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confess. I’ve been an Apple fanboi since 1985. I wasn’t always. I started out disliking computers during my career as a mixing engineer in the most technically advanced recording studios in the world.

We had lots of tech but we used it directly. There was no computer twisting the dials or moving the faders.

Each time I sat down at the mixing desk with Frank Zappa or Stephen Stills or Glenn Frey and the boys, it was an act of art. “Ain’t no computer that can do my job,” I contended. Slowly, however, computers became more evident in the control room. First, a company named Automated Processes made a box that sat off to the side remembering a single task: fader moves.

Soon, computers were built right into the console and remembered more functions, like EQ (tone), panning, mutes, effects sends and compression. Finally, the entire studio moved inside the computer and there became no need for a mixing desk, instruments or musicians at all. Now you can make a record without leaving the desktop of your MacBook.

But in 1985 I bought my first Apple Macintosh. By late afternoon I was sitting in my home office communicating over my phone line with computers at university nodes via a bulky thing called a modem. It was simple text commands and lines but set up with a cool, albeit black and white and funky, graphical user interface. I was hooked.

A few days ago, Apple made a big deal of making that boxy, dumb, clunky computer of 1985 available to my wrist, only in a smarter, smaller, more powerful — and intrusive — version.

Superwatch? Apple hasn’t announced just how far the capabilities of the new Apple Watch will go.

Yes, we’ll be able to text, read emails, listen to music, check the weather, send cute little drawings to friends (and frenemies), — even tell time! — with the new Apple Watch. Who knows what else will come up? But one thing is certain, personal health

and fitness are spearheading the purpose of the Apple Watch.

An entire suite of functions will be part of the announced Apple HealthKit. Sensors in the back of the watch will monitor body functions like temperature, heart rate, and so on. Blood pressure, galvanic re-

sponse, even glucose levels can be determined using additional sensors. What’s next? How many times we pee a day? Dream cycles? Are we full of crap or did we defecate this morning? Use your imagination. If you can think of it, “there’s an app for that.”

Here’s the problem. We’re becoming more and more insulated from our bodies. That we need to use technology to quantize natural body functions is a dangerous step. Knowing innately how the body feels is much more valuable and important than getting a metric sent to us via a small screen. The more we step away from knowing our body, the farther we get away from health.

Health is a holistic event. It cannot be studied or ascertained in pieces. Metrics can only show us so much and finding a way to balance what we know intuitively and what we see perceptually is vastly more important than gathering data. We lose our ability to know our body by turning that over to technology.

While others are worrying about who gets all this personal and private data and what’s done with it, the greater concern should be how the usurpation of human experience is depleting our personal awareness.

“Know thyself,” not thy data. Time was that a farmer paid attention to weather by looking at the sky. He knew the nature of the soil by walking on it and touching it and smelling it. I recently heard a farmer say that he gets in the sealed, air-conditioned cab of his GPSguided tractor a few feet from his kitchen door and spends sparse hours in the fields listening to satellite radio while the gadgets attached to John Deere do the work. He boasted, “I haven’t actually stood in a farm field for years.” He wears loafers. Thank God they’re not all like that.

Author Richard Louv calls the affliction “nature deficit disorder.” It’s what we are doing to our society and specifically our children by creating a chasm between nature and our awareness. Nature deficit disorder has insidious consequences and one of the darkest, I contend, is a deep fugue of loss. How can we know who we are or what our meaning is if we are so detached from our source? We’ve placed technology between us and our world, between us and our bodies, between us and other humans, between us and our memory, our mind, our health.

We’ve become so insulated from reality that we begin to function as a metric. We rely on other people and other things to tell us how we feel, rather than paying attention to how we feel.

Can you repeat your best friend’s phone number? No? Siri knows it. We relinquish knowledge to our smartphone.

How smart does that make us?

Be well. ,

VISIONS FROM FIVE MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE • SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 • In the next few years, a religious cult will begin a controversial and speculative program: They will start regularly shooting small, seed-sized capsules into space. The capsules will contain living examples of human DNA, specially modified for this

project, which are intended to find their way to other planets and generate new life there. It is a program that would take a billion years to prove successful, but if so, would cause the whole universe to teem with new life, all of it descended from us.

HEARTLAND HEALING is a metaphysically based polemic describing alternatives to conventional

methods of healing the body, mind and planet. It is provided as information and entertainment, certainly not medical advice. It is not an endorsement of any particular therapy, either by the writer or The Reader. Visit HeartlandHealing.com for more information.

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he first thing I noticed when I started talking to Tony Thomas about Farnam House Brewing Company is that he had a look on his face that I recognize. It’s the same face artists make when they create something they’re insanely proud of. It’s the face I make when my kids do something clever, and I decide they’re clever because I made them that way. It’s what my brother jokingly refers to as a “smug smirk of satisfaction,” or “ssmos” for short.

You see, Tony’s been at this whole idea of opening a brewery for quite some time. He didn’t just one day lean over to his friend Phil Doerr and in a drunken stupor slur, “We should totally open a brewery.” No, Tony’s dream of opening a brewery has been swirling around in his head for quite some time.

In fact, the business plan for a brewery was his marketing thesis back in 1998.

Respect the beer When I sat down with Tony I issued him a challenge. I don’t really like beer, I told him. I have yet to find a beer that doesn’t make me remember my days in the military where we drank pitchers of whatever beer was cheapest and then had obnoxious burping contests.

What kind of beer would Tony serve someone who didn’t know much about good beer at all?

Without skipping a beat, Tony started asking me questions. What tastes do I like? Do I like smoky flavors? How about fruity flavors? As I responded to his questions, I could sense the wheels in his head turning as he considered some beers while eliminating others.

He wound up bringing me a Taft American Stout, which features hints of roasted coffee and dark chocolate. Not surprisingly, I found it to be tasty and smooth.

The flavors were complex and easily washed away my

crumbs ■ EAT, DRINK, RUN If the idea of drinking beer, eating bagels and chili and running four-ish miles sounds like a good time to you, register for the Beer and Bagel Run Sunday, Nov 2. Register early for a reduced cost, and note that there is no registration on the day of the run.

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distant memories of the cheap beers of my youth. This is a beer I would drink slowly, enjoying the flavors and feeling sophisticated.

When I told Tony that I liked the beer, his facial expression told me, “Of course you like the beer. I picked it for you and I know what I’m doing.” I imagine that Tony would not be the best poker player because his facial expressions say a lot, but that’s OK because you don’t have to worry about a poker career when you’re a damn good brewer.

Good food, too I ordered a Confit Turkey Club and fries for my lunch.

I was pretty confident that the food would be good, considering it’s locally sourced and I figured that any place where one of the owners has so much pride in what he does wouldn’t serve mediocre food.

I was right. The sandwich was delicious, with fresh ingredients and ample portions. The fries were crispy but not too crispy, with a good flavoring that pushed them beyond the typical French fries. If I had room in my stomach I would have tried one of their handmade desserts, but between my lunch and the beer I just couldn’t manage another bite.

