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Omaha Playhouse Sets Evil Dead: The Musical for Oct. 22-Nov. 8
Chainsaws, blood-soaked show tunes and a front row that comes with its own splash zone are set to take over the Omaha Community Playhouse this fall. The non-profit theater's Howard Drew Theatre will stage Evil Dead: The Musical, a horror-comedy mashup that follows a group of friends whose weekend cabin getaway spirals into supernatural chaos, with loyalty and survival tested as everything falls apart around them.
thereader.com
Jason Voorhees actor to appear at Scary Acres
Lock your doors, Jason Voorhees is coming to Omaha. Or at least an actor who portrayed the famous film slasher is. Actor and producer James Stokes, known for portraying Friday the 13th icon Jason Voorhees in “Voorhees: Night of the Beast,” is coming to Scary Acres Oct. 24-25.
Daily Nebraskan
World champion baton twirler joins Cornhusker Marching Band
Twirling has been a part of Jayda Turner’s life for as long as she can remember. Every day on the way to daycare in Omaha, 3-year-old Turner would look out the window and see Sue’s Stepper-ettes, the largest baton twirling, pom-pom and dance studio in the Midwest. Eventually,...
North Platte Bulletin
Archived: New film ‘Going for Two’ based in Nebraska
A movie filmed in Nebraska and built around the state’s 1983 football season is coming to theaters on Oct. 23. Picturehouse will release Going for Two, a coming-of-age comedy set in Omaha. It will be shown at the Fox Theater downtown that weekend, and exclusively in theaters across Nebraska. Showtimes at the Fox are 7 p.m. on Oct. 23 and 3 p.m. Oct. 24.
growomaha.com
The October 17th Radio Show
Two bond questions on Omaha’s November 3 ballot are the focus of the October 17 Grow Omaha Radio Show. Nate Dodge, chairman and CEO of NP Dodge and chair of the Building a Better Omaha Committee, joins Heath Mello, president and CEO of the Greater Omaha Chamber, to explain a proposed combined police and fire headquarters and improvements to Tranquility Park Athletic Complex.
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This Historic Nebraska Mill Still Tells The Winter Quarters Story Of Water-Powered Flour And Lumber
Hand-hewn timbers cut by pioneers in 1846 still hold up an old pink mill in Nebraska. You can see them up close, wooden pegs and all. Those beams once belonged to a water-powered mill that ground flour and sawed lumber for thousands of pioneers waiting out a brutal Missouri River winter. The building later served one family for more than a century, then sat empty for years.
WOWT
Marian, Duchesne Academy girls golf continue state championship streaks
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A pair of high school girls golf programs from the metro continued to assert their dominance in their respective classifications at the NSAA state tournament. In Class A, Omaha Marian won its third straight state title after shooting a combined 644 across two days of competition,...
omahajewishpress.com
Picturing Pesach: Biur Chametz in Brooklyn, NY
Jarod Cernousek can often be spotted at Jewish events around our community, anywhere from the Sukkah Hop to the Beit Midrash. Jarod works in the Jewish Federation of Omaha’s marketing department as multi-media producer. He’s currently in his fifth year; he shoots and edits those amazing videos you see at our Annual Meeting and on the JFO website and social media. Among other things: in addition, he does an impressive amount of still photography, including our staff headshots.
thethunderbeat.org
Students rock Bellevue, play music in personal bands
The demo plays and inspires others in the band to add onto it, eventually creating a song. While many different inspirations brought them all to this, a need of expression that could never be brought forth through just words shook each of these students. All of these students are in personal bands that create music outside of school.
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This Gothic Cathedral In Nebraska Took Decades To Finish And Still Rings Its Bells Every Sunday
A bishop in Nebraska refused to borrow money for his cathedral, so the builders simply waited for the cash. That wait stretched across 54 years. Work began in 1905, and the first Mass took place inside an unfinished building in 1916. The official consecration didn’t arrive until 1959, after generations watched the walls rise bit by bit.
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Omaha native known as ‘Little Angie’ carved out a long, varied Hollywood career
The real-life Omaha-to-Hollywood tale of Angelo Rossitto reads like, well, a movie script. Rossitto, who was under 3 feet tall, had no training as an actor. But he appeared in 100 movies from the silent film era into the 1980s. Young Angelo, who attended Technical High School and Creighton Prep,...