Iowa Books: Rock & Roll Memoirs, Boyhood Reflections, and The Floppy Show
Iowa has a ton of literary connections, from Iowa City’s Writers’ Workshop to Jane Smiley’s tenure at Iowa State, to the bridges of Madison...
Polk County GOP Promotes QAnon Conspiracy Theory Days After Claiming Account Was Hacked to...
Three days after the Polk County Republican Party dubiously claimed that a post on their official Facebook page defending the display of the Confederate...
Audio Shows Governor Reynolds Backed Out Of Agreement to Provide Felon Voting Rights Language
In a Tuesday morning press release accusing Republican Governor Kim Reynolds of breaking her promise, organizers with the Des Moines branch of the Black...
Iowa Tapes, Part 1: Phyllis Khare, Greg Brown, Karen Meat
Introducing Physical Media Blog’s serialized survey of Iowa music in cassette tape form. Is the audio quality prime? No. Do all of these tapes...
Rock Autobiographies: A Woman Pioneer, Iron Maiden Beer, and New Year’s with Bono
It seems like every musician in the last decade has published a memoir or tell-all, or hired a biographer to write their story. Many...
Ames Poetry Zines and Songbooks
Zine makers don’t need anyone to tell them they are artists. They’ve proven it. They recognize no barrier to entry, they need no acceptance...
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: From Cult to The King
It's the 30th anniversary of the debut of the celebrated TV show Twin Peaks, of which I'm a huge fan, so this edition of...
Independent Film Director John Sayles in the ’80s
John Sayles is one of the best and most influential independent filmmakers alive, but availability of his films seems to have waned in recent...
Weird Comics: The Flaming Carrot, a Woman in a Fish Tank, and the Wankathon
Thanks to the huge success of film adaptations, there's no longer the stigma associated with being a comic book nerd that existed just 25...
