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The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

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DI ARTS STAFF October 22, 2009

Today • Take advantage of the week’s warmer temperatures and falling leaves — make a leaf pile. Grab a rake and some friends, and gather all of the foliage you can find. Then, release your inner...

Tracks from the Past: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

DI ARTS STAFF October 22, 2009

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell Once upon a time, Karen O had raw, grinding vocal power. Yeah Yeah Yeah’s 2003 album Fever to Tell is one of the last standing examples of gritty, modern indie punk....

Tracks from the Past: Garth Brooks

DI ARTS STAFF October 22, 2009

Garth Brooks: Double Live Before heading into “retirement” like an old pair of dusty cowboy boots, Garth Brooks was a standard artist on any bona fide country-music lover’s cassette tape. The crooner’s...

iPod Playlist: Best Karaoke Songs

DI ARTS STAFF October 22, 2009

It’s nearing midnight when you and your friends get the inebriated urge to enter a karaoke bar. You stumble on stage to show off your staggering vocals and give the audience the performance they deserve....

Bitch Please: Modern zombie movies

DI ARTS STAFF October 22, 2009

The 21st-century zombie — a violation of the genre or bloody good fun? It doesn’t matter if they run or walk They are gory, they are terrifying, they are out for blood — modern movie zombies are...

Klosterman’s latest is fun, but nothing new

GRETA HAGEN-RICHARDSON October 22, 2009

Part of a journalist’s job is to conduct interviews and ask questions. In the recently released Eating the Dinosaur, writer Chuck Klosterman asks the reader why that is. Why do we ask others questions?...

Hollywood: the land of the unoriginal

TOMMY MORGAN JR. October 22, 2009

Hollywood has hit a dry spell. The No. 1 and No. 6 top-grossing movies in America, Where The Wild Things Are and Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, are adaptations of children’s books. No. 5, The Stepfather,...

Tripmaster Monkey reunites at the Mill

ERIC ANDERSEN October 22, 2009

Tripmaster Monkey is back from the dead. With the exception of a few special shows — including a performance at Rock Island Brewing Company’s 30th-anniversary fest in the summer — the alt-rock...

UI art museum still celebrating

HANNA ROSMAN October 22, 2009

Forty years of art, 40 years of friends. This is the motto the UI Museum of Art has adopted to celebrate 40 years of bringing art to the community. Although official celebrations were in May, the museum...

Keller Williams mixes music at the Englert

DEE FABBRICATORE October 22, 2009

Young, hungry, hairy people singing and bumping into each other. That’s what Keller Williams says to expect from his show at the Englert Theatre, 221 E. Washington St. Yes, his response is unexpected,...

Cedar Rapids skaters present new film

DI ARTS STAFF October 22, 2009

Since 2003, the Mobbed Mafia has been living the skater life. The 11-member skateboarding group’s collective lifestyle has culminated in its first full-length skate video, Mobbed Mafia II. The movie...

Local film festival promotes activism

ADAM SALAZAR October 22, 2009

Cheesy science-fiction flicks such as Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow, and 2012 probably don’t catch the attention of any expert in global climate change. The Age of Stupid, a 2009 film from the...

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