Any enlightened and humble musician — regardless of age or background — must at some point come to acknowledge that no matter what genre he or she claims, there is something left to learn from the blues. My hope is that the appreciation doesn’t fade with the older generation that
Read More →Sue Bullard-Fisher died the other day. Most of you don’t know her. She was a probation officer in Polk County for 40 years, but, really, she should have been a probation officer in the first half of the last century. She was from a different time with a different ethic.
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May 22, 2013 by justin
in Film Review
“Star Trek Into Darkness” 3 stars Rated PG-13 123 minutes Action Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana “Star Trek Into Darkness” is a lot of movie. It gets personalities and dialogue right, but lets gigantic plot problems slide around like ocean-bound rubber duckies on an oil slick. The tremendous
Read More →Daft Punk ‘Random Access Memories’ Columbia Daft Punk has officially put the ketamine-addled, second-rate purveyors of electronic dance music on notice: “We’re better than you.” Before EDM — as it has come to be defined — was a thing, Daft Punk was churning out some of the world’s most recognizable
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May 22, 2013 by justin
in The Sound
Little Ruckus — potentially the member of the Fairfield/Maximum Ames crowd that’s least known to Des Moines audiences — is nominally an electro-pop act. But what the 23-year-old really specializes in is a kind of avant garde-performance art that happens to have music attached. Much like Andrew W.K. (the man
Read More →Published arrest charges are obtained from official law enforcement records, which are available to the public. All who are charged are innocent until proven guilty. Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! HARD TIMES AT HARDEE’S The victim was waiting for his sister’s boyfriend to pick him up from his job
Read More →‘The Goodwin Games’ pits family members against each other In Fox’s promising sitcom “The Goodwin Games” (Monday, 7:30 p.m.), three estranged siblings reunite after their father (Beau Bridges) dies only to learn that he has set up a series of competitions to determine which one of them will win his
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Blue Rider Press March 7, 2013 $26.95 322 pp. Even if you don’t know Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” by the photographer’s name or the title of her work, you would most likely recognize the famous picture itself. Depicting a worn woman looking
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