Head to Farnam House Brewing Company if you like good food and good beer. If you don’t like beer, try one of the other drinks they serve including mead from Bellevue’s Moonstruck Meadery, or just have a talk with Tony he’ll figure out what type of beer you will actually like. , Farnam House Brewing Company, 3652 Farnam St. farnamhousebrewing.com. Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

Friday-Saturday 11 a.m. - midnight. Closed Sundays. er attending the interim hearing hosted by Sen. Burke Harr Sept. 25 at 1:30 p.m. at the North Star Foundation facility. Here they’ll discuss how to encourage communities to create and sustain community gardens with an emphasis on water. They’re encouraging people to show up with a five minute testimony prepared, but this isn’t mandatory. nebraskalegislature.gov/calendar/ ■ FULL CYCLE SUPPER Progressive dinners are fun, but why walk from one food place to another when you can bike there? The Full Cycle Supper is a collaborative fundraising effort between Community Bike Project Omaha and Big Muddy Urban Farm. It takes place Sept. 28 from 5-8 p.m. and tickets start at $35. Bicycle from one plot to another on the farm, enjoying another course of the meal at each stop. All in all, you’ll bike around four miles and come away with a full stomach. communitybicycleshopomaha.org — 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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maha artist Watie White’s humanist public art projects reveal the narratives of transitional urban neighborhoods. The dynamics of locations and the people living there shape his site-specific works.

Three 2014 projects, one completed and the others inprogress, all connect to community organizations whose social justice missions “align” with his own.

“The kind of organizations I am most attracted to are the ones who make a splash with a handful of incredibly passionate people that affect the lives of many families,” he says.

His new All That Ever Was, Always Is exhibition at two abandoned homes slated for demolition in northeast Omaha continues his work with Habitat for Humanity.

In 2013 he repurposed an empty home in the same area with original paintings symbolizing the family that lived there and the neighborhood it was part of. He installed prints in the window frames. After the exhibit came down, the condemned house was razed. A vacant lot sits in its place awaiting a new build.

Habitat executive director Amanda Brewer says White’s projects add depth to the agency’s blight remediation work: “They celebrate the rich history that comes with older homes and neighborhoods. The time and respectfulness he puts into getting to know the neighbors, the history of the neighborhood and involving neighbors in his project strengthens Habitat’s efforts to involve the entire neighborhood in our work.”

The house(s) Habitat loans him – for his new project he tackled side by side houses at 1468 and 1470 Emmet St. – become cultural excavation sites and art canvasses. He insinuates and immerses himself by doing interviews with neighbors and, where possible, with folks who lived in the dwellings, combing through contents for artifacts and nar-

rative clues, taking photos, using subjects as models.

All of it inspired 51 original paintings he made for the two current structures. Acrylic vinyl prints were installed since July 19 and remain up through year’s end.

The houses will then be razed for new homes to go up in their place. His assistant Peter Cales salvaged materials to make benches and tables as communal gathering spots. White’s planning public dinners and conversations at the site.

Dialogue’s a hoped-for by-product of the The Wheels Keep Turning murals Justice for Our Neighbors-Nebraska commissioned him to create. The agency provides legal, education, advocacy services for immigrants. The murals will go in immigrant-rich areas in South Omaha, North Omaha, Benson and Little Italy. White describes the subjects as “inspirational people every day making a positive influence in their neighborhood.”

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reflecting diverse residents’ lives. Jay’s an itinerant musician with dreams of his own nightclub. Anthony’s a street activist-poet spitting do-the-right-thing rants. inCOMMON director Christian Gray says the art’s meant to reduce the “disconnection and marginalization” public housing residents often feel,” adding, “This goal connects closely with inCommon’s mission of uniting and strengthening vulnerable neighborhoods in its effort of including-incorporating public tower residents within the life of the surrounding community.”

White knows the banner mural will draw much attention. “It’s a resident community and people walk that neighborhood and this thing is just going to be gigantic.

It’s going to loom over that neighborhood. It will inevitably be what everyone takes out of that community. It’s going to be so much louder than anything else. It will be the largest thing I’ve done. It feels like a lot of responsibility.”

His challenge is finding the right aesthetic-content balance. He wants the banner to feel of the community, not imposed on it. Neither too rosy, nor too negative but a “powerful” evocation of “personal, lived experiences – I want it to have that feeling their voice is in it.”

Park Avenue’s similar to the North Omaha section he’s worked in. Both feature compromised, underserved neighborhoods. He came to do houses in North O when he couldn’t find suitable mural spaces there.

“I was wanting to work in that community but there aren’t traditional walls to work on.”

When Habitat offered him condemned homes, he says, “I was like, ‘Yes, that gets me there, I can do something with that.’”

Paintings in the studio become something different installed behind broken glass in the distressed neighborhoods they reflect and inhabit.

“There is no way to see them in the same way when

positive light on immigrant contributions and to empower more immigrants to share their stories.

“We will also host a series of public meetings, discussions and lectures around the unveiling of the murals to engage the public in a constructive dialogue about immigration-related issues. Additionally, we hope to increase awareness of immigrants and their needs, while incorporating a path to services through JFON.” Among the models are 78-yearold Mexican immigrant Ramona Silva Gonzales and South Sudan refugee Mary Aketa George, a program officer with the Southern Sudan Community Association. White’s drawing on Ramona’s recollections of her and her cousins pick-

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ing flowers in the fields of the farm she grew up on and singing ranchera songs. He’s incorporating Mary’s memories of the harsh refugee camp life she endured and how the experience motivated her to help people.

White hopes his murals, including one up at JFON, 2414 E St., “shifts the perception of what the immigrant and new Nebraskan face is.”

He’s placing the murals near where the subjects’ live. Ramona’s will be at the Intercultural Senior Center she’s found a second home at.

White’s inCOMMON Community Development project, You Are Here, will feature Park Avenue district murals and prints along that mid-town drag, plus a 100-foot tall banner mural on the Park North public housing tower, 1601 Park Ave., all

you drive through the neighborhood to get there. You park, you maybe say hi to the people sitting across the street, maybe people come over. All that changes those paintings a lot.”

Once in place, the images generate questions and conversations. For him, it’s about connecting to the neighborhood and adding benefit to it.

“There’s a distinct shift in the community that starts with the people that had something to do with it. They then kind of own that space and that neighborhood in a way they didn’t before. For the models there’s a certain self-esteem boost from having their head be five feet tall in some capital A art that ends up in the paper. Part of this process is getting people to tell me their stories they don’t think are important and then have me treat them as important.”

The resulting media coverage gives subjects, their stories and neighborhoods a new currency, he says. “All those things I feel like make this project better.”

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y continued from page 8 As a white affluent artist dropping in on black poverty, he relies on partner organizations with deep stakes there to open doors for him.

“It gives me legitimacy in a community that is not mine. It allows me to have conversations with these people.”

Still, it takes time to build trust and rapport.

“It took the people on that 1400 block of Emmet a little while to kind of warm up to me and tell me those more true and awkward stories. It was several interviews in before I heard about the Hell’s Angels on the block and the role they played.

They provided a safe space, they threw these parties and events that built community. The people really liked them. There was never a problem or racial issue with them.”

A neighbor, Miss Maybel, was inspired enough to start her own motorcycle club.

White traced the 1468 house to the family that last lived there, the Tribbles, whose matriarch, Jessie Tribble, was a single mother with aspirational dreams for her children.

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tably that leads me having to figure out what to do with unpleasant things.”

A daughter, Oretha Walker, confided a brother’s in jail for murder. White expressed in images positive and negative things about him. inCOMMON’s Gray says White’s careful handling of personal narratives like this dovetails with its own community listening approach.

“We believe under-resourced neighborhoods are rich with people who have dreams, talents and stories that can be leveraged toward community change and transformation. Watie has a highly unique talent for calling out these dreams and stories from within the communities he works.”

White also put in images discoveries from the 1470 house.

An absentee owner rented it out as a daycare, then it was abandoned, then gutted by fire.

A 1918 playbill from the long defunct corner Grand Theatre shows up as cinema bathing beauties. A piece of wall paper with John White penciled-in – the artist’s father’s name – gave Watie White permission to integrate his father and son in images. , Follow the artist’s projects at watiewhite.com. Read more of Leo Adam Biga’s work at leoadambiga.wordpress.com.

