Gannon Hanevold
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Published in the Quad-City Times on July 17, 2024 Max Rainer wanted to know if I’ve ever heard of rumspringa. I hadn’t. Rainer is the frontman for Tulsa-born indie-folk band Wilderado, who has a show at Codfish Hollow next Tuesday. The band played at the iconic Maquoketa barn last summer, too, and Rainer said he
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Published in the Minnesota Star Tribune on June 16, 2023 A few short years ago, Daniel D’Arco looked out the window of his home in south Minneapolis and saw a tyrannosaurus rex. The carnivore rolled down the 3300 block of Portland Avenue, where D’Arco has lived since buying his home in November 2011. He watched
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Dec. 17. 2023 Kicking back on a couch in his Rock Island recording studio, Pat Stolley had reasons to be mournful. But he wasn’t. Stolley is a veteran of the Quad-Cities music scene and former Daytrotter Studios engineer. He’s the bassist in Running Man, a local rock supergroup of
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Published in the Minnesota Star Tribune on Aug. 10, 2023 Aedan Donovan hadn’t been to the beach in years. Jesi Pick can finally comfortably take trash to the curb without a shirt on. The two born-and-raised Minnesotans recently received top surgeries — gender-affirming procedures for the transgender and nonbinary community that involve reshaping breast tissue
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Published in Phoenix New Times on Oct. 12, 2021 Aileen Martinez takes her sketchbook everywhere she goes. It’s splattered with paint, creased at every corner, and still full of blank pages. She recently returned from New York City, and her sketchbook shows it: taxis, a tattoo parlor, couples dancing in a park. Her style is
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Oct. 9, 2024 At any given Void Church show, Adam Wesconsin can be seen darting to the side of the Raccoon Motel stage a probable dozen times. Each time, he’ll turn a fog machine dial at stage left. The smoke engulfs the band. They usually have a look of
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Published in the Minnesota Star Tribune on Aug. 18, 2023 Wrinkle has run in the New York City Marathon. She’s waddled on the Las Vegas Strip. She’s even been to Dairy Queen. Now, the two-year-old duck — with 7 million followers on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok — has finally been to the Mall of America.
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Nov. 3, 2023 It was an hour from showtime at the Community Center in Blue Grass, Iowa, which hosted SCW Pro wrestling, the “premier” Eastern Iowan professional wrestling company, Saturday night. On the building’s front steps, loyal fans camped in lawn chairs and braved blistering weather, hoping for a
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Feb. 9, 2024 But there was no crash. As their feet hit the floor, there was simply a rumbling vibration. Yes, ballet is as delicate as it seems. It’s also rigid, calculated, competitive and requires immense physical skill and teamwork. More than anything, its dancers say, it’s expressive. It’s
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Published in Phoenix New Times on Sep. 13, 2021 At a local Goodwill, Phoenix artist Thrift Creeper slinks inside with a knick-knack he purchased there just weeks earlier. He’s not seeking a replacement or a refund, but a reaction would be nice. Thrift Creeper, who chooses not to reveal his real name, sets the item,
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