This is an important event because it's part of the ongoing initiative to clean up Marshalltown and present a better read more

This is an important event because it's part of the ongoing initiative to clean up Marshalltown and present a better image and appearance. Our community betterment task force has done a great job over the last eight months of starting these initiatives and really making a difference.

We bought a real beauty parlor, with dryers and functioning water, and the whole bit. All the other elements, artistically, read more

We bought a real beauty parlor, with dryers and functioning water, and the whole bit. All the other elements, artistically, bring things into a whole.

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and read more

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

had everything to live for.

had everything to live for.

Each week you have to wrestle at a higher level. We all have to step it up this week.

Each week you have to wrestle at a higher level. We all have to step it up this week.

We knew that Cox was a very good shooter from 3-point range and were determined to not let him get read more

We knew that Cox was a very good shooter from 3-point range and were determined to not let him get comfortable out there. I told our players to deny him the ball and make him put the ball on the floor and we definitely kept him from hurting us.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before read more

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there.

Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, read more

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.