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Contents6 L IV ING: Bright, But Not New

The Obermiller’s Renovated Condo

10 VISUAL: Joshua Norton Impressions of Printmaking

12 MUSIC: The Essential Good Life A Collection of Songs

14 PERFORMANCE: April Faith-Slaker Turning Numbers into Notes

16 FEATURE: Blue Barn Theatre A Space of Their Own

20 FEATURE: Lucile’s Old Market An Historical Home Retains Its Sunny Past

22 DINING: Joe Bananas Where Everyone is Welcome

24 FASHION: Dystopian Dreams

28 FACES: Greg Hansen Old Market Beat Officer Retires

30 FACES: Buf Reynolds Fashion in Omaha and Beyond

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44 Calendar of Events

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O N E O F D O W N T O W N ’ S T R E N D I E S T C O N D O S B E L O N G S T O A B A B Y

B O O M E R C O U P L E .by Sean Robinson

photography by Bill Sitzmann

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The floating, translucent “cloud” above the kitchen island is one of the Obermiller’s favorite touches.

SHERRI AND JOHN Obermiller decided their new downtown condo reminded them too much of the suburbs.

They should know. The couple moved in 2011 from their five-bedroom, five-bathroom home in the white-picket-fence-lined neighborhoods off 180th St. and West Center Road to the eclectic, artsy downtown for a reason, and it wasn’t perfection and modernity.

“It was time to downsize and just get rid of stuff,” Sherri says. “Plus, this gave me an excuse not to do yard work anymore.”

The pair looked at five or six buildings before deciding the 902 Dodge Street condos were a natural fit for them. The building is located close enough to walk to yoga classes or sushi restaurants, but far enough from the bustle of the Old Market. “We don’t always like to be in the crowd, but we like to be near it,” Sherri says. “We enjoy being anonymous in a sea of people.”

An available condo on the fifth floor was too small and in need of a facelift, but the Obermillers saw its potential. Their first act as new owners? Asking their neighbor what amount of money it would take for him to move. Their new home instantly doubled in size.

To further construct their vision for the space, they enlisted the help of Stephanie Basham, principal designer and owner of Group One Interiors, and Don Stormberg, owner of Stormberg Construction. The couple rented and lived in a unit on the second floor of the building as Basham and Stormberg’s teams worked to renovate the condo to the Obermillers’ standards.

“It’s always challenging to work in a space that people are inhabiting during construction,” Basham says. “The Obermillers have a finely tuned sense of contemporary style and an appreciation for urban modernism. And to top that, John and Sherri value attention to detail, which is a dream for a designer.” >


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A bright teal couch livens up the muted color palette in the living room.

A patio off the main room pro-vides a perfect place for home-

owner Sherri Obermiller to

read in the sun.

< From using lime green as an accent color to match-ing the gray of the exposed concrete ceiling to the condo’s columns, the detailed design was inspired from the Obermillers’ travels to metropolises like New York City.

To make the home feel larger, Basham took advan-tage of the high ceilings and crafted a floating translucent cloud above the kitchen island. The focal point of the home, the cloud creates a sense of separation between the kitchen and adjacent rooms without impeding the view. Local fabricators and installers used frosted acrylic to have the effect of tinted glass without the weight. This fixture is a personal favorite of the Obermillers.

“The cloud above and countertop below have the same steel lines, so they mirror one another,” Sherri says. “We strived for symmetry through-out our home.”

Following nearly a year of renovations, only the cherrywood cabinets in the kitchen remain in the now-2,400-square-foot condo. An entire patio was removed; new floors and appliances were installed; iron-welded, artisan-crafted barn doors were mounted; and rooms were ornamented in furniture from as far away as Sweden. The result is a simple, contemporary design that’s entirely unique to the Obermillers.

The Obermillers saw not only the potential of their condo but the value of the downtown area as well. While the CenturyLink Center was the major draw north of Dodge Street when the Obermillers first

moved downtown, the area will soon be home to HDR’s high-rise headquarters and a collec-tion of newly developed apartments, offices, and entertainment space.

“We are incredibly excited about this development and what’s next,” John says.

Embracing an urban lifestyle is a hot trend, yet the Obermillers aren’t concerned with following or setting trends. Instead, their new home serves as a space for them to reinvigorate their story together.

“We can walk to the trails by the pedestrian bridge or quickly go to the restaurants in the Old Market. It’s fun and incredible,” Sherri says. “It feels like we live in a much bigger city than what Omaha really is.”

When the Obermillers aren’t watching Nebraska sunsets melt behind the Woodman and First National from their building’s rooftop terrace, they enjoy a different view from their living room window. They look down onto the interstates weav-ing under and over themselves, roads looping and stretching in different directions. An image the Obermillers agree is beautiful. Just below the roads and between the urban sprawl of Omaha and Council Bluffs lies the river.

“We always thought at this point in our life we’d have a condo overlooking Lake Michigan,” John says. “Living happily next to the Missouri River in downtown Omaha? Well, that’s just the next best thing.” Encounter

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WHEN YOU ARE a master serigra-pher, making a good impression counts. An affable local artist

named Joshua Norton does that. Talking about his work, it’s clear that what he loves is the demo-cratic, even plebeian, nature of printmaking—one of the oldest crafts as well as one of the most useful at injecting art into our everyday lives. Printing, or serigraphy, is so useful it decorates and improves other art forms. Imagine modern music or film without posters, album covers, and T-shirts to connect fans to their favorite artists.

The everyday usefulness of this art form often earns it the derogatory “craft” label. While it is a description that the 38-year-old Norton, facilities coordinator at the Union for Contemporary Art, does not deny, he denounces the sneer that can come with the designation.

“ ‘Craft’ is not a dirty word,” says Norton from his Dundee studio. Speaking over a large stack of brightly-colored posters featuring rock stars, country singers, and other creatures of the night, Norton says he counts the German expressionists of Die Brücke (The Bridge) among his influences, but his art is about pop culture.

“I’m not influenced directly by the art world. I draw more from posters, movies, graphic art, and comics. Art is not solely the province of high culture. There also isn’t as much high art in high art these days.”

Joshua NortonI M P R E S S I N G T H E S K I L L

O F P R I N T M A K I N Gby Greg Jerrett


The serigrapher’s art is archaic, dating back more than 5,000 years to Mesopotamia, but according to Norton, printmaking is a thoroughly modern art, one that manages to be as expressive as it practical.

“There is high art in printmaking,” Norton says. “Poster art is very big, very popular. Rock art is still

very popular. Artists like Stanley Donwood screen print rock posters and album covers for Radiohead.”

This native of Lake City, Minnesota—birthplace of water skiing—credits his father and high school art teacher with developing his early interest in printmaking. He moved to Omaha in the summer of 2013 and became facilities coordinator of the Union for Contemporary Art that November. Norton taught printmaking and drawing at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design after earn-ing his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He obtained his master’s from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist’s mission at the Union is creating greater access to resources for art across the socioeconomic spectrum of the Omaha metro. Norton is also the architect of the Union’s print shop, which gives him a chance to spread his love of serigraphy around.

“At the Union for Contemporary Art, I built the print studio,” Norton says. “During the day, I design


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“I’m not influenced directly by the art world. I draw more from posters, movies, graphic art, and comics. Art is not solely the province of high culture. There also isn’t as much high art in high art these days.”

-Joshua NortonLook out! The abominable snow-man has arrived in Omaha—and he appears to have swallowed Joshua Norton.

and print posters for our events while running the co-op and helping other artists with their projects.”

Omaha has an accomplished and diverse visual art scene worth nurturing, according to Norton.

