $5.

CHRIS SAUB, (Folk/Singer-Songwriter) 7:30 pm, Woodcliff

Restaurant.

JOSH GARRETT AND THE BOTTOMLINE, (Blues) 9 pm,

Zoo Bar, $10.

SUNDAY 14

RADIATION CITY, MAN’S LAST GREAT INVENTION, GREEN TREES, (Rock) 7 pm, Clawfoot House, $5.

THE MACHETE ARCHIVE, CARROT CARROT, WOODSMAN,

(Rock) 6 pm, Duffy’s Tavern, $5.

TECHNOLOGICAL EPIDEMIC, SCRATCH HOWL, WEST

VALLEY, RAZORS, ZACH SHORT, (Rock) 7 pm, Pizza

Shoppe Collective, $5.

READER RECOMMENDS

GLASS OF MILK, THE GOLDEN HOUR, PANDA FACE, SOFA

CITY SWEETHEART, PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES!, &

MORE, (Pop) 2 pm, Side Door Lounge, $7.

THE SUMMER SAVIORS TOUR, (Rock) 4:30 pm, Sokol Hall

& Auditorium, Advance: $10; DOS: $12.

GORILLA PRODUCTIONS BATTLE OF THE BANDS, (Rock) 4

pm, Waiting Room, Advance: $8; DOS: $10.

MONDAY 15

CARPE GEEKDOM, THE HOWL, MOJO BAG, ARMY OF

2600, (Rock) 8 pm, Pizza Shoppe Collective, $5.

READER RECOMMENDS

DOYLE DYKES, (Blues) 7 pm, Rococo Theater, $20.

GRANDFATHER, LIGHTNING BUG, FAMILY PICNIC, (Rock)

9 pm, Slowdown, $6.

SAVING ABEL, EVE TO ADAM, CANDLELIGHT RED, (Rock)

6:30 pm, The Grove, Advance: $15; DOS $20.

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READER RECOMMENDS NASHVILLE PUSSY, THE DWARVES, MUSTACHE, DICK DELICIOUS AND THE TASTY TESTACLES, (Rock/Punk)

8 pm, Bourbon Theater, Advance: $15; DOS: $18.

JAY PSAROS, OLIVIA BROWNLEE, ON APPROACH, (Rock)

9 pm, Knickerbockers.

ACOUSTIC TUESDAYS FEAT. UN-CUT, (Cover Band) 6:30

pm, OzoNE Lounge at Anthony’s Steakhouse, FREE. FORTUNATE YOUTH, JOSH HIENRICS, (Rock) 8:30 pm,

Sokol Hall & Auditorium, Advance: $8; DOS: $10.

SOFT ROCK CAFE W/ DJ M BOWEN, (DJ/Electronic) 9 pm,

Waiting Room, FREE. ONCE A PAWN, VOICES OF ADDICTION, WINNERS, ATOMOTA, (Rock) 9:30 pm, Zoo Bar, $5.

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THRONES, WASTEOID, VICKERS, (Rock) 7 pm, Bourbon

Theater, $7.

THE MIDLAND BAND, YOU BEAUTIFUL CREATURE, (Rock)

9 pm, Duffy’s Tavern, $5; Under 21: $7.

A DIFFERENT BREED, SUNSET RIOT, (Rock) 6 pm,

Knickerbockers.

NOSTALGIA WEDNESDAY’S FEATURING THE GREAT

IMPOSTERS, (Cover Band) 6:30 pm, OzoNE Lounge at

Anthony’s Steakhouse, FREE. RANDY BURKE, (Folk/Singer-Songwriter) 8 pm, Pizza

Shoppe Collective, $5.

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VOICE OF ADDICTION, THE ATOM AGE, CORDIAL SPEW, THE SHIDIOTS, EASTERN TURKISH, (Rock/Punk)

7:30 pm, The Hole, $6.

