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BACK TO THE GRIND A Cedar Falls coffee connoisseur has amounted to a hill of beans with his new gourmet grinding business, Sidecar Coffee Roasters.

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WHAT'S UP OK, so I rarely invite people into the deep recesses of my mind, but this one’s so crazy it begs to be shared. Recently I dreamed I’d been kidnapped and tortured — and by tortured I mean alone in a room with a gang member who was trying to cut my hair into a mom bob. I kept yelling, “That style won’t work for me!” and he kept telling me to shut up and sit still. Seriously. WTH? “What could it mean?” I keep asking myself. I had recently been thinking it’s time for a haircut, and not just the standard trim — something new, something different. But it most definitely didn’t involve gangs or an asymmetrical bob. Whatevs. I’m going to assume it was a sign of a creative brain at work. And I’m lucky to work with many other creative brains at Pulse magazine. In fact, we’ve recently been recognized for our creativity (see page 10).

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James Gossling works on a tattoo for Ariel Makepeace at Eternal Ink Tattoos in Waterloo.

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riel Makepeace arrives for her appointment with Cupcake, a tattoo artist at Eternal Ink Tattoos & Piercing in Waterloo. The 22-year-old from Independence is anxious for progress to be made on the tattoo that will cover the inside of her right forearm, wrist to elbow. Cupcake is James Gossling, who has been tattooing for three years. He apprenticed at Eternal Ink. Don’t let the name Cupcake fool you. Gossling is a serious tattoo artist. Makepeace, who was named after the title character from The Little Mermaid, is having a mermaid tattooed on her arm. Besides the red hair and scales, Makepeace’s mermaid bears little resemblance to the Disney creation. “James designed a realistic, Day of the Dead mermaid,” Makepeace said. This will be Makepeace’s third two-hour session with Gossling. One more session will be needed to finish the detail work. At $125 an hour, Makepeace already has $750 invested in the tattoo.

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Makepeace settles into the tattoo chair as Gossling prepares his machines and ink. He tapes multiple pictures of mermaids to the arm of the chair to reference throughout the session. The buzz of the tattooing machine indicates he is ready to start. He combines blues and greens to create the water near Makepeace’s wrist, a sensitive spot. She shows little reaction, only growing quiet when the pain begins to affect her. Gossling repeatedly refills the machine, dipping it in small plastic cupfuls of colored ink, and wiping Makepeace’s skin to gauge his progress. Tiny beads of blood dot the artwork. As Gossling makes his way up the arm, near the elbow, the pain intensifies and Makepeace draws a few deep breaths and seems to lose herself in the colorful artwork that covers the shop’s walls and cabinets and the pulsating heavy metal music being played. This is the third tattoo Gossling has done for Makepeace. Her left arm sports an intricate black and gray tree clock in memory of her father and an owl that represents wisdom.

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Tattooing is becoming more of a fine art form, more of an aesthetic feel. “I just give him one sentence and he knows without getting a second look. Ten years ago, exactly what I want,” she said. “I recommend there was still kind of a stigma.” him to everyone. “I’ve always thought sleeves were beautiful,” Makepeace said. “I’m happy just to be able to express myself on my body.” Marshall Phillips does the piercing at Nemesis. Since Nemesis is located in a college town, Phillips said he sees his fair share of navel, nostril and tragus piercings for the females and Tattoos like Makepeace’s mermaid are ear lobe piercing and gauging for men. Phillips said microdermals — a foot with becoming more common and, as an artist, Gossling appreciates where the industry is a titanium post embedded in the skin that interchangeable gems can be screwed onto going. “Tattooing is becoming more of a fine art — are gaining popularity, and that the new form, more of an aesthetic feel,” Gossling thing in the industry is 3-D implants, where silicone jewelry in shapes such as hearts or the said. “It takes a lot more planning. I dig it.” Nemesis Tattoo Studios in Iowa City has infinity symbol are placed under the skin. But probably the hottest piercing of the five tattoo artists on staff and one piercer. Artist Danny Iannucci has been tattooing moment is the triple forward helix, which is for more than a dozen years and has seen a placing three gems or barbells, often in graduated sizes, on the front curve of the ear. lot of trends. Phillips, who has been piercing profession“The younger students kind of go for, unfortunately, celebrity stuff,” he said. “If Ri- ally for about 10 years, said the biggest changhanna gets a tattoo, five girls come in the es in the industry are coming from states pushing for a minimum standard for next week wanting the same thing.” Other than that, Iannucci sees a pretty quality jewelry. Piercing is currently not regulated in Iowa, but work is beeclectic mix of tattoos. “Each artist here kind of specializes in a cer- ing done to get some kind of system tain thing, whether it’s American traditional, for licensed piercing put in place. “Social standards are changing, that’s colorful stuff, black and gray,” he said. One current trend Iannucci has seen is for sure,” he said. “What used to be not allowed for jobs is now OK, like lip piercing or customers getting multiple tattoos. “We get a lot of repeat customers,” he said. the nostril. Some are still blacklisted by more “But the age range is all over the place. I see conservative employers, but it is much more 18-year-olds to baby boomers. The oldest cli- socially acceptable. “The important things to think ent I had come in for his first tattoo was 74.” Iannucci also has seen a lot of changes in about are is your artist competent, do they use quality jewthe quality of the equipment. “That helps with the application, cleaner elry and do they explain evlines,” he said. “The artwork is changing. erything step by step,” Phillips There are better artists out there than there said. “That’s something you always want to look for in a piercwere even 10 years ago. “And it is more in the mainstream. You can er. If you’re leaving with questions, walk down the street with full sleeves now they probably haven’t done their job.”

