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Exhibit hall to tout Orpheum, film history
T-R PHOTO BY ANDREW POTTER
This exhibit area of the newly-renovated Orpheum Theater will display movie and theater artifacts.
February 8, 2010
While the film viewing area is destined to be a popular place at the new Orpheum Theater one other area is bound to get noticed.
The exhibit hall area will have movie memorabilia highlighting Iowa film stars and theaters. It will also feature the original film projector from when the Orpheum first opened in 1949 and other items collected within the community.
Apgar Photography has donated several old photographs of the theater and also photographs of Marshalltown-born actress Jean Seberg.
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Obama invites the GOP leaders to health care talk
February 8, 2010
WASHINGTON — In the first major step to revive his health care agenda after his party’s loss of a filibuster-proof Senate majority, President Barack Obama on Sunday invited Republican and Democratic leaders to discuss possible compromises in a...
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Setting the tone for success
February 8, 2010
Rachel Noe has her sights set on a bright future. Before then, she wants to make sure she does the best she can at Miller Middle School.
Noe, 14, is an eighth grade student at Miller. She has a perfect 4.
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Got the winter blues? Lighten up!
February 8, 2010
It’s that time of year when some say cabin fever is about.
In the midst of winter, as many as 40 million Americans get the blues because shorter days and less sunlight can throw off the body clock, affecting one’s mood or slee.
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Super Bowl ads are cool
Mon, February 8, 2010 @ 11:54AM
It seems every year everyone waits for the Super Bowl ads and then the critics rail on them afterward. This year was no different, but there were plenty of funny moments with those ads. The scene of the longhorn bull running the the Budweiser Clydesdale horses was certainly interesting. And that was one of the more boring ads in the Super Bowl this year. The Tim Tebow ad, by default the most "controversial" ad of the Super Bowl, was interesting. I will focus on that in my column this coming Sunday. I didn't mention it last week because, unlike the left-leaning organizations that came out against it, I didn't want to pass judgment before I actually SAW it. The Go Daddy commercials were — well, the Go Daddy commercials. Did you expect any less? Certainly no more. But the most interesting ad, in my opinion was the plug for the CBS Late Show.
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Thu, February 4, 2010 @ 4:08PM
I've been texting my daughters and wife more as of late. And I'll admit the feature does come in handy. Like many, I have my own text messaging shorthand. For experienced texters, I suspect some of what I have used in messages and displayed below is pedestrian. Others,who are experimenting with their own shorthand may learn from it. Here is a sample: 2 – to or too 2morrw–tomorrow 4–for B–be B4-before bel-bell ben–been belz-bells chk–check, as in the financial instrument or to check on cloz–clothes doz–does erund–errand groc–groceries gr8-great hlp–help mak–make mony-money R–are repliz–replies rdy–ready urn–earn thx–thank you womn–woman yur–your I'd be interested in receiving text shorthand suggestions from readers to find out what I have been missin.
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Does anyone here speak "Groundhogese?"
Mon, February 1, 2010 @ 3:46PM
Last year, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and guess what? We had six more weeks of winter. Every year, people gather at a wooded knoll just outside of the Pennsylvania town to see what Phil will predict, and residents contend that the groundhog has never been wrong. Then the festival begins and it's a day-long party. The ceremony in Punxsutawney was held in secret until 1966, and only Phil's prediction was revealed to the public. Since then, the woodchuck's fearless forecast has been a national media event. According to handlers John Griffiths and Ben Hughes, Phil weighs 15 pounds and thrives on dog food and ice cream, living within a climate-controlled home at the Punxsutawney Library, and is inspected annually by the state Department of Agriculture. Then on Feb. 2 at around 7:25 a.m., he is removed from his electrically heated burrow, looks for his shadow and utters his prediction to a Groundhog Club member in "Goundhogese.
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BracketBuster
Sat, January 30, 2010 @ 3:16PM
The ESPNU BracketBuster pairings for men's college basketball games to be held Feb. 19-20 will be announced Monday. One of the premier teams for the annual event will be Northern Iowa and you can expect the Panthers to have a prominent matchup and time slot. Northern Iowa comes into the weekend with an 18-2 record and two-game lead in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Panthers will host a BracketBuster game on Feb. 19 at the McLeod Center. Who will Northern Iowa play? The dream matchup would be UNI against Butler, but Butler also will be a BracketBuster home team. The best of the bunch as designated road teams? Siena. Since the Panthers have already faced Siena this season that matchup is also out the window. Look for Northern Iowa to face someone out of this group - Old Dominion, William & Mary, Louisiana Tech, Nevada and College of Charleston.
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Cheers to The Soup
Sat, February 6, 2010 @ 11:19PM
With so much terrible television on these days it's nice to check out E's "The Soup." The show serves as a watchdog calling out the bad TV with a special focus on reality TV show wannabe stars. Are there no depths to what people will do just to be noticed on a reality show? Host Joel McHale makes sure we don't miss all those that made fools out of themselves on the tube on a weekly basis. We used to have "Best Week Ever" on VH1 for this which was good but now we just have "The Soup," which serves its purpos.
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The unavoidable blog
Thu, February 4, 2010 @ 12:13PM
All right. I have pushed this blog idea back so many times and tried every thing I could to hold this information until I had enough thoughts to build a blog that did the subject justice. I guess now is the time to finally let my opinion known. Since June, my life has taken a somewhat different turn. Yes, it is the month I got my first full-time job but on June 25, an pop icon left us that surged me back into the days of my youth that I haven’t pulled myself out of yet. I am speaking of course about the death of Michael Jackson. I have touched on the subject in my earlier blog about the Dancing with the Stars tribute but that didn’t fully explain my thoughts on the subject. To begin, I will say that I listened to his music as a kid and had several cassette tapes that I almost wore out for playing them so much. As I grew, my interests in music moved with the trends being pulled into the boy band era with NSYNC, the Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, etc.
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