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Guy Ritchie & Jason Statham Misfire Badly in Latest Collaboration

Guy Ritchie misfires in his latest action thriller with Jason Statham. Wrath of Man attempts to wrap the standard revenge theme around a mysterious conspirator. It’s told in four chapters that take place during different time periods. The result is a leaden jumble of poorly defined characters directed in an awkward way. There’s violence galore,

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Mother’s Day Ideas | Visit Omaha

After a year of quarantine and online learning, parents deserve more than just your appreciation. To help you celebrate Mother’s Day, businesses in Omaha are ready to help, and there’s no shortage of gift ideas from local businesses. Pamper your mom (or a special mom in your life) with a variety of tempting options. From high

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Visit Omaha Announces Rent for Recovery

New Initative will support local tourism businesses through the rental of meeting space OMAHA, NE. May 6, 2021 – Visit Omaha, the official tourism authority for the City of Omaha and Douglas County, announces its Rent for Recovery Initiative to assist local tourism businesses challenged by the pandemic. Visit Omaha plans to give up its

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Loosely Based Biopic on an Audacious New Wave Auteur

Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a central figure in shaping films after World War II and became one of the major auteur filmmakers of the New German Cinema. His works varied from melodrama (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant), to sci-fi noir (World on a Wire), to gothic thriller (Chinese Roulette), and ending in

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Classic Heroes Deliver a Fantastic DC Adventure

Warner Bros. Animation hearkens back to the Golden Age of Comics with the thrilling Justice Society: World War II It’s a retro adventure with a modern twist that brings the Flash, and his time-traveling abilities, again to the forefront as the lead character. Classic heroes battle evil Nazis with a few engaging plot twists along

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2021 Omaha Metropolitan Area Tourism Award Winners Announced

Media Contact: Jasmyn GoodwinVisit OmahaInterim VP of Marketing & Communications(402) 444-7024JGoodwin@visitomaha.com OMAHA, NE. May 4, 2021 –The votes are in for the Omaha Metropolitan Area (OMA) Tourism Awards recognizing the best tourism businesses in Douglas, Sarpy, and Pottawattamie counties. This year, the public nominated and voted for their favorites.

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The Farnam, Autograph Collection, Welcomes Dynamic Culinary and Mixology Team

Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 OMAHA, Nebraska — Two explosive concepts are set to ignite, captivate and energize Omaha’s dining and lounge scene—Dynamite and Catalyst. Both will be part of The Farnam, Autograph Collection, a premier hotel experience, and will open this month in the Landmark Center, 1299 Farnam Street. Combining their talents will

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Omaha’s Zoo and Aquarium Reforestation Efforts Reach 4 Million Trees Planted in Madagascar on Arbor Day

Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, in collaboration with the Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership (MBP), and supported by the Arbor Day Foundation, has planted its 4-millionth tree in Madagascar in celebration of Arbor Day. For 12 years, these reforestation efforts have been focused on providing habitat for lemurs, the most threatened group of primates in the

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Join Omaha’s Zoo and Aquarium In the 2021 City Nature Challenge

Join Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium to identify and count plants and animals that live among us. You can make a difference by participating in the City Nature Challenge to help document Omaha Metro biodiversity on April 30 through May 3, 2021. The City Nature Challenge is an annual, global, community science competition to document

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Slick Action Scenes Rescue an Absurd Plot

The film adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse bears little resemblance to the source material. Michael B. Jordan is a ferocious protagonist who shreds baddies as a vengeance-seeking Navy Seal. But the classic character’s twenty-first century upgrade is nearly torpedoed by a preposterous plot. The tense and agonizing storyline from the novel is replaced by

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