Jarad Miles
Piano playin’ blues
Sufjan (pronounced Soof-yan) Stevens is a musician from Michigan. Last summer he released his fifth album, called “Illinois.” “Illinois” is his second state-themed concept album (2003′s “Michigan” was the first). Stevens spent four months in isolation during the winter of 2004, reading books, biographies, Carl Sandburg poetry, and Saul Bellow novels in order to better understand the state.
Depression doesn’t stop Wilson’s SMiLE
Brian Wilson’s “SMiLE” dream began back in summer 1966. The Beatles had recently released Revolver, Lyndon Johnson was the president and Robert Kennedy a senator, and Martin Luther King fought civil rights. Two years earlier Wilson stopped touring with the Beach Boys due to emotional problems.
Chiropractic office to open next year
As Sixth Street stretches east over Interstate 29 and turns into Highway 14 once again, drivers may notice a new 20,000 square-foot building. However, no exterior distinction can yet be made as to what the facility’s function may be. The automatic doors open up into a spacious waiting room.
Construction begins at Brookings airport
An old car wash sign reaches above the roadside trees and stands as a stranger in the midst of a growing 16,000-square-foot office building. The building stretches between the Barrel Drive-In and Sound Sensations along Eighth Street South’s downward slope as it darts eastward from Main Street.
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