Posted March 25, 2015in Belly Up To...
With bold makeup, big hair and bigger personalities, drag shows provide entertainment for countless Des Moines residents. Man or woman, gay or straight, you’ll find all types of people gathered to watch the shows. The View club has opened in the former Le Boi location, and it’s new and improved
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Posted March 25, 2015in Food Dude
One definition asserts that romance is whatever transports one to another time or place. That helps explain why people enjoy restaurants set in offbeat venues that have been repurposed. Diners seek to escape their mundane circumstances as much as readers of Victorian romances do. Iowa offers many opportunities for this
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Posted March 25, 2015in On The Tube
“The Walking Dead” Sunday, March 29 (AMC) In which “The Walking Dead” pulls a “Sons of Anarchy” and drops a 90-minute finale (though “TWD” has only gone long twice before, as opposed to every episode of the last “SOA” seasons). It’s been ham-fistedly hinted that the idyllic li’l bunker town
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Posted March 25, 2015in Sound Circuit
It has been a bit of an exciting year for Bonne Finken. The Des Moines music favorite released her latest album “Fairytales/Love Affairs” last year and has seen the album garner radio play on college radio stations around the country. She has gotten play on STAR 102.5, embarked on a
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Posted March 25, 2015in Joe's Neighborhood
A knockout is clean and simple. You get knocked down. You don’t get up. It’s all over. No more floating like a butterfly or stinging like a bee. The end. A technical knockout is not so clean and not so simple. The referee calls the fight usually because the losing
Read More →“Bloodline” Friday, March 20 (Netflix) American television treasure Kyle Chandler (you know him from “Friday Night Lights”; to me, he’ll always be Gary Hobson of “Early Edition” — Wiki it) returns to the screen of your choosing in Netflix’s “Bloodline,” a juicy new family drama-soap that proves what you’ve always
Read More →More than anything else, the tech industry desperately wants into your wallet. Sure Amazon, Walmart.com and other online retailers are major online stops for purchasing gifts and other goods, but that’s only the first piece of the pie. Amazon is the unquestioned e-commerce king, and whoever takes them down is
Read More →Kent Carlson’s thoughts on “charming” (Guest View, March 12) have left me wondering whether he may be just a wee bit confused about what the word actually means. On the one hand, he states that “charm goes a long way in winning over people,” which is absolutely spot-on since the
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Posted March 18, 2015in Cover Story
As the use of private, military and commercial drones increase, the debate over privacy, policy and ethics heats up as well. Ready or not, the future has arrived. Maybe not the full-blown starships, flying cars and hoverboards future just yet, but with the advent of publicly available personal drones, we’re
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Posted March 18, 2015in Center Stage
“I never left standup,” says Wanda Sykes. “Standup, that’s my day job; it’s what I love.” And with that, she’s off. Literally. Audiences across the nation will get a chance to see Sykes on tour doing what she does best, including a March 21 stop at Hoyt Sherman Place in
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