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Life Itself XIV: Art stories through the years
Life Itself XIV: Art stories through the years
Brigitte McQueen Shew
Free North Omaha Summer Arts Crawl features variety of art forms – Friday, August 10 at select North 30th Street Corridor venues
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/07/25/free-north-omaha…-corridor-venues
Process equals passion for migrant Bemis resident artist Trevor Amery
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/03/08/process-equals-p…ist-trevor-amery
Sculptor Benjamin Victor gives shape to Ponca Chief Standing Bear’s enduring voice
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/05/01/sculptor-benjami…s-enduring-voice
Mural Man – Artist Mike Giron captures heart of South Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/05/02/mural-man-artist…t-of-south-omaha
A Fluid Life: Dana Oltman Goes With the Flow
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/08/03/a-fluid-life-dan…es-with-the-flow
New Artist Residency Program at El Museo Latino supports the practice of local Latino artists
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/06/10/new-artist-resid…l-latino-artists/
Art in the heart of South Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/09/22/art-in-the-heart-of-south-omaha
©“Crucifixion” triptych by Leonard Thiessen
Brigitte McQueen Shew’s Union of art and community uses new Blue Lion digs to expand community engagement
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/06/26/brigitte-mcqueen…unity-engagement/
South Omaha Museum: A melting pot magic city gets its own museum
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/04/13/a-melting-pot-ma…s-its-own-museum
Artist Erin Blayney: The Great Reveal
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/08/03/artist-erin-blay…the-great-reveal/
Omaha Fashion Week & SAC Federal Credit Union: Building the fashion eco-system via business focus
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/08/05/omaha-fashion-we…a-business-focus
Leonard Thiessen social justice triptych deserves wider audience
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/01/21/leonard-thiessen…s-wider-audience
©Crosses and prayer stations by Pamela Jo Berry and pottery by Katie Cramer
Harmonious, luminescent pairing of art – “Prayer” and “Share” – on exhibit at Florence Mill ArtLoft Gallery
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/09/12/harmonious-lumin…-artloft-gallery
Mural project celebrates mosaic of South Omaha culture
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/07/19/mural-project-ce…th-omaha-culture/
Los Dias de Los Muertos festival offers three weeks of exhibits and events
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/10/16/los-dias-de-los-…ibits-and-events
My Joslyn Art Museum Community Pick is Thomas Hart Benton’s “The Hailstorm”
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/08/03/my-joslyn-commun…s-picked-and-why
Bright Lights: Teen designer Ciara Fortun mines Filipino heritage in Omaha Fashion Week collection
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/07/29/bright-lights-te…-week-collection
Yolanda Diaz success story with Little Miss Fashion nets her new recognition
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/05/05/yolanda-diaz-suc…-new-recognition
Yolanda Diaz works on a skirt in her Little Miss Fashion shop in Omaha. (©Photo by Mike Tobias, NET News)
The Designers: Omaha’s Emerging Fashion Culture
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/02/02/the-designers-om…-fashion-culture
A Passion for Fashion: Omaha Fashion Week emerges as major cultural happening
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/09/21/a-passion-for-fashion
Coming Home: Watie White’s public art installation tells stories of North Omaha home and family
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/02/07/coming-home-wati…-home-and-family
Art and community meet-up in artist’s public projects; Watie White mines urban tales
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/09/24/art-and-communit…ines-urban-tales
Home exterior art installation by Watie White
The Artist in the Mill: Linda Meigs brings agriculture, history and art together at Florence Mill
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/08/01/linda-meigs-brin…at-florence-mill/
Opera Omaha enlists Jun Kaneko for new take on “The Magic Flute” – co-production of Mozart masterpiece features stunning designs setting the opera world abuzz
