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Life Itself XIX: Set the Scene True Life Stories
Life Itself XIX:
Set the Scene True Life Stories
Southern Fried Love Road Trip Diary II
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/08/12/southern-fried-l…ad-trip-diary-ii
Southern Fried Love Road Trip Diary I
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/06/01/a-southern-road-trip-diary
Goin’ down the Lincoln Highway with Omaha music guru Nils Anders Erickson
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/10/01/goin-down-the-li…-anders-erickson/
Stretch of the Lincoln Highway in Elkhorn, Neb.
Leo Biga’s Journey in the Pipeline; Following The Champ, Terence “Bud” Crawford in Africa
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/10/14/leo-bigas-journe…awford-in-africa
The Champ Goes to Africa: Terence Crawford Visits Uganda and Rwanda with his former teacher, this reporter and friends
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/06/26/the-champ-goes-t…rter-and-friends
Omaha history salvager Frank Horejsi: Dream calls for warehouse to become a museum
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/03/11/omaha-history-sa…-become-a-museum
Omaha Corpus Christi procession draws hundreds
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/06/13/omaha-corpus-chr…n-draws-hundreds
Iraq War veteran Jacob Hausman battles PTSD and finds peace
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/10/31/iraq-war-veteran…-and-finds-peace/
A Hospice House Story: How Phil Hummel’s End of Life Journey in Hospice Gave His Family Peace of Mind and Granted Him a Gentle, Dignified Death
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/10/27/a-hospice-house-…-dignified-death
Extremities: As seen on TLC’s “Hoarding: Buried Alive” – Mary Thompson takes her life back one piece at a time
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/19/extremities
Greg Pivovar, owner of the Stadium View shop, poses in his store in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, May 27, 2010. Pivovar is a one-man welcoming committee for College World Series fans. The Omaha attorney greets every (legal age) customer with a free can of beer and nudges them toward the barbecue, brats or, when LSU is in town, seafood jambalaya.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik) — AP
The Little People’s Ambassador at the College World Series
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/26/the-little-peopl…ege-world-series
The History Man, Gary Kastrick, and his Project OMAHA lose home base
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/10/03/gary-kastricks-p…es-its-home-base/
The Bone Hunter: Paleontologist Michael Voorhies Uncovers Dinosaur Fossils
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/02/the-bone-hunter

Dr. Michael Voorhies
Dream catcher Lew Hunter: Screenwriting guru of the Great Plains
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/09/dream-catcher-lew-hunter/
After whirlwind tenure as Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser goes gently back to the prairie, to where the wild plums grow
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/19/after-a-whirlwin…-wild-plums-grow/
Keeper of the Flame: Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/19/keeper-of-the-fl…inner-ted-kooser/
Verne Holoubek’s Road Less Traveled: How Harley Davidson, Printed T-Shirts, and the Counter-Culture Movement Helped this Former Nebraska Farm Boy Make Pop Culture History
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/09/the-road-less-traveled
Goodwin’s Spencer Street Barber Shop: We Cut Heads and Broaden Minds, Too
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/04/29/goodwins-spencer…roaden-minds-too/
Freedom riders: A get on the bus inauguration diary
From the Archives: A Road Trip Sideways
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/10/21/get-on-the-bus-a…-ride-to-freedom/
Therman Statom works with children to create glass houses and more
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/31/glass-artist-the…kids-art-brigade
- Linda Walker of Bay Shore, New York lifts her hand in prayer as President Barack Obama is sworn in as 44th president of the United States in Washington on Tuesday Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/ St. Petersburg Times, Martha Rial) ** TAMPA OUT. USA TODAY OUT. HERNANDO TODAY OUT. CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE OUT **
- Crowds gather on the National Mall in Washington for the swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Polishing Gem: Behind the scenes of John Beasley Theater & Workshop’s staging of August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean”
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/05/29/polishing-gem-be…gem-of-the-ocean/
Back in the Day: Native Omaha Days is reunion, homecoming, heritage celebration and party all in one
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/11/back-in-the-day-…party-all-in-one/
It’s a Hoops Culture at The SAL, Omaha’s Best Rec Basketball League
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/06/its-a-hoops-cult…asketball-league
Hadley Heavin’s Idiosyncratic Journey as a Real Rootin-Tootin, Classical Guitar Playing Cowboy
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/01/a-real-rootin-to…r-playing-cowboy
Omaha’s Grand Old Lady, The Orpheum Theater
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/02/omahas-grand-old…-orpheum-theater