“It’s a growing scene. It’s not lacking anything...it’s a work in progress. The important thing is that artists are supported in the community. I’m really proud to be living and working in Omaha.”

Norton was one of 37 artists featured in Joslyn Art Museum’s “Art Seen: A Juried Exhibition of Artists from Omaha to Lincoln” which closed

last month. Encounter

Visit joshuanorton.net to learn more.


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The Essential Good LifeA C O L L E C T I O N O F S O N G S

A N D S O N G W R I T I N Gby James Walmsley


AS WE CELEBRATE our descent into the great unknown with The Good Life’s recent Saddle Creek release Everybody’s Coming Down, let’s take a

few moments of silence to highlight the band’s oeuvre, which has occupied our mixtapes, mix CDs, and mix playlists over the past 15 years.

The Good Life, which was once thought of as the other woman, or Cursive frontman Tim Kasher’s side project, established itself in the early 2000s after the additions of Stefanie Drootin (Big Harp), Ryan Fox, and Roger Lewis. To date, the band has released five full-length studio albums and one EP.

T H E P E R F E C T B E G I N N I N G : Despite coming out nearly two years after Novena on a Nocturn, 2002’s Black Out is the first real Good Life album. It’s where the band’s lineup solidified. And it’s where the band’s sound began to modulate from Cursive B-sides to the woebegone Americana that would eventually become the quartet’s identity.

True to its title, Black Out’s 14-track drunk is Kasher’s drink-ing-to-forget album, spiked with too much autobiographical heartbreak to be disguised as fiction. Throughout the expe-rience, the singer-songwriter finds he’s too intoxicated to navigate the Kübler-Ross stages of grief, as his lyrics skirt acceptance and bargain to no end. The manic-depressive cut “Don’t Make Love So Hard” perhaps most embodies this emotional stumbling (and quite possibly provides the biggest payoff of any Good Life song starting around 3:45).

L O V E R S N E E D L AW Y E R S : One’s instantly drawn to the nostalgia-inducing “Leaving Omaha,” but it’s perhaps the final track, “For the Love of the Song,” that is the hero (or antihero) of this 2004 extended-play prequel to Album of the Year. The six-minute confessional reminds the listener that Kasher is still drunk and that the then-30-year-old still finds art hard.

W O LV E S I N S E C O N D - H A N D C L O T H I N G : The majesty of The Good Life’s 2004 magnum opus Album of the Year—mostly agreed upon as the band’s best album of any

year—is not in the congestion of sonic embellishments used in past performances, but in its breathability. At its core, this is a collection of campfire songs for which producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes) provides the crackling wood, the click-ing flashlights, and the zipping tents that give the narrative its irresistible atmosphere.

The album itself is about a year (a punny double entendre not lost on the record’s artwork) that recounts a dissolv-ing relationship in 12 tracks, from April to March. Kasher again, like John Fante or Charles Bukowski, both of whom he mentions in the title track, writes about what he knows best: heartache and art-break. For an optimal performance, experience it in its entirety.

H E L P WA N T E D N I G H T S : It’s the album that might’ve made the perfect soundtrack for the screenplay Kasher wrote with the same title. Instead, the band’s 2007 LP is the perfect soundtrack for the “big ideas” Kasher says he neglected in pre-vious narratives. The minimalistic and oft-optimistic songs have an AA meeting air about them, minus the 11th and 12th steps. Just substitute the coffee back to booze. “Heartbroke,” an obvious nod to The Police, is a solid gateway track.

T I M ’ S P I C K : In keeping with the spirit of looking back, I asked Kasher to highlight The Good Life’s catalogue with one song that most defines the band. It’s ironic but perhaps fitting that the self-described cynic chose to stay in the present with “The Troubadour’s Green Room,” from his newest release. After all, that’s kind of what the song, in combination with its co-conspirators, is all about: not taking the present for granted.

“It’s also a representation of how completely odd it is to write and perform music as one’s passion while also attempting to balance it as a commodity,” he says. “I feel as though I love and loathe it in equal measure—perhaps that’s the balance?” Encounter

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The Allegorical April Faith-Slaker

U S I N G D ATA T O M A K E M U S I Cby Tom McCauley

photography by Amy Lynn

CLASSICALLY TRAINED CELLIST April Faith-Slaker is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. In fact, one could simply call her multi. She has

played locally and internationally with various orchestras, performance groups, and rock bands. Andy Miles of Chicago music and art shop Transistor recently asked her to con-tribute a composition to their webcast. She’s worked with Omaha’s contemporary performance group Aetherplough since 2010, and by day, she is a lawyer and a data scientist who analyzes research to inform social policy in the legal world.

Rather than compartmentalize these seemingly disparate aspects of her personality, Faith-Slaker found a way to bring all of herself to bear on a challenging project: translating social data into music.

“I’d seen someone doing it with weather data,” Faith-Slaker says.

“That planted the seed.”

The concept of making music from data is not new. Former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy once worked with IBM to translate tennis data into music. But that was tennis.

With her demonstrable passion for the human side of data—she has advanced degrees in law, research methods, and social policy—Faith-Slaker set her sights higher than racquet sports.

“I started poking around the Internet and couldn’t find anyone that had done it with social data, specifically,” she says. “I was curious about what that process would look like.”

The result of her data music composition is by turns ominous and dissonant, lyrical and shimmering—giving aesthetic weight to statistical trends in child immigration, gun vio-lence in Nebraska, access to justice, gender inequality, and housing segregation.

She didn’t need help from IBM either. She calculated the shape of the music based on her own insights. For instance, according to slides from a presentation she gave at the annual experimental performance festival Omaha Under the Radar, Faith-Slaker calculated pitch and rhythm using 2013-2014 Nebraska gun violence victims’ life expectancies, ages, gen-ders, and date of death. It was a haunting way to visualize a horrific issue.

“Right now I’m looking for the next step with the data music project,” Faith-Slaker says. “Some people feel I should pres-

ent this information back to either the community I got the data from, or to people who can actually do something with it in terms of policy. I’m seeing if there’s any way to push it out in a more meaningful way.”

The music and presentation slides from the data music project can be experienced at vimeo.com/datacompositions.

Faith-Slaker’s “non-data” solo music is more rhythmic than algo-rithmic. For these compositions, she involves an electric cello and a looper pedal, a type of electronic effects box that lets her build a poly-

phonic composition from a single instrument. She records a snippet of music, loops it in the background, and layers more sounds and passages or subtracts them, all while accompany-ing herself in real time like someone unbound by the laws of the universe.

The resulting compositions are stunning, exuberant, lyrical, and hypnotically recursive. Encounter

Listen to her via her Soundcloud page at soundcloud.com/aprilfs

The result of her data music composition is by turns ominous and dissonant,

lyrical and shimmering—giving aesthetic weight to statistical trends in child

immigration, gun violence in Nebraska, access to

justice, gender inequality, and housing segregation.




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“It’s very exhilarating to know we actually have a full space of our own that we

will get to know every nook and cranny and creak in the floor and not have to

go anywhere else to create our art.”-Susan Clement-Toberer

IT TOOK TWO-AND-A-HALF years of eager anticipation for the new Blue Barn Theatre to take shape at 10th and Pacific

streets, as producing artistic director Susan Clement-Toberer waited impatiently to start creating in the new space. The wait was worth it.

This welcome addition to the booming 10th Street corridor gives her a new playground in which to produce stage magic.

Blue Barn is part of a mixed-use project on the site, which also houses the Boxcar 10 condos and restaurant on the south side, and public green space to the west that the theater opens onto.

