By Mare Pritchard OMAHA, Neb., – A group of young adults have found themselves at the center of internet viralness and creative events. For the last year, the group has amassed nearly 8 thousand followers and over 27 million views across multiple platforms while hosting events that range from lemonade stands to African weddings. The
By Gage Peterson OMAHA, Neb. – November is National Adoption Awareness Month, a time to recognize the importance of providing stable, loving homes for children in foster care. According to the Nebraska Children’s Home Society, in Nebraska, more than 6,200 children are currently in foster care, many still waiting to be adopted or placed in
My eighth-grade teacher’s name was Mrs. Hughes. She always told us not to be a bump on a log if she saw that we weren’t using our energy to its full potential. I thought she’d coined the phrase until we read S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders as a class. It’s right there on the fourth
Before I was a friend and colleague, I was a fan. In my early and mid-teens in the 1970s, I was a loner jock/pop culture nerd who was obsessed with these pursuits: Playing and watching baseball and football and to a lesser extent basketball, and consuming issues of Sports Illustrated and Sport and Baseball Digest,
A profoundly moving portrait of a family reckoning with the painful memories embedded deep within the walls of their ancestral home, Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” finds the filmmaker reflecting once more on the existential themes—of time, love, identity, and history—that have abounded throughout his career. The film reunites Trier with Renate Reinsve, a Norwegian actress
We are proud to be a part of a network of sites that has awarded Julia Loktev’s stunning “My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow” with the 2025 IFSN Advocate Award. Other films cited as essential ones of 2025 include “Cutting Through Rocks,” “Familiar Touch,” “The Perfect Neighbor,” “Put Your Soul on
November 1975. This is the month when “Opening Soon at a Theater Near You” premiered on PBS in Chicago. It featured the city’s two most prominent film critics, Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, who appeared ill at ease during their first pairing on camera. Perhaps the coolness with which they
In “Rebuilding,” a Colorado cowboy sifts through the ashes of the life that once sustained him, struggling to find a way forward after wildfires take his family farm. In U.S. theaters Nov. 14 (with a national rollout to follow) via Bleecker Street, this elegiac story of one rancher’s journey through an environmentally devastated American West
In true fashion spirit, there’s a season for everything — and change is on the horizon. Omaha Fashion Week will be taking a season off in February to reimagine and reinvent the experience for our community. We’re thrilled to be working on something fresh and inspiring for you to enjoy in August of 2026. Stay
By Bayleigh Koch OMAHA, Neb. – For Dr. Whitney Gent, teaching isn’t limited to the classroom. Sometimes the best lessons happen thousands of miles away. Gent, an associate professor of rhetoric and civic engagement in UNO’s School of Communication, leads Persuasion and Social Influence, a summer study abroad course in Florence, Italy. For her, the