7+ hour, 19+ min ago  (357+ words) Big nights, exciting shows, one heartfelt goodbye'thereader.com There is a special spring edition of the Playing With Fire (PWF) concert series happening Saturday, April 18, at Slowdown, 6 p.m. The event is still free and this spring edition features a new favorite…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (256+ words) An English indie rock group and a long-running Omaha act will headline the annual Maha Festival. The outdoor concert will be held Aug. 8, 2026 at Omaha's Heartland of America Park. Headlining the 2026 Maha Festival is UK indie rock breakout Wet Leg,…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (13+ words) Cause & Culture: Wai Yim's journey to "The Great Race'thereader.com...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (473+ words) What a delight it is to watch smart people collaborate while living a real life that is dominated by idiot isolationists. Project Hail Mary is being praised for its optimism and for Ryan Gosling's dangerously-exponentially-increasing charm. Both are fair kudo…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (375+ words) The lineup has been announced for this summer's Memorial Park Concert. The annual event has been an Omaha tradition for nearly 40 years and will feature Smokey Robinson as the headliner, with support from the band Cake at this year's event,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (455+ words) Omaha hip-hop artist, producer and community leader Marcey Yates is back with "Vanilla Sky 2," a sequel to his debut album "Vanilla Sky." Yates was on set filming a video when he took a break to answer a few questions about…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (92+ words) Various responsibilities have derailed and bamboozled my very bestest of plans. Reviews for Project Hail Mary and Ready or Not 2: Readier and Nottier are coming, I promise. But to tide you over until they arrive sometime next week, here is…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (461+ words) Omaha Mayor John Ewing announced an upcoming parking program Wednesday that's meant to bring more patrons to downtown businesses hit hard by streetcar construction. The program, set to begin in a few weeks, will offer $1 parking sessions in two downtown…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (814+ words) Greek music wafts out of speakers as you walk into the basement of St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in east Omaha." The tunes are far from the only thing that sets it apart from most of the hundreds…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (419+ words) A lumbering assortment of various parts poorly stitched together and bursting at the seams" is an apt description of both Frankenstein's monster and writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal's very loose remake of The Bride of Frankenstein. If the mere inclusion of…...