RYAN MCLEAY, (Folk/Singer-Songwriter) 9 pm, Two Fine

Irishmen, FREE. ROBERT JOHN & THE WRECK, FIELD CLUB, SAM AND TOM, MIKE HARVAT, (Rock/Folk/Singer-Songwriter/

Blues) 8 pm, Waiting Room, $7.

PRETTY GOOD DANCE MOVES, TIME HAMMER, (Rock)

9:30 pm, Zoo Bar, $5.

DAVID VIDAL, THE HUNDRED MILES, (Blues) 6 pm, Zoo

Bar, $6.

VENUES Ameristar Casino, 2200 River Rd., Council Bluffs, ameristar.com Arena Bar & Grill, 3809 N. 90th St., 571.2310, arenaomaha.com BarFly, 707 N. 114th St., 504.4811 Barley Street Tavern, 2735 N. 62nd St., 554.5834, barleystreet.com Bourbon Theatre, 1415 O St., Lincoln, 730.5695 Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 O St., Lincoln, 474.3453, myspace.com/ duffystavern The Hideout, 302 S. 72nd St. Knickerbocker’s, 901 O St., Lincoln, 476.6865, knickerbockers.net LIV Lounge, 2279 S. 67th St. livlounge.com Louis Bar and Grill, 5702 NW Radial Hwy., 551.5993 McKenna’s Blues, Booze & BBQ, 7425 Pacific St., 393.7427, mckennasbbq.com New Lift Lounge, 4737 S. 96th St., 339.7170 O’Leaver’s Pub, 1322 S. Saddle Creek Rd., 556.1238, myspace. com/oleaverspub

Ozone Lounge at Anthony’s Steakhouse, 72nd and F, 331.7575, ozoneclubomaha.com.

Pizza Shoppe Collective, 6056 Maple St., 556.9090, pscollective.com Qwest, 455 N. 10th St., qwestcenteromaha.com Side Door, 3530 Leavenworth St., 504.3444.

Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St., 345.7569, theslowdown.com Sokol Hall, 2234 S. 13th St., 346.9802, sokolundergound.com The Sydney, 5918 Maple St., 932.9262, thesydneybenson.com Stir, 1 Harrahs Blvd., Council Bluffs, harrahs.com Venue 162, 162 W. Broadway, Council Bluffs, 712.256.7768, myspace.com/venue162 Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St., 884.5353, waitingroomlounge.com Whiskey Roadhouse, Horseshoe Casino, 2701 32nd Ave., Council Bluffs, whiskeyroadhouse.com Your Mom’s Downtown Bar, 1512 Howard St., 345.0180 Zoo Bar, 136 N.14th St., Lincoln, zoobar.com

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MAHA 2011 returns with the “classic” lineup of Guided By Voices, J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., international reggae superstar Matisyahu, Cursive (no explanation needed), one of the best showmen in the business, The Reverend Horton Heat, and regional favorites The Envy Corps.

saTurday, 8/13/11 12:00PM @ aKsarBen Village

MAHA MUSIC FESTIVAL 2011

Thursday, 8/11/11 9:00PM @ The waiTing rooM The Jes winTer Band

SPOtlIGHt SHOW

Thursday, 8/11/11 8:00PM @ slowdown KMFdM

Friday, 8/12/11 9:00PM @ The waiTing rooM The end in red

w/ Matt Cox & The Boring Daylights

w/ Army of the Universe, 16 Volt, & Human Factors Lab

Friday, 8/12/11 8:00PM @ slowdown Brandi Carlile w/ Ivan & Alyosha

saTurday, 8/13/11 9:00PM @ The waiTing rooM Maha aFTer ParTy

w/ DJ M Bowen & DJ Sleepy House

sunday, 8/14/11 4:00PM @ The waiTing rooM gorilla ProduCTions BaTTle oF The Bands

Monday, 8/15/11 9:00PM @ The waiTing rooM - 21+ MonTy Mondays PresenTs:

