Archive | November 5, 2009

Kehoe guilty of murder, attempted murder, child endangerment

A Grundy County jury deliberated for less than two hours before finding Michelle Kehoe guilty of first-degree murder, attempted murder, and child endangerment causing injury.

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A band with a burger to its name

mp3 sample: Pelican “Strung Up From the Sky” Pelican has accomplished what many people can only dream of — the band recently had a hamburger named after it. According to the restaurant Kuma’s Corner in Chicago, the “Pelican Burger” consists of a 10-ounce Kobe beef patty, with pan-seared scallops and lardons, in a garlic white [...]

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The death and birth of film

Dying films will be reborn on screen tonight with filmmaker Bill Morrison. By Greta Hagen-Richardson greta-hagen-richardson@uiowa.edu Film archives keep locked behind their doors images and stories that cannot be preserved and maintained forever, even with the abundance of modern digital media. Among these dying reels of film, New York City artist Bill Morrison discovered many [...]

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