Word: omaha
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Originally from Omaha, Mendenhall and David Broecker (bass) played together for eight years in various guitar bands before moving into piano song writing in Seattle. Although the city is most famous for its early 90s grunge scene, Seattle is now home to a healthy indie pop scene that includes Pedro the Lion and Death Cab For Cutie. The Prom joined the burgeoning scene about three years ago, when Mendenhall and Broecker teamed up with drummer Joel Brown...
Bright Eyes, along with Cursive, the Faint and other Saddle Creek Records bands represent the thriving indie pop scene in Omaha, which still has ties to Mendenhall and the Prom. In fact, all three of the other bands that played the Cambridge show—Mayday, The Good Life and headliners Rilo Kiley—are on Saddle Creek...
People are listening to the Sage of Omaha again. The man whom many consider to be the greatest investor of all time--Buffett once raised $210,000 at a charity auction for his 20-year-old wallet, with a stock tip inside--fell into disfavor in the late '90s. He was criticized for avoiding tech shares when they were soaring, and for clinging to big positions in stocks like Coke and Gillette after they had peaked and were driving down the market value of his company, Berkshire Hathaway...
...that's the least of the tribe's worries. The Justice Department sued the tribe again, charging that the machines the NIGC had recommended were actually illegal. A federal judge in Omaha, Neb., disagreed and sided with the Indians and the NIGC. But the Justice Department appealed the ruling and dispatched a squad of high-powered litigators who prosecute organized-crime kingpins to argue the case. Commenting on the Justice Department's actions, Thomas says, "They have done everything they could to make this tribe out to be criminals when all we are is struggling to survive." --With reporting...
Perhaps we is the wrong pronoun. Maybe you would be more appropriate. Because not for a moment did I think Nicholson or Payne--an Omaha native--would betray Schmidt's essence. The director, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jim Taylor, understands that lives like Schmidt's are composed of incidents that cannot, must not, be forced into confrontation. Payne also understands what it has taken me most of a lifetime to comprehend: that the Schmidts of this world are not to be easily dismissed. Payne did that brilliantly in Election a few years back. Here he's after something...