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ARTsarben is presented by First National Bank and sponsored by WOWT NBC Omaha, Aksarben Village, the Sherwood Foundation, Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation, Douglas County Board of Commissioners, Nebraska Arts

Council and Nebraska Cultural Endowment, The David Scott Foundation, Aksarben Cinema and Dudley’s Pizza and Tavern, College of Saint Mary and The Reader.

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he family-friendly ARTsarben art festival will offer plenty of fun for the children. The interactive KidZone will take place in Stinson Park, in the heart of Aksarben Village, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on both days of the festival.

KidZone features of various hands-on art activities provided by several local non-profit organizations and interactive play areas that allow kids to burn off extra energy in four bounce houses (including an obstacle course and a rock wall slide). Art activities will include sun visor decorating, a stingray beach, DNA bracelet creating, paper rocket launches and more.

One to three activity tickets will be required for art activities and bounce houses; tickets can be purchased for 50 cents each at the KidZone Information Booth in Stinson Park.

The list of participating organizations includes: • Girls Incorporated of Omaha • Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium • Nebraska Science Festival

• Omaha Public Library • YMCA of Greater Omaha • Strategic Air and Space Museum • Arts for All, Inc. • Peapod Face Painting • Old Market Balloon Guy Back for a second year, Hy-Vee will provide a selection of pumpkins (priced at $3 or less) for purchase in conjunction with a First National Bank pumpkindecorating activity. Kids and their families can walk through the pumpkin patch set up by Hy-Vee and choose their own pumpkins to decorate at the First National Bank tent.

A new feature in the KidZone this year is the interactive Play Lab on Sunday, September 28. Play Lab provides recycled materials and friendly support for children’s exploration and creation. This can mean anything from building forts to putting on plays to figuring out all of the ways of staying on (or jumping off) a big plastic barrel.

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rt collectors and enthusiasts will be able to purchase offbeat, creative and stylish works directly from artists in numerous media including jewelry, sculpture, photography, painting, fiber, glass, metal and wood. Visitors will enjoy browsing original artwork created by 80 artists from across the country, with 21 artists from Nebraska.

Artists determine their own sales transaction terms and some will accept checks or credit cards. An ATM will be available on site. Many artists are willing to hold larger pieces after purchase until pick-up arrangements can be made.

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Local and national performers will entertain festivalgoers in four informal staging areas throughout the festival site, including the intersection of 67th & Mercy Road, two areas in the Stinson Park playground and at the intersection of 67th & Frances Street. Performers at 2014 ARTsarben will include: • George Gilbert - An eccentric comedian from Florida who also does magic.

• Omaha Street Percussion - Street percussion using everyday objects to create

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• Capoeira Angola - Traditional Brazilian folk-sport with elements of self-defense, dance and music.

• The Ragabonds / Hook & Belle - The Ragabonds are an indie acoustic music group. Hook & Belle will be doing on-site interactive spray painting.

• Roundhouse Band - Old-time songs and fiddle tunes along with classic and contemporary bluegrass.

• Omaha Jitterbugs – Swing dance lessons and a choreographed social dance for everyone to try their new skills.

• Derek Kingery - Hoop and fan dancing.

• Edem Kegey - African drumming and songs.

• Joey Fratelli - Magic and variety of arts.

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Free parking will be available in the parking garage east of Aksarben Village (at 64th Avenue) and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska

parking and surface lots off Aksarben Drive northwest of the event site. The University of NebraskaOmaha will offer parking north of Aksarben Village in Lot 14 south of the Scott Conference Center at 64th and Pine Streets. On Sunday only, the Scott Conference Center parking lot (Lot 9) will also be available.

cy Road, will relocate during ARTsarben to the new paved parking lot . across 67th Street from DJ’s Dugout on the northeast corner of 67th and Frances Street. A full array of more than 70 vendors offering produce, baked goods, meat products, crafts and more will be at the temporary site, and all customary services will be available.

For more information on the Omaha Farmers Market The Sunday Omaha Farmers Mar- Sunday Omaha Farmers Market ket, which normally takes place at Aksarben Village, please visit from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Aksarben omahafarmersmarket.com.

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lthough undeniable, the comparison between Bruce Springsteen and The War On Drugs is getting old. Most critics have written about it and it’s pretty much the most obvious observation about the group. What lead singer and founding member Adam Granduciel would rather you focus on is their progression as a band. Formed in Philadelphia in 2005 with fellow artist Kurt Vile, War On Drugs put out their first album, Wagonwheel Blues, in 2008. After a few lineup changes they released their most recent album, Lost in the Dream, earlier this year. Despite its name, War on Drugs, in fact, doesn’t have a war on drugs at all.

“The name of the band, in retrospect, reflects a time in my life when we were living out in Oakland, California being crazy and writing all this crazy poetry,”

the world with War On Drugs. I knew this band wasn’t his main priority, which was fine.”

2011’s Slave Ambient featured a few contributions from Vile, but was overall a Granduciel project. It was the first to feature drummer Steve Urgo and last for drummer Mike Zanghi. Preceded by 2010’s Future Weather EP, the album offered more classic rock influences and was something Granduciel was very proud of making despite the pressure to make it great.

“After Wagonwheel Blues, I think we had a small, but passionate fan base made of a bunch of people who really liked our music,” he says. “I was really excited to make a new record because we spent a lot of time on it. You might feel like you have to succumb to the machine a little bit more and release something within a

Granduciel reveals. “That’s how the name came up. The name itself doesn’t have any personal implications, but I guess the only thing is, over time, when I get asked that question, I think about it more than I ever did. The only thing that the actual war on drugs is kind of an embarrassing thing. We don’t really do it in any other country. We’re an American band so I guess that makes sense. Nothing personal though really.”

Vile left in 2009 to focus more on his solo career and Granduciel forged ahead on his own path. He carved out the ideal band to accompany him on his latest tour in support of Lost in the Dream.

“Kurt and I still keep in touch,” he says. “We just played the same festivals in France and Belgium. He played in my band and I played in his. We’ve both been so busy so we don’t see each other in the same way we used to, but we are still friends and he’s still the funniest dude I’ve ever met in my life. When he was in the band, he already had a solo career. He wasn’t really interested in being in this band. I knew that anyway. I knew he wasn’t going to start touring

year to keep it rolling, but at the end of the day, do you really have to? At the end of the day, it’s really not my problem.”

On Lost in the Dream, the first noticeable difference between past efforts is the amount of instrumental moments throughout the album. Tracks like “Disappearing” and “An Ocean Between Waves,” seem to linger longer than previous War On Drugs songs. Ironically, when Granduciel sings, the Springsteen can’t help but come out of him.

“I definitely hear it,” he admits. “I got into Dylan heavily when I was like 20; Springsteen maybe a little later, like 23 or something. That’s where I’m coming from on my stuff. Their catalogs have been really important to me. I am trying to follow in their footsteps and carve my own place in history.”

Lost in the Dream was created in several different places. It began with Granduciel’s own studio until recording eventually moved over to his friend’s studio in Philly, then Brooklyn and North Carolina, where the remainder of the album was finished.

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“I like getting out of town and getting a little perspective,” he explains. “It’s good to kind of isolate yourself so you don’t have the distractions of recording in your home town. No one has girlfriends around or anything like that, and you just have to focus on what you’re doing. It’s nice to get in a car and take a little road trip; make the songs a little about the dialog you have with your band.”

