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Skin Deep

Our skin is the largest organ of our body. Skin contains, protects and functions on the out-side and inside. That’s right. Technically,

skin doesn’t end at the lips or at — ahem, — the other end. The alimentary canal that runs from our mouth all the way down to the other end is actually consid-ered to be outside the body. But most of us only care about the part of the skin we can see.

Humans probably pay more attention to the skin than any other body part, proven by the billions of dollars spent yearly on what are called “personal care products.” PCPs include thousands of chemicals we put on the outside and inside of our bodies.

Surveys fi nd the average American uses nine per-sonal care products everyday, with soaps, shampoos, hair conditioners, lip balms, deodorants, makeup, toothpaste, mouth wash and shaving products leading the way. That doesn’t even begin to mention the dozens of makeup products women (and some men) apply.

Advertising, peer pres-sure, societal imagery and customs have convinced us that we need soap to be clean, deodorant to smell good, cologne to attract a mate, shampoo to keep our hair from being greasy, conditioner to keep it from tangling and strangling us, powders to keep our babies’ butts from stinking, and an ever-growing list of ointments, creams, mois-turizers and applications to be a civil member of the modern world.

Most people use these products believing, “The government must require safety tests, right?” Wrong. No health or impact studies are required to market PCP. They are marketed using 10,500 unique chemical ingredients and there is no pre-market safety testing required for the industrial chemicals used in them. Many of those chemicals are known carcinogens, hor-mone disrupters and toxic. Still, we slather them on thinking they are safe. Wish they all were.No Soap, Sherlock. People are fi nding that the chem-icals we grew up learning to use may not be advisable nor even necessary. Some wise Americans are fi nding the most commonly used chemicals like soap, sham-poo, deodorant, toothpaste and more are not only un-necessary but are often unhealthy. Many people have found a way to go without them entirely or use more healthful, natural and minimalist alternatives.

The skin is a perfectly designed part of a perfectly functioning body that will ordinarily last us a lifetime as long as we don’t mess it up. The stuff we put on the body in vainglory or misguidance can often be its

undoing. The natural body oils, architecture, detritus and even the symbiotic bacteria on our skin can keep it clean, appealing, healthy and functional. We don’t need chemicals to keep from stinking. We just need to let the skin come into balance.A Better Bubble. Corey R. is a mother of three who emailed suggesting a column about options to com-mercial deodorant. With a degree in Health Care Man-agement, a minor in Holistic Health and Wellness and possessing prerequisites for a BSN in nursing, Corey knows a bit about health. So I asked her to relate her experience with natural alternatives or complete ab-stinence from commercial products. Her story started with a case of painful shingles.

“I couldn’t even touch my armpits to put on deodor-ant. I did not want to smell bad, so I looked for alter-native deodorant-like sprays,” Corey wrote in an email. “I was astounded by what I learned about deodorant…

about how many chemi-cals are absorbed through our skin. I decided I would never use it again, even after my shingles healed. I began to make my own deodorant with baking soda, corn starch, and co-conut oil.”

Corey began consider-ing all the other chemi-cals most of us put on our bodies. She eliminated or

minimized soaps, shampoo, toothpaste, perfumes and such. Those she uses, she makes or chooses alterna-tives; and most importantly, with her kids, too. Corey is among a growing number of people who are fi nding a better way.

“Many people who make their own deodorant also make other personal care items,” she wrote. “I discovered the “The No Poo” movement. I have not used shampoo or conditioner for over two years now. Shampoo has many of the same detergents as Tide. It actually causes a host of hair and scalp problems. My hair is not greasy or stinky. I clean it with baking soda water and rinse it with apple cider vinegar water. It is always shiny and clean. I still do buy some commercial products, but I am much more conscientious about what I buy and what it contains.”Living with Friendlies. We’ve spent most of the past hundred years trying to annihilate symbiotic and necessary friendly bacteria. The micro-civilization of bacteria that lives on our skin and in our bodies is the “microbiome.” It’s now considered an important part of our health. Yet we abuse it and attack it daily with harsh chemicals. The microbiome on our skin is as im-portant as the population in our gut. Some companies are now marketing probiotics for the skin. Or you can just grow your own.

Be well. ,

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HEARTLAND HEALING is a New Age polemic describing alternatives to conventional methods of healing the body, mind and planet. It is provided as information and entertainment, certainly not medical advice. It is not an endorsement of any particular therapy, either by the writer or The Reader. Visit HeartlandHealing.com for more information.

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The evolution of alcohol consumption has changed dramatically over the last few years, particularly in the Midwest. Where Bud Light

buckets once reigned, clear tulips of craft beer have taken the throne. Bland vodka has been replaced with choice whisky, and blended wines of impressive vintage have bumped Yellow Tail out of kitchens.

Any bartender will tell you the true essence of a spirit can be sought in the right vessel. Rocks glasses, carafes, and wine decanters help open the aromas of a bever-age, creating a chemical reaction that can dramatically change the flavor. Attention to glassware and presenta-tion also helps create an energy about the drink, helping set the stage for an experience of taste. And it’s not only for cock-tails. This holds true for wine as well.

If you haven’t yet ex-perienced wine on tap, you’re in for a treat. Wine dispensary machines al-low you to sample a vari-ety of wines without hav-ing to order a full bottle or glass. So if you just want a taste, you can purchase a taste. If you decide you like the wine and want a full glass, you can purchase a full glass, and if you decide that par-ticular wine isn’t for you, it’s on to the next dispensary to try something else.

Wine on tap is a great way for a bar to show off their finest bottles. Instead of rushing through a newly opened bottle before it sours to vinegar, bars can have fresh, non-oxidized wine at their fingertips with the pull of a handle. Kegged wine was mainstream in European history, but has been slow to catch on here at home. In fact, there have been three attempts in the 70s and 80s to make wine on tap mainstream in America, and all failed to grab hold of consumers.

The recent push for economical and environmentally aware packaging, along with a push for quality taste, has broken down stereotypes and made kegged wine pick up steam in the last few years.

And it’s not just the environmental benefits that make kegged wine ideal. Many say that wine served on tap is the best way to experience the true flavors of the wine in a consistent way.

Bars that offer wine on tap wish to appeal to both wine and beer drinkers by keeping fun at the foremost of the experience. Much like the unfair stereotypes that follow a loyal domestic beer drinker, the look of a wine glass in many bars can be met with skepticism. Wine on tap helps start a conversation and invites many drinkers, who may not be familiar with wine, to try some excellent products.

There are several places in Omaha that serve wine on tap. Stories Coffeehous-es, Louie’s Wine Dive and both Brix locations are just a few that offer this great option to taste wine. The success of these places has even inspired some places to raise the on tap experi-ence standard a bit higher.

Dan Matuszek, owner of the first Brix bar and restaurant, is hoping to in-spire a new craze in the on tap market: whisky.

His new venue is called Grane, and it is due to open soon in Midtown Crossing. Modeled after a snug speak-easy, Grane will offer pours of whisky utilizing the tasting system popular with beer and wine, proving that every-thing good can truly come from a keg.

Utilizing 35 “bartender” systems, Grane will have a state of the art wine dispensing system installed behind the bar, pushing grain products instead of grape. The first of its kind in Nebraska, the concept of Grane was built upon the success of its sister venture, Brix.

With the demand of local, handcrafted products in nearly every market from food to fashion, consumers are learning that slowing down is part of the enjoyment of dining and drinking. Creating an atmosphere built around small, perfectly measured tastes of spirits and wine equals luxury and care in a bar.

