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1. More US Soldiers Committed Suicide Than Died in Combat: For the second year in a row, more U.S. soldiers killed themselves (468) than died in combat (462).

2. US Military Manipulates the Social Media: The Defense Department’s Central Command (Centcom) has contracted a California corporation to develop an “online persona management service” that will allow one person to control up to ten separate social media identities as part of its pyschological warfare program, Operation Earnest Voice.

3. Obama Authorizes International Assassination Campaign: U.S. citizens suspected of “encouraging” terror are being targeted for assassination.

4. Global Food Crisis Expands: The UN reports that food and commodity price increases last year exceeded the previous record set in 2007-2008, adding an additional 44 million to the 925 million suffering food insecurity.

5. Private Prison Companies Fund Anti–Immigrant Legislation: The nation’s two largest private prison corporations, Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group, helped finance the campaign and staff the office of Arizona governor Jan Brewer, hoping to grow their business incarcerating almost a million immigrants since 2007.

6. Google Spying? With ties to the Obama administration, Google was absolved of illegally collecting personal data such as passwords and emails from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in U.S. homes and businesses from its Street View cars.

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9. Government Sponsored Technologies for Weather Modification. The U.S. government’s High-Frequency Active Aural Research Program aims to “excite” the ionosphere to modify ecological conditions. The Chinese government is the world leader in cloudseeding experiments.

10. Real Unemployment: One Out of Five in US. Shadowstats.com reports that the real U.S. unemployment rate is 22.2%, including allowing for “seasonal adjustments” and job-seekers unemployed for more than a year.

11. Trafficking of Iraqi Women Rampant. Rather than making the estimated 50,000 Iraqi women held in Jordan and Syria a priority resettlement group and opening them to help from the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, U.S. policy does nothing to help these widows and orphans held in sexual servitude.

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The Remaining Top 13 Censored Stories 13. Will a State of Emergency Be Used to Supersede Our Constitution?

14. Family Pressure on Young Girls for Genitalia Mutilation Continues in Kenya 15. Big Polluters Freed from Environmental Oversight 16. Sweatshops in China Are Making Your iPods While Workers Suffer 17. Superbug Bacteria Spreading Worldwide 18. Monsanto Tries to Benefit from Haiti’s Earthquake 19. Oxfam Exposes How Aid Is Used for Political Purposes 20. US Agencies Trying to Outlaw GMO Food Labelling 21. Lyme Disease: An Emerging Epidemic 22. Participatory Budgeting – A Method to Empower Local Citizens & Communities 23. Worldwide Movement To Ban or Charge Fees For Plastic Bags 24. South Dakota Takes Extreme Measures to Be the Top Anti–Abortion State 25. Extension of DU to Libya , For a fuller explanation and a list of sources, go to www.projectcensored.org.

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An esoteric celebration of books and words

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n his capsule of the 2011 (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest, founder-director and novelist Timothy Schaffert draws a parallel with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Specifically, to the humbug Wizard’s endowing the Tin Woodman with a heart made of silk and sawdust, with some soldering necessary to better make the heart take hold.

As Schaffert (The Coffins of Little Hope) suggests, the writer’s process is part alchemy, part major surgery, part inspiration and part wishful thinking in giving heart to words and ideas, and eliciting readers’ trust and imagination. Thus, he writes, this seventh edition of the Lit Fest focuses on “the heart and mechanics of writing” as authors “lift the corner of the curtain on their methods and processes.”

Consistent with its eclectic tradition of presenting whatever spills out of Schaffert’s wizard mind, the fest includes panels, exhibitions, salons and workshops featuring the musings and workings of poets, fiction writers, journalists and artists.

Guest authors include native Nebraskans turned New Yorkers Terese Svoboda, whose new novel Bohemian Girl has received tremendous reviews, and Rachel Shukert, now at work on two novels, a television series she’s adapting from her memoir Everything is Going to be Great and a screenplay.

The free fest runs Oct. 13-15 at the W. Dale Clark Library, 215 South 15th St. and at Kaneko, 1111 Jones St. “Litnings” unfold the rest of the month at other venues.

With Lit Fest such an intimate Being Timothy Schaffert experience, it’s hard gauging its place in the Omaha cultural fabric.

“What we do is fairly esoteric. I’m always meeting people who have never heard of it and I definitely wouldn’t be able to handle it if it was as large as some other cities’ lit fests, which draw hundreds and hundreds of people,” he said. “So I like it the way it is. I’ve often thought I misnamed it, that I probably shouldn’t have called it a festival, but called it a salon or something. So it’s a fraud basically.”

He quotes Abraham Lincoln to summarize its appeal: “People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.”

Schaffert talks about his personal touch in the programs. “It doesn’t always come together perfectly, but, yeah, I definitely try to shape it.” Does he pull the strings behind the curtain? “In the past it’s usually been just me but this year I’ve worked some with Amy Mather, the head of adult services at the W. Dale Clark Library. They’re cosponsors.”

That Schaffert mostly conceptualizes the show is a result of limited resources and therefore a necessity-is-themother-of-invention approach. “We have virtually no budget. It actually, strangely, makes it even more interesting I think, when you’re trying to do it on the cheap.” Of this labor of love, he adds,. “It is fun.”

Then, too, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln English instructor, Prairie Schooner web-contributing editor and Nebraska Summer Writer’s Conference director is well-

plugged into writing circles. He’s also published by premier houses Unbridled Books and, soon, Penguin. The latter purchased his in-progress The Swan Gondola, a tragic love story set at Omaha’s 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition.

From the start, he’s viewed the fest as a means of framing local lit culture. Shukert appreciates the effort. She doesn’t recall a visible Omaha lit scene when she lived here.

“I actually think probably there was, but it just hadn’t been identified yet, and once somebody is like, ‘Wait, this is going on,’ then it’s like all these writers and book people can kind of like out themselves as part of a literary community and come together. I think that was an incredibly smart move on Timothy’s part to recognize there was this incipient thing that just needed someone to name it.”

“I feel a nice balance he’s managed to strike is finding local people and native Omahans who have national profiles, and people who have no connection to Omaha at all except this is a cool event they want to be at,” she says. “It’s a nice mix, and that’s important.”

Schaffert notes the 2011 edition is heavy with native Nebraska authors “because so many local writers or writers with local ties have had new books come out in the last year and a-half or so, so this is an opportunity to have them talk about their new works.” Those local scribes range from: Omaha World-Herald political cartoonist Jeffrey Koterba, whose memoir Inklings made a big splash, to OWH lifestyles columnist Rainbow Rowell, whose debut novel Attachments did well, to Mary Helen Stefaniak (The Califfs of Baghdad, Georgia) and David Philip Mullins (Greetings from Below).

Of the Nebraska ex-pats participants, perhaps the one with the largest national profile is Ogallalaborn and raised Terese Svoboda, a poet and novelist praised for her exquisite use of language. In Bohemian Girl, she describes a hard-scrabble girl-to-womanhood

emancipation journey on the early Nebraska frontier.

The work contains overtones of True Grit, Huckleberry Finn and Willa Cather.

Peaking her intrigue were “pictures of 30-year-old pioneer women who looked like they were 70 ... and then they wrote diaries that were extremely cheerful -- I just wondered what was going on there.” Charged by the feminist and civil rights movements’ challenge to let muted voices be heard, she says “in some ways Bohemian Girl was setting off to let those voices free or at least to talk about them.”

In some ways her book is a meditation on bohemianism as ethnicity, state of mind and lifestyle. “I was born in Ogallala as the oldest of nine children. My Bohemian father is a rancher, farmer and a lawyer, and my Irish mother painted. They read great books together and recited poetry they had memorized in high school in Nebraska. And I wore pointy red glasses in high school because I was the bohemian girl.”

Her proto-feminist heroine enlists Bohemian pluck and bohemian invention to survive hardships and seize opportunities in finding prosperity, if not contentment.

Svoboda says “the picaresque story” sets out “to correct Willa Cather about Bohemians. They were more interesting than she portrayed them, and that’s dangerous territory … to say, but I felt Cather was not a Nebraskan.

She was from Virginia, and she looked at the people who settled there with that kind of eye. In fact, her point of view is always a little bit distant. So I wanted to get right inside a girl and show how hard it was and how the opportunities and the choices she makes are her own.”

As a reference point, Svoboda drew on a creative pilgrimage she made to Sudan, Africa and to her growing up on the prairie.

“I used the experience of my year spent in the Sudan for what it would be like to be a girl out in the bare prairie;

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blending that with my own experience in western Nebraska, the Sand Hills especially.”

Those lived vignettes, she posits, “contributed to the authenticity.”

Schaffert is among Svoboda’s many admirers.

“She brings a poet’s rich sense of language to her fiction. I feel like that’s what makes her novels and her short stories so exciting. They’re not weighty with language, they’re not inaccessible, but you do have to read them carefully to fully enjoy them,” Schaffert says. “I think her new novel Bohemian Girl has eloquence. It’s eclectic, it’s whimsical, unsettling, and it has its heart in Nebraska and Nebraska history.”

The depth and precision of Svoboda’s language come from endless reworking.

“I do work hard at that. I am very attentive to each word. I am not a transparent writer. That is to say writing prose where the words are just something the reader falls into a dream for the characters and the plot. Because my background is a poet, I see each word as a possibility and each narrative exchange as a possibility, so nobody wastes any time going in and out of rooms or talking about the weather.

“I really respect the reader and their intelligence and hope that they appreciate I do that. I really think every word they read should be worthy of them.”

She didn’t plan on being a novelist, but a life-changing odyssey changed that.

“I would have been perfectly happy to be a poet forever … but when I went off to Africa I had such a profound and emotionally difficult experience of being in practically another planet, I wrote a novel, Cannibal, about it. I felt I had to write prose.”

She only came to finish the novel, however, after struggling through 30 full-length drafts over several years.

A course taught by then-enfant terrible editor Gordon Lish showed her a new way into the story.

“At the end of that you learned that writing was the most important thing in your life and the words were a building block of the sentence …. And it didn’t matter what you wrote, the minute you thought of someone else reading it or started weighing it against somebody else, you might as well toss it away. So I tossed it away, I started all over again, although I had to still send it out 13 times before it finally did get published, and that excruciating experience brought me to the world of prose.

“I’m not one of those people that sits down and all the words come out right. Each of my novels seems to take 10 years from the beginning to the end, overlapping of course.

I continue to go back to them. But some of my poems take that long, too.”

She’ll talk shop with Timothy Schaffert at An Evening with Terese Svoboda on Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. at Kaneko.

Shukert, with fellow writers, will share thoughts about craft during a 2 p.m.-5 p.m. salon at the library that day.

“I’m happy to talk about process but I always do it with the caveat that I don’t expect it to actually be helpful to anybody. It’s not a formula,” says Shukert. “Very often people ask questions like, ‘How do you do it?’ and the implication is ‘How can I do it?’ or ‘How do I get a book published?’ or ‘How do I finish my novel?’ And that’s the one thing nobody else can answer for you.

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In the traditional publishing world, says Svoboda, an opposite trend finds “many more gatekeepers than when way other people did it because you need to keep telling I started, or the gate has gotten a lot smaller, and so there are manuscripts in the world that deserve to get published yourself it’s possible, it can be done.”

Svoboda insists her process is not appreciably differ- that aren’t getting published. But I don’t know there would be that many more” (deserving manuscripts) now that the ent writing novels or poems, number of self-proclaimed writers has increased.

It is different for Shukert.

“The ability to publish so easily is probably a bad “I find my process alters depending on what I’m working on. Like my process writing a book is very dif- thing,” she adds. “Many people have stories and they ferent than my process writing a play or a screenplay. are interesting stories but not everybody can write literature.”

My process writing fiction, now that I’m Schaffert embraces this come one, working on my first novel, is very differcome all new age. ent than the memoir process. It’s a lot “I think it’s a really great time to be slower. Switching from first person to a writer and I don’t think it’s yet necesthird person has been interesting, espesarily interfering with the pursuit of the cially as pertains to point of view. reader to find quality content. The stuff “There are things that get easier and that the world responds to the world will then things that get harder. I feel I have a still respond to and still find their way to. much easier time, for example, just sitting There are more ways to respond to the down and writing and not being intimidatwork you’re reading and more avenues to ed by the sheer scope of it. It’s a much more TIMOTHY SCHAFFERT find new work that’s more specific to your practiced muscle. But that doesn’t mean tastes. I mean, I think this is all great. what I write, right away, is better.”

“If you’re sort of entrepreneurial by nature you Writing is one thing. Getting published, another.

Conventional publishing is still highly competitive. Self- can even venture to do for yourself what a conventional publishing is within reach of anyone with a computer, publisher might do, which is to promote your work, tablet or smart phone. This democratization is the subject try to get attention for it … Even writers going through of a 11 a.m. Oct. 15 panel at the library and an Oct. 22-23 the old fashioned methods of publishing have added opportunities because you still have to promote your workshop at the Omaha Creative Institute.

“I feel like there’s more of an appetite to write than work. The world is your oyster.”

A 5 p.m. panel Oct. 13 at the library, moderated ever before but is there the same appetite to read?” Shukert says. “I feel, too, it’s about being able to cut through by blogger Sally Brown Deskins, will consider “the role the noise. It’s one thing to publish your work, it’s another criticism, arts profiles and cultural articles play in presenting artists and arts organizations to the commuthing if anyone actually reads it or is able to find it.”

Yes, she says, self-publishing “does get voices heard nity and to the world,” says Schaffert. “It seems to me that otherwise would not have been; but there was a every serious city needs serious coverage of what it’s sort of curatorial process that I think is slowly falling doing. I think it’s integral there be writers we associate apart,” she says. “You want to know that what you’re with coverage of the arts scene.”

Book design, objects in literature and fashion in litreading is valuable. In a weird way I feel that attitude that anybody can be published, that I can publish this erature are other themes explored in panels or exhibits.

An opening night reception is set for 6:30 p.m.myself, oddly devalues the work of every writer. There’s still gotta be a way you can separate things. When 9:30 p.m. at the library, Enjoy cupcakes, champagne and a pair of art exhibits. , there’s too much, there’s sort of too much.” y continued from page 7

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enjoyed working with many Japanese groups during my tenure as a recording engineer and producer. Then and on trips to Japan, I made several friends and business acquaintances. We relied on each other heavily for contacts, sources and ideas, East-to-West and vice versa.

