‘TOMB RAIDER’ (M) ****1/2 Square Enix Xbox 360 This prequel/reboot/origin story introduces us to Lara Croft before she was a dual-gun-toting badass (and apparently before she had breast implants). Indeed, longtime fans of the franchise will scarcely recognize this realistically proportioned character as she meekly ventures through scary places, appropriately
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Posted March 14, 2013in Sore Thumbs
Posted March 13, 2013in Sound Notes
Sound Notes Pick o’ the Week
The Des Moines Social Club has hired Des Moines musician Mickey Davis as its new event manager. After living and working in the Twin Cities the last couple years, Davis is back in Des Moines and excited to help the Social Club expand the number and scope of its presentations.
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Posted March 13, 2013in Book Review
‘Standing in Another Man’s Grave’
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch Reagan Arthur Books Jan. 15, 2013 $25.99 388 pp. Retired detective John Rebus, star of 2008’s “Exit Music” by Ian Rankin, returns as a civilian working in a cold case unit in Edinburgh, Scotland. Rebus meets with Nina Hazlitt whose daughter disappeared
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Posted March 13, 2013in Sound Check
CD Reviews 03.14
David Bowie ‘The Next Day’ Columbia Remember when David Bowie was DAVID BOWIE, and everything he touched was beautiful and amazing? He stopped being transcendent right around 1990, and since then has been releasing albums that have seemed to grasp more desperately at some kind of social relevance. Time had
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Posted March 13, 2013in Rap Sheet
On the Clock
Published arrest charges are obtained from official law enforcement records, which are available to the public. All who are charged are innocent until proven guilty. Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! BOOTS WERE MADE FOR WALKIN’ Police were called to the 1300 block of Martin Luther King Parkway around
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Posted March 13, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood
The food court
Food courts are not the place where most folks go for spiritual renewal. Heck, food courts don’t even count as a location for a date with your special someone — unless, of course, you’re 12. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that caramel popcorn purchased at a food court
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Posted March 13, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Mr. Iowa Nice talks tweets, life in public eye, with Braley
The “Iowa Nice” guy — he of the snark and snarl, the Internet sensation with the clockmaker’s timing for profanity — talked of being nice. Honestly. For real. Even in a virtual world. “We have to somehow transition into listening again,” Scott Siepker said. Siepker, a Mount Carmel native and
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Posted March 13, 2013in Locker Room
Leprechaun Chase 10K Run
Waking up for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations might be a little different this year. Most notably, Des Moines will be toasting the holiday the Saturday before, on March 16, with its usual downtown festivities and parade. After loading up on the traditional Irish breakfast of bacon rashers, fried eggs, sausages,
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Posted March 13, 2013in Film Review
Believin’
“The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” 3 stars Rated PG-13 100 mins. Comedy Starring: Steve Carell, Luke Vanek, Jim Carrey Artfully satirizing the in-your-face state of modern magic — as practiced by the likes of David Blaine and Criss Angel — while celebrating the cheesy aspects of old school slight-of-hand tricks, “The
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The hype on Hollywood, guns and alcohol
“Jekyll and Hyde” is the perfect Broadway musical for the United States in the 21st Century. Major promotion indicates that it is the greatest musical of the century, but only 12-plus years out of 100 have gone by, so one might dismiss the hype. Hype! There is so much hype
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