Now that’s something we can all drink to. ,

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n BRACE YOURSELF, VEGANS! Omaha’s first all-veg-an restaurant is on schedule to open their doors Aug. 5. Modern Love Omaha will initially only serve dinner, but has plans to offer a Sunday brunch soon thereaf-ter. More good news: They have their liquor license. www.modernloveomaha.comn OMAHA’S FOOD NETWORK STAR The second season of The Food Network’s “Kids Cook-Off” with Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri premieres Aug. 14 and includes a young chef from Omaha. Helen Wilson will be a “kidtestant” on this season, which includes a bunch of culinary competitions and oohs and aahs from a long list of celebrity guest judges. www.foodnetwork.comn BACONFEST September may seem like a long way off, but it’s never too soon to start thinking

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EDITOR’S NOTE: With the family and Matt’s participation, Chris Hamel has been working on a history of the Ranch Bowl due to be released this Fall. To share your memories and stories of Matt and the Ranch Bowl, go to www.theRanchBowl.com

Matt Markel was the godfather of the Omaha music scene, says Nikki Bou-lay, a local radio deejay who worked with Markel at 93.3 K-ROCK, Oma-

ha’s first alternative radio station in the ’90s. And if you connect the dots that lead to the national atten-tion Omaha receives today as a music town, one of the first dots is Matt Markel.

Markel, long time Omaha music promoter and owner of the Ranch Bowl, died Friday morning after a prolonged battle with antiphospholipid syndrome, according to the family’s post on Facebook. An eve-ning wake was scheduled for Tuesday and funeral services were Wednesday morning at St. Robert’s.

He is regarded by many as a seminal figure in Oma-ha’s rich musical culture and is remembered well for bringing mega acts like Pearl Jam, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana and Green Day to play Nick and Eric’s, the Ranch Bowl’s tiny concert hall, when they were still struggling bar bands.

Rick Galusha, Associate Professor of Arts and Sci-ences at Bellevue University, Pacific Street Blues radio show host, and all-around rock’n’roll historian called Markel Omaha’s “preeminent impresario” — profes-sor-speak for a top-shelf culture provider.

Galusha cited Markel as fundamental to reinvigo-rating a flailing Omaha musical tradition from the early 1970s that provided venues and promoted bands who had received national critical acclaim, but could not draw enough people to fill the Omaha Music Hall or the Civic Auditorium — bands like the Ramones, Thin Lizzy and the Talking Heads. Places like the Mu-sic Box at 22nd and Capitol had closed and Markel made it possible for people to not only see great bands in Omaha, but on the right week to see three or four great bands.

In the mid 1970s, Omaha was a bit of a backwa-ter culturally, Galusha said. “Matt helped to change that,” he added, by creating a vibrant live music scene. Omaha consistently receives a top 10 rating from a magazine like Fobres as a great place to live. “Matt was a guy who made that possible.”

“I have no idea how Matt knew which bands were cool, but he did,” 311 drummer Chad Sexton said re-cently when asked about the band’s early days at the Ranch Bowl, where as teens they would go to play pool, hang out and see bands.

Sexton remembers Markel and the Ranch Bowl fondly as the place where 311, the best selling rock act to ever come out of Omaha, “learned to be a band” by watching groups like the Smashing Pump-kins and Firehose.

Along with discovering and promoting national up-and-coming bands, Markel was an early supporter of and mentor to 311 who for a while had a standing Monday night gig at the Ranch Bowl.

Sexton credits Markel with having introduced the band to the grittier, drier side of life in the rock’n’roll circus — the business side. “Matt had a feel for the

business … he was open to new things and he always gave us a fair deal.”

Markel, whose lifelong love affair with rock’n’roll included his own high school band, the Squires, called it “instinct.” “I have a passion for music,” he said in June — an understatement of cosmic proportions to anyone who knew him.

But Markel also possessed an instinct, and passion, for business. “Matt was a great marketing kid,” Larry Good, Markel’s longtime business partner and longer time friend said.

After graduating from Creighton Prep and then Creighton University with a management degree, Markel worked in the hotel industry as a “turn around man,” where he would oversee the restructuring of

failing hotels. Good said Markel had a talent for fix-ing broken businesses and that was central to why he thought Markel would make a good entertainment business partner.

In the Spring of 1976, Good paid a visit to his boy-hood chum and Creighton schoolmate who was work-ing for Hilton Hotels in Myrtle Beach, S.C., with a pro-posal to buy the “bowling alley that sits on a hill” back in Omaha. Good’s pitch worked and he and Markel purchased the Ranch Bowl from its founder, I.B. Zieg-man on a three-year contract with an option to own.

The Ranch Bowl that Good and Markel purchased in 1976 would seem but a distant relative to the Ranch Bowl that folks remember from the ’80s and ’90s and

that’s in large part due to Markel’s creativity and busi-ness savvy.

The old Ranch Bowl offered 24 lanes of bowling, a full service (cloth napkins and tablecloths) dining room, a reception hall that hosted weddings, class reunions and political events and it even included a nursery where day-league bowling moms could leave their kids.

“The dining room had the greatest beef ribs and the best reuben in town,” Good said. In 1980 the Ranch Bowl started providing live entertainment in the din-ing room in the form of a country band called Sweet Country, and a comedy/music routine called Skid Roe and Johnny O.

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The music bug bit Markel hard and the great Ranch Bowl metamorphosis began. Markel added more and more bands, most of them local: Bozak and Morrisey, the Firm, High Heel and the Sneekers, Finest Hour and Sunday Night with the Rumbles were regular Ranch Bowl fare.

The dining room was eventually closed and the space was committed exclusively to live music. Markel began booking original bands like Siouxsee and the Bansheess, the Rainmakers and the Meat Puppets. He and Good repurposed other spaces: some front offices became Matthew’s Pub, the nursery became a billiard hall named Snookers, the dining room was re-modeled into a bar with a full fledged concert hall that Markel named after his son’s, Nick and Eric’s.

Good sold his share of the business to Markel in the late 1980s. Markel then pushed harder and harder to promote music in Omaha. Using the Ranch Bowl as the flagship for his op-erations, the business grew in scope and scale. Markel began using other venues in Omaha and Lincoln and booking bigger acts like Ala-nis Morissette, Blues Trav-eler, Ziggy Marley and Col-lective Soul.

June 1991 saw Markel add another weapon to his rock’n’roll promotional arse-nal – radio. In Washington, D.C., he purchased the rights to broadcast on a newly of-fered frequency from the Federal Communications Commission. This was the origin of K-ROCK (KRRK) 93.3 FM that promised to “Rock the ’90s”.

At terrific expense, Markel remodeled the Ranch Bowl once again, putting in studios and office space for the new radio station. The earliest format of K-ROCK was face melting heavy metal, the likes of which had never been heard on Omaha’s airwaves. The blistering guitar screeches of Metallica, Slayer and Iron Maiden had head bangers believing they had died and gone to heaven.

It was considered a bold move by any measure but Markel dismissed it as an easy choice. “Metal was big at the time,” he said with a chuckle.

The metal dream was short lived though, as Markel tweaked K-ROCK’s format to a more alternative rock sound that played bands like 10,000 Maniacs, Mathew Sweet and REM.

With K-ROCK Markel established unfettered access to advertising for upcoming shows and he emerged as a nearly unstoppable force. Bands and their agents loved the idea that the show promoter also owned the media and could sell the show as much as he liked.

Boulay recalls one artist telling her, “No, you don’t get it. There is no place like this in the world.”

And really, to a number of local bowlers, pool shooters, volleyball players (outdoor volleyball courts

were also added), beer drinkers and kids who just wanted to hang out in the vibe, Markel had created a space that was like no place in the world.

