3+ week, 1+ day ago   (610+ words) What I love more than anything about writer/director Jane Schoenbrun’s films is that I largely do not understand them. That is a sincere compliment! They aren’t baffling in the sense of being poorly made or confusing. They are befuddling…...

3+ day, 23+ min ago   (335+ words) Omaha city and business leaders met Wednesday to rally support for two upcoming ballot initiatives. The Building Better Omaha Committee was formed by the Greater Omaha Chamber to advocate for two bond issues totaling $185 million that will appear on the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1825+ words) There’s beauty — and complexity — in the simple. That’s one of the many mantras, along with friendship and the legacy of the event’s founder, expressed this month at the annual Tecmo Bowl National Championship in west Omaha. After a decade, the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (486+ words) The electric shock gloves making headlines after Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it was planning to outfit its agents with the technology have already been used in Nebraska for years. Last May, the Omaha Police Department submitted a request to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1570+ words) Ever since she can remember, Mariana Juarez wanted to fly. A commercial pilot’s license seemed a distant dream, though, when family hardships in her home in Guerrero, Mexico, drove her out of school at age 14. Two years later, she and…...

4+ day, 23+ min ago   (552+ words) Cindy Wiles paused a conversation with her colleague to pick up the phone ringing on her desk. She answered with the same greeting she’s uttered thousands of times before: “Mayor’s hotline, can I help you?” The calls are fairly continuous…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (570+ words) On the first day of school for Identity Preparatory Academy in North Omaha, the inaugural fourth and fifth grade classes stood up and yelled, at the request of Mayor John Ewing Jr., “My dreams are possible.” “Anything that you can…...

3+ week, 23+ hour ago   (872+ words) The keyboardist flew in from Los Angeles, the drummer from New York City. They came to Omaha to join an all-star show in the epicenter of North Omaha’s jazz revival. Several of the musicians on stage shared one thing in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (334+ words) For now, school resource officers with the Bellevue Police Department will continue to use shock gloves inside Bryan High School and Bryan Middle School. Omaha Public Schools Superintendent Matthew Ray fielded questions about the gloves at Benson High School Wednesday…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (406+ words) It’s taken over a decade for Omaha musician Noah James Mass’ self‑titled album to be released into the world. He was a successful regional musician performing in Iowa in groups such as the Josh Davis Band and Bright Giant,…...