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Don’t Be a Toaster

W

e live in a sea of energy. To be more accurate, we are part of that energy swamp.

It may seem that our universe is made of two basic components, energy and matter. But in fact, matter is simply a field of slow-moving energy, junk that is precipitated by the blockage of energy. Think of the universe as a river of energy. Now remember what happens when a log or some debris of some sort blocks a portion of a river. That impediment, that blockage of the energy of the river, causes an immediate buildup of debris, silt, sand. Matter is simply the result of blocking energy.

You may think you are made of matter and have a body but what appears to be solid is simply the place in the universe where your thoughts — and the thoughts of the collective consciousness — have blocked the proper flow of energy through the cosmos. Energy isn’t a problem. Blocking energy is. Blocking energy makes us sick.

Energy exists. There is nothing we can do about that. There is nowhere we can hide from energy. It is everywhere.

Our bodies exist because we resist energy. And resisting energy is not a good idea.

Better to let it flow.

Use this analogy. In the building you’re in, there’s lots of energy. Massive amounts of unseen electrical current spin through the walls around you along wires at the speed of light, inches from your body. No problem! But stick your fingers in an outlet, resist that energy, you’ve got a problem. Or a ten-ton truck rolling down the street at 50 mph is a lot of kinetic energy. Again, no problem. Step in front of that truck and block the energy — you have about ten tons of problem.

Energy is not the problem. Resisting energy is.

Think in terms of an auto engine. The last thing you want to do with the engine of your car is to let it run out of oil. Oil is there simply to reduce friction, reduce the resistance between the moving parts. The more resistance there is, the greater the wear and tear. If resistance increases, the engine self-destructs. Now think of the body in the same way. The more you block energy, the more wear and tear there is. The faster the body wears out.

Apply that metaphor to the human body. One example of energy flow in the body is the circulatory system.

That’s easy to understand. Blood carries energy to the cells of the body. Block that flow of energy and see what happens. Energy isn’t the problem. Blocking energy is.

Or consider the nervous system, another obvious route of energy through the body. Ever have a pinched nerve?

Exactly. Or airflow into the lungs? Block that and see how you do. Just about any example you can think of, blocking energy in the body gives a bad result.

Not everything that counts can be counted. Over centuries, we’ve intuited more wisdom than we’ve ever proved. Still Western science plods on, trying to measure things with crude instruments. We learned to measure radio waves only 100 years ago. Their existence didn’t depend on whether we were smart enough to measure them or not. We first measured brain waves in 1912. They certainly existed before then. We couldn’t measure x-rays until 1896 but they’ve existed forever. Just because humans haven’t figured out how to measure a particular energy doesn’t deny its existence.

Thoughts are energy. We just haven’t measured them. Yet we can see their effects. Thought is the initial energy behind everything in the physical experience, including the body.

A 1997 Duke University study found that negative thoughts of anger or sadness constrict the blood vessels of the heart, a condition known as ischemia.

Ischemia starves the flow of energy to the muscle and is a precursor to a heart attack.

Researcher Elizabeth Gullette said “What surprised me was the power of the association and the fact that negative emotions can actually trigger ischemia.” The findings summarized that “negative emotions double risk of ischemic attacks for an hour after the emotional trigger but positive emotions reduce the risk of such events.” There you have it. Holding on to a negative thought about someone or something blocks energy flow. A positive thought reduces risk. Imagine that.

Stress kills. For the sake of convenience, Western science lumps negative thoughts into the catch-all known as stress. Facebook posts notwithstanding, stress is not caused by traffic, your boss, the government or your kids. It’s caused by thought. What you think about traffic, your boss, the government, etc. is what causes stress. Training the mind to manage thoughts (meditation), training the body to let energy flow (tai chi, yoga etc.) reduces stress.

Energy flow through the universe is inexorable.

There’s nowhere to hide from it. Go with the flow.

Don’t resist it. Electricity flowing through walls is not a problem. Plug in a toaster and the resistant element gets nice and hot. That’s ok for a toaster, not for a body. Don’t be a toaster.

Be well. ,

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ood is fashionable. From blogs to news reports, it is common to hear words like “farm to table,” “locally sourced,” “free-range, freetrade, cage-free,” in reference to the food we choose to eat. Food truly can be an art form for those with the means, and the luck, to be able to handpick their meals. But there is a large majority of the population who associate “hungry,” and “not enough,” when it comes to food.

And many of them are right here in Omaha.

In a 2008-2012 census data report, Douglas County had a population of nearly 540,000 people, with 14% of those living below the poverty line. Comparatively, Nebraska as a whole reported 12.4% individuals living below the poverty line.

Poverty and hunger go hand in hand, with many of our city’s poor living in neighborhoods without easy access to grocery stores; these neighborhoods are known as “food deserts.” Faced with a limited income, processed and fast food becomes the cheapest way to feed their families.

shop through a pantry that resembles a neighborhood grocery store,” said Together executive director Mike Hornacek. “Our new facility has provided those in need with a warm and welcoming environment filled with dignity.”

Creating an environment where an individual is in control of their food purchases is empowering.

Many shelters like Together are moving away from the typical brown bag of canned goods and instead focusing on giving people choices.

“Each family, based on size, gets an item count and can shop for any items they wish up to that item count. In other words, a pantry’s mission is supposed to be a support mechanism for the family to help bridge the gap when finances get tough.”

“If we decide what each family needs, in the end we actually waste food because they are receiving food that is unwanted or unneeded. The grocery style pantry gives choice to the family, makes the food go further, and gives them ownership over their food choices.”

Help for the hungry

Learning what to eat

Omaha has many food pantries and empowerment organizations that are working to help families overcome obstacles. A few have even partnered up to help maximize resources to reach as many people as possible.

“The Hunger Collaborative represents our three largest food pantries (Together, Heart Ministry Center, and Heartland Hope Mission) joining hands with the Food Bank for the Heartland,” said Craig Howell, coordinator of the Hunger Collaborative.

“We are truly working to change the face of the modern food pantry.”

“We provide three choice pantries in north Omaha, midtown and South Omaha along 24th Street.

These pantries work with the Food Bank to provide a variety of foods. They also enjoy services from local farms and food rescue operations. Our clients today have a good variety of fresh vegetables and meats.”

Teaching people skills like buying healthy food is important for long term results. Realizing the importance of sustainability, Together has broken the mold of traditional pantries and has even begun using their own produce to bulk the nutrition load for their shelves.

“Historically, our focus has been so centered on meeting the need and keeping the shelves stocked that there hasn’t been time to focus on nutrition levels and balanced diets. However, with recent community efforts and partnerships we are making a strong commitment to changing the balance of the food you find at a pantry,” said Hornacek. “We are currently working to create a farm-to-food pantry initiative as well as have planted our own raised bed garden to inject more produce, dairy, and protein as options for families to choose from.”

“Our goal is to have healthier options available to the families utilizing our pantry at an increased level moving forward.”

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Omaha is on the right track, but we still have a long way to go. “The fight to end hunger and poverty takes more than just one group,” said Howell. “It takes substantive and serious collaboration of not only food, but also non-food services that help provide hope and lift people out of poverty.” , Want to help? http://togetheromaha.org/

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More than food Another way the Hunger Collaborative is helping to improve the quality of life for people in need is by providing services beyond food. “There are services for clothing, medical care, dental care, financial literacy, rental assistance, veteran housing and women empowerment.”

Together is a homeless prevention organization that works to empower people by providing necessary help and services to keep people from ending up on the street. One of these services is how to choose nutritious food. “Families get the opportunity to

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Learning how to cook Together also offers classes to help families learn about the importance and ease of cooking meals at home. “One thing we have offered to help with nutrition is cooking demonstrations in the pantry just like at a grocery store. So when you happen to be here for pantry you may have the opportunity to see items from the pantry being prepared in front of you for nutritious meal ideas. Thanks to the VNA Cooking Matters program for this opportunity.”

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crumbs ■ MARKS BISTRO CHEF NOW CO-OWNER Executive Chef James Davis joins the shareholders and becomes a co-owner at Marks Bistro in Dundee.

He joins three other shareholders, all of which work at Marks Bistro full-time. You probably already know that the food at Marks is amazing, but now you know that the people who work there believe in what they’re doing enough to where they’re willing to put their money where their mouths are, metaphorically. www.marksindundee.com/ ■ THE END OF MANY ERAS A rash of recent restaurant closings seem to have happened rather abruptly. Among the list: Bellevue Café, Taste Bistro and perhaps most jolting, Grandmothers, which was in business for 40 years before shutting down.

■ FAMOUS FOOD GUY VISITS OMAHA Tickets are on sale now for Alton Brown’s Oct/ 30 visit to the Orpheum. Brown is a Food Network star and author, so people who watch a lot of food TV will likely want to buy tickets early to avoid missing this show. www.altonbrowntour.com/ shows/omaha ■ COFFEE FOR YOU, STORIES FOR THEM Echo Coffee Shop hosts an all-ages children’s story time every Saturday at 10 a.m. While you’re there, try one of their many Fair Trade, organic beverages or snack on something from their food menu. Their soup is always a good choice. www.echocoffeeshop.com/ — Tamsen Butler Crumbs is about indulging in food and celebrating its many forms. Send information about area food and drink businesses to crumbs@thereader.com.

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he Faint are back.

Actually, they’ve been back for awhile. The electro-punk four-piece who, along with Bright Eyes and Cursive, helped define Omaha as the nation’s indierock ground zero in the early 2000s, went on what many thought was a permanent hiatus after touring their last full length, 2008’s Fasciinatiion (blank.wav).

Frontman Todd Fink became a happy wanderer, moving from place to place with wife Orenda Fink (of Azure Ray and O+S fame), but eventually discovered there’s no place like home, or in this case, Omaha. Hopes were raised that The Faint might be getting back together when a photo of keyboardist Jacob Thiele in The Faint’s Enamel studio was posted on the band’s Facebook page in April 2012 with the caption “First practice in too long!!!”