And the sentiment wasn’t exclusive to only musi-cians. Amal Sawaged, a waitress and bartender at the Ranch Bowl for 33 years who many knew as “Mama,” remembers Markel as a compassionate boss. “Matt would always ask about your family.” When Sawaged’s son was born, Markel had a banner made and hung that proclaimed a “Prince is Born.”

She said that Markel really loved young people and treated them with respect. Sophia John would agree with that and say the same about his treatment of women. John is station manager for what stands as the most K-ROCK-like station left in Omaha, 89.7 THE RIVER. She worked with Markel in the late ’90s at the Ranch Bowl. “In an industry run by men, Matt trusted women more,” pointing out that women ran a number of operations at the Ranch Bowl including

Shirley Guzzeta who oversaw the bowling alley. Even though he had his finger on the pulse of what

was happening in music, it was his habit of never judging anyone that John says made Markel a special boss and person. He treated no-name bands like they were super stars, she said, while at the same time he was never intimidated by celebrity. John remembers Matt telling singer/songwriter Jewel that she “should fix her teeth.”

Markel’s legacy of supporting local talent and bringing great music to Omaha’s music scene is indelible. His work as a father, husband and music promoter left many the gift of cherished memories. He sold the Ranch Bowl in 2005 and it was eventu-ally sold to WalMart. Some say that there are places in the big box retailer where you can still smell stale cigarette smoke and beer, a sort of haunting memoir of old Ranch Bowl patrons. Now if you go you’re just as likely to hear the sad strains of the Chili Peppers’ “Under the Bridge.” And if you do, you’ll know who brought them there. ,

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Brandon Miller of the Kris Lager Band (KLB) does infi nitely more than just play bass in the group. As founder of the annual Hullabaloo

Music and Camping Festival, he’s in charge of booking the bands, arranging space for camping, creating a tun-nel/forest, setting up a Frisbee golf course and a slew of other summertime activities. After all, it’s not just a three-day concert; it’s a full on experience. Miller has al-ways loved going to music festivals and it seemed to be only a matter of time before he started his own.

“Long before I ever picked up an instrument or even knew what a chord was, I loved to go to music festivals and dance to great music,” Miller says. “When I got the opportunity to join Kris Lager Band, still not knowing any chords by the way, I thought it would be a great time to throw my own festival centering around KLB. That is what other bands like String Cheese, Yonder Mountain, Moe and Umphreys McGee have done. They host their own well-attended and well-received festivals and invite all their favorite bands and best friends to join them in some remote location to groove together. That is what I wanted to do with KLB and our community.”

It’s not without its challenges. Promoting is one of the hardest jobs you can do. There’s always a risk no one will

show up and then you’ve essentially fl ushed thousands of dollars down the drain. If you’re not comfortable tak-ing a suitcase full of hundred dollar bills and throwing it off of a roof, then it’s probably not the business for you. Luckily, it’s working out so far for Miller, but there were plenty of bumps along the road, especially in 2011, its fi rst year. In fact, not much went into his decision to move forward with such a risky endeavor.

“I didn’t even think about it when I got started,” he explains. “It just came together so fl uidly at fi rst that I thought, ‘wow this is really fun and easy.’ I had no idea. As soon as I thought it was all ready to go and every little detail was taken care of—bam— it all went to heck. The original location was supposed to be at the Anchor Inn, complete with stage, staff, food, booze, lights, toilets, parking, and every other little thing you could need. It was so easy. All I had to do was fi nd a few friends’ bands that wanted to be a part of the party. I had been promot-ing it at that location for months with tens of thousands of fl iers. Then the horribly insane fl ooding came and everything changed. I had to fi nd a new location and ev-ery single one of those things that the Anchor had ready for us to make a festival happen, needed to be arranged in a matter of a couple months. My head exploded, but there were way more people out there affected way worse by the fl ooding that year than us.”

It’s all worth it for Miller when he sees a happy crowd. Last year, he had the Bay Area hip-hop duo Blackalicious perform, and even though the crowd was thin, there was still an energetic vibe that reverberated throughout So-kol Park. Granted, it was the last day of the three-day festival and a Sunday night so it was a little harder to

pull in the big numbers. Either way, Miller loves every minute of it.

“I love getting all of my favorite bands to come play our own private party,” he says. “We just always hope the public shows up, but if they don’t, we know we are going to have one heck of a great time with our best friends. I would say the moment I fi nd most rewarding is getting up on stage to play our Kris Lager Band sets and seeing everything come together from the stage vantage point. Seeing so many smiling, beautiful, dancing souls there to celebrate life with us and seeing all the great art installa-tions, full campground, and incredible light shows just makes my soul smile. We are very blessed.

“I am so new at promoting and there is so much I do not know still and may never know,” he continues. “I am best at reaching our own friends and demographic. Figuring out how to reach the masses beyond our fan base is always the biggest challenge. It would be made easier if we had a larger budget to work with where we could afford some mainstream advertising but that gets terribly expensive. And it isn’t just for the hip hop por-tion, but also the soul, blues, funk, bluegrass, electronic, rock and roll, or any other style we bring out. Hope we don’t have the same issue with Nappy Roots this year.”

Speaking of Nappy Roots, the lineup this year is sol-id. The Kris Lager Band, of course, is on the bill along with roots/bluegrass band Cornmeal, Texas-based multi-instrumentalist Carolyn Wonderland, blues mu-sician Andy Frasco, funksters Sophistafunk, Lincoln’s Universe Contest, country-infl uenced rockers Desert Noises, blues-rock artist Patrick Sweany, funk enthusi-asts The Main Squeeze, Omaha’s Funk Trek, psychedel-

ic funk band Monstars, and more. Booking is a process Miller takes very seriously.

“I start by trying to book my favorite touring bands of the moment and asking all my local favorites to get on board,” he explains. “Then when looking for headliners, it starts to be more about routing and whether I can af-ford to bring in the artists that I love. If I had a budget to the scale of some of these larger festivals, I would bring Omaha the coolest party it has ever seen. We get to see so many amazing bands out in our travels that people here need to know about. They will love them as much as we do. I know it.”

While intriguing musical acts are still the meat of the festival, there are some changes this year. Miller tries to go above and beyond with every festival he throws.

“Every year we are trying to up the ante both musi-cally and atmospherically,” he says. “We are working with several artists and lighting designers to bring the environmental mood to another level. We also are go-ing to have a hookah bar from Boosted Dreamz, a 9-hole Frisbee golf course, midnight movies, full service bar, playground and games for families, and many other sur-prises. This is going to be one exciting, action-packed, weekend for everyone.”

Camping is another element that makes Hullabaloo unique. It allows people to have a safe and comfortable home base next to the music. You don’t have to worry about driving under the infl uence or fi nding a desig-nated driver. You just have to be able to make it safely back to your tent.

“It’s nice to be able to take a quick break in a full day of music,” he says. “You can grab a quick bite from the

vendors, a drink from the park, head back to your camp-site and relax for a moment.”

For attendees, Hullabaloo is an unforgettable event. It has a lot of the same people returning year after year to show their support. Miller should be proud. In the face of adversity, he’s managed to pull off the massive event for the past four years, which is not an easy task. If this year’s event goes as planned, it will be something people talk about for years to come, much like the fi rst one.

“People that made it through the fi rst year have a running joke about surviving Hurricane Hullabaloo,” he says. “Beside the fl ooding, that was also the year a small tornado came through the outskirts of Lincoln and brought a storm with 70 mph winds through the Metro. One moment KLB was on stage playing and the next we were in full on emergency mode. I had no one managing the second stage that year during our set so I had to run over to it and try to secure everything. We had the stage full of gear that the band was trying to cover with tarps.