In the early 1980s, one friend solicited my help. Japanese industry was easily on a par with America’s then. In technology and engineering, Japan was seen as superior.

Sony, Toyota, Pioneer and other companies owned American consumer interest.

There was one area where Japan continued to lag, my friend told me. Despite all the intellectual and empirical horsepower they could muster, Japan still envied the creative genius of companies like Disney and other American corporate giants because of something Disney called Imagineering. In fact, the Burbank-based company had created an entire division that was renowned for thinking outside the box.

My friend asked me to serve as a sort of headhunter.

Instead of recruiting Stanford or Ivy League grads with awesome GPAs, Japanese industry was seeking something that couldn’t be fostered in an academic setting; something which languished in the ivory tower. They wanted intuitive diagonal thinking. They needed people who could look beyond numbers and research and grab onto creative, inspired thought that relied on neither. My friend’s clients were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars hiring people they shipped to Japan and sat in rooms with the mandate of just letting thoughts come to them.

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

— Albert Einstein It’s with the power of intuition that Steve Jobs pried open the nascent personal computer market in the 1980s. A graphical user interface using the nonanalytical, non-intellectual part of the mind that links all of us made all the difference in the world.

No two humans have the exact same academic or educational experiences. We are cut from different cloths when it comes to empirical knowledge. But one thing we all share is our ability to intuit, to know innately. Intuition means to understand without reliance on evidence or what we experience from the physical world. Apple products have always been described as an intuitive experience and that is what gives Apple worldwide appeal. It transformed a struggling company into the world’s largest corporation and lifted Jobs to iconic status. We may not all have the same education but we share a oneness in access to intuition. It’s the same for all.

Zen what happened? Ironically, the Japanese businessmen my friend was helping didn’t realize they had the same access to intuition as the Disney whiz kids.

Japanese martial artists have been connecting with that energy flow for millennia. In martial arts, it’s not force against force. It’s use the force. A martial artist uses the energy of an opponent to add to the energy needed to

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defeat the opponent. It’s less an aggressive stance than a compliant, synergistic approach.

For 30 years, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has described his view of foreign policy as less one of aggression and more as what he views as in keeping with the Constitution. Rather than attack perceived foes, strengthen the body politic, the United States. A strong country needs less defense.

Western medicine is an analog of our failed U.S. foreign policy. Conventional medicine attacks what it believes to be disease, when it’s really attacking only the symptoms of systemic imbalance. It is becoming increasingly obvious that attacking bacteria, viruses, cancer cells and other symptoms does little to successfully restore health. This attack-mode is known as allopathic medicine. A doctor friend once described it as “cut, burn or poison.” In other words, standard Western medicine employs surgery, radiation therapy or drugs.

Holistic healing relies more on restoring the body’s balance, often viewed as boosting the immune response.

The sensibility of such an approach is why alternatives to conventional medicine, some of which have been used for thousands of years, are gaining in use.

Paul is the only candidate who fully endorses the right of every American to choose the type of medical treatment he or she wants, including herbs or acupuncture, marijuana as medicine or unprocessed food as nutrition.

Paul promises on his website to “stop the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission from interfering with Americans’ knowledge of and access to dietary supplements and alternative treatments.”

Healing becomes festive. To that point and providing access to information about alternatives comes the 2011 Festival of Healing Arts taking place Saturday, October 15 at the Unity Church of Omaha. Coordinator Steve Thyberg has gathered a broad selection of practitioners to provide the public with information on healthcare options. The festival is billed as an experiential event where those attending will have the opportunity to learn firsthand about alternatives in the Omaha area. Those include well-known topics such as acupuncture, chiropractic or yoga as well as some that many Omahans haven’t hear of, such as qi gong, meditation and ortho-bionomy.

Midwife Heather Ramsey exposes the myth that childbirth is a medical event requiring a doctor’s intervention in her presentation, “Trusting Birth.” Yogini Susie McCowen dives into the deeper qualities of yoga. Patricia Ryan, M.D. explains how to protect against toxins increasingly present in the environment. Registered Nurse Susan Wilson describes the use of reiki and healing touch for chronic pain.

Thyberg, a veteran organizer of a dozen such alternative health fairs, including five at Creighton School of Medicine, expects the public to gain a lot from this one.

“We just want to get the information out to the public,” he said. “There is so much to take advantage of here in the area. The goal is to have an educational, experiential event.”

No doubt, Yoda would approve.

Be well. ,

HEARTLAND HEALING by Michael Braunstein examines various alternative forms of healing. It is

provided as a source of information, not as medical advice. It is not an endorsement of any particular therapy, either by the writer or The Reader. Access past columns at HeartlandHealing.com

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by John Horvatinovich farm-to-city street food and sharing the responsibilities of the restaurant. “We are co-everything,” or most, the loss of a loved one is a very said Joyce. difficult time. Now imagine the added The restaurant has been a journey for the two stress of being a youth and learning to chefs who gain inspiration from a laundry list of cope with such a loss. One local non-profit culinary trends and their life style. “We is there to help such youngsters. Last week love walking our dogs, picking fresh food Ted E. Bear Hollow held their biggest fundand eating outside,” said Joyce. “We have raising event of the year. experienced upscale street foods, gastro The fifth annual Comfort Food Classic pubs, we love it all and we found ourselves featured gourmet lasagna as the comfort cooking what we love.” food category. The event featured eight loChef Urban said the two are applying cal chefs in a competition to make the best for a liquor license. The the drink menu gourmet lasagna, drawing 470 attendees will offer limited wines and drinks that are and raising a record $57,000 for Ted E. representative of the menu and the season.

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“The change will be more for ambiance, Ted E. Bear Hollow is a center for bar drinks and the addition of dinner on grieving children, teens and their families. select nights,” said Urban. “You can still Hundreds of youths are served every year expect the fun stuff like sweet bread tacos, through support groups, day camps and and our lunches will not change much. other services. Children from approxiOriginally, our intention was to run the mately 3 to 19 years of age participate in L to R: Paul Urban, Jessica Joyce and George Joyce business as upscale, operating as the curthe grief services. Services are free thanks rent model for a few months. But here we to donors and fundraisers such as the are a year later, and we love what we are Comfort Food Classic. we love their food, so we knew that everybody’s doing. We found ourselves cooking ... stuff we When all the votes were tallied it was seafood lasagna was going to be good,” Joyce said. “I would want.” lasagna with a squid ink emulsion that took top don’t know why we won, it was just neat that we Sometimes things do not go according to honors. It was created by the team of Paul Urban did, that people liked us and that we could be plan, but in this case, that is good. The commuand Jessica Joyce of New York Chicken and Gy- there, be part of the whole cause and raise some nity and their personal experiences have brought ros. Both chefs have won previous Comfort Food money.”

Jessica and Paul to this point, when you stop and Classics. Paul was the winner of the 2007 inauguLooking to the future, the team plans to look around, it is a great feeling to be part of ral event. Jessica won in 2009. change the name of their restaurant to Block 16, something more than just food. , “Basically we took a bunch of seafood that a dual reference to a chef ’s butcher block and the was affordable for us,” said Joyce. “We took some location near the corner of 16th and Farnam. The To contact the writer, email j_horvatinovich@yahoo.com John Horvatinovich

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Artist Formerly Known as Loft 610: I have heard good things, bad things, weird things and then better things from all sorts of people about their experiences at Loft 610. So much back and forth, I swear it sounds like a Dr. Seuss rhyme.

Now the Levy management group that operates Loft 610 will close and reopen as an Italian restaurant.

Portovino Ristorante, set to debut in mid-November, will feature a warm, casual atmosphere and traditional Italian dishes — from pastas, entrees, salads and sandwiches to pizzas prepared in an authentic brick oven. To complement the cuisine, the restaurant’s beverage program will include Italian wines, liquors and beers.

The Mutual of Omaha subsidiary that owns Midtown Crossing has spent a lot of money on the Loft 610 space. With deep pockets, it is easier to make changes and start anew. Time will tell if it works.

Omaha Steaks to Support Susan G. Komen for the Cure: Omaha Steaks announced a partnership with Susan G. Komen for the Cure in support of their mission to end breast cancer. From October 2011 through September 2012, Omaha Steaks will donate 10 percent of the purchase price of selected steak combo packages to Susan G. Komen with a guaranteed minimum donation of $25,000.

Omaha Steaks will invite customers to participate in their “Raising the Steaks” campaign to help in the fight to save lives by purchasing one of several exclusive steak combo packages.

The packages, which feature a wide assortment of gourmet items including Omaha Steaks filet mignons, top sirloins, burgers, pork chops and award-winning franks, will be offered at discounted prices throughout the year-long campaign. Ten percent of the purchase price of each package will be donated to Susan G. Komen.

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Wednesdays, 8 p.m. (Bravo)

When this reality series debuted last season, I denounced Bravo’s attempt to subject fine art to the genre’s kitschy formula of time-based challenges and eliminations.

Now, with season two premiering, I’ve gotten over myself. I admit that “Work of Art” is an absorbing hour of TV and a cut above most reality offerings.

The artists make for fascinating subjects. They’re naturally obsessive, thoughtful and eccentric, and the producers don’t have to cook up contrived interpersonal nastiness to get us interested in them. But for me, the best thing about “Work of Art” is the fact that a real critic is featured on the judges’ panel: the cranky, bullheaded, imperious Jerry Saltz of New York Magazine.

It’s a rare treat to hear actual critical insight on reality TV, as when Saltz says of one contestant’s work, “I think you embedded thought in material.”

—Dean Robbins

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Thursday, Oct. 13

Haunted Safari

Henry Doorly Zoo, 3701 S. 10th St. $15 per person, reservations required 402-733-8400, omahazoo.com Lions and tigers and bears at night! The whole family will enjoy a spooky tram ride through the Henry Doorly Zoo Oct. 14 and 15 as the zoo presents its Haunted Safari from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The event includes a tram ride through the zoo, a hot dog dinner and marshmallow roast, and games for the little kids, and animal viewings. Kids are encouraged to wear their costumes and dress warmly.

— Cheril Lewis

Oct. 14

Possessions: literary characters and the things they carried

W. Dale Clark Library, 215 S. 15th St. fourth floor, 6:30-9:30p.m., FREE omahalitfest.com, omahapubliclibrary.org In Possessions, a one-night-only show, artists interpret famous literary artifacts. From Michael Muller’s mixed media piece “Letters from Blanche” inspired by Streetcar Named Desire, to Jay Cochrane’s Peter Pan inspired gauge-wire crocodile complete with clock in belly, to Trilety Wade’s mixed media erotic well, inspired by Haruki Murakami’s The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, to Roxanne Wach’s “Prince Prosepero’s Guest” mask from Edgar Allan Poe’s Masque of the Death, to Eric Post’s oil painting of a second-hand bridesmaid dress inspired by Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, to Bart Vargas’ Maltese Falcon from the 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, the show is innovative and juxtaposed. Other participating artists include Lynn Batten, Julie Conway, Wanda Ewing, Rob Gilmer, Amy Mather, Kristin Pluhacek, Rodney Rahl, Jordan Statz, Nolan Treadway, and many more. And check out Book It! Cover Design show featuring designers’ reinterpretation of classic novel covers, up through the weekend.

— Sally Deskins

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An Evening With Gillian Welch

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Rococo Theatre 140 N 13 St., Lincoln, 8 p.m. $25 General Admission $27.50 Reserved, Etix.com

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illian Welch writes and performs songs steeped in timeless Appalachian flavor and gives her compositions just enough modern edge to create something entirely new yet somehow immediately recognizable. She and partner/ guitarist extraordinaire David Rawlings released Welch’s first record in eight years, the gorgeously haunting The Harrow & The Harvest. Welch first made a name for herself in the Americana and Folk worlds for her work with T Bone Burnett on the critically acclaimed O’Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack where she performed alongside country songbirds Emmylou Harris and Allison Krauss. A series of albums followed with rich, textured songwriting, stark if not competent musicianship, and the otherworldly mingling of Welch’s and Rawlings’ vocals. Welch has become one of the strongest songwriting voices of her generation and this performance will be a great opportunity to see her and Rawlings perform a host of new songs along with older favorites.

— Jesse D. Stanek

Oct. 14

MANNA w/ Skyman & 3 Day Meat Sale Barley Street Tavern, Cover: $7 with free copy of new LP www.manna-band.com

The story of MANNA began 10 years ago. The four members were friends (and relatives, a few of them) who loved listening to and playing music. Their sound borders on ’70s rock and ’90s grunge alternative, but it is uniquely their own.

“We all sound pretty distinct,” said guitarist and vocalist, Jales Hupke, “All of our songs are original, with the exception of a few covers.” Hupke and the band, which includes Hupke’s brother

Jas on drums, Dan on bass and vocalist Scott, credit Blue October as one of their influences. As fate would have it, Hupke and his wife attended a Blue October show that would change everything. Hupke ended up meeting Matt Noveskey (bassist and guitarist from Blue October) and the rest, as they say, is history. Noveskey produced MANNA’s new LP, Chronic Hives, which will be officially released this Friday. When they first started out, MANNA played shows around Iowa and in Lincoln. The group has been active in the Omaha music scene for single years. The first LP was released in 2004 followed by a few singles and an EP. — Jessica Stensrud

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TEDx Omaha 2011: What’s Possible?

12p.m.-6p.m. free live stream online for Viewing Parties TEDxomaha.com

TEDx encourages organizing small group Viewing Parties with tips online to hear and discuss the dozen lively local innovators. They are rising to the challenge of delivering the “most inspiring performance of your life in 18 minutes or less” with the theme of “What’s Possible.” Saturday’s speakers include nonprofit research and design collaborative founder and director Anne Trumble; environmental consultant Trilety Wade (who will talk about “Welcoming the Weird into your Life”); professional dancer Janel Scott, Project Interfaith founder/director Beth Katz; restaraunteur Clayton Chapman; “One Agency” advertising president Dave Weaver; poet and Encyclopedia Show Omaha host Katie F-S; public health champion Dr. Magda Peck; Seventy Five North Revitalization Corp. director Othello Meadows III; brand consultant Stuart Chittenden; 17-year-old entrepreneur Tanner O’Dell; and onstage host Roger Fransecky, founder/CEO of The Apogee Group.

Said TEDx producer Brian Smith, “My favorite part of TEDxOmaha is getting introduced to the amazing people in our community who deserve more attention than they get locally.”

