There are two sacred cows in smartphone-user experience: battery life and constant connection to information. One of the best features of smartphones is the ability to notify users of new content through a background tool known as push notifications. For years popular services such as email, text messages and social
Read More →I’ve always said, the key to eternal youth is behaving like a child — not with tantrums or baby talk, but with awesome moments of pure joy and imagination, the stuff of dreams. The Broadway musical, “Wicked,” is a potent potion to induce such an effect. On Halloween night, a
Read More →I’m powerless to resist a documentary about John F. Kennedy. Though I’m well aware of the late president’s faults, I’m drawn in by his charisma every time. I cheer his triumphs and bemoan his tragedies. And I always respond to images of the assassination, as if I’m seeing them for
Read More →Amount: $990 To: Des Moines Area Community College For: Purchase of 120 Color Workshop books for the Youth Justice Initiative Family Classes at $8.25 a piece. Amount: $70,408 To: GBA Systems Integrators Inc. (Kansas) For: Payment for professional networking services provided between Aug. 31 and Sept. 27, including plant
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Posted November 06, 2013in Sound Circuit
Every band goes through a time of existential crisis. For Holy White Hounds, that time probably came two summers ago, right around the 2012 80/35 Play-In finals. Talking to front man Brenton Dean outside Gas Lamp that afternoon, I got the feeling I was talking to a guy who was
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Posted November 06, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood
Grey is the sky in Holland. It comes in different shades of grey, of course. But grey it is. As you hang out in this world, you begin to respond to the small tonal shifts from dark grey to light grey in ways that may not be mentally sound. For
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Posted November 06, 2013in Cover Story
The seemingly inevitable coronation of Hillary Clinton as the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee could, much like the 2008 election, take a sharp detour at the Iowa caucus. Widely considered the presumptive nominee following her successful term as President Obama’s Secretary of State, Clinton appears all but certain to make
Read More →After reading the Cityview fact-checker article (Civic Skinny, Oct. 31), let me see if I understand this correctly. If I gave large sums of cash (more than $2.99) to a decision maker (state employee) to consider my product, it would (correctly) be considered, illegal, immoral and unethical and, quite frankly,
Read More →FIRST DOWN Somebody up there likes Bo Pelini. Which is strange, considering how folks down at Memorial Stadium seem to be fairly torn — and that might be putting it kindly — about the football coach of their beloved Nebraska Cornhuskers. With four seconds left in last Saturday’s Nebraska-Northwestern game
Read More →At 8 p.m on Tuesday, Nov. 12, DG’s Taphouse in Ames is playing host to the fantastically titled “Night Of Iowa Musical Diversity And Eclecticism” featuring Dark Mirror and Strong Like Bear, as well as guitarist Dylan Boyle and Peace, Love and Stuff front woman Lavonne McRoberts. The event is
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