For the current incarnation of The War On Drugs, things are working out like they’re supposed to. The sixperson lineup is airtight, the album’s reception has been warm and they’re amidst a sizeable nationwide tour.

“I’ve been pleasantly overwhelmed by everything, which has been great,” he says. “I didn’t know what I was going to come out with. I wasn’t sure what was going to happen and what the record was going to be. I worked really hard on it and people have really taken to it. It’s given us the ability to be a better band and really solidify the lineup in some sort of way. We get better because we play a lot. I couldn’t have asked for more.

It’s been mind blowing.”

Granduciel mentions his favorite songs to play live are “An Ocean Between the Waves,” “Eyes in the Wind” and “In Reserve.” As he talks about them, he struggles to contain his own enthusiasm, a good sign he’s comfortable with the new songs.

“It’s kind of one of those things where I love the recorded version, but the live version has taken on a whole new thing,” he says. “It’s much more dynamic in person.”

For Granduciel and the rest of the band, it was a grueling yearlong recording process, but it paid off.

Lost in the Dream is an honest (sometimes painfully so) account of the dissolution of his long-term relationship and inescapable self-doubt delivered in the most beautiful way. While this is clearly a new chapter for him, the pages written so far seem to be a story of triumph.

“It’s more of a professional operation now,” he jokes.

“We have it down a little more. It’s like watching a real band play [laughs]. These are songs I really care about put together with people I care about. I just hope to keep doing it and make albums I like making. I’m not

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■ With The Drowsy Chaperone in full swing, Hilary Adams now has a full production under her belt as the new Omaha Community Playhouse artistic director. Adams talked with me about the process of getting Drowsy on its feet and the implementation of various new tweaks to the Playhouse process.

Adams said the biggest challenge in bring The Drowsy Chaperone to life was managing all of the choreography. “It’s the sheer amount of dancing,” she said. “It’s back to back dances which are stylized and specifi c. They take quite a lot of time to learn. Our choreographer Roxanne Nielsen has done a brilliant job with the company. I feel really fortunate, it’s an incredible cast. We have a combination of veterans who’ve been on stages before as well plenty of new faces. They’ve been a joy to work with.”

It’s been a return to normalcy in a way for Adams. She fi nally gets to work on what she was hired to do in the fi rst place: direct. “At the end of a day, there’s nothing better than getting into a rehearsal room,” she said. “Getting to be a director here for the first time has been a joy. The production team and cast have been incredibly supportive. They’ve taken me through the Playhouse process and now we have a gorgeous musical on our hands.”

The Drowsy Chaperone was also one of the first productions to feautre the Playhouse’s newly modified audition process. The process brings auditionees in one by one to showcase in front the directors rather than bringing everyone in one big group. It’s a similar style to the auditions that the BLUEBARN Theatre utalizes.

“What we’re doing is making it an intimate casting process where people feel comfortable and safe but one that also gives everyone a chance to shine and show what they can do,” Adams said.

Another tweak the Playhouse is introducing is the expansion of the Playhouse’s alternative programming. Mainstays like the 21 & Over reading series and Live Broadway Karaoke will remain while many other programs will get a test run including a play development program with The Great Plains Theatre Conference and a Joni Mitchell tribute cabaret. The goal is for the eventual associate artistic director to take over and manage the program.

More information on The Drowsy Chaperone and the alternative programming can be found at www.omahaplayhouse.com — William Grennan Cold Cream looks at theater in the metro area. Email information to coldcream@thereader.com

trying to get too comfortable. I want to make cool music and feel that I’m getting better at what I do.

I’ve gravitated towards some of my favorite artists later in their career. I just want to keep doing my thing and hopefully people keep listening. Being a musician gets a little lonely sometimes, but I don’t miss casual Fridays or anything. Fuck that.” , The War On Drugs with Califone, September 24, at The Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St., 9 p.m. Tickets are $15. Visit www.onepercentproductions.com for more information.

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Andre (Anthony Anderson) is a self-described former “big scary black guy” who’s succeeded in the white world. He’s a successful advertising executive who lives in the suburbs with his doctor wife (Tracee Ellis Ross) and four kids. But Andre has the nagging feeling that, in achieving the American dream, he and the family have lost their black identity. His wife serves baked chicken instead of fried, and his son plays field hockey instead of basketball. Andre’s dad (Laurence Fishburne) chides him for selling out their heritage, and he starts thinking it’s true. “I need my family to be black, not blackish,” Andre moans. “Blackish” delves into one of the most dangerous American subjects — race — with complete assurance. The new sitcom investigates the nature of black identity in a white-dominated culture that at once appropriates and denigrates it.

The white folks at Andre’s agency are quick to trade hip-hop slang and cool handshakes with him, but there’s no way they’ll ever see him as more than just their “urban” consultant. A colleague developing an ad campaign says to him, “We wonder how you think a black guy would say ‘good morning.’” Don’t think the satiric barbs are reserved for whites. Andre himself is often the butt of the joke, as when he leads his skeptical family through ancient African rituals.

Anderson is a master of comic exasperation, blowing his top every time a white person tells him to “keep it real.” God help me, but I hope “Blackish” keeps it real for many seasons to come. — Dean Robbins

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A FUNDRAISING CELEBRATION TO BENEFIT THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS Grand Ballroom, Hilton Omaha, 1001 Cass St. 5:30-9 p.m., www.omahahomeforboys.org Years before he was a decorated soldier serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, won his first mixed-martial arts championship or acted in his first movie, Rudy Reyes was a “Home” boy. He and his younger brothers Ceasar and Michael came to the Omaha Home for Boys in 1984 after their grandparents died and they were passed around from relative to relative. Now a writer and actor in Hollywood, Reyes, is returning to Omaha and the Omaha Home for Boys Thursday as the featured speaker for the Home’s secondannual Restoring Hearts with Bike Parts™ celebration at Hilton-Omaha. Tickets and details available at www.omahahomeforboys.org.

The lady of the house is bored. Sure she has money. Plus she has admirers. But that’s not enough. And she has antagonists too. Adding it all up though, she doesn’t feel sufficiently significant. Her dreary husband and the bonds of marriage of her day constrict the chest and choke the throat. Witness her encircled by family and friends, hemming her in. Hedda has a lot on her sometimes confused mind.

Freud hadn’t yet written about neuroses such as hers when Henrik Ibsen probed the intricacies of her turmoil. His ground-breaking, realistic take on such complexities includes raising feminist issues at a time when audiences weren’t open to them. For this world-famed classic, the time is now. — Gordon Spencer

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OMAHA SYMPHONY MASTERWORKS SERIES Susanna Perry Gilmore, violinist Thomas Wilkins, conductor Kiewit Hall, Holland Center, 1200 Douglas St. 8 p.m. Tickets $19-$80, www.omahasymphony.org

Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote much gorgeous music, permeating the hearts and souls of audiences who hadn’t come to concerts to hear it. They absorbed these treasures while seated in movie palaces of the 1930s and 40s. He wrote such marvels for 17 films and won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Original Score.

That was hardly the beginning for him, or the end. His teen-age operas were the toast of Vienna where Gustav Mahler called him “a genius.” And, in his late 40s, he went back full-time to concert music, during which his sumptuous, soaring beloved Violin Concerto emerged.

More recently John Corigliano’s compositions, in a variety of styles and idioms, have appealed to many people as well. His infrequently-heard, very accessible “Gazebo Dances” will show you why. They precede the Concerto.

Last, and most familiar, Tchaikovsky’s often powerful, 4th Symphony then engulfs the stage. — Gordon Spencer

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ector Anchondo Band is the winner of the 2014-15 Nebraska Blues Challenge held Sunday, Sept. 21, at The 21st Saloon.

