What's up, Braski, it's Sharkansas, stinkiest fish in the Wapsi. I love to disc golf while listening to KRNA on my Radio Pup App. Sometimes when I hear Incubus while at Legion Park in Marion, the plastic flies straighter. Don't deny the S.C.I.E.N.C.E. of the trajectory. Been doing this KRNA radio thing on and off for a decade and a half and couldn't be happier that it's being done here in Cedar Rapids. OK...San Diego would make me happier, but it would take longer to drive through traffic jams to get to the disc course discourse. Scenery would be better though. Come to think of it...does Townsquare Media serve California?
Gregg "Shark" Scharnau
Sampling Iowa-made Red White & Brews at NewBo with Lion Bridge [VIDEO]
People make fun of my misspelled Iowa coaster. It's a collectors item, so I flaunt it. Now, it's joined by my new Lion Bridge Brewing coaster. Quinton McClain from Lion Bridge tutored some amatuer radio drinkers at NewBo with some of his favorite brews...
Banging Burnouts at McGrath Powersports in our 5th Bike Night Season in the City of 5 Seasons [VIDEO]
The third Bike Night installment for 2015 is on the last Thursday of the month. One word: Burnouts!
Always a crowd favorite, when we hit the horn, the rubber flies and the smoke rises at the annual burnout contest.. I've judged these competitions for 4 years in a row...
Body Cams Coming to Burlington School District
If you aren't being watched at this moment, chances are you will be someday soon in that very spot you're sitting in right now. The surveillance revolution marches on.
According to Daily Koz, the Burlington School District is rolling out body cameras in eight schools...
Beer Gives You Man Boobs [VIDEO]
I call the automated Emergency Alert System voice "Digital Dan." His cousin "Euro Digital Sven" is here to talk about your man boobs. Turns out, all that beer you drink is giving you a really nice rack.
Let's get hoppy. The hoppier the beer, the higher the estrogen level says Dr...
NewBo Music Festival Headliner Young The Giant’s “In The Open” Video Series
Bassist Payam Doostzadeh and his band Young the Giant will lay down some grooves at the NewBo Music Festival. KRNA and The National bring you a 7-band jam at NewBo City Market on Saturday, August 8. We're opening up the entire plaza outside NewBo for a first-of-it's-kind national act event in that location...
A Thousand Horses Gallup at Freedom Festival Concert
A Thousand Horses brought a stable of southern rock tunes to the McGrath Amphitheater last night during the KHAK/Thomas Dostal Developers Freedom Festival concert. I was standing stage right as a "worker" for the show and checked out their groove...
Here’s a Horrible Take on the Biggest D-Bag in Every State in the USA
Gotta love a "Top 50 in the USA" list across the Independence Day Weekend. Thrillist has published one featuring the top Douchers across the land. Click here and be an Amazed American. Or, be pissed off at more online blather.
Author Matt Lynch must be a sports fan because he includes quite a few athletes...
Producer Joe Stunt with a few of the 19,000 Pictures on Free Beer’s Phone [VIDEO]
Free Beer and his wife recently welcomed twins and pictures of them have somehow made their way into his crowded i-Phone. Joe decided to see how interested a stranger would be in these photos. She was.
The greatest Joe Stunt ever took place at the UI Chem lab...
Big Blue Moves Jobs Into Dubuque Then Out
It's not big government we should fear. It's big business. These multi-national corporations wield a shatload of power and we're just "lemmings packed into shiny metal boxes" like The Police used to say.
This story from last month pissed me off...
Young The Giant’s ‘Apartment’ and Former Incarnation — The Jakes [VIDEO]
This Young The Giant video has everything a modern-day music freak needs: sand surfing, skinny dipping, bonfires, campers on fire, people stuffing birthday cake in their mouths, a micro bus and a super8 video shoot in an apartment.
"Apartment" was was one of the singles from YTG's first record, the eponymous 2011 release...