Posted July 03, 2013in Locker Room
You know the old saying, “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades?” Well, if you never quite understood the former of the two, check out this year’s Holiday Classic Horseshoe Tournament. “To pick one thing and say, ‘that’s what makes horseshoe pitching a great sport,’ would be very difficult,”
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Random House June 25, 2013 $27 416 Pages Curtis Sittenfeld’s fourth novel centers on a pair of identical twins whose personalities appear on the surface to have little in common. Daisy and Violet grow up in suburban St. Louis with uncanny psychic
Read More →NINTENDO DIRECT E3 MEDIA BRIEFING Nintendo has problems. Despite ushering in the new console generation unopposed, the Wii U has had a tepid reception, selling only 57,000 units in its initial launch window (about 17 percent of what the last generation’s Wii sold over the same two month period). Nintendo
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Posted July 03, 2013in Duffy
Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! NEIGHBORLY LOVE Two neighbors were outside of their apartment complex on June 23 at 1:30 a.m. at the 1800 block of Arlington Avenue. One of the men became enraged and hit the other over the head multiple times with a beer bottle. The victim
Read More →Dylan Sires and Neighbors “No One” Independent Waterloo-based Dylan Sires is a great example of unapologetic pop music. It can be difficult working with something so light and seemingly insubstantial, because you run the risk of having the entire thing collapse under weight that the songs aren’t equipped to handle
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Posted July 03, 2013in Food Dude
To stay current, food writers pay considerable attention to what’s new. Sometimes a place of significant excellence can slip into the deeper levels of our consciousness. After writing about a disappointing visit to a Chinese restaurant recently, three different readers reminded me of such a place. Great China has occupied
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Posted July 03, 2013in The Sound
The book on Brandi Carlile stops and starts with one thing: that voice. From the soft, delicate notes that waft out like a lullaby, to the raw, cracking, gut-wrenching highs when she’s really belting, it’s that singular voice that has put Carlile at the forefront of folk rock in America.
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Historic 5,000-meter run unsets the pace at ‘blue oval’
With all the great races enjoyed by the folks who journeyed to Drake Stadium for the USA Track and Field championships, maybe it’s to be expected that they should have to endure one troubling, one vastly disappointing performance at the vaunted “blue oval.” And the weather — you know, so-called
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