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News: Deleon wins Defensive Player of the Week Award for 2nd time

Ponce “The Hit Man” Deleon claimed his second Defensive Player of the Week award for his performance in the Beef’s comeback win over the Sioux City Bandits on Saturday, 34-32.  Deleon won the award the previous week in the Beef’s win over Sioux City in Ralston. Deleon made ten tackles, had one interception, and one

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Cannes 2024: The Apprentice, The Shrouds | Festivals & Awards

David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds” is best viewed in pure auteurist terms. With hair that unmistakably resembles the director’s, Vincent Cassel stars as Karsh, the proprietor of a high-tech burial business that allows the bereaved to keep an eye on their loved ones’ decaying corpses. The headstones have video screens, and there’s even a smartphone app

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News: Classic I-29 battle, see Beef win 18th straight after big comeback

  Omaha Beef @ Sioux City May 18th – 7:10pm CT Tyson Events Center It was a much different game for the 52nd meeting between Sioux City and Omaha Saturday at the Tyson Events Center than last Saturday in Ralston. This was a classic I-29 battle that saw the Beef come back from being down

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News: Beef/Bandits rematch – Omaha Beef

Omaha Beef @ Sioux City Bandits May 18th – 7:10pm CT Tyson Events Center The 51st meeting of the two teams went the Beef’s way, now they head up Interstate 29 to take on the Sioux City Bandits at the Tyson Events Center this Saturday for their second road game of the season.  Omaha forced

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Cannes 2024: Megalopolis | Festivals & Awards

A modern update to the Greek playwright Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, “Chi-Raq” immediately found controversy using Chicago’s South Side (particularly the ensuing bloody gang wars, which by that point were already making national headlines) as the backdrop for a musical crime romance starring Nick Cannon and Wesley Snipes as opposing gang leaders, and Teyonah Parris as the

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Omaha Fashion Week

Designer Lineups Announced | OFW Fall 2024 VERUS Season — Omaha Fashion Week

Omaha Fashion Week is lifting the veil and showing off behind the scenes in our Fall 2024 VERUS Season. This season’s designers draw inspiration from the natural world and repurposed materials while exploring themes of community and cultural heritage. Throughout the week, we will be showcasing 16 Emerging Designers + 14 Featured designers who will

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Movie Reviews

Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever movie review (2024)

It’s the present day, and another murderer is hovering around the Saint Hans Psychiatric Hospital. Emma (Fanny Leander Bornedal), the daughter of Martin (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), the original movie’s antihero protagonist, must stop the killing. Emma’s understandably hung up on what happened to her father after the events of “Nightwatch,” which left that movie’s antagonist, the

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Big-name outdoor concerts, pro volleyball championship, lots to do this week in Omaha

The Omaha metropolitan area is gearing up for an action-packed week of live entertainment, with an eclectic mix of outdoor concerts, interactive game shows, and a historic championship volleyball match. Headlining the concert scene is Southern California punk rock institution Social Distortion, who will be taking the stage at The Astro in La Vista on

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News: Armstrong and Deleon named week 9 Players of the Week

Two Omaha Beef players claimed Player of the Week awards for their performance in the 33-6 win over the Sioux City Bandits last Saturday. Tommy Armstrong ran the ball 13 times for 39 yards and two touchdowns and completed 13 passes for 142 yards and another two touchdowns to claim his third offensive player of

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The Red Carpets of the 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival | Festivals & Awards

On the red carpet outside the Music Box Theatre, Adlon—whose acclaimed FX series “Better Things,” which followed a single mother raising three daughters in Los Angeles, frequently drew inspiration from her own life—reflected on working with Glazer and Jon Rabinowitz, who co-wrote “Babes,” while ensuring her own voice as a filmmaker shone through on the

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