Tuesday, 8/16/11 9:00PM @ The waiTing rooM - 21+ soFT roCK CaFe

wednesday, 8/17/11 8:00PM @ The waiTing rooM roBerT Jon & The wreCK

Life Of Brian

8/18/11 BLOODCOW 8/18/11 YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND 8/19/11 YESTERDAY AND TODAY 8/19/11 THE ANSWER TEAM 8/20/11 BENSON SUMMER FUNK FESTIVAL 8/21/11 ALL TIME LOW 8/22/11 PINBALL PARTY 8/24/11 DILLARD’S THREE DAY SALE 8/26/11 NOAH’S ARK WAS A SPACESHIP 8/27/11 MEET YOUR MAKER

w/ Voodoo Method, We Be Lions, Against The Artificial, & Civicminded

w/ Field Club, Sam and Tom, & Mike Harvat

8/28/11 BLAGGARDS 8/29/11 BOOZE, BANDS, & BBQ 8/31/11 TIES 9/01/11 BLUE BIRD 9/01/11 AN EVENING WITH GAELIC STORM 9/02/11 JIMMY HOOLIGAN CD RELEASE 9/03/11 HIP-TRONICA 9/04/11 TWO GALLANTS 9/06/11 IMPENDING DOOM 9/07/11 GREAT AMERICAN TAXI

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ringing an iconic film back to life is no easy feat, let alone an iconic film series.

Because no one seemed to be happy with Tim Burton’s attempt to remake Planet of the Apes in 2001, director Rupert Wyatt’s origin story, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, probably always had the odds in its favor. Thankfully, it didn’t need them. Despite its flaws, which are the usual heavy-handed trappings of science fiction, this is a sharp, well-made popcorn adventure of the best kind.

Although his miracle drug was intended to cure Alzheimer ‘s disease in humans, when Dr. Will Rodman (James Franco) tests it on monkeys, he discovers it not only heals the brain, it actually improves it. After his research funding falls through, the primate test subjects are promptly euthanized; however, Will manages to save one infant, which he names Caesar, with traces of the drug in his blood. Hidden away at home with Will’s father (John Lithgow), Caesar’s size, strength and intelligence increase year after year.

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Caesar is eventually separated from his pleasant life with Will and forced to live with violent, unenlightened apes in a primate sanctuary. After a handful of heartbreaking visits from Will and plenty of abuses from the sanctuary staff, Caesar uses his brains to lead the other primates and incite what amounts to an ape uprising in San Francisco.

A well-tuned thriller, Apes one-ups other

that anger with him for the entire second half of the movie.

As if Apes’ very serious script and execution could possibly allow anyone to miss it, this story of monkeys escaping captivity is a stand-in for any human uprising you’d care to choose. What’s most interesting in this context is that the apes’ oppressors are the humans of the present: us.

Of course, the apes themselves are what make it such effective blockbuster entertainment. Although the surreal, campy qualities of the original series’ makeup effects are missed, this new Apes is set in a recognizable present-day world and is served well by its realism.

Celebrated motion-capture actor Andy Serkis, who played the titular primate in Peter Jackson’s 2005 King Kong and Gollum in Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, provides Caesar’s movements and mannerisms.

It’s as big and loud as any other action spectacle, and despite its inherent political undercurrent, Wyatt does keep it just light THE RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES enough to avoid being overbearend-of-days pictures by putting us on the side of ing. With so many reboots and remakes being the hairy insurgents and leaving no doubt as to churned out of Hollywood every year, Rise of the whether our species had it coming. True, Caesar Planet of the Apes stands as a rare example of reis a nonviolent revolutionary, and he and his imagining done with imagination. It leaves one followers are trying to escape human society, not only optimistic about the inevitable sequels not necessarily overthrow it. But Caesar’s fury but downright excited. , GRADE: B is still intense, and Wyatt makes sure we share

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■ Stop! You’re eating wrong. And I don’t just mean the way you hold a spoon, which is really just astonishingly incorrect. On Tuesday, Aug 30, Film Streams (filmstreams.org) and Whole Foods Market Omaha are presenting a special screening of Forks Over Knives, which is sadly not a documentary about a cool new hand game that replaces “rock paper scissors.” The film examines the idea that degenerative illnesses can be controlled or reversed by switching to a plant-based diet. Depending on how convincing the material is, your stomach contents may never be the same!

