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McDonald’s to host emergency relief fundraiser for tornado victims
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) - This Friday will mark three weeks since tornadoes devastated communities in eastern Nebraska and Iowa, destroying homes and leaving families picking up the pieces. North Platte’s McDonald’s owner operators, Leonard Management McDonald’s, is giving back to those communities in a big way.
Hundreds of millions of birds will make the Midwest the migration capital of the U.S. this weekend
Rising spring temperatures and weather conditions will likely push hundreds of millions of birds northward this weekend — and bird lovers in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa will get a front-row seat. A mind-boggling variety of warblers, cuckoos, flycatchers, orioles, buntings and other travelers will largely fly under the...
“You Can’t Go Into Your Hometown and Not Shoot Cinemascope”: Writer/Director Adam Rehmeier on His Early ’90s Nebraska-Set Comedy, Snack Shack
The logline for Snack Shack—two teenaged best friends spend the summer of 1991 working at a community pool food stand and get up to shenanigans—suggests a hyper-generic “one crazy summer”-type coming-of-age flick, but the film distinguishes itself with specifics almost immediately. It opens with AJ (Connor Sherry) and Moose (Gabriel LaBelle) at an off-track betting parlor intently watching the races with lit cigarettes dangling from their mouths. They exchange gambling strategies and profane insults before deciding to bet their new winnings on one more long-shot race. They hit big, but upon leaving they see someone swipe their cab, making it impossible for them to cross the interstate into Nebraska and sneak back onto their school field trip without raising suspicion. A frantic, improvised plan ensues that allows the boys to keep their winnings and evade consequences, at least until later when AJ’s parents discover their previous whereabouts.
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