by Judy Rydberg in Culture
The job and housing markets may be in a slump, but one local exchange keeps expanding. Over the past year, Omaha's shopping has exploded with chain stores that the area has never seen before with several areas around town receiving a piece of the action.
Urban Outfitters, located in the Saddle Creek complex just north of downtown, opened last October and has been a fixture for many college-age students.
by Mark Caro and Glenn Jeffers in Culture
CHICAGO (MCT) - On July 21, 1972, comic George Carlin was arrested at Milwaukee's Summerfest for a routine in which he uttered seven unutterable words. That the routine's whole point was to ridicule such language taboos made little difference to those slapping the cuffs on him for violating obscenity laws.
by Nicole Higginbotham in Culture
UNO dance students celebrated the power and poetry of the human form at the Bemis Creativity Festival in late June.
The festival, held in conjunction with the Summer Arts Festival downtown, drew a crowd of about 1,200 people to the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
by Mike Bell and Judy Rydberg in Culture
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Mike Bell
Contributor
This summer, we've seen plenty of heroes appear for the first time - or, in some cases, the sixth time - on the silver screen.
The problem, however, is we know what to expect. Fans of either comic books or Saturday morning cartoons know that Spiderman's Uncle Ben dies or that Superman's weakness is kryptonite.
by Mike Bell and Judy Rydberg in Culture
This year's Shakespeare on the Green brought the entire range of human emotions - from jovial, and sometimes juvenile, jokes to the dark, desperate decent into madness.
The Shakespearean comedy "Much Ado about Nothing," was the first of the two plays brought to life just off the UNO campus in Elmwood Park.
2008 Woodie Awards
