April 02, 2014 by justin
in Locker Room
Is it better to be lucky? Or, is it better to be skilled? Many might argue it’s better to be skilled at something, because that’s a better reflection of a person’s talent. Others could argue that luck is a devastating trump card that’s always in play but impossible to anticipate.
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April 02, 2014 by justin
in Belly Up To...
Clive has a new secret — a bar. Of course, it’s no secret that Clive has a bar. Clive has many bars. But, at Secrets, there’s Rufus. As if you’re walking into his house, Rufus greets each patron at the door with a non-threatening little bark alarm to let you
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April 02, 2014 by justin
in Film Review
“Cesar Chavez” 3 stars Rated PG-13 101 minutes Biography Starring: Michael Peña, America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson Diego Luna’s second directorial outing is a prudently succinct brief-biopic about the Mexican farm-worker-turned-union-activist responsible for improving working conditions for migrant laborers in America. Timed for the film’s release to coincide with the March
Read More →With “Beavis and Butt-head,” Mike Judge established himself as the bard of mumbling, antisocial, all-American nerds. But Judge tops himself with “Silicon Valley” (Sunday, 9 p.m., HBO), which locates the nerve center of modern-day nerd culture in the San Francisco area’s tech industry. Our hero is, at first glance, anything
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang “The Girls of Atomic City” Touchstone Books 3/11/14 $16 373 pp. The scientists behind the Manhattan Project (especially J. Robert Oppenheimer) are well-known. In “The Girls of Atomic City,” Kiernan brings us the “bottom-up” stories of the workers who actually constructed the
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April 02, 2014 by justin
in Joe's Neighborhood
Let’s talk about your future. Please. We must. Before things get too far. Sure, it was just a moment ago that you were trudging to class through ice and snow wondering if perhaps the glacier had permanently slid down from the tundra of Mason City to cover Des Moines. But,
Read More →Thursdays Music in the Junction season lineup was announced, featuring the usuals, plus some newcomers: May will have Comfort Zone, Bella Soul, Gimikk, Get Off My Lawn and SP3; June includes Decoy, Abby Normal, Brother Trucker and All Things King; in July there is Fahrenheit, Final Mix, The Blue Band
Read More →Clive is home to the new Penelopie Beauty Bar, which opened on March 24, designed to be that one-stop shop destination for all beauty needs and for any event or lifestyle in a fun, upbeat, feminine atmosphere where upbeat music is always playing or a customer’s favorite chick flick is
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! SHOTS FIRED On March 22 at about 3 a.m. police were called to the 1100 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway for reports of a shooting. Upon arrival, they observed a green van leaving the scene. Police stopped the vehicle was at
Read More →SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Kevin Walters, 21, staged an emotional, though unsuccessful, one-man, chained-to-the-door protest in March to prevent the closing of a commercial rest stop along the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway near Des Plaines, Ill. Ultimately, the Des Plaines Oasis, housing shops and fast-food restaurants, will be demolished as part of
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