The theater’s distinctive design by Omaha architect Jeff Day of Min|Day, with input from international theater space consultant Joshua Dachs, is a whimsical play on the Blue Barn name and purpose. Weathered steel and slat-ted wood evoke the barn motif. A vertical wall of rebar suggests a curtain. Splashes of blue appear throughout.

Great pains were taken to express the organic qualities that distinguish the way the company makes theater, including the use of salvaged materials and hand-made fixtures by area artists. Elements from the old 11th and Jackson space were integrated. The house was kept small to preserve intimacy with audiences.

“Rehearsing our opening play I had a moment where I was transported back to our old space and it felt like I was home. We worked long and

hard to create a space that felt familiar from our old digs but also inspiring in new ways, and I think we have done that,” Clement-Toberer says.

“For awhile during the building process I was a little freaked out that it was too big, but it’s not. Once the walls and the reclaimed wood slats got put up and our comfy chairs from the old space were installed, I clearly saw this new building—with the expanded lobby and adjoining back garden—offers incredible new spaces for us.

“But they still feel like the Blue Barn. I feel like the building is a body that warmly embraces our work.”

Occupying a permanent, dedicated space is a giant leap forward for a theater that rented and repurposed venues for more than 27 years, and even went homeless for a time.

“It’s very exhilarating to know we actually have a full space of our own that we will get to know every nook and cranny and creak in the floor and not have to go anywhere else to create our art.”

Amenities include larger dressings rooms, and, for the first time, backstage restrooms the actors won’t share with patrons. There are also enhanced lighting and sound systems, more expansive wing and storage areas, and a much higher ceiling for flying props and lights.

Clement-Toberer says, “I became adept at creating around limitations. Now my head’s spinning with the possibilities. We don’t have to have any confinement in how we >

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< create anymore and that’s the biggest transfor-mation—what we’re able to do on our stage.

“If we want a scene to take place outdoors we can open the back doors of the house out onto the porch yard. We can let the actors and audience feel the wind blowing and see the moon. That to me is a gift.”

The potential configurations excite the director in her.

“I can see us…putting in a long table that runs from the indoor space all the way outdoors and having a beautiful dinner with the show happening around on the green space. I can see seating on the fixed stage and the performance being on the porch yard.”

Indeed, she regards the building and its signature indoor-outdoor flex space as “a set design malleable enough to allow the Blue Barn to grow into it and find different ways of utilizing it. Hopefully we have created a palette and a place that will continue to inspire us as artists as well as our audiences in the different forms we can create and in the different feelings we bring about through the stories we tell.”

Blue Barn hasn’t come to all this without struggle. The building’s a testament to resilience and com-munity support built over time.

“We’re very lucky and full of gratitude that people in Omaha believed in us enough to help us grow ourselves in all the right ways,” she says.

Through it all, Blue Barn stayed true to itself.

“Our voice is a little more grown-up but it’s still speaking the same language we were 27 years ago.It is kind of like having our child grow up, and we still get to play hard and fierce.”

The new theater also strengthens Blue Barn’s posi-tion as a regional professional theater now that it meets equity standards.

Clement-Toberer credits Omaha philanthropist Nancy Mammel—who donated the land to Blue Barn and developed the adjoining Boxcar proj-ect—“as the real visionary for knowing 10th Street deserved a revitalization.”

This 2015-2016 season Clement-Toberer’s making sure to “savor every moment.” Encounter

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never knowing the secret treasures found beyond its locked entrance. No flashy sign, no hours of operation, simply the number “510” and two large griffin statues perfectly guarding the entrance to one of Omaha’s hidden gems—Lucile’s Old Market.

A trove of treasures is definitely the best way to describe this unique event space, once owned by Lucile Schaaf, known in Omaha as the “Orange Lady.” An eclectic woman who studied architec-ture at Scripps College in California, she filled her home with salvaged furniture and architectural elements from all over Nebraska and neighboring

states. This visionary saw the potential not only in her home, but also in the budding new downtown area developing during the 1960s.

Her love of the citrus fruit’s color can still be seen in the home today. The space was bought four years ago by Brian and Jennifer Kobs, a couple who are partners in businesses that include Abraham Catering, 1316 Jones, and various other event venues. The Kobs first met Lucile near the end of her life when Abraham Catering became her exclu-sive caterer for private events. A casual conversation about letting Brian know if she ever wanted to sell the building led to a purchase agreement years later. Lucile passed away in 2009 at 91 years old but it was the relationship with her granddaughter, Amy Waskel, that allowed Brian and Jennifer to keep the

spirit of Lucile, and her love of pumpkin, carrot, and mango hues, alive in the house.

Enter through doors to a different place in time. The doors on the dining room ceiling—taken from Murphy beds at the historic Morris Hotel. The office doors—used as wall panels—from the City National Bank. Entrances that still read the names of the executive officers who once opened them daily. It’s a visual history of Omaha.

The endless list of unique finds astounds. Crown molding in the entrance foyer from the original Cornhusker Hotel, panel walls and marble from the City National Bank board rooms now lining the beautiful dining room, ceilings covered with

the walls from telephone booths original to the Cit y National; and those griffins, recovered from the original First

National Bank Building and now greeting guests upon entering the building.

Lucile’s Old Market rents to private parties, wed-ding couples, and corporations for a cost of $800

-$1,300 (depending on day of the week) and includes the use of the impressively large and beautifully manicured outdoor courtyard—a rarity in the Old Market. The event space seats up to 100, though the ideal size, according to Kobs, is 50.

It’s a space that takes an event to a new level. One where every nook, every corner, has a story. A story that shows the beauty of Omaha history. Encounter

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S A X O P H O N E P L AY E R ?by Mandy Mowers




RECENT RENOVATIONS ALONG 10th Street draw people’s attention past the Old Market to the newly-constructed Blue Barn Theater and

updates to the Burlington Building, yet one small restaurant has quietly welcomed people to this area for 21 years.

Located at 10th and Pacific, Joe Banana’s red awnings and logo bearing a saxophone-playing, curved, sunshine-col-ored fruit welcome visitors crossing the bridge from the Old Market.

The banana represents Joe Monastero, who owns the food and spirits establishment with his wife, Connie.

The couple come from culinary backgrounds. Connie learned about the food business from her father, who did a lot of catering and owned a restaurant at which Connie waitressed in high school.

Joe’s family is Sicilian. His mom taught Connie lots of family recipes, which make a strong appearance in the new menu, the restaurant’s contribution to all the revamping going on around them.

“It’s hard, after 21 years, to keep your focus,” Connie says. Their previous menu was “crazy huge.”

The scaled-down menu includes Friday night specials from Monastero family recipes, such as a double-crust pizza called gouda-roonie. Saturday evening specials include items like pigtails, meatballs, and homemade sausage.

Connie must love to cook in order to show up to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day of the week. It’s clear from the way she talks about her customers that they are another reason.

“We have a lot of regulars, and we’ve had a lot of regulars for years,” she says fondly. “But then we also have newer custom-ers, like some who’ve moved into the area. Super great people.”

Connie attributes so many return patrons to the diverse crowd. “Anybody can come in here and feel welcome,” she says. “I think that’s what the big draw is. Everybody just feels like they belong here.”

One of her regulars is Kelly Swotek. He patronized the bar Joe and Connie previously owned, then followed the Monasteros to Joe Banana’s.

Part of his loyalty is knowing Joe and Connie, and their friends, and their friends’ friends…

The food helps, too. “I’m partial to the chicken,” Swotek says. “She has a beautiful Malibu chicken sandwich. I had one last

night.” He also raved over tenderloins so big he and his wife split them. “Phenomenal.”

