Posted August 07, 2013in Duffy
Posted August 07, 2013in Food Dude
Siouxland treats in West Des Moines
Iowa has played a major role in loose meat sandwich history. Sioux City’s Ye Old Tavern (now Gus’s Family Restaurant) and Muscatine’s Maid-Rite both claim to have invented them in the 1920s. (So does a place in Montana.) Ottumwa’s Canteen in the Alley diner, which has specialized in loose meat
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Posted August 07, 2013in Cover Story
11 days of corn dogs, butter cows, blue ribbons & music
Ah, the fair. It’s that magically stereotypical time of year that exemplifies the best and silliest things about being Iowan: the butter cow; every imaginable kind of food (and several it would have never occurred to you to think of) on a stick; the oppressive August heat, which may just
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Posted August 07, 2013in Sound Check
Hugh Laurie “Didn’t it Rain” Warner Bros. Yeah, that Hugh Laurie always has been pretty up front about his musical leanings and has been involved in several musical projects, the most notable of which was the group Band From TV, and his current work with The Copper Bottom Band. Laurie
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Posted August 07, 2013in Sound Notes
Hey, did you know there’s a fair in town this week? True story. And while, statistically speaking, every person in the state will head through the Iowa State Fair’s turnstiles at least once in the next 11 days, there is still plenty of non-fair related things happening to keep you
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Posted August 07, 2013in Locker Room
Flexing at the Fair
If the name Lincoln Hawk means anything to you, there is no doubt you’re familiar with the rules of arm wrestling. Two competitors face each other from across a table. Each person places one arm (both using right or left) on the table with his or her elbows bent and
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Posted August 07, 2013in Civic Skinny
More layoffs at the Register. Branstad buys a house.
The Des Moines Register is making more news than it is reporting — and it isn’t reporting the news it is making. The newspaper last week laid off five persons in the newsroom, including assistant sports editor Mark Emmert and city and county reporter Jeff Eckhoff. Both are what pass
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Posted August 07, 2013in Sound Stage
Weirdly entertained
There’s something about Weird Al Yankovic’s work that’s always struck me as kind of manic. Maybe it’s because most of us became acquainted with his work when we were kids and all hopped up on sugar at some birthday party, but when that accordion starts to play, it gets hard
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Posted August 07, 2013in Good Bad Ugly
The good Water. Cool water. Twenty Iowa cities will benefit from a combined total of more than $42.3 million in low-cost water quality loans through the State Revolving Fund. State Revolving Fund Construction Loans are a low-cost construction financing option available for municipalities. The Iowa Finance Authority and the Iowa
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Posted August 07, 2013in Film Review
Blue and cold
“Blue Jasmine” 2 stars Rated PG-13 98 minutes Drama Starring: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins Woody Allen has bottomed out. His latest attempt at interpreting yet another global mecca — this time San Francisco — through a prism of flailing romance, barely manages to elicit a couple of subdued
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