This weekend is the date for the Des Moines Music Coalition’s “Music University.” The series of music workshops and events will kick off on Friday, Oct. 18 with a screening of the documentary “Approximately Nels Cline,” featuring the titular Wilco guitarist, in advance of his keynote role at the Music
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Posted October 16, 2013in Sound Notes
Posted October 16, 2013in Rap Sheet
On the clock
Play the “Name that Crime” quiz! THE OL’ BLAME GAME Police were dispatched to Git-N-Go, 100 Watrous Ave., just after 1:30 p.m., regarding a counterfeit $20 bill. The employee had turned off the fuel pumps before the woman who had paid with the bill was able to get any
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Posted October 16, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood
Safe houses and travel
Safe houses are good things to have in your survival bag. Lord, life is complicated enough what with recent droughts, floods, tornadoes and man-made craziness. You need a place to go that makes you breathe more slowly and smile just a little. And maybe where you can ask your mom,
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Posted October 16, 2013in Food Dude
Battledish crowns a king
The idea of visiting several restaurants with a group of people has served me well as a tourist. That’s probably why the great culinary cities have many such tours. Mandi Borst is betting that Des Moines is also ready for such an idea. She is the local franchisee of Dishcrawl,
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Posted October 16, 2013in Book Review
‘Queen’s Gambit’ will leave female readers musing
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang Simon and Schuster 8/06/13 $26 432 pp. Good historical fiction is difficult to write. The author must retell history and immerse the reader so completely in the character’s viewpoint that (already) known facts are forgotten. The reader becomes caught up in the
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Posted October 16, 2013in Game Day
Stoops takes physical, psychological beating
FIRST DOWN The Tuesday Morning Quarterback Midseason Awards are out. Big 12’s best team: Baylor. Wait. Baylor? Who else? Got a better suggestion? Just when you’re ready to jump on the Oklahoma-is-back bandwagon, the Sooners make their usual early season toe-stub. Texas Tech is a cool, feisty little story, but
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Posted October 16, 2013in Film Review
Elevator punk
“CBGB” 2 stars Rated R 101 minutes Drama Starring: Alan Rickman, Malin Akerman, Justin Bartha You have to hand it to director/co-writer Randall Miller for trying to take on the hornets’ nest of the punk rock movement: CBGB’s, the grungy Lower East Side bar that gave punk a home base
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Posted October 15, 2013in Rap Sheet
Posted October 09, 2013in Rap Sheet
On the clock
Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! CANE CRACKED Police were called around 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 3 regarding a robbery at the corner of Seventh and Indiana. A 61-year-old woman was found there bleeding from a laceration on her nose and lips. She said a suspect hit her with
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AG Miller ‘sets the record straight’
I am responding to the editorial from the Storm Lake Times reprinted in Cityview (Guest View, Sept. 26). The editorial misrepresents a number of situations. Let me set the record straight in two of them. The editorial criticizes circumstances surrounding the University of Iowa’s settlement with a physician following an
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