Quiet guy with a loud guitar
Hard to believe, but in the four decades since Jimi Hendrix died, no one has made a great documentary about him. “Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin’ ” on [...]
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Posted October 30, 2013in On The Tube
Posted October 29, 2013in Rap Sheet
Posted October 23, 2013in On The Tube
The day the Martians landed
As an Orson Welles fanatic, I thought I knew everything about his infamous radio adaptation of “War of the Worlds” from 1938. The 23-year-old genius crafted the program as if [...]
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Posted October 23, 2013in Tech Talk
iOS 7 may spoil the Apple bunch
In the shadow of the release of the newest iPhones, Apple unleashed on its users something even bigger, the seventh iteration of its mobile operating system (iOS). Every iPhone, iPad [...]
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Posted October 23, 2013in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines Community Schools
Amount: $3,588.82 To: 4 Imprint For: Purchase of Big Value tote and Swing USB drives, including $52.82 in shipping fees. Amount: $325.58 To: A Tec Recycling Inc. For: Payment [...]
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Posted October 23, 2013in Food Dude
The Ultimate Place for Noodles is…
Bread might be the staff of life, but noodles are its bliss. Their brilliant simple paste of unleavened flour and water has been improving the quality of dinner for at [...]
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Posted October 23, 2013in Your View
No one deserves to be bullied
Your recent headline questioned whether the Gortz Haus owners “like Gays” (Civic Skinny, Oct. 17), but this question was overshadowed by the article’s inclusion of a sampling of the vitriolic [...]
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Posted October 23, 2013in Locker Room
Heartland Poker Tour, leave the puppies on the porch
Worm: You know what always cheers me up? Mike McDermott: No, what’s that? Worm:Rolled up aces over kings. Check-raising stupid tourists and taking huge pots off of them. Playing all-night [...]
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Posted October 23, 2013in Civic Skinny
Political money report: who gives, who gets
Republican Congressman Tom Latham has raised close to $1 million in his effort to keep the seat he won last year when he moved into Iowa’s newly designed Third Congressional [...]
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Posted October 23, 2013in Book Review
‘The Monster of Florence’ an unsolved mystery
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch Soho Crime Oct. 1, 2013 $26.95 345 pp. Magdalen Nabb was an expatriate Englishwoman who settled in Italy in 1975 and enjoyed [...]
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