■ I am super excited for Filth. That didn’t sound right. That is to say, I’m excited for the upcoming adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s “Filth,” a novel I wrote about in graduate school. Of course, way back then, I didn’t envision the tale of an evil Edinburgh cop with a tapeworm who has his own ongoing monologue actually becoming a movie, let alone one starring James McAvoy, Jamie Bell and Alan Cumming. I know McAvoy is the cop, Bell is the sidekick and Cumming is the boss, but I’m really curious as to who is playing the tapeworm. Given his life experience as a parasite, I vote for “The Situation” from “Jersey Shore.”

■ Speaking of whack-a-do adaptations, howsabout David Cronenberg trying to be the first to get a Jonathan Lethem novel on the big screen? As She Climbed Across the Table has a plot description that reads like a peyote-enhanced nightmare, what with a semi-sentient black hole and all. But if anyone can will insanity to the big screen, it’s our man Cronenberg. That’s two lunatic literary works on their way to theaters! Take that, sequelitis!

— 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), and also catch him on the radio on CD 105.9 (cd1059.com) Fridays at around 7:30 a.m. and follow him on Twitter (twitter.com/thereaderfilm).

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Starts Friday, August 12

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Screwball Comedies Trouble in Paradise 1932 Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

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Tabloid tells a torrid, twisted tale

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f Joyce McKinney’s life were a work of fiction, her author would have been mocked. Thankfully, master documentarian Errol Morris didn’t invent her, he simply found her.

Morris (Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, Fog of War) again shows his ability to mine absurd and obsessive personalities for darkly humorous and dramatic stories. Tabloid is disorienting and baffling, packed with un-documentary-like titillation. Al- tabloid though its subject matter may be of somewhat trifling consequence, it’s hard to remember the last time a documentary was this wildly entertaining.

The thrust of the film is spent investigating the salacious events of McKinney’s trip to London in the late 1970s. One of two things happened: either McKinney had a Romeo-and-Juliet reunion with her lost love, Kirk Anderson, who had been brainwashed into strict Mormonism, or she kidnapped a devoutly religious man during a missionary trip, tied him to a bed and turned their remote English cabin into the sex party capitol of the U.K. The British tabloids decided that true love didn’t sell quite as many papers as “The Mormon Sex in Chains Case,” so they didn’t wait for the evidence to mount before splashing tawdry headlines.

And it probably wouldn’t have mattered if they did. The more information provided, the more illogical and hazy this story becomes. Is it more reasonable to believe that the then-22-year-old McKinney was an obsessive rapist or that Anderson invented his abduction out of guilt at having violated his Mormon faith by playing horizontal Yahtzee with a beauty queen who loved him. Right at the point in the documentary when McKinney

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seems to be a sweet but gently insane woman who was betrayed by a person she thought was her one true love, Morris tells us what the British rags reported: McKinney was a call girl with a penchant for legal trouble and owner of a wild imagination.

Tabloid isn’t obsessed with answers, as Morris’ body of work is more about a thematic exploration of how every method of truth-seeking is fundamentally flawed. At varying points in his career, Morris has popped the reliability of newspapers, individual people, photographs and newspapers like balloons stored on a bed of nails.

What’s remarkable is that Tabloid also keeps an air of tragedy despite a whimsical and comic spirit.

This is best exemplified in the depiction of McKinney’s final brush with fame, when she was the first person to have her dead dog cloned. Somehow Morris balances the lunacy of a story that began with S&M and Mormonism and ends with puppy reincarnation with a sense of pity for McKinney, who by all accounts at least cared for Anderson enough to never find love again.