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/02/01/opera-omaha-enli…pera-world-abuzz
Isabella Threlkeld’s lifetime pursuit of art and Ideas yields an uncommon life
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/04/isabella-threlke…an-uncommon-life
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Isabella Threlkeld
Omaha arts-culture scene all grown up and looking fabulous
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/03/06/omaha-arts-culture-scene-grows-up
Artists running with opportunity to go to the next level; Carver Bank resident artists bring new life to area
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/05/20/artists-running-…new-life-to-area
Carver Building rebirthed as arts-culture haven; Theaster Gates, Rebuild and Bemis reimagine North Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/12/05/carver-building-…gine-north-omaha
North Omaha synergy harkens new arts-culture district for the city
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/06/26/a-synergy-in-nor…ict-for-the-city
Inaugural group of Carver Bank resident artists
Change is gonna come: GBT Academy in Omaha undergoes revival in wake of fire
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/14/a-change-is-gonn…the-wake-of-fire
Community-builders Jose and Linda Garcia devote themselves to a life promoting Latino art, culture, history
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/09/30/community-builde…-culture-history
The Wonderful World of Artist and Social Entrepreneur Jeffrey Owen Hanson
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/01/01/the-wonderful-wo…frey-owen-hanson
Matter of the heart: Pamela Jo Berry’s love for community brings art fest to North Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/08/08/pamela-jo-berry-…-in-diverse-work
Old Market Pioneer Roger duRand
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/12/26/old-market-pioneer-roger-durand
©Work by Wanda Ewing
Wanda Ewing Exhibit: Bougie is as Bougie Does
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/12/08/wanda-ewing-exhi…s-as-bougie-does
Color Me Black, Artist Francoise Duresse Explores Racial Implications
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/06/17/color-me-black-a…ications-of-race
Artist-Author-Educator Faith Ringgold, A Faithful Conjurer of Stories, Dreams, Memories and History
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/04/18/artist-author-ed…ries-and-history
Old Market-based artist Sora Kimberlain: A life in art
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/07/20/old-market-based…in-a-life-in-art
Artist Claudia Alvarez’s new exhibition considers immigration
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/03/23/artist-claudia-a…ders-immigration
For artist Terry Rosenberg, the moving human body offers canvas like no other
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/03/23/for-artist-terry…as-like-no-other
©Works by Terry Rosenberg
Fine art photographer Vera Mercer’s coming out party
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/02/18/artist-vera-merc…coming-out-party
Exhibit by photographer Jim Krantz and his artist grandfather, the late David Bialac engages in an art conversation through the generations
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/10/28/photographer-jim…-the-generations/
A very young Jim Krantz with iconic mentor, Ansel Adams, ©photo Jim Krantz
Touched by Tokyo: Hairstylist to the Stars Tokyo Stylez
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/08/27/touched-by-tokyo…ars-tokyo-stylez/
The Troy Davis Story: From Beyond the Fringe to Fringes Salon
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/12/27/the-troy-davis-s…to-fringes-salon/
Hair stylist-makeup artist Omar Rodriguez views himself as artisan
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/05/13/hair-stylist-mak…mself-as-artisan/
Young artist steps out of the shadows of towering presence in his life
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/09/03/a-young-artist-s…ence-in-his-life/
Eddith Buis, A Life Immersed in Art
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/06/11/eddith-buis-a-life-immersed-in-art/
Artist Bernard Stanley Hoyes explores the lamentations and celebrations of Jamaican revival worship
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/08/28/artist-bernard-s…-revival-worship
©”Flow with the Rhythm” by Bernard Stanley Hoyes
Catherine Ferguson’s exploration takes her to Verdi’s “Aida” and beyond
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/01/artist-catherine…-aida-and-beyond
