Arthur Jones

3 weeks ago | thereader.com | Arthur Jones

The Omaha Art Fair is making its debut this weekend, picking up where the Omaha Summer Arts Festival left off after 50 years. Adam Weiss, a longtime Omaha artist, decided that he wanted to carry on the Art Festival’s legacy. He created the Omaha Art Fair, which is making its debut Friday. “I started doing art shows when I was 18,” said Weiss. “Did Summer Arts Festival for probably about 12 years, including the last three years down here in Aksarben, and it’s always been such a good show.

3 weeks ago | thereader.com | Arthur Jones

Near Omaha’s 35th and Center streets sits an unassuming turn-of-the-20th-century house. The house was once owned by the Schrat family, which lived there for around 58 years. The parents raised their kids there, but made an effort to keep the house looking as it did when they bought it. The house, unknown to many, was built for a very specific purpose. To create magic. Its original owner, David P. Abbott, was a banker by trade, but absolutely loved magic.

3 weeks ago | nebraskapublicmedia.org | Arthur Jones

One trick Abbott invented was called the talking tea kettle. The trick would have the attendees write questions to ask the tea kettle. The kettle would then answer their questions. “He had figured out how to put a big induction coil under the floor, and then he had an induction coil in his tea kettle,” Arch said. The pair of coils would allow Fannie Abbott, David Abbott’s wife, to speak into a microphone and have her voice transmitted through the coils, and out of the tea kettle’s spout.

1 month ago | thereader.com | Arthur Jones

With the sound of rolling road cases, members of local IATSE 42, a union of theatrical stage employees, unload a truck in front of Omaha’s Orpheum Theater. The cases contain all the different pieces of “Hamilton” merchandise — pins, shirts, posters — you name it. Once all of that is loaded in the front, the truck driver brings the truck around back to one of two loading docks behind the theater.

1 month ago | el-perico.com | Arthur Jones

The results of Omaha’s city mayoral election are in. Democrat John Ewing Jr. defeated Republican incumbent Mayor Jean Stothert with Stothert having 36,307 votes trailing challenger John Ewing Jr.’s 45,336, based on unofficial results. Ewing said he was going to celebrate Wednesday, and get to work Thursday. “What I’m going to do is start talking to people about being on the team so we can build a great team for the people of this community,” Ewing said. “It feels amazing.