PERView provides X-ray photography
Just when it seems all smartphones are starting to feel the same, one developer has completely thrown the market for a loop. Two words: X-ray photography. Through a light-capturing advancement [...]
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Posted March 27, 2013in Geek Chic
Posted March 27, 2013in Sound Stage
A hum-dinger of a show
One of my favorite things about Des Moines is that you never know where you’re going to stumble upon live music. There are literally hundreds of places in town to [...]
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Posted March 27, 2013in Sound Check
CD Reviews
Aimee Mann ‘Mann on Mann Action’ Nonesuch Aimee Mann has toiled for three decades as one of those “musicians’ musicians,” but she’s never exactly been known as a hit machine. [...]
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Posted March 27, 2013in Cover Story
iCop
At Cityview, we get a lot of suggestions from readers insisting we write about their latest plight of injustice. Despite our rabble-rousing reputation as an alternative newsweekly in Des Moines, [...]
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Posted March 27, 2013in On The Tube
Rest in peace?
‘Crypt Collectors’ takes reality TV six feet under It seems no one is safe from the woes of economic turmoil. And as it often goes in Hollywood, if there’s a [...]
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Posted March 27, 2013in Belly Up To...
Burn one down at Tokers Lounge
At first glance, Tokers seems like a run-of-the-mill hippie bar one might stumble into unknowingly while visiting San Francisco: Bob Marley on the jukebox, bearded, dread-head patrons chilling in their [...]
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Posted March 27, 2013in Featured Story, Food Dude
Food crops out, tobacco in
Disembarking from a flight in Des Moines a few years ago, I observed a lady behind me being greeted by two children and an older woman. As soon as they [...]
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Posted March 27, 2013in Rap Sheet
On the Clock
Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! BIG BALLS Police were called to the Walmart on Southeast 15th Street around 3 p.m. on March 16 after three male juveniles had [...]
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Posted March 27, 2013in Locker Room
Jesus Walk tests the faithful
This weekend, countless Iowans will celebrate the return of their Lord and Savior during Easter. For children it is a day of sweets left by a precocious bunny after a [...]
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Posted March 27, 2013in Book Review
‘Unidentified Flying Love’
Review by Victoria Jones Peter Publishing Group 2/12/13 $425.92 2,857 pp. The story begins with Melody, the daughter of an orange farmer, riding her horse through the orchards one sunny [...]
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