Alexander Payne’s Circuitous Journey to His Wine Country Film Comedy
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/10/28/from-the-archive…ntry-film-comedy
My Midwest Baseball Odyssey Diary
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/11/my-midwest-baseball-odyssey-diary/
UNO Wrestling Retrospective – Way of the Warrior, House of Pain, Day of Reckoning
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/08/21/a-three-part-uno…day-of-reckoning/
The Downtown Boxing Club’s House of Discipline
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/04/the-downtown-box…se-of-discipline
Heart and Soul: Kenny Wingo and Dutch Gladfelter Keep it Real at the Downtown Boxing Club
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/09/28/heart-and-soul-k…town-boxing-club/
New school ringing in Liberty for students
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/06/new-school-ringi…rty-for-students
Bobby Bridger’s Rendezvous
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/11/bobby-bridgers-rendezvous
A Passion for Conservation: Tara Kennedy
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/11/25/a-passion-for-co…ion-tara-kennedy
A Rosenblatt Tribute
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/19/a-rosenblatt-tribute/
ER, An Emergency Room Journal
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/16/er
Merciful Armies of the Night, A Ride-Along with Paramedics
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/16/merciful-armies-of-the-night
War and Peace: Bosnian refugees purge war’s horrors in song and dance that make plea for harmony
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/08/18/war-and-peace/
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Bertha’s Battle: Bertha Calloway, the Grand Lady of Lake Street, struggles to keep the Great Plains Black History Museum afloat
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/11/berthas-battle
Favorite Sons: Weekly Omaha pasta feeds at Sons of Italy Hall draw diverse crowd
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/04/28/favorite-sons-we…lse-little-italy/
Santa Lucia Festival, Omaha Style
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/07/05/santa-lucia-festival/
Devotees hold fast to Latin rite
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/15/devotees-hold-fa…o-the-latin-rite/
Show goes on at Omaha Community Playhouse, where Henry Fonda and Dorothy McGuire got their start
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/04/the-show-goes-on/
From the Archives: Opera comes alive behind the scenes at Opera Omaha staging of Donizetti’s “Maria Padilla” starring Renee Fleming
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/09/26/from-the-archive…ing-rene-fleming
It was a different breed then: Omaha Stockyards remembered
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/06/24/it-was-a-differe…yards-remembered/
Separate Voices, Separate Lives: The Alien Abduction Chronicles
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/11/separate-voices-…ction-chronicles
Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film
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Author-journalist-blogger Leo Adam Biga resides in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. He writes newspaper-magazine stories about people, their passions, and their magnificent obsessions. He's the author of the books "Crossing Bridges: A Priest's Uplifting Life Among the Downtrodden," "Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film" (a compilation of his journalism about the acclaimed filmmaker) "Open Wide" a biography of Mark Manhart. Biga co-edited "Memories of the Jewish Midwest: Mom and Pop Grocery Stores." His popular blog, Leo Adam Biga's My Inside Stories at leoadambiga.com, is an online gallery of his work. The blog feeds into his Facebook page, My Inside Stories, as well as his Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Tumblr, About.Me and other social media platform pages.
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- John Beasley and sons make acting a family thing
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- Wright On, Adam Wright Has it All Figured Out Both On and Off the Football Field
- Tired of being tired leads to new start at John Beasley Theater
- Get your jitney on: August Wilson play "Jitney" at the John Beasley Theater resonates with cast and crew
- The Brandeis Story: Great Plains family-owned department store empire
- Two Part Series: After Decades of Walking Behind to Freedom, Omaha’s African-American Community Tries Picking Up the Pace Through Self-Empowered Networking
- A Long Way from Home: Two Kosovo Albanian families escape hell to start over in America
- The Storz Saga: A Family Dynasty – Their Mansion, the Brewery that Built It, the Man Who Loved It, a Legacy of Giving, the Loss of a Dream
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- Women still calling the shots at the Omaha Star after 81 years
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- Duncans turn passion for art into major collection; In their pursuits, the couple master the art of living
- North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA) presents An Arts Crawl 8
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- Orsi’s: Historic Italian bakery-pizzeria reaches 100
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