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Nebraska Children’s Home Society Sand in the City 2015

CenturyLink Center Omaha | Lot B | 10th and Mike Fahey Street | Omaha, NE 68102 – See more at: http://sandinthecityomaha.com/about/index.php#sthash.pNYOyyng.dpuf View amazing 15-ton sand sculptors built by local corporate and community groups. Cast your vote for the “People’s Choice” winner! Watch master sand sculptors carve a 45-ton sculpture before your eyes. Enjoy an interactive

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11th Annual Spring Wine, Blues, Beer and Balloon Festival

The 11th Annual Blues festival is coming up at the beginning of June. We will open our gates at 3:30. The cost is $20 for adults and $15 for children 12 and up. Tickets will be available at the gate or online at E-tix. June 6th: 4:00-5:00: Hector Anchondo 5:30-6:30 Coyote Bill Boogie Band 7:00-8:00

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Bette Midler

Bette Midler Multiple Grammy Award®-winning singer and legendary performer Bette Midler has added CenturyLink Center Omaha to her 24-city tour line-up! The tour will feature material from Midler’s iconic career and material from her new album, “It’s The Girls!” – a glorious tribute to girl groups through the ages. “It’s The Girls!” features the swinging

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2015 (Hasty) Spring Stumble — 5th Annual Edition

Join HitThatDive as we assemble for the 5th Annual Spring Stumble this Saturday at Alderman’s Bar. Want to know all the details, stay up-to-date right here! Spring Stumble 2015… This year’s Stumble is free…but any donations will be gladly accepted for the Omaha Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

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From Small Town to Big Time

Icky Blossoms’ Sarah Bohling Living the Dream By Kyle Eustice Blair, Nebraska native Sarah Bohling was a shy math student at the University of Nebraska-Omaha when she met Omaha musicians Nik Fackler and Derek Pressnall. “Derek and Nik were in Flower Forever,” Bohling explains. “My friend Dylan was playing keyboard and he worked at the

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MERCHANDISE + NOTHING

MERCHANDISE + NOTHING Cloakroom Thursday, May 28, 2015 9:00 PM, The Slowdown Merchandise is a band fighting against the easy categorization reserved for abbreviated biographies. The project is equal parts punk misanthropy, maudlin balladeering, fine art, low humor, classical study, psychedelic spacecasing, mad science and pop genius. Formed as a trio in Tampa, Florida in

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BETA PLAY WITH THE TRAGIC THRILLS

May 25 @ The Waiting Room $10 9pm show Beta Play Formerly Tommy & The High Pilots – pop rock from Santa Barabara, CA. The Tragic Thrills “My aim is to be earnest and have integrity,” says Zach Porter, primary songwriter of the transcendent pop-rock quintet The Tragic Thrills. “When I write songs for this

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5th Annual Children’s Parade, LEGO® Travel Adventure Opening

Saturday, May 23 9am Kick off summer and the grand opening of LEGO® Travel Adventure with Omaha’s only Children’s Parade – where you don’t just watch the parade, you ARE the parade! Children and families will walk down 20th Street from The Rose Theater to the museum (about two blocks). Dress up in costume or

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The Rusty Nail, Omaha — REVISIT

14201 Pierce PlazaOmaha NE 68144402-933-9753 When I first started to write what we’ll loosely call “dive bar reviews” nearly five years ago, never did I assume that I’d still be writing them today. Which means, I never really put in any thought about what happens when some of these reviews begin to show signs of

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Anti-Judgement

Anti-Flag Spreads a Message of Tolerance By Kyle Eustice Lead vocalist and guitarist of Anti-Flag, Justin Sane, was born Justin Cathal Geever in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to extremely progressive-thinking Irish Catholic parents. The youngest of nine children, he was initially exposed to punk rock by his brothers and sisters. Groups like The Sex Pistols and The

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