Morris is a master of the little touches, like using a device that projects his image in front of the camera when interviewing his subjects so that they must look both in his eyes and directly at the lens.

But he always remembers the biggest rule of documentary filmmaking: The subject need not be of great importance, but it must be fascinating. Tabloid is nothing if not relentlessly interesting. ,

GRADE: B+ Editor’s Note: Joyce McKinney contacted this paper as we prepared to go to press to dispute Morris’ depiction of her, calling the film a “celluloid catastrophe.” While not expected in Omaha this weekend, she has been known to attend screeners to protest the movie’s telling of her story.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 BAll mostly average things must come to an end...

Beginners A modern morality tale packed with love of all kinds.

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Horrible Bosses Recession got you down? Fantasize about boss murder!

Captain America Old-school action that only a Nazi would hate.

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The Lincoln Lawyer (ON DVD) C+ Matthew McConaughey is back…and more mediocre than ever.

Crazy, Stupid Love BOld-fashioned laughs without slapstick puking? It can’t be!

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Help Support Your Local Community American Red Cross blood drive Saturday, Aug. 20, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., participating donors will receive a coupon for a free baklava sundae. www.redcrossblood.org enter sponsor code 2632 Siena/Francis House food bank – free admission at the gate with canned goods donation. www.sienafrancis.org Visit www.greekfestomaha.com for more information and free admission tickets.

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Cultural Diversity “Hundreds” of blondes paraded through Riga, Latvia, on May 28 at the third annual “March of the Blondes” festival designed to lift the country’s spirits following a rough stretch for the economy.

More than 500 blondes registered, including 15 from New Zealand, seven from Finland and 32 from Lithuania, according to a woman who told Agence France-Presse that she was the head of the Latvian Association of Blondes. Money collected during the event goes to local charities.

Snakes on a Train! A clumsy smuggler (who managed to get away) failed to contain the dozens of king cobras and other snakes he was transporting from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to Hanoi (probably to be sold illegally to restaurants). After panic broke out on the train and police were called, the snakes were collected and turned over to a sanctuary. (Upscale restaurants can charge as much as the equivalent of $500 for a meal of king cobra, beginning with the selection of the snake, and having it killed at tableside, on to a serving of a snake’s-blood appetizer. In one survey,

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84 percent of Hanoi’s restaurants were serving illegal wild animals of some sort, including weasel, monitor lizard and porcupine.)

Questionable Judgments The Talented Mr. Zhou: Zhou Xin, 68, failed to get a callback from the judges for the “China’s Got Talent” TV reality show in June, according to a CNN report (after judge Annie Yi screamed in horror at his act).

Zhou is a practitioner of one of the “72 Shaolin skills,” namely “iron crotch gong,” and for his “talent,” he stoically whacked himself in the testicles with a weight and then with a hammer.

The elegant, expansive, gleaming new glass-and-concrete indoor stairway at the Common Pleas Courthouse in Columbus, Ohio, opened recently, to mostly rave reviews for its sense of space and light, creating the feeling of walking suspended on air. However, as Judge Julie Lynch and other women soon discovered, the glass partitions at each step make it easy for perverts to gawk from underneath at dress-wearing women using the stairs. “(Y)ou’re on notice,” Judge Lynch warned her sister dress-wearers, “that you might want to take the elevator.”

Pablo Borgen has apparently been living without neighbors’ complaints in Lakeland, Fla., despite general knowledge that he is, according to sheriff ’s officials, one of the area’s major heroin traffickers, bringing in tens of thousands of dollars a month.

Following a drug sting in June, however, neighbors discovered another fact about Borgen: that he and some of his gang were each drawing $900 a month in food stamps. Formerly indifferent neighbors were outraged by Borgen’s abuse of benefits, according to WTSP-TV. “Hang him by his toes,” said one. “I’ve been out of work since February (2008). I lived for a year on nothing but ... food stamps.”

