Here comes Jury
Just 21 years old, Max Jury has a world-weary air about him. He’s too genuine to come off as jaded, yet when he does things like refer to his former [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Sound Circuit
Posted March 19, 2014in Film Review
Bloody sandals
“300: Rise of an Empire” 3 stars Rated R 102 minutes Action Starring: Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey “300: Rise of an Empire,” of the sword-and-sandal hybrid war franchise [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Sound Notes
In honor of April being Jazz Appreciation Month, the Community Jazz Center (CJC) will host an 11-hour jazz festival at Java Joes on Sunday, April 6. The event will kick [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in News of the Weird
Sobering Signs In February, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that David Bell could not avoid being charged with driving under the influence merely because he had been sober enough to [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Political Mercury
Governor names Greene County lead Home Base Iowa community
Gov. Terry Branstad’s designation of Greene County as the state’s first Home Base Iowa community distinguishes the west-central county as one of the most supportive locations for returning military veterans [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Tech Talk
Tune in to network TV, but for a fee
The rise of high-speed Internet and online streaming video over the last decade has definitely shaken the broadcast and pay TV business. While burgeoning Web technology has contributed to lower [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Civic Skinny
Kum & Go eyes downtown, Microsoft Willow Creek. U.S. Judges Gritzner and Bennett to step down
Don’t be surprised if the undisclosed site of that data project being proposed for West Des Moines turns out to be the south part of Willow Creek Golf Course along [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in On The Tube
Latino boy makes good, then bad
In a stunning one-man show called “Ghetto Klown” (Saturday, 9 p.m., HBO), John Leguizamo presents a “cautionary tale.” He details his progression from a poor Latino boy to a showbiz [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in…Polk County
Amount: $10,119.65 To: Carpenter Uniform For: Purchase of uniforms for the Sheriff’s Office, including $275.70 for patrol ($2,993.40 for vests); $938.80 for detectives; $4,647.34 for jail staff; $879.93 for court [...]
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42 reflections
The coming baseball season — it can’t come soon enough after such a long and terrible winter — reminds me of the summer day in 1947 when three aspiring young [...]
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