Sound Notes Pick o’ the Week
The Iowa State Fair and Nightfall on the River line-ups have been announced for the coming summer. Nitefall on the River at Simon Estes Amphitheater will host Hairball on May [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Sound Notes
Posted April 17, 2013in Sound Check
CD Reviews
H.D. Harmsen ‘Papoose’ Maximum Ames Maximum Ames’ biggest strengths also the biggest knock against the label: It encourages everyone, so you never really know what you’re going to get. Some [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in On The Tube
Crime of the century
‘All the President’s Men Revisited’ takes a fresh look at the Watergate scandal You couldn’t ask for a better reevaluation of the Watergate scandal than “All the President’s Men Revisited” [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in The Sound
Andrew Fleming, still truckin’
There’re a lot of reasons to like Andy Fleming. A gifted songwriter and a musician with a reverential approach to his craft, the Brother Trucker front man is also one [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Film Review
Navel gazing through a telescope
“To the Wonder” 1 star Rated R 112 minutes Drama Starring: Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams Terrence Malick still hasn’t made a remarkable film since 1978. That was the [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Locker Room
Putting the dance in Bellydance
The raw sexuality of a scantily-clad woman is enough to get any straight man a little hot under the collar. Add the hip gyrating and an ebb-and-flowing abdomen, and it’s [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Sore Thumbs
‘ARMY OF TWO: THE DEVIL’S CARTEL’ (M) ** Electronic Arts Xbox 360 With their stupid banter and eye-rollingly macho attitudes, Salem and Rios weren’t the most affable of avatars. But [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Your View
God speaks to everyone
I have been told that God speaks to everyone. The religious extremist says, “God tells me there will be no abortions.” On the other hand, a young woman hears God [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
A history lesson as James Harlan comes home to Iowa — again
James Harlan has been evicted from the Capitol in Washington and is being sent back to Iowa. It isn’t the first time he has been sent home. Harlan was a [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood
A friend with a safety rope
You have to love fear and its favorite step-child, anxiety. I mean, what’s there not to love? Here you have a basic emotion, fear, which makes all kinds of sense [...]
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