WATERLOO — After more than a decade of dreaming and planning, Iowa’s newest theme park will open its doors next summer. The Lost Island Theme Park is coming together on 159 acres south of the Lost ...

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Visitors at Lost Island Theme Park now get to ride a roller coaster with a speedy launch or get soaked on a water ride with a mighty drop. That’s if they’re brave enough to get on, of course. The two ...

You can get ‘Lost Themes III’ on transparent red vinyl (and preorder a new neon yellow pressing of the original ‘Lost Themes’ album, AND a new neon orange pressing of ‘Lost Themes II’) in the ...

WATERLOO - Iowa's newest theme park is rising from a former farm field south of town. The purple supports and tracks of a roller coaster soar above the ground, and buildings are beginning to spring up ...

Filmmaker John Carpenter initially began crafting music for his own films as a way to save time and money, though his skills as a musician made his scores as compelling as anything seen on screen. In ...

I’m strapped into a rocket-ship like seat and my feet are dangling dozens of feet above the ground. The roller coaster, attached to a track above my head, briefly pauses before launching me downward ...

John Carpenter hasn’t directed a movie since 2010’s The Ward, and in recent years has shifted his creative output almost entirely towards his musical career. It’s not an entirely unexpected swerve, ...

John Carpenter, the horror auteur responsible for classics including Halloween, The Thing, They Live and Escape From New York has always had a hand in the sound of his films, often gracing them with ...

There are plenty of reasons the horror and sci-fi and action movies of the late-’70s and ’80s have aged so well. There was the self-conscious and shameless cheapness of it all: These were movies ...

The film director John Carpenter became an icon of the first synthesizer age just as he lost interest in making films. His minimal works have influenced a generation of acolytes, and earlier this year ...