Rooftopping. 🏢

Happy Friday Ledgers,

^TLDR: Taylor Swift released a new album.

In this week’s issue:

• Rooftop: New rooftop bar opening in Lincoln

• What To Do: Easy Listening, East Lincoln, and Early Earth Day.

• Sportz: Gettin’ buckets.

• Neighborhood Watch: Pent-up.

It was a quiet week in Lincoln. But don’t worry, we’re cooking up something special for next week. 🤐

- Landon

ROOFTOP BAR

Raise the Roof. 🙌

Lincoln has no shortage of places to slug down a drink. But next weekend, we’ll have one more place to do our bidding. And as a bonus, you get to do it on a rooftop.

Like a giant LEGO block being lifted into the sky, construction crews hoisted an outfitted shipping container atop the roof of Bierhaus Maisschäler at the corner of 8th and P Street in the Haymarket. The process, which reportedly took 5 minutes to complete, marked the end of the journey to ready the new bar and the beginning of Lincolnites enjoying an elevated cold one.

Party of three… The bar, aptly called “The Rooftop”, will be only the third public rooftop bar in Lincoln. It joins the company of Barry’s Bar and Grill (the OG) and the Barred Owl (home of the perfect date night).

Open for the Spring Game… You won’t have to wait long to visit. The new addition to Bierhaus is expected to be open in time for the Spring Game next weekend. Here’s hoping that we get nice weather. 🤞

A growing portfolio… Haused (😏) under the Bierhaus Maisschäler banner, The Rooftop is owned and operated by Cody Schmick and Kinkaider Brewing Company. It joins Kinkaider’s growing brewery and distillery portfolio that includes four breweries across Nebraska, and Sideshow Spirits.

WHAT TO DO

Easy Listening, East Lincoln, and Early Earth Day.

After an absolutely beautiful weekend, this one will feel a bit colder. We’ll split our time between our faithful space heaters & the allergy medicine cabinet.

🎸 Easy Listening.
Tonight is a night for good, cheap live music. You’ll have your choice of venues and genres. Keep it close to home, or venture out to Venice, NE, for some country music. Here are the best shows we found this weekend. 🤘

• Pop: Landon Conrath | 8:00 PM | @ 1867 Bar (Listen) (Tickets)

• Folk: The Wildwoods | 7:00PM | @ Bierhaus Maisschäler (Listen) (Details)

• Jazz: Nebraska Jazz Organ Trio | 9:00PM | @ Zoo Bar (Details)

• Country: Ellis Bullard | 9:00 PM | @ Bucks (in Venice, NE) (Listen) (Tickets)

🎳 East Lincoln Evening
On Saturday, we’ll spend the morning on our chore list and the afternoon on a personal project. But come 4:00 PM, we’ll go to East Lincoln for drinks and apps at Venue before making our way north to do some mini bowling during Adult Night at Wonder Bowl - Lincoln. Don’t take the game too seriously; after all, it is just a tiny lil’ bowling ball we’re talking about here.

🌎 Early Earth Day
A week of wild thunderstorms has us thinking—how’s that whole “preserve the planet thing going?” We’ll spend Sunday volunteering and making the world a little bit better. Want to make it fun? Fleet Feet is hosting a trail clean-up event: participants get one hour to pick up as much trash as possible. You’ll win a prize and feel good about yourself.

SPORTZ

A roundup of sports headlines.

• 🤼 Wrestling: Former Husker and Gold Medalist Jordan Burroughs preps for his final Olympic team attempt.

• 🏟️ Stadium: The Memorial Stadium improvement project’s future is unclear.

• ⚾️ Baseball: Huskers lose to in-state rival Creighton after Bluejays deliver a grand slam.

• 🧢 Haymarket Park: The Nebraska Board of Regents approved the sale of beer at Haymarket Park.

• 🏀 WNCAAB: Husker player Jaz Shelley was drafted in the third round of the WNBA Draft to the Phoenix Mercury.

• ⛹️ MNCAAB: The Goggle King of Rutgers, Gavin Griffiths, has committed to Nebraska from the portal transfer.

• 🏈 Football: Prepare to hear the dad joke “I hope we win” a hundred times. The Husker Football Spring Game is next weekend.

NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH

Pent-up. 🏢 

After 40 years of crushing your enemies & grinding their bones into dirt, you’ve decided to go out while on top and retire from the game of business. From your humble beginnings, you’ve done it all; making a few lot of enemies along the way. But that’s what it means to be the boss, and when you’re the boss in the big city of Lincoln, you buy this home. Welcome to the penthouse at Lied Towers.

Each morning, you’ll wake up and walk over to your floor-to-ceiling windows, peering over the land. Everything the light touches… is owned and operated by Speedway Properties.

Some people may view you as a villain, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy the spoils of your victory. With three bedrooms, three bathrooms, and 2,000 square feet in the heart of downtown Lincoln, you’ll have plenty of space to host former associates and what remains of your broken family (after the succession plan was announced).

❤️ KEEP: The views, the location, the spiral staircase (which came from Bessey Hall), the built-in fridge, the primary bathroom, the beautiful closet cabinetry, and the drywall light on the main level that looks like a folded piece of paper.

🗑️ TOSS: The all-white everything (it’s giving asylum), the basic mirrors in the bathrooms, and toss the mix-matched light fixtures, which may be the only attempt at personality this build was given.

The Details:

• 3 beds, 3 baths

• 2,022 sq/ft

• Built in 2019

• Enough floors to separate you from the peasants.

CHECKLIST

The to-do list for people who get stuff done.

• 🚗 Vacuum your car out, it’s time.

• ❄️ Pack up your winter clothes for the season.

• 🌾 Put down some lawn fertilizer and weed preventer, and keep those weeds away.

• 🏈 Text your friends to confirm your plans for the Spring Game next weekend.

• 🪭 Dust your fan blades, we’re going into allergy season, baby.

HEADLINES

More news from around the capital.

• March was a record month for Warhorse Casino. The second half of its construction is due in Fall 2024.

• UNL is partnering with Google to offer non-credit courses to Nebraskans in fields such as IT, cyber-security, and business intelligence at $20 per class in its first year.

🐻 WEEKLY WILDCARD (a headline we never saw coming)

• Bullhunky: Larry The Cable Guy entered his bull in the PBR event last weekend in Lincoln.