Bart Vargas' Top Weekend Picks

Where we highlight events to go about town.

Have you noticed the weekly posting on weekend events by Bart Vargas? Our civic contributed did recently. He spoted the listing because Bart makes his list a public post, and not a private post. Information sharing on weekend gatherings in Omaha? That’s what Whiz Khalifa calls “Work hard, play hard.” Legacy and leisure. That might not simply be a manifesto. A few years back, Forbes reported on a study that sought to see if “these two descriptors of motivation actually do tend to be found together."

Professor Lonnie Aarssen, a biologist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and his student Laura Crimi tested the 'Work Hard, Play Hard' hypothesis. Their study, published in The Open Psychology Journal, involved an online survey of almost 1400 undergraduates at Queen's University. “Questions were asked to measure each student's attitude toward several aspects of life: queries related to work included whether it's important to get the highest grades and have a prestigious job, for example, whereas questions about play included whether sports and watching movies are important to happiness,” the article stated.

Responses were then combined into six measures: attractions to religion, parenthood, accomplishment, leisure, mortality salience (understanding death) and negative mood. This data revealed several connections between the measures, but one relationship stood out, a strong correlation between attraction to accomplishment and attraction to leisure.

Back to Omaha, the following is Bart Vargas’ short list:

FRIDAY, Dec. 20

  • 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm: A Very Die Hard Christmas at the Bluebarn Theatre.

  • 10:00 pm - 2:00 am: Crab Vs. Kobra vs. Riche Niche at The Sydney.

SATURDAY, Dec . 21

  • 10:00 am - Noon: Dance Club with Tbd. - An Omaha Based Dance Collective at OutrSpaces.

  • 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Tony Vargas Coffee & Conversation - 2020 Session Preview at Zen Coffee Company.

  • 5:00 pm - 9:00pm: Queer Nite presents All My Friends at Once at Split Gallery.

Featuring:
John-Paul Gurnett
Gab Rima
Anna Schmidt
Nikki Rhoades
Valerie Eich
Tom White
Sam Trobaugh
Rose Quartz
Johnny Redd
Michael Elizabeth Johnson
Nell Horgan
MacKenzie Lee Davis
Ang Bennett
Jess Plants
Alex Jochim
Sage Griffith
Becca Bartlett
Trisha Gurnett
Joe Roheleder
Carmen Stukenholtz
Danielle Morgan
Nik Hulstein
And more to be determined.

SUNDAY, Dec. 22

  • 11:00 am - 6:00 pm: Queer Nite presents All My Friends at Once at Split Gallery.

  • 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Black Sunday Business Expo at the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation.

  • 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: 6th Annual Dom's Favorite Things with Dominique Morgan LIVE STREAM on Facebook and Instagram.

For Bart’s full weekend listing, visit his 👉🏿 Facebook post on the subject.

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