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Weekly Highlights in Nebraska

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Breakfast Club Screening with
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Breakfast Club Screening with

Actor Anthony Michael Hall appears in person at Omaha Community Playhouse on Friday, October 23, 2026, for a screening of 'The Breakfast Club' benefiting the Douglas County Historical Society.

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Great HALL-oween Haunt at the
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Great HALL-oween Haunt at the

The Great HALL-oween Haunt returns to Omaha's Durham Museum at historic Union Station on Tuesday, October 20, from 5 to 8 p.m., with costumed history characters, haunted train cars, UNO's dancing zombies and Omaha Circus Arts.

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Durham After Dark at the Durham
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Durham After Dark at the Durham

The Durham Museum's 21-and-over Halloween night returns Thursday, October 22, 2026, with haunted train cars, Omaha Circus Arts and tarot readings inside historic Union Station.

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Baseballoween at Werner Park
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Baseballoween at Werner Park

The Omaha Storm Chasers' free Baseballoween returns to Werner Park in Papillion on Friday, October 23, 2026, with trick-or-treating, activity stations, a movie on the videoboard, and leashed dogs welcome.

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August Lamm at Francie & Finch
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

August Lamm at Francie & Finch

Anti-smartphone activist August Lamm brings her new book, You Don't Need a Smartphone, to Francie & Finch Bookshop in downtown Lincoln on October 19, 2026.

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Welsh Heritage Lunchbox Lecture
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Welsh Heritage Lunchbox Lecture

Robert Humphries and Gwenith Closs-Colgrove of the Great Plains Welsh Heritage Project speak on Welsh immigration to Nebraska at the Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln on October 20, 2026.

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Zootacular at Omaha's Henry
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Zootacular at Omaha's Henry

Zootacular, Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium's after-dark Halloween celebration, returns for a multi-week run of trick-or-treating, live entertainment and animal encounters from October 14 to 30, 2026.

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Falconwood Fright Nights
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Falconwood Fright Nights

Falconwood Park in Bellevue, Nebraska screens the horror film Obsession on Oct. 15, 2026, with a Nicki Impressions contest, food trucks, and a full bar at its drive-in.

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Horse Lords at Bemis Center's
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Horse Lords at Bemis Center's

Baltimore's microtonal experimental quartet Horse Lords plays a free show at the Bemis Center's LOW END venue in Omaha on October 15, 2026.

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Mary Pipher Book Launch in
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Mary Pipher Book Launch in

Mary Pipher signs the updated edition of "Letters to a Young Therapist" at Francie & Finch Bookshop in downtown Lincoln on October 13, 2026.

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Camp Hulla-BOO-loo at Falconwood
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Camp Hulla-BOO-loo at Falconwood

Falconwood Park in Bellevue, Nebraska hosts Camp Hulla-BOO-loo, a 21-and-over Halloween sleepaway camp weekend, October 16-18, 2026.

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Apparition: Nightmare Kitchen at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Apparition: Nightmare Kitchen at

Apparition Lincoln's Nightmare Kitchen spookeasy brings themed cocktails and a resurrected haunted kitchen to the Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel on select October 2026 evenings.

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Monster Squad Under the Stars
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Monster Squad Under the Stars

Falconwood Park marks a decade of outdoor movies with an 80s-night drive-in screening of the 1987 cult classic.

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A Dog's Night Out in North Omaha
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

A Dog's Night Out in North Omaha

Miller Park's Howl-O-Ween turns a one-mile loop through one of Omaha's oldest parks into a trick-or-treat trail for pups.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Mending Together in Lincoln

A monthly upcycling club at Makit Takit turns worn clothes and scrap fabric into a lesson in repair, reuse, and community.

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Tiny Homes, Big Ideas at Student
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Tiny Homes, Big Ideas at Student

Thirteen Lincoln high schoolers present hand-drawn tiny houses at a NOMA Nebraska gallery walk, the capstone of a six-week design club built to widen the front door to architecture.

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The Black Lagoon Rises in
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Black Lagoon Rises in

For a full month, Nite Owl trades its usual cocktail-hour warmth for coffins, skulls and a dungeon-dark bar as part of a national pop-up conjured by two award-winning bartenders.

