20 years of fortitude
This year marks Steven Vail’s 20th anniversary in the gallery business. His exhibitions here, of internationally renowned artists, have usually received more media coverage from New York, Germany and even [...]
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Posted June 19, 2013in Art News
Posted June 19, 2013in Rap Sheet
On the Clock
Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! Published arrest charges are obtained from official law enforcement records, which are available to the public. All who are charged are innocent until proven [...]
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Posted June 19, 2013in Tech Talk
Action cameras, the summertime gadget
Gadgets and summer are two terms that generally do not go together. People are outside swimming, hiking, playing soccer and, despite what the tech giants would like us to believe, [...]
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Posted June 19, 2013in The Sound
September: come hell or high water
September’s been snake-bitten of late. Last fall the interpersonal strife within the band — most notably between vocalist Lucas Brighton and keyboardist Joey Vice — reached a breaking point, and [...]
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Posted June 19, 2013in On The Tube
Inside story
“Under the Dome” seals off a town from the world CBS’s new series “Under the Dome” (Monday, 9 p.m.) is premised on a beautifully simple “what if” scenario: What if [...]
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Posted June 19, 2013in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… Polk County
Amount: $1,070.91 To: Barco Municipal Products Inc. (Ottawa, Kan.) For: Purchase of 24 angle iron-leg barricades at about $40 each and $112.35 in shipping fees for the Highway Department. [...]
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Posted June 19, 2013in Civic Skinny
State legal fees hit $460,000 in Godfrey case
When last we left Christopher Godfrey, the only openly gay department head in the Branstad administration, he was toiling away as head of the state Workers’ Compensation office, though he [...]
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Posted June 19, 2013in Your View
Why didn’t Zabel serve in WWII?
Among all the accolades aimed at Jim Zabel, I have seen no mention of his WWII service. He was born in 1921, so he would have been 20 years old [...]
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Posted June 19, 2013in Food Dude
Table 128 is an instant hit
There is no cursed address in the restaurant business. People suspected that about a spot on Ingersoll when three cafés came and went around the beginning of the 1980s. Then [...]
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Saving Floppy: a real dog fight
Since the scandal broke, the story has been on TV, radio and all over social media. The decision was apparently made by someone high in rank within the bureaucracy. Within [...]
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