‘THIEF’ (M) *** Square Enix PlayStation 4 Full disclosure: “Thief: Deadly Shadows” is my favorite game of all time. It was the final installment in the “Thief” trilogy, and I have waited ten long years for a sequel. Unfortunately, after the decade mark, games don’t get sequels — they get
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Posted March 05, 2014in Sore Thumbs
Posted March 05, 2014in Civic Skinny
Who owns the furniture at Terrace Hill? Agency and mansion’s friends squabble.
The state commission that oversees Terrace Hill and the nonprofit group that raises money for the governor’s mansion have parted ways. It’s unclear who now owns and controls the valuable collection — art and furniture and artifacts — that the nonprofit group has collected, maintained and insured over the decades
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Posted March 05, 2014in Tech Talk
Would you pay $1,599 for a smartphone?
In January, a 1991 Radio Shack print ad was circulating the Internet. It featured 15 different top-of-the-line consumer electronics for the time: a portable CD-player, a VHS camcorder, high-fidelity speakers, a desktop computer and many more. Combined, all of the items could be purchased for just more than $3,000 and
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Posted March 05, 2014in Your View
Nugent is the dirty ‘N’-word these days
The Duffy cartoon appearing in the Cityview (Feb. 27) features a wild-eyed Ted Nugent surrounded by several of his most outrageous and disgusting statements from the past. In one of the most recent insults he calls President Obama a “communist,” “gangster” and a “subhuman mongrel.” There are two totally unacceptable
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Posted March 05, 2014in Food Dude
What’s in a name? Lots at Blue Tomato
Blue Tomato Kitchen is named after a new, cross-pollinated fruit that gourmets are comparing to the legendary New Mexican chile. Created in 1913 at New Mexico State, and improved 20 times, the New Mexican chile dominates that state’s agriculture and cuisine. Iowans flock to Hy-Vee each August when it imports
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Posted March 05, 2014in Duffy
Posted March 05, 2014in Political Mercury
Free fries or a ‘not-gay’ punching pass?
Many gay-obsessed conservatives are no doubt a lot like Iowa Senator Mark Segebart of Vail. They’ve done their “research” about what turns the eyes of otherwise red-blooded Hawkeye State men from the pages of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition to, well, the eyes of other red-blooded Iowa men. They are
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Posted March 05, 2014in Sound Stage
Run to you
Labeling Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams a rock n’ roll refugee from the 1980s is akin to saying the Grand Canyon is nothing but a hole in the ground. No, pause and peer past the eye candy. Inside the grandeur there’s more — much more — and to truly appreciate it,
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Posted March 05, 2014in On The Tube
And a little child shall lead them
A 10-year-old girl named Bo (Johnny Sequoyah) has extraordinary powers, along with being extraordinarily cute. She can see the future, control nature and even save the world — that is, if the bad guys don’t kidnap her for their own nefarious purposes. At the start of the new series “Believe”
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Posted March 05, 2014in Cover Story
Marriage, divorce and solitude
Marriage and divorce have inspired comedians for centuries, for good reasons. In his “Act of Creation,” Arthur Koestler explained that all jokes are creative inventions that must end in surprise. What other institution provides as many unexpected developments as marriage and divorce? Almost no one enters a marriage with the
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