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Tattoo enthusiasts will converge on Cedar Rapids for the fourth annual Lefty’s Tattoo Expo. The threeday event, hosted by Troy “Lefty” and Keri McDaniel of Lefty’s Tattoo Studio, will feature about 60 artists doing live tattooing. Contests will be held daily, seminars will be offered, an aerial show will be performed by Bangarang Circus each evening and there will be a special appearance by Lyle Tuttle, the “godfather” of tattooing.

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Get Skool’d aaron mcnally | Pulse writer

en Hagarty and Bai Carew come bounding into the busy Main Street Cedar Falls coffee shop on a Monday afternoon. Their exuberant vibe offers no clue that they’ve been working for nearly 48 hours straight. The previous Saturday night, the pair headlined a sold-out show at The Hub. Going on after midnight for a jump-and-stomp, sweat-drenched performance to a stage-diving crowd, Cedar Falls’ hip-hop duo Skool’d barely had time to scratch together a few hours of sleep before they were back to the grind. No rest for the wicked, Ben and Bai were already making plans for that Sunday night. “I was tired from hitting it hard the night before,” Ben said. But he still had work to do. There was video to edit and, unfortunately, a need to reshoot. “The footage we had wasn’t cutting it and I called Bai to come in at midnight and we recorded real quick lines and I stayed up until four in the morning editing it.” He had to. Monday morning was breaking. For the past 10 weeks, Skool’d has released a music video every Monday as part of its Our Way Monday project. The releases get 2,000-plus hits online each time. “It’s crazy that we’re able to do it,” Bai said. “But we’ve been able to somehow jam all this information into our heads and make it work.” Bai, a Cedar Rapids native, majored in marketing at the University of Northern Iowa, where he met Ben. Every week, he puts his education to real-world practice seeking out new ways to get the duo’s music and

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message to their ever-growing fan base. “We look at everything — statistics, all that stuff,” Bai said. “All I do is try to learn everything possible as far as what is the hippest way to get your music out,” Ben added. “It’s a challenge. It’s almost impossible to even put out a record now, so many people are constantly dropping singles.” Music fans demand more and more of artists today, the pair said. “Someone will put out an album and people will already be asking ‘when’s your next single coming out?’” Bai explained. The guys hope to one day tour internationally, starting as an opening act for other artists. Their strategy is to create what Ben calls “small families” to “help us grow what we’ve been developing here and in surrounding areas.” Skool’d has released two studio-recorded EPs and has opened for nationally touring acts like Nappy Roots and Slick Rick. They’ve even gotten an endorsement from a T-shirt company to help them market their music across multiple platforms. The goal is to keep performing, releasing studio recordings and producing videos until they hit the next level of success. “When are we gonna stop? We’ll stop when it gets fully recognized for our work ethic. We want people to recognize that we’re doing this for real and that we have a genuine interest in this,” Bai said.

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hat has us itching for iTunes gift cards, unlimited Spotify streaming and a vault full of cash to blow on Ticketmaster this year? . Though it seems a serious stretch to expect a new Nine Inch Nails album to drop in 2013, one has to be overzealous to hear that multifaceted frontman Trent Reznor is working on new music. After composing two hypnotic masterpieces with the soundtracks for The Social Network and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, it will be fascinating to see how Reznor fuses his newfound skill set as a movie maestro with his band’s raw emotional power. Like Reznor’s idle album, it would require a serious leap of faith to expect a certain rapper from Detroit to drop any bombs this year, but don’t count Eminem as down for the punch. The lyrically dexterous hip-hop luminary has dropped hints pertaining to a new album and it is hard not to be excited about what is to come. Like Em, Wu-Tang Clan are a volatile cocktail of hip-hop. Unlike Em, you can count RZA, GZA and the rest of the Clan’s latest as a sure thing this year. Expect it to lambast just about everything wrong with modern material culture. After all, the Wu aren’t anything to, you know, mess with. Another hip-hop outing that has us itching at the gills is Black Star’s concept album, Black Star Aretha. Mos Def (now known as Yasiin Beey) seems to have undergone a cryogenic freeze since its announcement, but we don’t doubt he’ll spin a signature blend of alternative hip-hop for the information age.

While the last few years may have signaled diminishing returns for grizzled reunion acts (The Police, Motley Crue), a few long-gestating returns have us overjoyed. For one, David Bowie’s The Next Day is set to launch on March 8, and it is never a wise idea to count out the Thin White Duke. Likewise, metal pioneers Black Sabbath (the original lineup) will be serving up new record 13 in June. Can the Prince of Darkness still belt out Paranoid on the inevitable sold-out tour? Have faith, young headbanger. Six long years have passed since we last saw Josh Homme and Queens of the Stone Age mount a new disc, and their new one is ridiculously overdue. With wunderkind Dave Grohl beating the skins, expect some kind of awesome to arrive this summer. Of course, no list comes to a close without the bated breath trailing Tool’s upcoming fall record. Enigmatic frontman Maynard Keenan and the boys from Los Angeles have us counting on another masterpiece to bring us all further down the rabbit hole. At this point, there’s no reason to expect anything less.

