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Tuesday Vote for State Representative

Story Created: Nov 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM CST Story Updated: Nov 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM CST CEDAR RAPIDS - An election Tuesday in Linn County could swing momentum for parties heading into next year's state elections. Voters in...

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Live Review: Them Crooked Vultures, Sunday, Nov. 22 @ Roseland

One benefit of not selling your soul to Satan: Eventually, you’ll end up playing keytar while your 6-foot-something frontman shimmies across the stage like Neil Diamond on stilts. If you don’t know, according to rock lore, in...

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Review: The Pixies – Aragon, Chicago

By Jodi Root Five years ago, almost to the day, my life changed. The impossible became not only possible, but actual history and the Pixies reunited. They said it could never happen, but the moment I heard that Frank Black and...

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The Pixies are here! (Jim DeRogatis not impressed)

Pixies @ Aragon Ballroom - Nov 20, 2009 (jjohnson1120) When a group of revered and influential rockers come back together after a decade of acrimonious separation and/or inactivity, all but the most hard-hearted punks can grant...

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Ben & Zooey Play WTF?!, DCFC Do Kimmel

Actor Tim Robbins curated the WTF?! Festival this weekend in Culver City to raise money for the ailing non-for-profit Actors' Gang arts organization, inviting fellow actor Ben Gibbard and his rock star wife Zooey Deschanel to...

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Show Review: The Dead Weather - Music Hall of Williamsburg

The Dead Weather’s cover of The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band has Jack White and Alison Mosshart exchange these gruesome lyrics with giddy glee, but tonight it was the stretched out “fire” in the jamming of this tune...

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David Summers obituary

A physicist and poet who undertook pioneering work on turbulence My friend David Summers, a physicist and poet who has died aged 62 after a sudden heart attack, undertook groundbreaking work on turbulence, which is of great...

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Eye on Austin: A healthy dose of debate

West Texans have vested interest in hot-button issue Six years ago, Brad Green was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Thus, like millions of Americans, Green and Powell support the health care reform proposal the U.S. House of...

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strange sensations

hey all, this is my first post here and I'm hoping someone can help me. anyways, long story short, my friend saw a ghost walk out of the bathroom of this hotel we were staying at. I didn't believe him and laughed the whole...

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Ben Greenman: Living Doll

David Johansen is best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the New York Dolls, the early-seventies punk pioneers, who have reunited recently for both albums and tours. When he’s with the Dolls, Johansen plays...

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