March 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Your View
March 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in People & Pets
Saving lizards and snakes
Reptiles. Most people cringe or back off when encountering a slithering snake, a prehistoric-looking lizard or any other sticky-toed reptile. Other folks keep these animals as pets but find they [...]
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March 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Your Neighbors
Kick It Forward is positively disrupting the soccer community
The soccer community in Iowa is a strong one. There is a sense of belonging that spans generations of players who chose to play the game over Iowa’s more popular [...]
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March 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Film Review
‘The Monkey’ doesn’t take requests
“The Monkey” is a violent spectacle that revels in absurdity. The film, based on Stephen King’s short story, follows twin brothers Hal and Bill Shelburn (played by Christian Convery as [...]
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March 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Film Previews
Film Previews
“Black Bag” R | 93 minutes Director: Steven Soderbergh Writer: David Koepp Stars: Tom Burke, Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett Set in the shadowy world of international espionage, the film follows [...]
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March 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Book Review
Book Reviews
‘The Hymn to Dionysus’ I can never get enough mythological retellings. Ancient stories retold for a modern audience attract me like a moth to flame. I spent so much of [...]
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March 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Sound Notes
Sound Advice
Jimi Hendrix is long gone, but his music endures with the Experience Hendrix band. The Grammy-award winning musicians who will be playing his music include Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Marcus King [...]
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March 04, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Adventurers:
From Iowa’s cultural epicenter, Mainframe Studios at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning independent radio station, KFMG-LP 98.9 FM (streaming simultaneously at www.kfmg.org), bringing you music, literature & cultural [...]
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February 25, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Adventurers:
From Iowa’s cultural epicenter, Mainframe Studios at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning independent radio station, KFMG-LP 98.9 FM (streaming simultaneously at www.kfmg.org), bringing you music, literature & cultural [...]
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February 24, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
Transparency is never partisan, especially with tax money involved
Iowa taxpayers provided about $104 million last school year directly to parents choosing to send their K-12 children to private schools. The price tag for these education savings accounts, or [...]
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