The Irish have many traditions, but the one
they’re most known and loved for is drinking
beer. It’s a running joke that the Irish are
expert boozers — that the credentials are engrained
in their DNA, passed down from generation to
generation and dating back to some sot in Ireland
— but just because it’s a joke does not mean
it’s untrue.
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The
Sound New
live music venue Wooly’s to open in the
East Village
For six years, Sam Summers, owner of
First Fleet Concerts, has been promoting
concerts from Omaha, to Des Moines,
to Iowa City and back. Now he has one
to call his own as he prepares to open
Wooly’s this week
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Civic
Skinny
A prof studies quilting in Ireland. And ‘creative
nonfiction.’
Your tax and tuition dollars at work: Marybeth
C. Stalp is an associate professor of sociology,
anthropology and criminology at the University
of Northern Iowa Read
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Christopher’s is a Beaverdale institution with
a legendary bar dating to the legalization of
liquor by the drink. It’s rectangular so people
face each other instead of walls.
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Political
Mercury
Why Medicare Viagra ban is ruining America’s
public golf courses
In a crammed catalog of things I know happen
but just don’t want to think about — in a kind
of running and screaming and kicking way — the
human enterprise
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Locker
Room The
Iowa Pro Gaming Challenge
Compete
against rival teams in video game competitions
Although it doesn’t
take an ounce of physical activity,
video gaming offers some of the fiercest
competition on the planet.
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The
Sound 
