Max Wellman has had it with people harping on his age. “As long as I’ve played professionally,” says the singer and bandleader, “there’s been this tremendous emphasis.” The upshot? At the still-tender age of 22, he’s doubling down on his loyalty to his grandparents’ Hit Parade. He’s embarked on his
Read More →Amount: $68.64 To: Doors Inc. For: Purchase of six double toilet paper dispensers installed at Saers Park. Amount: $174,932.03 To: Ampco System Parking For: Reimbursement payment for the month of September for downtown parking garages. Amount: $12,605.56 To: Edwards For: Postage cost for the Fall 2013 newsletter to
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Posted November 20, 2013in Belly Up To...
Wedgewood Dining and Spirits is a surprising find on the east side. If you’ve never been, it’s tricky to navigate due to its peculiar location on the short diagonal jaunt, Wedgewood Road. The building is long, yet deceptively large compared to its boxy outward appearance. All clues suggest the place
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Posted November 20, 2013in Sound Circuit
MaryBeth Doran is familiar with the bright lights/big city approach. After graduating from George Washington University, Doran packed up her things and moved to New York City, where she eventually helped form the band Milly Beau. The soul pop five-piece signed to Greenhouse Records, where they released two albums. But
Read More →Breeanna, a 17-year-old from Nevada, is on a mission to find her biological father. She knows him only as Donor No. 1096 — the guy who happened to provide the sperm for her lesbian mothers. Through a website, she has tracked down 15 half-siblings scattered throughout the country. “Generation Cryo”
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Posted November 20, 2013in The Sound
Even if you’re not a fan of jam bands, it’s difficult to not be drawn in by the mentality. The idea of a group of people getting together (maybe getting high), having a good time and just generally being groovy and happy just to bask in the presence of one
Read More →Deadnote “Deadnote” Crater If you ask them, Deadnote names acts like Oasis and Velvet Revolver as influences. But when listening to the Ames five-piece’s new EP, poppy, ultimately disposable acts like Primitive Radio Gods and Jet are reminiscent. Backhanded remark as that may be, the1996’s nearly forgotten PRG release, “Rocket,”
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Posted November 20, 2013in Civic Skinny
There’s still a multi-million-dollar shortfall in the financing scheme for a new convention hotel near Hy-Vee Hall, but the gap will close and a 450-room hotel definitely will be built, public officials and private business leaders say. They say the two finalists are proposals from developers and contractors Weitz of
Read More →Now that Gov. Sarah Palin has been here (she was a featured speaker at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s 13th Annual Family Banquet) and made her now famous remark that has gone viral on the Internet: “When that note comes due — and this isn’t racist, but — it’s
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang HarperCollins 11/05/13 $29.99 589 pp. When Amy Tan found an aged photograph of her grandmother, she was stunned to see that she was wearing the attire of a high-class courtesan in turn-of-the century China and labeled as one of the “Ten Beauties
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