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Dropping Acid: Benefits of an Alkaline Diet

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ack in 1994, when the closest thing most people in Omaha knew about natural health was vitamin C, I arrived in Omaha after 20 years in Los Angeles. Of course, LA had been a hotbed of holistic remedies and protocols since at least the ’60s and before. But I was delighted to find that Omaha hosted an active, though small, community of folks who knew a lot about natural healing and the way the body really works.

One of my first weekends here, I saw a flyer at No Name Nutrition promoting a lecture by Dr. Robert Young, visiting from California. I attended the lecture that Friday night at the former Howard Johnson’s on 72nd. I walked in late and knew I was in the right place when the first words I heard from Young were, “First, we have to realize that bacteria, germs, are not the true cause of disease.”

Young had just published Sick and Tired?, his epic book on the need for proper nutrition in adjusting the inner terrain of the human body.

Among other things, Young took issue with the establishment idea of the germ theory as the cause of disease. The underlying cause of disease, Young maintained, was the poor maintenance of the inner terrain that comprises the human body.

Many of us now realize that only 10 percent of the human body consists of human cells. The vast majority of cells in the human enclave, at least 90 percent, is made of bacteria, yeast, fungi and various single- and multi-celled hitchhikers living amiably, for the most part, in the happy confines of the housing we provide for them. That habitat we provide is described by Young as the “inner terrain.”

Body as Environment Accepting that the body is simply background for a population of influential guests, it becomes clear that keeping the environment clean and suitable for the health of those guests should be a priority. Like any environment, if the body becomes polluted or toxic, the inhabitants suffer and undergo change.

Like most things in the universe, the human body wants to maintain equilibrium. One of those factors is the pH balance of acid versus alkaline. The pH scale runs from zero to 14, with lower numbers signifying acidic and higher ones alkaline. The overall body system wants to balance somewhere in the middle, a little over seven. Blood tends to lean just a touch to the al-

kaline side at about 7.4. If it varies even slightly from that, we can be in big trouble. What we eat and how we live affects that pH balance and that has significant effects on the 90 percent of the cells that are our guests.

An unruly, sick and compromised population in our body can wreak the same kind of damage an unruly and compromised population can exact on a city, country or planet.

Letting the body creep toward either acidic or alkaline isn’t a good thing. The acidic side of the spectrum is where pathogens and disease seem to thrive. Disruption happens on a cellular level. Regardless of any healing modality employed to combat a health issue, it will do better when the inner terrain is in the slightly alkaline range of 7.4. Usually, when disease is present, we find the body has moved into the acidic range. So, keeping the body balanced away from acid pH is something to heed.

You salty dog. We all know that eating right and getting enough exercise will help you stay healthy. But why does that seem to work? Well, pH stands for “potential Hydrogen” and the pH scale measures the presence of hydrogen ions. In an acidic environment, there is a paucity of oxygen. In an alkaline system, there is an abundance of oxygen. This explains a little bit about why a decent diet and adequate exercise are good for health. Certain foods increase acid in the body and others promote alkalinity. And exercise helps oxygenate the blood and tissues. If we want to keep the body in the 7.4 pH range overall, eating alkalizing foods and getting enough oxygen, sometimes by simply breathing correctly, is advantageous.

(Yes, there is a wrong and right way to breathe!)

It’s likely most Americans live in the acid end of the spectrum for several reasons. Prescription drugs and artificial sweeteners devastate acid/alkaline balance.

Emotional distress, stress, animal-based diet and too few alkaline-producing veggies and fruits in the diet are primary factors. Eating the right fruits and vegetables at the right time has influence. For example, a ripe banana is better for the body than an unripe one.

So if you like ‘em with that slight tinge of green or hate ’em when they get those brown spots, you may want to examine that habit. Generally speaking, acid-forming foods are any and all animal protein, including dairy.

Alkalizing foods are non-animal such as nuts, green veggies, fruits, spices, legumes.

So, drop acid, everyone. Keeping the body away from acidosis is a sure way to improve health.

Be well. ,

VISIONS FROM FIVE MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE • OCTOBER 16, 2014 • Halloween will soon see the development of the "pop up haunted house," consisting of any unused space turned into a holiday attraction by inventive locals or businesspeople.

Some of them will be virtual, explored via smart phone apps that document

invented but terrifying events that were supposed to have taken place at the location. Others will be similar to the classic haunted house, with costumes and decorations, but placed anywhere that can be made spooky and people can walk through.

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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HOME IS WHERE THE HAVARTI IS: WISCONSIN] INVADES PAPILLION

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isconsin is cold. Just the name of the state conjures images of snow, ice fishing and other cold stuff. And perhaps due to this extreme temperature, the peåople of Wisconsin know how to be warm. Their homes are cozy and you will instantly be offered a blanket and the story of how the owner’s favorite aunt knitted it for the arrival of a grandnephew.

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Wisconsinites always have a story Stepping into the charming NorthWoods Cheese Haus in Papillion is very similar to stepping into your aunt’s home. I was almost surprised not to find a fat cat and a giant over-stuffed couch on which to sit while chatting with the owners, sisters Diana Rayment and Darleene Evitch.

The interior is composed of wood brought in from Wisconsin, with shelves of oils, fresh pretzels, and a family photo above the back table.

There is a very distinct, pleasant (and strong) aroma of meats and cheese.

Darleene explains that this is entirely thanks to their 48 hour turnaround on their product. They close every Monday and Tuesday to make sure that product moves from their distributors to their shelves as fast as possible. You’ll never find processed ‘cheese product’ in their shop. Every item has been tasted and chosen by a member of the family over years of travel and through the development of some very discerning palates.

The displays boast everything a cheese lover could want, from a strong limburger to a kitschycute husker helmet cheese cutout. The cutouts are specially made for the shop and would look perfect on a game day tray – which, incidentally, they immediately offer to help prepare. They have worked hard to become experts in the pairing of their fresh sausages, cheeses, crackers, and pretzels and can help with presentation as well as flavor combinations.

Their wild game sausages are a bit outside of my expertise, and so I leave the elk and venison in their capable hands.

crumbs ■ LAST CHANCE FOR FAMERS MARKET Whether you want to head to the Old Market on Saturday or Aksarben on Sunday (or both!) this is the last weekend to enjoy the Omaha Famers Market this year. When next we see them, we will have endured yet another ridiculously cold winter, so go this weekend while you still can. http://omahafarmersmarket.com/ ■ ALTON BROWN LIVE “Alton Brown Live! The Inevitable Edible Tour” comes to the Orpheum on Thursday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m. A frequent fixture to a variety of food-centered shows on TV, Brown’s show here in Omaha will include food experimentation, comedy and plenty of other entertainment, both food and non-food related. Ticket prices start at just under $50. www.ticketomaha.com ■ HOSPITALITY HALL OF FAME Six new people will be inducted into the Omaha Hospitality Hall of Fame on Sunday, Oct. 19, at a reception at the Swanson Confer-

Samples galore Diana hands me a bite of pleasantly sharp cheddar as we discuss their many trips up north to develop relationships with their suppliers. She tells me about Joe Widmer, a 3rd generation artisan who specializes in 10 year and old world brick cheddars. He has so finely honed his craft that he competes in Europe.

I am offered a piece of chocolate cheese as a young man behind the counter exclaims “You’re going to love it!”

The cheese is creamy, a bit tangy, and delicately sweet with a crunch of walnut. He was not at all incorrect, and is then introduced as a nephew and one of the many members of the family whom I can expect to see helping out at the family run and cared-for establishment.

“This isn’t our livelihood,” Diana explains. “It’s simply what we love and we want to share the things that make us happy.”

A happy cheesy mouth The samples they have been feeding me have been more than enough for them to accomplish this goal, and my mouth is utterly content with the flavor of the roasted pepper cheese whip I was just served on a crunchy, lightly salted pretzel. I am shown a table of ‘squeaky cheese curds’, a staple of the Northwoods, and it’s all I can do to smile at the thought of my Wisconsin-born boyfriend refusing to eat a local cheese curd, as it wasn’t “squeaky” enough. I am excited to let these charming women prepare a gift basket for him this holiday season!

(Don’t tell him!)

