You heard it. I know you did. Everybody heard it. On January 20, our amazing new president reminded us all to stop feeling sorry for ourselves, pick up some tools, and start fixing shit. He led up to that moment by calling for a major day of service on Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday. Now, I know that MLK Day has been designated a “day of service” since 1994, but how many times have you actually used your day off to do anything more than beat that really hard level of Mario Brothers? Or get yourself a really good deal on a couch at the furniture store’s MLK Day sale?
This year people took that call to service seriously and here in the 515, we busted out some primo community service for some folks who really needed the help.
Continue reading ‘Des Moines on the Down Low: MLK Day, not just for sleeping in anymore.’
Thanks for the applications for the “Makeover” class at the Charm School and Style Academy! After reading through the applications I found the perfect student for this project.
Sadie is a 19 year old part time student working in retail. She’s recently made some big changes in her life; after leaving a long term relationship and moving out of her childhood home and in with a roommate Sadie is ready to change her look as well as her life. Continue reading ‘Our first “Student”’
Magical Meeting #2
Here’s the second trick David Casas, an Iowa City magician, did for us at Java Joe’s. This time Brandon gets into the act.
words on a page. since johannes gutenberg ain’t shit changed. the most diabolical editorial panel in the universe. from pop culture to politics, local affairs to the music scene and everything in between. introducing the brain trust: duke, kelli g, kelli jo, kyle, mike, miss nicole and yours truly. more to come…
for a moment there it felt like the walls between our cultures were coming down, that we were going to achieve some sort of universal understanding in the obama era. i guess not.
A Magical Meeting #1
David Casas, a magician from Iowa City stopped by our table on a snowy evening in January to entertain us with some magic tricks. Watch him pull a fast one on $trick9!
Jay-Z hops snags a couple lines on the “My President” joint, a fitting banger for the day.
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School is in Session!
The Charm School and Style Academy will team up with Salon Utopia’s newest pro, Mel, to give one of my “students” a full makeover. Continue reading ‘Win A Makeover!’
Today was a real good day.
Yeah, I’m feeling real hopeful. Tomorrow is going to be unreal, a dream of sorts. I’m ready. These damn nightmares of the past 8 years have to end. I’m ready for some new REM. Thank god for Obama.
And to top it off, Musicman hooked me up with some new bangers. My Celtics are sitting is a good position at this point. The Rig of Doom is coming together. Only thing better would be if I could rock my Celtic wear to the office.
Awww, now I’m just pushing my luck.
Just about six minutes before we finally wake up…
Join our heroes in their triumphant return to the webernet. They start off the New Year with a little self promotion, Kyle’s Top 10 films of ’08, Mike’s possible Top 10 of ’09 and they finally get to that listener feedback that you sent two months ago. I hope those cookies were still good. Sit back and relax, CHOPE is almost upon us…….
