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Posted January 29, 2014in Your Money

Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines Public School District.

Amount: $396 To: A Parts Warehouse LLC For: Purchase of a custom adjustable vest.   Amount: $2,636.41 To: Academy Roofing and Sheeting For: Payment for roof repair services pro   [...]

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Posted January 29, 2014in Book Review

‘Philomena’ offers backstory and insight to its film version

Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Penguin Books Nov. 6, 2013 $16 448 pp. The somewhat fictionalized story of Philomena Lee, a young Irish woman who was forced [...]

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Posted January 29, 2014in Civic Skinny

Regent appeal in Palo case done without a vote. Mike Gronstal throws Jack Hatch under the bus.

The Board of Regents late Wednesday asked the Iowa Supreme Court to intervene in the case involving Iowa State University basketball player Yempabou Palo. The action was taken without a [...]

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Posted January 29, 2014in The Sound

Badfish, good music

California ska act Sublime had a mercurial career that was cut short when front man Bradley Nowell overdosed at the hands of Mr. Brownstone. Short as it may have been, [...]

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Posted January 29, 2014in Rap Sheet

On the clock

Play the “Name That Crime” Quiz! SUGAR HIGH A resident of the 1300 block of East 27th Court called police just after 1:30 p.m. and said he pulled into his [...]

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Posted January 29, 2014in Duffy

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Posted January 29, 2014in Sore Thumbs

‘DON’T STARVE: CONSOLE EDITION’    (E10+) ***1/2 Klei Entertainment PlayStation 4 The title of this game offers some good — if somewhat limited — advice. A more useful title would’ve been [...]

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Posted January 29, 2014in Center Stage

It’s McMurphy Against the Machine in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’

“Aggressive.” That’s the word Tim Wisgerhof uses to describe his set for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” The designer imagined a sort of “machine” that was “chewing into the [...]

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Posted January 29, 2014in Your View

The shame of shrinkage

Using objective numbers, Cityview has proven that Des Moines’ paper de jour (The Des Moines Register) is suffering readership shrinkage worse than Seinfeld’s George Costanza in a wet swimsuit. Soon the [...]

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Posted January 29, 2014in Cover Story

Winter arts & entertainment guide

Any imbecilic idiot, stomping toddler, wailing infant or even a primate in sign can say, “It’s cold out,” damn cold — even for Iowa — and probably colder than it [...]

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