Therman Statom works with children to create glass houses and more
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/31/glass-artist-the…kids-art-brigade
Blizzard Voices: Stories from the Great White Shroud
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/07/27/blizzard-voices-…eat-white-shroud
African presence in Spanish America explored in three presentations
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/03/25/african-presence…ee-presentations
Jose and Linda Garcia find new outlet for their magnificent obsession in the Mexican American Historical Society of the Midlands
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/03/25/jose-and-linda-g…-of-the-midlands
Timeless Fashion Illustrator Mary Mitchell: Her Work Illustrating Three Decades of Style Now Subject of New Book and Exhibition
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/01/07/timeless-fashion…k-and-exhibition/
Mary Mitchell in her studio, @photo Jim Scholz
A Passion for Conservation: Tara Kennedy
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/11/25/a-passion-for-co…ion-tara-kennedy
Nancy Kirk: Arts maven, author, communicator, entrepreneur, interfaith champion
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/10/21/nancy-kirk-arts-…erfaith-champion
Art as revolution: Brigitte McQueen’s Union for Contemporary Art reimagines what’s possible in North Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/10/25/art-as-revolutio…e-in-north-omaha
“Portals” opens new dimensions in performance art – Multimedia concert comes home for Midwest premiere
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/10/06/portals-opens-ne…midwest-premiere
Open Minds: “Portals” explores human longing in the digital age
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/04/15/open-minds-porta…-the-digital-age
©Triptych designed and painted by Bro. William Woeger
Soon Come: Neville Murray’s passion for Loves Jazz & Arts Center and its role in rebirthing North Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/08/28/soon-come-nevill…hing-north-omaha
Inner City Art Exhibition Tells Wide Range of Stories
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/09/01/an-inner-city-ex…range-of-stories
Art from the Streets
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/09/01/art-from-the-streets
Manifest Beauty: Christian Bro. William Woeger devotes his life to Church as artist and creative-cultural-liturgical expert
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/08/27/manifest-beauty-…-cultural-center
Photographer Larry Ferguson’s work is meditation on the nature of views and viewing
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/08/21/photographer-lar…iews-and-viewing/
Frederick Brown’s journey through art: Passage across form and passing on legacy
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/22/frederick-browns…ing-on-of-legacy
Jazz and blues artist Frederick J. Brown displays his painting “Stagger Lee,” in Kansas City, Mo.
A stitch in time builds world-class quilt collection and center-museum
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/21/a-stitch-in-time…nd-center-museum
Once More With Feeling: Loves Jazz & Arts Center back from hiatus
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/05/05/once-more-with-f…back-from-hiatus
Adventurer-collector Kam-Ching Leung’s Indonesian art reveals spirits of the islands
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/14/adventurercollec…s-of-the-islands
©Indonesian art piece, collection of Kam-Chieng Leung
Kent Bellows Legacy Lives On
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/10/13/bellows-legacy-lives-on/
Kent Bellows: Soul in Motion
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/09/21/kent-bellows-soul-in-motion
Rebecca Herskovitz forges an art family at Kent Bellows Studio and Center for Visual Arts
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/10/13/rebecca-herskovi…-for-visual-arts/
©Self-portraits by Kent Bellows
Art for Art’s Sake: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/09/21/art-for-arts-sak…ontemporary-arts
Combat sniper-turned-art photographer Jim Hendrickson on his vagabond life and enigmatic work
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/30/combat-sniper-tu…d-enigmatic-work
Naturalist-artist John Lokke – In pursuit of the Timber Rattlesnake and In the footsteps of Karl Bodmer
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/09/02/naturalist-artis…s-of-karl-bodmer
©Painting by John Lokke
Art Missionaries, Bob and Roberta Rogers and their Gallery 72
