Overshooting
“Delivery Man” 2 stars Rated PG-13 103 minutes Comedy Starring: Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders Writer-director Ken Scott does the same thing twice by repurposing his 2011 French-language film [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Film Review
Posted November 20, 2013in News of the Weird
Worth the Commute Downtown London residences are known to be staggeringly expensive, but media blogger Sam Cookney calculated in October just how much. Cookney said he can live in an [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Game Day
Either genius or insanity
FIRST DOWN Ah, yes. Twitter. Where characters are capped at 140, and I.Q. is capped at 104. The social media world was a funny place early Sunday evening, especially if [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Tech Talk
Android vs. iPhone, who’s the fairest?
For all of its hip commercials and excellent word-of-mouth buzz, Apple’s iPhone is still second-best. Market analysis from this past quarter revealed four-fifths of the world’s smartphone users are Android [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood
Dear Rep. Steve King
Sir, you do not know me, but I write to thank you for all you’ve done concerning drug dealing and illegal immigrants. As my representative from Iowa, I wanted to [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Cover Story
Des Moines’ Sexiest People 2013
It’s time for last year’s winner to hand over her crown. Unfortunately, she can’t. We called her, and she seems to have misplaced it. “I lost it on one of [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Political Mercury
Governor: Veterans can touch ‘Home Base’ in Iowa
A who’s-who list of Iowa business leaders joined military and state officials at Camp Dodge in Johnston last Tuesday for the unveiling of Gov. Terry Branstad’s Home Base Iowa, a [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Rap Sheet
Posted November 13, 2013in Duffy
Posted November 13, 2013in The Sound
Inside Jahred’s Hed
Nobody knows quite what to do with Hed PE. That’s partly because of the band’s sound, which redefines the word “eclectic.” “When people come to a Hed PE show, they [...]
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