In November of that year the band, now consisting of Fink, Thiele, drummer Clark Baechle and guitarist Dapose, went on a “10th Anniversary of Danse Macabre” tour and self-released a limited-edition four-song single, “Evil Voices.” It would foreshadow the band’s first full-length in six years, Doom Abuse, released this past April by SQE Music.

More than a return to form for the band that taught Omaha how to dance, Doom Abuse is a high energy tour de force -- 12 relentless tracks of hard,

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fast electro-punk that feels more aggressive and immediate than anything they’ve released in their 16-year career.

“We came back with a perspective of what we each liked about the time we spent in the band, what felt good about what we’ve done, and what felt extraneous,” Fink said via cell phone. “We also realized we didn’t want to come back and put out a record that has a whole bunch of slow songs on it. We made it thinking how fun it would be to tour. That’s part of what’s exciting about being in a band again, that we’re going to go play music.”

Known for taking months if not years to record their albums, Fink said the band has a new attitude about the creative process, which in the past was too exacting and fraught with constant second-guessing of every decision.

“We’d made the process of making a record harder than it was fun,” he said. “This time we weren’t scared of failing because we didn’t care if we failed, and that’s the kind of attitude we remembered

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having when it was fun, back at the beginning. If it didn’t work and everyone thought (the music) sucked and didn’t want to come to the shows, we were cool with that.”

The new attitude freed the band to set up a recording schedule and book time with producer Mike Mogis. While the band laid down tracks at Enamel, Mogis handled the mixing chores, always staying one day ahead, not giving the band the chance to slip back into its old habits of secondguessing every little nuance of the recording.

“If something needed to change when we listened to the mixes, we’d get out some of Mike’s analog gear and old synths and start coming up with solutions in the control room,” Fink said. “It’s fun to make music with the group we have now.”

The Faint isn’t the only band Fink has fun with.

Last year he showed up on stage playing synths as a new member of Digital Leather. Fronted by Omaha transplant Shawn Foree, the band is known for its

synth-heavy recordings that recall artists such as Gary Numan and Suicide. At the time, Foree and Co. had been performing completely synth-free as a three-piece garage punk band.

“I was a fan and saw them play at O’Leaver’s without keyboards and wondered why it was like that,” Fink said. “Shawn and I met at California Taco, and then I brought my keyboard over to practice. I’m playing in the band because I like it and I like him.”

Fink said Foree’s songwriting style has been influential. “I feel like I learned stuff playing with Shawn about writing songs, whether they’re arrangement choices or approaches to lyrics,” he said. “I would definitely say he was an influence for me personally on this last set of Faint songs.”

In fact, Faint track “Damage Control” is a reworking of a song recorded by Foree side project Mere Mortals called “B12,” and appears on Doom Abuse. Fink said he and Foree have been writing and recording together, but that project has been set aside since The Faint began touring this past April.

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Social Scene — instead of Saddle Creek was purely business. “There’s no hard feelings one way or another (with Saddle Creek),” Fink said. “We’re still planning on doing stuff with them.”

He added the band decided to not release the album on its own blank.wave label because “it’s A more Melwork Brooks Musical! that’s not music. We’re trying to spend as much time as we can on the art and less on the business strategy.”

The business side of things always have been an after-thought for The Faint.

“I don’t think we really talked about record sales or profits much over our whole career,” Fink said.

“I know record sales have gone down in general, and streaming is the latest controversy. We don’t see any money from streaming.”

Fink admits that the band has been out of touch when it comes to the latest online crazes. “We’re a strange band in the world because we didn’t pay attention to internet stuff or social media as it was getting popular,” he said. “We were around before that stuff and didn’t change our ways.”

For The Faint, it’s always been about touring, but being on the road has gotten harder over the years.

Fink, who just turned 40 this past spring, suffers

from rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic inflammatory disorder that typically affects the small joints in hands and feet.

“I’ve always had it,” he said. “My ankles and my knees get swollen. It might bother me more as I do more shows in a row these days than it used to. We built days off (into the tour). We never took days off before. It’s good to give it a rest.”

It’s also nice to have the comfort of a tour bus to recuperate in between gigs, though Fink said he prefers sleeping in hotels and traveling in vans.

“Actually, I miss staying at people’s houses on tour,” he said. “That was a fun part about touring with Digital Leather — driving around in a van and seeing the coutryside pass by instead of black windows, and meeting people and staying in their houses. It was just like old times.” , The Faint plays with Reptar and Solid Goldberg Friday, June 13, at Sokol Auditorium, 2234 S 13th St., and with Reptar and Digital Leather Saturday, June 14, at The Waiting Room. 6212 Maple St. Showtime for both shows is 8 p.m. and tickets to both are $20. For more information, go to onepercentproductions.com.

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U C I R V I N E R E C L A I M S FA N - FA V O R I T E C I N D E R E L L A S TAT U S

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even years after breaking through to its first Division I College World Series appearance, the UC Irvine Anteaters are headed back to Omaha with a chance to reclaim fan-favorite Cinderella status.

Irivne climbed through the post season, starting with one of the toughest draws in the Corvallis, Ore. regional featuring No. 1 nation seed Oregon State.

(The Big West does not have a conference championship tournament) Finishing the regular season third in the Big West, the Anteaters drew a 3-seed in the Corvallis regional after ending the season on a sixgame losing skid, getting swept by Long Beach State and Cal State Fullerton.

After beating UNLV in the regional tournament opener, Irvine went toe-to-toe with the Beavers three days straight, taking two of three games including the regional championship, becoming one of five teams to take down a national seed at the regional level. Four days later, the Anteaters hit the road again, this time traveling to Stillwater, Okla. to face Oklahoma State, winner of their home regional.

Irvine swept the Cowboys 8-4 and 1-0 to advance to Omaha, where it will face Texas in round one.

Like the rest of Irvine’s success in the regular season, timely pitching from the Anteaters’ staff allowed the post season run that landed them in Omaha. Ace righty

Andrew Morales led the way as Irvine’s Friday starter, getting selected 71st overall in the MLB Draft last week.

Morales ranked 32nd in earned run average for the 2014 regular season with a 1.53 average. What sets Morales apart is his endurance; he 120.2 innings pitched is second-highest among pitchers ranking in the top-50 in national ERA. He’s pitched three complete games with an 11-2 record, and averages more than nine strikeouts per game. One of those three completes came in a scintillating shutout in a 1-0 win over Oklahoma State that locked up Irvine’s College World Series bid.

Lefty Elliot Surrey (.199 ERA) and Evan Brock (.316 ERA) round out the Irvine starting rotation, with Surrey notching the game one win over Oklahoma State in a seven-inning outing, giving up a pair of runs and fanning five as he improved his record to 8-4. Brock’s most recent appearance came against Oregon State in the Corvallis Regional, the Anteaters’ only loss in the post season. All three starters have strike throwing ability, led by Morales’ four-pitch mix that tallied 136 strikeouts on the season. Surrey and Brock totaled 75 and 62 strikeouts respectively during the season.

Closer Sam Moore closes out opponents among the best in the country, earning 23 saves during the regular season to lead the country. Moore struck out 38 batters in his 43 innings pitched. His lone post season appearance came in a single inning in a 14-2 drubbing of

Oregon State. With one more save in Omaha, Moore will tie the NCAA record for saves (24) that was set last season by UCLA freshman David Berg.

Powerful third baseman Taylor Sparks, the leadoff hitter who was selected in the second round by the Cincinnati Reds. A .307 hitter, Sparks is one Irvine’s three most talented ball players, along with Morales and first baseman Connor Spencer. Sparks and Spencer combined for six of UC Irvine’s 10 hits in a key 8-4 win over Oklahoma State in the Stillwater Super Regional opener. Spencer, a .370 batter was drafted in the eighth round by the New York Yankees, holds the reputation as Irvine’s best hitter despite limited power. He has 21 extra-base hits on the year, but 44 RBIs and a single home run.

The 2014 College World series will be an exceptionally special one for UC Irvine head coach Mike Gillespie, making his fifth appearance as a head coach in Omaha after taking USC four times during his 20-year career with the Trojans. As the Trojan’s head coach in 1998, Gillespie and USC won the 1998 College World Series. Gillespie took over for Irvine in 2008, the season after the Anteaters made their first appearance in Omaha in school history.

Gillespie is currently one of two coaches to win a College World Series both as a player and head coach; both with USC.

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t was a roller coaster ride in 2012 and 2013 since Texas’ last trip to the College World Series, with the Longhorns failing to make the NCAA Tournament field of 64. Not only did the Longhorns crack the field this season, but will make their first trip back to Omaha since that same year in 2011 when they held the No. 7 national seed.

Texas didn’t possess a national seed in 2014, but rather made its way to Omaha by way of a four-game win as the No. 2-seed in the Rice Regional Tournament hosted by the Owls. The Longhorns took down former Big 12 foe Texas A&M in the regional final, and went on to face Houston with a chance to gain the school’s 35th College World Series appearance in school history. Hosting a super regional at Disch-Falk Field, the Longhorns completed a Friday-Saturday sweep of the Cougars, winning 4-2 and 4-0 to clinch the first open spot in the eight-team field in Omaha.

Texas entered the postseason 40-19 with a 13-11 conference record in the Big 12, finishing fifth in the Big 12 behind Oklahoma State, TCU, Kansas and Texas Tech.

The Longhorns were ousted by the Cowboys in the conference tournament, with Oklahoma State going on to host a regional tournament and super regional at Allie.

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Texas is undoubtedly led by its pitching staff, entering the regional round 10th in the nation in team ERA

at 2.45. Senior ace Nathan Thornhill was drafted last season, but opted to return to the program to continue the Texas turnaround. He picked a good time to do so, leading the team with a 1.49 ERA in 91 pitches as a starting, boasting a 8-2 record after working the Cougars for seven innings in the Friday super regional win. Thornhill throws his fastball in the upper-80s with good command on his breaking ball and aggressive location and execution of his pitches.

