Max Wellman has had it with people harping on his age. “As long as I’ve played professionally,” says the singer and bandleader, “there’s been this tremendous emphasis.” The upshot? At [...]
Read More →Amount: $68.64 To: Doors Inc. For: Purchase of six double toilet paper dispensers installed at Saers Park. Amount: $174,932.03 To: Ampco System Parking For: Reimbursement payment for the month [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Belly Up To...
Wedgewood Dining and Spirits is a surprising find on the east side. If you’ve never been, it’s tricky to navigate due to its peculiar location on the short diagonal jaunt, [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Sound Circuit
MaryBeth Doran is familiar with the bright lights/big city approach. After graduating from George Washington University, Doran packed up her things and moved to New York City, where she eventually [...]
Read More →Breeanna, a 17-year-old from Nevada, is on a mission to find her biological father. She knows him only as Donor No. 1096 — the guy who happened to provide the [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in The Sound
Even if you’re not a fan of jam bands, it’s difficult to not be drawn in by the mentality. The idea of a group of people getting together (maybe getting [...]
Read More →Deadnote “Deadnote” Crater If you ask them, Deadnote names acts like Oasis and Velvet Revolver as influences. But when listening to the Ames five-piece’s new EP, poppy, ultimately disposable acts [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Civic Skinny
There’s still a multi-million-dollar shortfall in the financing scheme for a new convention hotel near Hy-Vee Hall, but the gap will close and a 450-room hotel definitely will be built, [...]
Read More →Now that Gov. Sarah Palin has been here (she was a featured speaker at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s 13th Annual Family Banquet) and made her now famous remark [...]
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang HarperCollins 11/05/13 $29.99 589 pp. When Amy Tan found an aged photograph of her grandmother, she was stunned to see that she [...]
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