— Sally Deskins

Oct. 15

The Green Home Tour and Expo

The Harper Center, Creighton University, 2500 California Plaza, unomaha.edu, FREE 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., $5.

A sampling of items being focused on during the 2011 Green Home Tour and Expo: the benefits of sustainable design, urban re-development, walkable neighborhoods and mixed-use design. These subjects are going to be covered from a variety of angles. First, the expo allows Omaha residents a chance to meet with green product vendors and discuss their products with them. Second, speakers

entertainment will be providing a series of presentations on green topics, including a presentation on the reEnrgize Omaha Program, a collaborative effort between the cities of Omaha and Lincoln to build energy-smart communities. Finally, citizens can hop on the shuttle to see green design in action on a tour that showcases homes in East Omaha. Throw in a raffle and you’ve had a day of green excitement done by 1:30 p.m., plenty of time to rest up for the night’s happenings.

— Paul Clark

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Dirty Girl screening with Nicholas D’Agosto and filmmakers Film Streams, 1340 Mike Fahey St. 7 p.m., $20 members and $30 nonmembers 402-933-0259, www.filmstreams.org

Native Omahan Nicholas D’Agosto lives the dream of a working film-television actor. His IMDB page is lengthy for a 30-year-old who pursued The Life full-time for only nine years. Survival means taking whatever work he can find, and so for every plum TV (“ER,” “Six Feet Under” or “Cold Case”) or film (Rocket Science or Dirty Girl) there’s a From Prada to Nada or Extreme Movie. Like fellow home boy Chris Klein, he started in Alexander Payne’s Election.

Like Klein, the boyish-looking D’Agosto has built a career as the Nice Guy, often playing characters several years his junior. Monday’s Film Streams event is a rare chance for a local to talk about his

made-good-in-Hollywood journey. Joining him to discuss Dirty Girl, starring Juno Temple, is director Abe Sylvia and producer Jana Edelbaum.

—Leo Adam Biga

Through January

Dinosaurs: Dawn of the Ice Age & Cobweb Castle

Omaha Children’s Museum 500 S. 20th St. Admission: $8 for kids over age 2 plus $2 to see the Dinosaurs Exhibit, kids under 2 free 342.6164, ocm.org.

They’re baaaaaack! The dinosaurs have returned to the Omaha Children’s Museum. Dinosaurs: Dawn of the Ice Age is on view through January.

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Tyrannosaurus Rex greets you with a big growl as you enter the exhibit. Continue and you will encounter an assortment of dinosaurs and ice age mammals. Be warned, the dinosaurs move and make noise, which may be scary for younger children. New additions to the exhibit include the Saber-toothed Tiger and the Woolly Mammoth. Younger children will enjoy walking through the not-so-scary Cobweb Castle. They can visit the spooky graveyard, wander through the find-your-way forest and enter the castle.

Once inside, they can explore the pirates’ parlor, Casper’s closet and vampire’s batty bedroom.

New this year, the Museum will offer a spooky science area full of slimy items to touch. Healthy trick-or-treat nights take place Oct. 20 and 27 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

— Cheril Lewis

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even greater changes in its role and contribution to the arts at all levels.

“In 10 years we are going to look back at 2011 beginning a huge shift in Bemis’ direction,” he said.

“We’re talking about prospects never even dreamed of five years previous. We’re in a position to do something now about it. The board is directly involved in making this vision a reality.”

Seeing the “big picture” extends to the auction

or more than a dozen years the annual auction at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts has been the most anticipated art by Jennifer balkan celebration of the arts in this region. To doubt this is to admit that one somehow has missed out on an event as ritualistic as fall itself.

Crowds gather, indulge in fine food and spirits and then compete on a level playing field for work planted a year or so ago and now ripe and blossoming in Bemis’ galleries.

It’s a bounty enjoyed by venue, collector and artist alike, and for the past 12 years, the harvest has been good.

After months of preparation Bemis’ 13th event will open tonight in its Underground at 6:30 with a silent auction closing at 9:10pm.

The fundraiser will then climax this Saturday in the first floor galleries in a silent auction ending at 7:30pm and a live auction that runs from 8-10pm.

Proceeds from the auction will go a long way toward Bemis continuing its mission in the fiscal year which include its international artistin-residence program, an annual schedule of exhibitions, various community projects and an ongoing building expansion.

Based upon net receipts for the past three auctions, Director Mark Masuoka is confident that this year’s fundraiser should reach its goal of $300,000 or about 25% of its operating budget. Yet as successful and climactic as the auction has been, Masuoka believes that the event demonstrates an even greater role Bemis plays as an arts venue. itself ever since its collector’s preview was extended “The first conversation should be about what it to a multiple-week exhibition in 2005 with a stronger means to be an arts community,” he said. “We should curatorial interest. Not only is the vetting process for we leading that discussion. Our role is not just de- artist’s submissions to the auction more demanding, fined by our shows and events.”

Bemis’ staff has improved the hanging of art from a The past year alone illustrates Masuoka’s point customary, scatter-gun, floor to ceiling salon style to with Bemis celebrating its 30th anniversary by a more organized approach. building five new artist studios on the third floor, Since the auction has grown to over 280 artists thus expanding its residency from 24 artists to 36 represented with more than 400 works in all, chief annually; the conversion of its front entrance to a curator Hesse McGraw says this process is more recombined shipping and community garden; and spectful and beneficial to artist and collector alike. the renovation of a 13,000 square foot sculpture and Bemis picks up to three works from each artist infabrication facility. vited to submit and together a price point is chosen.

That facility is scheduled for a spring 2012 rib- The artists can then determine their share of the sale bon cutting but Masuoka says Bemis is poised for price up to 50 percent.

Choosing the art for display is only the beginning. How to hang this extremely eclectic collection so that “the space starts to sing,” McGraw says is the real challenge. The result, the grouping of paintings, works on paper, sculpture and new media which allow the viewer to enjoy the forest as well as the trees is visual, intuitive, conceptual and, at times, even humorous. But it doesn’t happen overnight.

“We begin at random,” McGraw said. “The most depressing day is the first when we confront all that work on the floor around each gallery. But the complete transformation wouldn’t happen at all if we didn’t have great work to begin with.”

Individual works are grouped by a similarity in style, subject, medium and palette, usually in order to establish a flow and rhythm for the viewer.

Yet the key is to include in each group a larger, more dominant work, an anchor as it were, within a designated sight line that first directs attention to a given grouping.

Underground curator Joel Damon says an anchor can be subtle as with Thomas Prinz’s “y5” “which doesn’t speak for the group but sets the tone with its palette, the graphic element and the abstract patterns. The overall design just feels good. You don’t notice when it’s right, only when it’s wrong.”

What’s important, Damon says, is that individual pieces talk to one another while standing out on their own, sometimes abrasively, as with a group anchored by Dan Crane’s outré “Swastika.” Conversely, the connection can be purely conceptual as with a favorite group of Damon’s on the north wall anchored by Nolan Tredway’s “Algebra,” Skyelar Hawkins’ “That’s Omaha” and Anna Greer’s “Tina.”

“It’s virtually the only wall that has this strong viewpoint,” he said. “It’s not about palette. The group is beyond realism. The work is about freedom, identity, playing with time. Reality altered and altered reality.”

In Gallery I, McGraw is particularly proud of a distinctly different treatment of two mostly abstract sets on the north and south walls facing each other.

On the north wall, anchored again by a Prinz piece, the work shares similar formal qualities of linear abstraction and discernable patterns such as with Yinghua Zhu’s table sculpture, “Egg Shells.” continued on page 16 y

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n The (Downtown) omaha lit fest starts Thursday with “Defining Omaha: Writing about local arts and culture” a panel featuring culture writers Sarah Baker Hansen, Leo Adam Biga, Kim Carpenter, Michael Krainak and Jasmine Maharisi at W. Dale Clark Library. The festival follows with art exhibits, book signings and discussions based on the theme of Silk and Sawdust: The Heart and Mechanics of Literature (see 8-days). October 19 House of Loom hosts “Lit Undressed: Fashion in Literature” (full disclosure: I coproduce this event) in conjunction with the festival, a performance of nude literature also featuring art by Drink n Draw Omaha artists Eric Guerrero, Gerard Pefung, Cale Oglesby, Maggie Svoboda, Rachel O’Brien and Dan Richters. n A big weekend for Bemis Center, as well, with the 13th Annual Art Auction UNDERGROUND auction Oct. 13, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. and the Gala Art Auction Oct. 15 starting at 5:30 p.m. The auction exhibitions include nearly 400 works in all media and span 12,000 square-feet of the Center’s first floor and Underground galleries. n The residents and staff of Quality Living, a postacute adult rehabilitation nonprofit, and the teaching artists of WhyArts?, a nonprofit supporting artists with disabilities, present art work at Hot Shops Art Center opening Oct. 13 through Oct. 26. Curators Dar Vande Voort and Paula Wallace celebrate the “triumph of creative voices in the most challenging circumstances, and the teachers who guide residents as they rediscover their creative voices.”

Throughout October, November and December, Whole Foods will donate 10 cents for each reusable bag used when shopping to WhyArts? at shoppers’ request. n Also at Hot Shops Oct. 15, Art in the Bag, an evening of food, libations, art and live music with a silent auction of handcrafted bags, will benefit cancer awareness. artinthebag.com. n Artist and University of Nebraska-Omaha Professor Christine Reed opens Still Wild: Horses of the Bighorn Canyon at Omaha Healing Arts Center Gallery Oct. 12. The exhibit features photographs of wild horses in the Western landscape thru November. Last weekend the UNO Art Gallery opened AlMutanabbi Street Starts Here, featuring letterpress broadsides and artists’ books; and Selected Words on Paper and Video: Pedagogical University of Cracow, work by faculty and students from the Fine Arts Department, throug Nov. 3. n The Jewish Community Center Gallery opens the Annual Silver Palette Show presented by the Bellevue Artist Association Oct. 16. The juried show showcases the work of award winning and new artists in a variety of art media.

— Sally Deskins

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y continued from page 15 “Visually, this corner is typified by iteration and repetition,” McGraw said, “but works also contrast issues of identity and agency with loss and decay.”

Similar themes are echoed on the south wall with such pieces as Andrew Hershey’s “Doorways and Driveways,” Sunny Gibbons’ “Crackle” and particularly James Holmberg’s “Open Cut,” but the work here is more organic, informal in composition and broadly constructed.

No matter what the strategy for the auction exhibit, McGraw is adamant that the art chosen and hung must “represent the work we are engaged in.” Veteran Bemis supporters who spend any time with the exhibit will concur and bid accordingly, but what advice can the venue offer new collectors who participate?

“The best strategy is to spend some time with the show and learn a little bit about the artist,” McGraw said. “Then buy what you love.”

Whether on a budget or reeling from stock market declines, a new collector might bid on the following works that caught this critic’s fancy based on groupings of his own. Not only will Bemis and the artist profit, you will have something to value rather than another depressing monthly statement.

In the “Bid on a Budget” category, consider these: William Anderson’s intriguing ink on paper “Kong & Fellow,” Joe Broghammer’s delicate pastel and pencil, “Redpoll,” Helen Brough’s painterly photo, “Deliriously Urbane,” Michael Burton’s mesmerizing video, “The Ancient Mariner,” Iggy Sumnik’s dancing “Pipe Blossom,” and Rob Gilmer’s atmospheric black-andwhite photo, “Trail in Sand Hills.”

All of the above have a Buy It Now price in the $500 range, but the following are incredible values in the “Steal This Art” category: Caolan O’Loughlin’s delightful state of the mind landscape, “Green and Gold;” take your pick with any one of Jamie Burmeister’s animated “Vermin Me” groupings; “This Is How Memory Works,” an illustrated schematic pen and ink from Joe Louie Pankowski; Barb Simcoe’s contemplative digital photo, “Doorway” and Tana Quincy’s emotionally and physically vulnerable “Insouciance.”

girl, you got to work: Another Thursday event will have you shouting, “Halleloo!” (For those unfamiliar with the term, think “hallelujah”). Hosted by none other than Shangela from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” seasons two and three, Halleloo will include drink specials, prizes and naturally, lots of surprises. The reality star will perform and attend a meet-and-greet after the show for her Drag Race fans.

Doors open at 7 p.m., the cost is $5. It takes place at Flixx Lounge and Cabaret Show Bar,1015 and 1019 S. 10th Street in Omaha. Visit flixxomaha.com or follow Shangela on twitter (@itsSHANGELA) for updates on this event.

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a furious fall: This Thursday, Oct. 13, Omahans will have their choice of two chic events to attend.

Kicking off at 7:30 p.m. at Parliament Pub Midtown is FashionBar: Fall Fury featuring the “Fall Guys” and DJ Ryan Swan. In celebration of the changing seasons, it will include a presentation of photographs by Jason McClaren and Matt Warburton for The Reader’s fall style issue. Dressed in attire from local boutique Denim Saloon, attendees will get to vote for their favorite male model or “Fall Guy” to win a special prize package. FashionBar is sponsored by The Reader, Avion Tequila, OmahaNightLife. com, Denim Saloon, Tog’s, Ice Pink Boutique, Statement, Chocolate Peacock, Mikala at Mod Studio Salon, Icon shangela Studio for Hair and Salon Fusion. Attend this free event for an evening filled with drink specials, complimentary appetizers and surprise giveaways. Parliament Pub Midtown is located at 120 S. 31st Avenue at Omaha’s Midtown Crossing. Visit parliamentpubomaha. com for more information on this event.

— Sarah Lorsung Tvrdik

Sarah Lorsung Tvrdik is a stylist, costumier, wife and freelance writer based in Omaha, Neb. Her style blog can be found at fashflood.com.

Bump up the price and you have these “Fair Traded” offerings: Renee Ledesma’s statuesque ofrenda, “First Recognition of Beauty,” the three works previously mentioned from Hershey, Gibbons and Holmberg, and Mike Tegland’s graphite and chalkboard paint on panel black beauty, “Whiplash.”

For those a bit more adventurous there are these “Worth the Risk” offerings: Tredway’s “Algebra,” Songy M. Kim’s mixed media mirage, “The Threshold of Memory,” Neil Greiss’ beyond realism painting, “Vacancies,” Victoria Hoyt’s enigmatic work on paper, “I Don’t Believe in Turtles,” and Josh Powell’s conceptual mixed media, “Hey There, Sleepy Eyes.”

