Posted June 22, 2016in Book Review
By Nathaniel Philbrick Viking May 10, 2016 Hardcover $30 448 Pages Nathaniel Philbrick presents a detailed examination of George Washington and Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War. While Washington is generally known as the Father of the Country, Philbrick is very clear that Washington was a rather incompetent general
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Posted June 22, 2016in Food Dude
Twenty-some years ago, American sushi joints began opening outside Japanese neighborhoods in California and Hawaii. Soon after that, a sociologist published an infamous study determining that, at age 41, Americans crossed the “adventure line” — the point in life when one stops being interested in trying new things. The
Read More →Farrah Franklin, 35, was arrested for public intoxication on June 2. Franklin is a former band member and singer for Destiny’s Child. The incident began with Franklin arguing outside a gym at 3 a.m. The responding officers noticed she seemed impaired and asked how much she’d had to drink.
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Posted June 22, 2016in Locker Room
Ah, the beautiful days of July. Temperatures so high that chickens are laying fried eggs and squirrels are fanning their…walnuts. But unless you’re between the ages of 0 and 8 and blissfully unaware of, well, everything, being outside and soaking in every ray of the skin-leathering sun is not, and
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Posted June 22, 2016in Political Mercury
Like a marshal in a dusty Old West village, city officials from the western Iowa town of Carroll issued a lawbreaker an ultimatum. Leave town in three days. Or else. The bad guy in this story: an 18-month-old Chesapeake Bay retriever named Lambeau (after the iconic Green Bay,
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Posted June 22, 2016in Joe's Neighborhood
Do you have a moment today? I know you’re awfully busy. But why don’t you walk under the Crusoe Umbrella. That’s right, it’s downtown in Cowles Commons. No, it won’t be weird. In fact, you might be pleasantly surprised. Trust me. Cologne. Up from the river we stroll in
Read More →“A Moon Shaped Pool” XL Recordings There is a lot about “A Moon Shaped Pool” and the events surrounding it that could be construed as Radiohead giving up. There was the complete deletion of its online presence, the album’s alphabetical track listing and the nearly hook-less construction of
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Posted June 22, 2016in Civic Skinny
Architect Kirk Blunck had assets valued at about $6.4 million when he died Jan. 24 under mysterious circumstances in a stairwell of the Teachout Building that he owned in the East Village. And the cause of death now has been determined, sort of. It was “multiple blunt force
Read More →The Iowa Blues Challenge held its finals this past weekend at the downtown Mariott Hotel. This year’s winners were Bare Bones and the Jeff Banks Band. Both acts received prize packages that include free studio time and entry into the 2017 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee. This week’s
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Posted June 22, 2016in Sound Circuit
In October of 2014, No Good Deed released its first album, “Looking for a Mantra.” Now, almost two years later and sporting a new drummer, the band is ready to do it again. “It’s a different experience,” guitarist Doug Hansen explained. “The last album was, ‘Let’s do everything we’ve
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