Junior lefty Parker French follows closely behind Thornhill in the starting pitching rotation, but leads the team in on-field experience, ranking third among active Big 12 pitchers in innings pitched. French bumped his win-loss record back up above .500 Saturday earning the win over Houston, blanking the Cougars for six innings to improve to 6-5 on the season and clinching Texas’ spot in the College World Series. French holds a 2.62 earned run average with 59 strikeouts. French’s strikeouts fluctuated during the season; he tallied four outings with six strikeouts or more in February and March, but didn’t top four strikeout in a game until a six-strikeout game against Rice in the Owls’ regional tournament, a 6.2-inning appearance.

Behind the stingy pitching staff, the Texas offense isn’t the most explosive, but is executed well in the small-ball system on 75-year-old head coach Augie Garrido. What the Longhorns lack in power

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and explosiveness (20 home runs by the starting lineup entering super regionals) they make up for with execution. With 87, Texas leads the country in sacrifice bunts, illustrating the team’s athleticism and savvy at the plate. Like Thornhill, senior center fielder Mark Payton spurned the MLB after getting drafted in 2013, and leads the Horns with a .460 onbase percentage and slugs .447, good for a tie for the team lead. Batting seventh in the Texas order, Payton showcases Texas’ patience with a team-high 53 walks heading into super regionals. Among the starting order, Payton is second in strikeouts with just 22. He also leads the team in RBIs and entered supers with a 95-game on-base streak - the longest in conference history.

Returning experience was key for Texas in its postseason run, but three freshman helped anchor the defense as well in freshmen third baseman Zane Gurwitz, catcher Tres Barrera and first baseman Kacy Clemens in a strong defensive conference of the Big 12. With a .970 defensive team fielding defense percentage, the Longhorns actually rank sixth, committing 29 errors along the way.

With a fast outfield, athletic defense, and a patient grinding offensive approach at the plate, the Longhorns have a chance to make some noise at TD Ameritrade Park, one that suits this Texas team to a “T.”

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HARD TO FIND SOFT SPOT IN LOUISVILLE LINEUP

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fter rolling through hosting duties as regional and super regional host, Louisville locked up its second straight trip to Omaha for the College World Series under eighth year head coach Dan McDonnell. After making an early exit in last year’s World Series and losing seven juniors to the majors, the Cardinals reloaded and marched through the American Athletic Conference for the regular season title.

Fellow super regional team Houston down Louisville in the American Conference tournament, but the Cardinals got the last laugh sailing through the Louisville regional and super regional with an efficient 5-0 record. Also for the second straight year, Louisville crossed the 50-win threshold, reaching 50 wins after a 45-15 regular season campaign.

The talent level didn’t drop from last season for the Cardinals despite the seven drafted players. This season, Louisville saw another eight players get their names called in the 2014 MLB draft, including five in the first 15 rounds.

It’s hard to find a soft spot in the Louisville lineup, from the batting order to the starting rotation all the way to the bullpen.

Offensively, the Cardinals are led by a veteran group of players, with the first seven batters in the order being upperclassmen. Five Cardinal batter en-

tered regional play with averages above .300, with a balance of five right-handed batter and four lefties.

Senior Jeff Gardner leads the offense batting sixth as one of the most productive offensive players in the country. The eighth-round pick by the Washington Nationals boasts a gaudy .551 slugging percentage, and bats .326. His strongest assets however is his RBI ability, leading the team with 67 runs batted in on the season. Gardner has developed a reputation as one of the country’s clutch players, thanks to some big hits in big situations with a patient approach at the plate.

When the Cardinals get on base, they thrive thanks to offensive speed, demonstrated by the 121 stolen bases on the season entering the postseason, good for a second-place ranking in the country. Junior shortstop Sutton Whitling - who bats .215 - led the team in 2014 with 33 stolen bases, and added three more in Louisville’s three regional games. First baseman Grant Kay is productive on the bases as well, sporting a .402 on base percentage and notched 23 stolen bases on the year. Senior center fielder Cole Sturgeon ranked third amend the Cardinals in stolen bases, but is also one of one of four Cardinals batting better than .325 at the end of the regular season.

Sturgeon also acts as one of Louisville’s stellar lefthanded arms out of the bullpen. He joins Kyle McGrath and closer Nick Burdi as the most active pitchers out of

the pen. The closer Burdi was Louisville’s highest draft pick, going in the second round (46th overall) to the Minnesota Twins. Like Gardner, Burdi is regarded as one of the best closers in the nation, with a triple-digit fastball that’s helped him nab 17 saves on the year. Burdi also has a low-90 mph slider in his arsenal, helping the Cardinals finish the regular season ranked seventh in the country with 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings.

The Louisville starting rotation features a potent one-two punch of Friday right-handed sophomore starter Kyle Funkhouser and junior Jared Ruxer, who lead the staff with 17 and 13 starts respectively. Funkhouser is the Cardinals’ top power arm with a low-90s fastball - part of his three-pitch mix that’s helped him to a 13-2 record with a 1.73 ERA. He went seven full in Louisville’s 5-3 game super regional game one win over Kennesaw State, giving up just three hits and two earned runs. Ruxer missed regional action due to injury however, and didn’t pitch in the super regional round.

The staff showed versatility in Ruxer’s absence however, getting a long seven-inning outing from Funkhouser Friday and bullpen activity with five pitchers getting a go in the Saturday win over Kennesaw State to lock up the College World Series bid. Anthony Kidston gave up four runs in six innings as the Saturday starter, but the relief effort gave up just two runs in three shutout innings over the Owls.

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anderbilt joins Texas Tech, TCU and UC Irvine as teams making their sophomore trips to Omaha in the 2014 College World Series.

The Commodores became the only SEC team to make it to Omaha thanks to some of the best pitching in the country - a trend becoming common in Nashville.

The Vanderbilt pitching staff ranks 16th in the country in team ERA at 2.67 and sent four pitchers to the MLB Draft in the first 15 rounds.

Junior righty Tyler Beede is the Commodores’ undisputed ace, starting 17 games and earning a 8-7 record with a 3.58 ERA. He may not have the flashiest numbers, but he has the stuff that major league teams are looking for with a mid-90s fastball, and commanding change ups and curveballs. He tossed 108 strikeouts in 2014, and was selected 14th overall in the first round of the MLB Draft by the San Francisco Giants. Beede opened up NCAA Tournament play with eight innings of shutout pitching in an 11-0 smothering of Xavier in the the Nashville Regional.

Late in April, the Commodores took a turn when right-handed sophomore Carson Fulmer found his way into the weekend rotation after beginning the season in the closer role. In seven starts, Fulmer earned a 6-1 record and leads the team with a 1.78 ERA with 81 strikeouts with 76 innings pitched. He earned a win over Oregon during regional play, going eight innings giving up

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just two runs in the 7-2 win. During his time as a closer, he schooled the ability to shut the door on opponents, notching 10 saves. Sophomore righty Walker Buehler rounds out the starting rotations with an 11-2 record and 2.39 ERA. Buehler went the full nine innings as Vanderbilt eliminated Oregon in a 3-2 regional win.

Adam Ravenelle highlights Vanderbilt’s dangerous bullpen as a 1.56 reliever. Ravenells averages just under one strikeout per inning, helping the Commodores to a third-place national rank in strikeouts per nine innings.

The Commodore pitching staff ranks second in the country in hits allowed per nine innings as well. Ravelle was picked up by the Detroit Lions in the fourth round of the draft, but likely would have been drafted higher if he’d had a more certain role at Vanderbilt, scouts say. His slider and mid-90s fastball make him an invaluable bullpen asset.

Reliever Brian Miller took over save duties for the ‘Dores, collecting five saves from the bullpen with 1.82 earned run average. Miller closed out Stanford in game one of the Nashville Super Regional, going 1.2 innings or scoreless and hitless baseball. He tossed another shutout inning without giving up a hit in game two, a 5-3 loss to the Cardinal. He was selected by the Tampa Bay rays in the 15th round of the MLB Draft.

Tyler Ferguson tallied 14 starts on the season, rounding up an 8-3 record with a 2.51 ERA, and gave

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up the second-fewest hits among the arms with 60 or mores innings pitched.

Coupled with deep and dominant pitching, the Commodore offense composed of speed and athleticism and small ball style will make Vanderbilt a force in Omaha at TD Ameritrade Park - a field with deep fences and wide gaps.

The Commodores haven’t shown a lot of power with just 21 home runs on the season, but hit gaps consistently. With 93 steals, Vanderbilt ranked second in the SEC in stolen bases and led the conference with 122 doubles.

Production machine sophomore second baseman Dansby Swanson leads offensively, ranking second in batting average (.335), and leads the team with a .414 onbase percentage, 18 stolen bases and 24 doubles. During the post season, freshman left fielder Bryan Reynolds overtook Swanson for the team lead with a .343 batting average and slugging .494, and is tied with Swanson at 24 doubles. Junior shortstop Vince Conde ranks third on the team in batting average at .303 but narrowly trails Reynolds for the team lead in RBIs with 47.

The Commodores just missed out on earning a national seed in 2014, but will make their second College World Series trip since 2011. Vanderbilt made the semifinals in its first trip to Omaha; three years later, the Commodores hope to ride All-American quality pitching to the next step.

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TEXAS TECH COACH LEADS RED RAIDERS TO FIRST CWS BID

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ed Raiders head coach Tim Tadlock went one step further when he took Texas Tech to its first super regional tournament, beating host Miami for the team’s first trip to Omaha for the College World Series.

Texas Tech debunked its reputation as a home-only team after finishing the regular season 33-4 in Lubbock, but 12-15 in games on the road or in neutral sites. After getting bounced in two games from the Big 12 Championship tournament, the Red Raiders went on the road to Coral Gable, Fla. and took down host Miami. After an opening win over Columbia, Texas Tech took a game from the Hurricanes, lost the next, and defeated the Hurricanes in a winner-take-all June 2 matchup.

After taking down Miami, Tech drew a favorable super regional matchup against the College of Charleston, the Gainesville Regional champions that defeated No. 2 national seed Florida en route to a super regional tournament bid. The Red Raiders rode some dominant pitching to a 2-0 tournament sweep of the Cougars with back-to-back 1-0 shutout victories to clinch their first trip to Omaha in school history. In the super regional-clinching win over the College of Charleston, not a single Cougar baserunner made it past second base.