“The storm was so intense and quick to move through, but it left a lot of damage,” he adds. “The speakers were full of water, there was standing water all over the campground. Not a tent was left standing, and my father actually got carried across a road while trying to hold down the front gate tent that turned into a kite by the wind. I remember being so worried someone was hurt and then I see people emerging from hiding spots and heard people laughing, cheering, and yelling ‘Hul-labalooooo’ at the tops of their lungs. It made me tear up I was so relieved. It is making me tear up just thinking about it now and reliving that beautiful moment.” ,

Hullabaloo Music and Camping Festival, July 24, 25 and 26, at Sokol Park, Bellevue, Campgrounds open at 12 p.m. Thursday, July 24. Tickets are $50/ADV and $60/DOS. Sunday is free. Visit www.hullabaloomusicfestival.com for more information.

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backbeat■ Four bands with ties to the northeast Nebraska area are coming together to host a benefi t show for the tornado-stricken town of Pilger. Des Moines’ Monday Mourners, Clarence Tilton, the Sons of... and the Matt Whipkey Band will all play at the Wait-ing Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St., July 30 to raise money for recovery efforts in Pilger, which was hit by two tornadoes in June. The $8 cover will go to the Pilger Relief and Rebuild Fund.■ Omaha weirdo art-punk band Worried Mothers have released a music video for “Book of Lies,” an unreleased song. It’s a video that starts on a gauzy close-up of a sparrow carcass before cutting to home-made puppets and a whole dose of odd that is the band’s calling card.■ The Good Speakers Fest is returning to Omaha Friday, Sept. 19, and Saturday, Sept. 20. The festi-val is curated by Touch People mastermind Dar-ren Keen and is scheduled to take over the Carlisle Hotel’s conference center, 10909 M St. The lineup is set to include Andrew WK, Icky Blossoms, Uni-verse Contest, Routine Escorts, Cakes Da Killa and Black Oatmeal. Find the event on Facebook for more information.

— Chris AponickBackbeat looks at music in the metro area. Email information to [email protected]

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Through July 28 SOCIAL STUDIES BY LAURA CARLSON Omaha Public LibraryW. Dale Clark branch, 215 S. 15th St.closing workshop July 28 from 7-8 p.m.www.omahalibrary.org/w-dale-clark-library

This series of paintings and assorted documents by Omaha-based artist Laura Carlson is part art exhibit, part performance and part social experiment. The set of eight canvases in the Michael Phipps Gallery at the W. Dale Clark branch, entitled Social Studies, are the heart of this exhibit and will be on view until July 28. Depending on when you visit, however, you will also have the opportunity to watch Carlson work and to participate in a series of workshops in which visitors will be invited to refl ect upon the issues raised in the show as they impact their own lives. Large pieces of poster paper list the hierarchies we generally know—racism, sexism, classism, etc. — while also pro-viding a vocabulary for talking about how these hier-archies become tangled up with one another and what kinds of behavior they produce. I encountered the terms “kyriarchy” and “tone policing” for the fi rst time, although these coinages seem as if they had been hang-ing out there all the while. For my full review on this exhibit, go to www.thereader.com. — David Thompson

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Sunday, July 27 FITZ AND THE TANTRUMSStir Conert CoveHarrah’s, 1 Harrah’s Blvd., Council Bluffsstircove.com

Los Angeles-based Fitz and the Tantrums are con-stantly breaking boundaries in genre and their sound encompasses many decades worth of music. Their fi rst album Pickin’ Up the Pieces reached No. 1 on Billboard Heatseekers Chart. The band consists of Michael Fitz-patrick (lead vocals and keyboards), Noelle Scaggs (vocals and percussion), James King (saxophone, fl ute, keyboard, percussion and guitar), Joseph Karnes (bass guitar), Jeremy Ruzumna (keyboards) and John Wicks

(drums and percussion). I had a recent “phoner” with Ruzumna while the band’s on the road. The keyboard-ist said he wanted to be a musician since age 8 when he realized girls gather around the piano if you play it. Ru-zumna wasn’t that great at sports, he said, but music proved to be his passion. Ruzumna doesn’t read sheet music very well, but he can certainly play by ear. It’s a talent that has helped him succeed in the Tantrums. Fitz and the Tantrums was founded by Fitzpatrick in 2008. Fitzpatrick had an organ, and he wanted to use it in the song “Breakin’ the Chains of Love.” An organ early on may have very well infl uenced the band’s future sound to come. Ruzumna said his infl uences range from Prince to the Eisley Brothers. He also prefers to play live shows because there’s no live guitar player to compete with. It makes Ruzumna’s job a little easier and also lets himself be heard. Ruzumna’s per-sonal favorite song is “6 a.m.” It’s an emotional overload of lyrical themes regarding broken love. Fitz and the Tantrums cover a wide range of emotions. Their sound ends up vibing a sort of feel-good modern mix on older genres with bass-lines, organs and electronic infl uence. Don’t miss this extraordinary mix of sounds and emotions at Stir Concert Cove. — Paul Heft

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Please welcome Metropolis Records’ Grendel from the Netherlands, Ludovico Technique from Orlando, Fla. and DJ Electronic Comman-do for their fi rst time in Omaha. This is one of a long line of a “dark music and art” events in the Omaha area. Grendel’s song “Hate This” sounds something like Combichrist and an ea-ger goth kid who’s never been to a club before — you can hear the ominous energy in the elec-tronics. Grendel creates a maelstrom of sounds and effects. Ludovico Technique continues with energy and adds a number of sound effects to

their work in songs like “Deeper Into You.” The song is complete with breakdowns and experimental work with beats. Finally, DJ Electronic Commando knows how to mix all of the dark side into one seemingly end-less strain of music, dance and adventure. Don’t miss this unique show. — Paul Heft

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Last year I knocked this dramatic series for rubbing our noses in sick sexual encounters and bloody corpses. I found Liev Schreiber too gloomy as a fi xer for the rich and famous – a thug who solves their problems with muscle and manipulation, but not much entertainment val-ue. Well, either the series got more interesting or my life got more depressing, because season two strikes me as a pretty good time. Schreiber has found intriguing nuances in his character, and the supporting cast of scoundrels (Jon Voigt, El-liott Gould) runs the gamut of masculinity from asinine to atrocious. The series is still gloomy, to be sure, but there’s just enough tough-guy po-etry to take the edge off.

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ONGOINGARTAim for the Stars - 7:00 am | University of Ne-braska at OmahaVisions of Lewis and Clark - All Day | Free The

Kaneko Visions of Lewis and Clark is a unique historical art exhibit consisting of thirty kites com-memorating Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery expedition.

Julie Schram - All Day | Connect Gallery Graph-ite Drawings - Portraits Reception - Fri. July, 18, 5:30-9 pm.

Truck-A-Tecture - All Day | Free The Kaneko Truck-A-Tecture examines architecture as rede-fined by mobility and technical expansion.

Around the World and Home Again - All Day | University of Nebraska at Omaha Display of paint-ings and sculptures by Katy Haberman.

Flock House Project - All Day | Free Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts What if migratory homes with autonomous systems for rainwater collection and food production were the building blocks of the city of the future?

A Theft in the Garden - All Day | $3-$7 Lauritzen Gardens Buck Christensen’s minimalist compositions.

Yard/Zone - All Day | Free University of Nebraska-Lincoln An exhibition of stitched sculptural forms by Sarah Wagner of Detroit.

