Posted November 07, 2012in Duffy
Posted November 07, 2012in On The Tube, Recent Posts
Music to get married by
‘Wedding Band’ charts the pathetic path of aging rockers “Wedding Band” (Saturday, 9 p.m., TBS) is a wonderful new comedy series that combines “Spinal Tap” and “School of Rock” in a satire of the wedding-band biz. The band in question is made up of four aging musicians with day jobs
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Posted November 07, 2012in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… West Des Moines
Amount: $900 To: Arrow State Lines For: Rental of bus for Iowa City bus trip. Amount: $1,112.60 To: Awards Program Services Inc. For: Purchase of softball and kickball trophies. Amount: $1,000 To: The Cutting Edge For: Rental of tractor and seeder. Amount: $1,012.52 To: CDW Government Inc.
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Posted November 07, 2012in Sore Thumbs
‘ASSASSIN’S CREED III’ (M) ****1/2 Ubisoft Xbox 360 The “Assassin’s Creed” series finally makes its way to the New World, and despite its relative youth, colonial America has no shortage of activities for fresh, half Native American protagonist Connor Kenway. He’ll take his parkour skillset to the treetops of the
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Posted November 07, 2012in Book Review, Recent Posts
‘Always Put in a Recipe and Other Tips for Living: From Iowa’s Best Known Homemaker’
Review by Cathryn Lang University of Iowa Press 09/15/2012 $19.95 203 pp In this age of instant and continuous communication, it is difficult to imagine how lonely and isolated the farm wife was in earlier days. Her friends were the newspaper columnists and radio personalities who provided their homely stories
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Posted November 07, 2012in Good Bad Ugly
The good Hope Ministries is hosting special events and activities for National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week, Nov. 11-17: Sunday, Nov. 11, Homeless Veterans Day and Annual Memorial Service; Monday, Nov. 12, Tours and Testimonies, Hope Family Center Open House; Tuesday, Nov. 13, Church Leaders Resource Event; Wednesday, Nov. 14,
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Posted November 07, 2012in Film Review
“Lincoln”
Daniel Day-Lewis flawless as always in ‘Lincoln’ “Lincoln” 2 stars Rated PG-13 132 mins. Drama Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” is almost as much of a mess as the War Between the States. Its truncated script — by playwright Tony Kushner, based loosely
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Posted November 07, 2012in The Sound
Goddamn Gallows plunder Des Moines
The Goddamn Gallows are a bunch of itinerant gypsies — musical pirates, set adrift in a van for months at a time. Covering the length and breadth of the country, this gang of marauding ne’er-do-wells stops in a town just long enough to wreak musical havoc upon the populace and
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Posted November 07, 2012in Joe's Neighborhood, Recent Posts
Old Friends
In this heated political time, when dignity is lost to righteousness, when loudness is mistaken for passion, when conformity is the misguided refuge of the battered soul, where are we left at the end of the day? Based on who won, you may be bemoaning the end of the world
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Posted November 07, 2012in Locker Room
Hilton Magic Comes to Life
Last season Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg and the Cyclone men’s basketball team showed that the mythical “sophomore slump” was just that — a myth. In Hoiberg’s first season, the Cyclones struggled, posting a 3-13 mark in Big 12 play. Year No. 2 was an altogether different story, however, as
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