Even Swotek’s family has gotten involved in the restaurant/bar. “All my kids have worked here,” he says. “In fact, my son is bartending right now. And my daughter will waitress and bartend tomorrow night.”

Card clubs meet here regularly. A poster advertises a fundrais-ing event called “Cancer Can Kick My Pancre-Ass,” held on Joe’s patio with live music. A chorus of “Bye, Kevin!” is heard as a customer leaves, reminiscent of the fictional “Norm!”

Connie and Joe are fond of the Little Italy niche. They’ve gotten along well with their neighbors, and they’re excited for new ones.

Connie welcomes the development, even if it poses obstacles like the water being turned off certain mornings.

After 21 years, she knows change. “It’s all good.” Encounter

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Last RideO P D O F F I C E R

G R E G H A N S E N R E T I R E Sby Lisa Lukecart

phoography by Bill Sitzmann



OMAHA POLICE DEPARTMENT Officer Greg Hansen has seen the worst humanity offers.

He witnessed the aftermath of the Von Maur shootings. He has taken down drug addicts so high they were impervious to pain. He has seen people die in countless ways.

“The cruelty one can do to another is pretty nasty,” Hansen, 55, says.

He doesn’t feel old and jaded, yet a hint of cynicism hangs off the shoulders of his faded blue uniform.

After 30 years, two months, and two weeks (not that he’s counting), Hansen put aside his weapon and retired in September.

Hansen drove his police cruiser, rode his mountain bike, or walked the Riverfront patrol (16th Street to the river from Leavenworth to Cuming streets). Or he hopped on a two-wheeled, battery-operated Segway, good for sneaking up on criminals.

He amassed a huge black book filled with his usual offenders. Hansen usually checked the warrants before heading out to the streets.

Panhandling, drinking, and disorderly conduct were the norm. “Someone once described an officer’s day as 7 hours and 58 minutes of boredom, and two minutes of sheer terror,” Hansen says.

Some calls made the hair on the back of his neck stand up, yet he never fired his 40-caliber pistol.

He was bitten twice and lost a knuckle taking down a brutal felon. A rapist beat a woman so badly her head no longer looked round, yet she managed to escape. When Hansen arrived at her apartment, the rapist was still there, passed out and naked save for one sock. There was blood in the carpet, on the walls—even on the ceiling. He slapped one cuff on the perp when the guy woke up in a fighting mood. Hansen knocked him out, breaking his hand in the process.

Hansen believes gang violence and drug dealing is worse than in previous years. “Gangs are smart. It seems like whenever we arrested one crack dealer, another would just...boom!...right in their place,” he says.

And yet, the job had its funny moments. When Hansen worked nights down at the Old Market, he saw his share of nightlife entertainment.

“It was not unusual to get a call on a Sunday morning about a car being stolen,” he says, laughing. “And it’s a block or two away. They don’t remember where they parked it because they were drunk the night before.”

He once pulled over a bunch of teenagers. When the driver rolled down the window, a familiar, earthy smell drifted out. When Hansen asked whose pot was in the center console, no one took credit.

“This is only a $100 fine,” he said.

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HER WORK IS simultaneously bold and classic. At times she comes across as a formidable force; other times she’s as approachable as an old friend, signing her emails “Luf, Buf.” Buf Reynolds

is equal parts daring and down-to-earth. She is friendly Midwestern charm meets big-city vision.

Reynolds has become a fixture of Omaha’s design scene in recent years, helping grow Omaha Fashion Week as one of its most prominent designers and as a key part of its organizational team. Her summer 2015 collection was arguably her best yet, showcasing models swathed in fabric printed with NASA images, carrying plasma globes, hair wet and delicate.

“They looked like they were just birthed from the universe,” she gushes. It’s clear she enjoys pushing the envelope.

The collection’s spacey aesthetic drew upon the idea of micro and macrocosms, inspiring a sense of reflection about our place in the natural world. When asked how she hopes people might respond to the theme, she becomes contempla-tive: “You know, we’re limited as to what we can do, so you’ve got to be decent to other humans.”

Though her work certainly speaks to philosophical themes, Reynolds does not over-intellectualize what she does. Her excitement about fashion appears rooted in a simple, unpretentious joy. She respects the creative process as one of unpredictability, but pairs this spontaneity with a well-honed craft that allows her to produce elegant, wearable pieces. Her most recent line is a testament to this as it synthesizes an ‘out-there’ concept with timeless and accessible beauty.

She is quick to speak on her perspective of the state of the arts in Omaha: “It’s a challenge.” She points out that while Omaha’s cost of living allows artists more flexibility, it limits their opportunities to make a living from their crafts alone.

Still, she is hopeful. She says the design scene is evolving, attributing much of the positive change to groups like Fashion Institute Midwest and Omaha Fashion Week who invest heavily in new artists, offering them the community and resources they need to get started. “It’s really inspiring to have those people around. It’s come a long way.”

Looking to the future, she again displays zeal when talking Omaha Fashion Week plans. The next set of runway shows will be held March 15 and 20, 2016. As for her own personal plans, she says she’s becoming open to a few things she didn’t previously consider: shows outside of Omaha, production, and hiring a team of seamstresses.

“It’s a high that you don’t really get anywhere else. I wanna do more.” While it’s true that we’re all limited in our reach, it seems clear that Reynolds’ reach is only growing, and we can expect her to continue expanding Omaha’s horizons for some time to come. Encounter

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THE FOURTH OF July 1898 was quite a day for Omaha. The Trans-Mississippi Exposition opened its doors about

a month earlier, and it would continue until November. Omaha’s own World’s Fair drew 2.6 million people to the city while attempting to tell the story of the taming of the American west. The legendary event attracted presidents and criminals alike: William McKinley traveled from Washington, D.C., while the iconic Everleigh Sisters set up a brothel across from the festival, allowing them to raise enough money to relocate to Chicago, where they became the city’s most notorious madams.

This July 4 was special, and not simply because it was Independence Day—although the town celebrated with patriotic events, such as a large parade featur-ing a menagerie of wild animals, including a float with a seated lion at the front and a snake charmer at the rear; and a Devil’s Dance concession, featuring a marcher dressed as “His Satanic Majesty,” chased by a group of angels.

THE BURLINGTON BUILDINGA R E S T R A I N E D , E L E G A N T S T R U C T U R E W I L L G L I T T E R O N C E M O R E

by Max Sparber photography provided by Douglas County Historical Society

The day also marked the opening of one of Omaha’s grandest buildings, one that has been empty until very recently: The Burlington Train Station at 1001 South 10th St. The building boasts one of Omaha’s best-known architects: Thomas Kimball, who also conceptualized St. Cecilia Cathedral, the Omaha Public Library building on Harney, and the Burlington Headquarters Building that stands at one corner of the Gene Leahy Mall.

The station was built for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, whose passengers bestowed on it an impressively brief nickname: The Q. In Nebraska, the rail line carried mail and farm equip-ment as well as transporting passengers and freight. The Burlington Station awed its visitors, featur-ing an enormous lobby and a circular staircase descending to the tracks, where a canopy protected soon-to-be passengers.

While the original building exhibited a restrained, elegant Italianate style borrowing from the design vocabulary of the Renaissance, the Burlington later found itself in competition with a flashier build-ing: The Union Station, a ziggurat immediately declared a masterpiece of the then-fashionable Art Deco style.

Union Station opened in 1931 opposite the Burlington, and, as a result, the older building underwent extensive remodeling, making the struc-ture both simpler and bolder. Workers removed 24 columns. (They reappeared in Lincoln standing between Memorial Stadium and the Coliseum, where they can be seen to this day.) Gilded medal-lions bordered the walls while massive lanterns, each weighing one ton, hung inside the building.

