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Read More →Justin Niceswanger “Alternate Reality” Independent Sometimes bad news is best delivered quickly, like pulling off a Band-aid: This isn’t a good album. The most charitable thing that can be said — the absolute best possible spin I can put on it — is, at its very strongest, bits of “Alternate
Read More →Modest Meat The International New York Times edition published in Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 22 carried a page-one story noting increased worldwide demand by meat processors for pigs raised in the fresh air rather than enclosed pens, which was illustrated by a photograph of a cluster of pigs feeding in
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! FATAL CRASH Des Moines police responded to a crash on Feb. 4 at 8 a.m. on the Highway 5 by-pass just east of the Clover Hills Drive overpass. Des Moines Fire Medics and Patrol Officers responded and found one driver dead on the
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Posted February 12, 2014in Political Mercury
Some long-assumed sagacity about success in Iowa politics is this: never say things are going too well on the farm. Considering the last five years, that wisdom, which always sort of played on hayseed characterizations of those of us living in rural Iowa as taciturn head-shakers, is far from realistic.
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Posted February 12, 2014in Food Dude
Seafood season arrived on the first weekend of this month, along with Bacon Fest, the Year of the Horse and the NFL championship game between the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks. Despite the seemingly antithetical relationship between the first thing and those others, all are bonded in mutual dependence. Sales
Read More →Why is the Internet full of lists? Headlines with numbers in them? Pictures filling out social network feeds? And what is with all the random bolded text on the Internet? The answer to all of the above is your brain and eyes. Our eyeballs are naturally attracted to pictures over text,
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Posted February 12, 2014in The Sound
Henry Wayne Casey — the titular “KC” who fronts the Sunshine Band — has been at this a long time. Generally regarded as one of the founding fathers of the modern dance club hit, 63-year-old Casey has sold millions of records worldwide and still books nearly 200 shows a year,
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Posted February 12, 2014in Belly Up To...
There’s a secret place around an unsuspecting corner, hidden beneath the hubbub of hub traffic between the two mall hot spots in Valley West — Younkers and JC Penney. If the two department stores were entrenched in a heated match of tug-of-war, 34’s Sports Grill would be that soft, squishy
Read More →Dustin Smith and his group, The Sunday Silos, are the minds and talent behind some of this city’s best and most intimately soulful sounds. It’s a tradition of talent that is being carried forward over the next few months, as Smith heads to Nashville, Tenn., to record the tracks for
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