In 2001, Raws Schlesinger, a metal and punk drummer in Lincoln, Nebraska, embraced his leather-clad dance-music heart and founded Plack Blague—an industrial electronica project intended to unleash the rowdy gay headbanger inside every hard rocker. The project was initially something of a goof, but the audience for loud sexy gay disco proved to be bigger […]
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Sixties garage rockers the Royal Flairs are best remembered for the macabre single ‘Suicide’
The Royal Flairs got started in Council Bluffs, Iowa, moved to Chicago in 1965, and split up after their front man was shot protecting a go-go dancer.
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Underrated young rapper Charlie Curtis-Beard drops his ambitious second album
Underrated young rapper Charlie Curtis-Beard drops his ambitious second album, LGBTQ prisoner-advocate group Black and Pink throws a benefit show at Elastic, and more.
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Joe Ricketts, DNAinfo, and the fearsomeness of labor
Unions give conservative billionaire Ricketts the willies.
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The mythical idea of the American heartland shouldn’t define the midwest
The heartland is a fictional notion of a midwest without cities, black people, and immigrants.
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Looking to Nebraska—and the Ricketts family—for leadership
Illinois should consider a trade with Nebraska: our struggling Republican governor for theirs.
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Midwestern originals: A select list of regional food and drink
A listicle of what some might consider “midwestern food”
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Rauneromics: Tax credits for ConAgra, budget cuts for everyone else
While social service programs and education throughout the state get cut, Illinois governor Bruce Rauner forks over as much as $1.26 million in tax credits to poach ConAgra from Omaha.
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Keeping up with the Rickettses
From the death penalty to Wrigley rooftops, the Rickettses are active on many fronts
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Blood Ties and Gambit: Two genre films for the grown-ups
Blood Ties and Gambit: two genre films from the “disappearing middle” of American cinema
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Contemporary artist Isa Genzken, meet filmmaker Alexander Payne!
Comparing ironic depictions of cutting-edge stereo equipment at the Museum of Contemporary Art and in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska
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Llewyn Davis, Outside (the Oscars)
Oscar stiffs the Coen brothers’ comedy about Greenwich Village folkies; plus a rundown of the rest of the nominees.
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Bruce Dern is a prize fool in Nebraska
Alexander Payne’s Nebraska trails father-and-son losers on the road to Lincoln.
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Omaha’s Yuppies play two shows in town tonight
. . . at an in-store at Permanent and a DIY loft space
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Gig poster of the week
Today’s featured poster was designed by Nebraska-based artist Eric Nyffeler.