Posted December 19, 2012in Joe's Neighborhood, Recent Posts
If we are all facing the Mayan end of the world in one fashion or another, where do we find the courage to look over the edge, slap our chests and beckon the unknown to give us its best shot? Mmmm… you don’t think it’s the end of the world?
Read More →Amount: $1,635.20 To: Des Moines Asphalt and Paving For: Payment for repairing athletic track, including purchase of more than 16 tons of materials at $80 per ton. Amount: $2,784 To: Phil Dickey For: Payment for providing Tae-Kwon-Do and Karate lessons at the West Des Moines Community Center Ballroom for
Read More →Microsoft’s Surface tablet launched in October with a highly visible ad campaign that definitely reached consumers, due in no small part to being one of Oprah’s “favorite things.” But even with the one single, repeated TV spot and a recognizable name, how’s the Surface actually doing in sales? Turns out
Read More →The Des Moines Art Center’s (DMAC) exhibition year began with three brilliant films by Argentine Miguel Angel Rios and concluded with three more by Bavarian Thomas Demand. Both artists went to painstaking ends to preserve incidents that most people might quickly dismiss from memory. Angel Rios wistfully revisited his native
Read More →No shortage of nuts at the Register Sorry as hell to be a day (months) late and a damn dollar short — worth 10 cents in today’s Wall Street-wrecked money — to comment on a story that appeared in your drinking buddy’s paper (The Des Moines Register) this summer.
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Posted December 19, 2012in Book Review, Recent Posts
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang Penfield Books Aug. 28, 2012 $21.95 238 pp. Americans are notorious for the tendency to romanticize the “old country.” This tendency always made me wonder, “If the old country was so great, why did people leave?” Augusta’s Daughter by Judit Martin helped
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Posted December 12, 2012in Belly Up To..., Uncategorized
Most night-lifers are familiar with Cabaret in the West Glen Town Center well enough to have an opinion on whether it’s their kind of night club or not. The West Des Moines club is buzzing with youthful energy, contemporary music, pool on the patio and shots all around on any
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Posted December 12, 2012in Featured Story, Food Dude
The year 2012 brought the water dragon. For Iowa that meant far more dragon breath than water. The hottest, driest summer in decades resulted in a 4 percent drop in major agricultural production. Iowa wine growers, though, reported bumper crops. Restaurant news was similarly ambivalent. Many of the best new
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Posted December 12, 2012in Recent Posts, Sound Notes
The world is a slightly less groovy place now that jazz legend Dave Brubeck shuffled off this mortal coil on Dec. 5. Whether you stick to standards like “Take Five” and “The Duke,” or you choose to go deeper into this catalogue, I’d encourage everyone to hop on iTunes or
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