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/19/art-missionaries
Photographer Monte Kruse pushes boundaries
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/22/photographer-mon…ushes-boundaries
From the Archives: Photographer Monte Kruse works close to the edge
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/10/13/from-the-archive…lose-to-the-edge
Life Itself XIII: Music stories through the years
Life Itself XIII:
Music stories through the years
Omaha blues man Hector Anchondo riding high
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/08/01/omaha-blues-man-…ondo-riding-high/
Paul Serrato finds balance as musician and educator
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/06/01/paul-serrato-fin…an-and-educator
Stage-screen star Vanessa Williams in concert with the Omaha Symphony
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/04/24/stage-screen-sta…e-omaha-symphony
Roni Shelley Perez staking her claim as Nebraska’s next “Broadway baby”
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/02/01/roni-shelley-per…xt-broadway-baby
Glen Campbell’s sweet goodbye
https://leoadambiga.com/2017/02/06/glen-campbells-sweet-goodbye
Camille Metoyer Moten: With a song in her heart
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/12/26/camille-metoyer-…ong-in-her-heart/
Creative to the core:
John Hargiss and his handmade world
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/06/30/creative-to-the-…s-handmade-world/
Entrepreneur and craftsman John Hargiss invests in North Omaha: Stringed instrument maker envisions ambitious plans for his new Hargissville digs
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/12/26/entrepreneur-and…argissville-digs
A MOTHER’S DAY TRIBUTE Mother-Daughter Music Legacy and Inheritance: Jeanne and Carol Rogers
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/05/08/a-mother-daughte…and-carol-rogers
Music-Culture Mixologist Brent Crampton: Rhythmic anthropology and pure love of human bodies moving
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/07/04/brent-cramptons-…an-bodies-moving
Stephanie Kurtzuba: From bowling alley to Broadway and back
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/08/27/stephanie-kurtzu…roadway-and-back
Making the cut:
Music video editor Taylor Tracy
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/05/08/making-the-cut-m…tor-taylor-tracy
Paul Williams: Alive and well, sober and serene, making memorable music again
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/05/01/paul-williams-al…usic-again-at-74
Charles Ahovissi brings West African culture to the Heartland: African Culture Connection uses dance, music to tell indigenous yet universal stories
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/12/12/charles-ahovissi…niversal-stories/
Rock photographer Janette Beckman keeps it real: Her hip-hop and biker images showing at Carver Bank as part of Bemis residency
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/09/19/rock-photographe…-bemis-residency
Goin’ down the Lincoln Highway with Omaha music guru Nils Anders Erickson
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/10/01/goin-down-the-li…-anders-erickson
Omaha Songstress Mary Carrick Takes Flight in New CD
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/07/14/omaha-songstress…flight-in-new-cd/
Omaha performer Brenda Allen recalls her friendship with Johnny Cash: “Ring of Fir”e pays tribute to iconic singer-songwriter
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/08/08/omaha-performer-…inger-songwriter/
Brenda Allen’s real life country music drama took her from Nebraska to Vietnam to Vegas
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/06/01/brenda-allens-re…vietnam-to-vegas
Life comes full circle for singer Carol Rogers
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/08/28/life-comes-full-…ger-carol-rogers
Sisters of song: Kathy Tyree connects with Ella Fitzgerald; Omaha singer feels kinship to her stage alter ego
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/03/12/sisters-of-song-…-stage-alter-ego/
Tiffany White-Welchen delivers memorable performance in “Lady Day”
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/10/14/tiffany-white-we…s-left-oct-23-24
Faith, Friends and Facebook: The Healing Journey of Camille Metoyer Moten
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/12/13/when-cancer-stru…aith-on-facebook
Camille Metoyer Moten: A singer for all seasons
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/22/camille-metoyer-…-for-all-seasons
Omaha’s black sirens of song and spoken word