Speaking of risk, there is the outré list of “Avant Garde” pleasures including: Vera Mercer’s =nude and still life photo, “Man,” Rebecca Herskovitz’s even more revealing study in sexuality, “Linda Repeated,” Skyelar Hawkins’ alternative photo slice of “That’s Omaha,” and Christine Stormberg’s equally alternative and outré “Samy.”

But for that work that falls in the “For Sheer Pleasure or Pride of Ownership” regardless of concept…or price…you may have to pony up or wander into the live auction and bid on these: Frauke Bergemann’s unique photo perspective, “Beelitz Surgery II,” Fulvio de Pellegrin’s stunning and whimsical interior photo, “The Magic Red Carpet,” Broghammer’s equally enigmatic dry painting “Tightrope,” Yinghua’s “Egg Shells” and Liz Vercruysse’s delicately balanced “Stacked Totem.”

And last, and certainly not least, in the Live Auction, look especially for Jun Kaneko’s monumental “Untitled” glazed and painted ceramic dango, the aptly titled “Imperial Comorant” photo from Larry Ferguson, Therman Statom’s fantastic “Glass House,” Mary Ann Strandell’s stratospheric superstructure of her own, “Cloud,” and Keith Jacobshagen’s metaphysical landscape, “A Golden Year.” Like the 2011 auction itself these works are not to be missed. , Underground Auction Thursday, Oct. 13, from 6:30 to 9:30 at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 724 S. 12th St. Gala Art Auction on Saturday, Oct. 15, Silent Auction from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Live Auction begins at 8 p.m.

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Mummy Dearest at 7:30 p.m. It’s an interactive mystery set “in the land of pharaohs, pyramids and belly dancers,” and producer Manya Nogg promises “a small pre-show belly dance.”

Didn’t someone once say, “There may be small belly dances, but there are no small belly dancers?” Or was that something about actors and roles? The mystery costs $20 with no extra charge for the belly dance.

■ You have to wait a few weeks for Chanticleer to mount Sex Please We’re Sixty, which gives Lorie O’Bradovich time to transition into the role vacated when Melissa Jarecke left the stage unintentionally.

Melissa took an unscripted tumble that left her with a broken ankle but grateful that it wasn’t worse. The play, by the way, involves a potent pill to recharge the female sex drive, but brings out the femininity in a man who takes it by mistake.

Having just turned 75, you can forgive me for finding a playwright’s notions about sex in the sixties rather quaint and limited.

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■ There’s so little left of our once-flourishing dinner theater scene that it’s tempting to mention the menu — meat loaf, garlic/parmesan chicken breast or ravioli in white sauce with broccoli florets — before reminding you that Doug Marr is still directing delightful entertainment at his Circle Theatre.

This time it’s An Inspector Calls, the dramatic thriller by J.B. Priestly, opening Friday, Oct. 14, with performances Thursday-Saturday evenings, dinner at 7 p.m. and show at 8 p.m., except for that final one at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6. Dinner and show are $23, $13 for just the play in the lower level of Central Presbyterian Church, 55th and Leavenworth.

Dave Sindelar does the inspector in a cast that includes Deb Kelly, Tim Duggan, Don Harris, Erin Dinnen and Chris Elston. Set in 1912 England, a prominent family is celebrating an engagement of their daughter that will join them with another wealthy family when, you guessed it, “an inspector calls.”

Call 402.553.4715 or visit dlmarr@cox.net for more information. If you want to experience quality theater in a laidback, relaxed setting with no extra charge for a few introductory quips by the droll Doug, visit this comfy site just east of Elmwood Park.

■ Another throwback to the golden age of dinner theater returns Saturday only, and you can pick from the entire menu of Rick’s Boatyard Café when the River Front Theater presents

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

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BEMIS CENTER - CONTEMPORARY ARTS, 724 S. 12th St., (402) 341-1122. 13TH ANNUAL ART AUCTION: 228 artists have joined forces with the Bemis Center by offering 444 works for auction, opens Oct. 15, 5:30 p.m.

BEMIS UNDERGROUND, 724 S. 12th St., (402) 341-1122. UNDERGROUND AUCTION: 288 artists have joined forces with the Bemis Center by offering 444 works for auction, opens Oct. 13, 6:30 p.m.

THE DESIGNERS, 12123 Emmet St.. AWARD WINNING ARTISTS: New work by Katrina Methot Swanson, Debra Joy Groesser, Judith Anthony Johnston and J K Thorsen, continues through Nov. 10, closing reception Nov. 10, 5 p.m., with demostrations by the artists.

DUNDEE GALLERY, 4916 Underwood Ave., (402) 505-8333.

LOVE: New work by Jill Rizzo, continues through Oct. 23 HOUSE OF LOOM, 1012 S. 10th St., (402) 505-5494, info@ houseofloom.com. LIT UNDRESSED PRESENTS: FASHION IN LITERATURE: Adopting the lit fest art exhibit theme of literary objects, opens Oct. 19, 8 p.m.

KIECHEL FINE ART, 5733 S. 34th St, (402) 420-9553. DEFINING AMERICA: IMAGES OF THE 20TH CENTURY: A show that pairs heroic scenes of American history with intimate insights into artists’ private lives, through Nov. 25, reception Oct. 14, 6 p.m.

MILO BAIL STUDENT CENTER, 6001 Dodge St., (402) 5542383. DIVAS OF DIVERSITY DRAG SHOW: Presentation features a sharing of stories of discrimination and acceptance, a powerful drag show performance and time for questions and answers, opens Oct. 12, 12 p.m.

MOVING GALLERY, Garden of the Zodiac, 1042 Howard St., (402) 341-1877. PORTRAITS: New work by Gerhard Kassner and Christian Rothmann, continues through Dec. 6.

PARRISH STUDIOS, 14th & O St.. MUSIC SENSE: Artwork inspired by music, opens Oct. 14, 6 p.m.

SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 12th & R St., (402) 4722461. HARLEM RENAISSANCE SCULPTOR: Work by Richmond Barthe, continues through Jan. 15. THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CONSERVATION: WALT KUHN’S ‘APPLES IN WOODEN BOAT’: Presents findings of recent examination of the artwork including x-rays taken on Sep. 26 at BryanLGH Medical Center West, continues through Dec. 31.

SILVER OF OZ, 6115 Maple St., (402) 558-1307. SCARY STORIES: A JURIED ART SHOW IN THE HALLOWEEN VEIN: New work by local-area artists, continues through Oct. 28.

W. DALE CLARK LIBRARY, 215 S. 15th St., (402) 444-4800.

BOOK IT!: COVER DESIGN: Designers reinterpet the covers of classic novels, opens Oct. 14, 6:30 p.m. MODERN EXPRESSIONS: New work by Doyle Howitt, Kenneth Heimbuch, Tom Sitzman and J.K. Thorsen, opens Oct. 7-22, reception Oct. 7, 5:30 p.m., discussion Oct. 12, 4 p.m. POSSESSIONS: LITERARY CHARACTERS AND THE THINGS THEY CARRIED: Exhibit featuring artists’ interpretations of literary artifacts, opens Oct. 14, 6:30 p.m.

ONGOING

THE 815, 815 O St. Suite 1, (402) 261-4905. THE ART OF AUTISM: New work presented by Art Planet, through Oct. 31.

ANDERSON O’BRIEN FINE ART OLD MARKET, 1108 Jackson St., (402) 884-0911. BETWEEN BONES AND WORDS: New work

by Eric Knoche, through Oct. 23.

ARTISTS’ COOPERATIVE GALLERY, 405 S. 11th St., (402) 342-9617. PERCEPTIONS: New work by Jerry Jacoby, Glenda Musilek, Dale Shenefelt and Pete Wroblewski, through Oct. 30.

BANCROFT STREET MARKET, 2702 S. 10th St., (402) 6806737. NINE ON 10TH: Featuring new work by nine Omaha artists, through Oct. 22.

BIRDHOUSE COLLECTIBLE, 1111 N. 13th St., Suite 123, biz@ birdhouseinteriors.com. AND HE LABORED TO REALIZE THE ENDLESSNESS OF THE SKIES: New work by Caolan O’Loughlin, through Nov. 5.

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., (402) 731-1137. GRAPHICS OF LATIN AMERICA: Group show exploring the graphics of Latin America, through Dec. 28.

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GRAND MANSE GALLERY, 129 N. 10th St., (402) 476-4560.

NEW WORK: The 815 at The Grand Manse presents new work

by Becky Rea and Tim Frisch, through Oct. 31.

GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 1155 Q St., (402) 472-0599.

PASSING AMERICA: New work by V....Vaughan, through Dec. 11, reception Oct. 7, 5 p.m.

HARDWARE GALLERY, 1801 Vinton St., (402) 216-1008. MULTIVARIATE: THE KENT BELLOWS STUDIO MENTOR EXHIBITION: This exhibit highlights the unique artistic qualities of each extraordinary mentor at The Kent Bellows Studio, through Oct. 21, closing reception Oct. 21, 7 p.m.

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, this show continues through Oct. 23.

INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER AND MUSEUM, 1523 N. 33rd St., Lincoln, 472.7232, quiltstudy.org. ELEGANT GEOMETRY: AMERICAN AND BRITISH MOSAIC PATCHWORK: Through Jan. 1, 2012. YVONNE WELLS: QUILTED MESSAGES: New work by Yvonne Wells, through Feb. 26.

JOSLYN ART MUSEUM, 2200 Dodge St., (402) 342-3300.

AMERICAN LANDSCAPE CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WEST: Featuring the work of fourteen photographers, through Jan. 8. FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA: CURRIER & IVES PRINTS FROM THE CONAGRA FOODS COLLECTION: Nathaniel Currier and James merritt Ives offered affordable color prints that remain a vivid picture of nineteenth-century America, through Jan. 15.

KIMMEL HARDING NELSON ARTS CENTER, 801 3rd Corso St., (402) 874-9600. NEW WORK: New work by Nicole Gustafsson, through Oct. 20.

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.

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. RECLAIMED: ART MADE OF RECYCLED MATERIALS: Group show that examines and questions the state of our throw-away culture/society, featuring new work by Jake Balcom, Elizabeth Frank, John Garrett, Daphnae Koop, Jennifer Maestre and Conrad Quijas, this show continues through October 29. THE SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL: Comic book art by nationally known artist Bob Hall, through Nov. 26.

MODERN ARTS MIDWEST, 800 P St., (402) 477-2828. ONE TRICK PONY: New work by Watie White, through Nov. 12.

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

by Joel Sartore, through Nov. 30. FIRST PEOPLES OF THE PLAINS: TRADITIONS SHAPED BY LAND AND SKY: This modern exhibit explores the enduring traditions of Native American cultures of the Great Plains.

OLD MARKET ARTISTS GALLERY, 1034 Howard St., (402) 346-6569. WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS TO THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS: New work by Frank Costanzo, through Oct. 31.

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.

PASSAGEWAY GALLERY, 417 S. 11th St., (402) 341-1910. HARVEST OF COLOR: New work by Pam Cates, through Oct. 30.

PEERLESS, 3517 Farnam St., Ste. 7108, contact@wearepeerless.com. BREATHING ROOM: New work by Bethany Kalk, Caleb Coppock, Daphne Eck, Cora Rasp and Cale Oglesby, continues through Oct. 29.

PERU STATE COLLEGE ART GALLERY, 600 Hoyt , (402) 8722271, kanderson@peru.edu. BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND A DAY JOB: New work by Andy Acker, through Nov. 5.

SHELDON ART GALLERY, 12th and R, UNL, Lincoln, sheldonartgallery.org. HISTORIES: Works from the Sheldon Permanent Collection, through Jul. 15, 2012.

UNO ART GALLERY, 6001 Dodge St., (402) 554-2796. ALMUTANABBI STREET STARTS HERE: Exhibition features letterpress broadsides, artists’ books and a documentary film made to honor the book center of Baghdad, which was destroyed by a car bomb in 2007. SELECTED WORKS ON PAPER AND VIDO: PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRACOW: New work by faculty and students from the University of Cracow Fine Arts

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Department. Curator Rafal Solewski, chair of art theory and art education for the department, selected the works to highlight the schools range.

WORKSPACE GALLERY, 440 N. 8th St., workspace.gallery.lincoln@gmail.com. POSTMORTEM: A STUDY IN DECOMPOSITION: New work by Darryl Baird, this show continues through Nov. 3.

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THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR, Weber Fine Arts Building, 6001 Dodge St.. Opens Oct. 13, Oct. 14, Oct. 15, 7:00 pm, $15; Seniors: $10; UNO Students: FREE CHICAGO, Omaha Community Playhouse, 6915 Cass St., (402) 553-4890. Oct. 13, Oct. 14, Oct. 15, Oct. 16, 7:30 pm, Adults: $40; Students: $24 RADIO GOLF, John Beasley Theater, 3010 R. St, (402) 5025767. Opens Oct. 13, Oct. 14, Oct. 15, Oct. 16, 7:30 pm, $27 SHELTERSKELTER 16, Shelterbelt Theatre, 3225 California St., (402) 341-2757. Opens Oct. 13, Oct. 14, Oct. 15, Oct. 16, 8:00 pm, Adults: $15; Seniors and Students: $12.

BUG, Blue Barn at The Downtown Space, 614 S. 11th St., (402) 345-1576. Opens Oct. 13, Oct. 14, Oct. 15, Oct. 16, Oct. 20, 7:30 pm, $25; Students and Seniors: $20 AN INSPECTOR CALLS, Circle Theatre, 55th & Leavenworth St., (402) 553-4715. Opens Oct. 14, Oct. 15, Oct. 20, 6:30 pm, Dinner & Show: $23; Show Only: $13 AUDITION PRIDE PLAYERS: PROJECT 13, Rose Theater, 2001 Farnam St., (402) 345-4849. Opens Oct. 18, Oct. 19, 6:30 pm, FREE OTHELLO, Lincoln Community Playhouse, 2500 S. 56th St., (402) 489-7529. Opens Oct. 13, Oct. 14, Oct. 15, Oct. 16, 7:30 pm, $18; Seniors: $15; Students: $10 NOW YOUR ARE DEAD: A PICK YOUR PLAY ADVENTURE, Blue Barn at The Downtown Space, 614 S. 11th St., (402) 345-1576.

