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OFW Fall 2024 — Omaha Fashion Week

EMERGING DESIGNERS: Emerging Designers: Denim infusion | Sarah Khamis | Follow on Instagram What inspired you to start designing clothing? Not being able to find the right clothing that fits my own style in stores is what inspired me to start designing clothing. Growing up I wasn’t able to find clothing that would fit my

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Omaha Fashion Week

OFW Gives Back to Designers through Kickback Program

Omaha Fashion Week is proud to be known for the way we give back to our community. Designers are not only essential to our mission, but they are also the starting point for our “why”. Giving back to our designers each season is a nonnegotiable for our team, which is why we’ve implemented many programs

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Movie Reviews

Some Material May Be Inappropriate: The PG-13 Rating at 40 | MZS

A side note, but not really: In 1990, thanks to the release of Philip Kaufman’s Henry Miller-Anias Nin biopic “Henry and June,” another MPAA rating was added, the NC-17. This meant no children under 17 were admitted at all unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. This was mainly about sex, although violence was also taken into

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Movie Reviews

June Zero movie review & film summary (2024)

The opening story is about a young boy, an Israeli Jew, who goes to work in a factory, where he participates in the construction and cleaning of an oven for cremation. Eichmann is the one who’ll be put in it. The cremation of Eichmann is a topic of heated debate within the film. There are lines that

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Movie Reviews

The Vourdalak movie review & film summary (2024)

The man in question is—well, brace yourself for the amusing mouthful—Marquis Jacques Antoine Saturnin d’Urfé (an endearingly gentlemanly Kacey Mottet Klein), an emissary to the King whose traveling coterie has been robbed and murdered, perhaps by Turks, or some other tribe. Eventually, an isolated manor in the countryside shows mercy and takes him in. Except,

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Movie Reviews

Apple TV+’s Daring, Unpredictable Sunny is Summer TV Standout | TV/Streaming

Set in a semi futuristic Japan, “Sunny” follows Suzie Sakamoto (Rashida Jones), whose life is upended when her husband Masa (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and their son seemingly perish in a mysterious plane crash. While speaking to authorities, the other victims of the plane crash are asked to call their loved ones’ phones to listen to their

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Omaha Zoo

Zoo Announces SVP of Guest Experience, Brand and Revenue

Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is proud to announce the appointment of Megan Longo as the new Senior Vice President of Guest Experience, Brand and Revenue. This pivotal role will see Megan spearheading the development, implementation and refinement of mission-aligned strategies aimed at fostering brand loyalty through exceptional guest experience.  The search, recruitment and

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Omaha Fashion Week

Seven Designers Receive Grants from the OFW Investor’s Circle! — Omaha Fashion Week

OFW is thrilled to announce that 7 of our designers for the Fall ‘24 Season will receive grants from the OFW Investor’s Circle. The Investor’s Circle was started in December 2023 by former OFW Producer Brook Hudson and OFW Casting Director Alyssa Dilts. This season we raised ~$3,500 to give to our designers, equaling 7

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Movie Reviews

Black Out: The Disappearance of Black Couples in Advertising | Black Writers Week

In a 2009 news article, “Race Becomes More Central to TV Advertising,” Shreffler comments, “Advertising is aspirational. It’s who we want to be, a lifestyle we want — not always who we are.” It is one thing to be aspirational but another thing to distort reality and not having Black executives at the advertising decision

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