Don’t let the excessive exclamation points in this article fool you, intelligence and entrepreneurship abound within circles like Des Moines’ own Iowa Barnstormers Storm Chasers Dance Team. “We are role models to girls of all ages,” said Emily Toribio, co-captain of the Storm Chasers. “To know the impact we have with young girls wanting our [...]
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Santa is serious business. If you thought that all it took to get one of those big thrones in the middle of the mall was a beer gut and a well-shampooed “Duck Dynasty” beard, you are sadly mistaken. Santa Claus conventions and workshops actually exist out there, run by organizations like the International University of [...]
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“American Hustle” 3 stars Rated R 129 minutes Drama Starring: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper If awards were handed out for the sloppiest movies, “American Hustle” would be a dead ringer for just such a booby prize. The damn thing is all over the place. It can’t decide if it wants to be a [...]
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It’s a toss up, like an astronomer choosing a favorite star in the night sky or — perhaps more fitting a comparison — like a parent choosing a favorite child, it’s difficult to decide which is more enjoyable: balls or wiener; wiener or balls? If wiener is your forte, Des Moines has Capital Pub and [...]
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Sick Puppies are out touring in support of its latest album, “Connect.” It’s a project that the band found itself taking a long and winding road to complete. “We wrote for about two months, and then we stopped because it started to get kinda stale,” said guitarist Shim Moore. “We were recycling ideas unconsciously. We [...]
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American ingenuity was characterized in the 20th century by the inventions of templates that could be tweaked and applied successfully by competitors. From assembly-line construction to open-sourced software, success was untied from proprietary exclusivity. To the surprise of many economists, a rising tide raised ...
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“What I’ve always really most admired about Tyler is he’s a family guy,” Tyler Olson’s wife, Sarah, says in a campaign video supporting her husband’s effort to get the Democratic nomination to run against Gov. Terry Branstad. She and the couple’s two young children figure prominently in the video. Pe ...
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Is Tyler Olson running a gubernatorial campaign or life-synching his way through a Hall and Oates song? “Leave me alone, I’m a family man…” (Of course, vote for me, before extending the politeness of privacy.) The leading edge of Olson’s image campaign is an unabashed self-fashioning as The Family Ma ...
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