On the list of ground-zero major benchmarks in computer history is Alan Turning, the man first conceived of algorithms who helped develop computer science with The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (famously created at Iowa State University) and the invention of readable programming code. Computer programmers celebrated one of these innovation’s 50-year birthday
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Posted May 07, 2014in Cover Story
Windows down, toes out the passenger side bopping in the wind to a local country station that splits Tanya Tucker and Toby Keith hits with DJ announcements of senior living menus and auction calendars — ahh, it’s a road trip in Iowa summer. This is our third annual Vacationing Iowa
Read More →People like to play the “Next Big Thing” game. Ask folks who the next Iowa act to strike it big on the national stage will be, and you’ll get a myriad of answers. The cynic will tell you that Iowa music is flat. Don’t listen. Some people are still waiting
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Posted May 07, 2014in Locker Room
Who in the world can knock out a six-pack and a turkey in one evening and still be considered one of the greatest athletes in their sport? Bowlers can, especially with a little guidance from one of professional bowling’s most talented rock-rollers. “When it’s all said and done, I am
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Posted May 07, 2014in The Sound
It was three Aprils ago now that I was first introduced to Love Songs For Lonely Monsters. The band had just played Gross Domestic Product, and when I spoke to its members for one of my first ever Sound articles, they were flush with excitement about the full-length album they
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Posted May 07, 2014in Food Dude
“Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle.” That phrase, coined by Elmer Wheeler in the 1920s, urges salesmen to focus on the experience around a product rather than on the object itself. The idea is to appeal to the senses and emotions of the customer. The phrase made a comeback
Read More →Brain cancer is rare. According to the American Cancer Society, about 1.4 percent of all new primary cases of cancer found annually in the United States are of the brain or nervous system. It may be rare, but it is a bad kind of rare. And glioblastoma is perhaps the
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Wisconsin Historical Society Press 11/25/13 $ 15.95 160 pp. The Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua, starting its 29th season, brings live performances — singing, dancing and storytelling — under a tent theater at the base of Mount Ashwabay Ski Area in northern
Read More →The Downtown Community Alliance (DCA) is launching a new series of weekend festivals this summer. The monthly series, called “Music Under the Canopy” will start with its first installment on June 20. The first weekend will feature local acts including Josh Davis, Brother Trucker, Randy Burk and James Biehn and
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Not exactly a sterling silver end to racism
People who enjoy viewing with alarm or pointing with pride had a field day with the soap opera and showdown involving the National Basketball Association and its face-off with the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. First there was widespread surprise and alarm that the team owner, Donald Sterling, 80,
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