PHOTO PROVIDED Personal Effects. One of Rochester’s gutsier and more exploratory outfits on the scene today is Margaret Explosion, a delicate free-form jazz group that takes its listeners on an almost narcotic journey. The music is dreamy and tactile; you can take a hit and hold it. Because the sound is created in the moment, no one song is ever given the same treatment twice. It’s beautiful and mesmerizing. But to fully appreciate the trippy transcendence of Margaret Explosion, you have to pause and give a listen to Personal Effects, the band’s predecessor. The similarities are there, but they’re fleeting. Whereas Margaret Explosion is rather unconventional, Personal Effects was a more straight-ahead outfit operating in an emergent, danceable era of music that embraced pop and new wave. You can hear these aesthetics in Personal Effec
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Especially a year like 2020. When have we needed it more?
Itâs also unthinkable that the Omaha Community Playhouseâs most-beloved play could have been a super-spreader event for coronavirus in the Omaha area and beyond, given the showâs popularity outstate and in southwest Iowa.
The Playhouse staff and director Kimberly Faith Hickman deserve abundant praise and gratitude from the community for seeing that neither scenario became real.
âA Christmas Carolâ is alive and more than well online, in a version designed to keep actors and technicians safe. Sets are easier to manipulate by a skeleton crew, the cast is limited to eight people and scenes are blocked so that thereâs plenty of distance between actors.