Posted March 05, 2014in Belly Up To...
“Oh great. It’s a cop bar.” That was my friend’s first reaction when I invited him to belly up with me at the new Honors Lounge in Clive. And to be honest, it was my first notion, too, after a quick creep on Honors’ Facebook page turned up the bar’s
Read More →Amount: $6,250 To: Downtown Community Alliance For: Payment for the Enhanced Parking System project, as per contractual agreement. Amount: $100,185 To: East Village Growth Partners LLC For: Payment for contracted construction work for Apartments and Commons space (Graham Construction Company). Amount: $19,848 To: Edwards For: Cost of printing
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Posted March 05, 2014in Locker Room
Board games have a public-image problem. This is likely because many remember their childhood and being forced to play “Monopoly” according to rules set by their siblings instead of by the instructions. Who would want to subject themselves to that again? More than you might expect, as a steadily increasing
Read More →When improv comedy works, it suggests an eruption of ping-pong balls. The players start with something ordinary, and without so much as costumes or props, they wind up rocketing off in all directions. That’s when it works, of course, and the good news about “Whirled News Tonight,” the improv troupe
Read More →Pharrell Williams “G I R L” Black Lot/Columbia This is how far feminism has come in the music industry: After helping out on Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” — a date rape fantasy masquerading as a song, featuring lines like, “I’ll give you something big enough to tear that ass in
Read More →Prison Blues Norway’s prison system is regarded as among the most inmate-friendly in the world, but convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik is still not impressed. Breivik, serving 21 years for bomb-and-gun attacks that killed 77 people in 2011, may already enjoy amenities unheard of for a comparable American murderer. Still
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Iowa governor: a job description
Charles Ruhl is a member of one of Iowa ‘s multi-generational aristocracies. His habitual crimes added up to stealing $1.3 million of his partners’ money. A federal judge in Scott County agonized over his “harsh” one year sentence in order to teach him a lesson. He walked out of the
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