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 been operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs or alcohol at 1:55 a.m. on Aug. 10 at
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Posted September 18, 2013in Political Mercury
A western Iowa Republican Party fall fundraiser weaved the local and international in a power-punch case for a conservative reshaping of U.S. government at all levels. In a two-hour session last week at Santa Maria Winery in Carroll, headlined by WHO Radio talk-show host Simon Conway, a London-born American, an
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Posted September 18, 2013in Locker Room
Picture this: An autumn breeze rakes across the water carrying the first fallen leaf of the season. It’s quiet outside. The only sounds to be heard come from a handful of squirrels and birds mixed with cicadas or locusts or whatever those whirring bugs are in the trees this time
Read More →The World Food and Music Festival makes its return to the East Village this weekend on Friday Sept. 20 through Sunday, Sept. 22. Now in its ninth year, the event will run from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday. The entertainment lineup for the
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Posted September 18, 2013in Food Dude
A hundred years ago, our civic leaders were debating a ban on food cart vendors in Des Moines. Arguments sounded much like those against food trucks today: They were eyesores and had an unfair advantage over property tax-paying businesses with which they competed. A century later, I sympathize with restaurant
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Posted September 18, 2013in The Sound
Samuel Beam is a laid back dude. Chatting over the phone from his home in South Carolina, his voice doesn’t have the high-mileage road weariness of William Elliot Whitmore. His words don’t have the brooding gravitas of a Nick Cave or the emotional supplication of Glen Hansard. Beam is, in
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Pantheon Books 4/23/2013 $24.95 210 pp. Brian Kimberling’s funny, graceful debut novel is narrated by Nathan Lochmueller, a recent college graduate who finds himself living hand to mouth in southern Indiana where he grew up. Nathan exists on a meager salary, tracking
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Posted September 18, 2013in Civic Skinny
Kay Runge is resigning as chairwoman of the board of Iowa Public Radio and is leaving the organization, and the other two remaining original board members — Art Neu and Warren Madden — also are leaving at the end of the month. Two former Republican legislators will join the seven-person
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Posted September 18, 2013in Film Review
“The Grandmaster” 3 stars Rated PG-13 108 minutes Action Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ziyi Zhang, Jin Zhang Director Wong Kar Wai’s first return to the martial arts genre since his extravagant 1994 cinematic feast “Ashes of Time” is a stylistically profound dissection of kung fu as practiced in 1930s-
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! ‘IT WAS THE GUY ON THE COUCH’ Police were called to the 1400 block of Delaware Avenue just after 8 p.m. regarding an assault. The victim told police a man punched her in the side of her face and in her head while
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