Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Blue Rider Press March 7, 2013 $26.95 322 pp. Even if you don’t know Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” by the photographer’s name or the title of her work, you would most likely recognize the famous picture itself. Depicting a worn woman looking
Read More →‘DRAGON’S DOGMA: DARK ARISEN’ (M) *** Capcom Xbox 360 In case last year’s “Dragon’s Dogma” wasn’t difficult enough for you, here’s “Dark Arisen” — a re-release of the original game with additional content — to cause you the requisite amount of grief. For the uninitiated, “Dragon’s Dogma” combines the role-playing
Read More →After watching four of the capital city’s female songwriters perform solo on the Ritual Café’s stage just a couple weeks ago, I’ve had the good fortune of catching two of them performing with their bands a short time after. Last week I got to see Lavonne McRoberts and Peace, Love
Read More →If there is one term in the tech world that is off-putting, exciting and confusing all wrapped in one, it’s cloud computing. While there is definitely a high degree of nerdery when talking about “the cloud,” chances are you are already using several cloud services. YouTube, Wikipedia, WordPress, Dropbox, TurboTax,
Read More →Wooly’s kicks off the coverage week with a big show on Thursday, May 16. On that evening, First Fleet Concerts and Metro Concerts Live come together to present Mushroomhead, performing along with Corvis, Lydia Can’t Breathe, Ionia, This Sudden Darkness, The Boomstick Revival and Apathy Syndrome. Tickets are $18 in
Read More →She and Him ‘Volume 3’ Merge M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel are entertaining enough people. Ward is a perfectly acceptable guitarist and Deschanel gamely holds up the vocals. But there’s this niggling part of me that can’t help but ask: If Deschanel was just another girl, would this group have
Read More →Art-driven image makeovers are being created around the metro this merry month of May. Consider Clive, surely the largest city in Iowa without a high school. Most towns identify predominantly with their schools, particularly with their high schools. Residents wear their colors, call themselves after their mascots, cheer their teams
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Posted May 15, 2013in Locker Room
Here in Des Moines, we have our share of 10K challenges. It seems like every weekend someone is raising money for a worthy cause at the minimal cost of running with some friends. Sure some folks compete with one another, but the goal isn’t to come out on top; it’s
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Posted May 15, 2013in Cover Story, Rap Sheet, Sound Notes
It was a phenomenon that defines irony: A town was put on the map for being all but wiped clean of it. It was five years ago, almost to the day, that Iowa made national headlines when the town of Parkersburg was ravaged by an EF5 tornado. It was an
Read More →Amount: $6,421.53 To: Academy Roofing and Sheeting For: Payment for services for miscelleneous roof repairs to the schools and buildings. Amount: $34.99 To: ACE Educational Supplies For: Purchase of Consequences board game, including $10 for shipping. Amount: $941.81 To: ACP Direct For: Purchase of slim personal CD players
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