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Posted November 28, 2012in Sound Stage

Kingston’s Benefit

Sometimes you just need to be loud. Few places do loud as well as House of Bricks, and few bands do it as masterfully as Dead Horse Trauma. And while [...]

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Posted November 28, 2012in Joe's Neighborhood, Recent Posts

Fairy godmother

Convenience is not a bad thing. You can buy your milk, pick up your dry cleaning, fill your prescriptions, gas your car and — is that your girlfriend in the [...]

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Posted November 28, 2012in Locker Room

Iowa Energy open home play at the Well on Saturday, Dec. 1.

After a disappointing loss to the Los Angeles D-Fenders in the first round of the playoffs last season, the Iowa Energy retooled over the summer with hopes of getting back [...]

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Posted November 28, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story

Ferentz gets $100,000 raise; Rhoads misses $200,000 bonus

Don’t feel too bad for Kirk Ferentz. Sure, the stony-faced, gum-chewing University of Iowa football coach won only four games this fall, giving the Hawkeyes their worst season since 2000. [...]

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Posted November 28, 2012in Cover Story

Foaming Over

There is a time and a place for heavy drinking: weddings, break-ups, reunions, birthdays, Daylight Savings, Spring Equinox, stepping in gum with a new pair of shoes or the classic [...]

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Posted November 28, 2012in Duffy

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Posted November 28, 2012in Your Money

Paid for by taxpayers in…City of Des Moines

Amount: $1,650 To: The CTK Group For: Payment for registration for Interview and Interrogation held at the police academy.   Amount: $211.25  To: Embassy Club For: Payment for refund on [...]

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Posted November 28, 2012in Sore Thumbs

‘DISNEY EPIC MICKEY 2: THE POWER OF TWO’ (E)  ** Disney Interactive Studios  Xbox 360  The Disney Corporation is a massive entity, owning the intellectual property rights of Pixar’s CG [...]

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Posted November 28, 2012in Featured Story, Food Dude

New places for pizza, burritos and tacos

When my colleagues ask one another what kind of restaurant they think Des Moines needs, answers almost always reflect worldly hopefulness such as Basque, Moroccan, vegan, Brazilian, dim sum, Ethiopian [...]

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Posted November 28, 2012in Good Bad Ugly

The good Central Iowans donated 216,605 pounds of food (108.3 tons) to benefit the Food Bank of Iowa during the 22nd annual Combat Hunger drive last week. The donations were [...]

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