Opens Oct. 14, Oct. 15, 10:45 pm, $10 LOCAL WONDERS, Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St., (402) 472-4700. Opens Oct. 19, Oct. 20, 7:30 pm, $29

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DEFINING OMAHA: WRITING ABOUT LOCAL ARTS & CULTURE, W. Dale Clark Library 215 S. 15th St., (402) 444-4800.

5:00 pm, FREE. Local writers who focus on arts.

HUMANITIES ON THE EDGE, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 12th & R St., (402) 472-2461. 5:30 pm, FREE. Lecture by Sara Guyer.

J. MEDICINE HAT, Funny Bone Comedy Club 17305 Davenport St., (402) 493-8036. 7:00 pm, $16.

COMEDY NIGHT AT THE SIDE DOOR, Side Door Lounge 3530 Leavenworth St., (402) 504-3444 . 8:00 pm, $5.

BACLINE IMPROV: LEVEL 2 GRADUATION SHOW, INTERROGATION, ZOMBIES VS SURVIVORS CAGEMATCH SHOW, Studio…Gallery 4965 Dodge St., (402) 660-0867. 8:00 pm, $5.

COMEDY SURPRISE NIGHT, Mojo Smokehouse & Ales 2110 South 67th St., (402) 504-3776. 10:00 pm, FREE. Hosted by Nick Allen.

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NO NAME READING SERIES WITH JEFF ALESSANDRELLI AND MARCUS MEADE, Zen’s Lounge 122 N. 11th St.. 4:00 pm, FREE. OMAHA LITFEST OPENING RECEPTION, W. Dale Clark Library 215 S. 15th St., (402) 444-4800. 6:30 pm, FREE. The evening features cupcakes & champagne, two art exhibits, and exhibits based on literary perfumes, illustration, and typewriter poetry (featuring Burn District, the new poetry journal).

J. MEDICINE HAT, Funny Bone Comedy Club 17305 Davenport St., (402) 493-8036. 7:00 pm, $18.

11TH ANNUAL CHEMISTRY DAY, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 12th & R St., (402) 472-2072. 12:00 am, FREE. THE PROCESS OF SELF-PUBLISHING: CREATIVE APPROACHES TO GETTING YOUR STORY IN PRINT, W. Dale Clark Library 215 S. 15th St., (402) 444-4800. 11:00 am, FREE. THE PROCESS OF DESIGN: MEMBERS OF AIGA DISCUSS BOOK COVERS, W. Dale Clark Library 215 S. 15th St., (402) 444-4800. 12:00 pm, FREE. TEDX OMAHA, Creighton University 2500 California Plaza, (402) 280-2700. 12:00 pm, FREE with Registration.

MANUFACTURING GLAMOUR: BUILDING THE BEAUTY OF MYTHS, W. Dale Clark Library 215 S. 15th St., (402) 444-4800.

1:00 pm, FREE. NATHAN JORGENSON, The Bookworm 87th & Pacific St., (402) 392-2877. 1:00 pm, FREE. Author will be signing his new book, A Crooked Number.

AFTERNOON LITERARY SALON, W. Dale Clark Library 215 S. 15th St., (402) 444-4800. 2:00 pm, FREE. J. MEDICINE HAT, Funny Bone Comedy Club 17305 Davenport St., (402) 493-8036. 7:00 pm, $18.

BOHEMIAN GIRL: AN EVENING WITH TERESE SVOBODA, Kaneko 1111 Jones St., (402) 341-3800. 7:30 pm, FREE. Interview with acclaimed novelist, poet and nonfiction author Terese Svoboda, on Cather, creativity, and historical fiction.

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AGING WITH PASSION AND PURPSE: ‘IT’ HAPPENS, Milo Bail Student Center 6001 Dodge St., (402) 554-2383. 8:00 am, $64.

A two-day conference on aging.

SUNDAY SCIENTIST, Morrill Hall 307 Morrill Hall, (402) 4723779. 1:30 pm, $5.

HUGH REILLY, The Bookworm 87th & Pacific St., (402) 3922877. 2:00 pm, FREE. Author will sign Bound to Have Blood: Frontier Newspapers and the Plains Indian Wars.

JOHN H. AMES READING SERIES WITH MARJORIE SAISER, Bennett Martin Public Library 136 S. 14th St., (402) 441-8500.

2:00 pm, FREE. J. MEDICINE HAT, Funny Bone Comedy Club 17305 Davenport St., (402) 493-8036. 7:00 pm, $16.

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OPEN MIC POETRY, Indigo Bridge Books 701 P St. Suite 102, (402) 477-7770. 7:00 pm, FREE. $5 COMEDY NIGHT TUESDAYS: SKULLPROV, Pizza Shoppe Collective 6056 Maple St., (402) 932-9007. 8:00 pm, $5.

SHOOT YOUR MOUTH OFF III, The Hideout Lounge 320 S. 72nd St., (402) 504-4434. 9:00 pm, FREE.

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OPEN MIC POETRY, Indigo Bridge Books 701 P St. Suite 102, (402) 477-7770. 7:00 pm, FREE. FIVE DOLLAR COMEDY NIGHT TUESDAY: MICE IMPROV, Pizza Shoppe Collective 6056 Maple St., (402) 932-9007.

8:00 pm, $5.

SHOOT YOUR MOUTH OFF III, The Hideout Lounge 320 S. 72nd St., (402) 504-4434. 9:00 pm, FREE.

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PAUL A. OLSON SEMINAR IN GREAT PLAINS STUDY, Great Plains Art Museum 1155 Q St., (402) 472-0599. 3:30 pm, FREE. Frances W. Kaye, a professor of English at UNL, will discuss “Reclaiming Deficiency: There’s a There There.”

DR. PEARLIE JOHNSON, International Quilt Study Center and Museum 1523 N. 33rd St., (402) 472-7232. 6:00 pm, N/A. Dr. Pearlie Johnson’s lecture is entitled “African American Quilts: Teaching The Past Through Quilting.”

THE PEOPLE’S FILM FESTIVAL: MAN ON WIRE, McFoster’s Natural Kind Cafe 302 S. 38th St., 7:00 pm, FREE. LIT UNDRESSED PRESENTS: FASHION IN LITERATURE, House Of Loom 1012 S. 10th St., (402) 505-5494, info@ houseofloom.com. 8:00 pm, $10.Adopting the lit fest art exhibit theme of literary objects, opens Oct. 19, 8 p.m.

POET SHOW IT, 1122 D St. 8:00 pm, FREE. Local writers come and read, local people come and drink, hosted by Travis Davis.

ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC FOR MUSICIANS & POETS, Meadowlark Coffee 1624 South St., (402) 477-2077. 8:00 pm, FREE. THE MIDWEST POETRY VIBE, Arthur’s 222 N. 114th St., (402) 393-6369. 9:00 pm, FREE.

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Cymbals Eat Guitars solidifies its line-up on its latest album

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The band spent about four months working on songs for the album, while camped out in the basement of Whipple’s parents in Morristown, N.J., a suburb about an hour north of New York City.

“It was a pretty ideal situation in terms of not having any distractions,” Whipple says.

The band took over the basement, around the same time the rest of the house was being renovated. The band would start rehearsing in the morning, while Whipple’s parents were at work.

he version of Cymbals Eat Guitars that created the band’s breakthrough 2009 debut album Why There Are Mountains has long since evolved.

Originally the project of singer/guitarist Joe D’Agostino cymbals Eat guitars and drummer Matthew Miller, the first line-up was cobbled together via Craigslist want ads.

Eventually, the three members that originally joined Miller and D’Agostino left the band and keyboardist Brian Hamilton and bassist Matthew Whipple became part of the band.

“There was sort of a gradual transition into the line-up as it is now,” Whipple says.

In fact, Whipple says he and Hamilton ended up joining the band in the same way, after friends recommended they audition for the band.

“It’s something we both decided to do on a whim,” Whipple says.

Whipple says he tried to minimize his parWhipple joined the band in October 2009, about six months after Hamilton joined. About ents’ awareness that there was a loud rock band a month after joining the band, Whipple and the working on a record in the basement.

While they were working, producer John band headed to Europe for a tour.

Prior to joining the band, Whipple had only Agnello dropping in periodically to help the played one show outside of the New York area band with arrangements and give the band with a band he was in previously. That lone gig, advice.

The band had plans to work with Agnello even at 2009’s South By Southwest Festival, was only a few months before Whipple ended up in Cym- before they signed a deal to release a new album on their current label home, Barsuk Records. bals Eat Guitars.

The band was eager to work with Agnello, “We drove straight through the night to play who has worked with Dinosaur Jr., mixed the the show,” Whipple recalls.

Once he was in Cymbals Eat Guitars, Whip- Breeders’ lone hit “Cannonball” and produced ple quickly logged plenty of tour experience. albums by the Hold Steady.

“John has a pretty intense discography when After about a year, the band finally wrapped up touring and then set about working together on it comes to indie rock,” Whipple says. “And now he’s our good friend.” their second album, Lenses Alien.

While D’Agostino still is the band’s lyrics and melodies, there was a definite sense of the record being the product of the entire band.

“It’s kind of moving in a more collaborative direction,” Whipple says.

Whipple says on some level, it felt like they were making their first record ever.

“It was technically it was the first record the four of us had made together,” he says.

The year-plus of touring with the current four-person line-up helped build a sound, one that the band tried to tap into once they were making the record. While D’Agostino still provides the general structure of songs, the band has stretches out the format more and more.

“It’s definitely a lot more free form than it used to be,” Whipple says.

Whipple says just how well the live sound converged with the recorded sound on Lenses Alien once the band started touring behind the new album.

“It was both a conscious decision and a natural thing to happen,” he says.

Once the band actually got into the studio, it was very quick process.

The band tracked for 10 days and then mixed the songs in an additional five days at Head Gear Recording studio in Williamsburg area of Brooklyn.

Whipple says the band just tried to make a record that pleased them, while exemplifying the apparent growth the band had undergone in the previous year.

“We definitely wanted to strip down a lot of the extra instrumentation that was on the first record,” Whipple says. , Cymbals Eat Guitars w/ Hooray For Earth and Bazooka Shootout play the Slowdown, 729 North 14th St., Monday, October 17th at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 day-of-show. For more information, visit theslowdown.com.

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n McCarthy Trenching is rolling out Fresh Blood, a limited edition LP, available only on vinyl and as a digital download. Dan McCarthy’s mostly-solo project will be available at the Saddle Creek Shop, 721 N. 14th St. McCarthy kicked off the release with a Tuesday performance at Saddle Creek’s retail storefront.

McCarthy will also play an Omaha release show Friday, Oct. 14, at O’Leaver’s Pub, 1322 S. Saddle Creek Road. n This week has filled with club shows, highlighted by Ty Segall at the Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St., Wednesday night.

The San Francisco garage rocker took his latest, stripped back batch of melodic garage-pop back into a world of distortion and big rock moments. Segall has easily re-assembled his songs to fit into a highadrenaline power trio format. Meanwhile, Segall’s buddy and frequent collaborator Mikal Cronin impressed with nods to classic power-pop, punkpop and garage rock with hishook-laden set. I also caught the tail-end of Mike Posner’s set at the Sokol Auditorium, 2234 S. 13th St., Thursday. University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Maverick Productions put on the show, which drew an enthusiastic college-aged crowd. Posner relied on two DJs on dance tracks, but impressed most when he sat down at the piano for slower club jams. A Saturday night Slowdown show featured a batch of locals as Family Picnic headlined a show supported

by Cymbal Rush and the Razors. The Razors mike posner were youthful, lo-fi indie poppers, while Cymbal Rush have developed new layers with a two-guitar attack that adds life to the band’s sound, which once bordered on slowcore, but now seems to crib from a host of hip ’90s influences, though my bet is the band would scratch their heads at mentions of Superchunk, early Built to Spill and Swearing at Motorists.

The most talked-about show of the week was the Head and the Heart at the Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. The Sub Pop Records band sold itself well as their set became a communal singalong about halfway through their performance.

The folk-pop indie sound was elevated by piano and big builds. The Head and the Heart are mining similar territory as Mumford & Sons, without such an allegiance to the old-timey trappings that Mumford wraps their music in.

— Chris Aponick Backbeat takes you behind the scenes of the local music scene. Send tips, comments and questions to backbeat@thereader.com.

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or most practicing musicians, the goal is to make it big. Write some catchy songs that strike the right nerve in the masses. Lofty dreams of topping the charts complete with the entourage lifestyle. But, what happens when the goals are met? Do you rush to keep up with the demand for more of your product with easy listening radio rotation material that ultimately fizzles out when the next big thing comes along or do you stay ahead of the game and focus on what got you there in the first place.

After speaking with Bayside’s lead singer and songwriter, Anthony Raneri, his direction is clear. Although I’m not sure he’s sees the difference through his narrowminded perspective. And that’s no knock on him.

After spending some time over the phone chatting it up with Bayside’s frontman, discussing their latest studio album, Killing Time, their first major label deal and his struggle to continually push himself as a songwriter, it’s clear that Raneri’s singular focus is to push his band to new heights by continually challenging himself, wearing blinders that keep all other options at bay.

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Raneri was preparing to kick the tour off with a two night stand in Philadelphia that evening when we spoke. After exchanging cordials our conversation gravitated to the topic of Bayside’s latest studio effort.

The Reader: What is behind the name Killing Time for Bayside’s latest release?

Anthony Raneri: “A lot of people have misunderstood it at times. For us, it’s killing time between the last six days of your life and the next six days of your life. I feel like everybody’s life and our career, as a band, goes through these changes, there’s these big moments that change your life. For us it was a matter of that time in between those moments. Career wise, it was very relevant. We had just finished a very long contract and starting a new one. We were working with a great producer and felt like we had written the best record we’ve ever written. For us, it’s about new beginnings and looking forward to that next big start.”

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On the new CD, you penned all of the songs on acoustic, transcribing them into some good ol’ fashioned punk rock’n’roll. Is that Bayside’stypical process for writing a song?

“Yeah, always has been.

I write all the songs at my house. All I have there is an acoustic guitar, I don’t even have electric guitars at the house. Every one of our songs since the beginning have been written on acoustic guitar. To me, a song has to stand up as chords, melody and lyrics. When you strip down the drums, you strip down all of the production and the leads, it still has to be a good song without any of that other stuff. I keep my writing process very simple to make sure that it stays that way.”

I hear you’re a Broadway musical fan.

