I’ll always take a good documentary over a good drama. Any good cinema is like a daydream, but to disappear into a dream that isn’t a dream? That’s a pleasure only found in a great doc–the beautiful offspring of cinema and journalism, with only the best genes of both parents passed on. (of course, there’s […]
April 2010
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Bethann Gavin on Little Village Live (VIDEO)
Local music artist Bethann Gavin stopped by Little Village Live to sing a few songs and talk with hosts Paul Sorenson and Matt Steele Wednesday.
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Iowa City Weekender: April 15-18
Greetings, Weekenders! Hold please… I must check my watch… Yes, just as I suspected, Peak Weekend Season is upon us again. Complete with weather you lap up spoon by mother loving spoonful. Soaking in magazines on the ped mall, or getting your sport on at College Green. Biking down to the river, happening upon the […]
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Paintallica: Surrender Your Ego
Paintallica, an art collective with a penchant for turning heads, stopped by their old stomping grounds of Iowa City Tuesday for an all-night painting and sculpture event.
The group is inherently divisive (Their first show was titled “Happy Fucking Easter”), incorporating body fluids, sexual imagery, bladed tools and anything else that catches…
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Crazy Ates
I ate peppers, I ate celery, I ate arugula… I made this dish one night after a day of ranting to myself that A) how the hell am I supposed to get the recommended 9 servings a day of fruits and vegetables and B) what can I do to make celery actually taste *good*? My […]
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Bethann Gavin: 4/14/10
Singer and mult-instrumentalist Bethann Gavin, also known as “Songbird Bethann”, is becoming a familiar face in the local music scene, doing the solo thing and lending vocals to several local bands (such as River and the Tributaries, below). Listen to Little Village Live, this Wednesday April 14, 2010, 5-6 pm on KRUI, for a live […]
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Pitch Imperfect
Prairie Pop: April 2010 – Apparently, the naked human voice isn’t good enough. Whether we’re talking about studio gimmickery or vocal tricks not aided by technology–Appalachian yodeling and Tuvan throat singing come to mind–we’re often suckers for interesting oral freak-outs. Voice alteration gizmos soon began popping up in hit singles of the 1970s and 1980s–applying […]
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No BS
Features: April 2010 – The BS Gallery is not pretentious. “It’s a nice flexible space,” says co-curator Chris Reno. “But it doesn’t hide the fact that it’s a basement.” Basements seldom do. And if you stopped at the top of the stairs leading down to the BS Gallery, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this […]
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Art w/o Borders
Features: April 2010 – Let’s talk about frames. Because if we start discussing “art,” many will picture rectangle frames bearing painted and processed works, stuck on the static walls of galleries or museums. A display, well defined. And in this part of a story about art, as we’ve learned to expect from journalism, the readers […]
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Flooded Expectations
Features: April 2010 – Spring: sunshine, green grass, flowers, warmth–and rain. This year all of us who weathered the floods of 2008 are watching the rainfall amounts and the thawing rivers north of us with a trepidation we never felt before those fateful days in June. The flood decimated the arts campus of the UI, […]
Posted inAlbum Reviews
Idris Goodwin: Break Beat Poems
Local Albums: April 2010 – Back in the day–1979–Hawkeye basketball star Ronnie Lester was a hip hop ambassador. Ronnie took his boom box everywhere , playing “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang nonstop. It was, to Iowa ears, something strange and alien, and yet irresistible. Idris Goodwin’s track “Isiah Thomas Camp” took me back to […]