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King Animal by Soundgarden Genre: Pearl Jam, Audioslave Sounds like: Pearl Jam, Audioslave

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ith a blues rock backbone and some Sabbath-sized metal guitar riffage infusing their pioneering grunge sound, Soundgarden was always the most dynamic of the Seattle four. And with a sound under continual metamorphosis with each masterful release and a titanic vocal presence in legendary frontman Chris Cornell, it goes without saying that fans were distressed when the enigmatic Down On The Upside closed the curtain on the band in 1997. The curtains have opened again with the November release of King Animal, and, as if echoing our collective sentiments, Cornell bellows in instantly recognizable falsetto on lead single Been Away Too Long that he has, in fact, been veiled for far too much of the 21st-century rock scene. While the 15-year gap has certainly grizzled each member’s hair, you’d be surprised

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at how little it has changed the outfit’s sonic power. Kim Thayil’s outstretched mitts can still conjure some monstrous guitar riffs, and Cornell’s vocal belting still shames his contemporaries in embarrassingly awesome fashion. That said, Soundgarden’s temporal shift into the modern era has helped to produce an album of riskless conservatism. On a fundamental level, there are no qualms to be had with King Animal. It features tight pacing, muscular instrumentation and a clear-cut audible drive. But the danger is lacking. The aforementioned Too Long starts things

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offwellenough,withpropulsivedrumming, dueling guitars and plaster-melting vocal caterwaul. It kicks with Spoonman’s same kinetic energy. The band channels aggression on Blood on the Valley Floor, and Attrition is the same type of acid-soaked and feet-stomping blues jig we all adore. Just don’t expect the same defining band that helped to canonize grunge with tracks like Black Hole Sun, Outshined and Rusty Cage. It may be Soundgarden-lite, but make no mistake, the boys from Seattle have returned. And with modern rock’s continually diminished returns, that’s more than enough for now. Knights of the Soundtable, you may ride again.

With of the proprietary grunge meets heavy metal blend, King Animal is a worthy continuation of the Soundgarden legend.

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The nine-song m b v is available for purchase only through mybloodyvalentine.net, and when it became available recently, it “broke the Internet,” as they say, or at least caused the band’s servers to crash for a time. M b v starts off sounding an awful like Loveless — with cooing, Cocteau In its middle passages, the martial drums and captivating melodies alive in the mix on songs like If I Am pull m b v in a pretty, almost pop direction. Then the tone gets much more aggressive, as skittering drum ‘n’ bass beats work their way into the air-raid attack on not entirely successful tracks such as In Another Way and Nothing Is. Those songs suggest Shields is at long last searching for an MBV sound, but he hasn’t quite arrived there yet. He just needs a little more time. — Dan DeLuca, Philadelphia Inquirer

Pissed Jeans distill hardcore aggression, working-class frustration and self-conscious insecurity into a thick, heavy assault. Originally from Allentown, Pa., now Philly-based, the quartet won’t win over anyone not predisposed to the shouted and growled vocals and unrelenting volume of archetypal hardcore and sludgy, trudging metal. But Honeys, their fourth album, is faultless on its own terms, mixing speedy punk rock Health Plan, garage-psych blues stomps Loubs, and scuzzy heavy metal Chain Worker. From the lacerating address to a smug project manager in Cafeteria Food to the screaming chorus of Bathroom Laughter to the almost bouncy romp of Cathouse, Honeys is prime ugly, loud hardcore. — Steve Klinge, Philadelphia Inquirer

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get up! ben harper with charlie musselwhite Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite first recorded together with the late blues legend John Lee Hooker. The 69-year-old Musselwhite is no slouch as a songwriter himself, but here he lets his harp do the talking — sweet and clean, storming and dirty, he provides all kinds of emotional shadings for Harper’s songs. And those songs are among the most hard-hitting of the 43-year-old’s career. Harper’s got the blues, for sure, but he and Musselwhite skirt the usual cliches, from the acoustic-texture rumination You Found Another Love (I Lost Another Friend) to the Hookeresque strut of I’m In, I’m Out, and I’m Gone, the gospel-tinted We Can’t End This Way, and the heavy blues-rocker I Don’t Believe a Word You Say. — Nick Cristiano, Philadelphia Inquirer

holy fire foals Foals’ third album, Holy Fire, is a glorious addition to the heroic lineage of brainy dance music. The British quintet manages it well, musically crossing Phoenix with Talking Heads, while Yannis Philippakis channels everything from blues to disco in his wide-ranging vocals. My Number grooves like it came from Stop Making Sense, with its sleek synths spiked with African guitar flourishes and David Byrnesque jitters. That immediacy pairs nicely with the delayed reaction from the layered Milk & Black Spiders, showing how well Foals have all their bases covered. — Glenn Gamboa, Newsday

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Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day I love the strings on this song. Beautiful and sincere. — David H., designer

On the Radio by Regina Spektor This song, though lyrically morbid in some spots, is a lesson in taking life as it comes and appreciating what you have. — David H., designer

I Can’t Decide by Hopsin I love the head-bobbin’ groove of this song, and the melody on the chorus is fantastic. — Meta H., editor

Black Sweat by Prince “I’m hot and I don’t care who knows it, I got a job to do, yes I’m workin’ up a black sweat.” Signature Prince. — Meta H., editor

Little Bitty by Alan Jackson He was the headliner at a Cedar Falls concert in February. His oldies are definitely goodies. — Emily C., writer

Sick Man of Europe by Cheap Trick Some of their “new” stuff is just as much fun as their old stuff. — Holly H., writer

Engines by Snow Patrol This song makes me sway every time I hear it.

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Foreign Language (Drop Out Orchestra remix) by Flight Facilities This tropical disco track is a good reminder that spring is just around the corner. — Chris E., online

Live While We’re Young by One Direction Yeah, I know. But it’s catchy and the message is right for getting pumped up for whatever the weekend’s gonna bring. — Alan S., associate editor

Carried Away by Passion Pit Great fun-day music in the same vein as the dreamy-funkadelicwhat-is-happening-I-like-it work off their previous album, Manners. — Alan S., associate editor

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Some people you may have heard of are going to be dropping by the state in the next few months. And you’re going to want to get your tickets now before you’re left out in the cold when these hot acts are hitting the stage.