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/02/15/omahas-black-sir…-and-spoken-word/
Omaha theater gypsy Gordon Cantiello back with new show
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/08/09/omaha-theater-gy…ck-with-new-show
Jocelyn and Deven Muhammad: Creative Siblings Move Past Labels to Make Their Marks
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/09/15/jocelyn-and-deve…make-their-marks
Passion Power: Dominique Morgan’s voice will not be stilled
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/04/07/passion-power-do…l-not-be-stilled
After decades in NYC, Omaha native jazz pianist Paul Serrato proves you can come home again
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/06/06/jazz-pianist-pau…in-new-york-city
Opera Omaha re-imagines the gala with “A Flowering Tree”
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/03/24/opera-omaha-re-i…a-flowering-tree
Breaking the mold:
Opera Omaha re-imagines the gala
https://leoadambiga.com/2014/12/11/breaking-the-mol…gines-the-gala-2/
BRAVO! Sing for the Cure
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/05/22/14215
Jazz-Plena fusion artist Miguel Zenon bridges worlds of music
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/07/21/jazz-plena-fusio…-worlds-of-music
Identical twin horn players set to lead Omaha jazz revival
https://leoadambiga.com/2018/03/27/identical-twin-h…aha-jazz-revival
Potash Twins making waves in jazz: Teen brothers count jazz greats as mentors
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/06/05/potash-twins-mak…reats-as-mentors
Indigenous music celebrated in Omaha Conservatory of Music Nebraska Roots concert
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/03/25/indigenous-music…ka-roots-concert/
Omaha’s KVNO 90.7 FM turns 40: Commercial-free public radio station serves the community all classical music and local news
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/02/11/omahas-kvno-90-7…ent-set-it-apart
Artists running with opportunity to go to the next level; Carver Bank resident artists bring new life to area
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/05/20/artists-running-…new-life-to-area
Shirley Jones Interview: Classic Hollywood star to appear at Omaha screening of “Carousel”
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/05/01/shirley-jones-in…ning-of-carousel
Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds and classic film “Singin’ in the Rain” to be saluted
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/10/31/hollywood-legend…d-at-nov-5-event
Jill Scott Interview
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/08/08/interview-with-jill-scott
Life is a Cabaret, the Anne Marie Kenny Story: From Omaha to Paris to Prague and Back to Omaha, with Love
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/05/28/life-is-a-cabare…-omaha-with-love
From Omaha to Paris to Omaha, with Love, Anne-Marie Kenny’s Journey in Song and Spirit
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/06/21/from-omaha-to-pa…-song-and-spirit
A queen gets his day in the sun: Music director Jim Boggess let’s it all out in “Jurassic Queen” cabaret
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/01/04/a-queen-gets-his…ic-queen-cabaret
Martinez Music Legacy: 311’s SA Martinez takes music tradition laid down by father and grandfather in new direction
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/12/19/a-martinez-music…-a-new-direction
Tito Munoz: Rising young conductor leads Omaha Symphony Chamber concert
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/07/22/rising-young-con…-chamber-concert
Peter Buffett completes circle of life furthering Kent Bellows legacy
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/07/21/peter-buffett-co…-of-kent-bellows
Heart Strings: World-renowned cellist Alisa Weilerstein refuses to let chronic illness slow her down and she encourages others to pursue their dreams, too
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/02/19/heart-strings-wo…their-dreams-too
Miss Leola Says Goodbye
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/09/01/miss-leola-says-goodbye/
Leola keeps the faith at her North Side music shop
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/09/02/leola-keeps-the-…-side-music-shop
Laura Love: Omaha’s High Yaller Gal Comes Home
https://leoadambiga.com/2013/04/27/laura-love-omaha…r-gal-comes-home/
Hard Times Ring Sweet in the Soulful Words of Singer-Songwriter-Author Laura Love, Daughter of the Late Jazz Man, Preston Love Sr.