In just his second year as head coach at Texas Tech, Tadlock led the Red Raiders to their first super region-

al tournament bid in school history, which became the teams’s first world series bid. Tadlock holds a 7149 record in his first two years at the helm in Lubbock.

Sophomore left-handed batter Tyler Neslony anchors the Tech offense, batting sixth in the order. He deviates slightly from the typical Red Raider offensive player in their grind-it-out offensive style (.385 team OBP), batting .388 with 39 RBIs on the season and slugging .612 in 43 games played this season.

Neslony added four of Texas Tech’s 30 home runs on the season. Known as one of the toughest outs not only in the Big 12 but in the country, Neslony drove in the game-winning run in the Red Raiders’ game one win over the College of Charleston in super regional action in Lubbock.

Sophomore first baseman Eric Gutierrez and senior designated hitter Adam Kirsch skew the perception of the Red Raiders’ offense, but in a good way. As previous mentioned, the Red Raiders have totaled 30 homers on the year, but 22 have come off the bats of Gutierrez and Kirsch. Gutierrez is the only player on Tech’s roster who can claim starts in all 64 games this season, and blasted 12 home runs, including a home run stretch in mid-May that lasted four games. Gutierrez caused a bit of friction in Texas Tech’s post season however, getting ejected from a regional game against Miami following a

physical tag out at first base that got the first base coach involved and cleared the benches.

Kirsch added ten more of those 30 home runs from the Red Raiders on the year batting as the DH in the 9-hole. Kirsch is a durable .300 batter, with just one fewer start than Gutierrez with 63. Along with second baseman Jake Burleson, Kirsch leads the Red Raider with 23 combined doubles and triples.

The Texas Tech pitching staff thrived in the regional and super regional rounds, giving up just three runs in six games, including four shutouts. Lefty Dylan Dusek got the shutout ball rolling after the conference championship tournament, blanking Miami for eight innings, then returning to pitch five shutout innings against the College of Charleston in the supers. Junior lefty Cameron Smith one-upped Dusek in the Tech’s 4-0 win over Miami to clinch the Coral Gables Regional, tossing a complete game shutout surrendering just three hits.

Chris Sadberry and and Jonny Drozd combined for another shutout over the Cougars in the supers. The bullpen for Texas Tech might be the strongest aspect of the team, with Drozd sporting a perfect 7-0 record and 2.00 ERA. With a strong starting rotation and a shut-down bullpen able to stretch out tournament starts - like Smith’s eight innings - the Red Raiders could be poised for a deep run in their first appearance at TD Ameritrade Park.

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t’s no secret in today’s age of the BBCOR bats pitching is at an all-time premium in college baseball. Of the eight teams in the 2014 College World Series, seven teams rank in the top-21 in ERA. The TCU Horned Frogs top all seven other teams, leading the nation with a staff-wide ERA of 2.14, more than 10 points higher than the second place team.

The Frogs join Vanderbilt and UC Irvine as teams making their second appearance in Omaha, with TCU’s let trip coming in 2010.

TCU got white after mid-season, winning 27 of its last 30 games in after hovering three games above .500 through 27 games. By season’s end, the Frogs rallied to finish the regular season in second place in the conference behind Oklahoma State and earned an automatic NCAA Tournament bid by winning the Big 12 Championship tournament.

Last time around in 2010, the Horned Frogs made their way to Omaha by blasting the baseball all over the yard with an explosive and powerful offense, but this group couldn’t be further from that. No, this group of TCU players boasts one of the best four-man pitching rotations in all of college baseball.

Junior lefty and Friday ace Brandon Finnegan has rolled to a 9-3 record with 2.12 ERA in 16 starts after transitioning into the Friday role as a junior. He was selected 17th overall in the first round of the MLB Draft

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by the Kansas City Royals. Finnegan worked through soreness in the shoulder that slowed him midseason, but battled in the latter half to help TCU to host both a regional and super regional tournament.

Finnegan started regional action strong against Siena, tossing 7.1 innings, giving up just one earned run and fanning a dozen batters along the way earning the win. He also got the “W” against Pepperdine in the series opener in the Fort Worth Super Regional, going 6.1 innings and giving up only two runs. Finnegan paces the team with a staggering 129 strikeouts in 7.2 innings pitched.

In the Saturday starting role, Preston Morrison arguably out-performed Finnegan, earning Big 12 pitcher of the year accolades with a nasty team-leading 1.32 ERA in 16 starts, with a 9-4 record. He earned his ninth win of the year against Sam Houston State, a thrilling 22-inning contest that resulted in a 3-2 TCU win in one of the most exciting games of the entire 2014 NCAA baseball tournament.

Rounding out the starting weekend rotation is freshman lefty Tyler Alexander, the only TCU pitcher with double-digit wins at 10-3 on the season. Alexander dominated Sam Houston State in a 6-1 TCU win, a complete game in which he gave up just one run on one hit. The Horned Frogs’ bullpen is led by sophomore right-handed closer Riley Ferrell, who ranks

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16th in the nation with 16 saves. Scouts clock Ferrell at a mid-to-upper 90s fastball and a slider that clocks in around 87 mph.

The offense is paced by sophomore outfielder Boomer White, who bats .318, leads the team with 81 hits, 46 RBIs and ranks second on the team with 48 runs scores on the season. Third in the order, Garrett Crain leads the team in batting average at .335 and slugs .431 and leads the club with a .418 on-base percentage.

First baseman Kevin cron is the team’s most powerful hitter, laying claim to 5 of TCU’s meager 13 home runs; a far cry from the Frogs’ 52 total home runs in their last College World Series season. Along with White and Crain, Dylan Fitzgerald is the last TCU starter that bats above .300, and ranks second on the squad with 74 hits on the season.

In addition to the drawn-out 22-inning late win over Sam Houston State in the regional round, the Horned Frogs found themselves in another dramatic victory in a 6-5 win over Pepperdine to clinch to the trip to Omaha. Trailing the Waves by a run, TCU plated a pair in the top of the ninth for the win.

After making it to the semifinals in their first trip to Omaha in 2010, the Frogs are looking for enough drama to advance past two other Big 12 squads from Texas for a World Series crown.

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V I R G I N I A J U G G E R N A U T M AY TA K E T O U R N A M E N T

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n a bad year to be a national seed, No. 3 Virginia became one of two to advance through the NCAA Tournament and reach the 2014 College World Series. The Cavaliers joined 7-seed TCU as the only national seeds to survive the parity-laden tournament that features the most non-seeded teams in its current format.

The Cavaliers also join Louisville in making its third trip to Omaha in school history, with the previous two trips coming in 2009 and 2011. For the second straight year, Virginia hosted a regional and super regional tournament on the way back to head coach Brian O’Connor’s hometown Omaha.

O’Connor built his team in way that’s suited not only for modern college baseball, but also to play a pitching and defense style of baseball that thrives in TD Ameritrade’s large boundaries that favor pitchers and sound defensive play. The Cavaliers entered the season ranked as Baseball America’s No. 1 team in the country, and looked that way for most of the season, until the regular season finale against Wake Forrest, the only series loss of the year.

Despite the series loss and a disappointing 1-2 record in the ACC Tournament, the Cavs earned the No. 3 national seed heading into hosting duties in the Charlottesville Regional Tournament. While O’Connor aims to build teams around the mound and the defense, in 2014 he found himself with one of the most well-round-

ed teams in college baseball, and perhaps the most balanced team top to bottom in the College World Series.

It starts with pitching for Virginia, led by left-handed sophomore Nathan Kirby, sporting a 9-2 record and 103 strikeouts, with a ERA of 1.73 that ranked 11th in that nation heading into super regional action. The Cavalier pitching staff ranks third nationally in team ERA, becoming one of seven team in the 2014 World Series with a top-21 team earned run average. Kirby tossed a no-hitter April 4 against Pittsburgh - one of many milestones that helped him earn Co-ACC Pitcher of the Year honors.

Senior Artie Lewicki worked his way into the rotation for Virginia, making nine starts and grabbing a 6-1 record with a 1.62 ERA. Brandon Waddell and Josh Sborz both tallied more than 10 starts during the year, with Waddell totaling nine wins and three losses.

Waddell notched the win as the Cavaliers evened the super regional series with Maryland at 1-1, while Sborz earned the win in a 11-2 demolishing of the Terrapins that gave Virginia the World Series berth.

The relief pitching for Virginia is a deep and talented unit, headlined by closer Nick Howard, a firstround draft choice by the Cincinnati Reds at 19 overall. In 28 appearance, Howard rattled off 19 saves for the Cavaliers, ranking fourth in the country. Howard was just one of an impressive seven draft picks on the Virginia roster.

Behind Howard in the draft was left fielder Derek Fisher, a junior 6-hole batter who was selected 37th overall by Houston. Fisher sustained a broken hand near midseason, but had a powerful return six weeks after with home runs in his second and third games back in the lineup. The next player off the board also happened to play for Virginia; powerful first baseman and ACC home runs leader Mike Papi. During the postseason, Papi inflated his batting average up to .311, and leads the Cavaliers in home runs (11), RBIs (54), slugging (.505), walks (55) and total bases (112).

Fisher combines with outfielders Brandon Downes and Joe McCarthy as dangerous scoring threats with runners in scoring position, with McCarthy second on the squad with 46 runs batted in.

Downes comes in third, with 37 on the year batting seventh, one of many attributes that earned him a 7th-round draft selection by the Kansas City Royals.

McCarthy also leads to team in stolen bases with 11, a bight spot in an area where the Cavaliers haven’t put up eye-popping numbers.

Like many other teams in this year’s World Series, Virginia reached the semifinals in their most recent trip to Omaha in 2011. O’Connor has quickly built a juggernaut baseball team in Charlottesville since taking over the Cavaliers in 2004, and 2014 may be his best chance to take the tournament championship in his hometown of Omaha.

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he last time the Ole Miss Rebels made it to Omaha for the College World Series, the SEC Championship Tournament hadn’t even formed yet, and head coach Mike Bianco was six years old.