Kenny Chesney Saturday, April 27

If you’re a member of the No Shoes Nation, you’ll want to know Kenny Chesney’s coming to town with Eli Young Band and Kasey Musgraves in tow. Chesney’s had 19 No. 1 hits over the span of his career, and he shows no signs of slowing down. The members of the Eli Young Band, including Mr. Eli and Mr. Young, met at the University of North Texas and have gone on to perform songs like Crazy Girl and Even If It Breaks Your Heart. Kasey Musgraves appeared on Nashville Star and was signed to a record deal last year. Her lead single, Merry Go ’Round, will appear on her debut album.

Fleetwood Mac june 26 $49 - $149 Dreams. Gypsy. Landslide. Rhiannon. This is Fleetwood Mac, and you know them even if you think you don’t. In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the release of the iconic album, the Mac has reissued expanded and deluxe versions of Rumours. The new editions include the original album, the B-side of Silver Springs, a dozen unreleased live recordings from the group’s 1977 world tour and an entire disc filled with unreleased takes from the album’s recording sessions.

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Taylor Swift with Ed Sheeran Thursday, Aug. 1 $31.50 - $86.50

She’s only the youngest-ever winner of the Album of the Year Grammy Award. And Taylor Swift is coming back to Des Moines on The RED Tour in support of her fourth smash album. You will never, ever, ever forgive yourself if you’re a fan who misses her show. Two-time Brit Award-winning singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran, who duets with Swift on Everything Has Changed, will join her on tour. His debut single, The A Team, is pretty inescapable on Top 40 stations around the country right now.

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MUG NIGHT SPECIALS WEDNESDAYS $3 MICRO & CRAFT BREW / MUG REFILLS *HIGH ABV=$5 REFILLS

THURSDAYS $2 MACRO (DOMESTIC) / MUG REFILLS $2 BEEF TACOS $2.50 CHICKEN OR FISH TACOS

SPECIALTY PIZZAS THE ORIGINAL - $10, $16

THE MULLIGAN - $11, $17

BBQ CHICKEN - $10, $16

PESTO PROSCIUTTO - $11, $17

Olive oil, basil pesto, Italian sausage, pepperoni and Mozzarella.

Groove thang Wax. Records. Discs. Doesn’t matter what you call ’em. Vinyl is hot.

BBQ sauce, Mozzarella, BBQ chicken, red onion and fresh cilantro.

CHEESY MEATBALL - $10, $16

Tomato sauce, pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, onion, green pepper and Mozzarella. Olive oil, Basil Pesto, Roma Tomato, Prosciutto, and melted FRESH Mozzarella. Finished with fresh Basil and Oregano Leaves.

Red Sauce, our Homemade Meatballs, Mozzarella, Smoked Provolone, Parmesan & Romano. Finished with fresh Basil and Oregano leaves.

CHICKEN ALFREDO - $11, $17

CHICKEN ARTICHOKE TOMATO - $10, $16

BUFFALO CHICKEN - $10, $16

Olive oil, Garlic Oregano chicken breast, Roma tomato, artichoke heart, FRESH Mozzarella and grated Romano.

THREE CHEESE, TOMATO & BASIL - $9, $15

Garlic Oregano Chicken, alfredo sauce, roasted red pepper, Mozzarella, Parmesan and fresh basil leaves. Grilled chicken, buffalo sauce, mozzarella, onion and fresh Blue cheese crumbles.

PIZZA MARGHERITA - $9, $15

Tomato sauce, Mozzarella, smoked Provolone, Parmesan, sliced Roma tomato, and fresh basil.

The classic Italian pizza. Our original white crust brushed with olive oil and topped with Roma tomatoes, Mozzarella, fresh basil and Parmesan.

Local and regional dealers and collectors will bust out their crates of used vinyl, and fans of all ages are invited to bring their records to sell or trade. There is no cost to participate.

SOUTHWESTERN CHICKEN - $10, $16 Caramelized onions, grilled lime

ROASTED GARLIC POTATO AND PROSCIUTTO - $10, $16

And no vinyl event would be complete without a DJ manning the turntables, so expect some spin, too.

TOSTADA - $10, $16

And you can get your hands on some at the second annual Mohair Pear/Octopus Record Swap.

Mohair Pear/Octopus Record Swap Saturday, March 30 @ 2 PM Octopus, Cedar Falls

chicken, Mozzarella, fresh tomato salsa and cilantro. Served with lime, sour cream and guacamole.

Seasoned ground beef, taco sauce, Cheddar and Monterey Jack topped with chilled chopped lettuce, fresh tomato salsa, green onions and crushed white corn tortilla chips. • Also available with grilled cilantro-lime chicken.

THAI CHICKEN -$10, $16

Thai peanut sauce, marinated chicken, Mozzarella, green onion, chopped roasted peanuts, shredded carrot, and fresh cilantro.

CARNE ASADA - $11, $17

Grilled Cilantro-Lime steak, onion, cilantro pesto, Monterey Jack, and Mozzarella cheese. Taken from the oven and topped with fresh tomato salsa, sour cream,

guacamole and a lime wedge.

Roasted Garlic & Oregano Butter brushed crust, topped with a layer of twice baked potatoes, thinly sliced prosciutto, green onion and chopped Roma tomato.

