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Texas repeated its NCAA volleyball national title on Sunday, besting Nebraska in the championship match — which also broke a record for ESPN.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events While the LGTBQ rights movement has made tremendous strides since that first rock was thrown at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in 1969, there are still many areas of the U.S. where the queer community doesn’t feel safe. In the new Hulu documentary, “We Live Here: The Midwest,” director Melina Maerker and producer David Clayton Miller chronicle queer families living in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Ohio.

In the wake of a Donald Trump presidency of 2016, in addition to the rise of anti-Gay legislation which poised a threat to the marriage equality decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, filmmaker Melinda Maerker and producer David Clayton Miller took the time to check in on the LGBTQIA+ community in the Midwest.

Alexander Payne, director of The Holdovers, said he gets pushback for the kinds of films that he makes but he plans to persevere and hopes there will be more space for “human” stories in theaters.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, to two parents of Greek heritage, two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne was awarded Greek citizenship last year around the time he was working on his latest feature, The Holdovers. 

“It is understandable to look at the state of transgender rights today and feel dismayed — I get that,” says Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. “But there are really incredible leaders who are fighting back.

Washington scored a nail-biting victory over Oregon on Saturday and, with it, claimed the most-watched college football game of the week.

If you're tired, feel achey and not sleeping well, it might be signs of a vitamin D deficiency.

Ed Meza @edmezavar Zurich Avenue, headed by producers and former Zurich Film Festival execs Karl Spoerri and Viviana Vezzani, has quickly amassed an impressive slate of projects since launching last year, including Annette Bening starrer “Nyad.” Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s film, which chronicles the attempt by 64-year-old swimmer Diana Nyad to swim from Cuba to Florida, unspools at the Zurich Film Festival. Zurich Avenue co-developed the Netflix film, which was produced by Black Bear Pictures and Mad Chance.

Stevie Nicks has announced a handful of dates for her upcoming 2024 North American headlining tour.The former Fleetwood Mac singer will be headed back on tour in February of next year for an eight-date headlining tour run. It follows the string of solo shows she did earlier this year as well as her current run of gigs that are set to end in December.Kicking off on February 10 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, at Mark G Etess Arena, Nicks will make stops in New York, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and Nebraska.

The Colorado Buffaloes established their dominance both on and off the field with Saturday’s matchup against Colorado State.

College football fans are continuing to take notice of Deion Sanders’ Colorado team.

Selome Hailu The 72nd Miss USA Pageant will air live on the CW on Sept. 29. This will be the pageant’s first broadcast airing since 2016.

The CW is taking on some pageantry: it is becoming the exclusive home of Miss USA.

A Nebraska man is having to face the music after calling the cops on a reckless driver — who turned out to be himself??

Sophia Scorziello editor Virginia’s Middleburg Film Festival, now in its 11th year, is set to open this October with Netflix’s Bayard Rustin biopic “Rustin” starring Colman Domingo. Director George C.

Fox scored a record audience with its broadcast of Colorado’s win against TCU on Saturday.

executive order that defines a person’s gender as based on their biological sex and unable to be changed under state law.Dubbed the “Women’s Bill of Rights,” the order seeks to effectively erase the existence of transgender identity from law, directing all state agencies, boards, and commissions to only recognize a person’s male or female assigned sex at birth for legal and statistical purposes.Under the executive order, state agencies would be barred from recognizing a person — even one who had undergone surgical transition, or one who had had their name and gender legally changed by a court order — according to their gender identity.The order defines a “female” as a “person whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova” and a “male” as a “person whose biological reproductive system is developed to fertilize the ova of a female.” The order also defines several gender-specific terms, including “woman,” “girl,” “man,” “boy,” “mother,” and “father.”Pillen has claimed the executive order is needed to ensure that women can succeed and thrive in single-sex activities or spaces and to protect the “safety” and bodily autonomy of women in multi-user public facilities where they have the expectation of privacy.“It is common sense that men do not belong in women’s only spaces,” Pillen said in a statement. “As Governor, it is my duty to protect our kids and women’s athletics, which means providing single-sex spaces for women’s sports, bathrooms, and changing rooms.”Pillen’s order is nearly identical to a similar executive order signed by Oklahoma Republican Gov.

A Nebraska man was pulled over by police in the tiny town of Norfolk on Wednesday, but he wasn’t speeding. He didn’t make an illegal turn. He had been using his blinker, and he didn’t roll through any stop signs. So what was the infraction? Riding with a bull!

