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Wired cover story includes a look at Omaha’s downtown revival
This coming month’s issue of Wired Magazine, which hit newsstands earlier this week, features a cover story, Smart Jobs,” that should be of high interest to our readers for a few reasons. First, the article takes a statistical look at something we’re dedicated to covering. “Work is out there,” page 134 states. “It’s cropping up…
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Nebraska Film: Rachel Jacobson of Film Streams
(Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series titled Nebraska Film: An Exploration of the Growing Community.) When Film Streams opened in Omaha’s North Downtown district in the summer of 2007 it revealed its lofty mission: “Enhance the cultural environment of the Omaha-Council Bluffs area through the presentation and discussion of film as an…
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Film Streams’ Local Filmmakers Showcase kicks off tonight
Starting tonight at 7:30 p.m. and running through Thursday, August 12, Film Streams’ will be presenting the work of 13 area filmmakers in its first-ever Local Filmmakers Showcase. With a run-time of 120 minutes, 14 films displaying a variety of genres will be presented back-to-back. The shortest is two minutes…
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This Week: REWORK Meetup, Film Streams event & Startup Drinks
April’s Startup Drinks brought out a crowd to Nomad Lounge. Photo by Amelia Stoltman of the the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce. Here are three promising events taking place in Omaha this week. For more, check check out our events page, and if you think you have one to add, please contact info@siliconprairienews.com. Monday, June…
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Rachel Jacobson tells Film Streams story, an art-house theater in Omaha
“I had budgeted initially for 500 members,” Film Streams founder Rachel Jacobson recollected. “I never imagined that we’d have 2,000. I mean, that really just shows how great Omaha is about supporting this kind of thing.” The “thing” Rachel’s referring to is a nonprofit art-house movie theater located in Omaha’s North Downtown District. In the…
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Two great stories from the Twittersphere
In celebration of #FollowFriday, here’s a couple of great tweets (and twitterers) from this past week. If you’re from Omaha, you probably recognize Koterba’s name from the Omaha World Herald’s editorial cartoons, and if you watch the video you’ll recognize quite a few of the spots. You can watch it at http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8493752. I was excited…
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Guest Post: Interview with Alexander Olch, director speaking at Film Streams Friday
Keeping true to our vision and passion for highlighting Omaha’s creative class, we are thrilled to present you a special interview by a noteworthy contributor and a film director! It starts with Rachel Jacobson, Founder and Director of Film Streams and one of Omaha’s leading visionaries, who continually opens our city’s eyes to what is…