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KRUI Little Vilage Music Poll
KRUI and Little Village are teaming up to get your input on the best in music for 2008. None of the questions are required, so tell us as much or as little as you think we should know. KRUI is the sound alternative for the entire IC community, so even if you aren’t a student, take this short survey and let your voice be heard.
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The Vinyl Countdown»
Scenester Credentials Vinyl
Shores of the Tundra Heart of the Beckoning 12-inch
Shores of the Tundra’s 12-inch is an impressive artifact before you even drop the needle. It’s a single-sided release, with the epic “Heart of the Reckoning” cut so that it plays from the label to the edge, with a stylized daisy pattern silk-screened onto the [...]
God Bless This Porch»
On October 14, 2008, seven men slept on a porch huddled under blankets in Iowa City in the cold and rain. Father Ken has lived in the parish house for 12 years, and the porch had doubled as a shelter for the homeless even before he started at the parish.
The porch, located between St. Mary’s [...]
Tofu: The Other Holiday Meat»
While traveling West on my way to can salmon in Alaska, I stopped in Tacoma, Washington, to stay the night with my aunt and uncle. My cousin had just graduated high school and the graduation party spread was available for post-driving snacks. I excitedly munched the baby carrots and dipped the cut cauliflower and broccoli [...]
Hog Haven»
As local officials responded to the threat of floods in southeastern Iowa with repeated appeals for help with sandbagging, I jumped at the chance—to bury my head in the sand, or a sandbag, whatever could be spared.
The last time I volunteered during a disaster, the results were disastrous.
I’d been part of a mission to the [...]
Movies
Movie Review: Australia»
Australia
Directed by Baz Luhrman
Drama, 165 Minutes
One of the great pleasures of the movies is seeing what a purposeful filmmaker can do with an old genre or story by attempting to remake it in her or his own image. Such was the case with Baz Luhrman’s last film, 2001’s Moulin Rouge, his hyperkinetic reinvention of the [...]
It's About the Food
Barack the Table»
I have read a seemingly unending stream of open letters to the President-Elect, each doling out copious amounts of advice and admonition for the new administration. While I realize that President-Elect Obama has a lot on his plate, I hope he’ll consider the metaphor a bit more literally. Many of the issues we face can [...]
CD Reviews
The Vinyl Countdown»Scenester Credentials Vinyl
Shores of the Tundra Heart of the Beckoning 12-inch
Shores of the Tundra’s 12-inch is an impressive artifact before you even drop the needle. It’s a single-sided release, with the epic “Heart of the Reckoning” cut so that it plays from the label to the edge, with a stylized daisy pattern silk-screened onto the [...]
Community
Book Smart»
In this world of excess where all of us end up spending money on things we don’t need, and racking up credit card debt to do it, why not think twice about your luxury purchases? I know when I go on a shopping spree, I always feel better about myself if I come to my [...]
The Haps
Breaking In the New Year»
I want to have a commemorative plate destruction party. I was thinking about some Christmastime introduction to this column, and all I could think about was some single woman carefully setting up commemorative plates around her living room, in their little stands, and getting the lighting just right, and it was making me insane with [...]
Books
The Sit Down with Laurel Snyder»
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
–Madeleine L’Engle
Laurel Snyder earned her master of fine arts in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2000. She is the author of two recently released children’s books—Inside the [...]