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Zach Bryan has a fair amount of Bruce Springsteen in him. But not just a single Bruce. When the newly minted superstar headlined L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena last week (in a single sold-out gig at a venue he probably could have filled several times over), it felt like he is veering toward having his own “Born in the USA” moment, reviving that familiar mixture of populism and substance and making a new generation of fans scramble to get a scarce ticket.

Mandy Moore is taking a trip down memory lane!

A Nebraska delivery driver was in for quite the slithering surprise while out and about on his route earlier this month!

Who want to be a billionaire? The Mega Millions lottery drawing failed to produce a winning ticket on Friday, raising the stakes to around $1.55 billion and climbing for Tuesday’s drawing. There have been no Mega Millions jackpot winner since April, inflating its grand prize.

A new trailer for the Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx‘s new movie has been released!

star Inga Swenson died on Sunday, her son, Mark, confirmed to on Friday. She was 90 years old.The Omaha, Nebraska-born actress was a two-time Tony nominee for her roles as Lizzie Curry in and Irene Adler in but she was perhaps best known for her role as German chef Gretchen Kraus on, the Robert Guillaume-led spinoff of, which ran from 1979-86 on ABC.Swenson died of natural causes, and her family told that her health had been in decline for several months.The actress studied drama at Northwestern University before getting her start in film and TV, and on Broadway.

Jaden Thompson Actor and singer Inga Swenson, who played Gretchen the cook on the popular ’80s sitcom “Benson,” on Sunday in Los Angeles. Swenson died of natural causes, according to TMZ. She was 90.

Randy Meisner has died. The founding member, bassist and vocalist of the Eagles died on Wednesday night due to complications from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, the band confirmed in a blog post. He was 77.

a blog post. He was 77.«Randy was an integral part of the Eagles and instrumental in the early success of the band,» the band said in a statement.

Thania Garcia Randy Meisner, the retired American singer and co-founding member of the Eagles, died on July 26 in Los Angeles due to complications from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a statement shared by the band on their website. He was 77.

These are a couple dirty dogs.

A man in Nebraska has been charged after enrolling in two high schools and pretending to be a 17-year-old student. According to the Lincoln Polic

Blanchard, now in his early 50s, is cocky, unrepentant and defiant. He tells his own (oft-exaggerrated) story — aided and abetted by interviews with friends and family — in “The Jewel Thief,” a new Hulu documentary directed by Landon Van Soest.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The 11 remaining dates on Colleen Ballinger’s Miranda Sings live tour have been canceled, and the “Oversharing” podcast she co-hosted with YouTube creator Trisha Paytas has come to an end. The cancellations come after Ballinger, the YouTuber and performer who rose to fame with the awkward, lipstick-smeared Miranda Sings character, has faced accusations that she engaged in inappropriate conduct with young fans several years ago. Ballinger last month responded to the allegations that she formed improper relationships with teenagers, denying that she had “groomed” fans who were children. In a June 28 video, she denied the “lies” and “gossip” about her partly in song, while accompanying herself on a ukulele. “The only thing I’ve ever groomed is my two Persian cats / I’m not a groomer, just a loser / who didn’t understand I shouldn’t respond to fans / and I’m not a predator even a lot of you think so / because five years ago I made a fart joke,” Ballinger sang in the video.

groomer” on Twitter, prompting some users to threaten to harm or maim her or even kidnap her 13-year-old child.According to the complaint, filed in Douglas County District Court last week, the Nebraska Freedom Coalition slammed State Sen. Megan Hunt of Omaha, a progressive who was previously affiliated with the Democratic Party but has since become an independent, for opposing a proposed ban on gender-affirming care.Hunt was one of three lawmakers who mounted a several months-long filibuster that effectively slow-walked the legislative agenda for the state’s unicameral, technically nonpartisan, legislature for this year’s session.The filibuster ended after Republican-affiliated lawmakers found enough votes to overcome it by proposing a watered-down version of the ban, signed into law by Republican Gov.

Hilary Swank is enjoying every moment of her new chapter after welcoming twins with husband Philip Schneider — even the hard ones.

Chris Pratt has paid tribute to his late Everwood co-stars Treat Williams and John Beasley. Beasley passed away on 30 May in Omaha, Nebraska at the age of 79, and almost two weeks later, Williams died in a New York hospital after a motorcycle accident in Vermont on Monday. He was 71.