Beginning on Aug. 11, the Capital City Ribfest will greet barbecue lovers from around the state. A four-day festival, Ribfest boasts great music, fun festivities and, most importantly, award-winning barbecue from vendors hailing from cities around the country and world.
July was a harsh month for farmers in the southern part of the country, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
A study found that Nebraska rose in the rankings of the State Entrepreneurship Index. In 2008, the state placed 24th in the rankings. In 2010, Nebraska moved up three spots to place 21st.
Nine years ago, Hilda Raz, a former editor of the Prairie Schooner, imagined a contest that would give aspiring authors the greatest prize: the honor of seeing their work in print.
Within the next week, some students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will graduate. There will be two graduation ceremonies to honor those graduates — the graduate degree ceremony and the baccalaureate ceremony.
What's going on around campus, Lincoln.
At the Big Ten Media Days in Chicago, Iowa athletic director Gary Barta and Tom Osborne announced a new tradition. The day after Thanksgiving, the Huskers and Hawkeyes will face off in the Heroes Game. The winner of the game will receive the Heroes Trophy.
Sometimes the courts come through for the people. On Thursday, Warren Jeffs, a leader of a fundamentalist Mormon church that emphasized polygamy, was convicted of two counts of sexual on a child.
A week ago, the country seemed ready to crack under the pressure of the impending debt ceiling crisis. Whenever the word "armageddon" starts getting thrown around on serious news programs, you know an issue is really super-duper serious.
He could have said something. Here I am bumbling about on the piano, cobbling together a string of chords I'd learned earlier that day. And there he was, behind the production controls and, no doubt, thinking of a myriad of ways the piano part could be more sufficiently played.
I can't say I've ever seen a movie and hoped that future directors rip it off. But with Ruben Fleischer's "30 Minutes or Less," I hope they're at least taking notes. It takes an original, jam-packed story that could easily be milked for more, and fires it off in a mere 83 minutes.
Creating a prequel to a classic sci-fi movie isn't an easy feat. Unfortunately, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" proves this. The movie lacks warmth, charm and vivid characters.
When Rachel Tanner, a recently widowed mother, is refused the money from her husband Gary's insurance due to suspicious circumstances surrounding his death, she seeks out Gary's best friend, Dylan Prescott.
Skinheads today are mostly associated with the neo-Nazi movement in America. They're racists who wear clothing reminiscent of the Hitler youth — red swastika armbands and all.
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