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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Posted July 16, 2014in Your Money
Posted July 16, 2014in On The Tube
Take my husband — please!
Finally, after a summer’s worth of awful new sitcoms, I’m laughing again. In “Married,” Russ (Nat Faxon) and Lina (Judy Greer) are a once-happy couple weighed down by three kids [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Sore Thumbs
VALIANT HEARTS: THE GREAT WAR (T) ***1/2 Ubisoft PlayStation 4 Most historical war games put you in the combat boots of a lone super-soldier, capable of single-handedly taking down the [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Film Review
Cultural touchstone
“Boyhood” 5 stars Rated R 166 minutes Drama Starring: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke Just when you thought there was nothing new under the sun, Richard Linklater goes and [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Book Review
‘Extreme Medicine’
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch Penguin Press Feb. 6, 2014 Hardcover $27.95 294 Pages The book opens with the death of Robert Scott on his expedition to [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Duffy
Posted July 16, 2014in On the Move
Hawkeye Hotels hosts grand opening for two new waterfront hotels
Hampton Inn & Suites and Residence Inn hosted grand openings on July 10 for two waterfront properties located in Des Moines on 100 S.W. Water St. and 120 S.W. Water [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Sound Circuit
Really good songs
H.D. Harmsen is a lot of things. He’s a genuinely nice guy. A handsome devil. A snappy dresser. He’s also quite possibly the best local entertainer you haven’t seen. Harmsen’s [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Rap Sheet
Metro’s most wanted NAME: Mario Guerrero-Cordero SEX: Male RACE: Hispanic AGE: 34 HEIGHT: 5’ 8” WEIGHT: 160 HAIR: Black EYES: Brown DOB: 7/9/1979 CHARGES: Murder — first degree Crimestoppers This [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Sound Check
Morrissey “World Peace is None of Your Business” Capitol The title track of Morrissey’s 10th solo album is one of the most eye-rollingly pretentious things he’s ever done. If you’re [...]
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