KONA COAST - $10, $16

Prosciutto, pineapple and Mozzarella.

THE 18TH STREET PIE - $11, $17

This Classic starts with our Ricotta-RomanoHerb cheese blend. It is then layered with Italian Sausage, Pepperoni, Prosciutto, and Mozzarella and finished with our traditional tomato sauce. Garnished with freshly chopped basil and oregano.

WHAT THE FAROK? - $10, $16

At first look this pizza may look like a bad decision. Give it a shot and and you will see it is well worth every one of the sweet $16 it costs for the Regular. Spicy garlic sauce, Mozzarella, Italian sausage, green pepper and red onion.

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21 and over march 1 STARRING: Miles Teller, Justin Chon, Jonathan Keltz, Sarah Wright The night before his big medical school exam, a promising student celebrates his 21st birthday with his two best friends. Drinking. Debauchery. Locker room humor. Sounds like a big Hangover.

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the last exorcism part ii march 1 StaRRING: Ashley Bell, Spencer Treat Clark, Andrew Sensenig, Judd Lormand In this sequel, as Nell Sweetzer tries to build a new life after the events of the first movie, the evil force that once possessed her returns with an even more horrific plan. We love a good demonic-possession story, and we hope filmmakers get it right here. As always, the devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the details.

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StarRING: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis

StarRING: Voices of Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Catherine Keener

In this next installment in a trending line of dark fairy tales, a Kansas con-artist is swept into a magical land where he must fight an evil sorceress. The best thing we can see about this movie? No Kristin Stewart.

In this super-cute DreamWorks Animation film, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very first prehistoric family goes on a road trip to an uncharted and fantastical world. Fun!

the call march 15 StarRING: Abigail Breslin, Halle Berry, Ella Rae Peck, Morris Chestnut OK, we really love phone thrillers. Not THAT kind, gutter brain. We mean Phone Booth, Cellular, that sorta thing. So weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re super pumped about this one in which an emergency operator must confront a killer from her past to save a young girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life.

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g.i. joe: retaliation march 29

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StarRING: Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Nat Wolff, Gloria Reuben

StarRING: Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Ray Park, Bruce Willis

StarRING: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Rose Byrne

A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.

The G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy, Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.

A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective.

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Consider Lara Croft rebooted. This game is the superstar heroine’s first adventure, set long before her jaunty outings to mysterious ruins across the globe. Instead of glory, Lara’s only objective is to survive after she washes up on the shore of an island that is anything but deserted.

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Mar 5 For: PC, PS3, X360

SimCity It looks like EA isn’t just going to let the nostalgia sell this one. Packed with tons of features, like the ability to control 16 cities at once, the scale of the simulation is unreal: Each Sim in your city has a life to live. PC; March 5.

God of War: Ascension This is the beginning of Kratos’ story: The trickery of Ares, the cruel fate of Kratos’ wife and child, his desire for revenge. It all comes together with the addition of multiplayer for up to eight warriors.

It’s OK to be scared, Luigi. After all, you haven’t headlined a game since 2001, the last time you strapped on the Poltergust and sucked up a whole house full of naughty ghosts.

PS3; March 12.

With several mansions to tear through, as well as online multiplayer, this sequel is shaping up quite well. And with the 3-D, the ghosts will really be jumping out at you.

The Walking Dead Unlike the first Walking Dead game, first-person shooter Survival Instinct puts you in crossbowwielding Daryl’s shoes. Will you run-and-gun or choose stealth as you seek the shelter of Atlanta? PS3, X360; March 19. Wii U; March 26.

Pandora’s Tower In what is likely one of the very last games for the Wii, Aeron has to kill monsters so Elena can eat their hearts and undo a virulent curse. Weird? Yes. Cool? Hell yes. Wii; March 26.

Castlevania: Mirror of Fate The vampire-slaying series hits the 3DS with a “midquel” (barf) between the Lords of Shadow games. 3DS; March 5.

For: 3DS Mar 24 Mar 26 It’s right there in the title: This is the ultimate version of Monster Hunter 3.

Elizabeth is trapped. Her prison: The flying city of Columbia in 1912. Why is everyone so scared of a young girl? I’m guessing her mystical powers don’t have a thing to do with it.

Play on your Wii U and have your friends join you on their 3DS systems, then take your battles on the go with cross-system play as you bring down bigger and badder beasties in more than 200 quests.

Booker DeWitt, a former Pinkerton agent, must rescue Elizabeth or die trying. He’ll traverse the sky — a welcome change from past BioShock ocean settings — with his handy dandy Sky-Hook, zipping from one locale to the next. Throw fireballs at your enemies or sic crows upon them. Or, you know, use Elizabeth’s terrifying powers to open tears in space and time. So long, suckers!

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Latest Aliens game is a disaster James Frazier | Pulse Writer

hat do you get when you take a respected game developer, a celebrated intellectual property, and six (six!) years of development? If you guessed something “good” or “great,” then you can be forgiven, as no one would expect the sum to be “lousy.” But that’s what we have with Aliens: Colonial Marines, a highly touted and anticipated game that takes place in the world of Aliens, James Cameron’s landmark 1986 sci-fi sequel. Cameron’s film shifted gears from the sci-fi horror of Alien to a militaristic sci-fi action movie. Scenes featuring its Marines slinking cautiously through the corridors of a space colony influenced countless films, books, comics and, of course, video games. The developers did take some advantage of the property, with the sets and props of Aliens replicated in nearexhausting detail. It even makes use of the voices of actors Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen. But the awe of the design begins to wear off, and one notices the graphics themselves would be right at home circa 2005. Up close, character models are rigid and unconvincing. Anima-

