Columns by Amy Hansen

August 31, 2010
If only every generation could be cool as ice
When I heard that between 8,000 to 10,000 fans packed the Anderson Erickson stage to see the Vanilla Ice and Tone Loc concert during the Iowa State Fair, I knew immediately that a new era of idolizing forgotten cultural icons was upon us.
August 17, 2010
We’re barely keeping our heads afloat
It’s almost getting to the point where anybody in the state of Iowa can say they’ve been in a 500-year flood.

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