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In 1920, the first paved road in rural Black Hawk County opened. It was Rainbow Road between Cedar Falls and Waterloo, and yes, it was a rural road at the time. The road went past the National Cattle Congress and … Continue reading →

This is not a post irrationally ranting about “newbo evolve”, the Cedar Rapids “music, art and inspiration” festival this weekend that wants to be something like a South by Southwest, charges $375 $402.50 for the high-end pass, and insists on being … Continue reading →

And now for something completely different.

Finally, someone else noticed. The beginning of the bro-country era can be pegged to mid-December 2012, when Florida Georgia Line displaced Taylor Swift at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country charts, stayed there for five of the next six weeks, … Continue reading →

As if we needed another reason to ban Florida. (warning: autoplay video) DeVita even pulled an iguana out of her toilet after it latched on to a plunger a few years ago. “In one of my bathrooms, my roommate kept hearing … Continue reading →

I don’t/didn’t watch FX’s “The Americans” — or any “prestige TV” for that matter — but I happened to find the contrast in these points funny. (If, that is, the phrasing wasn’t supposed to be a tell.) From the New … Continue reading →

It’s nice work if you can get it. (I can dream, can’t I?)

October 20, 2016: Specialty marketing for this Raising Cane’s in downtown Baton Rouge had to improvise after LSU coach Les Miles was abruptly panic-fired in a Les-Miles-fashion loss to Auburn. In my Big South Trip of fall 2016, I got … Continue reading →

In case you missed it last week: Uranus smells like rotten eggs. WHO’s Jannay Towne, in attempting to report the news, did exactly what anyone else would do. A Grand Island Independent columnist did a short roundup of headlines.

December 29, 2001: A wreath marks the spot where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in Memphis. The building of the Lorraine Motel was incorporated into the National Civil Rights Museum. Our trip to the 2001 Independence Bowl, like so … Continue reading →