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Welcome To Omaha News And Blues

By admin On March 11, 2010 Under Featured Post

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Hello, but I digress. ;-O

You probably arrived here by Googling “Omaha”, “Omaha News” “Omaha Happenings”, “What’s New and Exciting in Omaha” “What’s cool in the world today” or some other relevant search term in the high powered Google search engine. Or maybe you landed here because you were browsing articles on CNN.com, Yahoo News or The Wall Street Journal saw a link for this post and thought, hmm, that’s really looks interesting, I think I’ll go there.

Or maybe not. Maybe you’re here because you’re my sister, some other relative or a friend that I sent this link to and begged you to visit my site. Please, I’m begging you. ;-)

Whatever, it just doesn’t matter!!!

Omaha News

So what kind of posts will you see here on this blog? Well, as part of the name implies you’ll be seeing posts about news in Omaha. However, it won’t be the same old stuff you see on TV or read in other Omaha blogs. No, I can guarantee you that many of the things I’ll blog about you won’t be seeing on the 5 o’clock news. And it you do see it there it will be from a way different slant.

Hey, this is my blog after all.

I’ll blog about some other news, too, things like Husker football, the College World Series (last year at the Blatt), March Madness (not that the Big Red or Creighton will be gracing your TV screens this year) St. Pattys Day, Cinco de Mayo, Ribfest, and the list goes on and on and on…………

Some posts will even be about news that happened years ago, but is affecting us now. Those might be more of an editorial-rant-rave kind of post. But like I said, it’s my blog. Of course you will be more than encouraged to post any comments you may have. Just a few of the subjects that come to mind are:

  • How Omaha lost, and still loses, millions of dollars a year by letting the packinghouses leave. At one time the Omaha stockyards were the largest in the world. Sure it smelled crummy (can you say crummy and still be hip?) and The Omaha Stockyards certainly weren’t nearly as romantic as say Silicon Valley or Wall Street, but that odorous industry produced millions of dollars in revenue. Millions of dollars that are no longer in the Omaha economy.
  • Why was Omaha (and Nebraska) so don’t-want-to-get-our-city-corrupt, and righteous to vote against casinos being at the Riverfront, yet NOW cry and moan (with gnashing of teeth) about our in-the-red city and state budgets as we watch Nebraskans simply cruise across the river and hand over their money to Iowa. I guarantee you this one will get me riled up.

Omaha Blues

In the late 1980s when I was going to the clubs here in Omaha the only place I knew of that played Blues music was Howard Street Tavern in the Old Market on, well you guessed it, Howard St. I remember seeing Magic Slim there with his 100 ft. guitar cord walking through the audience while we sat there hooping and hollering, clapping and cheering while we drank pitchers of cold, cheap beer.

Howard Street was a great place. It was a little, narrow, underground, hole-in-the-wall room that was ideal for playing the Blues. Of course in those days things were quite a bit different. In those days there was so much cigarette smoke going on that a person could start coughing just by walking past the joint – from across the street!!!

I left Omaha in 1992 and lived and worked in the Washington D.C., Phoenix and Chicago areas. In all these places I had to check out their Blues. And let me tell you, whoa, they got some pretty good stuff there, Voodoo Chile!!!!!

So when I moved back to Omaha in 2004 I was pleasantly surprised to see several more Blues clubs, the Playing With Fire Series and a Blues Society here in my little old home town of River City. So, many of the posts in this blog will be about the Blues, Blues concerts and other things related Blues.

Miscellaneous

I’ll be blogging about some miscellaneous stuff, too. I plan on posting pictures of various events and shooting and uploading YouTube video. I’ll take you with me when OmahaNewsAndBlues.com goes to the Valley (that’s the Valley of the Sun – Phoenix, AZ, not the valley of the shadow of death). I’ll hit some wine tasting events and some fairs and events at neighboring Nebraska towns. (I’ll have to work on getting up enough nerve for Sturgis, though. I don’t even know how to properly sit on a motorcycle, let alone ride one.)

I won’t always be politically correct (where’s the fun in that), but I will always strive my best to bring you something that will make you go, hmm!!!! I plan on posting new content three times a week – Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Sometimes I’ll post additional content but you can always expect new postings on those days.

So once again I say welcome and I hope you come back, post your own comments and help me rock this town – Blues style.

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