“Yeah, I’ve been into Broadway show tunes for a long time. There’s so much to learn. I try to be a student of music and songwriting. Mixing intricacy and catchiness, no one can do it better than that. Show tunes

are listened to by three year olds, they like them, and ninety year olds are going to love any of those types of songs. There’s something to be said about writing a song that appeals to that broad of an audience.”

You guys have changed record labels to your first major deal with Wind-Up Records. What have you found to be the difference between being signed to an indie and being signed to a major?

“The only difference really is the recording process. You have a larger recording budget and more opportunities to do things you want. Gil Norton produced the new record. I think he’s one of the top three or five living rock producers. I’ve been listening to records he made since high school, even before high school. So all these years later, to be able to work with somebody like him is something that can’t be beaten.

We’ll spend an entire year writing and recording a record and that costs a lot of money, to take that kind of time and use that caliber of guys to help you on the record. That’s really the only difference, touring and merchandising. Nothing has really changed for us, the biggest difference is actually recording the record.” , Bayside w/ Saves the Day, I am the Avalanche and Transit Sunday, Oct. 16, Bourbon Theatre, 1415 O St. Lincoln.

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It was about three-quarters through Thao and the Get Down Stay Down’s set Sunday night at The Waiting Room, only about an hour or so before The Head and the Heart would take the stage, that I began to wonder how a crowd this size — a sold-out crowd — had heard of the bands playing on the night’s bill.

It isn’t as if local radio plays music by bands like The Head and the Heart. We don’t have a radio station in our market that plays good new modern music on regular rotation, and never have. There’s no reason to belabor the point. Omaha’s lack of decent radio has been a topic that’s been mulled to death; it ain’t exactly fresh column fodder.

Bad radio. We all know this. Moving on.

So if you didn’t hear The Head and the Heart broadcast to your car radio or home hi-fi unit, how’d you discover The Head and the Heart? The simple answers are the easiest, and usually wrong. There’s satellite radio, good ol’ Sirius XMU. My little Mini isn’t equipped with a satellite deck, so I have no idea if HatH is played on XMU, but even if it is/was, it wouldn’t account for a mob this size.

Could the crowd have been called to The Waiting Room by the Pied Piper we call the local press?

Well, as much as my fellow writers would like to take credit for it, the answer is flat-out “no.” No amount of press in any of the local rags or blogs has been able to generate a crowd at a local show. People who read about bands featured in The Reader or the Omaha World-Herald or whatever electronic or pulp-derived reading material that litters the streets or the internet already know who the band is or they wouldn’t be reading about it.

Which brings us to record reviews, and music criticism in general. Lately the idea has edged into my mind that music criticism is becoming more useless as the technology gets better and music becomes more available and affordable. I began writing about music while in college at UNO for one reason: To get free CDs. I cannot begin to tell you the thrill I felt when a box arrived post marked from Lawrence, Kansas, from The Note, a regional music magazine that I wrote for back in the early ’90s. It usually weighed a few pounds, was the size of a record album but about three inches thick, wrapped in carton tape and marked in big letters FRAGILE. CONTAINS MUSIC. Inside was a treasure trove of albums, singles and CDs from a variety of labels culled together by some intern and shipped for my ears to embrace.

Yes, The Note paid me, but I already had a good job.

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The contents of that hand-made cardboard box was why I was doing it.

Now, a hundred years later, The Note is a distant memory, along with those care packages from Lawrence. Shortly after Lazy-i.com went online in ’98, manila envelopes filled with music began arriving at my house. Stacks of them. Sent directly from record labels. Those, too, have dwindled. Nowadays, labels seeking pre-release “press” merely email a link that takes writers to a download site, allowing them to copy a digital file to their hard drive — not very romantic, but still a luxury. Now even those downloads are fading.

Services like Spotify have wrung all the magic from the audio top hat. No, Spotify is not free, but it’s cheap and everyone has access to it. In fact, everyone has access to everything.

The critic’s role used to be to convince you to lay down your hard-earned cash on the gamble of buying a record sight unseen... or unheard. Now our job is merely to get you to listen. Just listen. If you’ve got Spotify or any of the other services, you’ve already paid for the music. But having access to all the music in the world doesn’t give you the time it takes to listen to it.

Look, I could write 900 words right now telling you how Eleanor Friedberger’s new album, Last Summer, is the best thing I’ve discovered this year — a kicky, hooky, roll-in-the-audio-hay hit factory, some of the best song writing you’ll ever hear. All in an effort to get you to type her name into Spotify or Rdio or Rhapsody or browse to her SoundCloud site or even seek her out on MediaFire. No one said anything about buying her record. All it would take is just five minutes of your time.

These days when a local band contacts me about their new record, they always include a link to a SoundCloud or download site, along with a pitch letter that says, “Please, please, please just take five minutes and listen.”

There’s only one problem — no one has the time to listen to all the music being thrust at them from every corner of the internet. So while more music is being created by more bands available to more people than any time in the history of recorded music, no one is listening.

It’s all about time. Time is now the commodity.

If you don’t spend the time to listen to the music, you’ll never hear it. And if you don’t hear it, you’ll never love it. And if you never love it, you’ll never show up on a Sunday night at The Waiting Room and PAY to see it performed live, right in front of your eyes.

That’s where we are now. That’s where technology has led us. The biggest entertainment decision we make is how we invest our time. Because time is always running out. ,

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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maha’s blues community lost one of its finest when Dave Barger passed away early Saturday, Oct. 8, after a debilitating illness. Barger was the Omaha scene’s go-to blues guitarist for over 30 years, including popular ’80s bands Oasis and Risky Shift. A memorial jam is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 16, 2 p.m.-5 p.m. at the G.I. Forum, 2002 N St. Tributes poured in on Facebook. Former Howard Street Tavern manager Rick Renn wrote, “One of the best people I have ever run across. I already miss ya, buddy.” Lash LaRue, veteran of many Omaha roots bands including The Mercurys, recalled, “Dave was amazing.

Throughout his illness, he still always had a positive attitude and never failed to have a kind word and encouragement for others. I learned something every time I interacted with him, about music and about heart.”

Welch & Rawlings: The always magical Gillian Welch and David Rawlings play Lincoln’s Rococo Theatre Thursday, Oct. 13, at 8 p.m. Welch’s first studio release in eight years is the beautiful The Harrow & The Harvest (Acony). See rococotheatre.com.

Robbie Fulks: The New York Times observes “He’s one of our most consistent and clever songwriters.” Dean

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Dobmeier, co-promoter for The Sunday Roadhouse series, writes that Fulks is “a little too country for the Alt crowd and a little too country for Nashville ... gleefully irreverent ... literate without being pretentious.” Fulks plays the Sunday Roadhouse series in a special Thursday show at the Side Door Lounge Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m.

See sundayroadhouse.com.

21st Saloon Music: The 21st Saloon presents the twangin’ roots music of Oregon’s Too Slim & The Taildraggers Thursday, Oct. 13, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Next Thursday, Oct. 20, catch soul-blues entertainer E.C. Scott.

Zoo Bar Blue: E.C. Scott also plays Lincoln’s Zoo Bar next Tuesday, Oct. 18, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Boston keyboard wizard Bruce Katz performs Wednesday, Oct. 19, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. He mixes soulful funk, New Orleans jazz and blues. He is on a solo tour after performing for the last year with Gregg Allman and playing with Delbert McClinton’s band. Stick around for the late-night show with the Lil’ Slim Blues Band.

Guitar star Coco Montoya takes the stage Thursday, Oct. 20, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. The late show includes Hector Anchondo with My Brother. See zoobar.com.

Hot Notes: Bruce Katz also plays Gator O’Malley’s Thursday, Oct. 20, after 9 p.m. Robert Randolph & The Family Band plug in at Slowdown Wednesday, Oct. 19. ,

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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THE NIGHTMARE PARADOX W/ KAKAROT, WORDS LIKE DAGGERS, WHAT DWELLS WITHIN, VERENDUS, IN SEARCH OF ATLANTIS, A CHOKING MELODY, AND MORE! SHOW @ 6:30 AFTON PRESENTS: NICK MCGEE & GUESTS SHOW @ 6:30

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TOO SLIM & THE TAILDRAGGERS, (Blues) 5:30 pm, 21st

Saloon, $9.

FIERCE BAD RABBIT, TRAVELLING MERCIES, FOOLS,

(Rock) 9 pm, Barley Street Tavern, $5.

TIME HAMMER, PHARMACY SPIRITS, PAPER PEOPLE,

(Rock) 6 pm, Black Market / The Public, FREE. UUVVWWZ, GAUNTLET HAIR, CONDUITS, (Rock) 9:30 pm,

Bourbon Theater, $8.

IRKUTSK, SNAKE ISLAND, COWBOY INDIAN BEAR, DIRTY TALKER, (Rock) 9 pm, Duffy’s Tavern, $5.

DJ DARRY, ADAM A, MATTE FRESH, (DJ/Electronic) 9 pm,

Fat Toad, FREE. TODD WOLFE, (Blues) 9 pm, Gator O’Malley’s, FREE. DOUBLE CLUTCH, IZZA AND THE CATASTROPHICS, (Rock)

9 pm, Knickerbockers.

CAKE EATER VS COCKY CAT, (DJ) 9 pm, Mix Barcade, $5.

TONY CARAMIA, (Classical) 7:30 pm, O’Donnell

Auditorium, $15.

LANDING ON THE MOON, THE PHOTO ATLAS, NEW

LUNGS, (Rock) 9:30 pm, O’Leaver’s Pub, $5.

AN EVENING WITH GILLIAN WELCH, (Folk/Singer Songwriter) 7 pm, Rococo Theater, $25.

THE SOFT HILLS, (Rock) 11 pm, Side Door Lounge.

QWEL AND MAKER, PURVEYORS OF CONSCIOUS SOUND, DIRTY DIAMONDS, MIDTOWN MARAUDERS,

BENTONE, BLAC, (Hip-Hop/Rap) 9 pm, The Alley.

THE HEGG BROTHERS, (Blues) 7 pm, The Glo Lounge.

SWAMPBOY BLUES BAND, (Blues) 8 pm, The O Bar, FREE. SECTION 8, DUSK BLED DOWN, SILENT HAVOC, BATTLE

MANTIS, (Rock) 9 pm, The Spigot, $5.

MATT BOWEN BENEFIT WITH DJ KOBRAKYLE, (DJ/

Electronic) 8 pm, Waiting Room, FREE. SON DEL LLANO, (Blues) 9:30 pm, Zen’s Lounge, $6.

THE ALLENDALES VS SHAUN SPARKS VS THE WOUNDED ANIMALS VS THE MEZCAL BROTHERS VS THE REALLY ROTTENS, (Rock/Blues) 9 pm, Zoo Bar, $5.

GERARDO MEZA, MANNY COON, KILL COUNTY, (Folk/

Singer-Songwriter) 5 pm, Zoo Bar, $3.

AFTON PRESENTS: TRAFEK, DIGGA DJ & BIG D, THE SOUTH OMAHA BOYZ, LIL JO, FRESH SQUAD OVO CLICK, AND MORE! SHOW @ 6:30 ANDRE NICKATINA W/ JIMMY HOOLIGAN SHOW @ 8:00

THE CRUSH ‘EM ALL TOUR 10/26/2011 FEATURING: AFTER THE BURIAL, VEIL OF MAYA, MISERY SIGNALS, WITHIN THE RUINS, AND YOUR MEMORIAL HOW @ 7:00 wed

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HIFI HANGOVER, (Cover Band) 9:30 pm, Arena, FREE. LJ, SASHA S, (DJ/Electronic) 9 pm, Bar 415, $5.

MANNA, 3 DAY MEAT SALE, SKYMAN, (Rock) 9 pm, Barley

Street Tavern, $7.

GHOST RUNNERS, THE LEPERS, THE PHOTO ATLAS, DIGITAL LEATHER, OMNI ARMS, (Rock) 9 pm,

Bourbon Theater, $5.

MARK MANDEVILLE & OLD CONSTITUTION, MATTHEW

FOX, CHANCE PRESTON, CHRIS VAN DYKE, (Folk/

Singer-Songwriter) 7 pm, Cultiva Coffee, FREE. THE MACHETE ARCHIVE, DEERPEOPLE, CANON BLUE, ELI

MARDOCK, (Rock) 9 pm, Duffy’s Tavern, $5.

NICK THE QUICK, (DJ/Electronic) 9 pm, Fat Toad, FREE. DOWN TO HERE, (Cover Band) 9 pm, Gator O’Malley’s, $5.

SYMPHONY ROCKS SERIES: COUNTRY ROADS: THE

MUSIC OF JOHN DENVER AND DAN FOGELBERG,

(Classical/Rock) 8 pm, Holland Performing Arts Center,

$25-$70.

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DEPRESSED BUTTONS WITH BEATAUCUE, (Electronic) 9

pm, House Of Loom, With RSVP: $5; Without: $10.

AREN’T WE ALL DEAD, MAPS FOR TRAVELERS, NINE

EYES, (Rock) 9 pm, Knickerbockers.

OMAHA ZOMBIE WALK PRE-PART W/ SARDONICUS,

GAROTED, SANDSKIN, PARASITICAL, RULE OF HONOR, (Metal) 8 pm, Louis Bar and Grill, $5.

BRENT TACTIC, BASSTHOVEN, INFLECT, (DJ/Electronic) 9

pm, Mix Barcade, $5.

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MCCARTHY TRENCHING, KILL COUNTY, BEARS BLUE RIVER, (Folk) 9:30 pm, O’Leaver’s Pub, $5.

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X-RATED: THE WOMEN IN MUSIC SHOWCASE W/ HEATHER STICKA, HANA KORNBLUH, ELIZA RICKMAN, MEANER PENCIL, (Folk/Singer-Songwriter)

6 pm, Parrish Studios, FREE. CHRISTY ROSSITER, 112 NORTH DUCK, (Blues) 9 pm,

Side Door Lounge, FREE. MEN, THE SHOW IS THE RAINBOW, MILLIONS OF BOYS,

(DJ/Electronic) 9 pm, Slowdown, $8.

KAKAROT, WORDS LIKE DAGGERS, WHAT DWELLS

WITHIN, VERENDUS, IN SEARCH OF ATLANTIS, A

CHOKING MELODY, (Rock) 6:30 pm, Sokol Hall &

Auditorium, Advance: $5; DOS: $8.

THE BISHOPS, LINOMA MASHERS, (Rock/Reggae/Island)

9 pm, Stir Live & Loud, $5.

