Posted February 19, 2013in Uncategorized
Posted February 13, 2013in The Sound
Dead Horse Trauma and the art of the independent band
Slipknot isn’t ours anymore. Sure, the guys still hail from here. But they belong to the world now, their talent and success having elevated them to a point that transcends simple geography. If there’s any justice in the world (and I like to think there is), then Dead Horse Trauma
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Posted February 13, 2013in Sound Notes
Sound Notes Pick o’ the Week
Sad news for local music coming out of Ames this past week, as 105.1, Channel Q’s “Iowa Unsigned” host Benny Black announced that he was leaving the station after the Feb. 10 broadcast. Black, who’s taking a position with a radio station in Chicago, has been a tireless champion of
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Posted February 13, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood
A master class
The class is soon to begin. Chairs shuffle, winter coats are thrown to the side, note pads and laptops are carefully balanced on the 12-inches-of-polished-wood for a desk, and low conversation floats through the room. Cell phones are turned off or carefully hidden just out of sight. Murmurs, coughs and
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Posted February 13, 2013in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… Polk County
Amount: $9,935.70 To: Bob Barker Company Inc. (Fuquay-Varina, N.C.) For: The purchase of supplies such as bathroom sandals, razors, socks and trousers for the Polk County Jail inmates. Amount: $4,493.44 To: Central Service and Supply Inc. For: Purchase of public works materials such as 10 grab hooks ($196) and
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Posted February 13, 2013in Belly Up To...
Wake up to the world of Whiskey Dixx
Some people go to church and pray to God for love of the Holy Trinity; others go to the bar. (Some do both). At Whiskey Dixx downtown, the holy trinity includes Jack Daniels, Jim Beam and Johnny Walker, and if you love it too much, you could end up praying
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Posted February 13, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Register reporter calls Obama ‘cult leader.’ More Harkin fallout. Dick Olson cheats death.
More on the fallout from Tom Harkin’s decision not to run again in 2014. It’s becoming more and more clear there will be primaries in both parties as state politicians eye the First District Congressional seat that Bruce Braley will vacate as he seeks Harkin’s seat. And it’s becoming more
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Posted February 13, 2013in Film Review
Vindicating Charlie Sheen
“A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III” 1 star Rated R 86 mins. Comedy Starring: Charlie Sheen, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray Roman Coppola’s ’70s-era scattershot comic apologia for Charlie Sheen’s sins of womanizing and drug abuse has a train-wreck appeal that makes it moderately interesting to look at
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Posted February 13, 2013in Rap Sheet
On the Clock
Published arrest charges are obtained from official law enforcement records, which are available to the public. All who are charged are innocent until proven guilty. Play the “Name that Quiz” game! THAT’S A KICK IN THE SHINS Police were transporting a man to Broadlawns Medical Center around 3 p.m.
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Posted February 13, 2013in Duffy
