Kirkwood Club Corner: The Communiqué
Produced by Kirkwood Student Productions Host: Danielle Noack | Guest: Liam Halawith
[Continue Reading »]
‘Nothing But Blackened Teeth’: A Booktok review
“Nothing But Blackened Teeth” is a book that started off with a group of friends traveling to a haunted house where to their friend wanted to elope. They started to tell ghost stories to ‘get the ghosts of the house riled up’. Cat, the main character who [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]‘American Underdog’: A story so close to home
“American Underdog” is the real-life story of Kurt Warner, the first undrafted quarterback in the NFL to win a Super Bowl. The movie stars Zachary Levi as Kurt Warner, Anna Paquin as Brenda Warner, Dennis Quaid as Coach Dick Vermil and Hayden Zallar as Zach Warner. Viewers meet [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]
Vivian’s Soul Food offers good food and inspiration
Vivian’s Soul Food, located at 2925 Williams Pkwy SW, in Cedar Rapids, opened in 2017 and was voted the Best Soul Food in the CRANDIC (Cedar Rapids and Iowa City) two years in a row. According to the restaurant’s website, they are known for fried chicken, collard greens [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]
‘Failure: A Love Story”: Kirkwood hosts winter play by Phil Dawkins
Play Review Kirkwood’s Visual and Performing Arts students presented their winter play, “Failure: A Love Story” by Phillip Dawkins, Feb. 17 – 20 in Ballantyne Auditorium to small, but appreciative, audiences. The story is set in the 1920s, and is centered around the lives of the three Fail [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]Budget-friendly Valentine’s Day recipes
CHICKEN & PASTA Ingredients: 4 tablespoons butter 1 onion diced 4 garlic cloves minced 1 pound chicken breasts sliced 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper 1⁄4 cup sun-dried tomatoes 1⁄4 cup fresh basil (if using dried basil, use only 2 teaspoons) 1 cup heavy cream 1 cup chicken [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]Super Bowl parties await this weekend
The Super Bowl is just a few days away, will you root for the Los Angeles Rams? Or will you root for the Cincinnati Bengals? Let’s be real, most of us are only at the football watch party because we want to hang out with our friends who [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]
‘Ugly Love’ by Collen Hoover: A booktok review
Collen Hoover’s books were brought to fame by a series of TikToks on what teens consider ‘booktok’ or a part of TikTok dedicated to book reviews it started with “It Ends with Us.” Since then, I have read many more. TikTok has also brought me this book plus [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]‘Scream’: A classic horror movie revamped
Many might say they hate cheesy horror movie slashers, like the Scream franchise, but for classic horror fans the new Scream movie comes with the time-tested murder mystery, jump scare thrills that best any of the Scream franchise. Except for this time, fans were shocked to see the [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]‘Tis the season for a Hallmark debate
Hallmark Channel needs better representation When Christmas time comes around, nothing is better than watching a movie with a hot chocolate after a long day of Christmas shopping. One well-known channel for Christmas movies is Hallmark; however most, if not all the movies, are the same. It starts [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]