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Drink of the Week

Drink of the Week: The Cornfield Cooler

Hey there, NowOmaha.com readers! As we all know, corn is a cornerstone of Nebraska culture and agriculture. But who says it only belongs on your dinner plate? For this week, we’re bringing you a cocktail that celebrates our state’s golden crop in a refreshingly unique way: the Cornfield Cooler. With the delightful blend of sweet

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Omaha Fashion Week

OFW RECAP: Thursday FLORA Designer Showcase

Omaha Fashion Week’s Fall 2023 season of fashion and new beginnings started out with a thrilling show of Emerging and Featured designers. This season’s designers draw inspiration from alternate realities and cultural heritage while exploring themes of nostalgia and environmentalism. Omaha Fashion Week celebrates 15 years of runway showcases during the AURORA Fall 2023 season. Auora is Latin

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Movie Reviews

Golda movie review & film summary (2023)

But underneath the bushy eyebrows, wiry wig, and thick ankles, who was she? Aside from the obvious ache she experiences when she learns of mounting Israeli casualties, how did she feel about this conflict? Working from a script by Nicholas Martin, Nattiv depicts this fraught period through a series of dry, repetitive strategy meetings between

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Movie Reviews

The Hill movie review & film summary (2023)

Directed by Jeff Celentano from a script by the late Scott Marshall Smith (“Men of Honor”) and Angelo Pizzo (who wrote the classics “Rudy” and “Hoosiers“), “The Hill” retells the true story of Fort Worth, Texas native Rickey Marshall. Like Pizzo’s signature screenplays, this tale is in the spirit of the original “Rocky,” where the hero’s achievements are far more modest

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Movie Reviews

Carpet Cowboys movie review & film summary (2023)

MacKenzie and Collier set the scene with evocative imagery of the complex machinery that makes these carpets, weaving thousands of threads into the banal tapestries we traipse upon every day. “It is the canvas on which all the other art rests,” says Lew Migliore, one of the many colorful figures whose livelihood is found in

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Gaming

Fallout TV Show Image Looks Like AI ‘Art’ Or A Messy Photoshop

Amazon recently revealed that its Fallout TV show will begin streaming in 2024 by tweeting a 1950s-looking postcard from Los Angeles, California with Pip Boy giving the thumbs up. Upon closer inspection, fans have noticed a lot of weird anomalies that have some thinking it might actually be AI-generated. Oshi No Ko Is An Early

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Gaming

I Can’t Stop Playing This Titanfall-F.E.A.R.-Killzone-Doom-Like

Folx, I’m falling in love. If you ever wanted to combine the gloom of the original Killzone with gameplay from Titanfall and F.E.A.R. as well as Doom and its neo-retro children—and toss in some immaculate vibes from 1995’s Ghost in the Shell for good measure—then let me tell you about Sprawl. Dead By Daylight Devs’

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Gaming

Zack Snyder Mains Mr. Meeseeks In Fortnite

Sure, Zack Snyder loves making five-hour-long movies. But he’s still a person who needs to relax and take a break from all the work. And apparently, he spent quite a lot of time playing Fortnite as Mr. Meeseeks, saying that he took a “deep dive” into the popular free-to-play online shooter. Dead By Daylight Devs’

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Gaming

I Can’t Tell These Anime RPGs Apart But They Both Look Rad

Whenever a gaming event like Gamescom rolls around, I wait with bated breath for an action role-playing game with stylish combat, fashionable characters, and a litany of anime action sequences to make my head explode in excitement. And Gamescom, like Prometheus descending Mount Olympus, delivered just such a game unto me, with a trailer for

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Gaming

Overwatch 2 Nerfs Illari Into The Sun

It’s only natural that after Overwatch 2 heroes debut, Blizzard starts turning the knobs up and down to try and balance them out. Sometimes you’ve just gotta put something terribly disruptive into the game and see how the community reacts to know exactly how a character will affect the meta. That in mind, it’s now

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