Crown warfare
Flash back to 2009. It’s fourth and goal. The Iowa Hawkeye football team is down four points with two seconds left. The team has won 11 straight games [...]
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Posted May 04, 2016in Belly Up To...
Posted May 04, 2016in On The Tube
Belly laughs
Ali Wong delivers a “Baby Cobra”; “Grace & Frankie” return for Round 2. “Ali Wong: Baby Cobra” Friday, May 6 (Netflix) Stand-Up Special: Ali Wong is one of the [...]
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Posted May 04, 2016in Tech Talk
Slide your own Kismet with Tinder
Nearly every industry offers a good that comes with a stigma. Setting aside pornography, if you buy a $100,000 sports car, you’re compensating for something. If you go [...]
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Posted May 04, 2016in Center Stage
Two dudes and big smiles
“What Matt and Trey do is an amazing thing,” exclaims Daxton Bloomquist, referring to Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of “The Book of Mormon,” the uproarious musical about [...]
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Posted May 04, 2016in Political Mercury
What Hillary Clinton thinks when she thinks about rural America
Hillary Clinton covered a wide swath of issues — many dealing specifically with rural economic development, opportunities for Iowa small towns — in a 23-minute interview with Political Mercury on [...]
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Posted May 04, 2016in Book Review
‘The Guest Room’
Chris Bohjalian’s new novel, “The Guest Room,” tells the story of Richard and Kristin Chapman, a 40-year-old couple living a life to which others would aspire. Their lovely suburban New [...]
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Posted May 04, 2016in Sound Check
CD REVIEWS
Joshua Sinclair “Love Hate” Independent The tagline on Joshua Sinclair’s promotional material reads, “Writing breakup songs since 1998.” It is a statement to be believed, because if you close your [...]
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Posted May 04, 2016in Joe's Neighborhood
The bones of the Magi
We’ve been doing a lot of sinning lately, don’t you think? Sure, most are lazy sins, like poisoning our water and hating immigrants and trying to take health care from [...]
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Posted May 04, 2016in Sound Circuit
Dan Tedesco’s organic growth
Last year, Dan Tedesco released a self-titled album that featured songs recorded on an iPad from his home studio. Taking a decidedly new-tech approach to lo-fi music, the [...]
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Posted May 04, 2016in Civic Skinny
Polk GOP likes God and guns — but not public radio or TV. Andringa quits. Hensley collects. LaMarca bills top $900,000.
Not much has been happening of late in Chris Godfrey’s lawsuit against Gov. Terry Branstad and five other state officials named in the retaliation, defamation, extortion and discrimination proceeding. [...]
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