BLUE BIRD, LONELY ESTATES, THE WEST VALLEY, (Rock) 9 pm, Studio...Gallery, $7.

THE BALANCE, THE MIDLAND BAND, (Rock) 9 pm, The

Alley, $5.

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GLASSES MALONE, POTLUCK, MISTAH FAB, SUNSPOT

JONZ, THE LIVING LEGENDS, (Hip-Hop/Rap) 7 pm,

The Hideout Lounge.

QWEL, MAKER, DOUBLE O & THE ROWBITS, PCS, DIRTY DIAMONDS, (Hip-Hop/Rap) 9 pm, The Sandbox,

Advance: $8; DOS: $10.

PISS POOR, GALLOWS MAJESTY, CYNGE, TEN DEAD,

(Rock) 9 pm, The Spigot, $5.

(HED) P.E., SLAIN, SCREAMING FOR SILENCE, (Rock) 7

pm, Waiting Room, $20.

CHRIS SHELTON, (Cover Band) 9 pm, Whiskey Roadhouse

(Horseshoe Casino), FREE. LUCAS KELLISON AND THE ASSEMBLED SOUL, (Rock)

9:30 pm, Zen’s Lounge, $5.

THE GOOD FOOT, SONS OF 76, VOODOO METHOD, (Rock)

9 pm, Zoo Bar, $5.

BONEHART FLANNIGAN, THE AMALGAMATORS, (Folk/

Singer-Songwriter) 5 pm, Zoo Bar, $5.

SATURDAY 15

5 SIMPLE FOOLS, (Cover Band) 9:30 pm, Arena, FREE. QUING JAO, TALL BOYS, (Rock) 9 pm, Barley Street, $5.

CARROT CARROT, THE RENFIELDS, POWERFUL SCIENCE,

(Rock) 6 pm, Black Market / The Public, FREE. SOMASPHERE, THE SHOW IS THE RAINBOW, ICKY

BLOSSOMS, TALKING MOUNTAIN, (Rock) 9:30 pm,

Bourbon Theater, $8.

HEARNEBRASKA SHOWCASE W/ DADS, SCRU FACE JEAN,

CHANCE PRESTON, JESSE WOHLMAN, FAMILY

PICNIC, (Rock/Folk/Singer-Songwriter/Hip-Hop/Rap) 2

pm, Bourbon Theater, FREE. GUS AND CALL, STEREOFIDELICS, IDEAL CLEANERS, THE

KICKBACK, (Rock) 9 pm, Duffy’s Tavern, $5.

JV ALLSTARS, A SUMMER BETTER THAN YOURS,

LEARNING TO FALL, NOTHING PERSONAL, E4,

(Rock/Punk) 5 pm, Duffy’s Tavern, $5.

CHIEF, JAYZERO, (DJ/Electronic) 9 pm, Fat Toad, FREE. R-STYLE, (Cover Band) 9:30 pm, Gator O’Malley’s, $5.

LOOM WEAVES FELA, (DJ/Electronic) 9 pm, House Of

Loom, $5.

NIGHT SHAKERS TRIO, (Jazz) 6 pm, Jazz, A Louisiana

Kitchen.

MY BROTHER, ON APPROACH, (Rock) 6 pm,

Knickerbockers.

GHOST TOWN RADIO, DREAM ENDEVOUR, (Rock) 9 pm,

Knickerbockers.

ZOMBIE BASH WITH BAD AQPLE, (Rock) 9 pm, Louis Bar

and Grill, FREE.

GUNK FEATURING MIDNIGHT CONSPIRACY, KOBRAKYLE, STEPHEN BILS, SPENCELOVE, (DJ/Electronic) 9 pm,

Mix Barcade, $5.

READER RECOMMENDS

WITNESS TREE, VAGO, KYLE HARVEY, (Folk/Singer Songwriter) 9 pm, O’Leaver’s Pub, $5.

SARAH PEACOCK, TAMI, (Pop) 9 pm, Panic Bar. TRIO SETTECENTO, (Classical) 8 pm, Sheldon Memorial Art

Gallery, $35.

WHIPKEY THREE, (Folk/Singer-Songwriter) 9 pm, Stir Live

& Loud, $5.

HIGHER EMPATHY MOVEMENT, ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DINOSAURS, STONEBELLY, ZED TEMPO, (Rock) 9

pm, The Alley, $5.

DIRTFEDD, BEAVER DAMAGE, SAINT CHRISTOPHER, EVIL

WEINER, (Rock) 9 pm, The Spigot, $5.

OMAHA ZOMBIE BALL W/ KEPI GHOULIE, FILTER KINGS, THE BISHOPS, (Rock) 7 pm, Waiting Room, $7.

CHRIS SHELTON, (Cover Band) 9 pm, Whiskey Roadhouse

(Horseshoe Casino), FREE. WAILING SHIPS, (Rock) 9:30 pm, Zen’s Lounge, $5.

LLOYD MCCARTER, THE BETTIES, MATT COX BAND, KILL

COUNTY, (Folk/Singer-Songwriter) 9 pm, Zoo Bar, $5.

SHERIDAN BREAKDOWN, LIGHT THE FUSE, NO TIDE, DOPPLEGANGER, ALWAYS REMEMBER TODAY,

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

SUNDAY 16

GASTON LIGHT, (Rock) 9 pm, Barley Street Tavern.

BAYSIDE, SAVES THE DAY, (Rock) 7 pm, Bourbon Theater,

Advance: $15; DOS: $18.

LOOM LIVE SERIES W/ DARK DARK DARK, PILLARS & TONGUES, SEAN PRATT, (Folk/Singer-Songwriter) 9

pm, House Of Loom, $8.

THIRD DAY, TENTH AVENUE NORTH, TREVOR MORGAN,

(Rock) 6:30 pm, MidAmerica Center, $25-$38.

BORIS, TERA MELOS, COLISEUM, (Rock) 8:30 pm,

Waiting Room, $15.

AUDITION NIGHT, (Cover Band) 9 pm, Whiskey Roadhouse

(Horseshoe Casino), FREE.

MONDAY 17

CYMBALS EAT GUITARS, HOORAY FOR EARTH, BAZOOKA SHOOTOUT, (Rock) 8 pm, Slowdown, $10.

READER RECOMMENDS

YELAWOLF, DJ CRAZE, RITTZ, (Hip-Hop/Rap) 9 pm,

Waiting Room, $15.

DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS, SPEEDSWEAT, (Blues) 9 pm,

Zoo Bar, $5.

TUESDAY 18

AMY KELLER, SANDRA FRANZ, WALTER ANDERSON,

(Folk/Singer-Songwriter) 9 pm, Knickerbockers.

WIDESPREAD PANIC, (Rock) 7:30 pm, Orpheum Theater,

$35.

SISTER SPARROW, HIGHER EMPATHY MOVEMENT, (Rock/

Reggae/Island) 9:30 pm, Zoo Bar, $5.

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The Ides of March plays icky politics

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reminder: Bobbing for apples in a sports stadium urinal trough may be less vile than becoming a professional politician.

If Aaron Sorkin’s sorely missed “West Wing” was a weekly fairy tale of governmental grace, The Ides of March is a campfire ghost story where every player is the bogeyman. Populated exclusively with characters only passingly familiar with the definition of integrity, the film is a feel-bad reminder that modern American politics is little more than a street fight that takes place in a moral sewer. So, even though the movie is “good,” you won’t leave feeling that way.

The master of the smoldering grimace and owner of an indecipherable East Coast semi-accent, Ryan Gosling, plays Stephen Myers, a hotshot campaign coordinator blessed with a Midas touch for media relations. Working beneath his astonishingly frumpy mentor, Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Myers has helped his candidate, Governor Mike Morris (George Clooney), Brighton Rock Nobody should love someone named Pinkie Brown.

B-

Contagion B It’s definitely worth catching, so long as you bring Purell.

Drive Ryan Gosling is one unflappable cool cat, until he gets flapped too hard.

B-

Fast Five (ON DVD) The box office for this series increases in proportion to the bro-tastic sexual tension.

B

ascend to the top of the Democratic primary race. But the Machiavellian Tom Duffy, who runs the campaign for the last remaining challenger, has a plan to fix things, which begins by wooing Myers to work for him.

Although he had just told reporter Ida Horowicz (Marisa Tomei) of his Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-esque devotion to Morris, Myers decides to take a meeting with Duffy. Perhaps he wasn’t thinking clearly because sex-kitten intern Molly Stearns (Evan Rachel Wood) has his blood flowing to a spot many entitled male political figures find their blood flowing. The unwise Meek’s Cutoff (ON DVD) B You think helping your friends move is hard, try moving via he Oregon Trail.

Moneyball Less of a home run, more of a ground-rule double.

C+

Rise of the Planet of the Apes A re-imagined reboot that uses real imagination.

B

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conversation with Duffy dovetails with Myers’ unwise boot knockin’, setting off a chain reaction of progressively horrible implosions. By the end, there’s no one left to root for and no outcome that feels just: so, it’s pretty much politics as usual.

Directed by Clooney, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon, The Ides of March is a crackerjack ensemble flick that builds genuine tension through moral impropriety and conversation. While Giamatti and Hoffman try to out-rankle each other, both masters of the crumpled button-down shirt and imposing paunch, Clooney classes up the joint with his authentic presidential air. In fact, his comfort during the faux debates and town hall meetings seems to suggest there may be a D.C.-based second act to Clooney’s career. Gosling, meanwhile, does what he does best: frowning with authoritative force.

Beyond the lack of a single even moderately redeemable character, the biggest issue with The Ides of March is its familiarity. There seems to be no reflexive criticism beyond “politics bad,” and the foibles faced by the parties involved last felt “fresh” when that word was still part of Will Smith’s name.

And then there’s the troubling way in which the only real female character, Molly, is handled…but such conversation requires mega-spoilers.

All that aside, The Ides of March does deliver A-list talent clicking at fast clip, as Clooney once more proves himself capable of directing the same quality of performances he is capable of delivering. Tautly paced and never boring, this is the best time you can have while being reminded how wretched our governance can be. ,

GRADE: B+

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Featuring family and children’s films, the series is underway with Make Believe, a coming-of-age story about young magicians, already screening on Saturdays, Sundays and Thursdays through Oct 20.

The immortality-inducing flicks continue throughout this fall and include The Secret of Roan Inish, A Cat in Paris, The Goonies, It’s a Wonderful Life and The Polar Express, which terrifies me with its soulless, dead-eyed Tom Hanks animation. I should probably point out that a transfer of immortality may not be guaranteed, but definitely ask at the box office. n In yet another sign that the idea well has been bled dry, the writers behind Toy Story, Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen, are possibly working on a big-screen adaptation of Farmville, the once-captivating Facebook game where you grow things you can’t ever eat. In other words, two guys are writing a movie about farming. n Johnny Depp’s descent into self-parody continues, as he is producing and possibly starring as the lead in a biography of Dr. Seuss. Although it is highly likely that the real Theodor Geisel was a reserved man who dressed in casual clothing, we can all look forward to a version of him with pasty skin, garish gothic attire and likely some kind of highly affected speech pattern. No word on when Tim Burton will announce his participation.

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n option for suicide “with elegance and euphoria” is how Lithuanian-born Ph.D. candidate Julijonas Urbonas (London’s Royal College of Art) described his “Euthanasia (Roller) Coaster,” currently on the drawing board. Urbonas’ model of “gravitational aesthetics” would be a third-mile-long, 1,600-foot-high thrill ride engineered to supply 10 Gs of centrifugal force (a spin at about 220 mph) to induce cerebral hypoxia, forcing blood away from the head and denying oxygen to the brain. Euphoria (and disorientation and anxiety, but not pain) are likely states to precede the brain’s shutdown. Urbonas insisted that users would have the option through the first two minutes of the threeminute ride to rethink their decision and bail out (or else to push the final “FALL” button). (Suicide is legal in four European countries and Oregon and Washington.)

Government in Action!

An open-government advocacy group’s survey of federal agencies, released in July, revealed that eight of them have unresolved Freedom of Information Act requests that are over a decade old, including one pending for more than 20 years. (The 1976 FOIA law requires resolution within 20 business days, with a 10-day extension under “unusual circumstances.”) (Also, regarding the FOIA, a June 2011 request by the city of Sioux City, Iowa, for background documents regarding the recent Postal Service decision to move jobs from Sioux City to Sioux Falls, S.D., was met promptly -- by the Postal Service’s forecast that the likely fee for the documents would be $831,000, even though under the law the first two search hours and the first 100 documents are free.)

In August, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s inspector general revealed that a $1,200 cash award was paid by the agency in 2010 to one of the very employees who had been specifically singled out for allowing Bernard Madoff to talk his way out of SEC inquiries in 2005 and 2006, before his epic Ponzi scheme was exposed in 2008. (The IG helpfully recommended that, in the future, awards not be given to employees who have

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recently been facing potential disciplinary action for poor performance.)

Among the aftershocks of the 9-11 attacks on America was the colossal budget-busting on “homeland security” -- a spending binge that, additionally, was thought to require something approaching uniform disbursement of funds throughout the 50 states.

(Endless “what if ” possibilities left no legislator willing to forsake maximum security.) Among the questionable projects described in a Los Angeles Times August review were the purchase of an inflatable Zodiac boat with wide-scan sonar -- in case terrorists were eyeing Lake McConaughy in Keith County, Neb.; cattle nose leads, halters and electric prods (to protect against biological attacks on cows, awarded to Cherry County, Neb.); a terroristproof iron fence around a Veterans Affairs hospital near Asheville, N.C.; and $557,400 in communications and rescue gear in case North Pole, Alaska, got hit.

The Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general denounced the agency in September for promiscuously continuing to pay pension benefits to deceased federal retirees -- citing a 70 percent rise in bogus payments over the last five years.

However, another federal inspector general (the Social Security Administration’s) chastised its agency for the opposite reason: About 14,000 people each year are cut off from benefits after erroneously being declared dead.

News That Sounds Like a Joke The convenience store clerk, Ms. Falguni Patel, was giving testimony in the September trial of Morgan Armstrong (charged with robbing her in Hudson, Fla., in 2009) when she began shaking and then passed out while seated in the witness box. A relative of Patel’s approached, removed her sneaker and held it to Patel’s face, without success. The relative explained that Patel was subject to such blackouts and that sniffing the sneaker often revives her. (After paramedics attended to her, Patel took the rest of the day off and went back to court the next morning.) continued on page 40 y

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An exclusive Q&A screening and party with the filmmakers. Food & drinks provided, courtesy of Omaha Steaks & Upstream Brewing Co. Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Also This Week The Hedgehog First-Run

Directed by Mona Achache.

