Play the “NAME THAT CRIME” Quiz! On the clock Des Moines Police NIC FIT Police responded to an alarm at Casey’s General Store, 2849 Euclid Ave., just after 1 a.m. on Oct. 24. They arrived and found that a window had been broken and there were cigarette packs
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Posted October 31, 2012in Rap Sheet
Posted October 31, 2012in Locker Room
Des Moines Derby Dames final home bout
Meet them in the street, and the lady skaters on the Des Moines Derby Dames and Crash Test Dolls appear innocent enough. But get them on their rink, and all hell breaks loose. With names like Autopsy Turvey, Smashtastic and Wrecklogic, these ladies mean business — and it’s not too
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Posted October 31, 2012in Good Bad Ugly
The good As of Monday, Oct. 29, retail gasoline prices in Des Moines have fallen 9.2 cents in the past week, averaging $3.31 per gallon. This compares with the national average that has fallen 9.6 cents to $3.56, according to www.DesMoinesGasPrices.com. The national average has decreased 23.1 cents per gallon
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Posted October 31, 2012in Belly Up To...
Claxon’s bar has a restaurant around it
Did you know Mitt Romney’s name is actually Willard Mitt Romney? At a barbecue restaurant in Altoona, the longtime bartender and manager Nick Agness likes to entertain folks with tricky trivia, clever quizzes and quips. Like Romney, Claxon’s Smokehouse and Grill was coined after the middle name of the owner,
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Posted October 31, 2012in Film Review
“Flight”
“Flight” 2 stars Rated R 93 mins. Drama Starring: Nadine Velazquez, Denzel Washington, Carter Cabassa Enjoyable in that Hollywood-popcorn way for which Robert Zemeckis is famous — see “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” skip “Forest Gump” — “Flight” is a drama that would have been better without the director’s love of
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Posted October 31, 2012in The Sound
The brains behind Zombie Prom
Zarrie Solum understands better than most what a pain in the ass zombies can be. “The second year I did (Zombie Prom), I tried to do a zombie pub crawl. The password to get our cheap drinks was ‘brains.’ It was a great idea, and it was awesome to see
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Posted October 31, 2012in Featured Story, Food Dude
Stalking bargains in Des Moines
While checking out readers’ choices for Iowa’s ultimate places for steak, I happily discovered that steak dinners need not be a splurge. Chicago Speakeasy, the winner of the Cityview Ultimate Place for Steak Challenge, provides the best example of this. Its lunch menu offers some slightly smaller steak dinners, which
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Posted October 31, 2012in Game Day, Recent Posts
Kansas State picked the wrong year?
FIRST DOWN: The worry in some Big 12 circles right now is that Kansas State might’ve picked the wrong year — crazy as it sounds — to have the season of a lifetime. After thumping Texas Tech last Saturday, the Wildcats are 8-0 and jumped to No. 2 in the
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Posted October 31, 2012in Sound Notes
Sound Notes Pick o’ the Week
Downtown Des Moines said goodbye to one of its highlights on Oct. 27, as People’s closed its doors for the final time after its “Night of the Living Dead Moines” show. Shows booked through the rest of the year will either be cancelled or moved to alternate locations. People’s owner
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Obama’s smokescreen obscures smart energy policies
The Obama energy team recently got pelted from an unlikely source. In a CNBC interview, billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens lambasted the President for not doing enough to promote domestic oil and natural gas production. Pickens summed up the entirety of the White House’s policy position for traditional energy
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