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Sandra Willbanks: Your Key to $50 Million!

The road to financial freedom starts with a key. And ends with ... well, we won't spoil it for you! ... read more

TV: January 25-31

HBO's Luck Premieres Sunday

A new series from HBO, with Nick Nolte and Dustin Hoffman, looks behind the scenes at the racetrack. Also this week, the Screen Actors Guild Awards and a moving Hallmark movie ... read more

Masterpiece Classic

Downton Abbey: Episode 3

War changes everything at home and abroad on the January 22nd episode of PBS's award-winning series ... read more

Cell Phones & Brain Tumors

Flawed Cell-Phone Safety Study Questioned

A study released last fall by the British Medical Journal concluded cell phone use is safe. But other researchers have objected to the way data was interpreted ... read more

The Crispy Awards

Andy Bargerstock's Best Songs of 2011

The Fringe Toast DJ inaugurates the Crispy Awards, honoring the best alternative music of the year ... read more

Say No to Canned Laughter

Dan Coffey's Best of the Worst List for 2011

Find out what our curmudgeonly humor writer finds most deplorable about popular culture in 2011 ... read more

Cardinal Blossoms in Winter

Wildlife Photos from Diane Porter

Birder and author Diane Porter is back! Each month we'll bring you one of her fabulous photos of our avian friends in their natural habitat ... read more

Hawaiian History

George Clooney Shines in The Descendants

Director Alexander Payne, who brought us Sideways and Election, is back with another great film—a masterful comedic drama set in Kauia that deals with loss ... read more

Blogs from Source Writers

Musings, anecdotes, and stuff that didn’t fit in print

Poems by Richard Jones
RICHARD JONES is the author of seven books of poems from Copper Canyon Press. His most recent volume is "The Correct Spelling & Exact Meaning" (2010). A professor at DePaul University in Chicago, he is the editor of the literary journal "Poetry East." ... by rustin READ MORE
Iowa Poet Laureate to Read at MUM Library
A Reading by Iowa Poet Laureate Mary Swander Wednesday, February 1, 7:30 pm, MUM Library North Lounge Mary Swander has won numerous awards including an Iowa Author’s Award (2006), a Whiting Award (The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, 1994), a National Endowment for the A ... by rustin READ MORE
A Story by Danny Walker
This is a story by Heidi Salmonson's son, Danny Walker. I often see him at the MUM Library happily typing away. This is something he wrote on January 14th, 2012. I think this is a lot of fun. Danny has a way with words: There once lived a 30 year old Young man named ... by rustin READ MORE
Lyrical Iowa Contest 2012 Rules
THE IOWA POETRY ASSOCIATION'S67th Annual ContestGeneral Rules For All DivisionsNote: FAILURE TO OBSERVE RULES MAY DISQUALIFY ENTRIES.Contests are open to all persons with Iowa residence. (See College exception) No entry fee. No membership or book purchase requirement.Poems must be original and u ... by rustin READ MORE
Mother & Daughter Painting Duo in the MUM Library Foyer
An exhibit of paintings by Caroline Larson and Kate Larson is now on display in the MUM Library Foyer, October-November, 2011. Caroline Larson draws her inspiration from the Impressionists and has a variety of portraits, landscapes and master copies on display. Subjects range from her travels ... by rustin READ MORE
The Get Up Kids are Back
The Get Up Kids Grown Up & On Tour by Steve Horowitz Matt Pryor and the Get Up Kids are now on tour promoting their latest album, There are Rules (photo by Ben Goetting). Critics often credit Kansas’s Get Up Kids as one of the originators of emo, that mixture of pop and punk rock ... by claudia READ MORE