Gophers taking off ‘like a house on fire’
FIRST DOWN The front-runner for Big Ten Coach of the Year? A guy from Clay Center, Kansas. A guy who coached under Glen Mason at the University of Kansas but [...]
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Posted October 30, 2013in Game Day
Posted October 30, 2013in Film Review
Fighting fate
“All is Lost” 5 stars Rated PG-13 105 minutes Action Starring: Robert Redford Robert Redford gives the finest performance of his career in writer-director J.C. Chandor’s literal and metaphorical tale [...]
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Posted October 30, 2013in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines.
Amount: $510 To: Competitive Edge For: Purchase of 500 polyester lanyards for Des Moines Parks and Recreation, including $16 in freight fees. Amount: $382.50 To: Graffiti Graffics Inc. (sic) [...]
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Posted October 30, 2013in Sound Notes
I met Lou Reed once. It was in a hotel bar in San Francisco in the early ’00s. We didn’t say much. I offered to buy him a drink. He [...]
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Posted October 30, 2013in Cover Story
Tales of Iowa hauntings
Ever been called crazy? I mean, truly experienced the self shrink against the cold sincerity of someone’s towering accusation, the helplessness of possessing a powerless conviction that fails to move [...]
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Posted October 30, 2013in Duffy
Posted October 30, 2013in The Sound
Steve Vai: guitar’s mad genius
The phrase “make it talk” was seemingly coined with Steve Vai in mind. Forged in the fires of Joe Satriani’s tutelage, shaped by the mind of Frank Zappa, Vai is [...]
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Posted October 30, 2013in Civic Skinny
Job stats for Branstad, Culver, Vilsack. Steve King’s payroll: All in the family
The fact-checker: No. 1. “More Iowans are working now than at any point in our state’s history,” Tim Albrecht, Gov. Terry Branstad’s communications director, said the other day. Not really. [...]
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Posted October 30, 2013in Food Dude
Baru at the Art Center
Not long ago eating at museums, colleges and public buildings meant vending machines or boring cafeterias featuring bad coffee and stale pastries. No one did more to transform the local [...]
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Posted October 30, 2013in Sound Check
The Saturdays “Living for the Weekend” Fascination/Polydor/Mercury You can blame Phil Spector for The Saturdays. When Spector put Darlene Love in a studio to record “He’s a Rebel” so The [...]
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