Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch Soho Crime Oct. 1, 2013 $26.95 345 pp. Magdalen Nabb was an expatriate Englishwoman who settled in Italy in 1975 and enjoyed success as an author of crime novels and children’s books. She published a series of 14 books featuring Marshal Guarnaccia
Read More →Doing anything the second week of November? How do you feel about ukulele? If you’re with me so far, then you might want to check out Stephens Auditorium in Ames on Nov. 17, because that’s when the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain comes to play. Tickets to the event are
Read More →FIRST DOWN The Tuesday Morning Quarterback Midseason Awards continue with a run through the B1G… Big Ten’s best team: Ohio State. Just because Urban Meyer provided the launching pad for the Tim Tebow circus and the Aaron Hernandez circus that tainted popular culture as we know it isn’t the reason
Read More →Clowns “I’m Not Right” Poison City Records Melbourne, Australia, four-piece Clowns isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel with this one. Instead, what the band has done is set its jaws, crank the amps up to 11 and unleash a good, old fashioned noise-punk album. Teaming up with producer Lindsay Gravina
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October 23, 2013 by justin
in Political Mercury
They are ever-present bit players on the modern political stage, ragamuffins with recorders at rallies and town halls. Political trackers. Republican and Democrats hire them to trail opposing candidates and sitting congressman in much the same way most of us play the lottery. You’ll probably toss the ticket (erase the
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October 23, 2013 by justin
in Belly Up To...
Des Moines’ East Village is home to a plethora of diverse taverns, restaurants and groovy little mom-and-pop shops. It could arguably be dubbed central Iowa’s hippest place to eat, shop, hang out and carouse, with its late night concerts, pre-parties, after-parties, random block parties that are planned and hosted by
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! DRUNK BIKERS Police were called to the Bicycle Collective, 506 E. Sixth St., at 3 p.m. on Oct. 16, referencing a theft. Between Oct. 14-16 six bicycles had been rented with a credit card and none returned. The victim called a number he
Read More →The bar is always open A 61-year-old Texas man who was admitted to a hospital appearing to be falling-down-drunk, despite denying having had even a single drink, was discovered to be unintentionally manufacturing beer in his stomach. With “auto-brewery syndrome,” stomach-based yeast automatically ferments all starches (even vegetables or grains)
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October 23, 2013 by justin
in The Sound
Nashville-based three-piece Sweetwater Rain came about through a combination of luck and attrition. “We had done different projects under the same management,” said guitarist Fred Stallcup in a phone interview. “And (they) kind of put us together.” “(Bassist Thomas Rennick) and I worked together on a different project as backup
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