Monthly Archives: August 2014
Jefferson’s Bourbon Cocktail Competition
Jefferson’s Bourbon is a known for making its spirits in “ridiculously” small batches. If you haven’t heard of it yet, just wait. More and more restaurants and bars are turning focus to handcrafted cocktails featuring quality ingredients, and more people are buying small batch bourbons for their home bars.
Named after the inquisitive, experimentally-natured third president of the United States,...
311 Brings Two Decades of Midwest-Grown Energy to The District
Stereolithic is the 11th studio album released by 311. The Omaha natives (known for mega-hits like "Down," "All Mixed Up" and "Beautiful Disaster") have been on the road all summer promoting the release, which is their first independent endeavor since the early 90’s. Ahead of the band’s August 13 concert at The District in Sioux Falls, Managing Editor Denise...
Fresh Produce Celebrates a Decade with its “Friends”
More Than Friends opens Friday, August 8 at Fresh Produce’s Ipso Gallery in downtown Sioux Falls.
The show, which is full of bright, splashy colors, playful textures - and most of all - the joyous creativity that has become synonymous with ad agency Fresh Produce, will hang in the gallery through October. Ipso Gallery Director Liz Heeren explains why More...
DocuTAP Lands in Downtown Sioux Falls
When the healthcare industry began the shift from paper to digital, DocuTAP was one of the first show up at the party. The Sioux Falls-based company (whose software is used today in urgent care facilities in 45 states) began in 2000 with a college grad’s vision – that mobile devices would change the world.
DocuTAP CEO Eric McDonald spent six...
“I see destruction only as progressive building blocks”: Talking audio apocalypse with Stien from infaux
By Austin Kaus
The two-person Sioux Falls industrial-electro-metal entity known as Infaux is releasing their fourth EP upon the world this month. They’re the aural equivalent of a dance club burning to the ground. Austin Kaus wanted to know more, so he sat down with vocalist/programmer Stien (formerly of De Nethermen) to ask about noise, destruction and being polite.
AK: How...
Seven Questions with Adam Fletcher of The Copyrights
By Austin Kaus
For more than a decade, The Copyrights have been spreading their brand of infectious Midwestern punk rock across the nation. With a new single out on Fat Wreck Chords and upcoming tour dates in Rapid City and Sioux Falls, the band’s bassist and vocalist Adam Fletcher talked with our own Austin Kaus about the band’s history, goals,...
Off the Grid with Peppermint Energy
By Denise DePaolo
Photos by Dan Thorson
“If you’ve ever seen the picture of Earth at night and what’s lit up and what isn’t, we’re where the light doesn’t show up. We’re going where there isn’t a grid.”
Brian Gramm holds up his hands to indicate remote swaths of Africa and other parts of the world where outsiders rarely venture on an...
Shelter Pet of the Month: Tori
Meet Tori!
This friendly two-year-old kitty has been at the Sioux Falls Area Humane Society since February and is more than ready to meet her forever family. Tori came to the shelter as a stray, so not much is known about her earlier life. She likes strangers, loves attention and is very easy-going. She is not spayed yet, but is...
