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Posted November 26, 2014in Political Mercury

Q&A with Steven Leath

Why should students attend Iowa State? And can they get there faster on U.S. Highway 30? Question: For students with no planned major who are interested in a liberal-arts education, about [...]

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Posted November 26, 2014in Sound Notes

The Metro Arts Alliance is now taking applications for sites and bands to be part of the 2015 Jazz in July season. This season means a lot to the Alliance, [...]

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Posted November 26, 2014in Sound Check

David Bowie “Nothing Has Changed” Parlophone There are three versions of David Bowie’s new compilation album for you to choose from; I chose the massive, three CD, 79-track version, because [...]

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Posted November 26, 2014in Book Review

‘Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion’

Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch Ballentine Books Oct. 7, 2014 Hardcover $25 209 Pages Jon Katz, author of “The Dogs of Bedlam Farm,” also an autobiographical book, [...]

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Posted November 26, 2014in Center Stage

Lunacy as a group effort

Actors, Inc., has a hit on their hands. The Ames company had to put in extra seats, and as their barn-like space echoed with laughter, it grew toasty. Onstage, meanwhile, [...]

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Posted November 26, 2014in The Sound

Bringing the Thunder

Since the group’s inception in 2007, Celtic Thunder’s calling card has been a live show with an eclectic, wide-ranging sound and sweeping theatrical look. This is largely possible thanks to [...]

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Posted November 26, 2014in Guest Commentary

Des Moines: 37 years of change

It was just a place my car broke down on my way to Colorado. All the city had been to me was a name, the place where the paper I [...]

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Posted November 26, 2014in What's Brewing?

Spotlight Founders Brewing Company Just a few miles east of Lake Michigan, owners Mike Stevens and Dave Engbers brew handcrafted beer for the outlaws of radical Grand Rapids, Michigan. According [...]

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Posted November 26, 2014in Joe's Neighborhood

Dear Food Dude

Honestly, I started out blaming you. Who wouldn’t? We were lost. Deep in the vineyards outside of St. Emilion, France. And vineyards are like cornfields — one row of grape [...]

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Posted November 26, 2014in Sound Circuit

We’ll always have Wednesdays

It has been a rough month for downtown music venues. First House of Bricks played host to its last shows this past weekend, and now December marks the end of [...]

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