The good folks at music blog BandBombshell.com have come up with an interesting new series. Every Wednesday for the next two months, the site will feature a different local band performing a cover, with each band taking a stab at the same song. The full lineup is being kept secret,
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Posted February 11, 2015in Sound Notes
Posted February 11, 2015in Your View
Protect our money
Civic Skinny clearly points out it’s much easier to spend other peoples’ money (Civic Skinny, Feb. 5). Politicians Chuck Grassley, Tom Harkin, Joni Ernst, Steve King, Bruce Braley and others all gave nothing or next to nothing to the recent political campaigns. I wish they were as protective of the taxpayers’ money as
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Posted February 11, 2015in Political Mercury
President Hillary Clinton: King’s Divine Right of Kings?
You can’t retract a prayer. But our congressman may be wishing he provided more direction and guidance to our maker should one Hillary Rodham Clinton take the presidential oath of office in 2017. In kicking off The Iowa Freedom Summit, his international political sensation late last month, King read a
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Posted February 04, 2015in Tech Talk
Battle for the Social Network Championship
The Super Bowl is hands down the biggest television event in the country. For six years straight, the National Football League’s season-capping game has broken the record for largest television viewing audience. While the Super Bowl is the ratings champion, it seems sitcoms, award shows, live broadcasts and other sporting
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Posted February 04, 2015in On The Tube
Lawyer Up
“Allegiance” Thursday, Feb. 5 (NBC) Decades ago, KGB agent Katya (Hope Davis) was given the mission to seduce and recruit an American businessman (Mark Cohen). Instead, she fell in love with him and the Kremlin just said, “Go ahead and move to the U.S.; we’ll be in touch.” Guess who
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Posted February 04, 2015in Sound Check
Bob Dylan “Shadows in the Night” Columbia Bob Dylan must be getting bored with just being a legend. Seemingly bereft of any good, new ideas, Dylan has chosen to package together a series of Frank Sinatra covers for his latest album. Consisting mostly of deeper cuts from Ol’ Blue
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Posted February 04, 2015in Civic Skinny
Rastetter and Fred Hubbell led political givers of 2014.
Gleanings from the final round of campaign reports from state and local candidates: Bruce Rastetter appears to have given more money to state and local candidates last year than any other Iowan. All told, he gave $104,846.19, according to reports on file at the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board.
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Posted February 04, 2015in Once Upon A Time
From the Des Moines City Council minutes
100 years ago (January 1915) : Welsbach Street Lighting Company to install a gas street lamp at West 37th street and Kingman Boulevard. Des Moines Electric Company directed to install an incandescent street lamp at 32nd and Iola. West Grand Avenue from 14th to 18th to be made 50-feet wide,
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Posted February 04, 2015in The Sound
Business as usual
Minneapolis has a well-earned reputation for pumping out quality music. Legendary acts like Prince or the Replacements are the most obvious examples, but they’re hardly the end-all. Hit up a club any night of the week there, and you can see the direct descendants of acts like those performing throughout
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A ‘dirty’ deal on those burdensome regulations
By Randy Evans You hear a lot of politicians talking these days about burdensome government regulations. Gov. Terry Branstad is one of them. But a proposed regulation moving through state government leaves citizens with the clear impression that the state is engineering a change that is advantageous to certain businesses
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