This week on the American Reason Web Exclusive we discussed Herman Cain and tax policy. Subscribe on iTunes of follow the direct link to the mp3 after the jump.
November 2011
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Show Recap: Grand Tetons CD Release with Derek Lambert & the Prairie Fires and Michael Sarah
The English would like you to remember, remember the 5th of November because of some Guy who tried to blow up Parliament. Why anyone would have such a beef with George Clinton is beyond me, but Iowa City’s Mill Restaurant would like you remember Saturday, November 5, 2011 for the great rock show they hosted. […]
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Iowa City Weekender: November 17-19
Hello and welcome back to another edition of the Weekender. As Thanksgiving week approaches, we all aim to take a few shortcuts to getting what really matters about the holiday: eating a lot of food, spending time with people that you care about and drinking box wine. This week’s column is no different. In a […]
Posted inAlbum Reviews
Album Review – Fetal Pig: Autopia
Fetal Pig Autopia fetalpig.bandcamp.com Jesus said “Behold the lilies of the field. They toil not, neither do they spin.” For some reason Fetal Pig reminds me of Jesus’ lilies. With a band history going back nearly 20 years, these guys do what they do not because it makes them rich and famous–because it hasn’t–but because […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Hot Tin Roof
Hot Tin Roof: Agates
The land beneath the trap had been in our family since before the time of steel and always without poachers. We had taken it from the Indians who had in antiquity taken it from their own or those like them. That history we owned and we were unabashed. We did not think of them as savages because our fathers had taught us to think of ourselves as savages. We thought of them as obsolete. We were the inheritors of their earth. We are not apologizers.
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American Reason on KRUI: 11/13/11
This week on American Reason we discussed landlord-tenant relations with Chris Warnock and Rockne Cole. Subscribe on iTunes or follow the direct link after the jump.
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Podcast: Jason Lewis on Little Village Live
This week on Little Village Live we hosted Jason Lewis. You can download the full hour-long show here. Be sure to check out the Little Village Youtube channel for more videos from this episode as well as countless other local performances. Subscribe on iTunes
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American Reason Web Exclusive: 11/10/11
This week on the American Reason Web Exclusive we discussed climate change, scientific discourse, and public policy.
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Iowa City Weekender: November 10-12
This Weekender’s got local arts, comedy events and music. It’s a little bit of something for everyone.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Prairie Pop
Prairie Pop: The Most Unforgettable Voice You've Never Heard
Rarely has a lowly rock critic altered the course of popular music history, but Chuck Eddy did. Perhaps that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but bear with me. Back in the mid-1980s he reviewed Aerosmith’s Done With Mirrors, which captured the band at the lowest point in their career. When that album was released, they […]
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Your Town Now: License to Complain
Iowa City, often called the Athens of the Midwest, is, like its more famous cousin, a hotbed of learning, activism and civic engagement.
Nonetheless, only an abysmally low 5.11% of registered voters (2,598 people) voted in our recent City Council primary election, while the other 48,222 registered voters living in Iowa City couldn’t be bothered to, apparently.
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Townie Hawk: What's in a View?
Saturday, Sept. 24 marked my first foray into an echelon of sports-reporting I’d previously only dreamed of: a seat in the Paul W. Brechler Press Box. I was given the privilege of witnessing the Hawks trounce Lousiana-Monroe on our home turf, far above the madding crowds of Kinnick.