They are just a family, hoping to be part of your family. Stop in and say hi to your new favorite aunts. You’re always welcome into this extension of their home for a bite to eat, and you might just find that it’s exactly what you needed to warm up a little. , Northwoods Cheese Haus, 310 N. Washington in Papillion (402) 934-7768. Facebook: northwoodscheesehaus ence Center. Inductees include Gayle Carstens, Restaurants Inc.; Dino Losole, Lo Sole Mio Ristorante Italiano; Adi Pour, Douglas County Health Department; Milton Yin, Hiro, Hiro 88 and Imperial Palace; Anthony Abbott, French Café; and Michael Harrison, French Café. Tickets cost around $75 and are available through the Omaha Restaurant Association. www.dineoutomaha.com ■ RECENT OPENINGS Spin! Neopolitan Pizza is now open in Papillion at Midland Place. They tout their menu as featuring gourmet food at non-gourmet prices. Opening in the first week of November is Potbelly Sandwich Shop, which will be located at the North Park Shopping Center at 120th and Blondo. This franchise eatery offers sandwiches and more, and hope to become famous in the Omaha area for their milkshakes.

— 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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hen Jill Anderson made Bram Stoker’s dark transmutation novel Dracula the theme for the 2014 Joslyn Castle Literary Festival she never imagined her own life would be marked by fear-inducing, life-altering transformation.

In February the founder-artistic director of the annual festival, now in its fourth year, suffered the sudden onset of debilitating ailments initially attributed to a stroke. After rounds of invasive testing the stroke idea was laid to rest. Instead, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, an inflammatory disease affecting the nerve cells of the brain and spinal chord. As the Omaha singer-actress has shared via Facebook posts, she’s dealt with endless doctor visits and frequent bouts of fatigue yet maintained a busy professional schedule. Even during the worst of it, plagued by nausea, double vision and vertigo, she fulfilled many performing obligations. She even made an out-state tour – with the help of friends and family.

“My mom literally went on tour with me, stayed in the hotels, made sure I got fed, It’s weird at age 47 to be like the invalid and having your mom as your caretaker,” she says.

Her indefatigable spirit’s hardly wavered, at least not on social media sites, where her humor shines through. In one post she compared her tour experience to Weekend at Bernie’s because she was nearly dragged from place to place like the corpse of that film comedy, only to be propped up at the mic to perform.

The emergence of her disease is still so new that she’s far from knowing yet what her long-term prognosis is.

“It hits everybody differently, there’s no way to predict how it’s going to affect you. One person might end up in a wheelchair and somebody else – no issues, no problems, or very little. So you have to figure out how quickly and aggressively your case is progressing and there’s no way to know that other than through observation over a number of years.

“I’ve heard stories from a handful of people about someone in their family who has MS and is in dire condition. Those have been the days that have been the hardest for me – hearing about the MS stories that are not triumphant and hopeful.

You can’t have a chronic degenerative disease and not have the thought occur to you – What if I get hit really hard at some point in my life and there’s no one around to help me? I’ve had blue days with those kind of thoughts.”

Despite personal challenges, this trouper made sure the literary festival, whose proceeds benefit the Joslyn Castle Trust, was never in doubt. Much like her treatment of past subjects the Bronte sisters, Oscar Wilde and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Shadows at the Castle: Bram Stoker’s Dark Vision is a multifaceted event informed by her curiosity and wit. With the Durham Museum, the University of Nebraska at Omaha and other collaborators, the fest explores its theme through cinema, lecture, drama, dance and music.

“Every new project I do is a whole new world of discovery, especially the literary festival because it

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requires a lot of research,” she says. “I love to have an excuse to research my butt off. One of the neatest things about what the festival has become is this sort of melting pot of artists and scholars. Visual art is always involved. Drama is always a centerpiece.”

“There’s really no group in town doing exactly this,” she says. Indeed, the downtown Omaha Lit Fest has a contemporary focus. In theater circles she says “Brigit St. Brigit certainly does a great job with the classics, but they’re doing the drama aspect without exploding that out into all these other facets.” What distinguishes her event, she says, is its examination of “what inspired these much loved classic stories that still fire people’s imaginations.”

That niche, she adds, has found “a passionate audience and we want to find more people who get it and dig it and are looking for a thought-provoking, intellectually-stimulating, interactive, exploratory approach to this literature.”

Then there’s the singular setting of the Scottish Baronial castle at 3902 Davenport Street. Built in 1903, the imposing four-story structure is the closest thing to a Count Dracula lair as you’ll find in the metro.

“The castle is gorgeous. An incredible, historic venue. It has a built-in ambience. So it’s really like a perfect marriage between this great literature from past periods and that evocative building.”

Anderson says as she filled out the Stoker festival with programming everything she needed fell into place but one element: authentic Transylvanian folk art from the 19th century.

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“It’s been the festival of ultimate syncronicity because when I most need something it magically materializes. One thing I wanted for sure was an exhibit of Transylvanian folk art and lore because it informs a lot of things in Dracula. Stoker was a great consumer and enthusiast of folk lore, he was constantly studying it and speaking to people who knew about it and taking in facts and information. I also wanted to get some actual artifacts – a traditional Transylvanian costume from a hundred years ago.

Searches on eBay only turned up things she couldn’t afford.

“I was beginning to despair and then a friend and I were walking around in the Brass Armadillo antiques store, where I interacted intermittently with a shop clerk with a strange and unidentifiable accent.

My friend and I found this kitsch cross but I said, ‘It will never work for Dracula,’ and the clerk said, ‘I am related to him.’ My friend said, ‘Van Helsing?’

‘No.’ With a real live relation to Dracula or more accurately to the inspiration for the vampire legend, Vlad the Imapler, standing next to her, she did what any red-blooded girl would do.

“I leaped on him,” she says. The object of her enthusiasm, George Mihai, is not only a Transylvania native but a Romanian cultural studies expert with a personal collection of period artifacts from his home country, including many from his family.

“What are the chances?” asks Anderson, whose own powers of seduction or persuasion has Mihai loaning artifacts for display and delivering a lecture.

Where does a popular entertainer like Anderson fit into all of this?

“I would never be pretentious enough to say I bring any level of academia to this programming. I like to think I bring the juice to it.”

For 2014 she sought “something classic, completely indelible, that everyone knows and is irresistibly popular and sexy to the American public.” With fellow creatives she’s concocted an eclectic look at Dracula. The schedule: October 17 Movie Night, 7 p.m.

Nosferatu on the Green

F.W. Murnau’s silent film classic Nosferatu gets projected outdoors against the castle’s north facade.

Audience members can throw down blankets on the lawn. Tiki torches and fire pits add to the mood. A UNO scholar comments on Dracula’s rich screen and stage history. An American Red Cross blood drive precedes the event with a bloodmobile taking donors from 2 to 7 p.m.. “Isn’t that fun?” Anderson says.

October 23 through November 1 Exhibit, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily Durham Museum at the Castle: Vampires and Victorians

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tion of Tranyslvania native George Mihai, respectively. Victorian funerary customs and the rise of female emancipation are sub-themes in Dracula.

Mihai’s family artifacts go back many generations.

October 23-26 and 29-30 Drama Duet, 7 p.m.

Kirk Koczanowkski delivers a one-man performance of Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker.

Anderson, who’s directing, says, “This brilliant actor played our Oscar Wilde two years ago and just was dazzling. He’s young but sort of timeless and ageless.

He’s transmutable, He can shape shift into anything you want him to be.”

Paired with that show is a staged reading of The Jewel of Seven Stars, a Stoker story about an attempt to reanimate an Egyptian mummy. Omaha theater artist Laura Leininger wrote the adaptation.

The two shows take place in the castle’s atmospheric attic full of turrets, nooks and crannies.

October 27-28 Double Lecture, 6 p.m.

The Man Behind the Monster and Life and Afterlife in Romanian Mythology

Stoker expert BJ Buchelt (UNO) speaks about the author’s life before the iconic novel. Stoker was bedridden as a child. He managed the Lyceum Theatre in London, where he was also personal assistant to England’s preeminent theater personality, Henry Irving. His wide travels in Eastern Europe and his studies of its folk tales prepared him to write Dracula.

Transylvania native and Romanian cultural studies expert George Mihai of Omaha shares what Anderson describes as “absolutely fascinating stories” about Vlad the Impaler, a historical figure whose reign of terror helped inspire vampire mythology, and about that area’s deeply rooted and peristent native superstitions.

October 31 Vampyre Ball, 7 p.m.