For the sixth time in school history - all under Bianco - the Rebels were selected as a regional tournament host in Oxford, Miss. after winning the SEC West thanks to a veteran-filled team that balances a consistent, powerful offense with rock-solid pitching and steady, athletic defense.

When it comes to team batting average, no SEC team fared better at the plate than Ole Miss, with a 14th-best club average of .303 and 697 hits on the season to rank second in the country. The Rebels also tie for second in the SEC and 16th in the nation with 42 home runs on the year and rank 11th in the country in runs scored.

A trio of upperclassmen lead Mississippi in nearly all offensive output categories in junior center fielder Auston Bousfield, senior catcher Will Allen and senior bird baseman Austin Anderson. Bousfeld leads the squad batting .349, and also tops the Rebels in both runs and hits. He Displaying athleticism both in the yard (.980 fielding) and offensively, Bousfeld is second on the team with a near-perfect 17-18 stolen base record.

Allen and Anderson come in second and third respectively in the lineup in batting average, with Allen

adding seven home runs and ranks second on the team in slugging at .513. Anderson stole 10 bases this season and Bousfield by just one in runs scored (57).

You can’t just look at Mississippi for its batting averages, however. Batting second, first baseman Sikes Orvis, who takes the team lead in slugging at a .555 clip. From the 6-hole, Orvis leads the team far and away with 14 home runs on the year, twice as many as Allen’s seven, which ranks second behind him. With a savvy but aggressive approach, Orvis chews up pitcher with his team-leading .402 on-base percentage and 36 walks in 2014. Orvis provides a scoring threat near the top of the order too, ranking second among the Rebels with 51 RBIs. Junior left fielder Branxton Lee also provides a quick scoring threat near the bottom of that order with 30 stolen bases on 35 attempts this season, ranking 12th in the country.

The Rebels had to showcase balance to make it through the postseason however, drawing one of the tougher matches in both the regional and super regional rounds. As host in the Oxford Regional, the Rebels faced ACC Tournament champion Georgia Tech, and a Washington team that many pundits felt was worthy of hosting a regional of its own. Georgia Tech was avoided, but Mississippi played and beat the Huskies twice to win the region and move on the the Lafayette Super Re-

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gional, where it would face the most potent and powerful offense in all of college baseball in the Ragin’ Cajuns.

The Cajun bats got hot early in the supers, as Ole Miss fell 9-5 in the first game, but bounced back with consecutive wins of 5-2 and 10-4 on the heels of some hot pitching and defense to earn its first trip to Omaha in more than 40 years. However, pitching depth could sting Ole Miss if they survive the early rounds in Omaha.

At 6-foot-5, junior righty Chris Ellis provides Ole Miss with a strike-thrower with a low-90s fastball that helped him to a team-best 10-2 record. Ellis will look for redemption early in Omaha, after a rough outing against Louisiana Lafayette in which he surrendered five runs in just 2.1 innings for just his second loss of the year. Sophomore Christian Trent provides the Rebels with a soft-tossing lefty with plenty of movement in his breaking pitches, and leads the team with a 2.21 ERA and perfect 9-0 record. Trent went seven full against the Cajuns in a Saturday bounce back win, giving up four hits and only one run that was unearned. At 5-4, Sam Smith rounds out the weekend rotation for the Rebels with a 3.45 ERA in 17 starts. Aaron Greewood and Josh Laxer are the names to watch out of the Mississippi bullpen, with some believing Laxer to possess the best skillset on the team. Laxer sports a 1.47 ERA with six saves, with 40 strikeouts in 34 innings pitched.

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he Road to Omaha Jam, held on Lot B south of TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, beginning at 6 p.m., will be part of an expanded lineup of free activities for baseball fans of all ages. Opening Celebration Day begins at 9 a.m. with team practices, followed by Team Autograph Sessions presented by AT&T with all eight NCAA College World Series teams.

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by Capital One™, which will run the duration of the College World Series, will open at 10 a.m. outside of TD Ameritrade Park Omaha and will feature free activities and entertainment for fans and THE SEEN families. Opening Celebration Day will conclude with Opening Ceremonies at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, which includes an Olympic-style introduction of the teams, a performance by the U.S. Army Parachute Team “Golden Knights” and a fireworks extravaganza.

Young the Giant’s 2014 North American tour will stop in Omaha after the successful release of its most recent album, Mind Over Matter. In addition to the CWS, Young the Giant’s shows include other famous venues like the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, and a two-night stand at the Ham-

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merstein Ballroom in New York City. Young the Giant spent much of 2011 and 2012 traveling the globe, including appearances at Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, and Lollapalooza. The band also had a number of high-profile TV performances, including “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” “Today,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and 2011’s “MTV Video Music Awards.”

Show opener, The Seen, is an original rock band from Omaha. The Reader once described their music saying “The Seen’s melodic but driving sound situates itself between post-hardcore indie rockers like Thursday, Omaha’s own Cursive, and bigger pop punk leaning acts like Say Anything. This is big sounding guitar rock delivered with impassioned vocals.” After the release of their Spring 2013 album, the band hit the road, playing shows in support of Cursive, Hawthorne Heights and Ladyfinger.

Public parking is available for Opening Celebration Day at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha/ CenturyLink Center, at Creighton University or at city owned lots in the downtown Omaha area. Metro’s popular circulator routes also will be available. Visit NCAA.com/CWS for more information.

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Xtreme Xperience Mid America Mid America Motorplex Interface Launch Day Lucky Bucket Brewing Co. Coffee House Quiz Night Urban Abbey

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Ashdown Forest The Bourbon Theatre Jazz Circus Urban Abbey Roughcut The Loose Moose The Faint Sokol Auditorium Sailing In Soup McKenna’s Blues Booze and BBQ Satchel Grande The Slowdown Omaha This is Gonna Tickle and Cordial Spew The Barley Street Tavern 3D In Your Face The 21st Saloon

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Young Frankenstein Omaha Community Playhouse The Comedy of Errors Lincoln Community Foundation Garden

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Visions of Lewis and Clark The Kaneko Greater Nebraska Lux Center For the Arts

Fracture Lux Center For the Arts An Odyssey of Dreams Sheldon Museum Of Art Painting From the Collection of the Sheldon Sheldon Museum Of Art Terry Hager Connect Gallery Around the World and Home Again University of Nebraska at Omaha

SATURDAY 14 MUSIC

David Lindley The Zoo Bar The Confidentials The Loose Moose College World Series Opening Celebration with Young the Giant Lot B south of TD Ameritrade Park Black Flag The Bourbon Theatre Secret Weapon The Slowdown Omaha Edge of Arbor and The Derby Birds The Barley Street Tavern Rougher All-Stars The Zoo Bar McCarthy Trenching O’Leaver’s Pub

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The Secret Garden Lofte Community Theatre Young Frankenstein Omaha Community Playhouse The Comedy of Errors Lincoln Community Foundation Garden

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Visions of Lewis and Clark The Kaneko Greater Nebraska Lux Center For the Arts Fracture Lux Center For the Arts An Odyssey of Dreams Sheldon Museum Of Art Painting From the Collection of the Sheldon Sheldon Museum Of Art Terry Hager Connect Gallery Around the World and Home Again University of Nebraska at Omaha

SUNDAY 15 MUSIC

Luigi, Inc. Mr. Toad’s Pub Omaha

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Young Frankenstein Omaha Community Playhouse

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Visions of Lewis and Clark The Kaneko Greater Nebraska Lux Center For the Arts Fracture Lux Center For the Arts An Odyssey of Dreams Sheldon Museum Of Art Painting From the Collection of the Sheldon Sheldon Museum Of Art Terry Hager Connect Gallery Around the World and Home Again University of Nebraska at Omaha

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Sunday Night Trivia Two Fine Irishmen

MONDAY 16 MUSIC

Emily Bass The Zoo Bar Hegg Brothers + Matt Wallace feat. LA guitarist Tim Kobza Harney Street Tavern Zoo Bar House Band The Zoo Bar Brit Floyd Orpheum Theater-Omaha Songwriter Open Mic The Barley Street Tavern

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Visions of Lewis and Clark The Kaneko Around the World and Home Again University of Nebraska at Omaha

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Jazzocracy The Zoo Bar DJ Relic Soul Party The Zoo Bar

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Eddie Izzard Orpheum Theater-Omaha

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Visions of Lewis and Clark The Kaneko Fracture Lux Center For the Arts

WEDNESDAY 18 MUSIC

Ray’s Piano Party Mr. Toad’s Pub Omaha Jackie Myers Band The Zoo Bar

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Young Frankenstein Omaha Community Playhouse

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Omaha Storm Chasers vs Albuquerque Isotopes Werner Park

Rick Estrin and the Nightcats The Zoo Bar

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n This time through Omaha, Robert Pollard and his Guided By Voices cohorts played for the diehard fans. The crowd for the iconic Ohio indie rock band’s Tuesday, June 3, show at the Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St., was definitely trimmed down by the ongoing thunderstorms that day, but those that did show up seemed intent on matching the intensity and drunkenness of GBV. The band rocked out on a stage complete with beer cooler and several bottles of liquor. The band’s tequila bottle ended up passed around in the crowd, as Pollard served as the sometimes-profane, but always energetic ringleader through the band’s 50-song-plus set list. Pollard himself is a marvel. He looks more like your retired accountant uncle than a progenitor of lo-fi indie rock, but his energy doesn’t flag even when his sobriety might. It was a show so good that I didn’t feel like a missed the band’s heyday because it has definitely returned full-force. n Omaha’s leading light of basement-bred hardcore weirdness Powerslop will celebrate the release of their new LP Funky God with two shows Saturday, July 26. The first show is free and kicks off in a certain Farnam St. basement (ask your friends, kid) at 2 p.m. with Diamondz R 4Eva and Borealis. Later that night, the band plays again across the street at Brother’s Lounge, 3812 Farnam St., with Astral Menace, Garoted and Jaw Knee Vee. That show is $5 and also gives you access to buying the quality libations offered at Omaha’s best booze joint. Check out some of Powerslop’s blissfully blistering new songs at funkygods. bandcamp.com. n Omaha jazz guitarist Luke Polipnick will be bringing two New York jazz players to Omaha at the end of June for a trio of shows.

