This week on the American Reason Web Exclusive we discussed the National Day of Prayer case and school vouchers in Arizona.
April 2011
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Iowa City Weekender: April 14-17
More action than you can shake a very long stick at this weekend.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Voxhaul Broadcast @ Blue Moose 4/16 Show Preview & Ticket Giveaway
Voxhaul Broadcast combines a great lead voice with vibrant guitars in service of impeccably arranged songs. What more could you want?
Posted inArts & Entertainment
The Stage: Get in on the Act
Working Group Theatre Make it Better Iowa Sunday, April 17 at 4 p.m. Grand Ballroom, Hotel Vetro An earlier version of this story mistakenly stated there was a charge for this event. This was incorrect: the event is free and open to the public. The author regrets the error. In the 1990s, United Action for […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Show Review: Cave Singers, Grand Tetons @ Blue Moose Tap House – 4/12/2011
You probably decided to spend Tuesday evening outside, enjoying the gorgeous spring weather on your porch or in your backyard, surrounded by friends and cool beverages. However, you should have come see the Cave Singers and Grand Tetons play some great front porch Americana music upstairs at the Blue Moose Taphouse.
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Show Photos: Skye Carrasco, Pillars and Tongues, Dark Dark Dark @ the Mill- 4/1
Just when I was sure that all the excitement surrounding Mission Creek had faded, I discovered a whole folder of photos that I forgot to share with you folks. Soooo…….one more set of Mission Creek memories for your perusal.
Posted inCommunity/News, UR Here
UR Here: The Geography of Wholeness
I pinpoint my first flash of place-consciousness to a day when I was in elementary school while growing up in Rockford, Illinois. I don’t remember precisely how old I was, but it was somewhere between eight and twelve. I also don’t remember what I was doing, but I vividly recall the epiphany–that my entire world […]
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The Tube: Football Fallout
As the NFL lockout lurches on and throws the upcoming season into question, it’s important to draw attention to the real victims of this bitter labor dispute. Through no fault of their own, television executives stand to lose their top prime-time moneymaker. FOX will lose close to $1 billion in ad revenue if the football […]
Posted inAstrology, Community/News
Astrology Forecast for April 2011
FOR EVERYONE ~ Impasse. Whether its parking space, health care, the public library, education, energy or water, we all share resources – and expenses. We need to cooperate and share expenses at some level to get along. This month it will be clear that the formula we use to decide who pays and who gets […]
Posted inCommunity/News
Your Town Now: The Month that was March 2011
Is This Heaven…? In a memo to the Iowa City Council, Police Chief Sam Hargadine and Transportation Planner John Yapp laid out the case for traffic-enforcement cameras in Iowa City. The memo addresses fairly standard stuff–a demonstration that cameras have suppressed accidents in other cities, a list of other Iowa towns that have implemented traffic […]
Posted inAlbum Reviews
Album Review – The Mountain Goats : All Eternals Deck
“Let the truth spring free Like a jack-in-the-box Like a hundred thousand cuckoo clocks From the Oregon corners to the Iowa corn To the rooms with heat lamps Where the snakes get born” – “Birth of Serpents” My first exposure to paranoia came as a child. I only saw my uncle at birthday parties and […]
