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Thursday, May 26, 2005 Edition
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Cover Story: Man on Fire


Richard Walzer admits he's a sex offender and no saint. But that hasn't stopped him from doing everything in his power to try to see his son again.

By Jon Gaskell

If only that 15-year-old kid, the one who gave out sexual favors like candy back in the O.H. Youth Correctional Facility in Stockton, Calif., would have given Richard a taste - as promised. If only he hadn't made Richard stand post, on the lookout for the correction officer, while he did all the other boys before giving Richard nothing but a blank look. >> more

 
Gaskell: Up in smoke

Healthier, wealthier Iowa disappears into thin air

Was it the fact that fewer people would be smoking or the millions of dollars for the state that bothered legislators the most about a proposal to increase taxes on cigarettes? Being healthier, one would think, shouldn't bother them. And with all the bitching about money going on up at the capitol, one might also hazard a guess that having more of it wouldn't have been a bad thing either. >> more

Scene Scribe: ZooTunes on display for summer

By Michael Swanger michael@dmcityview.com

ZooTunes, a series of concerts hosted by the Blank Park Zoo, kicks off Sunday at 5 p.m. with a performance by the Classic Rock All-Stars. The series, billed as "Picnic in the Park," will be held each Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. >> more

Civic Skinny: The Register's free fall

Circulation numbers nothing but bad news for daily

Is panic setting in on Locust Street? The circulation slide at The Des Moines Register is deepening. For the six months ending March 27, the newspaper sold 138,604 copies a day to subscribers and at newsstands. That was down 2.1 percent from a year earlier and 3.5 percent from two years earlier. >> more

Upfront: The Garden gets new owners


Events like the Buff Man Contest, Studs & Suds and the Memorial Day Blacklight/Underwear night at The Garden are under new ownership. Scott Neasham, owner of the gay and lesbian nightclub for the past 11 years, has sold The Garden to Cy Stewart and Tony Zika, a gay couple in their upper 20s. Stewart is a former bartender at The Garden. >>more

The Food Dude: El Salvador del Mundo

By Jim Duncan CVFDude@aol.com

Many Central American cafès in Des Moines have closed less than a year after opening - although many reached out to a larger customer base with Mexican dishes. Keeping a purer regional faith, El Salvador del Mundo might be the local savior of its entire culinary genre. The humble, if not humbly named, restaurant occupies space recently inhabited by failed soul food, Honduran and Vietnamese cafès, but business was healthy on all of our recent visits. Owner Carlos de Luna and family work very hard at delivering pure Salvadoran cuisine. That means everything except the pastries and flan (from Raquel's Bakery) is made from scratch, in this Mom & Pop (and Aunt & Kid's) kitchen. >> more

City Sounds: Getting the Punchline

Rock group to finally headline its first tour

If you thought the joke was on you while waiting for the Punchline to be delivered as headliners, guess again.

Always the bridesmaid but never the bride, this group of punk-pop-rockers from Pittsburgh is finally walking down the concert trail as the main attraction as they embark on their first headlining tour of the United States, "The Now or Never Tour," which stops in Des Moines at the House of Bricks on Thursday. >> more

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