This “big blowout party on Halloween night will feature tarot readers, palm readers, fire spinner dancers, performers enacting vampiress bride scenes, live readings by actors and a costume contest. Plus, lots of food, drink, music and revelry.

November 1 Music of the Unknown, 7 p.m.

Hal France conducts a chamber ensemble of vocalists Anderson, Sam Swerczek and Terry Hodgesand and cellist David Downing performing period folk, operatic and popular stage music that deals with the supernatural.

Anderson, a much beloved and versatile artist equally adept at performing cabaret, Irish music, Shakespeare, Sondheim, high drama and broad comedy, makes sure music is always a part of the festival. The power of music has taken on new import for her.

“My ability to perform music, to use music to soothe and help other people is an incredible thing for me. I’ve gone to care facilities and sung from bedside to bedside for people and it does have an imme-

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diate affect on people. I’ve gotten thank you letters from people who’ve seen me in a cabaret show or some musical production saying they brought their father to the show and they hadn’t seen him smile since his wife died. That’s the letter you save for a lifetime. Music did that. Live performance did that.”

Then there are the unexpected, unscripted moments when music’s transformative power takes hold. In a September 9 post she wrote about one such moment at the Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis, where she spent a couple weeks undergoing tests.

“On the lowest level of the big open atrium there is a grand piano. It is open to anyone who feels inclined to tickle the ivories. Most days from 10 to Noon a seasoned old pro of a piano player, a woman who can play pretty much any request, sits at the piano and accompanies anyone who wants to stand up and sing…Yesterday, a barrel-chested surgeon in full scrubs walked up to me with his big baritone booming and, taking me by both hands, sang ‘Climb Every Mountain’ straight to my face.”

“It was totally surprising and wonderful,” Anderson says now in reflection. Never too shy to to break into song herself, at various times she did Mayo solos of “Stardust,” “Amazing Grace,” “Softly and Tenderly” and “How Great Thou Art,” no doubt moving onlookers with her performances. Having the shoe on the other foot was an eye-opener for her.

She posted: “Music is and always has been the great healer. I’ve usually been on the providing side

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of that equation. It’s interesting to be on the receiving end as well.”

The solace of music is always available to her. Her health problems surfaced in the middle of planning the literary festival, which complicated things but also allowed her to lose herself and her woes in the work. She says organizing the event is an “all-consuming feat” she values now more than ever.

“It’s easy to feel like your identity is becoming the disease and I don’t want that to be the case. It’s great to have something like the literary festival to pour my creative passion and energy into. It’s something that pumps me up and keeps me moving forward.”

She’s having fun, too, going goth, fangs and all, in promos.

The public knows her best as a performer but she also directs and she’s looking forward to helming Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker at the fest.

“This Dracula I’m directing is really going to be outside-the-box. It’s a one-man Dracula with a single actor who morphs from one character to another, so that requires tremendous theatrical invention to come up with how do we make that happen, how do we make it clear when you go from one character to another.”

Directing is something she expects to do more of.

“I’ve done more performing than directing but I’ve been directing for years and now I’m feeling I really want to steer my ship in the direction of directing more,” says Anderson, who concedes dealing

with stamina and fatigue issues is part of that deliberation going forward.

She owns long associations with the Blue Barn Theatre, the Omaha Community Playhouse and the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival. She and Tim Siragusa had Bad Rep Productions together. She’s left Omaha to make a living doing cabaret and regional theater in places like New York City and Los Angeles, but she’s always returned home.

She’s grateful for the outpouring of care she’s received here in the wake of her diagnosis from extended family and friends. She says the “incredible love and loyalty” she’s received has meant a lot to her as she’s navigated this “scary stuff.”

She’s grateful to for the generosity others have shown. Fellow performers staged a May benefit that paid her way to the Mayo Clinic.

“This big beautiful event went off without a hitch.

There was so much heart in all of it – it was overwhelming. It’s almost impossible to describe what it feels like when your friends step in and just support you.”

She was also gifted with a long dreamed of trip to her ancestral homeland of Ireland.

These experiences, she says, have given her “new insight” into her many blessings and a new appreciation for life.

“I think people are never brought closer to the essence of who they are than when they’re facing scary illness. When you’re sick, the bullshit goes away, you see things very clearly for what they are and in a way you’re hypersensitized. It brings you face-to-face with a lot of truths.

As an actress, Anderson’s called to be in the moment but she says she has just as much trouble achieving that state as most of us do.

“Oh God it’s hard to do. I think people’s ambition and drive put their head down the line instead of right here, right now.”

There’s nothing like a devastating health scare to get you to slow down, be still and surrender to the here and now “All the weird stuff that’s happened medically has really snapped me into the moment, to being able to be fully and deeply touched by experience. To have sensual and delicious moments I’m actually enjoying and am involved in. I wasn’t able to do that before, not really. My head was always somewhere else. It was very hard to slow down and focus in before.”

In an April 5 post she shared, “Here are the things I noticed today: Spring is here. The magnolia tree outside my parents’ house is in glorious blushing bloom. Sprinklers were sending glistening droplets into the air. Lilac buds were packed and purple on the bush in my south garden. The air had a balmy feel. My sweet potato tasted incredible…I sang my guts out at a rehearsal for a gig and loved the feeling of making musical sounds.”

That ability to be in the moment, she says, “is the best thing that’s come out of it (her health crisis).”

It’s why when people ask how she’s doing she can honestly say, “I’m taking it one day at a time.” , For prices and tickets, call 402-595-2199 or visit www. joslyncastle.com. Read more of Leo Adam Biga’s work at leoadambiga.wordpress.com.

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TWO-PERSON PHOTO EXHIBIT AT GARDEN OF THE ZODIAC GALLERY A STUDY IN CONTRAST

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here is something about a two-person art exhibit that raises certain expectations. That is, aside from quality, interesting, maybe even innovative work from each. And that “thing” is expecting the two artists to have something in common. Otherwise, it’s just two separate solo shows doing their best to perhaps fill a space too large for either.

At first glance the latter seems to be the case for the Moving Gallery’s current exhibit in the Garden of the Zodiac, which continues through Nov. 22. Two apparently disparate artists from Italy, Roberto Kusterle and Fulvio De Pellegrin, and two separate titles: Kusterle’s The Marks of Metembiosi and De Pellegrin’s Singular Thinking. Other than their origin or shared medium of photography, what could these wildly different artists have in common?

Given the huge disparity in the genre, imagery and palette of each—Kusterle’s startling black and white hybrid-

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ized figures and De Pellegrin’s colorful, exotic scenarios— one might accurately surmise that what these two share is a love of fantasy and the fantastic. That, and the attempt to raise expectations of the medium itself, particularly in an era devoted to pop cultural selfies and a relentless deluge of Reality TV. In either case, both photo artists express dissatisfaction with photography as mere documentation or illustration.

De Pellegrin exhibits a theatrical and often satirical point of view by substituting animals for humans in extraordinary settings and circumstances. His ironic, quirky narratives resemble circus posters and movie stills, the tone shifting from Disney to Tim Burton. On the other hand, and in the same room at the Old Market Passageway gallery, Kusterle’s nude male and female figures have evolved or devolved into veritable statues or mannequins, human, animal and vegetable.

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The human/mineral composite Kusterle saved for another show recently at Modern Arts Midtown called aptly, Stone Marks. Though the work at MAM featured portraiture, and thus more audience engaging, in either case, his enigmatic, some may add bizarre, transformations benefit from an aesthetic both photographic and sculptural.

Placing these two shows in the same space in the Zodiac gives the viewer the impression of entering a carnival sideshow or video arcade, and a wax museum of the macabre.

De Pellegrin’s images include swimming polar bears and baby toys (“Mother”), mice and cheese graters, a deer and antelope at play at the foot of a decaying throne of an easy chair (“Ancestral Throne”), tubas and honking geese in a tiled bathroom (“We dancing, we singing”) and a satisfied pig in a pink marble bathroom (“The Bread, the Love, the Dreamer”), to mention just a few of his entertaining, but at times, bewildering juxtapositions.

n Currently running through Nov. 2 at the Shelterbelt Theatre, Mickey & Sage by Sara Farrington deals with the interaction of two children (played by adults Greg Harries and Kaitlin Maher) on their daily afternoon playdate. As each of their parents “hangout” with each other, the kids discuss life, death, the universe, and, most importantly, they spy on the neighbors.

The play made its way the Shelterbelt after being featured at the Great Plains Theatre Conference a few years back.

