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UNO Theater Department To Hold Taylor Swift Course  – The Omaha News

OMAHA, Neb. ─ Taylor Swift will be coming to UNO next year – in a fashion.   Swift is a 14-time Grammy Award winner, and according to a 2024 report from Forbes Magazine, is the highest-grossing female touring artist of all time. This Spring, the UNO Theater Department will offer an online class about the superstar,

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Omaha Children’s Museum Prepares for Riverfront Relocation in 2027  – The Omaha News

By Jenna Janssen OMAHA, Neb. — The Omaha Children’s Museum is planning a major move to Omaha’s redeveloped riverfront, with a new 75,000-square-foot facility set to open at 8th and Douglas streets in 2027. In partnership with Heritage Omaha, the $120 million project will offer larger exhibit spaces, outdoor play zones, and classrooms creating new

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Tailgating and supporting Fan bases in Nebraska   – The Omaha News

By Riley McCall OMAHA, Ne – Tailgating at your favorite sporting event is big business in the United States. according to the National Consumer Panel, this past time contributed 35 billion dollars to food and beverage sales last year.  Nebraskans are no exception to taking part in this time-honored tradition.  Kevin Irish, a lifelong Husker

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Investing into North Omaha’s Highlander Neighborhood – The Omaha News

By Sapphire Bennett OMAHA, Neb. – Located along 30th street in between Hamilton and Lake, the nonprofit Seventy Five North Revitalization is bringing people together through affordable housing, educational opportunities and community events.    The Greenhouse and Market Center for No More Empty Pots. (Photo/Sapphire Bennett)  Seventy Five North aims to help encourage North Omaha residents

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Nebraska’s First AI Degree Program Launched at UNO, Bridging Future and Innovation – The Omaha News

By Morgann Gardner OMAHA, Neb. – The University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) has made history by launching Nebraska’s first bachelor’s degree in artificial intelligence (AI). Open for enrollment this fall, the program promises to equip students with the skills necessary to excel in one of the world’s fastest-growing industries. The Program’s Launch and Vision AI

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Movie Reviews

Living Forward: Adam Elliot on “Memoir of a Snail” | Interviews

If you notice any aesthetic blemishes on the miniatures in director Adam Elliot’s stop-motion film “Memoir of a Snail,” just know they were left in intentionally. Elliot’s film is all about the importance of embracing imperfections and understanding how life’s tragedies may shape us, but don’t have to define us. This thesis is extended to

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Omaha Fashion Week

OFW Investor’s Circle | Impact on Designers Fall 2024 — Omaha Fashion Week

Photography | Heather and Jameson, Designer | Elsie’s Attic, Nicole Daberkow What did the Investor’s Circle grant help you achieve that would have been more difficult to do without or that you otherwise would not have been able to? Nicole: The Investor’s Circle grant allowed me to purchase the equipment I desperately needed to create

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Short Films in Focus: Don Hertzfeldt’s “ME” | Features

Don Hertzfeldt’s “ME” is available on Vimeo On-Demand.  Don Hertzfeldt’s “ME” will feel familiar to the filmmaker’s fans and admirers, with its expressive stick figures serving as our protagonists, its depiction of technological breakthroughs that cause societal disarray, and journeys through time and space that warrant repeated viewings just to take in all the ideas

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Nothing Left to Prove: Quincy Jones (1933-2024) | Tributes

Mention Quincy Jones to a bunch of people, and I’m sure each person will highlight a different achievement. There are so many milestones that naming them all would take far more space than I am afforded here. Jones was an Oscar-winning score composer, the arranger of great jazz albums by legends like Frank Sinatra, a

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Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch Bring Gravity to “The Day of the Jackal” | TV/Streaming

Who is the Jackal? Is he a multimillionaire with a lavish estate who travels around the world? Is he a custodian who quite literally cleans up messes? Or is he simply a hired hand who also happens to be the world’s best sniper? As far as star Eddie Redmayne and the new series “The Day

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