Iowa’s water problems need solved
Twelve years ago, we set out with our young children to spend a weekend at Clear Lake, anticipating camping, swimming, canoeing and building sand castles. When we arrived, the lake [...]
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Posted April 29, 2015in Your View
Posted April 29, 2015in Duffy
Posted April 29, 2015in Sound Circuit
Keep rolling
Sometimes all a band needs is a linchpin. When drummer Pat Curtis joined the Monday Mourners a little over a year ago, he realized that he walked into a band [...]
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Posted April 29, 2015in News of the Weird
World’s worst sculptor
It seemed like a good idea when the town of Celoron, New York, agreed in 2009 to pay for a bronze statue honoring the village’s only celebrity. Lucille Ball had [...]
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Posted April 29, 2015in Book Review
‘Descent’
Iowa City native Tim Johnston has received very well-deserved rave reviews for his first adult novel, “Descent.” This page-turning thriller with its deeply developed characters and intense situations is one [...]
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Posted April 29, 2015in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in…
Paid on April 15 Amount: $5,483.40 To: Accelerated Rehabilitation Centers (Illinois) For: Capitated services in the month of March Amount: $957.20 To: Accountemps For: Compensation for a temporary employee Amount: [...]
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Posted April 29, 2015in Tech Talk
Big tech buys vs. leasing
One of the scariest things about being an adult is making large purchases. With every high-ticket item — be it houses, cars, refrigerators, washers or dryers — every buy reminds you [...]
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Posted April 29, 2015in Center Stage
More magic than math
Even as the U.S. tour of “The Lion King” is finishing its run in Cincinnati, it’ll start setting up in Des Moines. The show travels with “a dupe,” as Ken [...]
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Posted April 29, 2015in Sound Check
Prettygirlhatemachine “Real is a Joke” Independent Do not let anybody tell you that there is not good hip hop coming out of Des Moines. Now, as it turns out, some [...]
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Posted April 29, 2015in Political Mercury
A rural Iowa heart beats in the Minnesota woods
The expansive, seemingly borderless roam of Northern Minnesota is the setting for “Heart of Wilderness,” an independent film that explores a claustrophobic blue-collar marriage strained by broken promises, deception and [...]
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