Studio Poche - All Day | The Kaneko An exhibition presented by the University of Nebraska Lincoln College of Architecture.

Mixed Media & Musical Instruments - All Day | Fred Simon Gallery The art of Michael Gi-ron and Riccardo Marchio in the Mixed Media & Musical Instruments exhibit.

Visions of Lewis and Clark Kite Expo - All Day | $3-$7 Lauritzen Gardens Visions of Lewis and Clark is a unique historical art exhibit con-sisting of thirty kites commemorating Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery expedition. Through-out the summer, these kites will be on view at ten participating locations throughout the metro area.

Urban Design Lab - All Day | Free Bemis Cen-ter for Contemporary Arts Chlo Bass and Teal Gardner, two of the Bemis Center’s Artists-in-Res-idence, are collaborating with 20 local research-ers to shed new light on the nature of our urban landscape. Each of the researchers was recruited from a local high school. Participants in the Lab are conducting field research in various parts of the city and synthesizing that data here in this space.

THURSDAYJULY 24›››MUSIC›››The Eric Jerardi Band - 6:00 pm | Cover The

21st Saloon Jerardi began his musical career with winning a battle of the bands contest in 1989 at Ohio University. He has played in countless blues festivals, major concerts and a myriad of other shows around the country for more than 20 years.

Jazz on the Green - 7:30 pm | Free Turner Park at Midtown Crossing Cuban Big Band Conjunto Chappottin Y Sus Estrellas will bring festive Latin jazz to the series. Founded in the 1940s, the band is considered one of the most renowned ‘Son’ bands in Cuba today, according to Latin Pulse Music. Free salsa dance lessons will begin at 6:45 p.m.

Third Thursdays with Thornburg - 8:00 pm | Free The Side Door Lounge Jazz Group formed in 2014 consisting of alto saxophonist Steve Thorn-burg, bassist Mark Luebbe and drummer Mary O’Keefe.

Balyhoo! - 8:00 pm | The Hive Lounge Open Decks - 10:00 pm | Free

›››MISC›››The Wizard of Oz - 7:30 pm | $19 Lofte Commu-

nity Theatre Come join Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tinman, the Cowardly Lion and Toto as they travel the universe of Dorothy’s imagination.

Omaha Tech Security Conference - 8:00 am | Free Hilton Omaha Hotel The conference will fea-ture vendor exhibits and industry leading speakers discussing current IT security topics such as cloud security, social media security, personal devices security, wireless security, compliance & more.

FRIDAYJULY 25›››MUSIC›››

Wicked - 7:00 pm | Arena Sports Bar and GrillFilter - 7:00 pm | $10-$12 Sokol Underground

Shoving a fist in the face of tradition has been Filters modus operandi since the release of their self-produced debut album, Short Bus. The al-bums rough-around-the-edges production con-sisted of inebriated answering machine samples, lavish bass lines, and jagged guitars set to a backdrop of drum machines punctuated by the unfurling of Richard Patricks vocal prowess and signature roar.

eNVy - 8:00 pm | Free Ameristar CasinoBlue House & The Rent to Own Horns -

8:00 pm | $5 McKenna’s Blues Booze and BBQRhythm Collective - 8:00 pm | The Hive LoungeMiniature Tigers - 9:00 pm | $12 The Slowdown

Omaha The sound is important but nothing is more important than the feeling of the sound. When Charlie Brand (vocals, guitar) was writing the newest Miniature Tigers record, he looked to the sum of his musical influences for inspiration.

Debut of HookT - 9:00 pm | $5 Chrome Lounge A Night of Rock HookT’s debut at Chrome with Omaha’s own Suite. Ages 21+

All Young Girls Are Machine Guns - 9:30 pm | $5 O’Leaver’s Pub A seven piece Doo-wop and Soul band from Omaha, Nebraska. They have taken the last five years to develop their sound from a mish-mash of pop, jazz, country, and blues and fine-tuned it into a consistent soulful sound.

›››MISC›››Cox Music and Movies - 7:30 pm | Free Holland

Performing Arts Center Join us in the courtyard for our last movie of the summer, ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.’ The five-piece country swing band The Electroliners performs before the movie begins.The Electroliners were nominated for Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards for Best Country/Americana in 2012 and 2013.

The Eagle Has Landed: An Apollo 11 Tribute - 7:30 pm | $30 Apollon We’re sending you to astro-naut training so you can find out for yourself. At this interactive art show and dinner we’ll launch you into space and try to help you get back alive. Good luck! Tickets for this PG event includes dinner.

Big Canvas Comedy - 8:00 pm | The Pizza Shoppe Collective

SATURDAYJULY 26›››MUSIC›››Paul Serrato Duo - 4:00 pm | Free Addicted Cup Vibes at Village Pointe - 6:30 pm | Free Vil-

lage Pointe Shopping Center Kids, have your face painted and dance down by the stage. Bring chairs or a blanket and be entertained by Lemon Fresh Day.

Lavender - 7:00 pm | Arena Sports Bar and GrillSue Murray - 7:00 pm | Free McKenna’s Blues

Booze and BBQSoul Night - 8:00 pm | The Sydney Bar And

LoungeCymbolton - 8:00 pm | Free Ameristar CasinoCounting Crows - 8:00 pm | Stir Concert Cove,

Harrah’s Council BluffsEckophonic - 9:00 pm | Free Ozone LoungeHoneyboy Turner Band - 9:00 pm | Free Ha-

vana GaragePowerslop - 9:00 pm | $5 Brothers Lounge 21+Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas - 10:00 pm

| $6-$8The Bourbon Theatre CD Listening Party and Art

Show - 7:00 pm | Free

Howlin’ Hounds Coffee Support local art and music in a themed art show featuring 10+ local artists displaying their work plus a listening party for 2 album releases by two Omaha-based musi-cians. Saints of Lust and Bill Roundtree

›››MISC›››Take it to the Limit: Defining Extraordinary

- 7:30 pm | $19+ Orpheum Theater-Omaha The culmination of a week-long musical theatre intensive taught by the industry’s top professionals, presented by Omaha Performing Arts and Broadway Dreams Foundation. The Broadway-style cabaret will feature selections from Tony Award winning musicals.

SUNDAYJULY 27›››MUSIC›››The Wildwoods - 2:00 pm | Free Soaring Wings

VineyardMusic in the Park - 6:30 pm | Free Tom Hanafan

River’s Edge ParkThe Luke Polipnick Trio - 8:00 pm | The Side

Door LoungeFitz and the Tantrums - 8:00 pm | Stir Concert

Cove, Harrah’s Council BluffsLuigi, Inc. - 9:00 pm | Free Mr. Toad’s Pub Omaha

›››MISC›››The Weisenheimers Reunion Show - 8:00

pm | $15 The Slowdown Omaha The original Weisenheimers are back! Marvin Pratt, Matt Geiler and Jennifer Smedley McAdams return to Omaha to raise funds for Pilger, NE tornado relief.

MONDAYJULY 28›››MUSIC›››Americana Acoustic Music Camp - 7:30 am

| $300 Sumtur Ampitheater Hosted by Sumtur Amphitheater and the City of Papillion Recreation Department, students will learn to perform acous-tic American roots music including bluegrass, country, folk, old-time, blues and other quintes-sentially American music styles.

Mike Gurciullo and His Las Vegas Big Band - 8:00 pm | Free Ozone Lounge

Songwriter Open Mic - 9:00 pm | Free The Bar-ley Street Tavern Sign up starts at 7pm. Talk to the bartender to get on the list. 15 minute sets (including set-up/tear-down time).

