Sound Notes Pick o’ the Week
Want to see some shows on the cheap? Got a little time to trade? Head down to Wooly’s on Mondays. That’s when you can get free tickets to shows in [...]
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Posted January 16, 2013in Recent Posts, Sound Notes
Posted January 16, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts
When English professors kill
‘The Following’ features the world’s most unlikely evildoer I’ve always argued that a Kevin Bacon performance is never without merit, no matter the production. But I’ve finally lost the argument [...]
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Posted January 09, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts
Lena Dunham strikes again
The comedy phenom is on a roll with the second season of ‘Girls’ Part of me would love to be 26-year-old Lena Dunham: widely hailed as a comic genius when [...]
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Posted January 09, 2013in Recent Posts, Sound Check
CD Reviews
Dropkick Murphys ‘Signed and Sealed in Blood’ Born and Bred Records It’s 2013, so it’s time for a new Dropkick Murphys album. The Irish punk Massholes have been releasing a [...]
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Posted January 09, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood, Recent Posts
18 years old
To look at the world out of 18-year-old eyes brings a certain clarity to the landscape, a certain freshness to encounters. Every day is literally a new day, because you [...]
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Posted January 09, 2013in Book Review, Recent Posts
‘The United States of Pie’
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Harper Collins 5/22/2012 $24.99 226pp. The current trend in cookbooks is toward sumptuous tomes replete with tantalizing photographs. A new cookbook with [...]
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Posted January 09, 2013in Recent Posts, Sound Notes
Sound Notes Pick o’ The Week
The Des Moines Symphony has received $1.5 million in corporate pledges to its 75th anniversary campaign. The corporate support, which comes in from businesses including Principal Financial, Meredith Corp., Aviva, [...]
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Posted January 02, 2013in Recent Posts, Sound Notes
Sound Notes Pick o’ the Week
To drink or not to drink: On Dec. 17, KCCI and the Des Moines Register both reported that The Marquee — the former Ingersoll Dinner Theater — was losing its [...]
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Posted January 02, 2013in Recent Posts, Sound Check
CD Reviews
Rage Against the Machine ‘XX’ Epic There is probably no album that more perfectly captures the zeitgeist of the early ’90s better than Rage Against the Machine’s 1992 debut. Zach [...]
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Posted January 02, 2013in Book Review, Recent Posts
Calling Me Home
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Reviewed by Fay Jones St. Martin’s Press February 2013 $24.99 336 pp. Julie Kibler’s debut novel tells the story of two women as they embark on [...]
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