Rock Iowa

I’m psyched about Cranksgiving, and the main reason is this: The name is fun to say.
Beyond that, Cranksgiving is a very cool combination alley cat race and canned food drive. Cyclists will meet up at noon at Mars Cafe for registration and pre-game fueling, and the race begins at 1. Participants must buy a list [...]

Alternative rock band Palmerston are playing Saturday, December 6th at 4th Street Theatre (inside/next to Java Joe’s) at a foodraiser show for the Food Bank of Iowa. 2 bucks AND 2 cans of food. More food is welcome. Been seeing a lot of news stories recently about how fast charitable giving has dropped off with the [...]

well…. most of us, anyway.  Andrew, Keri, Cat, Scott, Dani.   We had our first ever monthly meeting (open to anyone, by the way) at Mars Cafe on Monday and I snapped a few photos.  We don’t usually look this bored - the meeting was really fun, actually - but our previous attempts at happy [...]

If you are familiar with the work of only one artist in DSM, make it Lee Ann Conlan. She’s a consistently provocative painter who focuses primarily on figural work but throws in skeletons, architecture and dinosaurs for good measure. She impresses me most because of the thorough refinement: I have never seen a work of [...]