Fare thee well, Des Moines
For nearly a quarter of a century, Cityview has been a must-read destination for Des Moines’ music lovers. And for the past three-and-a-half years, I have been afforded the great [...]
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Posted March 31, 2015in The Sound
Posted March 31, 2015in Sound Notes
The Des Moines Music Coalition has announced that all of the free stages at this year’s 80/35 Music Festival will be populated by Tibetan throat singers… Indie darling two-piece MAIDS [...]
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Posted March 31, 2015in Film Review
Ball busters
Pint-size producer and documentarian Dick “The Stick” Prix (pronounced “Pree”) is renowned for his ability to take seemingly innocuous, clean-as-a-lilly subjects and find their dark sides. Take for instance his [...]
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Posted March 31, 2015in Cover Story
Urban Livestock
Greg Cabbot started his backyard garden in Johnston with just a few tomatoes, cucumbers and herbs back in 2006 because he wasn’t satisfied with the produce at local grocery stores. [...]
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Posted March 31, 2015in Sound Circuit
Envy Corps calls it quits
Arguably the most successful act not named Slipknot to come out of Iowa has walked away from the recording studio where they were working on their next album and decided [...]
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Posted March 31, 2015in Book Review
‘The Cat Bacon Cookbook’
The Internet may be composed of bits of code and bytes of data, but it is built on bacon. Bacon cake, bacon beer, bacon laced with extra bacon, bacon shirts [...]
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Posted March 31, 2015in Rap Sheet
Two of a kind?
America’s sweetheart Taylor Swift, 25, was cited last week for public indecency. She was reportedly walking around with her midriff showing, and the sight of her belly button strongly offended [...]
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Posted March 31, 2015in Food Dude
Bacon lust bottoms out
It’s been almost four years since American economics lost its biggest food star. In July of 2011, pork bellies were removed from listed commodities traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. [...]
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Posted March 31, 2015in What the?
Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain. Too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, oh what a [...]
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Posted March 31, 2015in Sound Check
Various Artists “Hooray For Branstad” Maximum Ames As the past couple of state elections have clearly shown, Iowa loves Terry Branstad. We might all give him a hard time for [...]
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