›››MISC›››Movie Night - 8:00 pm | Free The Hive LoungeMonday Night at the Movies - 8:30 pm | Free

Turner Park at Midtown CrossingPub Quiz - 9:00 pm | Free The Slowdown Omaha

Gather up a team of 5 or less people and get ready to have your wits tested with 40 questions from the Quiz Masters.

TUESDAYJULY 29›››MISC.›››Tempo of Twilight - 6:00 pm | $3-$7 Lauritzen Gar-

dens These family-friendly outdoor concerts provide a unique atmosphere to enjoy wonderful musical en-tertainment. Guests are allowed to bring chairs, food and beverages on Tempo of Twilight nights only.

Weisenheimers - 8:30 pm | The Pizza Shoppe Collective

Omaha Storm Chasers vs. Memphis Red-birds - 7:00 pm | Werner Park

WEDNESDAYJULY 30›››MUSIC›››Music in the Parks-Council Bluffs - 6:30 pm |

Free Council Bluffs Bayliss Park USAF Heartland of America Band, Vortex.

One Republic - 7:00 pm | $35-$75 CenturyLink Center Omaha One Republic brings their 2014 Native Summer Tour to Omaha. With special guest The Script!

Open Mic Night - 8:00 pm | The Side Door Lounge

Arctic Monkeys - 8:00 pm | Stir Concert Cove, Harrah’s Council Bluffs

Nostalgia Wednesdays - 9:00 pm | Free Ozone Lounge

Matthew Sweet - 9:30 pm | $15 O’Leaver’s Pub During a career that stretches back to the mid-80s, Sweet has never followed trends, though his landmark 1991 album Girlfriend was responsible for starting its bone-dry, caterwauling sonics.

›››MISC›››Comedy Open Mic - 10:00 pm | FreeThe Barley

Street TavernOmaha Storm Chasers vs. Memphis Red-

birds - 7:00 pm | Werner Park

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coldcreamn The Shelterbelt Theatre’s latest pro-duction entitled Abby in the Summer by A.P. Andrews is going into its final two weekends. Director Beth Thompson took some time to answer some ques-tions about the production.

How did Shelterbelt come across this play?(Former Artistic Director) Ellen Struve found A.P. Andrews online. He is a NY based playwright who grew up in Superi-or Nebraska. He has written what he calls the “Nebraska Cycles” which consists of 10 plays that all take place in the fictional small town of Jaconda, Neb. I was in-trigued by how much A.P. loves Nebraska ... I also saw an opportunity to build a strong relationship with a young play-wright, who is making a name for himself at Seven Devils and Playwrights Horizons ... the idea of continuing the cycle at the Shelterbelt is intriguing to me!

What was the biggest challenge during the rehearsal process?The biggest challenge was stepping into a role myself. My original actress playing the role of Rhonda needed to leave the production for personal reasons about five weeks into the rehearsal process.

The role is small but pivotal. At the end of the day, I decided that I would rather spend the last few weeks getting the rest of my cast over the last few humps and take the role myself than spend the rest of the time trying to catch a new person up. For the last two weeks of rehearsal I had various board members and friends come in and watch to give notes on the sections I had to miss while acting. In the end I believe that it was the right decision and am so blessed to have the help I do!

How have audiences reacted to the show so far? What are your hopes for the final two weeks of performances?This story is a common one and the rela-tionships between these characters exist for all of us so I believe that people are touched by a story that hits so close to home. We begin by setting up near ste-reotypes and then spend the rest of the play tearing them down to reveal who these people really are...it’s a human story, told very close to home. Abby is a sweet story but also a very real story with a crazy cast of characters that you will not soon forget!

— Bill GrennanCold Cream looks at theater in the metro area. Email information to [email protected].

hoodooB Y B . J . H U C H T E M A N N

HOODOO is a weekly column focusing on blues, roots, Americana and occasional other music styles with an emphasis on live

music performances. Hoodoo columnist B.J. Huchtemann is a Reader senior contributing writer and veteran music journalist who

has covered the local music scene for nearly 20 years. Follow her blog at hoodoorootsblues.blogspot.com.

Wonderland, Missouri Jam

Hullabaloo rocks with a great musical lineup including the amazing Carolyn Wonderland plugging in Friday, July

25, 7:25-8:40 p.m. The event is Thursday through Saturday, July 24, 25 and 26 at Sokol Park in Bellevue. Ticket options include a full-weekend music and camping ticket, single-day music and camping or music-only wristbands. The festival is organized by Kris Lager Band’s bass player Brandon Miller (see story on page 10). Kris Lager Band plays Friday at 10:10 p.m. and Saturday at 8:15 p.m. Over 20 actss are scheduled including Andy Frasco. Kris Lager Band has been working with Frasco and is featured on his new CD Half a Man. Details and complete schedule are at hullabaloomusicfestival.com.Hector’s Hillbilly Music Jam Hector Anchondo hosts his first annual Hillbilly Music Jam Friday and Saturday, July 25 and 26. The ticket price includes a bus trip to Big Rock Candy Mountain campgrounds (it’s a real place) located in Jadwin, Mo., two nights of music, camping and a river float trip. Regional blues, rock and country artists, including Omaha’s Matt Cox, are performing. See hillbillybluesjam.com for ticket prices and schedule.

Matt Markel Elsewhere in this issue you find more coverage of Matt Markel, the Ranch Bowl’s longtime owner and local music promoter. Markel passed away July 18, 2014, from a debilitating health condition. I worked with Matt in the early 1990s creating concert flyers for blues shows at the old Jones Street Brewery, which actually helped paved the way for my writing for The Reader. His impact on the Omaha music scene was huge and he brought some amazing shows to town. Hot Notes The Back Porch Blues Band from Topeka, Kan., hits Elkhorn’s Heartland Café Friday, July 25. The band plays music from Chicago blues to funk to Texas roots-rock and swing. They are heard regularly at festivals in Kansas and Missouri. See backporchbluesband.com. Drew Jude & The Cool Tones play Saturday, July 26. Music starts at 7:30 p.m. Denver’s Andy Sydow and his band are back at Lincoln’s Zoo Bar Thursday, July 24, 9 p.m., playing excellent keyboard-driven, New Orleans-influenced blues. See andysydow.com.Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas bring pop, soul and rockabilly to the Zoo Saturday, July 26, 9 p.m. Eddie Shaw & The Wolf Gang hit the Zoo Wednesday, July 30, 6-9 p.m. Veteran Ohio blues-rock guitarist Eric Jerardi gigs at The 21st Saloon Thursday, July 24, 6-9 p.m. See ericjerardi.com. ,

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overtheedgeL I F E S T Y L E C O L U M N B Y T I M M C M A H A N

OVER THE EDGE is a weekly column by Reader senior contributing writer Tim McMahan focused on culture, society, music, the media and the arts. Email Tim at [email protected]. And be sure to check out his blog at Lazy-i.com

Five Years Leading Up to 1912

The first thing to mention when describing 1912, the new bar/restaurant scheduled to open July 31 at 6201 Maple St., is that roof-

top deck. There’s nothing like it in Benson. Strike that, there’s nothing like it in Omaha.

We’re talking roughly 2,000 square feet of open-air party paradise with views that overlook bustling Maple Street and the surrounding neighborhood. Partially covered by a pergola, the deck seems to stretch on forever. It’s huge. As I strolled across its lumbered flooring Sunday, the space was mostly empty, though owners Joe and Bill Carmichael had brought up pieces of outdoor furniture, preparing for Saturday’s open house in conjunction with Ben-son Days (no booze will be served, it’s just a chance to look around).