The band will represent the Blues Society of Omaha in the 2015 International Blues Challenge (IBC) Jan. 20-24 in Memphis. The prestigious showcase and competition sponsored by the Blues Foundation gives great exposure to up and coming talent. See blues.org/ibc.

2014 IBC Winner at 21st An example of what the IBCs can do for an artist is Mr. Sipp, also known as The Mississippi Blues Child. He hits The 21st Saloon Thursday, Sept. 25, 6-9 p.m. Mr. Sipp is the 2014 International Blues Challenge Winner and was recognized with the event’s 2014 Gibson Best Guitarist Award. The Cascade Blues Association says of Mr. Sipp “This is everything that made you fall in love with the blues to begin with. Soulful, gritty, guitar excellence and vocal power.” See mrsippthemississippiblueschild. com. Chicago blues guitarist and singer John Primer is at The 21st Saloon next Thursday, Oct. 2, 6-9 p.m. See more about Primer in the Zoo section below.

Zoo Blues Lincoln’s Zoo Bar hosts Brad Cordle Band Friday, Sept. 26, 5-7 p.m. Igor & The Red Elvises bring

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29, 6-9 p.m. Chicago bluesman John Primer plugs in at the club next Wednesday, Oct. 1, 6-9 p.m. Primer was Magic Slim’s longtime sideman and has enjoyed a successful career fronting his own band, with many Blues Music Award nominations on his resume. Primer is a 2010 Grammy nominee for the CD Chicago Blues: A Living History, shared with collaborators Billy Boy Arnold, Billy Branch and Lurrie Bell. The disc also won the 2010 Blues Music Award for Album of the Year.

See johnprimerblues.com.

Hot Notes Lincoln’s Josh Hoyer & The Shadowboxers are putting the finishing touches on a new disc. Recorded at Omaha’s ARC Studios, the record is slated for a Nov. 7 release party at The Bourbon Theatre and a Nov. 8 celebration concert at Slowdown. It’s a timely follow-up to Josh Hoyer & The Shadowboxers’ self-titled debut disc. That CD came out earlier this spring and spent 24 straight weeks in the Top Ten for Soul and R&B on the Roots Music Report charts. See rootsmusicreport.com. The band has a 14-city west coast tour booked for November, getting back just in time to play Thanksgiving night at The Zoo Bar. See joshhoyerandtheshadowboxers. com. Justin Townes Earle plays Friday, Sept. 26, at Lincoln’s Bourbon Theatre, 8 p.m. American Aquarium opens. ,

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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Upload your events online at thereader.com/events Questions: listings@thereader.com ONGOINGCULTURE Nebraska Wesleyan Elder Gallery Exhibit - 10:00 am | Free O’Donnell Auditorium, Rogers Center for Fine Arts Professor Emerita of Art Susan Horn explores family, friendships and Nebraska through photographs spanning 34 years.

Nebraska National Collegiate Juried Exhibition - 12:30 pm | Eisentrager-Howard Gallery This third annual art exhibition features the work of the best undergraduate student artists from across the country. Each year three different media disciplines are featured. This year’s exhibition includes ceramics, photography and printmaking.

More than 75 artists have been accepted into this year’s exhibition, including 14 from UNL. Kim Reid-Kuhn - All Day | Fred Simon Gallery Kim Reid holds a BFA in Fine Art from UNO. After graduating, Kim pursued a personal studio practice, teaching, and curating. Recent exhibitions include shows at NewBLK, Tugboat Gallery and RNG Gallery, as well as a two-person show at Bemis Underground. Kim has taught art classes at Joslyn Art Museum, The Union for Contemporary Art, several Montessori schools as well as mentoring at the Kent Bellows Studio and Center for the Visual Arts. She won the OEAA in 2013 for Best 2D Artist, in 2013 and 2012 for Best Two Person Show, and in 2010 and 2011 she was nominated by the OEAA for the Best Emerging Artist and Best Solo Exhibition Award.

You Know What? F%$# the 80s! - 7:00 pm | $30 (includes dinner) Apollon Most of us think of the 1980s are nothing but teased hair, bangles, Player’s Jackets, and endless repeats of The Breakfast Club on beta. Trust us. It’s much, much worse. The Apollon invites you on a journey into the decade that spawned MTV, Nickelodeon, and Emilio Estevez. We’ll battle Goonies, Gremlins, and Terminators. We’ll Double Dare you to bleach your hair and fist pump Ferris Bueller right in his smarmy face. By the time you Plinko your way through the hairspray and clouds of white ‘substances,’ you’ll be trickling down into the depths of shame that were the 80s. F%$# the 80s.

The Drowsy Chaperone - 7:30 pm | $20-$40 Omaha Community Playhouse The Drowsy Chaperone is a delightful look into the world of a musical theatre super fan. The show’s narrator invites us into his home to share with us his favorite musical comedy from the 1920s. As he turns on his record player, the musical bursts to life and his home transforms into the show’s set. The Drowsy Chaperone, the clever musicalwithin-a-musical, is the perfect evening of theatre for those who love to be entertained.

Oklahoma - 7:30 pm | $18 Bellevue Little Theatre ‘Oklahoma’ opened on Broadway in 1943 and has seen Broadway revivals as well as a glorious movie. This classic, the first written by Rogers and Hammerstein as a team, is set in 1906 against a backdrop of impending statehood for Oklahoma; The conflict between cowmen and farmers is presented through music, with the songs and dance masterfully integrated into the story--something which was new to musical productions.

Hedda Gabler - 7:30 pm | UNO Theatre Hedda Gabler is one of Ibsen’s finest works. The character of Hedda is considered one of the towering women’s roles in theatre history. Yet, as is typical of Ibsen, all of the characters are detailed, substantive, and crucial. Ibsen gives us a patchwork of remarkable clues about each personality.

It is the acting company’s task to delve deeply and assemble a dense array of personal history that each character embodies. Few plays reach the power of and the story of bored Hedda, her admirers, her antagonists, and her spectacular departure from the stage.

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Bread & Jam - 1:00 pm | Free Western Historic Trails Center Mr. Sipp - 6:00 pm | See Website for Pricing The 21st Saloon Mr. Sipp is an IBC winner so you know this show will be amazing. Castro Coleman a-k-a Mr. Sipp ‘The Mississippi Blues Child’. Mr. Sipp began playing the guitar at the young age of 6. Due to hard work and perseverance Mr. Sipp has become an awesome songwriter, musician,

composer and producer. Mr. Sipp is also a vocalist and performing artist.

Acoustic Music Thursdays - 7:00 pm | Free Two Fine Irishmen Reggae Night - 8:00 pm | Free The Hive Lounge Sam Martin / Coaxed / Stomach / Telepathy Problems - 8:00 pm | $5 Sweatshop Gallery Il Sogno del Marinaio - 9:00 pm | $13 The Slowdown Omaha Il Sogno del Marinaio, “The Sailor’s Dream” in Italian is the name picked for this collaboration with musicians Stefano Pilia and Andrea Belfi.

Savoy - 9:00 pm | $15-$18 The Bourbon Theatre Savoy is the musical collaboration of Gray Smith, Ben Eberdt, Mike Kelly.

Ty Segall - 9:00 pm | $13 ADV / $15 DOS The Waiting Room Lounge The Segall has landed.

And it’s fully loaded with everything that Ty Segall and you and me are gonna need in the world to come. Sticking his hand deeper into the machines all around him, Ty is reaching ever further to the outer limits of inner space orbited throughout Twins and Sleeper.