The show’s director, Ben Beck, was immediately drawn to Farrington’s script. “It is written with a wonderful honesty and simplicity,” he said.

“The important thing was to embrace that. It is important that the actors never seem cutesy or cheesy. You perform these roles the same way you would deal with a child. You should never talk down to a child. You should never demean them.

That’s how you approach these characters.”

“It also helps to do what we did and go to my apartment and have a party in which we ate junk food and drew in coloring books and watched The Princess Bride,” he added.

Beck stayed in contact with Farrington throughout the process saying, “I have been talking to Sarah for the past four months via late-night phone calls, emails, and texts. I would discuss the script with her and we would bounce ideas off of one another. She is a wonderful, kind person and was exceedingly helpful during production.

My only complaint is that she could only be in town for a day and a half. It was like meeting a penpal for the first time.”

Beck noted that each new show he works on presents unique and exciting challenges from the last one. A good comparison would be the difference in directing Mickey & Sage as opposed to Crash! Boom! Pow!, the show he co-wrote with Molly Welsh.

“Crash! Boom! Pow! was my own script and I knew it inside and out. With Mickey & Sage, I am directing another person’s work. Because of that, you have to closely explore the script and find the best way to tell the story. It also helps if it’s a story you want to tell, which this is.”

Mickey & Sage by Sara Farrington is running now through Nov. 2 at the Shelterbelt Theatre on 33rd and California. For more information on the show, visit www.shelterbelt.org — William Grennan Cold Cream looks at theater in the metro area. Email information to coldcream@thereader.com

These are among his more frivolous, playful tableau.

But there are more serious set pieces as well: A battle at Waterloo reenactment (“Lorsque le banquette ce pour mi”), an Edgar Allen Poe-like figure—perhaps the intended poet himself—interrupted while reading in bed by a flock of ravens, real and imagined (“Nevermore”).

Most telling and likely, De Pellegrin’s most successful and biting satire in the show—this time curiously sans an animal, literally that is—is a supine cleric at the feet of his bishop, while a young altar boy takes careful aim at

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y continued from page 10 his derriere with the proverbial sling shot (“Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus”). Revenge, anyone?

Meanwhile, Kusterle’s imagery is dominated by three major motifs: strange disfigures with eyes closed that have not only morphed into sculpture (one), but whose etched and tattooed surface have either begun to decay exposing veins and tendons more resembling tendrils and vines (two) or have merged with some form of the animal kingdom (three) including foxes, falcons, porcupines, rams, ferrets, even eggs. Unlike Kusterle’s more regal, meditative “statues” in his series Stone Marks, his objects here are more deliberately conceptual and isolated from the viewer despite a nearly hypnotic fascination with two things: their disfigurement and Kusterle’s undeniable wizardry with technique and style.

The question remains: how did he create these hybrids of subject matter and mediums and why? The first part is fairly “simple.” True to his past work, the stage is first set with a painstaking process of costume—or lack thereof— makeup, set design and posing. But in his two most current series, as with De Pellegrin’s work, once the image is shot, it undergoes considerable digital manipulation for meaning and visual effect, something else the two artists have in common. This should be obvious. What is not is Kusterle’s intent other than process experimentation.

The answer may be with the show’s title. A common definition of “metembiosi” or metabiosis is a “condition in which the growth and metabolism of one organism alter the environment to allow the growth of another organism.” Or, more simply, “the parasitic dependence of the existence of one organism on that of another.” Rather than explain the meaning of Kusterle’s work, the literal definition only heightens the conjecture.

Because the human figures all have their eyes closed and seem to have turned to stone while the animals appear to be alive, wide-eyed and alert, one may assume who is the parasite. And if so, the natural order of things that humankind “enjoy” a symbiotic relationship with its environment has devolved into dominance rather than co-dependency. It appears that in

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Kusterle’s world the survival of the species is doomed, but don’t they look fantastic, amazing even, as they exit in the transformation?

This is a rather grim interpretation, if indeed that is what the artist intends, but as in the past, neither he nor De Pellegrin are didactic. In fact, Kusterle has a history with both the Moving Gallery and MAM of maintaining a balance between the forces of life and death and the struggle to survive either in the face of absurdity with a sense of grace, dignity and beauty.

This was particularly true with his series of mythical narratives, Without Time and Place (2011) that featured ordinary man behaving heroically, existentially, against impossible odds and forces, natural and supernatural.

This was a remarkable series, even more extraordinary as it eschewed digital manipulation. De Pellegrin too made an auspicious entry in the Metro art scene with his own set of images, a dark perspective of Sicilian catacombs that appeared in the Moving Gallery’s stunning three-part exhibit, Time, Death and Beauty in 2010.

Over time then, both artists have one last thing in common. Each has distanced or detached himself from the viewer with work that is less expressionistic or personal. De Pellegrin’s tone has become light, nearly undermined by, even in the more serious pieces, its clever personification of animals, which risk lessening the piece’s impact. One misses the darker, edgier point of view he has exhibited before. Kusterle has maintained his avant-garde technique, but the work has become more like studies that elicit curiosity or admiration rather than an identification. Still, with The Mark of the Metembiosi, the artist continues his experimental and imaginative mastery of his medium. Both Singular Thinking and The Mark of the Metembiosi demonstrate their ability in this two-person show to grab one’s attention, but how long they hold it remains to be seen. , Singular Thinking and The Mark of the Metembiosi continue through Nov. 22 at the Garden of the Zodiac, 1042 Howard St. in the Old Market Passageway. For details and hours, contact 402-517-8719 or vmercer3@cox.net.

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In 2006 singer-songwriter Nils Edenloff, percussionist Paul Banwatt, and multi-instrumentalist Amy Cole came together to release their debut self-titled EP as The Rural Alberta Advantage. The ensuing years have brought two full-length albums (2008’s Hometowns and 2011’s Departing), widespread critical praise (SPIN, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NPR, among others), two Juno Award nominations (Best New Group, Video of the Year), the Friday, Oct. 17 Polaris Music Prize Long List, and a BELLATOR MMA 129 hard earned reputation as one Mid-America Center of the most impressive live 1 Arena Way bands you’ll ever see. It was 6 p.m., $20-$80 through all of this that www.bellator.com The RAA’s latest album, Mended With Gold, Bellator MMA 129 took shape. Just represents in Council leased a couple weeks Bluffs Houston Alago on Saddle Creek, exander vs. Virgil Mended With Gold was Zwicker. Alexander’s recorded at Toronto’s original opponent Candle Recording. The was James ThompRural Alberta Advanson, but the latter will tage kicked off in Detroit HOUSTON ALEXANDER be replaced by Zwicker. and comes to Omaha Friday Thompson was forced to night. A must-see show. withdraw from the heavyweight battle when he received an injury this Thursday, Oct. 16 past week. This 215-pound catchweight fight 2014 LOCAL FILMMAKER against Alexander and Zwicker will be an excit- SHOWCASE PREMIERE ing bout based on their past fights and experi- Film Streams Ruth Sokolof Theater ence. Zwicker (12-4) is said to be a knockout art- 1340 Mike Fahey Street ist with over a decade of experience. This 32-year 7:30 p.m., $4.50-$9 old ended his fight with Nick Moghaddam in a www.filmstreams.org first-round TKO during his promotional debut.

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program. Each curator holds a different writing position at the World-Herald ranging from food, film and theater, columnist, features reporter and online entertainment editor. This gives the lineup a diverse range that will screen the extraordinary work created by people in our region. Not only is the range of films diverse, but there are new and returning directors this year and with such a mix of point of views this program is sure to please. There will be a party immediately after the screening with all 11 filmmakers. If you can’t make it out for the premiere, don’t worry because the program will run until Oct. 23. — Mara Wilson THE WHIPPING MAN

The day after the end of our national tragedy, The Civil War, Passover started. In Mathew Lopez’s 2006 play dealing with those wounds, a seriously injured Jewish Confederate soldier returns to shattered Atlanta. And to his property. Which had meant owning humans.

Slaves. Two of them have remained. The three struggle to survive and to commemorate legacies of faith, centuries after Moses freed his people from bondage.

