Isaac Hamlet

5 days ago | littlevillagemag.com | Isaac Hamlet

There’s a phrase that you’ll have likely heard if you’ve taken any English or Communications courses: “The medium is the message.”The notion was expressed by Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian media commentator, attempting to express the importance of the packaging/setting/staging as a vehicle for any piece of (for lack of a better word) content. McLuhan attributes more to the medium of a thing than I would — but I agree with his core concrete that presentation is power.

3 weeks ago | littlevillagemag.com | Isaac Hamlet

By the time you read this, the Des Moines Young Artists’ Theatre’s (DMYAT) production of The Laramie Project at Stoner Theater will have come and gone. While this remains a review of the company’s latest production, consider this, additionally, an assessment of this youth-centered central Iowa program. DMYAT is a Des Moines nonprofit dedicated to offering theatrically inclined young locals a stage and means to perform, often with scripts that push them creatively.

Feb 11, 2025 | littlevillagemag.com | Isaac Hamlet

Before attending Men on Boats at the Des Moines Playhouse’s newly renovated black box Studio Theatre this past weekend, I recalled another production of the play I had seen six years ago at Riverside Theatre. I didn’t remember much about the prior viewing, except that I had cried at the end. That and the premise: “a true(ish) history” of the exploits of 10 men on four boats in 1869, rowing west on the Colorado River as they trek the territory for the benefit of the U.S. government.

Apr 29, 2024 | weareiowa.com | Isaac Hamlet

DES MOINES, Iowa — Slipknot is coming home to Des Moines in the fall to headline Knotfest, the metal festival the band founded in 2012. This year's event at Water Works Park is not only a homecoming for Slipknot, which formed in Des Moines during the '90s, it's also a special 25th-anniversary event, marking a quarter century since the release of Slipknot's 1999 self-titled album.

Mar 15, 2024 | weareiowa.com | Isaac Hamlet

The Marshall County Sheriff's Office on Friday responded to a report of a grain elevator explosion in the town of Green Mountain that pushed an office building off its foundation. Marshall County Communication Center received the report around 5:30 a.m. of an explosion at the Mid-Iowa Cooperative at 502 Green Mountain Rd. The sheriff's office believes there was an explosion, rather than a structural failing of the grain bin.