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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →“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 [...]
Read More →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. [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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” [...]
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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 [...]
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