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Monday Night Is Jazz Night: How
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Monday Night Is Jazz Night: How

For more than two decades, the Capital Jazz Society has filled Lincoln's Mondays with live big band jazz — and left a chair open for anyone brave enough to sit in.

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Trick or Tree Pose: Inside
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Trick or Tree Pose: Inside

A small Omaha nonprofit has turned the Hindu Temple's social hall into a Halloween party where the candy comes with a side of cat pose, dog pose, and camel pose.

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Beautiful Chaos Comes to Benson
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Beautiful Chaos Comes to Benson

For one night, the streets of Benson fill with giant puppets, cardboard creatures and people-powered art — a parade where nothing is motorized and everyone is invited to march.

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Three Omaha Friends, One Silly
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Three Omaha Friends, One Silly

On a September morning, Andy Tweedy, Clay Christian, and Paul McCoy will pedal from the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge to the gates of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, turning a whim into a 16-day pilgrimage for childhood cancer research.

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When Nations Gather: The 2026
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

When Nations Gather: The 2026

A pan-Indigenous convocation in downtown Omaha turns the anniversary of a UN declaration into a working assembly for sovereignty, food sovereignty, and collective liberation.

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Cones, Concrete, and Champions
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Cones, Concrete, and Champions

For five days each September, more than 1,200 drivers abandon daily-driver sedans and purpose-built monsters to race the clock — not each other — across the decommissioned taxiways of Lincoln Airpark.

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Puzzle Pirates and a Boiler
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Puzzle Pirates and a Boiler

Throughout the year, teams of up to three gather in the basement of a century-old federal building to race 500-piece puzzles — and drink beer brewed where the boilers once roared.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Fiestas Patrias marks 106 years

Casa de la Cultura's three-day festival on historic South 24th Street celebrates a century-plus of Mexican American heritage, music, and community in Omaha.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Brushes, Buttes, and Community

The Open Frontier Creative District’s daylong celebration of public art turns downtown Chadron into a pedestrian-only canvas of murals, handmade crafts, and hands-on creativity.

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A Race Against the Wait: Inside
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Race Against the Wait: Inside

More than 100,000 Americans wait for lifesaving transplants; every September, Werner Park fills with the donor families, recipients and heroes who make the gift of life possible.

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A Rockhound's Paradise Turns 40
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Rockhound's Paradise Turns 40

The largest outdoor rock show in Nebraska marks its 40th year over Labor Day weekend, drawing collectors and vendors to Crawford City Park for a celebration of agates, minerals, and the timeless thrill of the hunt.

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Free Jazz, Deep Roots: Omaha's
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Free Jazz, Deep Roots: Omaha's

The free LOVAM Jazz Festival returns to Turner Park for a Labor Day weekend celebration of music and North Omaha community.

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A Window on the Universe: The
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Window on the Universe: The

Every Saturday night, free of charge, the volunteers of Hyde Memorial Observatory open their doors to the public — a tradition that began with a ragtime pianist, a Mercury transit, and a dream that took more than a decade to build.

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Beer, Bands, and the Last Long
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Beer, Bands, and the Last Long

Lincoln's favorite 21-and-over animal park party returns for its third Fall Festival, pairing The Moore Brothers Band and Steady Wells with s'mores, local cider, and after-hours giraffe encounters.

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Craft Beer and Crafted Wood: An Epoxy Workshop Finds Its Home in a Historic Boiler Room
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Craft Beer and Crafted Wood: An Epoxy Workshop Finds Its Home in a Historic Boiler Room

On a late-summer evening in Lincoln, participants will pour their own epoxy river charcuterie boards inside Boiler Brewing Company — a craft brewery that transformed the long-abandoned boiler room of the 1904 Grand Manse into a destination for bold, experimental beer.

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Craft Beer and Crafted Wood: An
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Craft Beer and Crafted Wood: An

On a late-summer evening in Lincoln, participants will pour their own epoxy river charcuterie boards inside Boiler Brewing Company — a craft brewery that transformed the long-abandoned boiler room of the 1904 Grand Manse into a destination for bold, experimental beer.

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