The owner of The Rusty Duck, located in Dexter, is opening BW’s Burgers at 3701 E.P. True Parkway in May. Brad Waldron, who is also the chef, is opening the new restaurant in the former Patty Pat’s, which closed in January. BW’s will offer 16- and 10-ounce burgers, sandwiches, salads,
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Posted April 29, 2015in Locker Room
Superheroes. These days it seems like everywhere you look — from the movie theatre to shaving razors — you can’t help but see a costumed hero saving the day. While they may not be in our skies, this weekend they’ll at least be hitting streets during the Beaverdale Superhero 5K.
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Posted April 29, 2015in Joe's Neighborhood
The dapper white-haired man sits elegantly entwined upon himself — leg over leg, arms crossed lightly, waist turned gracefully inward. A flower waiting to open. “I started what is now as an international plant society about Gesneriads. That is the African Violet Family, you know.” No, I don’t. In fact, I
Read More →The second Fong’s Pizza location opened on April 21 at 1450 S. W. Vintage Parkway, Suite 120, in Ankeny. The spin-off of the original location in downtown Des Moines will seat 155 and feature 88 beers on tap. The new Fong’s will have the popular pizza specialties such as crab
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Posted April 22, 2015in On The Tube
After “Are you still writing for that paper?” and “Why did I assume you were dead?”, the question I’m most often asked is “So, what’s good on TV?” Sure, I write a readily-available weekly column about what’s good on TV (and not-so-good), and produce a podcast (TV Tan — look
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Posted April 22, 2015in What's Brewing?
We also don’t always spotlight Mexican beers, but when we do, we spotlight Dos Equis. Known for its often-quoted commercials, Dos Equis is a big brand with a small product line. For a Mexican brewing company to make it big with only two iconic beers to its name, that says
Read More →Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “You should see the sign over by the Peanuts.” –Jim McCool Runners-up: “Damn auto-correct.” –Natalie Thoreau Pohlman “And the last little chocolate piggy goes pee pee pee, all the way home.” –Neal Tracy Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption…
Read More →Mr. Gartner’s mention of Bruce Braley bailing out of Iowa after an election loss (Comment, April 16) reminded me of other past politicians who professed an “all for Iowa” loyalty and then walked. Probably none were more blatant than ex-congressman and gubernatorial candidate Fred Grandy. While he professed to be all Iowan, he
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Posted April 22, 2015in News of the Weird
In March, offensive lineman John Urschel of the Baltimore Ravens added to his curriculum vitae by co-authoring the latest of his several peer-reviewed academic articles — “A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph Laplacians” in the Journal of Computational Mathematics. If Urschel can understand, and even
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Posted April 22, 2015in Your Money
Paid in the week of April 5 Amount: $179.96 To: Amazon.com For: Texas Instruments calculators Amount: $140 To: Des Moines Civic Center For: Field trip and other assorted ticket entry Amount: $882 To: Flying Hippo Inc. For: Services Amount: $1,223.90 To: Heartland Technology Solutions For: MacBook repairs Amount: $80 To:
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