Drummer and former Seward, Neb., resident Christian Coleman and bassist Sam Trapchak will join Polipnick Thursday, June 26, at the Zin Room, 316 S. 15th St.; Friday, June 27, at the Side Door Lounge, 3530 Leavenworth St.; and Saturday, June 28, at the Harney St. Tavern, 1215 Harney St. n The 80/35 Music Festival in Des Moines, Iowa, has rounded out their festival nicely, especially for music fans bearing a sweet tooth. Alternative pop rock band Cake will join Conor Oberst as a headliner for the two-day festival. Cake headlines the event’s second day Saturday, July 5.

Other newly announced acts include Those Darlins, Surfer Blood, The Whigs and Boy & Bear. The festival also includes Dawes, Best Coast, Ziggy Marley and Dr. Dog. n The latest work by local icon Dereck Higgins is a selection of ambient music pieces. The restless Higgins is offering this release online only but don’t be surprised to see this work pop up on limited edition vinyl in the future. Listen to the new songs online at dereckhiggins. bandcamp.com. n California punk band Ceremony may be the apex of the new wave of hardcore bands ably applying the lessons of indie rock and post-punk to a pummeling form of music. That’s why their return to Omaha Sunday, July 13, at the Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. This should be one of the best shows of the summer.

— Chris Aponick Backbeat looks at music in the metro area. Email information to backbeat@thereader.com

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SUMMER EVENTS AT BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM

CRY WOLFE

Great Plains Black History Museum Times and event prices vary gpblackmuseum.org, 402-216-3852

As a film noir fan, I love private eyes, with their fedoras and tough-guy lingo. Cry Wolfe is a new reality series about modern-day P.I. Brian Wolfe, who plies his trade in Los Angeles.

Wolfe lacks a fedora — in fact, he lacks style of any sort, favoring a nondescript car and polo shirts. But it’s still fun to watch him work on cases involving cheating husbands and two-timing girlfriends. Wolfe is not above peeking through Venetian blinds when he has to, and he skillfully deploys two eagle-eyed women on his payroll.

Each half-hour is structured like a mystery, starting with a client in distress. “I can’t always make it right,” Wolfe says, “but I can expose a wrong.” That’s a pretty good piece of tough-guy lingo. If Wolfe only had a fedora, Cry Wolfe would be the perfect guilty pleasure for summer.

— Dean Robbins

The Great Plains Black History Museum is holding summer events as part of their Nebraska and the African American Baseball Experience that will be sure to keep you entertained and educated. At 11:30 a.m., June 18, at the Storz Trophy Room is the Second Annual Coach Wilbert Ellis Service to Youth Sports, Health and Wellness Awards Luncheon. This event will be honoring Thomas Harvey and John Gottschalk with Coach Wilbert Ellis as the featured speaker. Get your tickets now by calling the museum, they are $30 per person or $240 a table.

During the duration of the College World Series Dr. Angelo J. Louisa will feature a series of lectures with three speakers who are members of the Society for American Baseball Research. June 22 at 5 p.m. at the Chicago Dawg House presents “Bud Fowler: Baseball Pioneer, Promoter and Provocateur” by Dr. David C. Ogden, professor at UNO. June 23 and 24 at 2 p.m. will be located at the W. Dale Clark Library. June 23 will feature “The Buffalo Soldiers Play Ball” by Professor Robert P. Nash who is writing chapters for books on Rosenblatt Stadium and the African American baseball experience.

June 24 will discuss Dr. Angelo J. Louisa’s “Federals and Tigers and Rockets! Oh My!” On top of the above events the museum has opened a free exhibit, a Salute to Black Baseball located at the Crossroads Mall, so be sure to check this out, as well. —Mara Wilson

Tuesdays, 9 p.m. (Investigation Discovery)

Through June 29

Mel Brooks creates wonderfully funny stuff. So, when he decided to make a transplant of his 1974 movie Young Frankenstein into a monster of a musical in 2007, who was going to stand in his way? After all, his transformation of 1968’s The Producers into 2001’s roaring, song-filled Broadway smash sent chills and thrills up the spines of backers, garnering 12 Tonys and staying alive and kicking there for seven lucky years. The newer creation breaks no new ground, staying very close to the dialogue, bits and business of Gene Wilder and Brooks’ original screenplay, but justice is done in the vitality, vim, vigor and vonderful hilarity of the current, sizzling production at the Omaha Community Playhouse.

Credit director Carl Beck and his great cast for dancing, singing, walking and talking in all the right places and all the right ways. They make sure that the 40-year old gags stay new again and zap your funny bone. You don’t need a synopsis. You’ll get the drift right off the bat. But, if you aren’t that familiar with Brooks’ characteristic comedy, you need to be cautioned that the double and triple entendres aren’t for tykes nor for other people who could likewise squirm in the seats due to pointed references to sexual activity. Read the complete review at www.thereader.com. —Gordon Spencer

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MARK DI SUVERO: TOM HANAFAN RIVER’S EDGE PARK

Joslyn Art Museum showcases the work of American sculptor Mark di Suvero with the exhibition Mark di Suvero: Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park.

This exhibition, through September 7, is a celebration of the installation late this summer of a monumental sculpture by di Suvero, commissioned by the Iowa West Foundation, along the Missouri River in Council Bluffs. di Suvero immigrated to the United States from China with his parents in 1941 and was raised in San Francisco. In the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, the young artist had his first dreams of creating sculptures out of steel, a material that would become his signature medium. Featuring simple geometric forms, bold lines and bright colors, di Suvero’s sculptures carefully articulate the tension between their perceived lightness and flexibility and the weight and strength of their materials. Highlights of the exhibition include six mixed media drawings that relate specifically to the Iowa West commission.

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ast week Pat Hazell was in Austin doing comedy for the anniversary of the Texas Observer, the alternative journal that gives Molly awards in memory of the late great Molly Ivins.

This week he’s back home, the birthplace of his humor, helping us escape to childhood with The Wonder Bread Years, his one-man show at the Omaha Community Playhouse. The man who once performed table magic at the Spaghetti Works and hung upside down in the Old Market to escape Houdini-like from a straitjacket brings “the jewel” of a career that began at Burke High School in 1979.

He’s done material for events to honor a liberal like Molly Ivins and a conservative like Newt Gingrich, providing laughs for the latter’s 70th birthday. Non-Omahans may know him best as the man who warmed up audiences for the Seinfeld show.

But here he puts us in touch with warm memories of our common past, first as co-author and actor in Bunk Bed Brothers, which opened the Playhouse season in 1989, the year after his first Tonight Show gig. Since then he’s done The Wonder Bread Years (recall the bright polka-dotted wrappers on those soft white loaves?) more than a thousand times, starting with a show for an NETV pledge drive.

WONDERMAN He calls it “a conversation with the audience” rather than a stand-up comedy monologue. “I open with a video overture, a montage” of toys and joys that draw on the common denominator from when we were all 7 or 8, ages when life was less threatening. He revisits those nights when you knew it was time to go to bed because television stations waved the flag and played the National Anthem.

Once, back in the 1980s, a reporter asked his parents, Joanne and Bill Hazell, how they managed to produce a comic genius. After admitting that Pat was raised no differently than their other three boys and two girls, they recalled that amidst the usual commotion of eight at a dinner table Pat said, “The neighbor lady is having an affair with the milkman.”

It wasn’t true, but he’d learned how to get attention. And it hints at his awareness of the ways of yesteryear when milk and bread were delivered to our doors.

With six children, the Hazells didn’t buy eight tickets for Playhouse shows, but, when another couple skipped one, two of the kids got to go. Pat saw Hamlet ’79 and Robber Bridegroom his senior year at Burke. By then he was already performing with classmates Rob Baker, Don Harris and others as Tri Kappa Stooge.

They did a version of M.A.S.H. for the school, with Rob as Hawkeye and Pat as Trapper John. A young talent growing up in Omaha in those days, Hazell recalled, was asking the question, “How do you become the next Johnny Carson?”

A big boost came when he and Max Goldman, his co-au-

thor on Bunk Bed Brothers, joined Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David as writers at the birth of what came to be called the greatest sitcom in television history. He ended up doing the warmups after Larry, “I think, had us draw straws and I drew the short straw” for the first audience-warming stint.

“When it was time to do it again, he said, ‘You’ve got seniority.’”

He later did warmups for Ellen and Mad about You. Welltraveled with The Wonder Bread Years booked at various venues in the months ahead, he has often returned home for shows at the Playhouse and elsewhere. He opened at the Orpheum for Jerry Seinfeld who called him back for an extra bow, saying, “All hail Pat Hazell, King of Nebraska!”

Carl Beck cast him in A Few Good Men as the officer (Tom Cruise in the movie) who cross-examines the Jack Nicholson character who snarls, “You can’t handle the truth!” Beck “offered me a nice challenge,” not only with a serious lead role, “but the first time not writing my own words.”

That was in 1993. The next year he starred in a Playhouse fund-raising gala, noting “I’m gearing my material to become more conversational.” Years earlier, he came home for a gig at the Firehouse Dinner Theatre and reported that his comedy was entering “a more mature phase.” Reminded of that comment last week, he longed for a time machine to delete it, but there’s no question he’s evolved from the days when he offered such gems as “how to spell mom backwards” and “What’s the main ingredient in ice?”

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He almost gave America the first sit-com set here when NBC bought six episodes of his American Pie, first titled “The Archers of Omaha,” but didn’t find a slot for its planned mid-season airing. He wrote a play, Grounded for Life, the story of a 33-year-old still grounded for throwing a snowball at a school bus.

It was considered by the Playhouse and performed elsewhere, but languished after a sit-com of the same name surfaced. Now he’s collaborating with a New York composer and completing an original musical version of Grounded.

He looked to Omaha again for design help from Steve Wheeldon when he wrote a touring show, Kodachrome Christmas. “I wrote it as a one-woman show so I could never be in it.”

He retains his observational and conversational approach in Wonder Bread Years, which features “a tightlycrafted script with open doors to allow me to ask the audience their favorite shows and so on.

