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'The Breakfast Club' anniversary screening brings Anthony Michael Hall to Omaha
Anniversary screening of "The Breakfast Club" benefiting the Douglas County Historical Society brings Anthony Michael Hall to Omaha.
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AfroCon Returns to Omaha This Weekend With Anime-Loving Theme
Nerds of every stripe are converging on Omaha this weekend as AfroCon returns to the Metro Community College campus, bringing together fans of gaming, science fiction, anime and other corners of pop culture under a banner built around Black creativity and representation. The convention runs Friday through Saturday, with organizers framing it as both a party and a platform for longtime fans and newcomers alike.
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Setting the scene: Rohling’s backstage theater work earns award at Playhouse
These three simple words immediately spark the image of theater and the performing arts, but most people never take into consideration who is directing the lights and cameras. Backstage work is the underappreciated job that countless people devote hours to in order to put on those breathtaking performances. Senior Jane...
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Win a car, trip to LA at ‘The Price Is Right Live’ in Lincoln
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Price is Right Live is coming back to Lincoln this winter with new games, new prizes and a chance to win a trip to see a taping of The Price is Right in Los Angeles. This one-night-only event will take place Feb. 9, 2027, at...
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Staind Brings Seether, Hoobastank and Hinder to CHI Health Center Omaha
Staind is bringing its Grammy-nominated rock pedigree back to Omaha, with the band set to headline CHI Health Center on April 9, 2027, alongside Seether, Hoobastank and Hinder. The stacked bill marks one stop on a newly expanded run celebrating the 25th anniversary of Staind’s breakout album, and it puts Omaha squarely on the map for a tour that’s been drawing heavy demand across the country.
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Annual Cantors Concert Celebrates Rabbi Berezin
On Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026 at 7:15 p.m., Temple Israel invites the community to a night of recognition and celebration. For ten years, Rabbi Deana Berezin has gathered us, shared her wisdom with us, helped us to engage in social justice, and nurtured our community from the oldest to the youngest among us.
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Cziezerski earns second Frontier weekly golf honor
HELENA, Mont. -- Bellevue University junior Annabelle Cziezerski was named the Frontier Conference Women's Golfer of the Week for the second time this season. Cziezerski finished second among 43 golfers at the OUAZ Fall Invite, held Sept. 28-29 at Sterling Grove Golf and Country Club in Surprise, Ariz. Cziezerski shot...
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Benge Leads Huskers at Blessings
Jackson Benge collected his 10th top-25 individual finish as a Husker, taking 25th with a 229 (+13) to lead the Nebraska men's golf team at the Blessings Collegiate in Fayetteville, Ark., on Monday. Benge, a junior out of Omaha Westside, opened the three-day, 54-hole tournament on the 7,991-yard, par-72 layout...
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Nino’s Place: The Orphan Sign Stands in Memory of a Barman, Boxer, and Poet
Nino’s Place. I’ve often wondered about the origins of the red, white, and green sign. It’s been a Grover Street fixture sitting between Little Papio Creek and 66th Street for as long as I can remember. The sign marks the spot where Nino D’Agosta operated his small...
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Nick Beaulieu on Reconciling Different Sides of a City in “My Omaha”
When Nick Beaulieu started down the path of making what would become “My Omaha,” he imagined going backwards in time, attempting to find the roots of how his hometown in Nebraska was shaped generations before he was born into a city where few from the predominantly white West Omaha where he grew up would make the trip to predominantly Black North Omaha and vice versa. What he couldn’t have dreamed of was having something that would be rewarding generations into the future.
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Pink Georgia Marble Wraps The Outside Of This 1931 Art Deco Museum In Nebraska
Some buildings ask you to stop the car. Driving through eastern Nebraska, I expected another plain stop on a busy afternoon, and instead found a pink stone giant glowing like a sunset someone forgot to switch off. Inside waited Rembrandt, Jackson Pollock, Native American textiles, and a cafe grilled cheese...
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‘My Omaha’ Is A Son’s Journey To Understand His Dad - And His City
For filmmaker Nick Beaulieu, My Omaha began as one kind of documentary and gradually became something much more personal. What started as a journalistic exploration of his hometown evolved into an intimate examination of family, politics, race, community and his complicated relationship with his father. Along the way, Beaulieu found himself not only documenting Omaha, but reconsidering his own place within the city and the communities that shape it.
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Evil Dead Brings Fresh Take on Cult Classic
During this Halloween season, the Omaha Community Playhouse is presenting their bloody and guts comedy Evil Dead: The Musical. Based on the Evil Dead movie franchise, this raunchy musical brings new faces and fresh ideas to the Omaha Community Playhouse stage. Director of Evil Dead, VJ Orduña, says, “This whole show for me is about newness.”
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Their Passion is Loud (Rock On)
While some hesitate to chase their dreams and pursue their passions, senior Patrick Carsely does not question “what-ifs” when it comes to his band Post Meridiem. Post Meridiem is a thrash-metal band that consists mainly of students. Carsley, lead vocalist and guitarist, started forming the band back in 2025; however, in terms of members and their availability, there have been periods of pause or starting over due to availability.
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Author Visit-Andy Nordland Lied Public Library-Clarinda
Long before he became an author, Andy Nordland was a Clarinda kid sitting in story hour at the Clarinda Library with Mrs. Davidson, discovering the power of a good story. Born and raised on a local farm, Andy returns to the library to share the journey that led from those early days to the publication of his novels Hybrid and No Weak Link. Set against familiar Midwestern landscapes, his heartfelt stories explore family, friendship, mentorship, and the moments that shape who we become. Join us for an evening with a hometown writer whose books remind us that every community helps write the stories we carry home.
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Atlantic High School and Middle School Marching Bands Show Well at Southwest Iowa Band Jamboree
(Clarinda) The Atlantic High School and Middle School Marching Bands performed well at the 71st Annual Southwest Iowa Band Jamboree in Clarinda on Saturday. The Atlantic High School Marching Band finished in third place in the Class 3A Division; the Middle School Band placed third in the Class II Division. Atlantic Instrumental Music Director Jared O’Donnell says the High School Band finished just two points from first place.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda meets with Omaha theater students during campaign trip
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Lin-Manuel Miranda, known for creating the musicals “Hamilton” and “In the Heights,” spoke to almost 100 local high school theater students at the Rose Theatre while in the metro Saturday to campaign for Democratic candidate Denise Powell. Miranda joined Powell in the...
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Omaha’s 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition and What Came Next
North Omaha’s Kountze Park holds a special place in Omaha history as the site of the city’s very own world’s fair. The event followed the success of the Chicago World’s Fair leading a small committee of businessmen to pitch the idea of bringing a similar event to Omaha. Included in that group was the event’s president and chairman Gurdon Wattles, a businessman who moved to Omaha three years earlier and helped consolidate the various streetcar lines into the Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway. William Jennings Bryan, the former congressman, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 1896, was also a part of the committee.
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Local filmmaker’s documentary highlights Omaha coal plant dangers, OPPD shortcomings
On Monday evening, about 140 individuals sat in Mary Theater 1 of the Ruth Sokolof Theater in Omaha to watch a documentary made by Omaha filmmaker and former engineer Joe Giitter. The film “Broken Promises” tells the story of the Omaha Public Power District’s 2014 decision to retire a coal-fired...