Set the record straight on Zabel
I am answering a recent letter writer who wondered why Jim Zabel wasn’t in the service during World War II (Your View, June 20). A car fell on Jim, and [...]
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Posted July 10, 2013in Your View
Posted July 10, 2013in Tech Talk
Death of the Reader?
Last week I survived something I will forever deem the most treacherous act of technological perpetration in my life, full stop. After almost eight years of uninterrupted service, Google shuttered [...]
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Posted July 10, 2013in Film Review
Western allegory pop
“The Lone Ranger” 3 stars PG-13 149 minutes Action Starring: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner Perhaps more important than what Gore Verbinski’s gleefully postmodern Western isn’t, is what it [...]
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Posted July 10, 2013in Sound Stage
Some notes on 80/35
It’s safe to say that Annalibera got its 80/35 slot on the strength of its Gross Domestic Product performance in April. It’s also safe to say that it made the [...]
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Posted July 10, 2013in Sound Notes
We are knee deep in festival season here in the capital city. 80/35 just put a bow on its sixth installment, and now we’re just two weeks away from Rock [...]
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Posted July 10, 2013in On The Tube
‘The Newsroom’ just got good
Aaron Sorkin perfects the cable-news drama in its second season I hated the first season of “The Newsroom,” Aaron Sorkin’s attempt to create a smart, fast-talking show about cable news. [...]
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Posted July 10, 2013in Cover Story
Swimsuit Edition
The girls of summer are back, and they grace our pages again with our fourth annual Cityview Swimsuit Edition. In our first two years, we published a totally separate magazine [...]
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Posted July 10, 2013in Food Dude
Some new summer treats
Summer, not spring, is the season of rebirth in central Iowa, especially in years like this when plantings are delayed by record-setting rainfall. I spent last week gadding about various [...]
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Posted July 10, 2013in Political Mercury
Kirke calls casino ‘opportunity of the century’ for Greene County
Wild Rose Entertainment is, in the parlance of its business, “all in” with plans to develop a casino complex in Jefferson, said company CEO Gary Kirke. If Greene County voters [...]
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Branstad, Iowa both need intervention
“Iowans don’t want a governor and Branstad is as close as they can get.” That characterization of Gov. Terry Branstad was offered decades ago by then Des Moines Register columnist [...]
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