“Tough and evocative (with) an almost Biblical resonance” hailed the New York Times. This was 28 year old Lopez’s stage writing debut. In a Times interview he described himself as a “foxhole Episcopalian” from the Florida Panhandle, the son of a Puerto Rican father and a Polish-Russian mother, as well as a gay man, an outsider bullied when a child. And added, “We, as Americans, have to take responsibility for our past.” From The Playhouse: “adult content…strong language…for mature audiences.” — Gordon Spencer

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Upload your events online at thereader.com/events Questions: listings@thereader.com ONGOINGCULTURE 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.

Joel Hauschild - On the Trail - Outdoor Photography - 2:00 pm | Free Howlin Hounds Coffee Specializing in the beauty of our American west, this self-taught photographer maintains the fundamentals of years of traditional landscape photography, forgoing the inclination of modern overproduction. Runs Nov. 12th. On Oct. 18th come meet Joel.

The Whipping Man - 7:30 pm | $16-$36 Omaha Community Playhouse At the end of the Civil War, Caleb, a wounded Jewish Confederate soldier, finds his parents’ ruined home, but his family has fled, leaving their former slaves, Simon and John, to care for the property. This drama weaves a complex web of revelations that bond this family.

Intended for mature audiences.

Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat - 7:00 pm | $18 The Rose Performing Arts Center A rainy day becomes a zany day when a boy and his sister receive a chaos-creating caller: The Cat in the Hat! Explore the Cat’s wacky, wild, wonderful world in this energetic adaptation of an iconic tale.

Unity (1918) - 7:30 pm | University of NebraskaLincoln At the end of World War I, the flu killed more people in five months than died during the five years of the war. When the sickness arrives at a small town in the middle of the prairies, death comes with it. One young woman must unite the town or they’ll all perish.

American Buffalo - 7:30 pm | $25-$30 The Blue Barn Theatre In a Chicago junk shop three small time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable ‘Buffalo nickel,’ but the reality of the trio is that they are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams.

Mickey & Sage - 8:00 pm | $10-$15 The Shelterbelt Theatre What happens to people?

Mickey’s dad and Sage’s mom are really, really good friends. So every day after school, the two kids are forced to play together in Sage’s tightly fenced-in backyard while the parents are ‘hanging out.’ They spend endless hours rationalizing adult behavior, making sense of the cosmos and spying on their disturbing neighbors.

Time Stands Still - 7:30 pm | University of Nebraska-Lincoln Sarah and James, a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent, are trying to find happiness in a world that seems to have gone crazy. Theirs is a partnership based on telling the toughest stories, and making a difference.

Halloween Spooktacular Laser Show - 7:00 & 8:00 pm | $5-$6 Morrill Hall Museum Get ready to mash with monsters in the Family Halloween Laser Spooktacular, a spellbinding sing-along featuring classic Halloween titles such as Monster Mash, Ghostbusters, along with a sprinkling of crowd-pleasing current pop and rock songs.

Every Friday and Saturday through October 24th.

Freakshow - 7:30 pm | $30 Apollon Where does a Bearded Lady go to get away from it all? Do Siamese Twins fall in love with the same person? Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to the Freakshow!

Where the abnormal becomes normal. Journey behind the scenes of your favorite carnival oddities and see their struggles and adventures, their paths from obscurity to fame as the displays of wonder and intrigue you’ve come to enjoy or keep at a distance. Don’t worry, our insurance covers screams.

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Bread & Jam - 1:00 pm | Free Western Historic Trails Center Smooth Jazz Thursdays - 6:30 pm | Ozone Lounge The He Skrillex in the Streets - 5:00 pm | $40-$45 The Bourbon Theatre Sonny Moore found club and mainstream stardom beginning in 2008, when he swapped his gig as post-hardcore frontman for From First to Last and created the dancefloororiented project Skrillex. He originally used the name for live DJ sets, but in 2009 the project moved into the studio.

University Singers - 7:30 pm | $3-$5 Kimball Recital Hall The October concert of UNL’s historic

flagship mixed choral ensemble, University Singers, is titled Songs For a Better World: Music from around the globe. The music, some new, some repurposed in a very modern way, comes from austere locations and places not normally connected with famous choral singing/composing.

Reggae Night - 8:00 pm | Free The Hive Lounge The SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque 8:15 pm | $24-$75 The Bourbon Theatre In the early 2000s the SuicideGirls Burlesque show crisscrossed North America for 5 years. In fall of 2013 it was time to hit the road again playing sold out shows across the US. They can’t wait to bring their show back to the US this fall.

The Rural Alberta Advantage - 9:00 pm | $12 The Slowdown Omaha Formed in 2006. The ensuing years have brought two full-length albums, widespread critical praise, two Juno Award Nominations, a Long List Nomination for the Polaris Music Prize, and a hard-earned reputation as one of the most impressive live bands you’ll ever see.

The Apache Relay - 9:00 pm | $10 The Waiting Room Lounge Michael Ford Jr. was a music business major when he met The Apache Relay in a Belmont University dorm. They were already deep into ‘a very Americana, very rootsy’ sound, and before long the band was backing up Ford around campus, and soon everywhere else.

Feedback - 7:00 pm | Free The Kaneko The first reading with authors Jen Lambert and Stacey Waite. Both authors will also host a follow-up writer’s workshop on Saturday, Oct. 18 from 12-2 p.m. Registration is required. The goal is to invigorate the audience by inviting them into the writer’s creative development, while also providing the opportunity to generate their own work.

Comedy Stiles Open Mic - 10:00 pm | Free Stiles Public House Freestyle Battles/Ladies Night - 7:00 pm | $5 The Underground Bar & Grill Structured Chaos - 8:00 pm | Free Backline Improv Theatre

FRIDAY OCT 17

Reba McEntire - 7:30 pm | $115-$442 Holland Performing Arts Center Reba McEntire was the most successful female recording artist in country music in the 1980s and 1990s. While she continued to sell records, she expanded her activities as an actress in film and on the legitimate stage, and particularly on television, where she starred in a long-running situation comedy.

Joslyn Castle Blood Drive and Screening of Nosferatu on the Grounds - 2:00 pm | Free, donations welome Joslyn Castle To kick off the 2014 Joslyn Castle Literary Festival - Shadows at the Castle: Bram Stoker’s Dark Vision, we are hosting a blood drive in conjunction with the Red Cross. At 7pm, we will show Nosferatu on the grounds. Watch the first film adaptation of Dracula - F. W. Murnau’s eerie 1922 silent movie.

Call to schedule an appointment to donate blood.

Reservations for movie night are not required.

Bellator MMA 129 - 6:00 pm | $29-$69 MidAmerica Center Bellator MMA will return for Bellator 129 and it will also be live on Spike TV. RAW: Omaha - Axis - 7:00 pm | $15-$20. $15 ADV $20 DOS Sokol Underground RAW: natural born artists is an international independent arts organization that hand-selects and spotlights independent creatives in visual art, film, fashion, music, hair & makeup artistry, photography, models and performing art.

Verbal Gumbo - 7:00 pm | $7 House of Loom Crabby about the political climate? Want some okra change? Just want to discuss your relationshrimps or the andouille sausage in your life?

Verbal Gumbo is here with hot, spicey flava with a side o’ rice and rhythm. This spoken word event promotes our rich diversity of culture and style.

Eric Bellinger & Young Dro - 8:00 pm | $30$35 The Bourbon Theatre Los Angeles born and bred singer-songwriter Eric Bellinger’s destiny preceded him. Grandson of Jackson 5 hit making songwriter Bobby Day, Bellinger has been singing since he could speak.

Live Music - 9:00 pm | Free Horseshoe Council Bluffs Casino Simon Joyner and the Ghosts - 9:00 pm | $7 O’Leaver’s Pub Kill County returns to town, fresh off the creation of their fourth full-length, to join Simon Joyner and his full band Ghosts.

Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) 9:00 pm | $10-$12 The Slowdown Omaha A band from the tiny town of Fenton, Michigan that started in 2006. Keith plays guitar, bass, drums, trumpet, cello, etc and sings. Cathy plays guitar.

They rely on their friends to fill in the vacant positions. Cathy may not play, she is still in the band, but has a more restrictive touring schedule.

Delta Spirit - 9:00 pm | $15 The Waiting Room Lounge Acclaimed San Diego-bred five-piece Delta Spirit add fall dates to their extensive nationwide tour celebrating the release of their album. Keeping an eye toward the live experience is always essential to the band.

3D In Your Face Hair Metal Blow Out - 9:00 pm | $5 The 21st Saloon The big haired bad boys are back for a Rock N Roll Party. 3D has been an Omaha institution for the last 15 years celebrating all things Glam, Hair, and Sleaze. 80’s Rock N Roll the way it twas meant to be.

