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Home » Nebraska

Tag: Nebraska

Posted inMusic

Plack Blague straps a heavy metal jockstrap to disco

by Noah Berlatsky February 7, 2020August 18, 2021

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 […]

Posted inMusic

Sixties garage rockers the Royal Flairs are best remembered for the macabre single ‘Suicide’

by Steve Krakow November 21, 2017August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inMusic

Underrated young rapper Charlie Curtis-Beard drops his ambitious second album

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil November 14, 2017August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

Joe Ricketts, DNAinfo, and the fearsomeness of labor

by Michael Miner November 6, 2017August 18, 2021

Unions give conservative billionaire Ricketts the willies.

Posted inBlogs

The mythical idea of the American heartland shouldn’t define the midwest

by Daniel Kay Hertz February 15, 2016August 18, 2021

The heartland is a fictional notion of a midwest without cities, black people, and immigrants.

Posted inBlogs

Looking to Nebraska—and the Ricketts family—for leadership

by Michael Miner February 8, 2016August 18, 2021

Illinois should consider a trade with Nebraska: our struggling Republican governor for theirs.

Posted inFood & Drink

Midwestern originals: A select list of regional food and drink

by Chicago Reader October 15, 2015August 18, 2021

A listicle of what some might consider “midwestern food”

Posted inBlogs

Rauneromics: Tax credits for ConAgra, budget cuts for everyone else

by Ben Joravsky October 2, 2015August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

Keeping up with the Rickettses

by Michael Miner May 22, 2015August 18, 2021

From the death penalty to Wrigley rooftops, the Rickettses are active on many fronts

Blood Ties
Posted inFilm

Blood Ties and Gambit: Two genre films for the grown-ups

by Ben Sachs July 9, 2014August 18, 2021

Blood Ties and Gambit: two genre films from the “disappearing middle” of American cinema

Posted inBlogs

Contemporary artist Isa Genzken, meet filmmaker Alexander Payne!

by Ben Sachs May 9, 2014August 18, 2021

Comparing ironic depictions of cutting-edge stereo equipment at the Museum of Contemporary Art and in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska

Posted inBlogs

Llewyn Davis, Outside (the Oscars)

by J.R. Jones January 16, 2014August 18, 2021

Oscar stiffs the Coen brothers’ comedy about Greenwich Village folkies; plus a rundown of the rest of the nominees.

Nebraska
Posted inFilm

Bruce Dern is a prize fool in Nebraska

by J.R. Jones November 20, 2013August 19, 2021

Alexander Payne’s Nebraska trails father-and-son losers on the road to Lincoln.

Posted inBlogs

Omaha’s Yuppies play two shows in town tonight

by Luca Cimarusti October 10, 2013August 19, 2021

. . . at an in-store at Permanent and a DIY loft space

Posted inBlogs

Gig poster of the week

by Luca Cimarusti February 27, 2013August 19, 2021

Today’s featured poster was designed by Nebraska-based artist Eric Nyffeler.

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