The Iowa State Fair has announced its grandstand ticket prices for this year. They range from a low of $32 for Casting Crowns up to $60 to check out Carrie Underwood. Full prices and schedules are available at www.iowastatefair.org. Speaking of the Fair, on Sunday, Aug. 23, the grandstand will
Read More →
Posted April 08, 2015in Sound Notes
Posted April 08, 2015in Rap Sheet
Two of a kind
Baltimore Ravens running back Bernard Pierce was arrested on March 11 for driving under the influence. Pierce, 24, was arrested in Maryland early in the morning. He told police that he only had a couple shots, but police reported that he was highly intoxicated, as he failed the field sobriety
Read More →
Posted April 08, 2015in Center Stage
Dream and nightmare
You can thank God you never had a mother like Mary Bricker. Her face set in a grim, seamy square like a box of drawers set with traps, Bricker continues to break down and manipulate her daughters long after they’ve grown to adulthood. “Independence” may be the latest Tallgrass “Dream
Read More →
Posted April 08, 2015in Sound Check
Death Cab For Cutie “Kintsugi” Atlantic Death Cab For Cutie is perhaps the most transparent band ever. For much of its career, the band was content to wallow in the Elliot Smith, doom and gloom end of the sonic pool. Then singer Ben Gibbard found love, and out comes 2011’s
Read More →
Posted April 08, 2015in Joe's Neighborhood
‘Yes, Ms. Griffin’
The school door swings open. A room. Just like any other schoolroom. That is, if your schoolroom was in Silicon Valley and was called Apple, or Google or Facebook. “If I were going to sit down at a dinner with 10 people at the table and ask everybody to draw
Read More →
Posted April 08, 2015in What the?
Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com Deadline for entries is Monday at noon. Enter for your chance to win two tickets to an Iowa Cubs game! Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “After binging on some dead mice, Felix knew he would eventually need
Read More →
Posted April 01, 2015in Joe's Neighborhood
A good man in desperate times
The grizzled man climbs up out of the litter-strewn riverbank at dusk. He hesitates. Flannel shirt wrongly buttoned over multiple undershirts, pants bunched on top of long underwear, a tight stocking cap pulled over a shaggy head with long white hair hanging from the sides. A homeless man. The blackened
Read More →
Time to update GOP platform, ala Cruz and Lane
The Iowa GOP needs to update the party’s platform to welcome what Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas sees as his Christ-driven presidential candidacy and to endorse the mission of David Lane and the American Family Association to make the U.S. once again a Christian culture as God intended. The 2014
Read More →