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/01/hard-times-ring-…uthor-laura-love
Omaha Symphony Maestro Thomas Wilkins and His Ever-Seeking Musical Journey
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/01/12/omaha-symphony-m…-musical-journey
House of Loom weaves a new cultural-social dynamic for Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2012/02/02/house-of-loom-we…ynamic-for-omaha/
The Sweet Sounds of Sacred Heart’s Freedom Choir
https://leoadambiga.com/2015/03/10/the-sweet-sounds…ts-freedom-choir/
Blizzard Voices:
Stories from the Great White Shroud
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/12/24/blizzard-voices-…eat-white-shroud
Bobby Bridger: Singing America’s Heart Song
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/12/09/bobby-bridger-si…ricas-heart-song/
Bobby Bridger’s Rendezvous
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/05/11/bobby-bridgers-rendezvous
Open Minds: “Portals” explores human longing in the digital age
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/04/15/open-minds-porta…-the-digital-age
“Portals” opens new dimensions in performance art – Multimedia concert comes home for Midwest premiere
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/10/06/portals-opens-ne…midwest-premiere
More than Buddy: Billy McGuigan expands on Buddy Holly shtick to collaborate with his brothers and band in Beatles tribute
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/03/06/more-than-buddy-…les-tribute-show
Tyler Owen: Man of MAHA
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/03/20/tyler-owen-man-of-maha
Quiana Smith’s dream time takes her to regional, off-Broadway and Great White Way theater success
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/01/23/quiana-smiths-dream-time-2
Quiana Smith’s Dream Time
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/22/quiana-smiths-dream-time
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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
From the Archives: Hadley Heavin sees no incongruity in being rodeo cowboy, concert classical guitarist, music educator and Vietnam combat vet
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/10/17/from-the-archive…etnam-combat-vet/
Luigi’s Legacy:
Omaha jazz artist Luigi Waites fondly remembered
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/07/18/luigis-legacy-th…ondly-remembered
Get Crackin’
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/21/get-crackin/
Arno Lucas, Serious Sidekick
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/21/arno-lucas-serious-sidekick/
Big Bad Buddy Miles
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/21/big-bad-buddy-miles
Enchantress “LadyMac” Gets Down
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/21/enchantress-ladymac-gets-down
Rich music history long untold revealed and celebrated by Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/07/02/a-rich-music-his…sic-hall-of-fame
Black Women in Music
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/07/11/black-women-in-music/
“Walking Behind to Freedom” – A musical theater examination of race
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/21/walking-behind-t…mination-of-race/
Tiempo Libre kicks off Jazz on the Green at Midtown Crossing in Omaha
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/07/04/tiempo-libre-kic…rossing-in-omaha
Home Girl Karrin Allyson Gets Her Jazz Thing On
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/22/home-girl-karrin…er-jazz-thing-on
Song girl Ann Ronell
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/08/19/song-girl-ann-ronell/
Kevyn Morrow’s homecoming
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/14/kevyn-morrows-homecoming
Frederick Brown’s journey through art: Passage across form and passing on legacy
https://leoadambiga.com/2011/06/22/frederick-browns…ing-on-of-legacy
Marcia Hinkle and Bill Sprague are the Omaha Symphony Orchestra’s Golden Anniversary Players
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/08/03/marcia-hinkle-an…iversary-players
Playing to the beat of a distant violin
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/07/06/playing-to-the-b…istant-violinist
A Woman Under the Influence:
Robinlyn Sayers as Hattie McDaniel
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/07/05/a-woman-under-the-influence/
Cool Cat Billy Melton and the Sportin’ Life
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/07/01/sportin-life/
Salem’s Voices of Victory Gospel Choir Gets Justified with the Lord
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/07/salems-voices-of…ed-with-the-lord
Radio One queen Cathy Hughes rules by keeping it real: Native Omahan created Urban Radio format
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/04/29/radio-one-queen-…-keeping-it-real/
Now Wasn’t That a Time? Helen Jones Woods and the International Sweethearts of Rhythm
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/04/29/17
Omaha Music Legend Preston Love
Preston Love: A Tribute to Omaha’s Late Hepcat King
https://leoadambiga.com/2016/05/05/preston-love-a-t…late-hepcat-king
The Smooth Jazz Stylings of Mr. Saturday Night, Preston Love Sr.
