About

This Week In Lincoln is a newsletter from Tynan Stewart, an independent journalist and resident of Lincoln, Nebraska.

Here's what you'll get if you sign up:

• A list of local events in your inbox: I send this out every Thursday morning around 11 am. These events will be selected and curated by me, rather than fed to you by an algorithm or ads on Facebook. There's way too much stuff happening every weekend, so I can't include everything, and you'll likely see a heavy bias towards arts and culture because that's what interests me! But I try not to neglect the other important stuff, like city council meetings, protests, and mutual aid events.
• Coverage of local music: I write about festivals, cool DIY venues, and (unfortunately) that one time a bunch of deranged Kanye stans harassed a local record store.
• Film reviews: I try to write about whatever's playing at the Ross Media Arts Theater, which programs independent and art-house flicks that often never show at Marcus locations. For example, I've reviewed Sirāt, Pillion, and Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.
• Standalone essays or reported pieces: I wrote this review of folklorist Roger Welsch's out-of-print travel guide Inside Lincoln, covered of Lincoln's No Kings protests against the Trump administration, and penned this reflection on a new exhibit at the Sheldon that challenges the idea of America as a cultural "melting pot."
• Guest essays from local writers: Local neighborhood organizer Brent Lucke wrote this great tribute to former Lincoln mayor Coleen Seng and her legacy of community building. If you're a writer and have ideas you think would be a good fit for the newsletter, hit me up.

If you have an event, you're welcome to send it to me. I just ask that you please do so through this form. I try to get those posts out by 11 am on Thursday, so if you send me something any later than, say, 9 am on Thursday morning, I can't guarantee I'll see it.

If you like what I'm doing here, please share the newsletter with your friends, and consider signing up for a paid subscription to support this project.

I don't run ads and I don't accept sponsors. That's because I believe strongly in trying to avoid financial conflicts of interest; I pick events because I think they would be cool, not because a business paid me to promote them. I'm accountable to my readers, not advertisers!

That said, it does takes a significant amount of time each week to curate events that actually look interesting. Your support will help make that work sustainable! (I also have a Patreon and a tip jar, if you'd rather not sign up for a paid subscription.)

You can reach me by email at tynanstewart@proton.me

You can also send me stuff in the regular mail: PO Box 94624, Lincoln, NE 68509

AI disclosure: No generative AI was used, or ever will be used, to create or write any part of this newsletter. You can read more about my thoughts on the use of large language models for creative projects here, here and here. (See also: Who Goes AI?)

But basically, generative AI boosters can get fucked.