Posted December 11, 2013in Belly Up To...
It’s a toss up, like an astronomer choosing a favorite star in the night sky or — perhaps more fitting a comparison — like a parent choosing a favorite child, it’s difficult to decide which is more enjoyable: balls or wiener; wiener or balls? If wiener is your forte, Des
Read More →Har-di-Har ‘Hard Parent/Thick Child’ Independent Har-di-Har (Cedar Falls couple Andrew and Julie Thoreen) is a fairly joyous experience. The duo’s particular brand of experimental, folky dream pop (or dream poppy folk, take your pick) is one of the more unique sounds you’ll hear locally, and with good reason. Between the
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Posted December 11, 2013in The Sound
Sick Puppies are out touring in support of its latest album, “Connect.” It’s a project that the band found itself taking a long and winding road to complete. “We wrote for about two months, and then we stopped because it started to get kinda stale,” said guitarist Shim Moore. “We
Read More →Name the “Name That Crime” Quiz! Armed Robbery X 5 Police responded to an armed robber just before midnight on Nov. 18 at Kum and Go, 2110 Guthrie Ave. The suspect used a handgun to hit the clerk in the face, while two witnesses in the store were made
Read More →Family of Man The Marvels of Science: The notorious white separatist Craig Cobb is currently soliciting like-skinned people to move to his tiny town of Leith, N.D. (pop. 16), to create a deluxe Caucasian enclave, but upon the urging of a black TV host to submitting to a DNA test
Read More →Amount: $548.60 To: Ablenet Inc. For: Purchase of Little Step-by-Step with levels, including $25 in shipping fees. Amount: $1,796.07 To: Achievement Products For: Purchase of Hokki stool, including $236.72 in shipping fees. Amount: $799.70 To: Action Accents For: Purchase of Hoover High School girls swim suits. Amount:
Read More →For show folk across Des Moines, there was a great insuck of breath over Thanksgiving weekend. Everyone was gathering for the Christmas season, when a remarkable range of local companies have entertainment on tap. Up in Ames, for starters, ACTORS has “Free to Be… You and Me,” (previewed in Center
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Posted December 04, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood
Mazes are fun. I know this, because people pay money to walk into cut-out Iowa corn fields to experience being trapped and lost. Yup, pay money. I’m sure this whole maze-thing started because on some dark autumn night a disgusted Iowa farmer, on a never-ending wait for Congress to pass
Read More →For gamers everywhere, Christmas has come early — the long-awaited next generation of gaming units has finally hit store shelves. Within 10 days of each other, both Sony’s Playstation 4 and Microsoft’s XBox One hit the market this past month and together opened up the console gaming world to a
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