[title size=”1 to 6″ style=”options: default, sidebar”]MAHA Music Festival[/title] Aug. 16 Aksarben Village, Omaha $50 Maha is considered an indie rock music festival and this year it delivers with headliners Death Cab for Cutie, The Head and the Heart and Local Natives. The day-long event in Stinson Park is more than a music festival. Maha […] Read more
[title size=”1 to 6″ style=”options: default, sidebar”]The Governor’s Ball[/title] June 6-8 Randall’s Island, New York Ticket Price: $250 Lineup Includes: Outkast, Jack White, Vampire Weekend, The Strokes, Phoenix, Skrillex, Foster the People, TV on the Radio, Interpol, Julian Casablancas & the Voidz The Governor’s Ball added a third day packed full of music last year, […] Read more
[title size=”1 to 6″ style=”options: default, sidebar”]Alabama Shakes | TBA [/title] By Matt Knapp To say that Alabama Shakes’ sophomore album is anticipated is an understatement. The four-piece, led by the powerful alto voice of Brittany Howard, made waves in the desert of soulful, southern rock back in 2012 with “Boys & Girls,” but according […] Read more
“Guardians of the Galaxy” | Aug. 1 Matt Sueper | Seeds Entertainment “Guardians of the Galaxy,” the next installment of the Marvel franchise, will be in theaters Aug. 1. If you like your superhero movies dark and gritty, don’t bother seeing “Guardians” because it will be nothing of that sort. It has a machine gun-wielding […] Read more
[title size=”2″ style=”options: default, sidebar”]”Funck!”[/title] This playlist is a twenty car pile up of sludge, stoner and psych rock with a dark and driving overtone. Josh Homme plays a role in 35% of the songs listed below including the bands Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures, and Kyuss. His unique guitar tones consistently […] Read more
By Greg Bright Since the premieres of “The Sopranos” and “The Wire,” television has been the superior art form for expressing and creating modern day pop culture. Even big pop culture films quickly turn into series (Marvel, sequels, etc.). You’d think as a film buff this would worry me, but from what I’ve seen in the […] Read more
In an apparently earnest attempt to reconnect with an increasingly disinterested student body, declining student paper Daily Nebraskan un-ironically printed a series of stories about sustainability, the latest thing students maybe sort of care about. Despite having reduced its printing schedule from five times a week to twice weekly, the DN and its editors saw […] Read more
A freshman bought her first pack of cigarettes at a gas station near campus, and she’s not going to get trapped into the habit like her friends; she’s just going to buy 10,000 packs and then stop. “Not a lot of people have willpower like I do, you know,” said Lacey Krings, the 18-year-old smoker. […] Read more
Many already depressing mornings and afternoons at a local therapist’s office became even more bleak with the presence of a decorational plant that wasn’t even goddamn real. Within the walls of the home and part-time therapy office of Lincoln therapist Mackenzie Shirlton sat a hypocritical sunny-yellow pot where a fake plastic rendition of a lavender […] Read more
For many college students, renting their first off-campus property can be a very stressful experience. There are so many ways to get burned in a bum house deal, which is one of the reasons finding the perfect house seems like such an accomplishment. University of Nebraska sophomore Rick Nathers thought he had found just the […] Read more
