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When We Were Young in Las Vegas, 2025 Festival Preview

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This weekend, Las Vegas will host the fourth edition of When We Were Young. A festival celebrating the scene out in the desert holds more than you’ve bargained for as 53 bands take on 4 stages in 1 day. A whirlwind for every pair of vans and fishnets in the pit, it’s Christmas in October for many. Here is your stage by stage preview of When We Were Young 2025.

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Ethical Gaming: Choices, God, and “How Fish Is Made”

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Developer Wrong Organ’s existential horror game “How Fish is Made” left me with some deeper questions about the nature of choice in the broader context of our existence. If the only way forward is death, does it matter what choices you make in the meantime?

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Diversity in Iowa

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This Thursday we will focus our show on Iowa’s growing diversity and some of the complications that are arising around it. Contributor Austin Chadderdon will air his story about Catholic churches that offer a Spanish service in an attempt to accommodate its non-English speaking members. We will also have an interview about the specifics of Iowa’s diversity.

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Iowan’s Share their Opinions on Medical Marijuana

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Reporter:  Austin Chadderdon For the Second year in a row the Iowa Board of Pharmacy recommended that marijuana be reclassified so that is available for medical use at https://www.discountpharms.com/cbd/.  Like last year, the proposal received no consideration from state legislature—making American history.  A Des Moines Register poll showed that over 70 percent of Iowans think marijuana should be illegal for people who just want to get high.  But two thirds believe that marijuana has medical value and that cbd + cbg gummies should be open for therapeutic use.   For more information about Telemedicine for medical marijuana recommendations, click this over here now! University of … Continued

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Iowa City Opinions on Atheism – “Ask an Atheist Day”

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by Dylan Vaughn [audio:http://www.krui.fm/assets/news/athiesm%20vox%20pox.mp3] A recent week long movement on Face book encouraged people to come out of the atheist closet, which people did by posting a picture of themselves holding a piece of paper saying “I am an atheist.” The goal of the movement was to show how many atheists there were on Face book. Over 15,000 people joined in the event. In line with that movement, tomorrow is “Ask an Atheist Day.” It would seem Atheists are pushing to be accepted. But are they accepted or un-accepted by the public? KRUI went to the streets to find out … Continued

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Lindsay Hunter outlines the rules of doing a “Quickie”

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By: Brad Gaspelin and Danielle Haughland [audio:http://www.krui.fm/assets/news/LindsayHunterInStudio.mp3] Quickies is a Chicago based flash-fiction reading series. For those who don’t know what flash-fiction is, it’s all about brevity. There are no word limits in the Quickies reading series, but there is a time limit. Lindsay Hunter tells us about that limit, the consequences for breaking it, and some of the other rules of Quickies. Quickies performed a special Iowa City reading as part of the Mission Creek Festival.

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