Oct 24, 2018 10:30AM ● By Doug Meigs
Downtown Omaha turns extra magical the evening of Nov. 22, thanks to the annual ceremony for the Holiday Lights Festival. Festive lights wil...
Sep 07, 2018 01:23PM ● By Tara Spencer
Encounter Founder by Tara Spencer Encounter Magazine recently underwent a pretty major transformation. For some, the product you see now may...
Sep 03, 2018 11:33AM ● By Sean McCarthy
It’s the weekend before the Fourth of July, and The Diner is doing its final breakfast service at the corner of 12th and Harney streets. Bus...
Aug 12, 2018 03:28PM ● By Niz Proskocil
While customers filled up their cars with gas, I filled up on a five-course meal and knocked back glasses of fine California wines. A gas st...
Jun 24, 2018 12:23PM ● By Doug Meigs
It’s the end of the Gene Leahy Mall as we know it. And Omaha civic leaders feel fine, apparently. Representatives of Mayor Jean Stothert’s o...
May 13, 2018 03:49PM ● By Kyle Eustice
Thirty-year-old Jennifer Castello lives by a simple philosophy: “Art is power.” As a writer, educator, and actor, the Omaha native has tappe...
Apr 30, 2018 03:54PM ● By Ashley Wegner
The Omaha neighborhood that’s not quite downtown and not quite Midtown has, for years, been hard to encapsulate.You could identify it as hom...
Feb 23, 2018 01:00PM ● By Max Sparber
A lot can change in 35 years, even in Omaha, a town where some places look like a glacier flowed over 2 million years ago and only unfroze a...
Feb 22, 2018 02:15PM ● By Tara Spencer
This is the first in a series on artists in residency at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.Christy Chan was at the tail end of her resi...
Oct 13, 2017 08:58AM ● By Kara Schweiss
He began serving as the vice president of LGBTQ+ advocacy organization Heartland Pride last fall, but David Kerr hails from nowhere near Neb...
Jun 08, 2017 02:24PM ● By Josefina Loza
She sets up on a bustling Old Market corner. The footpaths jostle with tourists and locals doing their weekend shopping, dining, and sightse...
May 25, 2017 09:24AM ● By Tara Spencer
PICK OF THE WEEK—Saturday, May 27: Benson’s annual Memorial Day Massive Block Party is back, and this time, you might just see Jesus. Space...
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