Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Riverhead Books June 4, 2013 $27.95 390 pp. Anton Disclafani soared from unknown to bestselling author with this story of adolescence set [...]
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Posted August 14, 2013in Film Review
“Lovelace” 3 stars Rated R 92 minutes Biography Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Juno Temple “Lovelace” (mostly) succeeds as a brief biopic of Linda Boreman, a middle-class girl from Florida [...]
Read More →Bloc Party “Nextwave Sessions” Frenchkiss/Co Op It is always a shame when a band’s best work comes in its debut — such high hopes for the future, so much potential [...]
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! SUCKS FOR HOOVER Des Moines Public Schools reported a fraud case on Aug. 6, at 1:42 p.m., claiming that two computers and four [...]
Read More →Tickets are now on sale for the Des Moines Symphony’s 2013-2014 season. The schedule starts with the season debut on Sept. 14 and 15 with From Russia With Ilya. Other [...]
Read More →Most of these facts are attributed to www.iowastatefair.org unless otherwise cited. 1. D) The first Iowa State Fair was held in Fairfield in 1854 before eventually moving to its present [...]
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Posted August 12, 2013in Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES – A $280,000 taxpayer-funded probe into voter fraud in Iowa has yet to produce a conviction after more than a year, although 13 individuals have been charged, according [...]
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Posted August 09, 2013in Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES – The former leader of the Des Moines School Board misled the public multiple times about former Superintendent Nancy Sebring’s departure and the circumstances surrounding it, according to [...]
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Posted August 07, 2013in Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES – A former health policy adviser to Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley who still has ties to the senator’s office is one of the targets of a federal [...]
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