Then there were giants
Olson-Larsen Galleries’ current exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints by Byron Burford, Jules Kirschenbaum and Cornelis Ruhtenberg is a homage to three of Iowa’s greatest painters of the 20th century. [...]
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Posted February 19, 2014in Art News
Posted February 19, 2014in News of the Weird
Our Cold, Dead Hands The semi-obscure Florida Statute 790.15 took center stage in January following a Miami Herald report of a resident of the town of Big Pine Key who [...]
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Posted February 19, 2014in Locker Room
Do you have the stones?
If you’re someone who thinks a curler is just one of the many tangled torture devices your girlfriend keeps under the sink, and a broom is something her mother uses [...]
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Posted February 18, 2014in Rap Sheet
Posted February 12, 2014in Film Review
Animated resistance
“The Lego Movie” 3 stars Rated PG 110 minutes Animation Starring: Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Berry There’s a strong subtext of socio-political resistance at play in “The Lego Movie.” [...]
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Posted February 12, 2014in Cover Story
Holy piercings!
It’s happened to most of us. Your record store browsing is briefly interrupted by an accidental glance at the guy next to you who is thumbing through old Quiet Riot [...]
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Posted February 12, 2014in Center Stage
Coming of age with two faces
“True West” may exist on a map, but Sam Shepard has somewhere scarier in mind. The 1980 play, often called Shepard’s masterpiece, reduces a Los Angeles, Calif., ranch house to [...]
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Posted February 12, 2014in Book Review
‘Flora and Ulysses’ is a comic book-lover’s must-read
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Julie Goodrich 9/24/13 $17.99 240 pp. Holy unanticipated occurrences! Ulysses the squirrel lives a pretty basic squirrel existence until a near-death experience with a [...]
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Posted February 12, 2014in Locker Room
Color the Wind on a tank of gas
Larry and Kay Day created Color the Wind Kite Festival after Larry fell in love with flying. “Larry started flying kites about 14 years ago and basically became addicted!” Kay [...]
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Posted February 12, 2014in On The Tube
Extraterrestrial without a cause
After aliens crash-land on Earth, the military herds them into a detention camp. They look just like humans — indeed, the gorgeous alien teenagers could easily be mistaken for stars [...]
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