For: PC, PS3, X360 | Price: $59.99 Rated: Mature PROS: Detailed usage of sets and props from Aliens. CONS: Weak shooting mechanics, dull multiplayer, bad AI, worse graphics.

tions are jerky and awkward, while Marines and creatures alike often clip obnoxiously through backgrounds upon death. Combat with the aliens themselves usually occurs in poorly lit hallways, with players using a variety of weapons and equipment to slay the creatures by the dozen. Despite the clear deadliness of the aliens, the game generously allows the player to soak up a large number of hits before its irritating death screen pops up, stripping the game of much-needed suspense. AI-controlled Marines are of little use, as they often stumble into your line of fire and empty their own weapons

with little effect on the opposing force. The developers were clearly influenced by the massive success of “Call of Duty,” making large portions of “Colonial Marines” about shooting it out with mercenaries instead of the iconic aliens of the films. While that’s not a bad idea, the gun mechanics are pathetic. The game’s multiplayer doesn’t fare much better. Featuring several modes that emphasize fighting between Marines and aliens, the game struggles to balance the strengths and weaknesses of each species. Since misery loves company, the game also features a boilerplate co-op mode. Though Aliens: Colonial Marines was not going to be the first game to allow the player to control one of these Marines, it was promised to be the best yet. What has hit stores is, sadly, a thoroughly mediocre shooter, one that insults the consumer with its $60 price tag.

Fire Emblem is an unbridled delight Alan Simmer | Pulse writer

here are two halves to a Fire Emblem game. The first is the fighting. You move units, attack the bad guys or heal up and then wait for the enemy to do the same. The other part is the story and the relationships between the characters. The idea of the support system, where characters develop relationships that translate to better cooperation on the battlefield, is not new. But in Fire Emblem: Awakening, those disparate pieces have been brilliantly fused in a way that rewrites the whole experience. Characters standing alongside each other now have a chance to aid each other. The greater the support level between two units, the better the chance of scoring an extra hit or blocking an attack. Units can also be paired up in a reworking of the rescue system from previous games where the second character improves the stats of the first. It’s a great way to build support levels and help lower-level characters stay alive.

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So it’s a wise idea to make your characters like each other, and cross-gender couples will start to really like each other. As I found out more about the characters, I began plotting who to hook up on my next playthrough. First comes love, then comes marriage, and then come children who have such high stats and extra skills that you’ll drop their parents like hot potatoes. But if you do prefer your original units, never fear: With a new type of seal, characters who hit the level cap can start over again at level one, even switching between classes. That allows units to learn new skills and eliminates the agony of only raising one or two stats on a level up, because hey, there’s always next time. Combine the unlimited leveling with unlimited enemies in the form of extra battles available on the world map, and you can have a whole team with maxed stats.

For: 3DS | Price: $39.99 | Rated: Teen PROS: Great characters with unique support dialog, fine-tuned mechanics. CONS: Mounted units no longer get a second chance to move. It’s also much easier to get weaker units pumped up, so no more choosing between the “good” guys and the ones you actually like, or the ones who join later. I could also mention the great-looking graphics and cutscenes, the DLC that adds classic characters to your pool of units, the mode where characters don’t die permanently, the StreetPass features or the simple yet effective voice acting. If you’ve ever enjoyed a Fire Emblem, for the love of all that’s holy, download Awakening from the eShop this very minute. If you’re new to the club, grab the demo, get addicted and get on the bloody bandwagon.

Chaos keeps you on your toes ALan SImmer | Pulse writer

lchemist Claude and his sister Yuri are searching for a cure to her mysterious illness in the hellish world of Generation of Chaos: Pandora’s Reflection, featuring nobility/proletariat tensions and an ashen rain that will melt your face off. The two have a habit of stumbling into situations where people want to kill them, which is good, really, or the game would be real boring. Combat is in real time. Units on both sides are deployed from a base, then assigned a path using waypoints, necessary to avoid slowgoing patches of terrain. Actual fights are one strike per side featuring a thought-out timed hit system. At the conclusion, one or both parties suffer blowback, knocking them about the map and introducing some much-needed breathing room before the next attack. Having multiple characters on the board increases the likelihood that one will be inside the Impact Circle, allowing them to join in a chain attack. Weaker weapons provide a bigger radius, naturally. So there’s a lot going on. At times, it can almost be too much. That unit stopped moving, so get a new path set, but don’t leave that strategic point undefended and LOOK OUT FOR THAT MAGIC CANNON OMG. It’s necessary to strategize, strategize, strategize every decision, from what units you pick to how you spend experience points, which can be used to heal, upgrade weapons or upgrade people. But Chaos is a swift-moving game with an interesting story, and all the elements gel well. If there’s a master tactician lurking inside of you — or even just one in training — it’s worth a spin.

