Superchief’s newest trophy
It’s been a busy year already for Superchief. For starters, the band nearly lost its drummer, when Ryan Marcum was offered the chance to be the touring drummer for Collective [...]
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Posted July 09, 2014in Sound Circuit
Posted July 09, 2014in Political Mercury
The 12 percent: Is it politically fatal for Ernst? Can a candidate in modern Iowa be too religious, too rural?
Mitt Romney had his 47 percent — the portion of the American electorate he famously dismissed. The number is closely associated with the Massachusetts Republican’s failed 2012 campaign. U.S. Senate [...]
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Posted July 09, 2014in On The Tube
Catching your death of cold
Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) co-wrote and directed the first episode of “The Strain,” a stylish thriller about a virus with vampiric origins (Sunday, 9 p.m., FX). Dr. Ephraim Goodweather [...]
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Posted July 09, 2014in News of the Weird
The other gas Argentinian agricultural scientists in 2008 created the “methane backpack” to collect the emissions of grazing cows (with a tube from the cow’s rumen to the inflatable bag) [...]
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Posted July 09, 2014in Duffy
Posted July 09, 2014in Sore Thumbs
TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE DARK SPARK (T) *1/2 Activision Xbox One For the last few years, video games have been the last sanctuary for Transformers fans determined to protect their [...]
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Posted July 09, 2014in Cover Story
Sex, drugs and one last show
To hear them tell it, Motley Crue is really done after this. When Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx swing through Des Moines this week on their [...]
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Posted July 09, 2014in Joe's Neighborhood
Girl with a volleyball
The Girl holds herself with regal deportment. Shoulders down, back straight, head turned, ready to receive her fans. She comes home after being gone from Holland for too long. Japan, [...]
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Posted July 09, 2014in The Sound
Bringing the heat
Music can use a little more Kenny Powers. Powers, the main character from the television show “Eastbound and Down,” doesn’t mince words or spend a lot of time on nuance. [...]
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Posted July 09, 2014in Book Review
‘Rogues’
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Julie Goodrich Bantam June 17, 2014 832 pp $30.00 Everyone loves a hero, the good guy battling evil for no reason other than he’s [...]
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