Play “Name That Crime” On the clock Des Moines Police Oct. 4 – 10 CANDY FROM A BABY, SORT OF A 38-year-old drunk man was robbed on Oct. [...]
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Posted October 17, 2012in Rap Sheet
Posted October 17, 2012in Film Review
“The Sessions”
Getting busy “The Sessions” 4 stars Rated R 98 mins. Drama Starring: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy The most unlikely film of 2012, “The Sessions,” is a defiant [...]
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Posted October 17, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Des Moines streetcars still run on memory lane
I remember as a little boy riding the streetcars that ran down the middle of Ingersoll. I remember riding the Crocker streetcar with my grandmother to the very end of [...]
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Posted October 17, 2012in Center Stage, Recent Posts
‘Prelude’ brings ballet to Hoyt Sherman
Movement comes to the metro in a big way this month with the premiere of “Prelude: A Triple Bill,” the new performance from Ballet Des Moines. Featuring six professional dancers, [...]
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Posted October 17, 2012in Sore Thumbs
‘XCOM: ENEMY UNKNOWN’ (M) **** 2K Games Xbox 360 Earth is under attack, and it’s up to you to defend it, one turn at a time. Technically, “XCOM” is a [...]
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Posted October 17, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
King raises ‘Red Dawn’ specter of tyranny in America
The urgency in Congressman Steve King’s words sent me searching for a 1984 movie I hadn’t seen since, well, 1984 — on VHS. If what the Kiron Republican insisted in [...]
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Posted October 17, 2012in Featured Story, Food Dude
Meal Man and Jersey Guys come to Iowa
Baseball’s post season was the biggest television event in American sports through the mid 1970s. Today those games are hard to find, even in sports bars, if they conflict with [...]
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Posted October 17, 2012in Locker Room
A spectator’s guide to the IMT Des Moines Marathon
More than 8,000 people will be hitting the streets of Des Moines in the 11th Annual IMT Des Moines Marathon, Half Marathon, Bankers Trust Marathon Relay and Principal Financial Group [...]
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Posted October 17, 2012in Cover Story
Turn it over!
Voters will head to the polls in a few short weeks, putting a blessed end to this perpetually condescending entourage of political piffle Americans have been surviving daily for the [...]
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Posted October 17, 2012in Good Bad Ugly
The good For the 11th year, Forey Jacobson will be at the start of the IMT Des Moines Marathon. But this time he’ll be up above the throng of runners. [...]
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