The good The Des Moines Social Club announced a donation of $350,000 from Kum and Go in support of the capital campaign to secure the downtown firehouse as a permanent home for the non-profit arts institution. “Unlike any other initiative today, this project boldly changes the landscape of the arts
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Posted December 12, 2012in Good Bad Ugly
Posted December 12, 2012in Recent Posts, Sound Check
CD Reviews
Parabelle ‘Your Starry Eyes Will Never Make Us Even’ Independent Parabelle isn’t really what you’d call a Tool knock-off — that becomes more apparent the deeper you get into the album. But there are clear similarities in melody and vocalization that serve to make lead singer Kevin Matisyn a kind
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Posted December 12, 2012in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… City of Des Moines
Amount: $123.26 To: ADT Security Services (Pittsburgh, Penn.) For: Quarterly payment for monthly monitoring services at the Neighbrohood Based Service Delivery Office at 607 Forest Ave., from Dec. 1 through Feb. 28, 2013. Amount: $166 To: Capital Decorating Inc. For: Payment for services repairing the motorized shades at
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Posted December 12, 2012in Book Review, Recent Posts
‘Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead’
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Barb Palar Gotham Books June 19, 2012 $26 287 pp. I was first “introduced” to Brene Brown through a TED lecture on YouTube a few years ago. I heard an interview with her recently on the radio, and she is captivating as well as
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Posted December 12, 2012in Sore Thumbs
‘PLAYSTATION ALL-STARS BATTLE ROYALE’ (T) *** Sony Computer Entertainment PlayStation 3 A lot of people are going to dismiss “PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale” as a “Smash Bros.” rip-off, and not without reason. Nintendo rounded up all of its proprietary characters for a silly, no-holds-barred smackdown, and now Sony has done
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Posted December 12, 2012in Joe's Neighborhood, Recent Posts
Seven yellow jerseys
Here’s the way I see it. There are seven yellow jerseys to give away, one for each year that Lance Armstrong was stripped of his Tour de France victories because of alledged doping. Amazingly enough, the International Cycling Union has no one to step up on the podium and receive
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Posted December 12, 2012in Cover Story
Nightmares of Christmas
In the spirit of Ebenezer Scrooge, we bring you our annual Christmas issue. In years past, we gathered our collective Christmas favorites — stories about memorable gifts we received, festive albums we listened to and holiday movies we viewed — to share with our readers as a sweet Cityview tradition.
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Posted December 12, 2012in Your View
To be a united nation, we must unite The election is now past and in the aftermath, and half the nation is jubilant; the other half is shocked and angry. One thing is quite certain: We are NOT a united nation. Whether our particular candidate won or lost, there
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Posted December 12, 2012in Sound Stage
Brother Trucker
If we ever decide to put together a time capsule that captures the true essence of Des Moines — something that will stand through the years as a declaration of, “Here, world: Here’s the best of us,”— you can bet there will be a Brother Trucker CD in there. Nobody
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Posted December 12, 2012in The Sound
Cantrell and Moreno ‘bridge the gap between music and film’
The friendship between Rich Cantrell and Thor Moreno is one that stretches back to Des Moines’ hard rock halcyon days. “We’ve known each other since we were kids,” Cantrell said during an interview. “I played in a band called Redwing, and Thor used to be in a band also, back
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