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Posted September 18, 2013in Your View
Posted September 18, 2013in Tech Talk
Smartphone fashion statements
With Apple’s announcement of two new iPhones, it’s safe to assume tech writers everywhere are losing their minds while whispering tear-soaked thank-yous to the ghost of Steve Jobs, right? Well, [...]
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Posted September 18, 2013in On The Tube
That ’80s Show
“The Goldbergs” wallows in a decade’s worth of shame and guilt The 1980s take a beating in “The Goldbergs” (Tuesday, 8 p.m., ABC). An adult narrator looks back on his [...]
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Posted September 18, 2013in Sound Stage
Bushwak’d
The inaugural Bushwak Music Festival took place this past Saturday and Sunday in the barely charted wilds of St. Charles, just south of Des Moines. A hundred or so music [...]
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Posted September 18, 2013in Belly Up To...
Johnny Mac’s is home to charity, good will and bikers
Bikers can get a bad rap — mostly because movies and TV shows paint a rough and rebellious portrait of them as gangsters who spend their lives terrorizing small towns [...]
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Posted September 18, 2013in Cover Story
Our 100 favorite bars
You ever have one of those days when you just need a drink? A good, stiff, “I want to taste my money” kind of drink? When in search of a [...]
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Posted September 18, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood
The champion of Punjab
The counter must be the problem. The lilting music in the background and the four-foot-tall goddess perched next to the napkins certainly add to the problem. But I’m thinking it’s [...]
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Posted September 18, 2013in News of the Weird
Happiness is a clean toilet Beginning in 2011, about three dozen people in Tokyo have been meeting every Sunday at 6 a.m. on a mission to scrub down, one by [...]
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Posted September 18, 2013in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines
Amount: $75 To: Polk County Medical Examiner For: Fee for having a blood sample drawn from a 20-year-old Urbandale resident who Des Moines police officer Brian Cuppy suspected may have [...]
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65 years ago, Iowa made a president
Jimmy Carter came out of Georgia in the political campaign season of 1975 to run for president. This unknown (to Iowans) Georgia governor could relate to Iowa farmers, being one [...]
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