Cable-cutters use Roku 3
Twenty-one years ago, Bruce Springsteen’s “Human Touch” album featured the song “57 Channels (and Nothin’ On).” If Bruce had saved this song for 2013, the title would be somewhere closer [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in Geek Chic
Posted March 20, 2013in Good Bad Ugly
The good Students of Des Moines’ first ever professional improvisational comedy school, Anything Improv, will graduate on March 24 at 5 p.m. at the Gas Lamp, but the ceremony is [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
If schools don’t regulate cyberbullying, who will?
Oh, for the 1970s — were it not for those wildly ridiculous pants. Those of us in older generations remember a time when K-12 educators were asked to teach reading [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines Public Schools
Amount: $1,255 To: 21st Century Rehab For: Workman’s compensation insurance payment for Robbie Joiner. Amount: $3,846.48 To: Acme Tools For: The purchase of items such as power anchors, a [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in Film Review
Agit-Flop
“No” 2 stars Rated R 110 mins. Drama Starring: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers Gael Garcia Bernal’s television adman-turned-political-commercial-creator Rene Saavedra is such an ethically ambiguous and passive [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in The Sound
Wellman’s road to success
When Roman generals returned home from military victories, they were welcomed back to Rome with great parades. But in the midst of the triumph, the conquering heroes were accompanied in [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in Sound Check
CD Reviews
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club ‘Specter at the Feast’ Abstract Dragon This is barely the same band as the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club that released 2005 high water mark, “Howl.” Gone [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in Book Review
‘Benediction’
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Knopf Publishing Group 2/26/13 $25.95 257 pp. With his new release, “Benediction,” best-selling author Kent Haruf delivers another poignant, elegant portrait of [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in Featured Story, Food Dude
Wings and ambiance star at Gerri’s
The old fashioned bar and grill has become an endangered species in Iowa. After industrialized farming changed the state’s demographics (most Iowa counties peaked in population more than 100 years [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
The mess gets messier at Iowa Public Radio
Maybe Iowa Public Radio should do a special report on organizations that abuse and misuse the Iowa Open Meetings and Open Records laws. The reporter wouldn’t have to leave the [...]
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