‘You Only Get Letters From Jail’ is a painful pleasure
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Tin House Books Pub Date: 7/16/13 $14.95 288 pp. In this new collection of short stories by Jodi Angel, each is headed [...]
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Tin House Books Pub Date: 7/16/13 $14.95 288 pp. In this new collection of short stories by Jodi Angel, each is headed [...]
Read More →Years ago I rode on the bus with a loquacious blind man. One day he told us that he was going to buy a power saw and explained why it [...]
Read More →Imminent swirling vortex of damnation Land developers for the iconic Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colo., (famous as the inspiration for the hotel in Stephen King’s “The Shining”) announced recently [...]
Read More →Going to the mountain top to seek wisdom isn’t exactly a new idea. Heck, Moses must have worn a path with his frequent up and down visits. I particularly like [...]
Read More →Kentucky’s Rand Paul based an extraordinarily effective Cedar Rapids speech on its contents. His colleague in the Senate who compiles it annually served as a key source in a “60 [...]
Read More →The biggest mistake four-piece Broncho made in its set this past weekend was performing it in Des Moines on a weeknight. The difficulty in getting people to turn out for [...]
Read More →Hello, my name is Patrick Boberg, and I suffer from a minor case of cyberphobia. I have developed websites from nothing, built databases and programmed applications. I enter every software [...]
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! CITIZEN HERO Police met with the victim at the Veterans Affairs hospital emergency room on Oct. 22 after he was jumped at the [...]
Read More →Those unfamiliar with basic routines might find themselves pacing around a gym for hours only to have accomplished little more than walking around a gym for hours. It’s time to [...]
Read More →You know it’s going to be a good time when you walk into a small-town bar just in time for happy hour and the Dropkick Murphy’s are electrifying your hair [...]
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