The concept of this deck was a central selling point for the brothers when they began searching for a lo-cation for their bar, which brings us to the next thing that comes to mind when writing about 1912: Why it took so frickin’ long to open. Five years to be exact.

The humor of the situation isn’t lost on them. A few weeks ago, printed screens were placed in the bar’s windows, one showing a vintage portrait of Erastus Benson, the city founder, with the quote: “Work started on this before I founded the town.”

Joe is unapologetic when he explains the five-year project. “Bill and I had talked about wanting to do something together. It’s the type of conversations brothers have over the years,” he said. “We were both employed at the time. We looked at our ca-reers and said, ‘If we’re going to do something, let’s start looking now.’”

Having grown up around 90th and Maple streets, they were always interested in Benson, eventually discovering a “for sale” sign on the building that once housed The Lizard King pet shop, a place so vile that I only stepped foot into it once before it closed. It was a dark cavern of cages filled with reptiles and glass aquariums loaded with live insects used for pet food. In addition to the stench, I remember the ever-present sound of crickets chirping.

All of that was gone — well most of it — when the brothers did their first walk-through. “It was fairly run down and had a unique odor,” Joe said. “But the thing we liked about it was the high ceilings on the main floor and the full basement with 9-foot ceil-ings.” And, of course, its amazing roof, perfect for their dream deck.

Joe lived in Lincoln the first two years, driving in on nights and weekends to work alongside Bill gut-ting the place. The bar’s name, 1912, comes from the year the building was constructed. “It was all plaster lattice and drop ceilings and layers and layers of vinyl flooring, tar paper and thousands of nails that all had to be removed.”

Discoveries included strange copper plumbing that ran through the chimneys “which we assumed was part of the lizard environment,” Joe said. One room downstairs was literally filled with lizard shit. The part-time demo worked took the balance of those two years. When the economy tanked, the recruiting com-pany where Bill worked closed, and the building be-came his full-time focus. They hired general contractor Guy German, along with an architect and structural engineer. Their first major construction project was the rooftop deck, designed in such a way as to drive all its weight toward installed beams and the outer walls. New supports and footings also were added to the building’s basement.

Work on the deck and the gorgeous, open 3,800-square-foot interior dining area was done when money was available. “We would go months before we’d bring in an electrician or plumber,” Joe said. “We walked a fine line by keeping costs down and doing as much as we could ourselves.”

And then 18 months ago, the brothers also bought Burke’s Pub. Neither had run a bar or restaurant be-fore. “I do have a background running a business,” Joe said. “I’m oversimplifying, but at the end of the day it’s about controlling costs and providing great service. That means hiring great people.”

As evidence, they hired a general manager, Nick Joerz, who has 20+ years experience running dining establishments. They also brought in a consultant for the restaurant — one of the region’s most renowned chefs with an international reputation who not only crafted 1912’s menu but designed its kitchen and din-ing service.

While Carmichael says 1912 is first and foremost a full-service bar with 17 beers on tap, it’s also a full-ser-vice family restaurant, offering a variety of gourmet-quality comfort foods including nachos, flatbread, a taco bar, salad bar, along with unique burgers and a “poutinerie” (poutine is a Canadian food consisting of french fries, brown gravy and cheese curds).

“We’re trying to locally source as many ingredients as possible,” Joe said. “The price point on meals is in the $8 to $10 range.” You’ll have to wait a little while longer to sample that menu, however, as the kitchen won’t open until mid-September.

Carmichael said 1912’s food offering sets it apart on a street already crowded with bars. “We’re not striving to be a craft beer bar — Krug Park and Jake’s do that. Our unique play is clearly the rooftop. It’s a place to kick back and be part of the outdoors. There’s no space like it in Benson.”

And, Joe said, there’s no place like Benson any-where in Omaha. “What makes Benson unique is that it’s a whole bunch of independent business owners, in contrast to the big dollars that went into Midtown Crossing or Aksarben Village,” he said. “As a result, Benson has a strong community. It’s a unique mix of entities coming together. It’s a neighborhood.” ,

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Enric Girona recently donated his prototype pet commode to the town of El Vendrell, Spain, hoping to spark worldwide inter-

est. Conscientious owners would train their dogs on the station -- a hole in the ground with a flush handle -- which is connected to the sewer system, as is the drain grid next to it (for tinkling). The platform, which appears to occupy about 20 square feet of surface, is self- cleaning (although not too clean, said Girona, because dogs are more easily lured with a lingering scent). Spain is already one of the world’s toughest on lazy owners who fail to scoop up after their pets, with fines in El Vendrell as high as the equivalent of $1,000, and in Madrid and Barcelona, $2,000.

Took It Too FarThe New York customer service company United Health Programs of America provoked a federal law-suit in June by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over its employee esprit-de-corps policy of requiring workers to pray to God on the job and to say “I love you” to their managers. According to the EEOC, the feel-good, work-harder campaign was suggested by an aunt of United’s owner and named for an obscure “truth and compassion” move-ment called “Onionhead.”

-- After two third-graders wet their pants on May 15 at Mill Plain El-ementary School in Vancouver, Wash., they blamed teachers for too-strictly enforcing their classroom’s “rewards” system, in which good behavior earns students points redeemable for, among other prizes, restroom breaks. A teachers union investigation concluded that the girls were never “denied” toilet access (but the girls’ mothers pointed out that using restroom breaks as a “reward” might be confusing to 8-year-olds).

-- The Japanese snack company Calbee recently staged a promotion around popular singer Nana Mizuki, giving away 10 backstage passes to her Aug. 3 concert in Yokohama to the purchasers of 10 lucky

bags of secretly marked potato chips. Her perhaps-hugest fan, Kazuki Fu-

kumoto, 25, was so determined to win one that by the time he was ar-rested for littering in May, he had bought and dumped 89 cartons of potato chip packages, weigh-

ing over 400 pounds, that were found at six locations around the

cities of Kobe and Akashi. Po-lice estimate he had spent the equivalent of about

$3,000.-- Britain’s news website Metro.co.uk, comb-

ing Facebook pages, located a full photo array from prominent 23-year-old German body art enthusiast Joel Miggler, whose various piercings and implants are impressive enough, but whose centerpieces are the portholes in each cheek that expose the insides of his mouth. (With customized plugs, he can seal the portholes when soup is on the menu.) The holes are currently 36mm wide, but he was said to be actively cheek-stretching, aiming for 40mm. Miggler assures

fans that his mother likes “most” of his modifica-tions and that the worst aspect so far is merely

that he is forced to take smaller bites when eating. (News of the Weird has reported on researchers cre-

ating portholes in cows’ stom-achs, but still ...)

Can’t Possibly Be True(1) Until the New York governor

and legislature addressed the problem re-cently, it was legal in the state for narcis-

sistic animal owners to force their dogs and cats to en-dure permanent, decorative tattoos and piercings. At press time, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was poised to sign legislation abolishing the tattooing. (2) Kayla Oxen-ham, 23, was arrested in Port Charlotte, Florida, in

newsoftheweirdT H E W O R L D G O N E F R E A K Y B Y C H U C K S H E P H E R D W I T H I L L U S T R A T I O N S B Y T O M B R I S C O E

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June and charged with using a stick to burn “brands” into the skin of her two children, ages 5 and 7. Among her explanations to police: so she could identify them as being hers and because she “forgot how much she loved fire.”

