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"My stories about people, their passions, and their magnificent obsessions" I am award-winning cultural journalist and book author Leo Adam Biga. Whether you take a cursory glance or a deep look inside this blog, you are sure to find something of interest because of the eclectic topics covered. New posts are added regularly. If you think someone else will enjoy the site, please refer or link them to it.
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Leo Adam Biga's Blog · 7h ago

Omaha Tri-Faith Pioneers Seeing the Fruits of Their Interfaith Collaborative Take Shape

Omaha's not always embraced diversity but the local Tri-Faith Initiative may be a model of interfaith cooperation as it proceeds with an audacious plan to locate a church, a synagogue and a mosque on one campus. Organizers say they have not found an equivalent gathering of the three Abrahamic faith
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Leo Adam Biga's Blog · 2d ago

Great American Comedy Festival Presents Lineup of Up-and-Comers with Legends Paula Poundstone, Dick Cavett, Jimmie “JJ” Walker

One-liners and nonsequiturs will fly at the June 13-17 Viareo Great American Comedy Festival in Norfolk, Neb., where the late comic great Johnny Carson grew up. This annual celebration of the funny side is equal parts competition, workshop and roast. Its home base is the Johnny Carson Theatre at Nor
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Leo Adam Biga's Blog · 1W ago

Bill Cosby Speaks His Mind on Education

By now America's accustomed to King of Comedy Bill Cosby turning serious about topics he usually mines humor from. Expressing his celebrity opinions he sometimes touches a nerve, as when he asserted "parenting is not going on" in poor inner city black homes during a 2004 NAACP speech. The Reader got
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Leo Adam Biga's Blog · 1W ago

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Exhibits on Display for the College World Series; In Bringing the Shows to Omaha the Great Plains Black History Museum Announces it’s Back

Three traveling baseball exhibitions on view in the metro this spring chart a history with local overtones and signals a comeback for a local organization. The exhibits are courtesy of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Omaha's own Great Plains Black History Museum is presenting the photo shows at f
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Leo Adam Biga's Blog · 1W ago

Filmmaker Steve Lustgarten Proves He Can Come Home Again

Reblogged from Leo Adam Biga's Blog: The first film story I ever had published was about an Omaha native filmmaker not named Alexander Payne.  That may come as a surprise to those of you familiar with this blog and my work as a film journalist who has long covered the Oscar-winning writer-director.
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Leo Adam Biga's Blog · 1W ago

Artist-Author-Educator Faith Ringgold, A Faithful Conjurer of Stories, Dreams, Memories and History

Reblogged from Leo Adam Biga's Blog: I tried to get an interview with artist-author-educator Faith Ringgold before and during her visit to Omaha a few years ago but her tightly packed schedule just wouldn’t allow it.  So, with an assignment due and no interview to draw on I made the best of it by pl
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Leo Adam Biga's Blog · 1W ago

Movie Maven Crawford Celebrates 20 Years of Classic Film Revivals that Bring Hollywood to Omaha, Special Guest Pat Boone to Appear at Screening of 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'

Reblogged from Leo Adam Biga's Blog: One of my favorite movies as a kid was the 1959 version of Journey to the Center of the Earth. I’ve seen it all the way through perhaps a handful of times but always on television, which is why I’m looking forward to an upcoming big screen revival of [...]
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Leo Adam Biga's Blog · 1W ago

Generosity at Core of Anne Thorne Weaver's Life, Giving Back to the Community Comes Second Nature to Omaha Woman Whose Live-out-loud Personality is Tempered by Compassion and Service

Reblogged from Leo Adam Biga's Blog: Omaha, a city with a very high capita rate of millionaires, is known for its unusually generous philanthropic community and while the names of a dozen or more major philanthropists here are quite familiar to anyone who keeps up with local news there are hundreds,
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Leo Adam Biga's Blog · 1W ago

Bill Cosby Coming to Omaha to Perform May 6 Comedy Concert: In an Interview the Enduring Comic Talks About the Turning Point that Set Him on His Way

Reblogged from Leo Adam Biga's Blog: I have interviewed a lot of celebrities in my time.  Alexander Payne.  Laura Dern.  Jaime King. Patricia Neal.  Robert Duvall.  James Caan.  Danny Glover.  Matthew Broderick.  Debbie Reynolds. Swoosie Kurtz.  Carol Kane.  Mickey Rooney.  Pat Boone.  Dick Cavett.
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Leo Adam Biga's Blog · 1W ago

Omaha's Pitch Man: Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Willy Theisen is Back with His Next Big Business Venture

Reblogged from Leo Adam Biga's Blog: Willy Theisen’s self-made success story is an American classic.  I have known of him since the breakout success of his Godfather’s Pizza chain in the 1970s but it wasn’t until I was assigned the following profile that I finally met him.  I interviewed him for the
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