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James Frazier | Pulse Writer

ustified, now in its fourth season, is in a groove. This isn’t wholly a good thing. The comfortable pleasures of its bullets-and-banter drama co-exist with the tedium of formula, though it’s a remarkably solid routine that stands light-years ahead of the average TV drama as reliably fun entertainment. Set in Harlan County, Ken., Justified is, in its essence, a detective show imbued with slick writing and a wicked sense of humor. Based on characters created by the novelist Elmore Leonard, showrunner Graham Yost makes sure the tone rarely deviates from the cool, level vibe that defines that great novelist’s work. This universe is populated with fascinating characters, most often cops, criminals and those who love them. They are amusingly chatty and usually steering their own ship into trouble, both the greedy, oft-incompetent criminals and the fearless, sharpshooting lawmen. The show’s chief protagonist, U.S. Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), starts the season in a place he finds more uncomfortable than the other end of a criminal’s gun: facing fatherhood. Separated from his pregnant wife, Raylan’s a rogue that few love, as criminals tend to die and colleagues have to clean up his mess. This character is the best of Olyphant’s career, a darkly appealing hero, a laconic killer of men and occasional enforcer of the law. An episode of Justified usually unfolds as half continuation of a season-long story arc, half bad-guy-of-the-week crime story. This season’s back story is so far a tantalizing one, centering around a Panamanian diplomatic bag found in the wall of Raylan’s treacherous father Arlo (Raymond J. Barry). Less promising is the presence of comedian Patton Oswalt, whose fans seem blind to his neartotal lack of acting ability. He plays a hapless local constable, but Justified has previously spun gold

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(or at least silver) out of uninspiring material, so this could turn around. Justified has also long featured B plots so good that they threaten to steal thunder from the A, and this season is no exception. This year, there’s a storm brewing in the realm of redneck drug kingpin Boyd Crowded (Walton Goggins), as a revival preacher (Joseph Mazzello) has begun inspiring Boyd’s employees and customers to a level of religious fervor that means trouble for the local narcotics revenue. Watching these two men square off in a sort of preach-off has been the season’s high point so far, one that suggests plentiful viewing rewards as their conflict inevitably dovetails with Raylan’s own concerns. These characters are so promisingly threatening that I can’t help but wait for these personalities to clash onscreen. Justified hasn’t been great TV since its first season, when its charms were fresher. But it’s still a pretty tasty dish, both hard-boiled and Southern fried.

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Written and performed by stage, film, and TV star Ed Metzger, this one-man show comes to Wartburg on what would be Einstein’s 134th birthday. Metzger’s engaging and humorous portrayal examines the human side of the scientist Time Magazine called the greatest person of the 20th century. The audience glimpses the man behind the genius—absent-minded professor, confused and troubled father, ardent pacifist, womanizer, philosopher, and humorist—with an opportunity for lively talk-back following the performance. Metzger has performed with Al Pacino and Marlon Brando and appeared with Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. His Einstein show is the only one endorsed by the Einstein family.

Lita Ford just might be living proof that well-behaved women rarely make history. This hard-rockin’ trendsetter was the lead guitarist for The Runaways, one of the first girl groups to break down the barriers in the punk era as well as the male-dominated world of rock music.

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nd you thought the orange drink was watered down

before. Flooded McDonald’s is a 21minute film work by the Danish artist collective Superflex in which a convincing life-size replica of the interior of a McDonald’s gradually floods with water. Furniture is lifted up by the water, trays of food and drinks start to float around, electrical items short circuit and the space eventually becomes completely submerged. The series Single-Channel 3: Time and Circumstance features videos in which the artist undertakes some sort of task or challenge, often in a restricted time format. The third work in this series, Flooded McDonald’s presents a provocative, tense vision of destruction. The interior of a McDonald’s fills slowly with water, destroying the space, products and iconography familiar to consumers around the world. Evocative of both big budget disaster movies and the recent tragedies of Hurricane Sandy, Flooded McDonald’s invites critical questions about global consumerism the fragility of contemporary structures, and the voyeuristic pleasure viewers often take in watching disaster unfold. Through April 28 Des Moines Arts Center desmoinesartscenter.org

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Framed ferns Accomplished printmaker and photographer Bertha Jaques is perhaps best known for her prints of wildflowers and ferns. Her interest in this subject matter grew out of her desire to present something that was not only beautiful to behold, but also promoted wildflower preservation. Jaques’ interest in environmental issues was only one way in which she was a pioneering artist. Not only did she succeed in a field dominated by male artists, she helped popularize etching in America. Jaques’ full impact on printmaking and photography at the dawn of the 20th century is still under-recognized and ripe for reappraisal.

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ed Vander Zanden hovers over the bright yellow coffee roaster like a helicopter parent. A faint aroma of coffee fills the air at Sidecar Coffee Roasters as he carefully monitors temperature and time, fiddling with controls and jotting notes as green beans from Ethiopia roll inside the drum. A series of loud pops lets him know the beans have cracked and shed their outer skins, or chaff. Complex flavors are caramelizing as beans roast to a rich, brown turn. After cooling, the beans will be ready for packaging as whole beans or ground coffee. “I’ve loved coffee since high school, the usual Folgers and Sanka stuff. Then I started home roasting, and it was amazing. I’d never tasted coffee so good.,” says Vander Zanden, who opened the small-batch craft roaster in Cedar Falls. His beans are already making a splash in the mugs of serious coffee geeks — and average Joes, too, who sim-

ply know a good cup of Joe when they taste it. “I’m really hands-on through the whole process. It takes trial and error and hours of roasting small batches, tasting and keeping track of every aspect to get the taste I want. It’s fun to be doing something I’m in control over and have a passion for, and create some value in the Cedar Valley.” Presently, his roastery is housed in the Iowa Sports Supply building. Stacks of burlap bags filled with green coffee beans from Guatemala, Ethiopia, Mexico and other countries of origin sit on pallets, awaiting roasting. The Guatemalan roasts up to a light, bright and floral flavor, while Ethiopian Bushwick, made from what Vander Zanden describes as wild-grown coffee beans, is “juicy, luscious and fruity. Sumatra is a really rich and sweet coffee.” He also makes French roast, espressos and decaf coffees and a house or project blend of beans “that is

