USA TODAY 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards has nominated four Omaha institutions. Voting is open through March 9. You can vote once per day in each category. Awards like this do two things. They validate what locals already know. They persuade new visitors to put Omaha on the list. Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo
Legendary’s MonsterVerse live-action series for Apple TV, “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,” achieved a franchise first: provide compelling human characters. In the first season, creators Chris Black and Matt Fraction managed to tell a captivating story with a monstrous, globe-trotting scope spanning two timelines: the 1950s and the 2010s. The series follows three branches of the
Samira Zarazua OMAHA, Neb. — The feral cat population in the Omaha metropolitan area exceeds 67,000. With the rising number of stray felines in the community, non-profit organizations like the Nebraska Humane Society (NHS) and Felius Cat Cafe and Rescue use their efforts to battle these numbers in a safe and humane way. The most successful way in lowering the stray cat population is
Netflix has a complex history with adult animation. Some of their most critically acclaimed original comedies are animated: “BoJack Horseman,” “Big Mouth,” last year’s excellent “Long Story Short.” And yet there’s the other side of the coin with duds like last year’s “Haunted Hotel,” and the truly execrable “Hoops,” a show so bad that I
Roger Ebert was a champion of independent films, and he was never more enthusiastic than discovering a new filmmaker with a fresh perspective. That is most evident in his support for Black filmmakers like Spike Lee, Julie Dash, and John Singleton. In honor of Black History Month, here are some of our favorites from his
There are often projects whose complexity and importance I find difficult to fathom. How does one, for instance, distill the history of Black film into 100 titles? How does one define “Black” separately and in conjunction with “film”? Should a movie be helmed by a Black director to be considered a Black work? What about
The Oscar-nominated Shorts programs continue to attract audiences who are either looking to complete their Oscar viewing list or just curious cinephiles seeking works from new voices from around the world. This year’s crop is a mostly solid bunch and difficult to predict. There are three English-language crowd-pleasers in the Live Action category (those always
James Van Der Beek often felt like he was fleeing the ghost of Dawson Leery. As with so many actors who become known for playing teen heartthrobs, that breakthrough role sometimes felt like it defined Van Der Beek, who died this week after a two-year battle with colorectal cancer. He occasionally found ways to disrupt
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