Breeanna, a 17-year-old from Nevada, is on a mission to find her biological father. She knows him only as Donor No. 1096 — the guy who happened to provide the sperm for her lesbian mothers. Through a website, she has tracked down 15 half-siblings scattered throughout the country. “Generation Cryo”
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November 20, 2013 by justin
in The Sound
Even if you’re not a fan of jam bands, it’s difficult to not be drawn in by the mentality. The idea of a group of people getting together (maybe getting high), having a good time and just generally being groovy and happy just to bask in the presence of one
Read More →Deadnote “Deadnote” Crater If you ask them, Deadnote names acts like Oasis and Velvet Revolver as influences. But when listening to the Ames five-piece’s new EP, poppy, ultimately disposable acts like Primitive Radio Gods and Jet are reminiscent. Backhanded remark as that may be, the1996’s nearly forgotten PRG release, “Rocket,”
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November 20, 2013 by justin
in Civic Skinny
There’s still a multi-million-dollar shortfall in the financing scheme for a new convention hotel near Hy-Vee Hall, but the gap will close and a 450-room hotel definitely will be built, public officials and private business leaders say. They say the two finalists are proposals from developers and contractors Weitz of
Read More →Now that Gov. Sarah Palin has been here (she was a featured speaker at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s 13th Annual Family Banquet) and made her now famous remark that has gone viral on the Internet: “When that note comes due — and this isn’t racist, but — it’s
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang HarperCollins 11/05/13 $29.99 589 pp. When Amy Tan found an aged photograph of her grandmother, she was stunned to see that she was wearing the attire of a high-class courtesan in turn-of-the century China and labeled as one of the “Ten Beauties
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November 20, 2013 by justin
in Film Review
“Delivery Man” 2 stars Rated PG-13 103 minutes Comedy Starring: Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders Writer-director Ken Scott does the same thing twice by repurposing his 2011 French-language film “Starbuck” into a Hollywood movie that predictably loses something in translation. Pumping up the volume on the comic account of
Read More →Worth the Commute Downtown London residences are known to be staggeringly expensive, but media blogger Sam Cookney calculated in October just how much. Cookney said he can live in an upscale apartment in Barcelona, Spain, and commute almost every workday to London (700 miles away) for less money than a
Read More →FIRST DOWN Ah, yes. Twitter. Where characters are capped at 140, and I.Q. is capped at 104. The social media world was a funny place early Sunday evening, especially if you chase collegiate sports for fun, profit or some combination therein. Feeds became littered with airmails from two camps: Ohio
Read More →For all of its hip commercials and excellent word-of-mouth buzz, Apple’s iPhone is still second-best. Market analysis from this past quarter revealed four-fifths of the world’s smartphone users are Android users, Google’s mobile operating system. As dominant as 80 percent sounds, why does it feel like Google’s stronghold is an
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