Joni Ernst, meet your Snake River Canyon
With all that bread-bagging of shoes and hog castrating on the farm, life for a young Joni Ernst surely didn’t afford a lot of time for leisurely television. And in [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Political Mercury
Posted July 16, 2014in Center Stage
Out of the closet at full, funky roar
Twenty-somethings these days were raised on the Disney Renaissance. The great run began with “The Little Mermaid” in 1989 and may have ended with “Shrek” in 2001. Afterwards, instead of [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Civic Skinny
Sheriff sells Tirrell house; his trial is delayed. That $40 million buyers’ club refund explained.
Marty Tirrell Update: The Tirrell homestead in West Des Moines was sold last month at a sheriff’s sale. The sale followed a lawsuit filed against the sports-radio talker and serial [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Sound Notes
The Civic Music Association has named Peter Stevenson as its new executive director. Stevenson comes to the CMA from his previous position as the director of development for the Des [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Art News
Holy books and chewing gum vaginas
“From Speaker to Receiver,” the Des Moines Art Center’s big summer exhibition, takes its title from linguistic theorist Roman Jakobson’s writings on semiotics and language. Curator Gilbert Vicario explains its [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Cover Story
Bigger. Bolder. Better. Brewfest is back!
Cityview’s Brewfest has become a well-known and highly anticipated event in central Iowa. And while similar beer-tasting festivals have sprung up in Des Moines and across the Midwest, the thousands [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Belly Up To...
The LiFT — your community bar
Going out on a Monday or Tuesday night is distinctly different than going out on a weekend night. On the weekend, you want loud dance music and shots; barhopping is [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in News of the Weird
Rocking ‘Messiah’ Prominent theoretical chemist David Glowacki was ejected from a classical music concert at England’s Bristol Old Vic in June for disrupting a performance of Handel’s “Messiah” by attempting [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in The Sound
Almost famous
People who aren’t Jerry Lee Lewis fans might not know the answer to the question inherent in the phrase, “What made Milwaukee famous.” In the instance of Jerry Lee’s song, [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines
Amount: $13,979.32 To: ADI EMS Billing Inc. (Florida) For: Collections from the Des Moines Fire Department during the month of May Amount: $84 To: American Marking For: Fourteen meter labels [...]
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