-- A Davenport, Iowa, jury con-victed terminal-cancer patient Benton Mackenzie, 48, in July on four marijuana-growing felonies, even though his pur-pose was to harvest cannabis oil to treat his bloody lesions and the grapefruit-sized tumor on his but-tocks. The judge had barred Mackenzie and his lawyer from even mentioning the illness in court -- because of a 2005 Iowa precedent (even though the Iowa legislature has subsequently allowed medical mari-juana to treat seizures). Mackenzie’s wife, his 73-year-old parents, his son and a friend were also charged with assisting Mackenzie’s “operation” (though Mackenzie was almost surely the only “customer”). Mackenzie, who testified and was, of course, sworn to tell “the whole truth,” said he was “flabbergasted” to learn that “the whole truth” excludes anything about his illness.

-- Municipal engineers in the town of Melton Mowbray, Eng-land, were called out in June to fix a lingering sewer overrun caused by, they discovered, “hundreds” of tennis balls that had apparently each been flushed down toilets. Said the project manager, “We expect (blockages from) fats and baby wipes, but....”

Unclear on the ConceptA 60-year-old man with a blood clot has recovered, but no thanks to the driver for the South Western Ambulance Service who was fer-rying him on a long trip to the emergency room of Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, England, on April 6. The patient’s family later reported that the driver had stopped en route to pick up two hitchhikers --

one a young woman in a “skimpy skirt” -- and take them to an on-the-way town. The patient, in pain

with his toes starting to blacken, eventu-ally had his blood flow restored and

did not lose the leg. He reported that the two riders were friendly

and wanted to chat about his condition (though he was in no mood).

-- The American Red Cross boasts of being “transparent and accountable” for the way it spends donations from compassionate people moved to help

those in need. However, when the public policy watchdog ProPublica asked for

some details on how the Red Cross used funds donated for 2012 Hurricane Sandy

victims in New York, the organization begged off, claiming that details beyond broad generalities were “trade secrets” that it was entitled to protect, lest its “competitors” copy or exploit the techniques it uses to help people. (The Red Cross did release more detailed accounts to the attorney general of New York, but un-der an agreement of confidentiality.)

UpdateWhen last we encountered Briton David Trus-

cott (2011), he was being jailed again as a serial trespasser with an unquench-able desire to sneak onto farms and pleasure himself while rolling

around, nude, in manure pits -- especially the farm of Clive Roth

near Redruth, England. Truscott apparently emerged from prison un-

repentant and was back in trouble in May with another manure pit incident, but this time accompa-

nied by threats to harm Roth and his family and to burn down his farm build-

ings. (During the most recent incarceration, Truscott had received mental health treatment that allowed him actually to act out in a manure pit, and officials believe he took a turn for the worse when that treat-ment was curtailed.). ,

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cuttingroomn I get disproportionately excited for horse racing. It’s either the latent degenerate gambler in me or I just like ponies. Either way, I’m excited for 50 to 1, which opens at the Majestic Cinema of OmahaJuly 25. It follows the story of Mine That Bird, who was a Kentucky Derby champion (even if his name is grammatically maddening). The movie stars Skeet Ulrich, Christian Kane, William Devane and even the actual jockey who rode Mine That Bird, Calvin Borel. As someone who watched nearly all of the 17 hours of prerace coverage for the Derby this year, prior to the two minute actual event, I wouldn’t call the chances of me plopping down for this one a longshot.n The chances of me climbing a mountain in my lifetime are about the same as me adding “Two Broke Girls” to my DVR list, which is to say “nope.” And yet Thursday, July 31, at 5:30 pm, I will see the sights of majestic summits at Aksarben Cinema. Together with Canfield’s Sporting Goods, the the-ater is bringing the Telluride Mountain Film Festi-val to town. Tickets are just $10, and all proceeds go to T.H.O.R. (Trails Have Our Respect), the local nonprofit who builds and maintains the trails in the Omaha metro. Check out aksarbencinema.com for more details on how you can do the smart thing and have the mountains come to you.n That noise you heard was the collective Twitter folk, crying out at once. Their mission: Get Mark Ruffalo to do a Columbo movie. Both Ruffalo and original Columbo, Peter Falk, share the unique hu-man quality that is “charmingly rumpled.” It’s a rare trait, and whether or not the internets can convince Hollywood to put the disheveled Ruffalo into the di-sheveled Falk’s old trenchcoat, it’s a damn good idea.n Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie (can’t imag-ine that childhood), directed the brilliant Moon a few years back. Since then, he’s been making a World of Warcraft movie that I will only see because of him. Now comes word his next film is one that gets me all twittterpated. He’s going to try his hand at Muteagain. It’s a Blade Runner-esque sci-fi project set in Berlin. Hearing about Mute makes me want to shout with excitement! Do you see what I did there?

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DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES NEEDS NO HUMANS BY RYAN SYREK

T ime has whittled mainstream memory of the original late 1960s/early 1970s Planet of the Apes franchise down to an image of Charlton

Heston’s clenched fist and the Statue of Liberty tanning her torchy top half on the beach. However, the original series was actually quite subversive and fascinating. It was compelling science fiction that occasionally skinny dipped in psychedelic waters.

With Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, this reboot of the series (or re-reboot if you’re Tim Burton) is now flexing blockbustery swagger. Gone are the time-traveling sub-plots and near-mute, buxom beauties of the original se-ries. Now, we’ve got armies of CGI chimps riding hors-es and firing machine guns. Are you not entertained?! The most important thing is this: although these Apes have ditched some of the trippier elements, they have retained the social awareness and have infused sum-mer spectacle with humanistic moralizing.

Dawn begins in 2026, with humanity on the wrong end of a supervirus beatdown. Only small pockets of people remain in a postapocalyptic land better befit-

ting the animals. Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his ape family are thriving in what looks to be the Ewok vil-lage. They hunt, have children and teach lessons in sign language and spotty spoken words. A small band of humans looking to restart a generator stumbles into their territory, and one of them, Carver (Kirk Acevedo), shoots an ape child. This enrages the animal clan, espe-cially Koba (Toby Kebbell), who demands war.

But Caesar and Malcolm (Jason Clarke), a cautious father and second-in-command at the human camp, both want peace. They negotiate a delicate alliance that is threatened by the human leader, Dreyfus (Gary Old-man), and the war-mongering Koba. An act of betrayal leads to an epic fallout worthy of summer fare, as ex-plosions, graphic ape-on-ape action and tons of sym-bolism combine in a furry, bloody climax.

Man, oh man—or should that be “ape, oh ape”—does this movie look good. Director Matt Reeves hungrily exploits the best kind of computer effects: the kind you’re not sure is fake. A brave decision was made to center the film around the ape family,

which is to say that the humans take on a supporting role, mostly plot-centric, while the simians are the ones who demonstrate character growth. From the sublimely villainous Koba to the complex Caesar, shifting away from human actors is a clever choice and not an accident.

The thematic morality lessons are also no accident. The film deconstructs the American “guns for self-preservation” myth while offering critical communica-tive advice about how heroes listen and villains bark orders. The only thing hobbling the flick from hitting full stride is a reliance on broadly painted characters, like Carver, and cliched plot points, like humans help-ing Caesar’s sick wife.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is gorgeous, thought-ful and thrilling. What it lacks in original plot, it tries to assuage by uniquely focusing on nonhumans as the leads. If, perchance, the next film is War for the Planet of the Apes, as is suspected, let’s hope it’s not a battle for diminishing returns. ,

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A Most Wanted Man First-Run (R) Dir. Anton Corbijn.Through Thursday, August 7

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When a half- Chechen, half- Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg’s Islamic community, laying claim to his father’s ill- gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest.

Closed Curtain First-Run Dir. Jafar Panahi.Starts Friday, August 1

Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi bravely defies his 20-year ban on filmmaking with this tense offering.

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