The Burlington continued on for decades, much of it marked by a long, slow decline as passengers abandoned rail travel. In 1971, riders were moved to a nearby Amtrak station—small and functional, decidedly lacking in the ambition and grandeur of the nearby glamour-huts.

Union Station reveled in a second life in 1973, when the Durham Museum (then the Western Heritage Museum) took control, but the Burlington labored on for decades, finding occasional use for one-off events (it housed several plays and seasonal haunted houses) along with infrequent and doomed rede-velopment plans.



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1 8 7 0 : The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad first enters Omaha.

1 8 9 0 : A temporary station is erected at 1001 S. 10th Street.

18 9 8 : The temporary station is replaced with the current Burlington Station, designed by Omaha architect Thomas R. Kimball.

19 0 8 : The Chicago Record declares the Burlington Station to be “The handsomest railway station ever seen.”

19 2 9 -19 3 0 : The station is extensively remodeled to compete with the new Art Deco Union Station, which would open in 1931.

19 5 4 : The station is remodeled again to add a parking plaza.

19 71: Passenger service is moved to Amtrak, which will build its own station in 1974 and cease passenger operations at the Burlington.

19 8 5 : The building is gutted by an architectural salvager, who removes all interior fittings.

2 0 0 4 : The building is purchased by investors plan-ning to transform the space into private residences. A downturn in the economy halts these plans.

2 0 13 : Hearst Television announces a plan to renovate the building for use as the broadcast facil-ity for KETV.

The neighborhood is at the start of a revival, and, so, too, is the Burlington. Hearst Television pur-chased the building in 2013, and the structure is now home to KETV (Channel 7). The idea of placing a television station next to a railroad track is rather extraordinary, and it may be impossible to muffle the sounds of the passing trains. Then why mute them? Omaha is a rail town, and it seems somehow appropriate to get our news with the whistles and rumble of trains calling out in the background. Encounter

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Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts [E-18] .......................402-341-7130Joslyn Art Museum [2200 Dodge St.] ...402-342-3300KANEKO [F-17] ......................................402-341-3800Omaha Children’s Museum [500 S. 20th St.] ...................................402-342-6164The Durham Museum [801 S. 10th St.] .................................... 402-444-5071

T H E AT E R & P E R F O R M I N G A R T S

Blue Barn Theatre 614 S. 11th St.] .........402-345-1576Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre [1002 Dodge St.] ....................................402-502-4910Holland Performing Arts Center [1200 Douglas St.] ................................ 402-345-0606OM Center [13th & Howard St] ...............402-345-5078Omaha Symphony [1605 Howard St.] ...402-342-3560Opera Omaha [1850 Farnam St.] .......... 402-346-4398Orpheum Theater [409 S. 16th St.] ...... 402-345-0606The Rose Theater [2001 Farnam St.] ... 402-345-4849Ticket Omaha [13th & Douglas St.] ....... 402-345-0606

B A N K I N G | L E G A L | B U S I N E S S S E R V I C E SAmerican National Bank [C-14] ........... 402-457-1070Bozell [G-18] .......................................... 402-965-4300Clark Creative Advertising [D-16] .......... 402-345-5800Cullan & Cullan [F-14] .............................402-397-7600First National Bank [E-15] .......................402-341-0500J. P. Cooke Rubber Stamp Co. [D-15] .... 402-342-7175Klein Law Office [E-16] ............................402-391-1871Market Media [E-14] .............................. 402-346-4000Security National Bank [F-15] ................402-344-7300Stinson Leonard Street [D-14] ................ 402-342-1700Sutera & Sutera Law Office [F-15] .........402-342-3100

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Bliss Bakery [F-17] .................................402-934-7450Cupcake Omaha [F-15] ......................... 402-346-6808Dolci Old Market [G-15] ..........................402-345-8198Hollywood Candy [E-16] .........................402-346-9746Juice Stop [E-15] ....................................402-715-4326 Old Market Candy Shop [G-15] ............. 402-344-8846Ted & Wally’s Ice Cream [E-16] ..............402-341-5827Wheatfields Express [E-15] ....................402-991-0917

C O F F E E & T E A

13th Street Coffee Co. [D-16] ................402-345-2883Aromas Coffeehouse [F-17] ...................402-614-7009Beansmith [E-14] .................................... 402-614-1805OM Center [D-15] ...................................402-345-5078Scooter’s [E-15] ......................................402-991-9868The Tea Smith [E-15] ..............................402-932-3933Urban Abbey/Soul Desires [G-16] ..........402-898-7600

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Ahmad’s Persian Cuisine [G-15]............. 402-341-9616Blue Sushi Sake Grill [E-15] ................... 402-408-5566Bricks & Mortar Bar & Bistro [F-17] ...... 402-934-0005Falling Water Grille [G-15] ..................... 402-346-9000Himalaya’s [G-15] .................................. 402-884-5977J’s On Jackson [F-16] .............................402-991-1188Jackson Street Tavern [E-16] .................402-991-5637Julio’s Old Market [D-15]....................... 402-345-6921M’s Pub [F-15] ........................................402-342-2550Matsu Sushi [G-13]................................ 402-346-3988Michael’s Cantina at the Market [F-14] ..402-346-1205Nicola’s Italian Wine & Faire [D-16] ....... 402-345-8466Old Chicago [F-14] ..................................402-341-1616Omaha Tap House [C-13] .......................402-932-5131Plank Seafood Provisions [E-15].............402-507-4480

Rock Bottom Brewery [F-14] ..................402-614-9333Roja Old Market [E-14] ...........................402-346-9190Spaghetti Works [F-15] ..........................402-422-0770Stokes Bar & Grill [E-15] ........................ 402-408-9000The Diner [E-14] .....................................402-341-9870Trini’s Mexican Restaurant [F-15 in The Passageway] ..................... 402-346-8400Twisted Fork Grill & Bar [F-15]................402-932-9600Upstream Brewing Company [F-16] ...... 402-344-0200

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PepperJax Grill [D-15] .............................402-315-1196Wheatfields Express [E-15] ....................402-991-0917Zio’s Pizzeria [F-15] ................................402-344-2222

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801 Chophouse at the Paxton [C-13]......402-341-1222Le Bouillon [F-15] ...................................402-502-6816Omaha Prime [F-15] ...............................402-341-7040The Boiler Room [F-17] ..........................402-916-9274V. Mertz [F-15 in The Passageway] ....... 402-345-8980

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Little King [E-15] .....................................402-344-2264Subway [D-15] ........................................ 402-341-8814

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Cubby’s Old Market [D-16] .....................402-341-2900La Buvette Wine & Grocery [F-15] ........ 402-344-8627

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Bar 415 [D-15] .......................................402-346-7455Barry O’s Old Market Tavern [G-15] .......402-341-8032Billy Frogg’s Grill & Bar [E-15].................402-341-4427Eat the Worm [E-15] ...............................402-614-4240Havana Garage Cigar Bar [G-15] ............402-614-3800J D Tucker’s [G-15] .................................402-934-5190Mr. Toad’s Pub [G-15] ........................... 402-345-4488Parliament Pub [E-14] ............................402-934-3301The Hive [E-14] ...................................... 402-504-4929The Stadium Club Sports Bar & Grill [G-15] .........................402-359-1290The Tavern [G-16] ................................... 402-341-0191

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Brickway Brewery & Distillery [E-15] ......402-933-2613Rock Bottom Brewery [F-14] ..................402-614-9333The Berry & Rye [F-15] ........................... 402-613-1333The Boiler Room [F-17] ..........................402-916-9274Upstream Brewing Company [F-16] ...... 402-344-0200