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/03/mr-saturday-night
RIP Preston Love Sr., 1921-2004, He Played at Everything
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/03/preston-love-192…ed-at-everything
Preston Love: His voice will not be stilled
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/03/preston-love-his…l-not-be-stilled/
“Omaha Blues” and “Preston Love’s Omaha Bar-B-Q’”: Two scorching instrumental blues journeys by Omaha music legend Preston Love
https://leoadambiga.com/2010/06/03/omaha-blues-and-…end-preston-love
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
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
100 cool things that have made Omaha a better place to live in
100 cool things that have made Omaha a better place to live in
Old Market
North Downtown redevelopment
Riverfront revitalization
Downtown Convention Center and Arena
Improved Omaha concert scene
Omaha hosting NCAA basketball regionals and U.S. Swim Trials
Creighton basketball becoming a major thing
Omaha Lancers turning into hot ticket attraction
Omaha Mavericks hockey
Omaha becoming Kansas City Royals’ Triple A club
Henry Doorly Zoo growth
Omaha Outdoor Recreational additions
South 24th Street Business District revitalization
Razing stockyards-Big Four packinghouses and redeveloping properties
Improved fine dining, ethnic eatery and street food scene
Saving Union Station and creating Durham Museum
Omaha Botanical Center
10th Street Corridor
Saving, restoring, expanding the Orpheum Theater
Omaha hosting touring Broadway shows
Holland Performing Arts Center
Joslyn Art Museum addition
Tri-Faith Initiative
UNO expansion
Metro Community College expansion
Creighton University expansion
UNMC expansion
Midtown Crossing
Aksarben Village
Film Streams
The Slowdown
The Waiting Room
Sokol Auditorium as rock and arts space
Saddle Creek Records
Institute for the Culinary Arts
Bemis Center
Philanthropic Community
Sherwood Foundation
Omaha Community Foundation
Kiewit Foundation
Holland Foundation
Nebraska Arts Council
Nebraska Humanities
KVNO
KIOS
Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Convention
College World Series growth
UNO Center for Afghanistan Studies
Omaha Community Playhouse renovation-addition
Opera Omaha growth
Omaha Symphony growth
Omaha Children’s Museum
Great Plains Black History Museum
El Museo Latino
Omaha Theatre Company for Young People growth
Saving what’s now called The Rose Theatre
Mutual of Omaha branding
Omaha Steaks branding
Empowerment Network
Great Plains Theatre Conference
Blackstone District revival
Benson Business District revival
Blackstone District revival
Vinton Street Business District revival
Park Avenue redevelopment
Makerhood District
First National Bank Tower
Metro Fort Omaha Campus growth
Highlander Village
Native Omaha Days
La Festa Italiana
Omaha Summer Arts Festival
Omaha Farmers Market
Florence Mill
Taste of Omaha
Jazz on the Green
Memorial Park Concert
Shakespeare on the Green
Cathedral Arts Project
Cathedral Flower Festival
Omaha Fashion Week
Big Omaha
Omaha Film Festival
Blue Barn Theatre
Homer’s Music
Joslyn Castle Trust
Omaha Writers Collective
Omaha Creative Institute
Omaha Conservatory of Music
WHY? Arts
MAHA Music Festival
UNO Department of Black Studies
Blue Barn Theatre
The Kaneko
South Omaha Museum
Omaha Design Center
Omaha Community Engagement Center
The Reader
Omaha Magazine
1516 Gallery
Baxter Arena
Plus:
Alexander Payne making movies-bringing stars here
Terence Crawford fighting world championships here
Warren Buffett bringing Bill Gates, Bono and the world here
Conor Oberst putting Omaha on the music map
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More cool places and things that sprang up in the same period but that are now defunct
Stone Soul Picnic
KOWH
Omaha Lit Fest
Ranch Bowl as rock venue
Riverfront Jazz and Blues Festival
Rosenblatt Stadium renovationa-expansiona
Center Stage Theatre
John Beasley Theatre
Firehouse Dinner Theatrer
New Cinema Cooperative
Kansas City-Omaha Kings
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