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I just back from the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival in Des Moines last night. It is  a week-long affair that runs through November 11 at the best movie theater in Iowa, the Fleur Cinema and Cafe. 

It is becoming for independent movies what the Iowa caucuses are to politics - an important launch pad.The Iowa film-making community may be small but they are a committed, passionate bunch that

Fairfield First salutes the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center and the City of Fairfield for structuring a public-private partnership that supports the continued success of our Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts. Our Arts and Convention is a world-class venue at the heart of our Cultural and Entertainment District. The success of the private fundraising to cover the existing leases and the

In some past life I must have been late for a train.  Overburdened with luggage, breathless, I can see me running, fedora whisked from my head by the wind.  Only by some feat of strength, some last surge of energy, am I able to clamber aboard the moving coach, neither helped nor encouraged by the barrel-chested, walrus-whiskered conductor.  I lay breathless on the floor of the shifting

He tried to remember when he was a baby.  He could only visualize a Polaroid photograph of a party in his stepfather's basement.  There was his mother, all legs in a mini-skirt, his biological father, clueless, and, among an assortment of other mushroom-haired men, his future stepfather licking the edge of a hand-rolled cigarette. Lots of alcohol and joints were in play, and there he was, Paul,

I know, I know: I've been a slacker blogger lately. But now I have something truly noteworthy to share. This past Monday evening, I was fortunate enough to catch two fabulous former Fairfieldians (and dear friends) performing in NYC's prestigious Carnegie Hall: Erin Gee and her brother Colin Gee.

Those names surely ring many a bell throughout Fairfield, where the two grew up, and in Iowa City,