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Bricks & Mortar Bar & Bistro [F-17] ...... 402-934-0005Omaha Lounge [C-14] ............................402-709-6815Sake Bombers @ Blue [E-15] ............... 402-408-5566Waters Edge Lounge at Embassy Suites [G-15] ...................... 402-346-9000

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Dubliner Pub [E-14] ................................402-342-5887O’Connors Irish Pub [D-15] ....................402-934-9790Omaha Tap House [C-13] .......................402-932-5131Stiles Pub [E-15] .....................................402-991-9911T. Henery’s Pub [F-14] ............................402-345-3651

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Bricks & Mortar Bar & Bistro [F-17] ...... 402-934-0005La Buvette Wine & Grocery [F-15] ........ 402-344-8627Nosh Restaurant & Wine Lounge[G-11] . 402-614-2121

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Curb Appeal Salon & Spa [G-16] ........... 402-345-0404RARE [D-15] ...........................................402-706-9673

The Hair Market Salon [F-15] ................ 402-345-3692The Nail Shop [H-12] ............................. 402-595-8805Urbane Salon & Day Spa [G-13] .............402-934-2909Victor Victoria Salon & Spa [F-15] ........ 402-933-9333Wonder Foot Spa [E-14] .........................402-618-7595

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Big Brain Productions [E-17] ..................402-342-2885

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Alegent Creighton Clinic [C-18] ..............402-280-5500Anytime Fitness [F-17] ...........................402-991-2333Commercial Optical Co. [D-16] ..............402-344-0219Natural Therapy [D-18] ...........................402-995-9874Old Market Massage [D-15] .................. 402-850-6651OM Center [D-15] ...................................402-345-5078Omaha Dental Spa [F-15] .......................402-505-4424Omaha Yoga School [F-15] ....................402-346-7813Wonder Foot Spa [E-14] .........................402-618-7595

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Courtyard by Marriott [G-11] ..................402-346-2200DoubleTree Hotel [A-11] ..........................402-346-7600Embassy Suites Old Market [555 S. 10 St.] ....................................... 402-346-9000Fairfield Inn and Suites [1501 Nicholas St.] ..................................402-280-1516Hampton Inn [1212 Cuming St.] ........... 402-345-5500Hilton Garden Inn [G-11] ........................402-341-4400Hilton Omaha [10th & Cass St.] ............. 402-998-3400Holiday Inn [1420 Cuming St.] ............... 402-341-0124Homewood Suites [1314 Cuming St.] ....402-345-5100Hotel DECO XV [B-14, 15th & Harney] ...402-991-4981Hyatt Place [E-16] ...................................402-513-5500Magnolia Hotel Omaha [A-15] ................402-341-2500Residence Inn by Marriott [B-12] ............402-342-4770

M O V I N G & S T O R A G EThe Storage Loft [E-18] ..........................402-807-2537U-Haul [D-18] ........................................ 402-346-9322Urban Storage [D-18] .............................402-342-4449

P R A I S E & W O R H I PThe Market Church [D-17] .........TheMarketChurch.comUrban Abbey Worship Service [G-16] .....402-898-7600

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America First Companies [G-13] ............402-444-1630Berkshire Hathaway Real Estate[13th & California] .................................. 402-493-4663Blackthorne Real Estate Development .. 402-884-6200Bluestone Development [B-17] ............. 402-505-9999Grubb & Ellis/Pacific Realty ................... 402-345-5866Investors Realty, Inc. .............................. 402-330-8000Mercer Management Co. [F-15] ............ 402-346-4445NP Dodge Condo Sales ..........................402-255-5099NuStyle Development Corporation ..........712-647-2041Old Market Life [D-16] ............................402-305-8106Sandi Downing Real Estate [E-15] .......... 402-502-7477Shamrock Development, Inc. [D-13] ......402-934-7711

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Antique Annex [E-16] .............................402-932-3229Fairmont Antiques & Mercantile [E-16]402-346-9746

Flying Worm Vintage [E-16] ....................402-932-3229Joe’s Collectibles (E-16 Alley] ................. 402-612-1543

Reserve Goodwill [D-15] .........................402-342-4102Second Chance Antiques [C-14] ........... 402-346-4930The Imaginarium [D-15] .........................402-594-7061

A R T G A L L E R I E S

Anderson O’Brien Fine Art [F-16] ...........402-884-0911

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Artists’ Cooperative Gallery [F-14] ................. 402-342-9617Farrah Grant Photography [F-15] ................... 402-312-8262

A R T G A L L E R I E S [ C O N T ’ D ]

Garden of the Zodiac [F-15 in The Passageway) ...............................402-341-1877Mangelsen-Images of Nature Gallery [E-14] ..................................................402-341-8460Old Market Artists Gallery [F-15] ....................402-346-6569Omaha Clayworks [D-16] ...............................402-346-0560Passageway Gallery [F-15 in The Passageway] ...............................402-341-1910Visions Custom Framing [E-18 @ Bemis Center]...................................402-342-0020White Crane Gallery [F-15 inThe Passageway] ............................... 402-345-1066

B O O K S

Jackson Street Booksellers [E-16] ................. 402-341-2664Soul Desires/Urban Abbey [G-16] ..................402-898-7600

C L O T H I N G & A C C E S S O R I E S

All About Me Boutique [F-15] .........................402-505-6000Curbside Clothing [F-15]Drastic Plastic [E-15] ......................................402-346-8843Flying Worm Vintage [E-16] ............................402-932-3229McLovin [G-15] ...............................................402-915-4002Nouvelle Eve [F-15].........................................402-345-4811Overland Outfitters [G-15] ..............................402-345-2900Reserve Goodwill [D-15] ................................. 402-342-4102Simply Fabulous [E-16]....................................402-812-2193Souq, Ltd. [F-15 in The Passageway] ............. 402-342-2972The Lotus [E-15] .............................................402-346-8080Wallflower Artisan Collective (1402 S. 13 St.) 402-677-9438

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Drastic Plastic [E-15] ......................................402-346-8843Homer’s Music & Gifts [E-15] .........................402-346-0264

F L O W E R S

Old Market Habitat [F-15] ...............................402-342-0044

G I F T & S P E C I A LT Y S T O R E S

Ashley’s Collectibles [E-15, L. Level] ..............402-934-3100City Limits [F-15] ............................................402-345-3570Le Wonderment [F-15] ...................................402-206-9928Old Market Sundries [G-15] ............................402-345-7646OM Center [D-15] ...........................................402-345-5078Souq, Ltd. ]F-15 in The Passageway] ............. 402-342-2972

Susie’s Baskets [D-13] ...................................402-341-4650Tannenbaum Christmas Shop [G-15] .............402-345-9627

H O M E F U R N I S H I N G & D E C O R

Iron Decor and More [E-16] ............................402-346-6123Niche [F-15] ....................................................402-344-4399Urban By Design [D-15]...................................970-214-7608

J E W E L R Y

Cibola of Omaha [F-15] ...................................402-342-1200Cornerstone Gem & Bead Co. [D-16] .............402-346-4367Goldsmith/Silversmith [F-15]...........................402-342-1737Perspective Jewelry Design Studio [E-14] ......402-934-4416

S M O K E S H O P

Havana Garage Cigar Bar [G-15] ....................402-614-3800Hooka Ran’s [E-15] .........................................402-934-3100SG Roi Tobacconist [F-15] .............................. 402-341-9264

N E A R B YA R T S & E N T E R TA I N M E N T

A R T G A L L E R I E S & M U S E U M S

Hot Shops Art Center [D-1].............................402-342-6452Modern Arts Midtown [GG-210] ....................402-502-8737

