‘Public Health Thank You Day’ in Nebraska
OMAHA – Without disagreeing, during the pandemic health workers have worked in the middle of exhaustion and exasperation. The Nebraska Association of Local Health Directors identifies November 22 as Public Health Thank You Day.
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.
“Falletta Conducts ‘Pines of Rome'”
Omaha, NE—Omaha Symphony welcomes guest conductor Maestra JoAnn Falletta, and guest violinist, Blake Pouliot, for a performance this weekend in homage to Rome. Maestra Falletta, the only female conductor of a top 40 orchestra, will lead the orchestra in the works of Berlioz and Respighi.
UNO Reading Series Features David Philip Mullins
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—David Philip Mullins, fiction author and Associate Professor at Creighton University, is the next guest of UNO’s Writers Workshop Reading Series tomorrow evening. Mullins is originally from Nevada, and setting is an important aspect of his work.
UNO Reading Series Features Lisa Sandlin
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—UNO Writers’ Workshop Reading Series continues virtually this season due to COVID 19. Tomorrow, UNO’s own Professor Emerita Lisa Sandlin will read from her ongoing mystery series, set in Beaumont Texas in 1973.
LIVE! Storytelling First Show Sunday
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—A good book can be enjoyed at home or at a library, but literature often thrives as performance on the streets and in coffee shops. But most audiences looking for live readings are probably hearing mostly poetry—no fiction, no essays. Writer and UNO instructor, Jaye Viner, questioned why that is when designing a new series opening this Sunday at Kaneko, called Live! Storytelling.
Omaha Lit Fest Returns
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—The Omaha Lit Fest, an annual event that welcomes writers and readers from across the country is returning this weekend. Originally created by area novelist Timothy Schaffert, the event had been on hiatus but revived by Ted and Nicole Wheeler of the Dundee Company Roving Book Store.
Playhouse Presents American Favorite “Of Mice and Men’
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—Of Mice and Men opens tomorrow at the Omaha Community Playhouse. Written by John Steinbeck, it’s one of the author’s most famous novels, depicting the life of the worker during America’s Great Depression. Character, comradery, and humor are inherent in Steinbeck’s work, but it’s a grim reality that tests these traits for protagonists, George and his friend, Lennie, who deals with a mental disability.
‘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.
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