Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike we’re ready for your closeup!” -Jerry Stoner Runners-up: “Google Maps Street View — North African Division.” -Scott Ingvaldson [...]
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Posted January 14, 2015in What the?
Posted January 14, 2015in On The Tube
Monkey Business
“Portlandia” Thursdays (IFC) One of the selling points of “Portlandia” has always been, if you don’t like one sketch, there’s another coming along in a minute. In Season 5, Fred [...]
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Posted January 14, 2015in Joe's Neighborhood
One good person, well-done
It’s the voice that grabs your attention. “Booming” seems too violent of a description. And “piercing” seems too irritating. But “arresting”? Ah, the voice does make you stop and look and check [...]
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Posted January 07, 2015in Belly Up To...
Denny Arthur’s: something old, something new
Going out for drinks, hitting the dance floor and chatting up some good-looking people is a standard activity for the 21 to 30 age group. It’s still relevant to [...]
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Posted January 07, 2015in Rap Sheet
Two of a Kind?
Former Major League Baseball player Wladimir Balentien, then 29, was arrested in Florida last January on domestic violence and false imprisonment charges. He and his wife of six years, [...]
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Posted January 07, 2015in On The Tube
New Year’s Noise
“Archer” Thursday, Jan. 8 (FX) Season Premiere: After last season’s cocaine ’n’ country detour, Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) and crew are back in the spy game — but [...]
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Posted January 07, 2015in The Sound
Roots music
Rusted Root has the feel of your hippie neighbor’s campfire drum circle that got a record deal and made it kind of big. They have a kind of amorphous lineup, [...]
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Posted January 07, 2015in Political Mercury
A forceful Iowa icon
Arthur A. Neu, a son of Carroll’s longest-serving mayor who went on to a career in public service himself that included election as lieutenant governor of Iowa, died Jan. [...]
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Posted January 07, 2015in Tech Talk
Let the Internet worry about what you wear
If there is one thing brick and mortar retail has over online shopping it is the hands-on, trial-run experience of being able to try something out before making a purchase. [...]
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Posted January 07, 2015in Your View
Disappointed with Best Of
I just got done voting for some of the Des Moines “Best” venues, items, people, etc. in the Des Moines area. What a great way to honor local businesses; however, [...]
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