“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 perform scenes.

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

SATURDAY OCT 18

Live! Featuring Maddox - 12:00 am | $12 Backline Improv Theatre This is the best show you can see at The Backline, every 3-4 months. This is our first special guest that is an internet star.

Free to Breathe 5K Run/Walk and Memorial Walk - 8:00 am | $15-$30 Elmwood Park Register, raise funds, and run or walk that’s all it takes to be a hero in the eyes of a person facing lung cancer. The event is for all fitness levels, along with a team t-shirt contest, kids’ activities, silent auction and a health and wellness expo.

All proceeds support the nonprofit lung cancer research and advocacy organization.

Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz will sign Dr. Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation - 1:00 pm | Free The Bookworm Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools--or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mutter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of the nineteenth century. Mutter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools.

Timeflies - 7:00 pm | $25-$28 Sokol Auditorium Timeflies started in 2010 releasing only singles in Sept. 2011 they released their debut album.

The Honey Dewdrops - 7:30 pm | $20 Folkhouse Omaha Entertaining and skilled, The Honey Dewdrops use a handful of acoustic instruments and two voices, The Honey Dewdrops strive for clarity over effects and ornamentation.

It’s what you have left when you strip everything back down to zero. It rocks, it reels, and then it consoles you when you come back down.

Adelitas Way - 8:00 pm | $15-$17 The Bourbon Theatre Five-piece rock group from Las Vegas formed in 2005. Their first single is the official theme of WWE Superstars on WGN America.

MC Chris - 8:00 pm | $13-$15 The Waiting Room Lounge MC Chris is a cartoon making rapper that helped start Adult Swim as an animator, writer, voice actor, song writer and on air producer.

Honeyboy Turner Band - 9:00 pm | Free Havana Garage Originally forming under the name of Honeyboy Turner and Cryin’ Heart in 1992.

They brought Chicago-style blues to their hometown of Lincoln. In 1995, -ismist Records captured their sound on their debut full-length.

The Magnolias, Bullet Proof Hearts - 9:30 pm | $5 Brothers Lounge 21+ Weekend Dance Destination - 10:00 pm | House of Loom A House of Dance with sweatinducing DJs and a House of Celebration, ready to host any celebration-worthy moment.

SUNDAY OCT 19

Healing Tender Hearts - 11:30 am | Free Stinson Park, Aksarben Village Healing Tender Hearts Eat Healthy- Stay Fit Join us for Zumba Fitness on Sundays. Have fun while working out.

Shop Farmer’s Market before or after class.

Sunday with a Scientist: The Food You Eat - 1:30 pm | $3-$13 Morrill Hall Museum UNL faculty will come together in Morrill Hall to help visitors discover where food comes from and the science and technology of Nebraska Agriculture, plus explore the 19-foot UNL Husker Mobile Beef Lab outside the museum.

Foz Fest - 6:30 pm | Admission by Donation The Waiting Room Lounge A season-long music celebration in different venues around Omaha.

Our tagline is Long Live Dreams and we devote our time to creating platforms for emerging artists those who sing, rap, share spoken wword, or play instruments. These emerging artists are paired with established artists for mentoring before performing in front of a crowd at their venue.

Salsa Sundays - 7:00 pm | $5 House of Loom Machine Gun Kelly - 8:00 pm | $35-$40 The Bourbon Theatre Richard Colson Baker, better known by his stage name Machine Gun Kelly (or MGK for short), is an American rapper from Cleveland, Ohio, signed to Bad Boy and Interscope Records.

Luigi, Inc. - 9:00 pm | Free Mr. Toad’s Pub Omaha Millions of Boys - 9:00 pm | $5-$7 The Slowdown Omaha Omaha trio bloomed out of Sara Bertuldo and Alex van Beaumonts mutual friendship with Ryan Haas during the summer of 2010. Inside jokes, late nights, and an undying appreciation for punk fortified a nuclear chemistry that left them haunting songs of contemplative love.

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Movie Night - 8:00 pm | Free The Hive Lounge Fossil Youth - 8:00 pm | $5-$7 The Bourbon Theatre Formed in 2011, they originally began as the single minded vision of founding member Scottie Noonan. Over the course of the next year, the band’s sound was reshaped, and eventually, they coalesced into the band it is today.

Open Mic - 9:00 pm | Free Barley Street Tavern Dum Dum Girls - 9:00 pm | $15 The Waiting Room Pub Quiz - 9:00 pm | Free The Slowdown Omaha

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Science Cafe and Pub Quiz - 7:00 pm | Free The Slowdown Omaha Imaginary Gardens Reading - 7:00 pm | Free Mister Toad This months’s featured writers: Greg Kosmicki is a poet and social worker living in Omaha. He founded The Backwaters Press in 1997. His poetry has been published in numerous print and online magazines since 1975. He is the author of 4 books and 8 poem chapbooks.

Cat Dixon teaches creative writing at UNO and is the secretary of The Backwaters Press.

The Potato Pirates - 7:00 pm | $5-$7 Hideout Lounge 18+ Undeniably fun Ska/Punk from Denver that will make you want to slam some beers and dance your ass off... even on a Tuesday.

Monthly Blues Jam - 8:00 pm | The Hive Lounge Open Mic Night - 9:00 pm | Free Venue 51 Karaoke Theatre - 9:00 pm | Free House of Loom Tig Notaro - 9:00 pm | $20-$25 The Slowdown Omaha Tig Notaro was nominated for a Grammy Award for her sophomore comedy album. The album sold over 100,000 units in just 6 weeks.

Polish Ambassador - 9:00 pm | $15-$18 The Waiting Room Lounge Born on the richly-colored streets of Chicago and San Francisco, infectious melody is paramount.

WEDNESDAY OCT 22

A Time for Hope & Healing with Mariel Hemingway - 11:30 am | $75 Embassy Suites Conference Center The Kim Foundation is excited to announce Mariel Hemingway as this year’s keynote speaker at our second annual luncheon.

Mariel Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s granddaughter, is an Academy Award nominated actress, model, author & a mental health advocate.

Phantom of the Opera: Halloween Organ and Film - 7:00 pm | $14 Orpheum TheaterOmaha Channeling the 1920s experience, this special production of the classic horror film, makes for the perfect Halloween festivity. Complimented by the Mighty Wurlitzer organ, the silent movie stars Lon Chaney as the deformed Phantom haunting the Paris Opera House.

UNL Brass Faculty Soloists - 7:30 pm | Free Kimball Recital Hall Members of the brass faculty at the UNL Glenn Korff School of Music will pool their efforts in an evening of solo performances. The soloists will be accompanied by Michael Cotton.

Boys Noize & Baauer - 9:00 pm | $25-$28 The Bourbon Theatre Alexander Ridha aka Boys Noize, is a German electronic music producer and DJ. Comedy Open Mic - 10:00 pm | Free Barley Street Tavern DJ Spirale & Guests - 10:00 pm | Free House of Loom 21+ event.

Flatbush Zombies & The Underachievers 10:00 pm | $22-$25 The Waiting Room

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McMurtry, Jacobs & More

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ean Dobmeier’s and Gary Grobeck’s Sunday Roadhouse hosts Curtis McMurtry Sunday, Oct. 17, 5 p.m., at One Percent Production’s new Reverb Lounge, 6121 Military Ave. in Benson.

Curtis McMurtry is the son of acclaimed Austin singersongwriter-guitarist James McMurtry and the grandson of popular author Larry McMurtry. This is the youngest McMurtry’s Omaha debut. The Austin Chronicle says of Curtis and James McMurtry “their styles are different — Curtis is baroque folk, and James is gritty roadhouse rock” while noting that Curtis’ debut disc “Respectable Enemy signals a bright future for one of Texas’ greatest cultural dynasties.” See curtismcmurtrymusic.com and sundayroadhouse.com for more information. The Sunday Roadhouse presents a return visit from James McMurtry Sunday, Nov. 16, 5 p.m. at The Waiting Room.

Blues In The Afternoon Celebrates 20 Years A belated congratulations to Mike Jacobs who Monday, Oct. 6, celebrated 20 years of hosting his Monday “Blues in the Afternoon” program on KIOS, 91.5 FM. Jacobs has been music director at KIOS since 2002. “Blues in the Afternoon” is heard Mondays 1-3 p.m. See kios.org.

