8A Friday, June 25, 2021 • Telegraph Herald • TelegraphHerald.com lifestyle BARNS: 1,000 employees worked there at the height of its operations Continued from page 7A Carnegie Foundation, the colony only lasted a few summers. made their fortunes as owners of area At the height of its operations, 1,000 em- stone quarries. ployees rode the railroad to and from work Rohnen’s and Dearborn’s mansions every day at the quarries. When Portland stand in Anamosa. Green’s barn, which cement became the standard for building now is a private home, is on the tour. All construction, it displaced much of the three structures were built with stone quarry business in the country, including mined from Stone City quarries. those in Stone City. “There are only two other places in the Stone barns are common in the area world that had stone the quality of Stone because of the convenient availability of City,” Smith said. “Russia and Italy.” stone when they were built. Stone City is located within the city Retired employees who worked in limits of Anamosa. Now on the National the penitentiary barns will be on hand Register of Historic Places, it had its heyday to answer questions and talk about their during the classic boom-and-bust period experiences. Private barn owners will be of stone quarries from about 1850 to 1910. available to talk with visitors. Dave Austin (Contributed) In the 1930s, Grant Wood cofounded an “It’s a great opportunity to see these Anamosa State Penitentiary’s unique stone barns will be open to the public for the first time this artist’s colony there. Plagued by financial unique buildings,” Smith said. “And it’s a weekend during the Iowa Barn Foundation’s spring barn tour. difficulties, despite a cash gift from The really picturesque part of Iowa.” new movies STYX: DeYoung a solo act, as well Telegraph Herald wire services a spinoff for Dwayne Johnson, Will “Fast and Furious” seem with Jason Statham, in “Hobbs like a reflection of our dubious Continued from page 7A more representative of Styx worked. We could take our and Shaw.” belief in the limitless capa- in its current state. time making an album of “F9” But if it feels like the dust bilities of automobiles, of our earworms, in 1984. “In many ways, Dennis really good stuff.” Rated PG-13 by the Motion has settled, “F9” promptly sets propensity to live through our The same year, Shaw was the most successful “I think we have always Picture Association of Amer- about rekindling old beefs, cars? Or an acknowledgement followed to pursue a solo thing that ever happened been people who have prid- ica for sequences of violence introducing new ones and, of just how preposterous that career, eventually forming to the band because he ed ourselves on musical ex- and action, and language. 145 within the first half-an-hour, addiction is? Either way, the joy Damn Yankees alongside gave us our biggest sell- cellence at all times,” Young minutes. Two and a half stars detouring to Central America ride probably can’t last forever. Ted Nugent, Jack Blades and ing singles ever,” he said. said. “We’ve avoided mak- out of four. to let the autos of “Fast and Fu- Vin Diesel’s contract will one Michael Cartellone, as well “It took awhile to move ing really terrible mistakes. In 20 years and 10 movies rious” swing through the jungle day run out. as the band Shaw Blades. on without him. He’s still We lost (drummer) John the “Fast and Furious” series like Tarzan. Other members also a tremendous keyboard Panozzo along the way (who has relentlessly insisted that its Both the rock-jawed Cena OTHER RELEASES rotated in and out of Styx player and a great vocalist died of liver failure at age saga is really, truly about family. and a steely Theron don’t “LFG”: The soccer docu- throughout the years, in and performer. We have no 47 in 1996). We’ve pulled a With all due respect to Vin open the movie up to much mentary takes a revealing look addition to various stops and bad feelings toward Dennis lot of different rabbits out of Diesel’s Toretto clan, I must fun, nor does the often-re- at the U.S. Women’s National starts for the band. at all. He’s just not the right a lot of different hats. I feel disagree. The “Fast and Furi- turned-to backstory that saps Soccer Team’s battle for equal While Styx reunited with collaborator for us. We’re like the band is at a stage in ous” movies really are about some of the movie’s velocity. pay from Oscar-winners DeYoung from 1990 to 1992 much more of a rock band. its career where we do feel reaching new nitro-injected What gives “F9” a boost? Andrea Nix Fine and Sean and again from 1995 to We were always much more really blessed to have been realms of absurdity. If you can Well, Helen Mirren does, in a Fine. It features interviews 1999 — which also saw the of a rock band.” born in the right place at stomach the macho melodra- stop over in London. Best are with Megan Rapinoe, Jessica return of Shaw — DeYoung As can be heard on the the right time in history and ma, these movies are ridiculous Ludacris and Gibson, who, McDonald, Becky Sauerbrunn has continued to perform band’s latest project, “Crash with the right configuration