Doing anything the second week of November? How do you feel about ukulele? If you’re with me so far, then you might want to check out Stephens Auditorium in Ames [...]
Read More →Midseason awards continue
FIRST DOWN The Tuesday Morning Quarterback Midseason Awards continue with a run through the B1G… Big Ten’s best team: Ohio State. Just because Urban Meyer provided the launching pad for [...]
Read More →Clowns “I’m Not Right” Poison City Records Melbourne, Australia, four-piece Clowns isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel with this one. Instead, what the band has done is set its jaws, [...]
Read More →You cannot be serious, Congressman Wikipedia
They are ever-present bit players on the modern political stage, ragamuffins with recorders at rallies and town halls. Political trackers. Republican and Democrats hire them to trail opposing candidates and [...]
Read More →Quinton’s, an East Village landmark
Des Moines’ East Village is home to a plethora of diverse taverns, restaurants and groovy little mom-and-pop shops. It could arguably be dubbed central Iowa’s hippest place to eat, shop, [...]
Read More →On the clock
Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! DRUNK BIKERS Police were called to the Bicycle Collective, 506 E. Sixth St., at 3 p.m. on Oct. 16, referencing a theft. Between [...]
Read More →The bar is always open A 61-year-old Texas man who was admitted to a hospital appearing to be falling-down-drunk, despite denying having had even a single drink, was discovered to [...]
Read More →Luck, hard work and the power of “Pray”
Nashville-based three-piece Sweetwater Rain came about through a combination of luck and attrition. “We had done different projects under the same management,” said guitarist Fred Stallcup in a phone interview. [...]
Read More →Slave porn
“12 Years a Slave” 0 stars Rated R 133 minutes Drama Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender Steve McQueen is not a storyteller. He is an exploitation filmmaker [...]
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