“I Should be Killed in the Dead of a Siberian Winter?”
I have been infected by poetry. 
Poetry is the brightest celestial body ripping holes in the established cobwebs of your mind. 
Late at night, just as I am closing my eyes and as I slip away into my dreams, I can hear those words of men, while [...]

Baroness
Blue Record
**** out of *****
Like an undefeated heavy-weight prize-fighter who recites 15th century French poetry between brawls, Georgia-based sludge band Baroness’s latest release, Blue Record, is charged with colossal power and finesse.
Blue Record is a fitting conceptual follow-up to the group’s 2007 Red Album, though it’s undeniably more subdued record than its earlier counterpart. Instead [...]

Whip It gets female relationships right with its realistic characters and unconventional setting
By Greta Hagen-Richardson
greta-hagen-richardson@uiowa.edu
At the world première of Whip It, Drew Barrymore stood on stage with the dozen women who star in her directorial début. She spoke highly of her “tribe” and spent much of her 20-minute introduction praising them individually for their personal [...]

Zombieland takes some silliness, a little absurdity, eats a little flesh, and pukes it all on the big screen for some classic fun
By ERIC SUNDERMANN
eric-sundermann@uiowa.edu
Grab your weapon of choice — ax, shotgun, or pitchfork. Enter your destination — restroom, gas station, or restaurant. Now — chop, shoot, or stab a blood-spitting, skin-eating monster. Once they’re [...]

This week’s reviews: Alice in Chains and the Melvins

The French New Wave is in rare form this week at the IMU’s Bijou Theater. Hitting the silver screen are the previously unavailable Jean-Luc Godard films, *Made in U.S.A* and *Two or Three Things I Know About Her*, as a double feature.
Tonight, *Made in U.S.A.* screens at 7 p.m. and *Two or Three Things I [...]

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