Roy Miracle, 80, of Newark, Ohio, passed away in July, and his family honored him and his years of service as a prankster and superfan of the Ohio State

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Buckeyes with a commemorative photo of three of Miracle’s fellow obsessives making contorted-body representations of “O,” “H” and “O” for their traditional visual cheer. In the photo, Miracle assumed his usual position as the “I” -- or, rather, his corpse did. (Despite some criticism, most family and friends thought Miracle was properly honored.)

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Latest Religious Messages The Envy of U.S. Televangelists: In July, after India’s Supreme Court ordered an inventory, a Hindu temple in Trivandrum was found to contain at least $22 billion worth of gold, diamonds and jeweled statues given as offerings to the deity by worshippers over several centuries. The wealth was until now believed to be the property of India’s royal family, but the Supreme Court ruling turns it over to India’s people. Authorities believe the “$22 billion” figure is conservative.

The notorious Santa Croce monastery in Rome was closed in May (and converted to an ordinary church) on orders from the Vatican following reports about Sister Anna Nobili, a former lap-dancer who taught other nuns her skills and who was once seen lying spread-eagled before an altar clutching a crucifix. Santa Croce was also an embarrassment for its luxury hotel, which had become a mecca for celebrities visiting Rome.

Cutting-Edge Research It’s good to be an Arizona State University student, where those 21 and older can earn $60 a night by getting drunk. Psychology professor Will Corbin, operating with National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grants, conducts studies of drunk students’ memories, response times and decision-making processes through extensive questioning -- after he has raised their blood-alcohol level to precisely 0.08 percent (which Arizona regards as presumed-impaired for drivers). Students are served one type of vodka cocktail, three drinks’ worth, in a bar-like room on campus, and after 15 minutes to let

Not Ready For Prime Time: Ryan Letchford, 21, and Jeffrey Olson, 22, were arrested in Radnor, Pa., in July after they had broken into a police van for the purpose of taking gag photos of themselves as if they were under arrest. However, the men somehow locked themselves inside the van, and neither they nor a friend they had called to come help could figure out how to open the doors. Finally, they were forced to call 9-1-1. Police arrived, unlocked the van, arrested the men, and locked them back up -- inside a cell.

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Recurring Themes In June, Eric Carrier, 23, of Hooksett, N.H., became the most recent person arrested for running a scam on a home-healthcare worker by pretending to be disabled and in need of someone to change his adult diapers.

Carrier first told the woman that he was the father of a man disabled by a brain injury, but when she reported for work, it was Carrier himself wearing the diaper and who demanded changing and who allegedly indecently exposed himself.

News of the Weird Classic Two undercover policewomen running a prostitution sting in Dothan, Ala., in October (1999) declined to arrest a pickup-truck-driving john, around age 70, despite his three attempts to procure their services. He first offered the women the three squirrels he had just shot, but they ignored him (too much trouble to log in and store the evidence). A few minutes later, he sweetened the offer with the used refrigerator in the back of his truck, but the officers again declined (same reason). On the third trip, he finally offered cash: $6 (but no squirrels or refrigerator). The officers again declined. They later said they had resolved to arrest him if he returned, but he did not. ,

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—MOJOPOPlanetPower.com e LEO (7.23-8.22) Here comes the Fool Moon in your opposite sign Saturday, August 13th, while Mercury retrogrades in Virgo opposite a retrograding Neptune in early Pisces. I can hear you thinking, “What’s that gotta (expletive deleted) do with me?” Well, how does the MOJO know that right now you’re receptive to (or receiving) an illusionary ideal (or a deal) of how gaining other people’s money is pulling/faceting/affecting your concept of selfworth, and how it affects the confidence you pitch in the delivery of your selling of yourself. Close?