Friday, October 14 - Thursday, October 20

Based on the best-selling novel “The Elegance of the Hedgehog” by Muriel Barbery.

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Great Art! Although Moroccan artist Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, 27, concedes that photographs can be misinterpreted, he maintains on his website that he never wants to hurt people’s feelings. Nevertheless, he said he is proud of his photo exhibit in which he stands completely nude, allowing various verses of the Quran to be projected on his skin. His latest scheduled appearance was at an art fair in Marrakesh in October.

Two women were charged in September with what was likely a major art theft for Johnson City, Tenn. Connie Sumlin, 45, and Gail Johnson, 58, were identified from surveillance video as the ones who snatched two pieces of art off the wall in the entrance of a local Arby’s restaurant (a picture of some pears, and a metal art object, with an alleged combined value, according to the police report, of “$1,200”).

Earlier this year, Marion Laval-Jeantet won a notable Prix Ars Electronica award for her “hybrid” work that, she said, intends to blur the boundaries between species. Laval-Jeantet stepped onstage in Ljubljana, Slovenia, as a horse-human, having earlier injected herself with horse blood (after prepping her body for several months with different horse immunoglobulins). She also walked with stilts that had “hooves” affixed to the bottom. She capped the show by extracting some of her own presumably-hybrid blood, to be frozen and stored for future research.

Fetishes on Parade Indecent-exposure flashers appear to be invading even off-limits sanctuaries in their quest to be seen -- in Florida, anyway. In Sarasota County in September, Shane Wheatley, 31, was arrested after a Comcast cable customer complained that Wheatley had begun fondling himself while installing the woman’s TV service. Three days earlier, in Niceville, a 14-yearold boy (whose name was not released) was charged with indecent exposure after a worshipper reported him masturbating openly during services at the First

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United Methodist Church. The boy admitted he had done the same thing during services the week before because he was “bored.”

Least Competent Criminals In September, a jury found Terry Newman, 25, and an associate guilty of aggravated assault for a home invasion in San Antonio in 2009, thus adding insult to Newman’s injuries. Newman was shot by a resident during the initial invasion, and then again by another resident when he returned 15 minutes later to retrieve his car. Finally, after police encountered Newman following a short chase, he resisted officers and was shot again, for the third time. (None of the injuries was life-threatening.)

(Very) Undignified Death An inquest in Yorkshire, England, in September found that the February death of Brian Depledge, 38, was accidental -- that he had inadvertently strangled himself after falling onto a folding clothes horse (of the kind often used to hang recently washed laundry on to dry). The coroner concluded that Depledge’s body had become trapped between rungs in such a way that the more he moved his arms to extricate himself, the tighter was the pressure that was unavoidably placed on his neck.

Weird Classic (February 2007) After Emmalee Bauer, 25, was fired by the Sheraton hotel company in late 2006, she sought unemployment compensation under Iowa law that affords benefits to employees terminated through no fault of their own. However, the judge decided Bauer did not qualify. She had written a 300-page journal, during office hours, describing in detail her efforts to avoid work. Among her entries: “This typing thing seems to be doing the trick. It just looks like I am hard at work on something,” and “Once lunch is over, I will come right back to writing to piddle away the rest of the afternoon,” and “Accomplishment is overrated, anyway.” ,

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sports Taylor’s Tempestuous Week

T “That’s Nebraska football.” Those were the words of Husker O-Line coach Barney Cotton after their 34-27 comeback win over Ohio State. That same sentiment was likely not shared by a large portion of Cornhusker football fans watching Ohio State take a 27-6 lead at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.

Let’s see…what of the following qualifies as “Nebraska Football”:

l One of the worst offenses in the country Buckeye-ing their way to over 300 yards through three quarters on the Blackshirts. l The Husker offense and its embattled quarterback going into halftime with 37 yards rushing and 80 yards passing. l Bo Pelini throwing a hand wave as if to say ”whatever” to a section (or maybe stadium) of Husker fans who were booing/badmouthing their offense. l That same head coach exchanging aggressive words with a couple media members Thursday and again Saturday.

If none of that raises a Big Red flag for you, maybe this will…all of the above took place on a national stage in the rain under the lights while hosting its first Big 10 game against (what’s left of) THE Ohio State University AND are all story lines that have seemingly overshadowed the biggest comeback in school history.

Nebraska won in the fourth quarter and people are still talking about the first three quarters.

Now THAT, is what has become “Nebraska Football”.

On Monday’s show following the game, the first caller goes into an unsolicited rant dressing down Bo Pelini and the win. The calls that followed, followed a pattern.

Few talking about the do it all running back unless they are saying “why don’t we get him the ball more.”

Few talking about the coach who recognized a football player in his receiving core and switched him to cornerback in time to make a play when the defense needed it most unless they are saying “why don’t they have more guys like that”.

Few talking about the offensive coordinator who called a nearly flawless second half unless they are saying “I wonder if he finally figured it out.”

And few talking about how hard it is to win convincingly in this day and age of big time college football unless they are saying “we did it in the 90’s”.

Welcome to Nebraska Football 2011.

The Huskers have a week off before a simulated week off of a game against Minnesota.

It’s probably perfect timing for the team to get away from football and the attention around it for a while. And it’s probably perfect timing for the head coach to get away from press conferences for a little bit.

For the rest of us, you can diagnose your half empty Husker cup with the fact that between the time this team took a 14-7 lead in Madison until they scored their first touchdown against Ohio State to make it 27-13, Pelini’s team had been outscored 68-9.

28 unanswered points later, the cup is half full for some. How they move forward is pending.

Maybe longtime Husker coach Ron Brown explains the dynamic of it best, “ If I were to come out and knock you all out of your chairs right now…punch you to the floor, that’s on me. That’s my fault.

But if I come back here tomorrow morning and you’re still laying on the floor, that’s on you.”

Bo Pelini’s team picked itself up once this year. Time will tell if they stay on their feet. l

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Taylor Martinez had to pause and laugh while complimenting his teammates following Nebraska’s 34-27 come-from-behind victory against Ohio State.

As he was saying how proud he was of the team, he leaned forward and laughed.

The immediate cause was teammate Ron Kellogg III, a back-up quarterback who was standing behind the bank of cameras and reporters on the edge of the weight room.

Teammates often try to elicit reactions from each other during post-practice interviews but rarely postgame. So this was out of the ordinary – and entirely appropriate, considering Martinez had come through a difficult week to lead the biggest comeback in school history. He needed to laugh.

Just over 4 minutes into the third quarter, the Huskers trailed 27-6. In the next taylor martinez 20 minutes, and specifically during a 17-minute stretch, they scored four touchdowns, one on a Martinez run and two on his passes. Rex Burkhead scored the fourth with 5:10 remaining.

“It was an amazing game,” said Martinez, who passed for 191 yards and rushed for 102 yards to earn recognition as the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week.

In the week leading up to the game, Martinez had shouldered much of the blame for the previous Saturday’s 48-17, Big Ten-opening loss at Wisconsin.

He was criticized by fans and media, as well as by other students, including one in his Spanish class, according to teammate Yoshi Hardrick. The senior offensive tackle said Martinez was weary of the criticism. Redshirted freshman wide receiver Kenny Bell tweeted (@KBellJr80): “Next person to say anything about my QB to me, i’m slapping in the face. No warning. #tryme.”

Coach Bo Pelini chastised reporters following Thursday’s practice. Asked if he appreciated how the team had rallied behind Martinez, he said: “I’m not following you. What do you mean ‘rallied behind him?’ That’s what teammates do. I don’t quite understand the media onslaught.

“That’s for you guys to answer.”

A follow-up question, including “unfazed,” drew an even more irritated response from Pelini: “What? Are you guys trying to get a reaction from him? Is that what you guys are trying to do? I’m just wondering, is this a . . . you know, you guys are asking me. Is this a deliberate thing?”

That Pelini was passionate in his support of Martinez was no surprise, nor was his ire directed at reporters, one of whom suggested Martinez had seemed bothered by the week’s criticism.

“He’s human,” said Pelini. “You guys are the ones who should be bothered by it.”

The media issue was resurrected near the end of Pelini’s interview session following the game, with one reporter in particular, but only after Pelini had praised his sophomore quarterback.

“Taylor played his butt off,” Pelini said.

“That guy . . . he’s one of ‘em. He’s one of the leaders on the team. I’m proud of him. Everybody wants to doubt him. You guys can choose to write whatever you want and attack him, like the fans will. Now they’ll praise him. But I told him, I said, ‘You’re not as bad as you think you are. You’re not as good.’ There’s a lot of things he can do better out there tonight, but he kept fighting. He led the team.

He played a heck of a second half. I’m proud of how he responded, how he played. And that’s why he’s the starting quarterback right now.”

At the end of the first half, after Martinez had thrown an interception, there was a smattering of boos. By the fourth quarter, however, there were only cheers. “The crowd did an amazing job,” said Martinez. “I think that was the loudest I’ve ever heard the crowd in the beginning of the game.”

And, he added: “I think they played a huge part at the end of the game.”

Martinez was asked about the criticism and if he felt vindicated.

“I don’t really care,” he said. “That’s fine.”

But did he feel vindicated?

“Of course, I’m excited about the win,” Martinez said. “I was glad we won, we came through with a win. I’m as proud of our team, too. Our offensive line did a great job, the tight ends, the fullbacks, our receivers. I’m just glad we finally came through with a win . . .”

At about that point, he leaned forward and laughed. The last laugh, you might say. , courtesy huskerextra.com

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hank you, Wakan Tanka, the Amerindian spirit of the plains, for such beautiful weather during this marvelous Indian summer of 2011. See what a set of unified good vibes can accomplish as we surf with/amidst the waves of nature, together. When you run out of things to do, you/we can always study Mother Nature. Eventually, we all will. Peace and love to the departed…­ —MOJOPOPlanetPower.com g LIBRA (9.23-10.22) Kaboom! Venus just entered Scorpio and now here comes Mercury, in a game of tag which lasts ’til Thanksgiving, when Mercury retrogrades to give you a set to regret ’til a week before Christmas. It’s seXXXy, it’s fun, and you won’t wake (up) ’til it’s done! Have fun…and oh, $ince they’re now in your 2nd theoretical House, here come$ the “mon,” Hon. Your lucky number is 2. h SCORPIO (10.23-11.22) What have you got up your sorcerer’s sleeve for the coming season of All Hallows Eve? Magique is as magique does. You’re on a 6-week journey. Study yourself, your views on sex, your views on making BIG money, life and death; 5 of your favorite studies. Your season is upon us, and 13 is your lucky number.

Study the Maya. To them, half of 13 is 7. Meditate on that… i SAGITTARIUS (11.23-12.21) Resist the temptation to party.

You’ve got bigger fish to fry than just getting lucky again for another weekend. Hey, if that/this is your “weak end,” then what’s your strong end? Save up your end for the end of October, and the masquerade ball on the Halloween weekend. Then you can/ will wake up November 3rd (as Mercury and Venus enter Sagittarius, hand in hand), and be somebody to be heard! ’Til then, your lucky number is numero uno, Gringo. j CAPRICORN (12.22-1.20) How did you do? Did death come and visit you? Me too. Ben Harper says, “If it wasn’t for death, no one would give a fuck about God.” After her departure, my dear momma channeled to me, “When death is nothing, nothing is nothing. Finally, we are free.” More beings leave their bodies during Scorpio than any other sign. Pluto’s in your sign. Your number is 13. You’ll know what I mean.

December-born Capricorns are feeling “compelled”… k AQUARIUS (1.21-2.19) If you’re a Saturnian, death of some sort just visited and found entry into your harmony (the Sun conjunct Saturn in Libra). If Uranian, you’re doing the “difficulties at the beginnings” complaining “againing.” Your rebirth will show YOU what you’re worth. Your numbers are 7 and 11.

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(Omax time) Jupiter, rising to the east, retrograde in Taurus. Ask him, “Where’s the feast?” Tell him you’re the guest from the west, and are only used to the best. He’ll tell you on Christmas Day, you’ll have your day/way/say. That’s when Jupiter’ll pay. ’Til then, do something nice for someone without reflection on your own benefit; then the benefit will reflect back unto you. Generosity attracts luck.

Yours is number 9. a ARIES (3.21-4.20) Happy half-birthday! This last/past Full Moon was in your sign, and that’s why you’re finding it so hard to unwind. At least you’re finding it… You’re a samurai rogue warrior searching for your master, a schoolteacher flirting with disaster — a reject from the Plaster Casters? You gotta find SOMEBODY BIG in/for your life. Your number’s 5… This be from Dr. Jive. b TAURUS (4.21-5.20) Here comes a Libra… Finally, someone to talk to! Ooops! Now it’s a Scorpio; someone you “feel you can talk to”? And for November, a Sagittarius that you’ll remember (talking to?)! Hey! Are you just God’s little cosmic birthday gift getting passed around the zodiac? Hey! My birthday’s coming up, and your/our lucky number is 2! c GEMINI (5.21-6.21) Please read Taurus, twice.

That’s your lucky number 2, too. Then, read Libra and Scorpio. They all apply to you. Soon, you’ll know why and who… d CANCER (6.22-7.22) Get ready. Snow’s a month away! That’s what feels real for Miguel Jose to say. It’s the night of the year, and you are the king/queen of the night scene. All things of culture are born at night. Fill your mind, room, house, life and your autumn and winter with the highest fruits of culture — art. e LEO (7.23-8.22) You are hot to trot and wearin’ red to get ahead, señors y señoritas. Mars is heating up the action to your satisfaction ’til the Full Moon in Taurus on November 10th, giving you a chorus of compassion and strength! You’re a week away, from Miguel Jose. Ole! Heche le, Vaya te! Sus numero tres es. f VIRGO (8.23-9.22) Please read Gemini, et al. Hey! You’re good at filing, aren’t cha? Okay.

File this: You’re starting to entertain relatives throughout October, and then in November it’s “home sweet home,”(!) all/on your own. How does the MOJO “gnome”? All from the Golden Troll of Rock n’ Roll, MOJOPO(em). (Anything for a rhyme, anytime.) ,

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