Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang Scribner 6/01/13 $26 267 pp. Jeannette Walls wrote about her own childhood in her best-selling memoir, “The Glass Castle.” She became a successful and accomplished writer despite a father who veered between brilliance and drunken destruction and a mother who hated being
Read More →The animated version of “Sleeping Beauty” reiterated picturesque images of Walt Disney staples: anthropomorphic forest creatures, women singing gay melodies as they clean house or pet wild life, the plights of young love, the forces of unrelenting evil and the promise of a fairy-tale ending. For those who remember it
Read More →Mid-week music is a tough sell in this town. I don’t understand why, because people still go to late movies and to bars and to baseball games, but stick a live band in a place, and suddenly everyone decides they have to get up early. That’s a shame, because there
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Posted September 04, 2013in Cover Story
Iowa’s right-wing representative Steve King, a Kiron Republican who was recently dubbed “Congressman Melonhead” for his off-the-cuff comments on immigration, is a man who speaks his mind. It’s safe to say that, regardless of politics and platforms, King is fearless in his convictions and makes no apologies to those he
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Posted September 04, 2013in Political Mercury
Bugs Bunny broke the news. Not the cartoon, but this wonderful plastic transistor radio shaped like the silly rabbit. No trick for this kid. That radio worked. For ball games. Bee Gees songs, maybe a Gerald Ford comment here and there — whatever was happening in 1975, when I was
Read More →Jackson and His Computerband “Glow” Warp So you know those times when you’re listening to an album, but you’re not truly “listening” — it’s just kind of on in the background — and then, the next thing you know, you realize that you’ve been doing stuff in complete silence for
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