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Posted March 31, 2015in The Sound

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 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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