With the semester’s end in sight, it’s time to get it in good with professors, keep your nose to the grindstone and get your work done. That being said, it is important for sanity’s sake to strike an appropriate balance between academics and leisure. Think of this week’s column as a reward system for your hard work.
November 2011
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American Reason on KRUI: 11/27/11
This week on American Reason we discussed Black Friday, the Super-committee, and tax cuts for job creation. For more: Job Creation Tax Credits and Job Growth Direct Link: American Reason on KRUI: November 27, 2011 Subscribe: iTunes
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Balancing the Scales
Chris Warnock and I are two unconventional lawyers looking to address a conventional problem: the power imbalance between landlords and tenants in Iowa City. Along with Christine Boyer, we have founded the Tenants Project, an organization dedicated to ensuring fair play between landlords and tenants. We seek to change the landlord-tenant dynamic from one of antagonism to cooperation and we intend to accomplish that through self-help litigation assistance, continuing legal education and, if necessary, class-action litigation.
Posted inAlbum Reviews
Album Review: T'Bone – Mount Trashmore
T’Bone is based in Chicago, but is made up of Iowa natives Leland Meiners (bass), Ed Bornstein (drums) and Pat McPartland (guitar), and their album Mount Trashmore was recorded in Iowa City at Luke Tweedy’s Flat Black Studio. Chicago, birthplace of seminal post rock bands like Tortoise and Gastr Del Sol, is an apt home for these guys, whose songs follow their own crooked paths, leaving pop song conventions far behind.
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Album Review: John Rapson – Mystery and Manners
Questions of authenticity and the creative process have long been pressed on fans of modern music, especially electronic music. File sharing and digital manipulation change the collaborative process and force listeners to ask how important human playing, human authorship and human interaction are to creating what we call music. Is collaboration collaborative when it is […]
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Seeds of Change
Iraqi poet Naseer Flaiih Hassan arrived in Iowa City in mid-September as part of The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. Although he worked in architecture for nearly 20 years in Iraq, he describes his truest identity as being that of a poet. It was only after the fall of the Ba’athist Regime in 2003 […]
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The Stage: Telling
My father never made it to the war. Like many in his generation–he was born in 1923–he wanted badly to fight in World War II. Having learned there were only two standard eye charts used in induction exams, he memorized both, figuring he could read enough of the first row to figure out which one […]
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American Reason on KRUI: 11/20/11
This week on American Reason we discussed bullying laws in Wisconsin and the removal of Occupy protestors. For more: Police pepper spraying and arresting protestors at UC Davis Direct Link: American Reason on KRUI: November 20, 2011 Subscribe: iTunes
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Oops, Netflix Did it Again
Now Showing Global Lens 2011 Since 2003 the Global Lens film series has been providing a platform for interesting movies from around the world. Their board, including such modern masters as Lars von Trier, Pedro Almodóvar and Béla Tarr, has chosen nine fascinating films which premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, […]
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Album Review: Cop Bar
Brando Gassman and Andy Sinclair’s hard-hitting musical skills and unironic love of metal. Sam Locke Warde’s bloody-minded humor and migraine-inducing shrieks. Twenty songs averaging a minute in length. Result? Police Brutality.
Posted inFood & Drink
The Hops: Unibroue’s La Fin du Monde & Trois Pistoles
Unibroue’s La Fin du Monde & Trois Pistoles Though Canada’s Thanksgiving tradition may be a little different, our hockey-loving neighbors to the north brew the ideal beer pairings for a US-style Turkey Day. Tripel is excellent with turkey and La Fin du Monde, brewed by Unibroue in Chambly, Quebec, is a perfect choice for Thanksgiving […]
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Notes on an Occupation
As I write this, the Occupy movement is still young. It isn’t even a month old in Iowa City and the national narrative about what it is and what it means isn’t settled. The occupiers set up camp in College Green Park on Friday, Oct. 7 and remain there still at the time of this […]