The Vibrators w/ Hand Painted Police Car 9:00 pm | $7 Brothers Lounge UK Punk legends.

Ak-Sar-Ben’s River City Rodeo & Stock Show - 10:00 am | Free CenturyLink Center Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben’s River City Rodeo & Stock Show includes three core events: the Justin Boots Championships and the Wrangler Champions Challenge Finale; 4-H Stock Show and the Douglas County Fair, along with countless interactive and educational exhibits and entertainment. Bring out the entire family for fun and entertainment. This event will run through Saturday.

PostChristian - 7:00 pm | $10 Countryside Community Church It’s the end of Christianity as we know it. But it’s not a catastrophe it’s an opportunity. In his newest book, postChristian: What’s Left? Can We Fix It? Do We Care? Blogger, author, speaker and artist Christian Piatt discusses the oft-publicized phenomena of a mass desertion of the church that has both believers and nonbelievers wondering-what’s coming next?

Comedy Stiles Open Mic - 10:00 pm | Free Stiles Public House Freestyle Battles/Ladies Night - 7:00 pm | $5 The Underground Bar & Grill The first 16 Mcs to sign in will battle that night for $50 in cash prize/ bar tab. It’s also ladies night with great drink deals and this is a 21 and up show. Besides the battles we will be showcasing local hip hop acts. To set off the show is local group rap addicts and to end the show is local act ghost the incredible.

Structured Chaos - 8:00 pm | Free Backline Improv Theatre A full night of long-form improv at its finest, jam-packed with many of Backline’s best teams. If you love forms, this night is for you.

FRIDAY SEPT 26

Jammin’ for Asbestos Awareness - 7:00 pm | $20 The Slowdown Omaha The objective of this event is to increase the awareness of the risks associated with asbestos exposure, as well as to raise money toward educational efforts, eventually resulting in the banning of asbestos importation into the U.S. The proceeds of this event will benefit the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO).

Echophonics - 8:00 pm | The Hive Lounge Justin Townes Earle - 8:00 pm | $18-$20 The Bourbon Theatre On a rainy Nashville Thursday last October, Justin Townes Earle leapt onstage at the famed Ryman Auditorium to accept the 2011 Americana Music Award for Song of the Year. The triumphant evening capped a turbulent twelve months for the gifted young musician categorized by significant hardship as well as notable achievement including debut performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall and on The Late Show with David Letterman. Just one week later, Earle retreated to the western mountains of North Carolina to record his next album.

Live Music - 9:00 pm | Free Horseshoe Council Bluffs Casino The Electroliners - 9:30 pm | $5 O’Leaver’s Pub The Electroliners play both kinds of music: Country and Western. Deep fried and smothered in gravy and heartache.

“Interrogated” - 10:00 pm | Free Backline Improv Theatre Audience members volunteer to come up on stage and confess something they’ve gotten

away with in their life, then we send them back and perform scenes based on that information.

Arena: Champions vs. Challengers - 11:00 pm | Free Backline Improv Theatre

SATURDAY SEPT 27

Hemlock - 7:00 pm | $5-$7 The Bourbon Theatre A Heavy Metal band from Las Vegas Nevada.

Members of the band are Chad Smith-Vocals and Bass, Jezy Ward-guitar and background vocals, James Gelber- guitarist, and Brian Smith drummer. Hemlocks sound is a heavy blend of chugging riffs, deep bass tones, rhythmic grooves and catchy ass lyrics, with a haberdash of melody mixed in. The lyrics are always creative and positive, and the songs have lots of scream alongs and hooks. The band makes sure that everyone goes home knowing they had fun with Hemlock.

Lorde - 8:00 pm | Sold Out Stir Concert CoveHarrah’s Council Bluffs Casino & Hotel Desert Noises - 8:00 pm | See Website for Pricing. The Hive Lounge The name Desert Noises like many of the band’s songs on their debut fulllength album came out of a dream that popped into front-man Kyle Henderson’s head while sleeping.

Live Music - 9:00 pm | Free Horseshoe Council Bluffs Casino Freeman - 9:00 pm | $15 The Waiting Room Lounge Listening to Aaron Freeman’s 2012 debut under his own name, fans might have felt that he was ignoring an elephant in his room a drugand-alcohol-related onstage flame-out that made viral headlines the year before. But Marvelous Clouds, a deceptively chill Rod McKuen covers record, was just a warm-up for the artist once known as Gene Ween. In the opening minutes of Freeman, the self-titled debut from his new band, Freeman addresses addiction and its aftermath with the combination of merciless self-inventory and artful song craft.

Huge F*cking Waves - 9:30 pm | $5 O’Leaver’s Pub Omaha surf punk extraordinaire.

Motion Trap - 10:00 pm | $5-$7 The Bourbon Theatre Motion Trap makes sonic exploration music.

An escalating interplay between electronic-tinged riffs and rhythmic muscle leads to a state of wonder, or maybe wander. Dreamy, but not hazy, more like the feeling of being in the moment and letting it all wash over you. All while the beat forever propels you forward.

Impractical Jokers - 7:30 pm | $49.50 Orpheum Theater-Omaha The Tenderloins are the creators, executive producers, writers and stars of truTV’s hit show, Impractical Jokers, now in its 3rd season. They are currently touring nationwide with ‘truTV Presents The Impractical Jokers Tour Featuring The Tenderloins,’ a mix of stand-up, never-before-seen hidden camera videos, stories and insight into the making of Impractical Jokers.

University of Nebraska Football - 8:00 pm | Free University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletics Saturday Night Show - 9:00 pm | Free Backline Improv Theatre

SUNDAY SEPT 28

Druha Trava - 2:00 pm | Free Sokol Auditorium Famed on both sides of the Atlantic for its Czechgrass fusion of acoustic, bluegrass, folk and rock, Druha Trava is the foremost band to emerge from the flourishing Czech bluegrass scene.

Music in the Park - 6:30 pm | Free Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park Sebadoh - 9:00 pm | $20 Reverb Lounge Newsboys Concert - 7:00 pm | $20-$25 Ralston Arena The Newsboys return to taking the stage with special guest Family Force 5.

Luigi, Inc. - 9:00 pm | Free Mr. Toad’s Pub Omaha Open Mic - 9:00 pm | Free O’Leaver’s Pub The Dandy Warhols - 9:00 pm | $20 The Waiting Room Lounge Literature (Slumberland Records) - 9:00 pm | $7 Sweatshop Gallery Perpetual Nerves presents: Literature Nathan Ma & the Rosettes Eric In Outerspace. Features Kevin Attics, Nathaniel Cardaci, Chris Schackerman, and Seth Whaland.

The Year I Was Gifted - 2:00 pm | $20-$45. The Shelterbelt Theatre The Year I Was Gifted is the true story of a 16 year old South Omaha girl, desperate to become some sort of performer, in way over her head at a famous boarding school for the arts in Michigan. Set in 1969, it’s a story about

making a first gay friend, and then finding the need to ‘say something important about life.’ Gay students are being kicked out of the Interlochen Arts Academy, and young Monica has to decide, should she risk her scholarship to speak up for her friends? A coming of age story that starts and ends in Omaha.

Cold Cases of Sarpy County - 2:00 pm | Free Sarpy County Museum Not all cases are open and shut. The Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office will share three cold cases that still remain open and unsolved on the books.

Diamonds in the Rough - 5:30 pm | $10 Love’s Jazz & Art Center An event created by Chiffon Events and CL Branding Agency. The purpose of Diamonds in the Rough is for Omaha’s talent and entrepreneurs to come together to connect, support one another and be motivated as they listen to a panel of some of Omaha’s most successful and influential people. Guests will be able to enjoy food, drinks, and live entertainment.

