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Don your garnets and ogle rare jewelry at the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library

Besides being the birthstone for the January-born, the garnet is one of the oldest gemstones collected by humans — dating back more than 5,000 years to the Bronze Age — and comes in a spectrum of colors, including red, purple, […]

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Album Review: Sirens and Prophets — ‘Delineations’

Delineations by Sirens and Prophets In the opening minutes of Delineations’ forlorn guitar chords, punctuated by steady drums, lead listeners in a gradual crescendo accompanied by boiling cymbals. By the halfway point of this first track, “Lines Drawn,” I’m enveloped […]

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Book Review: ‘Other Minds and Other Stories’ by Bennett Sims

Within Bennett Sims’ Other Minds and Other Stories (Two Dollar Radio) you’ll find several stories about a variety of psychologically interesting narrators. The one thing that brings them together: they’re all quite bizarre. Sims’ writing is at its strongest when […]

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Album Review: Wave Cage — ‘Even You Can See in the Dark’

Even You Can See in the Dark by Wave Cage “Here we orbit each other with creative collaboration,” says poet Caleb “The Negro Artist” Rainey on the opening and title track of Wave Cage’s new album Even You Can See […]

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Book Review: ‘Monologues by LGBTQIA+ Writers for LGBTQIA+ Actors’ edited by Alyssa Cokinis

The phrase “representation is important” has become ubiquitous, so commonplace that it’s easy to lose sight of its meaning. On Twitter, or “X,” the phrase is used memetically to accompany pictures of cute, lazy animals, representing a user’s mental state […]

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Film festivals, student projects and a new cinema are putting the Quad Cities on the international filmmaking map

Over the past nine years, Quad Cities students with the Urban Exposure Independent Film Project have amassed a filmography equivalent to a small studio. “I think that we have 30-something films that we’ve made,” said Gaye Shannon Burnett, co-founder of […]

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Book Review: Carol Roh Spaulding — ‘Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories’

Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories by Drake University professor Carol Roh Spaulding is well-deserving of the 2022 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, utilizing a masterful short-story cycle structure spanning four generations of a Korean-American family. Add this […]

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From Cannes to Des Moines, violinist Geneviève Gros-Louis is making sure ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ audiences hear the Osage story

The occasion, as stated on the Varsity Cinema marquee, was the Des Moines premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon, another hefty, late-period offering from Martin Scorsese. Yet the night, and each of the 235 seats in the sold-out theater, […]

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