Dregs of Summer
“Geeks Who Drink” Thursdays (Syfy) New Series: The version of “Geeks Who Drink” you play at the local bar can be fun, but would you watch it? What if it [...]
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August 26, 2015 by justin
in On The Tube
August 26, 2015 by justin
in Tech Talk
We’re all Internet victims sitting in wait
The Internet can be the ugliest place in the world. Anonymous online posting is the No. 1 plague of the 21st century. The list of horrible things people can do [...]
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August 26, 2015 by justin
in Civic Skinny
Slipknot widow accuses artist of theft, trespass.
The widow of Paul Gray, the masked Slipknot bassist who died of a drug overdose five years ago, is suing a sort-of-well-known Des Moines artist she hired to help produce [...]
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August 26, 2015 by justin
in The Sound
Blood, Annie Lennox and crack: a conversation with GWAR
GWAR has been doing whatever it is they do for more than 30 years now. Known for a stage show that is full of blood, bodily fluids and plenty of [...]
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August 26, 2015 by justin
in News of the Weird
Cecil speaks
The distress across the Western world in July over the big-game killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe was apparently misdirected, according to veteran “animal communicator” Karen Anderson of Elk, [...]
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August 26, 2015 by justin
in Film Review
The fun, flawed world of ‘American Ultra’
There’s a very subtle kind of genius going on in “American Ultra” — a film that obviously had high goals for itself and ultimately falls short — that has everything [...]
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August 26, 2015 by justin
in Book Review
‘Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen’
In her 30-plus years in the copy department of The New Yorker, Mary Norris has corrected the work of many of the finest writers of the time, dedicating herself to [...]
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August 26, 2015 by justin
in Belly Up To...
Join the club at WineStyles
If you’ve ever found yourself wondering what the difference is between an earthy wine and an oaky wine, or perhaps asked what classifies a wine as robust, the wine tasting [...]
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August 26, 2015 by justin
in Your View
Full disclosure needed
If only the commercials for politicians had to follow the same side effect disclosure rules of pharmaceutical commercials. Instead of “Viagra: It will help men get and keep an erection…” [...]
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August 26, 2015 by justin
in Joe's Neighborhood
The cow days of August
Wet with dew in the morning, dry and dusty by noon, the August grass is course and thin and dying. Even before each day gets too far along, the heat [...]
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