There has never been a better period in all history than present day to be an idea guy. No matter if you have zero coding, engineering or sales skills, the information age is ripe for creative people to brainstorm game-changing ideas and find the right people and funding to make
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Posted April 02, 2014in Food Dude
Pho All Seasons built a loyal customer base on East Ninth Street during the previous decade. Four years ago, the family was told they needed to add a prohibitively expensive grease trap. So they closed their café and moved to Arizona where they had built a second restaurant. Business was
Read More →Amount: $3,787.91 To: MidAmerican Energy For: Monthly payment for gas and electric services for the Fire Department. Amount: $1,885 To: AASHTO Materials Reference Laboratory For: Payment for services for the city Testing Lab, including a basic on-site assessment fee and a soil assessment test fee at multiple locations.
Read More →New Member Charles occupies a unique space in local music. Local bands are usually either the work of serious, talented musicians trying to make some money doing what they love, or they’re a bunch of guys who wouldn’t know a barre chord from a hole in the ground and are
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Posted April 02, 2014in Locker Room
Is it better to be lucky? Or, is it better to be skilled? Many might argue it’s better to be skilled at something, because that’s a better reflection of a person’s talent. Others could argue that luck is a devastating trump card that’s always in play but impossible to anticipate.
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Posted April 02, 2014in Belly Up To...
Clive has a new secret — a bar. Of course, it’s no secret that Clive has a bar. Clive has many bars. But, at Secrets, there’s Rufus. As if you’re walking into his house, Rufus greets each patron at the door with a non-threatening little bark alarm to let you
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Posted April 02, 2014in Film Review
“Cesar Chavez” 3 stars Rated PG-13 101 minutes Biography Starring: Michael Peña, America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson Diego Luna’s second directorial outing is a prudently succinct brief-biopic about the Mexican farm-worker-turned-union-activist responsible for improving working conditions for migrant laborers in America. Timed for the film’s release to coincide with the March
Read More →With “Beavis and Butt-head,” Mike Judge established himself as the bard of mumbling, antisocial, all-American nerds. But Judge tops himself with “Silicon Valley” (Sunday, 9 p.m., HBO), which locates the nerve center of modern-day nerd culture in the San Francisco area’s tech industry. Our hero is, at first glance, anything
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang “The Girls of Atomic City” Touchstone Books 3/11/14 $16 373 pp. The scientists behind the Manhattan Project (especially J. Robert Oppenheimer) are well-known. In “The Girls of Atomic City,” Kiernan brings us the “bottom-up” stories of the workers who actually constructed the
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Posted April 02, 2014in Joe's Neighborhood
Let’s talk about your future. Please. We must. Before things get too far. Sure, it was just a moment ago that you were trudging to class through ice and snow wondering if perhaps the glacier had permanently slid down from the tundra of Mason City to cover Des Moines. But,
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