Alkaline Trio ‘My Shame is True’ Epitaph As a punk band, Alkaline Trio has always left me flat. They’ve never moved me the way that Green Day was capable of, but they’ve also never driven me to fits of bile and rage like, say, Blink-182. And so, “My Shame is
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Posted April 03, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
In Mark Segebart’s world, the minimum wage is a quaint notion, something along the lines of an allowance. Make your bed. Clean your room. Flip some burgers after school, and you’ll get $7.25 an hour, enough to take your best girl to the sock hop with some spare change to
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Posted April 03, 2013in Cover Story
With every tap on the key board, a 21st century journalist can’t help but ask herself: What is the point? Many people these days don’t like to read. As odd a thing that is to read, it’s an even more off-putting thing to write. And it’s an unfortunate fact to
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Posted April 03, 2013in Guest Commentary
No need to be troubled if you were confused by Cityview’s April Fool’s edition — the one with the cover story about Des Moines police using android “robo-cops” for traffic tickets and such things. Even without April Fool!, day in and day out it’s more difficult to distinguish the jokes
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! DIDN’T MAKE THE CUT The victim told police she heard a knock at her front door followed by a knock at the back door at her home at the 600 block of 44th Street around 10:30 p.m. She didn’t answer either. She then
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Posted April 03, 2013in Civic Skinny
Will Staci Appel become the first woman to represent Iowa in Congress? The former legislator tells Cityview she is “strongly considering” running for the seat now held by Republican Tom Latham. It would be an expensive run against a well-financed incumbent, and Appel says she is “working on a potential
Read More →The Civic Music Association will host Master Classes with Miró Quartet and percussionist Colin Currie on Saturday, April 6 at 11 a.m. as part of its Partners in Music Education Program. The Master Class for Miró Quartet will be located at the Monroe Recital Hall on the Drake University campus,
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Reviewed by Julie Goodrich Hyperion Books May 15, 2012 $16.99 343 pp. There are times when simple description isn’t really enough to properly frame a book. Suggesting a young-adult novel to any adult is usually an exercise in frustration. Adding that it’s essentially historical fiction about
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Posted April 03, 2013in Locker Room
It’s ninth century, B.C., and warring tribes are trying to figure out the best attack to cripple their opponents. An all-out barrage will risk far too many lives than one side can afford, but retreating is simply out of the question. Eurasian nomads began to send out archers on horseback
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Branstad still up to his same old, dirty politics
When my wife and I are among our elderly friends and I begin to tell a story, she often tells me: “You’ve already told them that one.” I agree but explain, “I know, but these old fogeys have forgotten it.” I feel that way about Iowans who may have forgotten
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