54 Colorado Spartans @ Omaha Beef June 7th – 6:30pm CT Liberty First Credit Union Areana 71 Last week Omaha went to Colorado and won 35-34 when Caleb Shudak kicked a deuce to win the National Division and the right host the NAL Semi-Final and National Division Champion at Liberty First Credit Union Saturday. This
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium welcomed leading scientists, conservationists and animal care and medical professionals for the nationally recognized North American Society of Toxinology’s (NAST) Venom Week Symposium. The three-day event, held June 4 through 6 spotlighted the latest advances in venom research and its real-world applications in medicine, wildlife conservation and antivenom innovation.
For Kevin Smith, making “Dogma” was the ultimate expression of his own waning religiosity, filtered through the verbose, irreverent, and crude humor that made him one of the most revered filmmakers of the ’90s indie boom. The kernel of the script predates his microbudget hit debut “Clerks,” having begun as a script called “God” that
“Why is it the Black man always dies in the first 10 pages?” Luther Stickell, played by Ving Rhames, was supposed to die in the first “Mission: Impossible” movie. Brian De Palma’s 1995 film did away with almost all of the TV show’s characters and radically changed the one who remained, all to leave Tom
Mike Flanagan is no stranger to telling stories about death. However, his latest film is something quite different in how it dances with existential questions about the boundless beauty of life, the terrible agony of loss, and, ultimately, what it all means as our lives inevitably come to a close. In “The Life of Chuck”
Todd Purdum’s new book is a biography of Desi Arnaz, described in the subtitle as “The Man Who Invented Television.” Most people today associate him with the straight man for his then-wife, Lucille Ball, in the classic “I Love Lucy” sitcom, and the character he played, nightclub singer Ricky Ricardo. But Arnaz’s most enduring legacy
One of the oldest film festivals in the world, and the most prestigious such festival in Eastern and Central Europe, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) has announced the official selection for its upcoming 59th edition, to be held July 4-12 in the Czech Republic. 34 titles have been announced within this year’s official
It’s a pretty light month at the powerhouse streamer of all streamers, Netflix. Maybe they didn’t want to distract from the final season of “Squid Game”? Maybe they know more people are out and about at the start of Summer? We’ll never know. And, to be fair, there are a few interesting drops this month,
“For relief you can trust, trust Tylenol. Hospitals do.” — From a 1981 TV commercial for Tylenol. In the second episode of the three-part Netflix true crime documentary series “Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders,” James Lewis fiddles with a box of Extra Strength Tylenol some four decades after he became the prime suspect in the
The Durham Museum The former Union Station is now a museum filled with real train cars that you can walk through, an interactive model train display and exhibits about Omaha’s past. The grand Art Deco building is worth a visit all on its own. Union Pacific Railroad Museum