‘Someone Else’s Love Story’ is good gossip
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones William Morrow & Company 11/19/13 $26.99 300 pp. Shandi Pierce is 21 years old living life with her precocious 3-year-old son, Natty, [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Book Review
Posted March 19, 2014in Your View
Go giant, Iowa
Jackson Pollock Mural worth $150 million (Civic Skinny, March 13)? Sell it. Build the $75 million Iowa City art museum. Then — like those art projects all over Iowa such as the [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Locker Room
Maximized
For some, the best motivation comes in the form of tough-as-nails, no-nonsense criticism that is biting, unapologetic yet entirely encouraging. Others need a nurturing voice that reminds them that they [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Sound Check
George Michael “Symphonica” Island “Symphonica” is not, in the strictest sense of the term, a new album. The vast majority of what’s covered here is from 1999’s “Songs From the [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in The Sound
Molly’s voice
Molly Ringwald has pretty much always been a singer. “I started out singing jazz with my dad when I was 3,” Ringwald recalled during a phone interview. At the age [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Joe's Neighborhood
A streetcar is trying to kill me
A streetcar is trying to kill me. I thought you should know. Crazy? Maybe. Paranoid? Certainly. But untruthful? You be the judge. The bell is what announces the streetcar’s arrival. [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Rap Sheet
On the Clock
Play the “Name that Crime” quiz! HITTING A GIRL WITH GLASSES The victim called police around 2:30 p.m. after a friend of hers broke into a house where she was [...]
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Posted March 18, 2014in Rap Sheet
Posted March 13, 2014in Iowa Watchdog
Critics charge ‘alarming mismanagement’ at foreign-student job program
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A fast-growing foreign-student work program is taking jobs from U.S. citizens, while its “alarming mismanagement” poses a national security threat, critics charge. “Foreign students, sometimes aided by school [...]
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Posted March 12, 2014in Joe's Neighborhood
Part 2 — the common birch tree
A clump of paper birch trees was planted by my neighbor in his front yard several years ago. Today, the white-bark trees stand out proudly against his blue house in [...]
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