“Some nights the door stays open longer than others. If I didn’t have that breathing room, I wouldn’t be doing it this long.”

Doing it in his hometown means “I may be able to get more specific,” not just talking about trick or treating in a mask, but mentioning Mangelsons.” Sometimes audiences think he’s making up stories, but then see his own family in a slide show and exclaim, “Oh, my God, it’s true.”

In short, it’s a funny, nostalgic trip down memory lane. Or, as Pat puts it, “It’s not Death of a Salesman.” , The Wonder Bread Years runs June 13-29, 7:30 p.m. WednesdaysSaturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays in the Howard Drew Theatre at the Omaha Community Playhouse, 6915 Cass St. Tickets are $35; call 402.553.0800 or visit omahaplayhouse.org.

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overtheedge LIFESTYLE COLUMN BY TIM MCMAHAN

B-cycle in Omaha, Pt. 2: Overcoming Obstacles Note: This is the second of a two-part series that focuses on Omaha’s B-cycle program. Part 1 appeared in last week’s issue of The Reader.

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gain, the three strikes against bicycle commuting in Omaha (vs. Austin) outlined in last week’s column: 1) Brutal winters, 2) mountainous terrain and 3) unsafe streets.

For answers on how Omaha’s B-cycle program can overcome these obstacles, I went to the guy behind the local program: Ben Turner. Turner began with a history lesson.

He said bike sharing is a global concept. The B-cycle version came to America in 2010, developed by bicycle maker Trek, healthcare company Humana and ad firm Crispen Porter + Bogusky. The launch pad was Denver.

B-cycle is “third generation bike sharing,” Turner said. “First generation was campus bikes, but no one maintained them and how do you keep them out of the river? Next was the bike library concept with a manned checkout system. Third generation involves GPS technology on the bikes and stations.”

The concept again: People rent bikes for commuting.

For $6 a day a user can ride a bike to and from B-cycle bike racks located throughout midtown and downtown Omaha. They never get charged more than the one-time $6-a-day fee if they can get their rental bike from one rack to the next in less than 60 minutes. Each additional hour costs $4. Omaha has 11 bike stations easily found with a handy B-cycle smartphone app.

Serious B-cyclers can forego the daily fee by buying a year’s membership for $55, the same price as a monthly bus pass. Membership cards work with any B-cycle program in the United States.

Turner said last month was the best month ever for Omaha B-cycle since the program landed here (along with Turner) in 2011. “We’ve done more business in May than in the entire first year of the program’s existence,” he said. And B-cycle is growing. Turner said the program has raised enough money to install 14 more bike stations.

Despite the popularity, the No. 1 challenge continues to be explaining how the program works. People still think B-cycle is for renting bikes for long, leisurely afternoon joyrides on the Keystone Trail or taking the family over the Bob Kerrey foot bridge (where the most-used Bcycle rack is located).

I told Turner I didn’t understand how it worked either until someone in Austin meticulously explained it to me.

“People don’t naturally grasp the concept,” he said. “We’re addressing the hurdle through simple information on the kiosks, on the check-in screens and the bikes. It’s right there on the handlebar decals.”

When people finally “get it” — like I did in Austin — it’s a real “aha moment,” and it can be contagious. I saw it happen over a week in Austin during the South By Southwest Festival. At the beginning of SXSW, no one touched the geeky-looking bikes except for us pioneering early adopters. By the end of the week, everyone was riding them, and it was becoming hard to both find an available bike and (at

the end of the evening) find an available station to return it. Part of Turner’s job is “balancing” the inventory, which involves hauling bikes around town in his wife’s car.

Back to those three strikes. First, the weather. Turner acknowledged that Omaha winters can be brutal. B-cycle was “closed” through the first two winters of the program’s operation, but was open last winter. “The cost of staying open is minimal,” he said, “and there are some nice days in January and February. We made enough to cover our true variable costs. If you truly want to sell yourself as a transportation option, you have to be available year-round. The bus runs year round. Commuting is a year-round thing.”

Fair enough. But what about those insane hills that divide downtown from midtown Omaha? Turner moved here after working on the Denver B-cycle program. “Denver is super flat,” he said. “You don’t realize what it’s like in Omaha until you get on a bike here. We have all these areas that are cool and vibrant — Midtown Crossing, Dundee, UNO, Aksarben Village — It’s like a series of lily pads each separated by one hill. People can go up one hill.”

He admits people are less likely to ride to and from downtown and UNO. As big a challenge is the brutal hills along 10th Street to Henry Doorly Zoo. “You have to be everywhere a tourist wants to go,” Turner said. “We’re gathering data, we’ll find out the long-term answer. We’re trying to build our program topography agnostic.”

That said, don’t expect to find B-cycle kiosks west of 78th Street. Which brings us to the issue of Omaha’s lessthan-pedestrian friendly streets. Within the past few years, bike lanes and “sharrows” began popping up throughout midtown and downtown. All require that motorists heed the lane striping, a scary proposition for any cyclist who’s had a close call with a distracted (often texting) SUV driver (more like SOB driver).

Curbed bike lanes are an answer. They worked in Austin, but could they ever happen in Omaha? Turner said support (and funding) could result if a grassroots effort took hold.

“What B-cycle will do is create a new crop of bicyclists who wants to ride in urban areas,” he said. “You’ll get the business people of the world who want to ride to a downtown meeting and will realize the quality of the experience is not what it should be and will advocate for improved bike facilities.”

Turner said “bike people” are marginalized in Omaha.

Strong bike advocates show up at board meetings, but they’re often the same voices heard over and over. Turner is part of an effort to revitalize a bike advocacy group called Omaha Bikes, which is (according to their mission statement) “a community organization that promotes and advocates for improved transportation, utility and recreational bicycling infrastructure, opportunities and experiences for the people of Omaha and the surrounding area.”

“We need voices to speak at City Council and political meetings, people like you,” Turner said, pointing across the table. “We have so many recreational cyclists who don’t ride because they don’t feel safe. Advocacy is the path to success, we have to engage the recreational cyclists.”

And Omaha Bikes is one way to do that. Go to omahabikes.org and find out more. ,

OVER THE EDGE is a weekly column by Reader senior contributing writer Tim McMahan focused on culture, society, music, the media and the arts. Email Tim at tim.mcmahan@gmail.com. And be sure to check out his blog at Lazy-i.com

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McKenna’s Needs You & More

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cKenna’s Blues, Booze & BBQ launches a Wednesday night early concert series beginning Wednesday, June 18. Shows will start at 7 p.m. with a $5 cover. The first scheduled act is Felix y Los Gatos from New Mexico, billed as New Mexico’s best party band. The Albuquerque-based roots band is regularly recognized as an area favorite in newspaper readers’ polls in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Their Tex-Mex sound should appeal to fans of acts like Billy Bacon or those who liked the accordionfueled vibe of Chris Gaffney’s solo work. See facebook. com/FelixYLosGatos. The following Wednesday, June 25, McKenna’s features the Nashville roots music of Tom Buller. McKenna’s is hoping to see a show of support from music lovers for these early Wednesday shows to decide if live music is going to continue being booked there, according to management. McKenna’s is located at 7425 Pacific St. The 21st Saloon Blues Highly entertaining band Reverend Raven & The Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys are back at The 21st Saloon Thursday, June 12, 6-9 p.m. The band’s music is rooted in Chicago blues sounds and is celebrating its 20th anniversary. See reverendraven.com.

Estrin & Birchwood Popular West Coast band Rick

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Estrin & The Nightcats is back for two shows next week with up-and-coming Selwyn Birchwood Band.

Both are Alligator Records artists. The bands roll into Lincoln’s Zoo Bar Wednesday, June 18, and plug in at The 21st Saloon Thursday, June 19. Both shows are 6-9 p.m.

Trampled Under Foot at The Hive The Hive features Trampled Under Foot Friday, June 20, 9:30 p.m.

Admission is $10. Trampled Under Foot took home two Blues Music Awards at the 35th Blues Music Award in Memphis. Their latest disc, The Badlands, won for Best Contemporary Blues Album and Danielle Schnebelen won for Instrumentalist – Bass.

Hot Notes Lincoln’s Zoo Bar hosts acclaimed multiinstrumentalist David Lindley Saturday, June 14, 6-9 p.m. Matt Wallace, the Hegg Brothers and Tim Kobza present a night of jazz at Harney Street Tavern Monday, June 16, 6-10 p.m. Elkhorn’s Heartland Café, 2613 N. Main, presents Hector Anchondo Band Saturday, June 14, as part of their summer series. Doors open at 5 for dinner and best seating, bands play 7-10:30 p.m. Cover is $8. Lawn chairs are recommended. After weeks holding at No. 2, Lincoln’s own Josh Hoyer & The Shadowboxers took the No. 1 place on the Roots Music Reports Soul and R&B Charts, ousting Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. Yes, you read that right. See rootsmusicreport.com and joshhoyerandtheshadowboxers.com. ,

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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anellope, Rydder, Jceion and Burklee head the latest annual list of the most common baby names on the Social Security Administration register of first-time-appearing names. There were 63 Vanellopes (girls), but only 10 each for Rydder and Jceion, the most popular debut names for boys. Other notables were Hatch (eight times) and Psalms (seven). (In other “name” news, among the finalists in April’s “Name of the Year” contest sponsored by Deadspin.com were the actual monikers Curvaceous Bass, (Dr.) Eve Gruntfest, Chillie Poon and the winner -- Shamus Beaglehole.

Editorial Privilege To celebrate today’s 25th anniversary of the weekly distribution of News of the Weird by Universal Uclick, Chuck Shepherd recalls a few of his favorite stories (among the more than 25,000 covered).

-- (1989) In the mid-1980s, convicted South Carolina murderer Michael Godwin won his appeal to avoid the electric chair and serve only life imprisonment. In March, while sitting naked on a metal prison toilet, attempting to fix a TV set, the 28-year-old Godwin bit into a wire and was electrocuted.

-- (1991) Dee Dee Jonrowe, leading the Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon in January in northern Minnesota, took a wrong turn and went 300 yards before recognizing her error.

