Last summer, I attended the wedding reception of my good friends Luke and Sally Hertz Gran. The whole evening was beautiful — I especially loved the traditional barn dance hosted by members of the Porch Stompers and Onion Creek Cloggers — but there was... »
The second issue of Gestalt, Ames’ new art zine, has just been published online. Check it out here. To contribute to the next issue, email your stuff to gestaltames@gmail.com by April 13. »
Anyone involved in Ames nightlife knows that Trey LaTrash gets a lot done and looks amazing while doing it. The ISU student is well known for his progressive fashion sense and unmistakable makeup design. He often appears at parties and shows around Ame... »
On Friday morning, journalist Jeff Zaslow died at the age of 53, after losing control of his car on a snowy northern Michigan road and striking a semi. Zaslow wrote the 2009 New York Times bestseller The Girls from Ames, which chronicles the lives of 1... »
Last Wednesday, the new art zine Gestalt launched at a Space for Ames release party. The inaugural issue’s contributors include past and present Ames Progressive collaborators Dave Atchison, Hannah Johnson, Rick Lem, Nikki Rains, and Jordan Zantow (see... »
The locally legendary rock band the Poison Control Center is set to release a limited edition vinyl record of their previously unreleased rock opera A Nice Old-Fashioned Romance With Love Lyrics and Everything on Maximum Ames Records (with which I, Mr.... »
