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News: Beef win 19th straight with strong third quarter

Omaha Beef @ Colorado Spartans June 1st – 8:00pm CT Blue Arena The Omaha Beef have locked up home field for the NAL Championship game with a 54-34-win Saturday over the Colorado Spartans Saturday night in Loveland, Colorado. Omaha used a 29-point third quarter to take a 28-19 deficit at halftime to a 48-28 lead

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News: Beef/Spartans preview – Omaha Beef

Omaha Beef @ Colorado Spartans   June 1st – 8:00pm CT Blue Arena The Omaha Beef hit the road hopefully for the last time in the 2024 season this Saturday as they travel to Loveland, Colorado to take on the 3-4 Colorado Spartans at Blue Arena for an 8pm CT kickoff. The Beef have clinched

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Movie Reviews

Cannes 2024: Ghost Trail, Block Pass | Festivals & Awards

Set against the steadily revving engines and propulsive forward motion of the French motocross scene, Antoine Chevrollier’s feature debut “Block Pass” is a poignant and painful coming-of-age story about two young men whose friendship is tested by circumstances that complicate their lives in a rural French suburb.  Both mechanic Willy (Sayyid El Alami) and competitive

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Movie Reviews

Robot Dreams movie review & film summary (2024)

There are two central characters in “Robot Dreams,” but the backdrop of 1984 New York is practically a third. Berger and his team have devised a version of the Big Apple that feels like a love letter to a city that’s always humming and moving. It’s not just the regular shots of things like the

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Movie Reviews

Ezra movie review & film summary (2024)

Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at the Florida Film Festival; one of the films, “Hellbent on Boogie,” directed by Vito Trupiano, was about an autistic teenager (Alyx Ruibal) being homeschooled by her mother and kept in isolation from her peers. The portrayal of neurodivergence has an authenticity one doesn’t

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Movie Reviews

Cannes Video #7: Critics Roundtable | Chaz at Cannes

Chaz Ebert Chaz is the CEO of several Ebert enterprises, including the President of The Ebert Company Ltd, and of Ebert Digital LLC, Publisher of RogerEbert.com, President of Ebert Productions and Chairman of the Board of The Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation, and Co-Founder and Producer of Ebertfest, the film festival now in its 24th

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News: Hall of Fame Class of 2024

The Omaha Beef has announced the newest members of the Beef Hall of Fame. The six members are the second class of the organization.  The newest members are: Running Back RJ Rollins, TE/OL/WR Chad Mustard, Rump Roaster Doc Southwick, QB Matt LaFleur, Kicker Brandon Stewart, and Pat Kenison a season ticket holder. Rollins played from

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Omaha Remembers: Honoring the Sacrifices of Our Fallen Heroes this Memorial Day

As the nation observes Memorial Day, the city of Omaha joins in remembering and paying tribute to the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the United States Armed Forces. This solemn holiday serves as a powerful reminder of the immeasurable cost of freedom and the unwavering courage of those

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Omaha Fashion Week

OFW Investor’s Circle | Year 1 Impact on Designers — Omaha Fashion Week

During our Spring 2024 season, OFW’s former producer, Brook Hudson, along with Owner and Director of Develop Model Management, Alyssa Dilts, launched a brand-new program inside of Omaha Fashion Week to support designers as they move through the seasons of our showcases. The Investor’s Circle is a public funding pool where anyone can donate any

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Movie Reviews

Cannes 2024: Armand, The Kingdom, September Says

Away from the pandemonium of the Croisette and the festival’s main competition, Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section offers a consistently diverting showcase for original, daring films from emerging filmmakers (its name, translated, refers to a different way of looking at things). Three of the best films I saw in this section at Cannes this year—including

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