These photos were taken by Alyssa Schukar for the Daily Nebraskan.You can check out more of her work at alyssaschukar.com.Big thanks to Alyssa for sharing these so people can see them. Getting ready at the Black MarketThe Black Market generously allowed everyone to dress up in appropriate rock attire from the store. Preparing backstageNick Tarlowski, […]

Man, that was amazing.My shoulder hurts from videotaping two hours of rock (I’m not strong enough to hold a camera in that upright position without some strain). School of Rock went on first, and it’s just amazing what a sense of Putting On A Show these people have. “Story of My Life,” the Social Distortion […]

Downtown YMCA.Friday. 7:00 show / doors 6:30. The amazing School of Rock kids will be performing (middle schoolers who were in the School of Rock and School of Rock 2 after school clubs this quarter), plus club leaders Nick and Craig will be performing in their bands JV All Stars and Good with Guns (possibly […]

Omaha ReaderOmaha City Weekly On an unrelated note, I met a new superhero tonight, part of a team based in Indianapolis. Indiana, here I come.

I wanted to make a top albums of 2005 list, but when I sat down to think of what my top albums would be, I couldn’t really come up with a list that I felt was representative of the best of the year. It was actually more representative of the fact that my listening tastes […]

continued from this post I woke up early Saturday morning, gathered my gear and a McDonald’s breakfast, and headed south. Mapquest said it was a 2 hour drive, and it ended up being almost exactly that. For about the first hour and fifty minutes, my friend who’d said to expect nothing out of the ordinary […]

I shot these photos during my trip to Mississippi in mid-December. The back yard from a house in a pretty affected neighborhood. This used to be a scenic – and dry – area. Ironic “Home Sweet Home” pillow, lying in the front yard of a destroyed home. A couch caught in a tree. A storefront […]

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We’ve had a little tradition in my family for the past 9 months or so called Family Food. Whenever we get together for an event (holidays or graduations or whatever )and there are enough people to play, we compete to see who can put on the most weight during the meal. Everyone who’s competing weighs […]

I’ve been putting off sitting down and writing about this for a little more than a week now, and I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s just because there’s so much to write about and I don’t want to take the time, or maybe I’m a little afraid that if I type it all out, it’s […]