Doing anything the second week of November? How do you feel about ukulele? If you’re with me so far, then you might want to check out Stephens Auditorium in Ames on Nov. 17, because that’s when the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain comes to play. Tickets to the event are
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Posted October 23, 2013in Sound Notes
Posted October 23, 2013in Game Day
Midseason awards continue
FIRST DOWN The Tuesday Morning Quarterback Midseason Awards continue with a run through the B1G… Big Ten’s best team: Ohio State. Just because Urban Meyer provided the launching pad for the Tim Tebow circus and the Aaron Hernandez circus that tainted popular culture as we know it isn’t the reason
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Posted October 23, 2013in Sound Check
Clowns “I’m Not Right” Poison City Records Melbourne, Australia, four-piece Clowns isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel with this one. Instead, what the band has done is set its jaws, crank the amps up to 11 and unleash a good, old fashioned noise-punk album. Teaming up with producer Lindsay Gravina
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Posted October 23, 2013in Belly Up To...
Quinton’s, an East Village landmark
Des Moines’ East Village is home to a plethora of diverse taverns, restaurants and groovy little mom-and-pop shops. It could arguably be dubbed central Iowa’s hippest place to eat, shop, hang out and carouse, with its late night concerts, pre-parties, after-parties, random block parties that are planned and hosted by
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Posted October 23, 2013in Political Mercury
You cannot be serious, Congressman Wikipedia
They are ever-present bit players on the modern political stage, ragamuffins with recorders at rallies and town halls. Political trackers. Republican and Democrats hire them to trail opposing candidates and sitting congressman in much the same way most of us play the lottery. You’ll probably toss the ticket (erase the
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Posted October 23, 2013in Rap Sheet
On the clock
Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! DRUNK BIKERS Police were called to the Bicycle Collective, 506 E. Sixth St., at 3 p.m. on Oct. 16, referencing a theft. Between Oct. 14-16 six bicycles had been rented with a credit card and none returned. The victim called a number he
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Posted October 23, 2013in Duffy
Posted October 23, 2013in News of the Weird
The bar is always open A 61-year-old Texas man who was admitted to a hospital appearing to be falling-down-drunk, despite denying having had even a single drink, was discovered to be unintentionally manufacturing beer in his stomach. With “auto-brewery syndrome,” stomach-based yeast automatically ferments all starches (even vegetables or grains)
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Posted October 23, 2013in The Sound
Luck, hard work and the power of “Pray”
Nashville-based three-piece Sweetwater Rain came about through a combination of luck and attrition. “We had done different projects under the same management,” said guitarist Fred Stallcup in a phone interview. “And (they) kind of put us together.” “(Bassist Thomas Rennick) and I worked together on a different project as backup
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Posted October 23, 2013in Film Review
Slave porn
“12 Years a Slave” 0 stars Rated R 133 minutes Drama Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender Steve McQueen is not a storyteller. He is an exploitation filmmaker specializing in outré subject matter who passes himself off as a cinematic artiste. He’s a phony who has managed to
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