Godfathers of Des Moines’ stand-up
scene, including Ben Ulin and Willie Farrell
(pictured), paved the way for today’s up-and-coming
comedians
It’s a frigid weeknight in January in Des Moines’
East Village. Toss a rock — or more appropriately,
a snowball — in any direction and you’d hit
nothing but pavement. It’s that cold
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GOP Ignores Guv (again). Buyouts — and Web
fees? — at the Register.
Who’s in charge here?
A couple of months ago, in that special
legislative election in Linn County,
Terry Branstad’s candidate of choice
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Locker
Room Guns
and hoses
Local
police and firefighters hit the ice
for a good cause
Although there might
be a bit of a rivalry, local police
officers and firefighters come together
and work hard to protect residents of
our fair city.
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The
Sound Success of ‘Tonight Is The Night’ is Outasight
for New York rapper-singer
New
York rapper-singer Richard Andrew, a.k.a.
Outasight, has a lot to celebrate when
he makes his Iowa debut this week. Read
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Food
Dude
Namasté India
The lore of most religions includes parables
in which some godly presence disguises itself
in humble form to test the sincerity of believers.
In contemporary vernacular, the moral of such
stories is “never judge a book by its cover.” Read
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Political
Mercury
Think about income inequality ‘In Time,’ not
money
Of
the thousands of story assignments in my career
to this point, one stands out as something of
a bay-window-sized view into misplaced human
calculation. Read
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Duffy
