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. Walking through this show on opening night, I overheard a wistful conversation that ended: “They don’t make painters like them
Read More →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 routinely target-shoots his handgun in his yard, with impunity, to the consternation of neighbors. The statute permits open firing on
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Posted February 19, 2014in Locker Room
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 to fly over for a visit, then you are not familiar with one of the greatest winter sports ever created.
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Posted February 12, 2014in Film Review
“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.” It may be the first mainstream animated resistance film ever made by a Hollywood studio. Beneath its over-the-top visual mishmash
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Posted February 12, 2014in Cover Story
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 LPs. You stare — perhaps a little too long — at his blown-out earlobes. They almost flap in the breeze
Read More →“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 the kind of wreckage he perceives across the American West. The place isn’t big enough for the two brothers boxed
Read More →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 of a CW series — but most Earthlings despise them. As an experiment in integration, the authorities allow seven alien
Read More →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 vacuum cleaner changes his life in “Flora and Ulysses,” by Kate DiCamillo and K.G. Campbell. Flora, a self-proclaimed cynic, saves
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Posted February 12, 2014in Locker Room
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 said. “We attended a winter kite festival in Madison, Wis., and realized we could put on a similar festival here
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