by RICK DANLEY // October 21, 2017 It’s not a coincidence that Milton gave the devil the best lines in “Paradise Lost” or that of the three books in Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” the “Inferno” is the only one anyone still bothers to learn. Or that set next to the regal menace of a character like Darth … Continue reading Ella Reese & the Small-Town ‘Sex Problem’
by RICK DANLEY // March 10, 2017 It was an afternoon in late July of 2014. Aric Toler, living in Charlotte at the time and working in the corporate security division at Bank of America, was at home, scrolling through his Twitter feed. Toler was following the news coming out of eastern Ukraine concerning Malaysian Airlines … Continue reading Open Source
by RICK DANLEY // October 12, 2016 Muffy Fehr’s sixth-grade social studies class brought the elaborate rituals of the Egyptian funeral to the third floor of Iola Middle School on Tuesday. Employing a teddy bear as corpse, the students reenacted, from mummification to burial, the funerary rites of the ancient civilization. Each of Fehr’s students had … Continue reading Egyptian ‘Bearial’
by RICK DANLEY // April 21, 2018 Decades of shoe-leather reporting taught the New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell that, as sure as the key to a good movie lies in the casting, the secret to any great story depends on the subject at its center. But great characters don’t fall from the sky. You have to … Continue reading Another Round
by RICK DANLEY // May 7, 2018 Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer, who took the executive reins from Sam Brownback just three months ago, made a brief appearance at the Iola Public Library Saturday evening, where he held a friendly 40-minute conversation with a dozen interested Allen County residents. Billed as a getting-to-know-you event, the conversation was … Continue reading Colyer for Gov.
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