Sunday Night Trivia - 7:00 pm | Free Two Fine Irishmen Our Lady of Lourdes Fall Festival - All Day | Free Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Raffle prizes ranging from $5,000 to $500, a huge silent auction, live music all day including Polka Joy and The George Heaston Experience, beer gardens, Stoysich sausages, homemade tacos & enchiladas, games, rides, and much more. Don’t miss this traditional Omaha festival it is fun for the whole family.

MONDAY SEPT 29

University of Nebraska Brass Quintet - 7:30 pm | Free Kimball Recital Hall A recital of 20th Century brass music for quintet. The program will include Metamorphosis on a Theme From ‘Die Moldau’ by Jan Koetsier. The guest artist on this piece is UNL’s new Lecturer of Harp Mary Bircher. Mary has performed numerous times with the quintet on music by Rayner Brown and William Schmidt.

Open Mic - 9:00 pm | Free Barley Street Tavern Sign up at the bar after 7pm.

Waiting Room Music Quiz - 8:00 pm | Free The Waiting Room Lounge MarQ Manner and Eric Ziegler host the monthly Music Quiz night. Done in traditional pub quiz format, teams of four or less will compete for prizes and bragging rights.

MarQ Manner is a music writer for Shout! Weekly and Eric Ziegler knows everything. They will be throwing out forty questions in five categories. If you have been bragging for years you know all there is to know about music, here is your chance to prove it.

Movie Night - 8:00 pm | Free The Hive Lounge Pub Quiz - 9:00 pm | Free The Slowdown Omaha Gather up a team of 5 or less people and get ready to have your wits tested with 40 questions from the Quiz Masters.

TUESDAY SEPT 30

Phantogram - 8:00 pm | $20 Sokol Auditorium Can a band working in relative isolation craft music that resonates with listeners around the world? Can that band and its music evolve and connect with an ever-widening audience without sacrificing quality or compromising integrity?

Open Mic Night - 9:00 pm | Free Venue 51 Be ready to play 3 songs. This is an acoustic open mic as well as spoken word performances.

Fortunate Youth - 9:00 pm | $10 The Slowdown Fortunate Youth is a collaboration of South Bay reggae stand-outs. Rising from various bands, they’ve created a phenomenal 7-piece masterpiece bringing more fire to the stage than ever before. Combining rootsy vibes unique bass lines united with multiple harmonies, boisterous guitar solos, and heavy keys separates them from every other mainstream reggae band.

Zachery Lucky - 9:00 pm | O’Leaver’s Pub Lucky’s songs have lived lifetimes. They sit you down, tell you their stories and heighten your senses to the wonders of nature, love and self.

WEDNESDAY OCT 1

John Primer - 6:00 pm | $16 ADV / $20 DOS The Zoo Bar Chicago bluesman who was a sideman for Magiic Slim, but now has his own successful career fronting his own band. Also playing, Lil’ Ed. Ray’s Piano Party - 7:00 pm | Free Mr. Toad’s Pub Omaha EOTO - 9:00 pm | $16-$20 The Bourbon Theatre As electronic influences continue to penetrate the live rock, jazz, and jam ethos, one band consistently rises to the top, bringing together fans from across the musical spectrum. EOTO crisscrosses the country blowing out basement dives, packed theaters, and stages under the stars.

New Lungs - 9:30 pm | $5 O’Leaver’s Pub Formed in the fall of 2010, New Lungs is a three-piece unit from Omaha.

Comedy Open Mic - 10:00 pm | Free Barley Street Tavern

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he WE cable network disclosed in August that it had ordered a nine-episode adaptation of a British series, “Sex Box,” in which a couple enters a large opaque chamber on stage and has intercourse.

The pair, pre- and post-coitally, are clothed and seated before a panel of probably D-List celebrities, and will respond to questions and comment on their feelings and techniques (likely enduring praise and criticisms about their “work”). The series will debut sometime in 2015. (However, as the Daily Beast website pointed out, it might also be true that still, in 2015, even a split-second’s glimpse of a female nipple on any broadcast TV show would create a national scandal.)

The Entrepreneurial Spirit The “trendy” 25hours Hotel Bikini Berlin, located adjacent to the Berlin Zoo and offering some of the best views of the city from its floor-to-ceiling windows, has famously positioned the restrooms of its Monkey Bar in front of the windows, also, and those heeding nature’s call are clearly visible to gawkers. Guests are merely warned, by the Trip Advisor website and by the hotel itself (with the admonition, “Please be careful. Not only the monkeys are watching”).

-- London designer Gigi Barker recently unveiled the Skin chair (priced at the equivalent of about $2,500), made of leather but with a “pheromone-impregnated silicone base” that makes it feel (and smell, perhaps) like one is “lounging in the fleshy, comforting folds of a man’s belly.” The Skin was scheduled for exhibition this month at the London Design Festival.

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-- China’s insurance companies offer some of the world’s quirkiest policies, according to a September Reuters dispatch from Hong Kong. People’s Insurance Group, for example, will pay out in case a customer’s children display disappointingly “mischievous and destructive” habits. The Ancheng company offers a policy protecting a customer in case his mouth is burned eating “hotpot.”

Ping An Insurance Group (actually, the world’s second-largest by market value) has recently offered an “accidental pregnancy before honeymoon” policy, and is one of three companies that competed to sell couples compensation in case a marriage is disrupted by a “concubine.”

Unclear on the Concept New Orleans Juvenile Court Judge Yolanda King, already indicted for falsifying her home address in her 2013 campaign for office, was spotted by a TimesPicayune reporter on Aug. 20 filing three registration papers for the Nov. 4 election in which she swore (under oath) to three different addresses -- two of which appeared to be clearly erroneous.

Her lawyer told the newspaper that the judge, who was suspended by the Louisiana Supreme Court following her indictment, had merely “misinterpreted” the instructions.

-- As part of a nationwide distribution of surplus military equipment, 10 Texas school districts eagerly acquired a total of 64 M-16 rifles, 18 M-14s, 25 automatic pistols and magazines capable of holding 4,500 rounds of ammunition. District officials referred generally to the need to protect against school attacks such as the notorious incidents in Colorado and Connecticut, but a local Houston area police chief, seeking to reassure a nervous public, promised that the equipment would be used only by tactically trained officers and that, otherwise, would be locked in the department’s armory. A critic of the

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program told KHOU-TV that statistically, the typical active-shooter school situation lasts 12 minutes, hardly enough time to get to the armory and load up.

Fine Points of the Law In July, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Detroit, ruling on a judicial corruption complaint, managed to describe the actions of a Michigan state judge, “Hon.” Wade McCree, as “often reprehensible” -- in that he had been carrying on a romantic affair with a woman involved in a child custody case he was judging. (The woman, of course, received favorable rulings.) However, the Court of Appeals judges told the unlucky father that McCree cannot be sued because judges are generally immune from lawsuit.

-- Nick Olivas, 24, is a rare American. At age 14 (an age that, in Arizona, makes him legally incapable of consenting to sex), he fathered a daughter with a 20-year-old woman -- paternity that he learned of only two years ago. The mother filed against Olivas for child support that now totals $15,000. Olivas is rare in that most states exempt rape victims from child-support orders -- except that, since Olivas never made a police report of the incident, Arizona Child Support Services will not exempt him, and instead has obtained an order garnisheeing his wages at $380 a month.

