Posted March 26, 2014in Film Review
“Pulp Fiction” star Samuel L. Jackson delivers his directing debut with a poignant sexy melodrama rooted in 1930’s Moscow, Russia. “Mishkin’s Complaint” pushes the envelope on modern cinema’s trend toward [...]
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Posted March 24, 2014in Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES, Iowa — According to reports from the Iowa Department of Revenue, an obscure tax break, the Research Activities Credit, has allowed major corporations to receive millions in tax [...]
Read More →DES MOINES, Iowa — Running into a combination of bureaucratic inertia, big-money special interest influence and ignorant state legislators is enough to make anyone want a stiff drink. Iowa’s micro-distillers [...]
Read More →‘TITANFALL’ (M) ****1/2 Electronic Arts Xbox One “Titanfall” — the much anticipated, exclusively multiplayer, first-person shooter for our newest generation of consoles — splits your time between combat on foot [...]
Read More →Filmmaker Jesper Just is a Københavner now living in New York’s East Village. The five films in his Des Moines Art Center exhibition “Jesper Just: This Is a Landscape of [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Cover Story
Iowans may be witnessing the final days of judgment for Bob Vander Plaats and his Family Leader. The past few years have not been good for Vander Plaats, who is [...]
Read More →Let’s get the obvious out of the way: “Les Misérables” will pack a wallop the likes of which has never before hit Des Moines community theater. A big number like [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Belly Up To...
It may not be as pump priming as Panama City, and it’s certainly colder than Cancun, but Spring Break means things are heating up at Beer Bucket and Burgers on [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Food Dude
These days caterers who cook in other people’s houses are called “nomadic chefs.” That’s either a cheap appropriation of those words or a redundancy. Historically all nomads moved about in [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Duffy
