Posted August 14, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood
The long hair is what first catches your eye — dramatic for a man of middle age. Caught in tendrils by sweat, it frames his angular face and hawked nose to make him even more exotic. But it is the energy coiled that really grabs your attention, an energy that
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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 who became a household name — via her porn appellation “Linda Lovelace” — for which she made only one film,
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 hinted at, yet the band can never seem to put it together again. Hi, Bloc Party. The group’s 2005 “Silent
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 laser toner cartridges had been charged to the school and issued through Telephone Relay systems to Office Depot. The Hoover
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 dates include Scottish Fantasy and Rosenkavalier on Oct. 19 and 20; Beyond the Score: The Planets – Other Worlds? on
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 location at East 30th and East University in 1886. 2. D) Iowa State Fair attendance first topped the one million
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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 to the Iowa Secretary of State’s office. With the $99,000 that has been spent during the first, Iowa taxpayers have
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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 court documents and district emails obtained by Iowa Watchdog. These include board member Teree Caldwell-Johnson’s account of Sebring’s resignation and
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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 investigation, according to Jill Gerber, a Grassley spokeswoman. Mark Hayes, now a lobbyist and shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, is allegedly
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