The mistake cost her team only a few minutes, but stopping to calculate her location allowed the dogs an unsupervised rest, and by the time she was ready to go, two of her dogs had begun to copulate. She was forced to wait on them for 25 minutes and lost the lead.

-- (1991) In March, Florence Schreiber Powers, 44, a Ewing, New Jersey, administrative judge on trial for shoplifting two watches, called her psychiatrist to

testify that Powers was under stress at the time of the incidents. The doctor said Powers was unaware of her actions “from one minute to the next,” for the following 20 reasons: a recent auto accident, a traffic ticket, a new-car purchase, overwork, husband’s kidney stones, husband’s asthma (and breathing machine that occupies their bedroom), menopausal hot flashes, an “ungodly” vaginal itch, a bad rash, fear of breast and anal cancer, fear of dental surgery, son’s need for an asthma breathing machine, mother’s and aunt’s illnesses, need to organize her parents’ 50th wedding anniversary, need to cook Thanksgiving dinner for 20 relatives, purchase of 200 gifts for Christmas and Chanukah, attempt to sell her house without a real estate agent, lawsuit against wallpaper cleaners, purchase of furniture that had to be returned, and a toilet in her house that was constantly running. She was convicted anyway.

-- (1991 and before) Gary Arthur Medrow, 47, was arrested in March in Milwaukee (the latest of his then-30-plus arrests over 23 years) for once again causing mischief by telephoning a woman and trying to persuade her to physically pick up another person and carry her around a room. In the latest incident, after repeatedly calling, he told her another woman had been impersonating her, had been in an accident, and had been seen carrying someone away (and that Medrow needed evidence that she could or could not do that). He had previously talked cheerleaders, motel workers and business executives into lifting and carrying.

-- (1992) A 38-year-old man, unidentified in news reports, was hospitalized in Princeton, West Virginia, in October with gunshot wounds. He had been drinking beer and cleaning his three guns -- and had accidentally shot himself with each one. He said the first

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shot didn’t hurt, the second “stung a little,” and the third “really hurt,” prompting him to call for help.

-- (1994) In Toronto in March, Sajid Rhatti, 23, and his 20-year-old wife brawled over whether Katey Sagal, who plays Peg Bundy on “Married With Children,” is prettier than Christina Applegate, who plays her daughter. First, the wife slashed Rhatti in the groin with a wine bottle as they scuffled, but she dressed his wounds and the couple sat down again to watch another episode of the show. Moments later, the brawl erupted again, and Rhatti, who suffered a broken arm and shoulder, stabbed his wife in the chest, back and legs before they begged neighbors to call an ambulance.

-- (1995) From the Riley County police blotter in the Kansas State University newspaper, Sept. 2: 1:33 p.m., disturbance involving Marcus Miles; 2:14 p.m. (different address), “unwanted subject” (police jargon for acquaintance who wouldn’t leave) in the home, Marcus Miles told to leave; 4:08 p.m. (different address), Marcus Miles accused of harassment; 6:10 p.m., “unwanted subject” call against Marcus Miles. Nov. 14: 6:47 p.m., “unwanted subject” in the home, Marcus Miles told to leave; 7:36 p.m. (different address), “unwanted subject” call against Marcus Miles. Nov. 20: 2:05 a.m. (different address), “unwanted subject” charge against Marcus Miles; 2:55 a.m. (different address), disturbance involving Marcus Miles; 3:07 a.m. (different address), “unwanted subject” charge against Marcus Miles; 4:11 a.m. (different address), “unwanted subject” report made against Marcus Miles.

-- (1996) A pre-trial hearing was scheduled in Lamar, Missouri, on Joyce Lehr’s lawsuit against the county for injuries from a 1993 fall in the icy, unplowed parking lot of the local high school. The Carthage Press reported that Lehr claimed damage to nearly everything in her body. According to her petition: “All the bones, organs, muscles, tendons, tissues, nerves, veins, arteries, ligaments ... discs, cartilages, and the joints of her body were fractured, broken, ruptured, punctured, com-

pressed, dislocated, separated, bruised, contused, narrowed, abrased, lacerated, burned, cut, torn, wrenched, swollen, strained, sprained, inflamed and infected.”

-- (1999) From a May police report in The Messenger (Madisonville, Kentucky), concerning two trucks being driven curiously on a rural road: A man would drive a truck 100 yards, stop, walk back to a second truck, drive it 100 yards beyond the first truck, stop, walk back to the first truck, drive it 100 yards beyond the second truck, and so on, into the evening. He did it, he told police, because his brother was passed out drunk in one of the trucks, and he was trying to drive both trucks home, at more or less the same time. (Not surprisingly, a blood-alcohol test showed the driver, also, to be impaired.)

-- (2004) The New York Times reported in February on a Washington, D.C., man whose love of music led him, in the 1960s, to meticulously hand-make and handpaint facsimilie record album covers of his fantasized music, complete with imagined lyric sheets and liner notes (with some “albums” even shrink-wrapped), and even more incredibly, to hand-make cardboard fascimilies of actual grooved discs to put inside them. “Mingering Mike,” whom a reporter and two hobbyists tracked down (but who declined to be identified in print) also made real music, on tapes, using his and friends’ voices to simulate instruments. His 38 imagined “albums” were discovered at a flea market after Mike defaulted on storage-locker fees, and the hobbyists who found them said they were so exactingly done that a major museum would soon feature them.

-- (1988) And finally, there was ol’ Hal Warden, the Tennessee 16-year-old who was married at 15 and granted a divorce from his wife, 13. Hal had previously been married at age 12 to a 14-year-old (and fathered children with both), but the first wife divorced Hal because, she told the judge, “He was acting like a 10-year-old.” ,

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very time Tom Cruise, the greatest modern matinee idol, makes a new movie, everybody rushes to fuse artist and art and spews out some variation of “I just don’t like him anymore.” America’s collective moral stance seems to be that we should never forget that someone belongs to a douchey faith but we should purge memories of other horrid things actors have done, like domestic abuse. Disagree? Tell it to Sean Penn’s two Oscars.

This is particularly vexing because Cruise’s latest, Edge of Tomorrow, is easily the most fun film thus far this year…and it is flopping at the box office. Some of that has to do with moviegoers’ overreliance on brand recognition, as this film is neither remake nor reboot nor beloved comic book nor former fairy tale.

Some responsibility also goes to whatever marketing genius focus-grouped his way to a wretched title when the novel that was adapted had such a memorable one (All You Need is Kill). But, for the most part, this comes down to “I just don’t like Tom Cruise any-

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more.” Ugh. Stick to your guns on that one, partner, and you’re really gonna miss out.

Writers Christopher McQuarrie and Jez and JohnHenry Butterworth fuse video game sensibilities and Groundhog Day’s concept. Cruise plays Major William Cage, a military PR man who is a soldier in name and rank only. He’s so cowardly and combat-phobic, he makes the Lion from The Wizard of Oz look like an MMA fighter. Facing an alien horde that has claimed all of Europe, humanity is banking on one final assault to turn the tide.

Cage has been doing the “talking head” cable news circuit, promoting the assault with buzzwords, but General Brigham (Brendan Gleeson) doesn’t think that’s enough. He orders Cage to the front lines.

When he tries to desert, he is forcibly remanded, strapped into a mechanized war suit and dropped into battle…where he dies…over and over again. Each time he wakes up on the morning of the battle. He soon realizes his only hope is Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), “The Angel of Verdun” or, alternatively, the

College baseball time!

The collegiate baseball tournament descends upon our North Downtown neighborhood for the next two weeks, and we’re joining the party with films about America’s pastime and summer fun!

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Full Metal Bitch. She’s the single most badass female sci-fi character since Ellen Ripley, toting a helicopterblade sword and an “I dare you to say something” attitude. Cage, the skittish housecat, must rely on Vrataski’s brains and brawn in order to save the world.

The film is blockbuster perfection. Visually, the aliens, or “Mimics” as they’re called, are wholly unique.

They are tentacled, whirling death dealers…murder octopi basically. Story-wise, the development of Cage and Vrataski as characters is inextricable from the film’s resolution. Tonally, the movie is unafraid to be fun and silly, eschewing the grim and gritty for clever and spirited. Director Doug Liman has crafted divine summer entertainment with heart and brains, and it is flopping because people “just don’t like Cruise anymore.”

Edge of Tomorrow deserves praise and viewers. It is proof that calculated cynicism and recycled content aren’t the only ways to deliver big-budget, mainstream entertainment. See it now, because unlike Cage, we don’t get chronological mulligans. , GRADE = A-

n The only thing more difficult than pronouncing writer/director Nicolas Winding Refn’s name is figuring out why he likes working with Carey Mulligan, whose acting approach is “method mannequin.” Still, the two are likely pairing up again for I Walk With the Dead, which is being billed as an “all-female horror film.” This news is probably conflicting for Refn’s frequent leading man, Ryan Gosling. On the one hand, he probably can’t be in the film. On the other, his feminist meme has some great new ammunition! n Having slipped through the greasy fingers of scores of would-be writer/directors, the cinematic adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand has oozed its way into the lap of Josh Boone, who just directed The Fault in Our Stars. Optimistically, Boone is talking up his vision. Boone says the film will be Rrated, three hours long and packed with big names.

Translated into English, that means the film will be canceled. n How quickly the turn tables have turned. When I heard they were going to remake The Magnificent Seven, which was itself a remake of Seven Samurai, I thought “pass!” Then I heard director Antoine Fuqua was involved, and I thought “meh.”

Then they said Denzel Washington was interested, and I thought “okay.” Then they revealed the script was by “True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto, and I thought “Nothing matters in my life more than seeing this film.” Priorities, people. n You can thank Maleficent. The new thing these days is live-action takes on animated fairy tales. So in addition to the forthcoming Cinderella and Jungle Book, we’re now getting Beauty and the Beast and another Snow White and the Huntsman movie.

Director Bill Condon, who wore out my good vibes toward him when he did the last two Twilight movies, is going to helm Beauty. That’s whatever. But rumor has it they are trying to get Frank Darabont to do the Snow White sequel. Please don’t let this happen. I don’t want to want to see it.

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