Music Matinees The 21st Saloon presents Bernard Allison Thursday, Oct. 16, 6-9 p.m. Allison is the son of late guitar great and longtime local favorite Luther

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Allison. Guitar star Bobby Messano, an eight-time Grammy nominee and former musical director for Steve Winwood, plays Thursday, Oct. 23, 6-9 p.m.

Lincoln’s Zoo Bar has the honky-tonk and Bakersfield country of The Derailers on tap next Wednesday, Oct. 22, 6-9 p.m. See derailers.com. Josh Hoyer’s Sons of 76 play The Zoo Thursday, Oct. 16, 6-9 p.m. The jumpin’ sounds of the Honeyboy Turner Band are up Friday, Oct. 17, 5-7 p.m. and The Tijuana Gigolos play a special show Saturday, Oct. 18, 4-6 p.m., at the Zoo. In Memoriam: Terri Ware It is with great sadness that we learned that Terri Ware of Ware House Productions passed away Oct. 11 of advanced lung cancer. For nearly 20 years, Terri helped manage the top-flight production house whose clients include everyone from local agencies and bands to Snoop Dog and Lady Gaga. Their 2012 work with Gaga won them a Grammy nomination. The Reader’s deepest sympathies go out to Tom Ware, their daughter Rachel and Terri’s family and many friends.

Hot Notes Local singer-songwriter Mitch Gettman has a CD release event at The Reverb Lounge Friday, Oct. 17, 9 p.m. Brad Hoshaw & The Seven Deadlies also perform. See mitchgettman.bandcamp.com.

Honeyboy Turner Band gigs at Havana Garage Saturday, Oct. 18, 9 p.m. McKenna’s auction is Sunday, Oct. 19, 11 a.m., at the restaurant. See theauctionmill. com for details. ,

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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do not consider myself a prude. I’ve seen and written about a plethora of offensive things over the years with a “damn the torpedoes” attitude toward anyone who might cringe in disgust. But even I find the new series of commercials for Viagra being shown during the American League Championship Series (i.e, baseball playoffs) to be embarrassing and odd.

The spots feature a blond cougar with a British accent chatting about how “plenty of guys” have trouble “getting an erection and keeping it.” There it is, on national television, the word erection. It’s nothing new.

Viagra and Cialis have been using the word in their commercials for years, but it’s always uttered by some off-camera baritone fishing-buddy voice and stated in clinical terms as if it were a side-effect of a disease.

Now here was this blond British bombshell looking straight into the lens talking about erections with a tilt of a head and a come-hither look that clearly says “America, bring me your flaccid Willy,” as if ED were an “American problem” when everyone knows the British haven’t had a hard-on since WWII (Why do you think they call it The Big One?).

The media is reporting that drug maker Pfizer is targeting women with these new Viagra commercials, but if so, why would they make them look like late-night 1-800 phone sex ads? The message couldn’t be more inyour-face. There are no awkward metaphors to confuse the innocent, no middle-aged couples on Harleys riding down long, narrow blacktop roads, no playful hankypanky between husband and wife while cleaning out the gutters, no bad white-guy blues music (Blues was the first casualty of ED advertising. It will now forever be associated with graying guys with limp dicks).

Maybe the most strange and confusing visual metaphor of all is the Cialis his-and-hers bathtubs, often placed in the strangest locations — on the beach or on a deck looking out over a mountain range. I always found this visual — which Cialis has crafted into a logo that will look great on a baseball cap — to be misplaced. If you’re feeling randy, wouldn’t you want to be in the same bathtub as your spouse rather than in separate tubs? Does this couple also sleep in separate beds? And how does one get hot water all the way out to those remote bathtubs? And what happens when it’s time to get out, presumably at full attention?

I assumed Cialis purposely made that duo-tub commercial confusing so parents could easily whisk away the inevitable questions from their children.

“Mom, why are those people taking baths in the middle of a field?”

“Because they’ve been working all day and they want to be clean, honey, that’s why.”

But there’s no talking your way out of the questions with these new Viagra commercials. That horny mama, let’s call her Ms. Wiggins, is looking your 11-year-old square in the eyes while she breathily purrs about erections. How does that not generate robust, awkward discussion?

It’s a problem I’ll never have to face. And no, smart guy, I’m not talking about ED, I’m talking about explaining these ads to my kids, because I don’t have any. I’m left wondering how parents do it.

When Ms. Wiggins shows up between innings do parents have their thumbs cocked and ready over the mute button? Does someone yell “Ear muffs!” Maybe mom or dad loudly asks a question: “Hey Tommy, do you think they’ll pull the pitcher after the next inning?” or “Who wants ice cream?”

More likely, everyone sits staring at the commercial in uncomfortable silence wondering what the other is thinking.

When I was a pre-teen during the days of only three networks and PBS, there wasn’t the slightest nuance about sex uttered on television. The most awkward moments were commercials for feminine hygiene products, and I had no idea what was going on. I figured Summer’s Eve (What a name!) was just another deodorant for girls, like Secret. I had no idea what Kotex was, but somehow knew better than to ask.

Something tells me Tommy also knows better than to ask. He keeps quiet. Just like when, during a football broadcast, Washington Redskins legend Joe Theismann comes on and starts barking about Super Beta Prostate.

Or maybe I’m being naive.

For me, all questions regarding sex were answered (correctly or not) on the blacktop parking lot where my grade-school buddies and I congregated during recess at St. James. Playboy was the only pornography, and was more of a rumor than a reality, as a copy of Hefner’s mag never crossed my path.

We didn’t have the internet to provide answers back then. Today any child can go online, and with a tap of keyboard and a click of a mouse can not only get answers to the most intimate of questions but also see the most graphic, lurid pornography imaginable, porn so vile that had it been produced in the ‘70s Omaha citizens would have taken to the streets with pitchforks and torches to burn down any theater that dared screen it.

Yeah, I know there are online tools designed to prevent children from seeing porn, but kids know more about using a computer than their parents. I guess sex no longer is a mystery except for the very youngest in the room watching the Royals alongside us. But even then, Viagra has cued up the topic for discussion, whether we want it to be or not. ,

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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olice in Japan’s Kyoto Prefecture raided a shoe manufacturer in July and commandeered a list of about 1,500 purchasers of the company’s signature “tosatsu shoes” -- shoes with built-in cameras.

Investigators have begun visiting the purchasers at home to ask that they hand in the shoes (but, out of fairness, said they would not cause trouble for customers who could produce a legitimate reason for needing to take photographs and video by pointing their shoe at something). The seller was charged with “aiding voyeurism” and fined the equivalent of about $4,500 under a nuisance-prevention law.

The Entrepreneurial Spirit Doris Carvalho of Tampa, Florida, is raising venture capital to expand her hobby of crafting high-end handbags from groomed, recycled dog hair (two pounds’ worth for each bag). With investors, she could lower her costs and the $1,000 price tag, since it now takes 50 hours’ labor to make the yarn for her haute couture accessory.

-- Among the suggestions of the Brisbane, Australia, company Pets Eternal for honoring a deceased pet (made to a reporter in September): keeping a whisker or tooth or lock of hair, or having the remains made into jewelry or mixed with ink to make a tattoo. Overlooked was a new project by the Houston spaceflight company Celestis, known for blasting human ashes into orbit (most famously those of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry).

Celestis, working with a California company, will soon offer to shoot pets’ remains into orbit ($995) or perhaps even to the moon ($12,000).

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The Continuing Crisis Ontario’s top court rejected Bryan Teskey’s complaint in August over how Roman Catholics continue to be discriminated against by the laws of British royal succession. Even though Ontario (along with many Commonwealth countries) recently removed some aspects of bias (ending the ban on the royal family’s marrying Catholics), Teskey pointed out that Canadian Catholics still do not have a fair shot at becoming king or queen (although Teskey did not claim that he, personally, had been a candidate).

-- Names in the News: (1) One of the three suspects in an August arrest for making fraudulent purchases at a Jupiter, Florida, shop: Ms. Cherries Waffles Tennis, 19. (2) The president of the Alabama Public Service Commission (who invoked prayer in July as the most effective way to fight federal restrictions on coalfired power plants): Ms. Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh.

(3) The investigator for the Ohio state auditor’s office who was ordered by his supervisor in July to end a romantic relationship with another government official: Jim Longerbone.

