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Middle o’ nowhere: Midwest ripe for torrid affairs
April 13, 2023
If you’re like me, too busy to read engaging literature, you might be familiar with a particular branch of trashy romance that I like to call “location romance.” In a “location romance,” the setting influences either the entire plot or a character’s identity. For example, the premise of the 2010 film “Leap Year” is people […]
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“Spaghetti Works” no longer o(penne)
April 5, 2023
Des Moines-area restaurant Spaghetti Works closed unexpectedly on March 27, and many were upsetti-spaghetti about it, including me. The downtown favorite was packed every night, so it was a shock to many when management announced the restaurant’s final day. Most didn’t even find out the news until the restaurant was permanently closed, and it was […]
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Money talks. It’s an understandable, yet unfortunate, reality of higher education as it exists now. It talks when it comes to framing, it talks in regards to social justice and, as of this week, it talks when it comes to death. This week we received an email from our university president informing us of the […]