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super drinkable at any time of day. I think of it like a song, and look for balance in flavor with low, middle and high notes.” One of the most important steps in the process, he says, is cupping: sniffing and sampling to observe the aromas and taste of coffee, including the body or texture, sweetness, acidity, flavor and aftertaste. Like wine connoisseurs, master coffee tasters often can identify a coffee’s origins from its regional influences. And don’t be perplexed if Vander Zanden stops to sniff the inside of his elbow. “It’s a neutral smell and keeps your head clear when you’re sampling lots of coffees,” he explains. His yellow Genuine Stella scooter with the crazy sidecar has become a frequent sight as he buzzes around town, delivering coffee with the cool Sidebar Coffee Roasters label to retail outlets and individual customers. Varieties include the Sidecar Project Blend, the Al-

most French Roast, The Brazil and the Decaf Mexico. He often posts hours he’ll be open to the public online and hosts the occasional tasting. Opening the roastery has been the realization of a dream, or at least part of it, for the Wisconsin native. He did considerable research, invested in a Diedrich (“the Ferrari of roasters”) and trained with the company, then took the plunge last fall. The remainder of Vander Zanden’s dream — opening a coffee shop with his roaster on College Hill — is still in the planning stages with a partner. He’s also collaborating with Single Speed Brewery to come up with a coffee stout and with several restaurants to develop custom house blends. Sidecar Coffee Roasters 109 Washington St., Cedar Falls facebook.com/SidecarCoffeeRoaster

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The latest attempt to find out what’s going on in everybody else’s relationships is The Normal Bar, a book based on surveys of more than 70,000 people about their marital satisfaction. This is not an academic study; the information was gathered via Web surveys promoted on Huffington Post, Reader’s Digest, AOL and AARP. Forty percent of people said they have sex three or four times a week, and 27 percent have sex “a handful of times” each month. A very busy 7.5 percent of respondents have sex daily, while 17.5 percent said they have sex rarely or never. The authors found that certain behaviors correlated with high satisfaction among couples: Happy couples often go on date nights, call each other pet names, hold hands, kiss passionately, give each other back rubs and say “I love you.” — Ellen McCarthy, The Washington Post

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Proof of Guilt | Charles Todd This series is being called a natural for Downton Abbey fans. Shell-shocked World War I vet Ian Rutledge solves crimes with the aid of his ghostly sidekick, the shade of his second-incommand from the trenches. Rutledge has an unidentified hit-and-run victim on his hands, and two missing wine merchants, neither of whom is the dead man. His Scotland Yard superior likes a jilted woman for the murder, but Rutledge is looking further back in time at betrayals and madness a generation before. Lots of great period detail, as always, and characters who ring true even today. — Salem Macknee, The News & Observer

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Vampires in the Lemon Grove | Karen Russell In Reeling for the Empire, one of the eight stories appearing in Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a young woman pines for adventure in a rapidly changing 19th-century Japan. Falling for the dubious charms of a “recruitment agent,” what she gets instead is a life-draining job in a silk factory. This being Russell — author of the wildly imaginative Swamplandia! as well as an equally inventive prior story collection — a potentially naturalistic tale lands instead in the twilight zone. Reeling is one of many stories in Vampires with protagonists who are simultaneously impatient to grow up and horrified by the consequent changes, to the body and the self. Desire never brings peace to Russell’s characters; no matter how exciting, it is also always troubling. — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Detroit: An American Autopsy | Charlie LeDuff Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit: An American Autopsy is a hard-eyed look at some of the recent villains and victims of a city battered for half a century by political corruption, racial strife and industrial collapse. LeDuff is a former New York Times reporter who was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for a series about race. After 20 years, he returned to his native town in 2008 and took a job with the Detroit News. He has a stake in the story: Members of his family, which has Michigan roots dating to the early 18th century, still struggle to make a life in Detroit. So he combines heart with an ear and eye for hard-nosed, hard-luck characters in real dramas. — Jeffrey Burke, Bloomberg News

Touch & Go | Lisa Gardner Lisa Gardner brings a fresh twist to the kidnapping genre: An entire family — father, son, teen daughter — kidnapped at once. The family is already in turmoil over Dad’s infidelity, and being imprisoned by three scary guys does not help the healing process. We watch the family try to survive the ordeal and in alternate chapters we watch the police follow clues and gradually zero in on their location. This one clocks right along and keeps you reading. The surprise ending isn’t terribly hard to guess, but it’s still fun to watch the police and the family work it out for themselves. — Salem Macknee, The News & Observer

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CHUCK SHEPHERD q Tyrone Harris, 26, reported for his first shift at Dunkin’ Donuts in Morristown, N.J., in January and received his name tag. Seven minutes later, according to police, he was on his way out the door with $2,100 from his supervisor’s desk. Apparently, the supervisor had opened his drawer a little too far when reaching for the name tag, giving Harris a glimpse of the cash. q The issue of background checks for gun purchases occupies center stage in the current gun-regulation debate, even though, ironically, current federal law on such checks is apparently half-heartedly enforced. In the latest data available (from 2010), nearly 80,000 Americans were denied the right to purchase guns because their applications contained false information (even though applicants swear, under penalty of law, that all information is true). However, The New York Times reported in January that of the nearly 80,000 applicants, only 44 were prosecuted for lying, and federal officials said the practice is known as “lie and try.”

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March 27 & 28, 7:30 P.M. The New York Times calls AMERICAN IDIOT “thrilling and emotionally charged, as moving as anything on Broadway!” Based on Green Day’s groundbreaking rock opera of the same name, this daring new musical tells the story of three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia, and features the smash hits “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “Holiday” and “21 Guns.”

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