M O V I E T H E AT E R

Film Streams [D-4] .........................................402-933-0259

S P O R T S

CenturyLink Center Omaha [H/I-5/6] .............402-341-1500TD Ameritrade Park Omaha [E/F-3/4] ........... 402-546-1800

Z O O • B O TA N I C A L C E N T E R

Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha’s Botanical Center [100 Bancroft St.] ...........................................402-346-4002Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium/IMAX Theater [3701 S. 10th St.] ...........................................402-733-8400

B A N K I N GPinnacle Bank [10th & Douglas] .....................402-346-9180

D I N I N G

C A S U A L D I N I N G

Local Beer, Patio & Kitchen[H-11] ..................402-315-4301Blatt Beer & Table [E-5] .................................. 402-718-8822Capitol Lounge & Supper Club [G-10] ............402-934-5999Farnam House Brewing Company [HH-22]....402-401-6086

Goodnights Pizza Bar & Patio [D-4].................402-502-2151Heritage Food & Wine [B-13] .........................402-991-0660Hiro 88 [D-16, 13th & Jackson] .....................402-933-5168Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen [B-13] ....................402-342-3662King Fong Cafe [B-14] .................................... 402-341-3433Liberty Tavern [G-6] .......................................402-998-4321 Mula [CC-22] .................................................. 402-315-9051Nosh Wine Lounge [G-11] ...............................402-614-2121Omaha Press Club [A-11] ...............................402-345-8008Orsi’s Italian Bakery & Pizzeria [7th & Pacific] 402-345-3438Siagon Surface [C-14] ....................................402-614-4496Storz Trophy Room [K-8] ................................ 402-502-1643Wilson & Washburn [C-14] .............................402-991-6950

C O F F E E & T E A

Archetype Coffee [CC-22] .............................. 402-934-1489Blue Line Coffee [D-4] ....................................402-932-4463

FA S T F O O D

Zesto Ice Cream [5-E] ....................................402-932-4420

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Block 16 [A-13] ................................................402-342-1220Kitchen Table [B-13] ....................................... 402-933-2810Panda House Downtown [A-13] ......................402-348-1818Table Grace [17th & Farnam] ..........................402-708-7815

F I N E D I N I N G

Spencer’s for Steaks & Chops [G-11] .............402-280-8888Sullivan’s Steakhouse [B-13] ..........................402-342-0077The Flatiron Cafe [17th & Howard] .................402-344-3040

S P E C I A LT Y F O O D

Patrick’s Market [B-15] .................................. 402-884-1600

S P O R T S B A R

Burger Theory [B-2] .......................................402-933-6959DJ’s Dugout Sports Bar/Blazin’ Pianos [G-10] .......................................402-763-9974Old Mattress Factory Bar & Grill [D-6] .......... 402-346-9116The Dugout [D-2] ...........................................402-934-5252

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Brothers Lounge [FF-22] ................................402-558-4096The Omaha Lounge [B-13] ............................. 402-709-6815

B A R S

Crescent Moon [HH-22] ................................. 402-345-1708Farnam House Brewing Company [HH-22]....402-401-6086Nite Owl [CC-22] ............................................ 402-991-6767Oasis Hookah Bar and TaZa Nightclub [B-13] 402-502-9893Scriptown [CC-22]..........................................402-991-0506Storz Trophy Room [K-8] ................................ 402-502-1643Sullivan’s Bar [CC-22] ....................................402-933-7004

M U S I C • D A N C E

Capitol Lounge & Supper Club [G-11].............402-934-5999Slowdown [C-4] ..............................................402-345-7569The Max [C-16] ...............................................402-346-4110Whiskey Tango [B-13] ....................................402-934-4874

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Corkscrew Wine & Cheese [CC-22] ...............402-933-3150Nosh Wine Lounge [G-11] ...............................402-614-2121

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C L O T H I N G & A C C E S S O R I E S

Kleveland Clothing [CC-22] .............................402-401-6147Lids Locker Room [E-5] ..................................402-334-0183Urban Outfitters [D-3] .....................................402-280-1936

G I F T & S P E C I A LT Y S H O P S

Greenstreet Cycles [D-4] ................................402-505-8002Inclosed Studio [D-4]...................................... 402-321-3442The Shop Around The Corner [E-15 The Imaginarium] ..................................402-609-8046

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J E W E L R Y

Takechi’s Jewelry [17th & Harney] ................. 402-341-3044

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Design in MotionThrough Jan. 2, Kaneko—1111 Jones

St. In this show, the vehicles will be dis-

played and celebrated as works of art while

also exploring the designers and design pro-

cess behind their creation. 402-341-3800.

-thekaneko.org

Wildlife Photographer of the YearThrough Jan. 3, 2016, Durham

Museum—801 S. 10th St. View entries

from the annual Wildlife Photographer of the

Year competition, co-owned by the Natural

History Museum and BBC Worldwide. This

exhibit offers a unique peek into the drama

and splendor of the natural world, accompanied

by captions that reveal the story behind how

the photograph was taken. 402-444-5071

- durhammuseum.org

Union Station: Built to LastThrough Jan. 3, 2016, Durham

Museum—801 S. 10th St. For 40

years the Durham Museum has celebrated,

and kept alive, Omaha’s history. In celebra-

tion of its anniversary, this exhibit explores

Durham’s home—Union Station—and

what makes it so special. 402-444-5071

- durhammuseum.org

My Friend Eric RohmannThrough Jan. 3, 2016, Joslyn Art

Museum—2200 Dodge St. Paint-

ings, drawings, and prints from 12 picture

books—including Eric Rohmann’s Caldecott

Medal winner “My Friend Rabbit” and Calde-

cott Honor book “Time Flies”—comprise this

Mind’s Eye Gallery exhibition. 402-342-3300

- joslyn.org

Brad KahlhamerNov. 14-April 17, 2016, Joslyn Art

Museum—2200 Dodge St. Kahlhamer

is an artist influenced by a variety of sources,

including Native American traditions, graf-

fiti, comic books, and much more. A Riley

CAP Gallery exhibition. 402-342-3300

-joslyn.org

Go West! Art of the American Frontier from the Buffalo Bill Center of the WestNov. 15-April 17, 2016, Joslyn Art

Museum—2200 Dodge St. Explore

the exploration and excitement of the

western frontier in this exhibit, featur-

ing more than 90 paintings, sculptures,

and American Indian artifacts dating from

the 1830s to the 1920s. 402-342-3300

- joslyn.org

Bemis Center’s 17th Annual Art AuctionNov. 21, Bemis Center for Con-

temporary Ar t—724 S. 12th

St. Eat. Drink. Buy art. 402-341-7130

- bemiscenter.org

Nolan TredwayNov. 30-Jan. 8, 2016, Fred Simon

Galley—1004 Farnam St. The Lincoln-

based painter brings his work to the Fred Simon

Gallery. Tredway is currently the co-director of

Tugboat Gallery in addition to running his own

studio/gallery. He is a winner of the Ida M.

