November 06, 2013 by justin
in Sound Circuit
Every band goes through a time of existential crisis. For Holy White Hounds, that time probably came two summers ago, right around the 2012 80/35 Play-In finals. Talking to front man Brenton Dean outside Gas Lamp that afternoon, I got the feeling I was talking to a guy who was
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November 06, 2013 by justin
in Joe's Neighborhood
Grey is the sky in Holland. It comes in different shades of grey, of course. But grey it is. As you hang out in this world, you begin to respond to the small tonal shifts from dark grey to light grey in ways that may not be mentally sound. For
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November 06, 2013 by justin
in Cover Story
The seemingly inevitable coronation of Hillary Clinton as the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee could, much like the 2008 election, take a sharp detour at the Iowa caucus. Widely considered the presumptive nominee following her successful term as President Obama’s Secretary of State, Clinton appears all but certain to make
Read More →After reading the Cityview fact-checker article (Civic Skinny, Oct. 31), let me see if I understand this correctly. If I gave large sums of cash (more than $2.99) to a decision maker (state employee) to consider my product, it would (correctly) be considered, illegal, immoral and unethical and, quite frankly,
Read More →FIRST DOWN Somebody up there likes Bo Pelini. Which is strange, considering how folks down at Memorial Stadium seem to be fairly torn — and that might be putting it kindly — about the football coach of their beloved Nebraska Cornhuskers. With four seconds left in last Saturday’s Nebraska-Northwestern game
Read More →At 8 p.m on Tuesday, Nov. 12, DG’s Taphouse in Ames is playing host to the fantastically titled “Night Of Iowa Musical Diversity And Eclecticism” featuring Dark Mirror and Strong Like Bear, as well as guitarist Dylan Boyle and Peace, Love and Stuff front woman Lavonne McRoberts. The event is
Read More →Norway’s Battle Against Chaos Norwegian public television (NRK), which introduced the now-legendary continuous, live log-burning show (12 hours long, with “color commentary” on the historical and cultural importance of fire), scheduled a new program for this week in its appeal to serenity (labeled “Slow TV”). On Nov. 1, NRK was
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! SHITTY HOUSE Police arrested a 22-year-old woman just after 1 a.m. on Oct. 31 after neighbors at an apartment located at the 200 block of Dickman Road called them reporting two small children out in the 52-degree, rainy weather crying. Police arrived
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November 06, 2013 by justin
in Civic Skinny
Why would Bill Knapp back Terry Branstad for governor? Bill Knapp — who spent what a less-rich man would call a fortune in trying to get Branstad out of office for a generation or two. Bill Knapp — who is the first guy Democrats call on when they’re thinking of
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A ‘Monty Python’ approach to governing Iowa
“The Buck Stops Here” — so said the sign that famously graced the Oval Office desk of President Harry S. Truman. If Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad had a similar placard in his office, it might say, “Bucks Passed or Evaded.” Whenever opportunity or accountability rears its head in his office
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