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Singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, 22, an accidental heartthrob with a tremulous voice and a knack for heart-on-sleeve ballads, is the other Omahan on the radar. Last month his new group, Desaparecidos, released its first album, Read Music/Speak Spanish, but he had already garnered a legion of teenage and college fans with his other band, Bright Eyes. He started playing in Omaha bands as a bespectacled Harry Potter look-alike and gradually came into the date-worthiness that has helped land his picture in Seventeen and Jane. Like the Faint, who mix effete dance rhythms with heavy guitars...
Both the Faint and Oberst have spurned offers from major record labels that could put marketing machines behind their music, and stayed with Saddle Creek, the tiny Omaha label that nurtured them. Will this fraternity hold? Young bands need the support of a local label in the early years but can quickly outgrow it. Danse Macabre is five-year-old Saddle Creek's current cash cow, but the label couldn't have promoted it so well had it not been for the earlier success of Bright Eyes. "Each group has had a period of carrying all of us," says Oberst...
...freshman boat consisted of Webb, McDaniel, Will Riffelmacher, Jonathan Lehe, Cameron Winklevoss, Jonathan Durham, Ray Hohenstein, Mark Hall and coxswain Jesse Oberst...
...Oberst said that the drugs increase the child's ability to concentrate. Of Ritalin he added, "how it works is still the $64 question...
...widespreaod use of the "behavior modification" drugs is due mostly to the efforts of Dr. Byron B. Oberst, an Omaha pediatrician whose personal enthusiasm for the drugs led him to form a parent-teacher group called Skills, Technique, Academic Achievement and Remediation (STAAR) with the object of pushing their...