Posted November 14, 2012in Art News
Conceptual artist Thomas Demand built his considerable reputation photographing paper models of mostly famous places — the New York City hotel room where L. Ron Hubbard created Scientology, the studio of Jackson Pollock, the podium from which Slobodan Milošević gave his most infamous speech, the hole where Saddam Hussein was
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Posted November 14, 2012in Joe's Neighborhood, Recent Posts
Boys as a group are not all that complicated. Just wave a few select items in front of their confused and suspicious eyes, and they will normally focus and charge forward. One such piece of shiny, red cape that traditionally gets a boy’s attention — as demonstrated by the Wooden
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Posted November 14, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Much GOP hand-wringing in the election post-mortem necessarily centers on the canyon-sized advantage President Obama and the Democrats have with Latino voters. Having spent a good deal of time in Iowa’s Latino community, I can tell you this is deep and real. At Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s final Iowa
Read More →The good According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 9 percent of U.S. seniors 65 and older are living in poverty, and 27 percent are widowed. Every year some Des Moines-area seniors struggle to make ends meet during the holiday season. That’s why the area Home Instead Senior Care office has
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Posted November 14, 2012in Sound Notes
The Vaudeville Mews has announced plans to celebrate the venue’s 10th anniversary on Dec. 5. Having played host through the years to acts like Of Montreal, Fall Out Boy and Josh Ritter — to say nothing of the thousands of Iowa acts that continue to grace the stage every night
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Posted November 14, 2012in Film Review
“Anna Karenina” 4 stars Rated R 130 mins. Drama Starring: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson The Tom Stoppard-scripted “Anna Karenina” opens with a virtuosic display of orchestrated one-take, linear camera movement to transport the viewer from a backstage theatrical reality to an adaptable cinematic
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Posted November 14, 2012in Sore Thumbs
HALO 4 (M) ***** Microsoft Game Studios Xbox 360 When we last saw Master Chief, he was lost, adrift and headed towards an uncertain future. Microsoft’s flagship “Halo” franchise has spent the last four years in much the same state. “Halo 3” was the weakest installment in its trilogy, and
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Posted November 14, 2012in Featured Story, Food Dude
Two iconic restaurant companies have been moving into the Des Moines metro area after decades of avoiding it. Both provided interesting footnotes in the 2012 election. Pizza Ranch is the largest regional pizza company in Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas. Until recently it focused exclusively on small towns. Political notoriety
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Posted November 14, 2012in Duffy
Posted November 14, 2012in The Sound
The Des Moines Music Coalition’s (DMMC) annual, jam-band showcase, Little Big Fest, is spreading the love more than usual this year. Previously housed at the Hotel Fort Des Moines, this year’s festival will take place at three different East Village venues: Wooly’s, House of Bricks and The Underground. “We wanted
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