It should manifest in a month and a half, during the last week in September. f VIRGO (8.23-9.22) Dear fools, oh God! It’s all gonna be your fault — especially the August Virgos. Take a three-week vacation, whether you’re allowed to or not. Everyone else (in your life) is … How does the MOJO know — that everything that can mess up — will. We’ll talk about it at my Fool Moon lecture at 6118 Military, on Saturday at 1:00. g LIBRA (9.23-10.22) Lookin’ good at a party?

That’s your only, humble goal (duty) this week. If you can’t find a party — make one up, and then look gaaouoooooddd! Think royal, act royally and you’ll be treated royally — you good-looking dogs! h SCORPIO (10.23-11.22) Speaking of good-looking dogs; your eyes transcend all thoughts of “looks.”

You’ve got it — whatever “it” is. You are it. Don’t flaunt it. You’ll lose it. Just be it, because you are it.

Go deep and find your “root,” or just let go and see what you become. Your formula is/would be “with an open mind and a pure heart.” Write it down to better bring it into this world. That’s the real you. That’s it. i SAGITTARIUS (11.23-12.21) You are about to go into an “am I in love with love?” phase for the rest of this year. The sooner you make it clear, the sooner you get out of here. Your/this meditation starts in/by September. What is love? Tell me when you see me, and I’ll tell you what you’re dreaming of… That’s love!

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j CAPRICORN (12.22-1.20) I’m an AquarianAge astrologer. I’m allowed to go deep. Are you allowed to go deep? Then I’m deeper than you. Less social pressure for me? More social responsibility for you? Fear of social censure? Not only did you buy it…you are it. You instigated it. You keep the program running. You are too busy holding up examples of moral fiber to attain any moral fiber. You know what you (can) do with your moral fiber? k AQUARIUS (1.21-2.19) Your Fool Moon is/will be/was on Saturday the 13th, at two minutes to 2 in the afternoon, sandwiched between lunar opposition from Venus earlier, and Mercury later. The details won’t matter much, as I’m sure this whole weekend you’ll be out to lunch. It’s your half birthday! Party like a fool! That’s the only way to transcend this one; otherwise you will/would miss the boat. l PISCES (2.20-3.20) The Moon’s in Pisces on Sunday, Moonday and Tuesday, ’til sunset. Time for you to put a cap on something — especially a Leo or a fiery leonine character. Perhaps at a party?

Mix your weekend with as many humans as possible. Unexpectedly, a small percentage will/may have your answers. If you could/ can only remember the question…

How about another drink? a ARIES (3.21-4.20) Right now, Mars in Cancer is in opposition to Pluto in Capricorn. Sounds like it’s time for you to redo your pad…or your whole relationship? What’s missing? What’s the cure? Next Wednesday the 17th will be as strange, difficult and as unusual as you will allow the 18th to be absolutely beautiful — ’til the next dawn. b TAURUS (4.21-5.20) One more week (and a half?) for you to think you’re the queen and/or the king of everything. See(k) what kind of “harvest” the weekend of August 21st shall bring, your (current) majesty. Hint: Humility cannot be taught, it can only be learnt. We are only here on Earth to find what (y)our dreams are worth. c GEMINI (5.21-6.21) Next Tuesday, August 16th, looks good for you. The eloquence of the spoken word can/will be heard and used to/for your advantage, if ’tis a bard or poet(ess) thee wish to be? Shakespeare could/shall be a key… Oh Romeo, Romeo, where shall thou be? Time to speak, act and behave royally, for ’tis Mercury conjunct Venus in Leo, you see. d CANCER (6.22-7.22) How are the crybabies of the zodiac? Did you know that there are more millionaire Cancers than any other sign? Ahhh…

What we’ll do to fight our insecurities. We’ll see, won’t we? Happy Fool Moon on the 13th, at two ’til 2:00 in the afternoon. Let’s have fun amidst all the confusion. Anything can happen, right? People, people, people… ,

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