Vreeland Award and a Nebraska Arts Council

Individual Fellowship Award. 402-595-2122

- artscouncil.nebraska.gov

FAMILY EVENTS

Holiday Lights Festival: Thanksgiving Lighting CeremonyNov. 26, Gene Leahy Pedestrian Mall—

1302 Farnam on the Mall. An Omaha tra-

dition—eat a big meal, then wander downtown

to Gene Leahy Mall. Mayor Jean Stothert will

take the lead as hundreds of thousands of

lights twinkle for the first time in 2015. Watch

as downtown dazzles! 402-345-5401

- holidaylightsfestival.org

Santa’s MagicNov. 27-Dec. 23, Omaha Children’s

Museum—500 S. 20th St. Children

can share their holiday wishes with the

Big Man himself. Meet Snow Queen and

sing holiday songs to make it snow! (Snow

days not guaranteed.) 402-342-6164

- ocm.org

Lauritzen Gardens Holiday Poinsettia ShowNov. 27-Jan. 3, 2016, Lauritzen Gar-

dens—100 Bancroft St. Explore a

holiday tribute filled with vibrant poinset-

tias. A 20-foot tall poinsettia tree stands

at the center of it all. 402-346-4002

- lauritzengardens.org

Christmas at Union StationNovember 28-January 4, 2016, Durham

Museum—801 S. 10th St. Celebrate the

joy of the holidays at Union Station with the

region’s largest indoor Christmas tree and

many family-friendly events. 402-444-5071

- durhammuseum.org

Sounds of the SeasonNov. 29-Dec. 27 (Saturdays), Gene

Leahy Pedestrian Mall & the Old

Market—1302 Farnam on the Mall.

Local music groups from youth to profes-

sionals perform treasured holiday songs to

put Omahans and vistors alike in the mood

for the season of giving. 402-345-5401


Wells Fargo Family FestivalDec. 7, various places. Listen to holiday

music and participate in family-friendly holi-

day activities. A free trolley service will shuttle

people to the participating venues—Wells

Fargo Bank, Omaha Children’s Museum,

Omaha Police Mounted Patrol Barn, the

Durham Museum, W. Dale Clark Library,

and Joslyn Art Museum. 402-345-5401

- holidarylightsfestival.org


november/december calendar of EventsS P O N S O R E D B Y P I N N A C L E B A N K

VISIT US IN THE HISTORICAL RILEY BUILDING AT 10th & DOUGLAS ON THE MALL 402.346.9180 OR ONLINE AT pinnbank.com

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ConAgra Foods Ice RinkDec. 12-Jan. 4, 2016, ConAgra Foods

Campus—10th & Harney Sts. This ben-

efit for Food Bank for the Heartland is afford-

able fun for the whole family. 402-345-5401


NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball ChampionshipDec. 17, CenturyLink Center—455 N.

10th St. The best college athletes will com-

pete in the 2015 NCAA Division I Women’s

Volleyball Championships. Don’t miss out on an

opportunity to see the nation’s top teams fight for

the National Championship title. 402-341-1500

- centurylinkcenteromaha.com

Holiday Lights Festival: New Year’s Eve Fireworks Spectacular Dec. 31, Gene Leahy Pedestrian

Mall—1302 Farnam on the Mall. Kick

off the new year right! Head down to witness

a dazzling fireworks display. 402-345-5401


Concerts

Pure Bathing CultureNov. 9, Reverb Lounge—6121 Mili-

tary Av. Portland-based American indie

pop band Pure Bathing Culture brings their

unique sound to Reverb Lounge. The band

dates back to 1999, when Sarah Versprille

and Daniel Hindman befriended one another on

the first day of freshman orientation at William

Patterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.

$10 Adv./ $12 DOS. 9 pm. 402-884-5707

- reverblounge.com

An Evening with LuceroNov. 11, The Slowdown—729 N.

14th St. American country-punk rock

band Lucero brings its unique musi-

cal stylings to Omaha for one night. $20

Adv./$22 DOS. 9 pm. 402-345-7469

- theslowdown.com

Holiday Lights Festival: Making Spirits Bright Holiday ConcertNov. 26, Holland Performing Arts

Center—1200 Douglas St. Get into

the holiday spirit with this annual con-

cert, performing after the annual lighting

ceremony. Free. 7 pm. 402-345-0222

-omahaperformingarts.org

Omaha Symphony: Star TrekNov. 28, Holland Performing Arts

Center—1200 Douglas St. The full sym-

phony orchestra will play Michael Giacchino’s

score, while J.J. Abrams 2009 film starring

Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto plays in its

entirety. Experience Star Trek in an entirely new

way. Starting at $19. 7:30 pm. 402-342-3836

- omahaperformingarts.org

A Celtic Tenors Christmas Dec. 2, Holland Performing Arts

Center—1200 Douglas St. Join the

Celtic Tenors in the Kiewit Concert Hall as

they ring in the Christmas season, with

traditional Christmas tunes, lyrical Celtic

music, and thrilling operatic classics. Start-

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$25. 7:30 pm. 402-345-0222


Digitour SlaybellsDec. 22, Sokol Auditorium—2234

S. 13th St. Experience the world’s first

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PERFORMING ARTS

Shaping Sound: Dance Reimagined Nov. 5, Orpheum Theater—409 S.

16th St. America’s hottest new dance

show, Shaping Sound: Dance Reimag-

ined, performs with a focus on contem-

porary dance and choreographic artistry.

Starting at $33. 7:30 pm. 402-661-8501


Don WilliamsNov. 9, Holland Performing Arts

Center—1200 Douglas St. Ameri-

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Rat PackNov. 14, Orpheum Theater—409 S.

16th St. Experience a tribute to a group

of talented stars of the 1960s. “Joey

Bishop,” “Dean Martin,” “Sammy Davis,

Jr.,” and “Frank Sinatra” will come alive.

Starting at $35. 8 pm. 402-661-8501

-omahaperformingarts.org

Dirty DancingNov. 17-22, Orpheum The-

ater—409 S. 16th St. Experience

the electric music, passionate romance,

and rhythmic movement of the classic

story Dirty Dancing in a whole new way.

You’ll have the time of your life. Start-

ing at $30. Times vary. 402-661-8501


Handel’s MessiahNov. 22, Holland Performing Arts

Center—1200 Douglas St. Voices

of Omaha is proud to present its 47th

annual performance of Handel’s Messiah

with a chorus of 235 singers, soloists, and

orchestra. Free. 3 pm. 402-345-0222


Little Nelly’s Naughty NoëlNov. 27-Dec. 20, The Blue Barn The-

atre—1106 S. 10th St. Written by Tim

Siragusa with songs by Jill Anderson, Little

Nelly’s Naughty Noël is a perversion of all

we hold dear at the most wonderful time

of the year. The play takes a rather wild,

unexpected trip through Nebraska of old.

Tickets $30. Times vary. 402-345-1576

- bluebarn.org

Ballet Nebraska Presents: The NutcrackerDec. 5-6, Orpheum Theater—409

S. 16th St. Celebrate the holiday season

with a trip to the ballet. It is one of the only

shows where candy canes dance. Tickets

from $25. Times vary. 402-541-6946

-balletnebraska.org

The Wizard of Oz Dec. 8-13 at Orpheum The-

ater—409 S. 16th St. Explore

the wonderful world of Oz as Dorothy

leads you down the yellow brick road,

accompanied by Scarecrow, Tin Man,

Lion and, of course, Toto. Tickets from

$25. Times vary. 402-661-8501


Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip DavisDec. 22-23, Orpheum The-

ater—409 S. 16th St. Mannheim

Steamroller’s sound is a blend of clas-

sical and rock and roll. The Omaha-

based band has sold more than 28

million albums in the U.S. alone. Come

celebrate the holiday season. Tickets

from $38. 7:30pm 402-661-8501


The Original Old MarketIrish Bar

1205 Harney St.342-5887

dublinerpubomaha.com

Nightly SpecialsLive Irish Music Weekends

Open 12 p.m.

402.345.448810th and Howard St.

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Locally Owned Since 1970Featuring Omaha’s Most Popular Patio

The Old Market’s Longest Jazz Gig

Live Music Every Sunday 9pmand Wednesday 7pm-10pm

Never a Cover Charge

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