Hard to believe, but in the four decades since Jimi Hendrix died, no one has made a great documentary about him. “Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin’ ” on “American Masters” fixes that problem (Tuesday, 8 p.m., PBS). It capably tells the story of Hendrix’s rise from impoverished Seattle
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Posted October 23, 2013in On The Tube
As an Orson Welles fanatic, I thought I knew everything about his infamous radio adaptation of “War of the Worlds” from 1938. The 23-year-old genius crafted the program as if Martians had actually invaded the U.S., with news bulletins seeming to interrupt regularly scheduled programming. Listeners believed the invasion was
Read More →In the shadow of the release of the newest iPhones, Apple unleashed on its users something even bigger, the seventh iteration of its mobile operating system (iOS). Every iPhone, iPad and touch screen iPod was given the option to upgrade to iOS 7 earlier this month, and hardcore Apple users
Read More →Amount: $3,588.82 To: 4 Imprint For: Purchase of Big Value tote and Swing USB drives, including $52.82 in shipping fees. Amount: $325.58 To: A Tec Recycling Inc. For: Payment for September’s recycling services at a Prospect Road property. Amount: $502 To: Ablenet Inc. For: Purchase of iTalk2 Communicator
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Posted October 23, 2013in Food Dude
Bread might be the staff of life, but noodles are its bliss. Their brilliant simple paste of unleavened flour and water has been improving the quality of dinner for at least 4,000 years now. In Iowa, noodles have stretched food dollars through 200 winters, a Civil War, two World Wars
Read More →Your recent headline questioned whether the Gortz Haus owners “like Gays” (Civic Skinny, Oct. 17), but this question was overshadowed by the article’s inclusion of a sampling of the vitriolic anonymous emails the Odgaards received from people who feel differently than they. The crude, hateful, vulgar and obscene comments, along
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Posted October 23, 2013in Locker Room
Worm: You know what always cheers me up? Mike McDermott: No, what’s that? Worm:Rolled up aces over kings. Check-raising stupid tourists and taking huge pots off of them. Playing all-night high-limit Hold’em at the Taj, where the sand turns to gold. Stacks and towers of checks I can’t even see
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Posted October 23, 2013in Civic Skinny
Republican Congressman Tom Latham has raised close to $1 million in his effort to keep the seat he won last year when he moved into Iowa’s newly designed Third Congressional District. His opponent, Democrat Staci Appel, has raised a bit more than $250,000, according to reports filed the other day
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch Soho Crime Oct. 1, 2013 $26.95 345 pp. Magdalen Nabb was an expatriate Englishwoman who settled in Italy in 1975 and enjoyed success as an author of crime novels and children’s books. She published a series of 14 books featuring Marshal Guarnaccia
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