Posted September 17, 2013in Rap Sheet
Posted September 11, 2013in Your View
Shedding the skins of Hannah Montana
Miley Cyrus was not shocking at the Video Music Awards with her disturbing performance. There have been moments that have been shocking in pop culture, that have left us rumbling [...]
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Posted September 11, 2013in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines
Amount: $2,828.99 To: BSNSports (Texas) For: Purchase of a four-inch stadium alumagoal for the James W. Cownie Soccer Park. Amount: $1,687.74 To: ColorFX For: Purchase order to have 66,000 [...]
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Posted September 11, 2013in Locker Room
‘My lance is bigger’
It isn’t enough to simply read about history. One must immerse thy self in the subject to fully understand the time period and why it’s had a lasting affect on [...]
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Posted September 11, 2013in The Sound
Zen and the art of Annalibera
Anna Gebhardt is kind of a Zen master when it comes to self-effacing humility. “I’m just learning as I go,” she said over coffee. “I don’t really know what I’m [...]
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Posted September 11, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood
The reincarnation of Mary Brubaker
“This is Midday with Mary Brubaker and Dolph Pulliam…” “The Mary Brubaker Show weekdays at 9 a.m. on KCCI TV 8.” “The Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, hosted by Mary Brubaker.” “ [...]
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Posted September 11, 2013in Game Day
A move of panicked desperation
FIRST DOWN: It isn’t so much that Texas gave up 40 points and 550 rushing yards to BYU — although it sure as hell didn’t help matters — as it [...]
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Posted September 11, 2013in News of the Weird
Spreadsheet parenting Loco Parentis: First-time mother Amy Webb proudly notates dozens of data points about her child each day and obsessively tracks their detailed progression by computer on spreadsheets, according [...]
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Posted September 11, 2013in Book Review
‘Revolutionary Summer’ is insightful confession
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch Knopf Publishing Group June 4, 2013 $26.95 219 pp. Pulizer Prize-winning American historian Joseph Ellis conducts an intensive study of the summer [...]
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A lobotomy, depression and a mother’s revelation
My most vivid memories of my paternal grandmother date from my childhood, when my family and I visited Grandma and Grandpa Kirsch at their home in Fairmont, Minn. I remember [...]
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