Former president Bill Clinton and likely 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton will headline Senator Harkin’s Steak Fry fundraiser next month… When asked if he plans to eat steak, Bill – who [...]
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B & B Grocery Meat & Deli
Sevastopol (“venerable city” in Russian) is not just the Crimean jewel of Vladimir Putin’s ambition; it’s also an old, local neighborhood where an independent town had existed into the 20th [...]
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Ultimate BBQ challenge
Each year at this time, Cityview launches a search for our readers’ ideas about the ultimate place to go for a certain type of food. Four years ago you chose [...]
Read More →80/35 has announced its show dates for 2015. The only real reason this is more remarkable than years past is because the Des Moines Music Coalition has decided to move [...]
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How did you spend your summer vacation?
The blank white paper sitting on the laminate desk glares back unhopefully. Of course, the early morning fluorescent light doesn’t help, nor does the scratching sound of other pens. Your classmates [...]
Read More →Psychoanalyzing Houdini
“Houdini” begins with a striking image of the escape artist Harry Houdini (Adrien Brody) perched on a bridge, shackled, as he works up the nerve to jump into the icy [...]
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Foxholes — the Des Moines-based five-piece consisting of Trevor Holt, Jessica Villegas, Ben Barndollar, Kyle Folvag and Craig Bowers — is working on a new album of material. In the [...]
Read More →Spotlight Peace Tree Brewing Company Peace Tree Brewing was started in a former car dealership on Main Street of Knoxville, Iowa, in 2009 by owners Scott Miller, Dan McKay and [...]
Read More →Good things come to tech that waits
It seems in the tech world, if you are not an immediate hit, you are destined to be a failure. However, there are those who hang on and wait for [...]
Read More →Two of a kind Former Destiny’s Child member Farrah Franklin, 33, was arrested July 20 for disorderly conduct. She was arrested for the same charges in 2011, with booze reportedly [...]
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