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Greek music wafts out of speakers as you walk into the basement of St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in east Omaha.

The tunes are far from the only thing that sets it apart from most of the hundreds of fish fries happening around the city and state on this Friday evening.

There’s no long line here, unlike in the more traditional spots where Omah...


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“A lumbering assortment of various parts poorly stitched together and bursting at the seams” is an apt description of both Frankenstein’s monster and writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s very loose remake of The Bride of Frankenstein. If the mere inclusion of the splashy, self-aggrandizing exclamation point in the film’s title, The Bride!, grates on you, sav...


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The dramatic video has been viewed more than 20 million times across social media.

A pickup truck and an SUV pull up to a stoplight heading west at the intersection of 67th and Pacific streets in Omaha. After waiting for a few seconds, the road underneath the vehicles collapses and swallows them both into a sinkhole. Bystanders rush to the hole to pull the drivers ...


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The month kicks off with bluesman Tinsley Ellis, who is back with a solo acoustic show Thursday, March 5, 6 p.m. at Lincoln’s Zoo Bar. “Premier Guitar” calls Ellis “a legend of American blues music.”

In Omaha, longtime K.C. harmonica player Brody Buster plays two Saturday shows. Buster’s now doing an energetic one-man-band act that he...


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Inside the Center for Immigrant and Refugee Advancement, the phone rarely stops ringing.

The nonprofit near 42nd and Center Streets in Omaha is home to the Nebraska Immigration Legal Assistance Hotline, a resource for immigrants and refugees in search of answers.

“What we’re hearing more often is loved ones or the actual detainee calling in seeking any a...


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