The rich, meandering life of Abbie Sawyer
Abbie Sawyer is a child of music. Raised in church choirs by parents who loved all kinds of sounds, music is as much a part of Sawyer’s DNA as the [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in Sound Circuit
Posted October 15, 2014in Civic Skinny
By the numbers: voting and jail statistics. And four Polk inmates who have settled in.
Some numbers: At the end of last week, there were 835 inmates in the Polk County jail. Of those, 128 had been in jail for less than a week — [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in Your View
Hold on
In his recap of the 1984 senate race between Roger Jepsen and Tom Harkin, non-columnist Michael Gartner reminds us that then Sen. Jepsen had “used a credit card at what was euphemistically [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in Sound Notes
The Des Moines Music Coalition has announced the show dates for its ninth annual Little BIG Fest, and this year marks the first time the event has been expanded into [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in Locker Room
Warriors and Nuggets invade Wells
The National Basketball Association (NBA) season is nearly here, and that means only one thing: traveling exhibition games. And while it’s been nearly 17 years since the last NBA matchup [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in News of the Weird
Bionic shoes Police in Japan’s Kyoto Prefecture raided a shoe manufacturer in July and commandeered a list of about 1,500 purchasers of the company’s signature “tosatsu shoes” — shoes with [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in Sound Check
Stevie Nicks “24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault” Reprise As the title suggests, “24 Karat Gold” is a bit of a spring-cleaning job from the Fleetwood Mac front woman. [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in Game Day
Iowa (5-1) vs. Maryland (4-2) When: Saturday, Oct. 18 Where: Byrd Stadium, College Park, Maryland Kickoff: 11 a.m. CDT It took five games, but Iowa finally figured out one of [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in Food Dude
Lucky choices at Meskwaki
The Meskwaki Casino is imbued with delicious irony. The Lincoln Highway’s course was only altered in one place — between Marshalltown and Tama. In 1955 the powers there moved it [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in Center Stage
Making magic with voice and imagination
Onstage, drama comes in three dimensions. The players have heft and the set can trick you into thinking you see a house, a cornfield, a Metropolis. What happens, though, when [...]
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