February 12, 2014 by justin
in Film Review
“The Lego Movie” 3 stars Rated PG 110 minutes Animation Starring: Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Berry There’s a strong subtext of socio-political resistance at play in “The Lego Movie.” It may be the first mainstream animated resistance film ever made by a Hollywood studio. Beneath its over-the-top visual mishmash
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February 12, 2014 by justin
in Cover Story
It’s happened to most of us. Your record store browsing is briefly interrupted by an accidental glance at the guy next to you who is thumbing through old Quiet Riot LPs. You stare — perhaps a little too long — at his blown-out earlobes. They almost flap in the breeze
Read More →“True West” may exist on a map, but Sam Shepard has somewhere scarier in mind. The 1980 play, often called Shepard’s masterpiece, reduces a Los Angeles, Calif., ranch house to the kind of wreckage he perceives across the American West. The place isn’t big enough for the two brothers boxed
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February 12, 2014 by justin
in Locker Room
Larry and Kay Day created Color the Wind Kite Festival after Larry fell in love with flying. “Larry started flying kites about 14 years ago and basically became addicted!” Kay said. “We attended a winter kite festival in Madison, Wis., and realized we could put on a similar festival here
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Julie Goodrich 9/24/13 $17.99 240 pp. Holy unanticipated occurrences! Ulysses the squirrel lives a pretty basic squirrel existence until a near-death experience with a vacuum cleaner changes his life in “Flora and Ulysses,” by Kate DiCamillo and K.G. Campbell. Flora, a self-proclaimed cynic, saves
Read More →After aliens crash-land on Earth, the military herds them into a detention camp. They look just like humans — indeed, the gorgeous alien teenagers could easily be mistaken for stars of a CW series — but most Earthlings despise them. As an experiment in integration, the authorities allow seven alien
Read More →Amount: $480 To: 1 To 1 Tutor For: Payment for academic tutoring services for five students in the fall 2013 semester. Amount: $553.33 To: A.C.K. Enterprises For: Payment for mechanical services, including the purchase of a bus starter ($379.89) and a rebuilt starter ($173.44). Amount: $35 To: Ablenet
Read More →Justin Niceswanger “Alternate Reality” Independent Sometimes bad news is best delivered quickly, like pulling off a Band-aid: This isn’t a good album. The most charitable thing that can be said — the absolute best possible spin I can put on it — is, at its very strongest, bits of “Alternate
Read More →Modest Meat The International New York Times edition published in Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 22 carried a page-one story noting increased worldwide demand by meat processors for pigs raised in the fresh air rather than enclosed pens, which was illustrated by a photograph of a cluster of pigs feeding in
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February 12, 2014 by justin
in Political Mercury
Some long-assumed sagacity about success in Iowa politics is this: never say things are going too well on the farm. Considering the last five years, that wisdom, which always sort of played on hayseed characterizations of those of us living in rural Iowa as taciturn head-shakers, is far from realistic.
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