big-screen ballets, with cars more than anyone else, lend and Kelley O’Hara. Players past the music of Styx on solo of the Crown,” its 17th studio to get some great things shooting out of skyscrapers and “F9” a much-needed wink of and present talk about making tours, including headlining album, released on June 18. done.” airplanes, that at their best are self-awareness. It’s Taj who the decision to go up against at the Dubuque County Fair Young called the album Young said while Styx’s the right kind of stupid. More says one of the most defining the federation to get commen- in 2019. the band’s “pandemic current tour will find them than family or cars, they’re lines for a franchise that never surate pay with their male In an interview with the project,” though work on it far and wide across the U.S., about the movies’ whiz-bang brakes for scientific reality: “As counterparts and they do not Telegraph Herald preceding began in late 2019, prior to performing in Dubuque is a capacity for ludicrous gran- long as we obey the laws of hold back. that show, DeYoung said he COVID-19, the presidential stop the band is especially diosity — for stepping on the physics, we’ll be fine.” “False Positive”: “Broad wouldn’t close the door on election and social justice looking forward to. gas and leaving logic in the They’re at that moment City’s” Ilana Glazer stars oppo- a possible reunion with his protests taking place. “We live for getting out on rearview. preparing to launch into orbit site Pierce Brosnan and Justin former bandmates. And yet, the songwriting the road,” Young said. “And It wasn’t always like this. in a car/rocket ship that makes Theroux in the new psycholog- “I think if fans want to of Shaw shines with relevan- we’re grateful for the ongo- The “Fast and Furious” Doc’s time-traveling DeLorean ical horror film. Brosnan plays see Larry, Moe and Curly cy to current times in an up- ing support of fans in the movies, which have moved look like a comparatively sen- a top New York fertility doctor together again, they need lifting and rocking delivery. tri-state area — the center of so speedily that their original sible vehicle. I don’t know why who helps a couple (Glazer and make it known to Tommy “Tommy Shaw has it all. We’re a Midwest band, articles flew out the window exactly they shoot into space Theroux) struggling to get preg- and J.Y. My bags are packed,” probably written a song and that area was one of the somewhere along the way (the — something about destroying nant. It’s been called a “twisted he said. every day of his life,” Young earliest to become aware of first entry was 2001’s “The Fast a satellite — but I loved every homage” to Roman Polanski’s Young, however, said the said. “We were able to take us and embrace us. So, this and the Furious”), began more minute of it. Much of “F9” is “Rosemary’s Baby” so naturally band has moved on and in a lot of what he was writing, is a very good spot for us to humbly on the road-racing kind of a slog. things start to devolve for the a musical direction that is try it out and keeping what b e .” streets of Southern California. There are some not very woman once she finds herself But, particularly by the time dynamic car chases, a lot of with child. of Justin Lin’s “Fast Five,” flashbacks, ho-hum villains “Fathom”: Apple TV+ has your pix the series grew ever more and an oddly prominent role the humpback whale docu- The Telegraph expansive, reaching around for magnets. But when Taj and mentary “Fathom.” Directed by Herald publishes daily a LIVE RACING: the globe and, finally, by Roman reach zero gravity, the Drew Xanthopoulos, “Fathom” snapshot chosen from Wed., Thur., & Sat. 5:30 pm post time “F9,” into space. As if always movie finally takes flight with follows two scientists, one in Your Pix submitted at and Sunday 1:00 pm post searching for another gear of goofy grandeur. Some, surely, Alaska and one in the South TelegraphHerald.com. outrageousness, the franchise will be less enthused about Pacific, who are studying whale To submit your photos, has hunted new, implausi- “Fast & Furious” turning full-on communication and culture go to TelegraphHerald. ble roads for gravity-defying cartoon, but I’d take that over separately. It’s about the com, highlight the Greyhound mayhem and unexplainable the solemn speeches about whales, of course, and the diffi- SUBMIT tab and click traction. Cars here, cars there. family any day. The “Fast and culties of rigorous research, but “Submit a Photo.” Cars everywhere. Furious” movies are best when “Fathom” also investigates the Please include a brief So when I sat down for “F9,” I they’re neither fast nor furious obstacles that female scientists description of content. was looking forward to some of but kind of foolish. face in the field. that good, old stupid fun. “F9,” gets there eventually, courtesy & of a comic, cosmic foray by Roman (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) Horse in a rocket-fueled Pontiac Fiero. But for a healthy amount of the movie’s 145-minute running time, it feels more like a fran- chise running low on gas. 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