Girls Inc get ‘Stronger, Smarther and Bolder’
OMAHA – Girls inc helps women develop their skills and promotes complex physical, mental, and professional development among them.
Road to Omaha – Oral Roberts Golden Eagles
Omaha, NE – On today’s episode of “Road to Omaha,” KVNO’s Brandon McDermott spoke with Oral Roberts head coach Ryan Folmar.
Opera Omaha Returns to Stage, ‘The Capulets and the Montagues’
Omaha, NE—Opera Omaha returns to the stage of the Orpheum Theater tonight with Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece, The Capulets and the Montagues. Star-crossed lovers are torn by a feud between families. It’s a familiar story, but audiences who have not seen the opera might be surprised to see that the role of Romeo is played by a female mezzo-soprano.
‘Siberian Exile’ Presented at Bookworm
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—Omaha Sister Cities Association, connecting Omaha with its foreign partners and their nations, is inviting the community to a book presentation by Canadian author, Julija Šukys at the Bookworm this Wednesday evening. Her family is from Lithuania, a sister city nation. While researching her second book, Epistolophilia, the biography of a Lithuanian librarian who secretly helped Jews in the ghetto, Šukys had not expected to find an interview with her own grandmother in the archive.
Read MoreHeuertz’s New Book Shows Us The Unexpected
By Bill Grennan
Omaha, NE — Unexpected Gifts is a new book by local author Christopher Heuertz that hopes to strengthen communities both large and small.
Read MoreAre e-readers the future?
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Electronic reading devices are becoming more popular. With one device able to hold hundreds of books the ecological impacts are enormous. Fewer trees need be cut down for the paper, less gas and effort need be utilized for manufacturing and shipping expenses. However there are some downsides. Traditional book businesses are seeing a loss in sales. What kind of future can e-readers create?
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