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Posted December 18, 2013in Your Money

Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines Public Schools

Amount: $53.72 To: Achievement Products For Special Needs For: Purchase of 25 crossover pencil grips, including $10.77 in shipping fees.   Amount: $268.44 To: Ackley Appliance Service For: Payment for [...]

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Posted December 18, 2013in Sound Circuit

The maturation of Max

Max Wellman was a wunderkind. His first EP, “Comes Love,” dropped in his 18th year of life. The following year saw the release of a live album, and his sold-out [...]

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Posted December 18, 2013in Rap Sheet

On the clock

Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz!   CALL TO CANZ Police were called to Canz Bar and Grill, 2956 E. Grand Ave., regarding a third-degree burglary. Sometime between 5 and [...]

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Posted December 18, 2013in News of the Weird

Yellow and brown values A Swedish TV show, “Biss och Kajs,” found itself in the spotlight in November in Russia, where government-run television apparently used it to send a political [...]

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Posted December 18, 2013in On The Tube

I still love Lucy

What are the odds of a black-and-white 1950s sitcom being funny in 2013? Extremely low — unless the sitcom is “I Love Lucy.” In the “I Love Lucy Christmas Special” [...]

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Posted December 18, 2013in Film Review

Problem family

“August: Osage County” 3 stars Rated R 121 minutes Comedy Starring: Meryl Streep, Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play loses an hour-and-a-half from its original running time, [...]

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Posted December 18, 2013in Duffy

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Posted December 18, 2013in Civic Skinny

Merry Christmas, one and all…

Twelve drummers drumming… …oh so vigorously for Phil Dorweiler and his many Kirke in-laws, especially Bob and Laurel…loud enough to be heard through vinyl windows for James and Roxanne Conlin…to [...]

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Posted December 18, 2013in Your View

Pubic water supply should be fluoride-free

The League of United Latin Americans of Iowa is calling on Des Moines Water Works to eliminate fluoride from the public drinking water supply (“Troubled Water?” Dec. 5). The public [...]

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Posted December 18, 2013in The Sound

Tonic Sol Fa’s Christmas tradition

Remember high school? For many of us, it was a time for bad skin, Drakkar Noir and a capella groups like The Nylons and Rockapella. Once we graduated and set [...]

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