Iowa City Owl

It would seem as if this story came from a Talking Heads song: Doug Chaney, 65, out of boredom that retirement had offered him, began volunteering at Iowa City's Public Access station, PATV, because it gave him something to do.

Earlier this week, Google released a video of their newest innovation currently dubbed the "Google Glasses". Under the title of Project Glass, the global search engine company plans to create a wearable device which places a virtual screen in front of your eyes and, by using voice command, allow the wearer to take photos, converse through video chatting, and act as a GPS, your clock, your phone, weather forecaster, date book, and everything else their Android is capable of.

Since the invention of the automobile, humanity's thoughts immediately jumped to, "Now, how do we make this sucker fly." Our dreams of personal aeronautic apparatuses have been reflected in our fiction, films, and cartoons from 'The Jetsons' and 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', to the 'Back to the Future' trilogy, 'Blade Runner', and even 'Harry Potter', though the fantasy has yet to become fact.

If you walk through the pedestrian mall of Iowa City regularly, then you've undoubtedly seen Tyrell Spitt with headphones on, rapping to himself and for everybody. His energy and determination are incredible, and once you meet him, you'll realize there is also a deep intelligence and love for expression behind his lyrical flow.

For a while, the only news I had heard about The Tool Box, a sex-positive shop located above Jimmy John's on 128 1/2 E. Washington, was that many landlords and property owners didn't want it in their building.

 Sometimes in my life there are questions that I need answered that a scholar cannot give, guidance which a psychiatrist cannot help me with, or healing which a doctor cannot prescribe. There are ailments or troubles which run deeper than the physical body, and lessons to be taught of which academia and science still find a mystery.

Tomorrow night, another "moon landing" will be attempted. However, this historic event won't be coordinated by NASA nor even Virgin Airlines, but by two intrepid artists and performers from Iowa City. Their landing will be televised live on PATV 18.

"I want to expand the art of comics in my life and in the lives around me, and being involved with the communities of comics will help me achieve that goal."Local area comic artist, Eric Taylor, has been involved in comics since he was a child, creating many mini-comics about his pear-characters, Eek & Meek, drawing issues of the college-with-vampires series 'Teeth' with writer Greg Boxer, and now will embark on the next stage of his career by attending cartoonist Tom Hart's year-long program, the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW), in Gainesville, Florida, this fall.

A new show is opening at the Public Space One gallery this evening, featuring the paintings and drawings of Ben Crouse and Jacob Sluka. According to a video posted this morning, there will be over 75 hung pieces of art, plus an additional 30-60 sketches on their 'sketchbook wall' introduced as they prance about the gallery.

With the onset of the Mission Creek Music Festival in Iowa City, showcasing performances by over fifty bands from March 27th through April 1st, many are already compiling itineraries of where to go and who to listen to.