-- Venezuela, already in a recession, suffered a particularly cruel blow (according to a September Associated Press dispatch from Caracas) with the recent shortage in availability of breast implants for its beauty-obsessed senoritas.

Restrictive currency controls are limiting enhancement surgeries from the 85,000 performed last year and, according to a local joke, will force Venezuelan women to start developing their personalities. (However, according to leading surgeon Dr. Daniel Slobodianik, when potential patients are told their preferred size implant is back-ordered, many merely choose the next-largest available size.)

-- But It’s About “Safety,” Not “Money”: On the same day in September, Washington, D.C., and New York City made traffic-camera announcements, with Washington

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declaring a revenue crisis and New York revealing that just one speed camera in Brooklyn had earned the city $77,550 in a single day. The District of Columbia had projected $93 million in annual camera income, but estimated it would collect only $26 million, while New York City, which has many fewer cameras, was marveling at the 1,551 tickets the Brooklyn camera zapped on July 7.

American Scenes (1) Staci Anne Spence, 42, was hauled to jail for assault in Sandpoint, Idaho, in September, but when the squad car arrived at the station, officers learned that during the ride, she had completely gnawed through the back seat -- foam padding and seat cover. (2) A 38-year-old man was taken, unconscious, to St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, in August. After allegedly choking his mother-in-law and refusing to cooperate with police, who used a stun gun and chemical spray on him to no effect, he dramatically KO’d himself with an empty beer bottle.

Doctors Just Want to Have Fun An August West Virginia Board of Medicine report accused Martinsburg doctor Tressie Montene Duffy, age 44 and owner of a “weight and wellness” clinic, of over-prescribing drugs and repeatedly exposing herself to co-workers -- including forcing one employee to “motor boat” Duffy’s surgically enhanced breasts.

Perspective Leonard Decides Whether You Can Be Nervous or Not: Leonard Embody marched up and down a sidewalk in September in front of Hillsboro High School in Nashville, Tennessee, in military clothing and with a rifle on his back and a GoPro camcorder attached to his chest -- just his latest street demonstration supporting Tennessee’s “open carry” gun law. According to a WSMV-TV report, this episode made even some supporters edgy because of the school setting, but Embody failed to see the problem. “Other

people may think I look terrifying,” he acknowledged, but he doesn’t think he does, and if you disagree, he suggests psychological counseling. (Tennessee bans guns on school property, but a few inches away, on the sidewalk, Embody has decided that there is no problem.)

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Least Competent Criminals Not Ready for Prime Time: (1) Police in West Valley City, Utah, searched for an exceptionally unintimidating man in August after reports that the man tried to rob a Subway sandwich shop and a Family Dollar. In each episode, an employee told the man to wait while the employee went to a back room, but then simply failed to return, leading the “robber,” eventually, to walk away empty-handed. (2) In Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in August, Kevin Clarence, 20, was arrested for an inept attempt to rob a supermarket. He entered the store, and only then, according to witnesses, put a plastic garbage bag over his head and decided to wait in line for his opportunity to address a cashier. He quickly got tired of waiting and said, “I’ll be back,” but was caught by police minutes after leaving the store.

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Update In 1993, News of the Weird introduced readers to Kopi Luwak coffee -- whose beans had first passed through the digestive tracts of Asian civet cats (to give them, supposedly, a certain tartness, as well as a certain hipster price tag). Canadian entrepreneur Blake Dinkin, 44, believes his Black Ivory Coffee tastes even better because his pre-digested beans are recovered from elephant dung in Thailand -- and are less bitter, in that the pachyderms, unlike civets, are herbivores.

Dung-farming labor in Thailand may be inexpensive, but it takes 33 pounds of Arabica beans to achieve the precise blend Dinkin demands, and he told NPR in August that he anticipated sales only to upscale resorts in the Middle East (and to one elephant-themed store in Comfort, Texas). ,

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eft out of the superhero movie party every other studio is throwing, Universal made the ballsy decision to turn Dracula into caped crusader. Gone are the prominent widow’s peak, goofy accent and overtly sexual fanged penetration, this Dracula sucks blood to save people! Like a mix between Braveheart and a literal bat-man, Transylvania’s favorite son has been reformatted and given a plot full of the worst moments from The Lord of the Rings series. The nicest thing that can be said about Dracula Untold is that it is nowhere near as bad as it has every reason to be.

Generic attractive person Luke Evans plays Vlad, who totally feels really bad about all that impaling he did. In fact, it wasn’t really his fault! He was given to the Turkish military as a child and was beaten and turned into a killing machine. Hell, according to Vladdie, he was actually trying to save lives by mercilessly skewering humans on giant spikes and displaying their corpses, figuring that if people were terrified by him, there would be less fighting.

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Abandoning his life of people kabob-ing, Vlad now rules Transylvania peacefully. That is, until the Turkish leader, Mehmed (Dominic Cooper), demands a thousand Transylvanian kids be surrendered to him for his army, including Vlad’s son. Vlad ain’t about that, so he goes to a creepy creature (Charles Dance) that lives in “Brokentooth Mountain” and strikes a deal. He gets superpowers for three days and then returns to normal, provided he resists the insatiable urge to drink human blood during that time. To be fair, it’s hard not to drink human blood sometimes.

This is nothing more than a superhero origin story, complete with the obligatory “testing of powers” scene.

Dracula has the strength of 100 men, can heal from almost any wound, has some kind of night-vision thingie and can turn into a swarm of bats, presumably rabid. In one of the silliest scenes, Dracula commands eleventy billion bats to form a giant fist while he does some kind of Transylvanian Pilates. Your move, Bruce Wayne.

First-Run Films 20,000 Days on Earth First-Run

Dir. Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard.

Through Thursday, October 23 An experimental documentary on art rock godfather Nick Cave.

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Through Thursday, October 23 Alfred Molina and John Lithgow deliver powerhouse performances as a married gay couple forced to live apart after losing their Manhattan home.

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Dracula Untold is the kind of movie where the characters are so useless you can’t name them without an assist from IMDB. Vlad’s wife (Sarah Gadon) had a name, I’m almost positive, but since writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless insultingly treated her as a plot device with boobs, I can’t recall what it is. Sci-fi/fantasy loves the “damsel in distress that motivates the hero” trope, leaving the one woman with a speaking part in the film doing a lot of screaming. Oh, and fun drinking game, chug something every time a character does one of those kneeling “nooo” screams toward the sky.

This all sounds terrible, but somehow it’s oddly alrightish. The effects are fairly pleasing, it is lean (92 minutes) and the take on Dracula is a new one at least. That’s not a recommendation so much as it is a concession that I fully expected to do one of those kneeling “nooo” screams towards the sky and found myself simply shrugging., GRADE = C

n Known primarily as a painter, Andy Warhol also made movies I mostly don’t understand or appreciate. If you feel like seeing whether you can get what the semi-whacko artist was doing with his cinema shenanigans, head down to Film Streams’ Ruth Sokolof Theater starting Nov 30. “Films From Warhol’s Factory” is a series presented in collaboration with Joslyn Art Museum to coincide with their Warhol exhibition “In Living Color,” which happily does not feature Jim Carrey. For a complete list of the wildly weird films featured and showtimes, head to filmstreams.org. n The guys who wrote Dracula Untold are trying to make Lost in Space happen again.

Despite the Matt LeBlanc/Heather Graham/ Gary Oldman abomination that should have rendered the property unusable for the rest of time, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless are trying it once more. Unrelated, but Burk Sharpless sounds a lot like a fake name George Costanza would use. n I had a lot of problems with Blue is the Warmest Color, ranging from a male gaze applied to lesbian sexuality to the bloated nature of the endeavor. What I did not have a problem with was Léa Seydoux, who was phenomenal in it. This makes me excited for the fact that she will be the newest “Bond girl” in the next installment. Thankfully, there won’t be any of the concerns I had about her previous film, as we all know that 007 movies handle all female characters with the utmost respect. n There is good news about the fact that the Rush Hour film franchise is becoming a TV series on CBS: They likely won’t make any more Rush Hour movies. The TV network just ordered up a pilot of the possible series, which will presumably be handled with the same racial and cultural sensitivity you’ve come to expect from the people behind “Two Broke Girls.”

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GIVE TERRY THE BOOT

Lee Terry refuses to meet with landowners concerned about Keystone XL. He is best buddies with Big Oil and tried to force the approval of Keystone XL before Nebraska had a route.

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