-- According to legal scholars consulted by the Associated Press, it is conceivable that Nicole Diggs, of Yonkers, N.Y., even if convicted of negligent homicide in the upcoming trial in the death of her severely disabled 8-year-old daughter, could nevertheless inherit the remains of the child’s $2 million trust fund originally established for her care. Evidence is strong that Diggs had neglected the child’s hygiene and diet for stretches at a time and overtrusted her lesscaring new husband with the girl’s well-being, but New York law uniquely still allows, in principle, a convicted mother to inherit from the child as long as she did not “intentionally” harm her.

Least Competent Criminals (1) Clearwater, Florida, police pulled over a “suspicious” car on July 24 and ultimately arrested the driver and his passenger. The back seat was loaded with potted plants -- in fact, potted pot plants (i.e., marijuana), so crowded that the leaves and branches of some plants were sticking out of the car’s windows.

(2) Daniel Warn, 28, was arrested in July in Costa Mesa, California, and charged with the burglary of an El Pollo Loco restaurant -- a caper that was captured on surveillance video.

Police were notified later that day when Warn -- wearing the same distinctive hat and bright green shirt worn by the burglar -- came to the restaurant to order a meal.

Of Course!

-Jonathan Thomas, 50, was charged with DUI and disorderly conduct in Washington Township, Indiana, in August after driving through two backyards one Friday evening and getting his vehicle stuck in the second. Police reported that Thomas “show(ed) his teeth to officers” and later “growled” at hospital security staff. Thomas’ day job is director of the Porter County Animal Shelter.

-- Just Like the Script: (1) In August, a Bradenton, Florida, deputy sheriff was forced to duplicate a classic scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” when he was advanced upon by a menacing-looking, samurai-sword-swinging, 31-year-old man.

The deputy, perhaps as nonplussed as Indiana Jones was, shot him dead. (2) Rule No. 9: The 15-year-old granddaughter of Cliven Bundy (the Nevada rancher whose dispute with the federal government caused a notorious standoff in March) told Las Vegas’ KSNVTV that her dad (Bundy’s son) was withdrawing her from her high school because officials would not allow her to carry a knife on campus. She said her dad has taught his kids (just like “NCIS’s” Leroy Jethro Gibbs) to “always” carry a knife. ,

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ilarious!” say the trailers! “Really funny!” says the poster. “You are all sick people!” says me.

Yes, in parts, The Skeleton Twins is amusing. This is because stars Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig are incapable of being unfunny, especially when left alone together. But this is a movie that begins and ends with suicide attempts, contains an ongoing implosion of a marriage and explores whether one relationship counted as a sexual awakening or child molestation.

That doth not a laugh-riot make.

Hader stars as Milo, a failed actor who slashes his wrists, presumably after his boyfriend left him. Wiig is Maggie, Milo’s estranged sister who was contemplating a fistful of pills when the hospital called about Milo’s suicide attempt. The two reconnect for the first time in ages, with Maggie taking Milo back to New York to live with her and her husband, Lance (Luke Wilson).

Lance is a sweet, dopey everyman McAmerican; he’s the kind of guy who calls everybody “buddy” or “dude”

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and has enough fist bumps to go around. Maggie loves Lance. And yet, Maggie sleeps around on him, most recently with a scuba instructor. Meanwhile, Milo attempts to reconnect with the first man he slept with, Rich (Ty Burrell). The only problem being that Rich was Milo’s English teacher, and Milo was just 15, when they had relations. Oh, and Rich is closeted and has a son. Basically, decades after their father took his own life, Maggie and Milo are both really bad at being human beings.

Writer Mark Heyman and writer/director Craig Johnson lucked out. Wiig and Hader, desperate to show their range, elevate what is basically Indie Dramedy 101. Whimsical dancing to a nostalgic song? Check. Heartfelt “what’s the meaning of life” conversations in an unusual location (here, high on laughing gas in a dental office)? Check. On the surface, this is the unneeded spawn of Garden State and Little Miss Sunshine. Enter Wiig and Hader.

Once more proving that comedy is harder than drama, the former “SNL” costars effortlessly nail nu-

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anced and fully realized characters. Hader neither over nor underplays Milo’s sexuality, clearly understanding its central role in his character’s identity and struggles. He is subtle in a way his time on a latenight variety show could not have suggested. Wiig, who everyone assumed had chops, shows them off here. With one repeated word inside a car, she perfectly captures the frustration of a woman who has become the worst version of herself.

It’s understandable why the comedy angle is being thrust forward in the film’s marketing, what with the reputations of the leads. The truth is, The Skeleton Twins uses humor only as respite from a heavy thematic reliance on suicide, which is a decidedly less than funny subject. Although wobbly in its construction, a character-centric dramedy with Wiig and Hader as said characters was never going to be anything other than pretty doggone good. , GRADE = B

The Trip to Italy First-Run

Dir. Michael Winterbottom.

Through Thursday, October 2

Dir. Craig Johnson.

Starts Friday, September 26

The bickering duo from THE TRIP is back! There will be impressions.

SNL alums Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader star as troubled twins reunited after 10 years.

Coming Soon

Abuse of Weakness First-Run Dir. Catherine Breillat.

Starts Friday, September 26

An exploration of power and sex inspired by the director’s true-life experiences.

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Gone Girl First-Run (R) Love is Strange First-Run (R) 20,000 Days on Earth First-Run 2014 Local Filmmakers Showcase

n Every time someone uses film as a medium to push towards real social change, I feel all fluttery in my tummy; so it should come as no surprise how jacked I am for The Gender Reel Film Festival. The touring festival features films that focus on gender and transgender issues and will be at the Joslyn Art Museum Oct. 19 from 1:308 pm. How bad-ass and cool is a festival with the following categories: Trans Woman/Feminine, Trans Men/Masculine, Gender Nonconforming/Queer, LGBT and Youth/Family. Head to genderreelfest.com for full breakdowns of the films being screened and to order/request tickets. Festivals like this give my cold, nearly dead, cynical heart an excuse to beat a bit. n Hear ye, hear ye! You can, and people do, make movies in noncoastal areas! Proof: Film Streams’ Ruth Sokolof Theater just announced the selections for the fifth annual Local Filmmakers Showcase, curated by some fine folks over at the Omaha World-Herald. Starting Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m., you can see the 12 chosen short films that were combined into one 123-minute block. The selections include documentaries about a local inventor, music videos for Orenda Fink and The Faint and narratives that explore a struggling artist and a drunk. Wait; let me check on that last part… Yep, that’s the narrative plot and not just my weekend plans. For more information about tickets and show times, head to filmstreams.org n If you haven’t seen the FX TV show, “Fargo,” well that’s just a real shame now. A real shame.

So you’re just gonna have to trust me that the fella who wrote that, Noah Hawley, did a real good job on it. A real good job. And now he’s gettin’ to work on one of them monster movies from Universal. Yeah, it’s true. He may be writin’ about the Wolfman or the Creature from the Black Lagoon! We don’t know yet. All we know is that it’s gonna be good. Yeah, sure, you betcha.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 11 ~ 2-10 P.M. FEATURING

RETAIL TOUR ~ SECOND SATURDAY ART WALK AND

11TH STREET MUSIC FESTIVAL SPAGHETTI WORKS, LA BUVETTE AND UPSTREAM BREWING COMPANY

Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement toward healthy, affordable, and sustainable food.

Think of it as an Earth Day for food!

Food Day’s goals are to raise awareness about food issues among broader public, strengthen and unify the food movement, and improve our nation’s food policies.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

O L D M A R K E T FA R M E R ’ S M A R K E T

FOOD DAY PRIORITIES: n Promote safer, healthier diets n Support sustainable and organic farms n Reduce hunger n Reform factory farms to protect the environment & animals n Support fair working conditions for food and farm workers