Royal Blood keeps cool
Royal Blood is tired of hearing about the rebirth of rock. With an apologetically amp-driven sound, the Manchester duo of Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher has been praised far and [...]
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Posted May 27, 2015in The Sound
Posted May 27, 2015in Art News
Changing attitudes
Fiber Sculpture 1960-Present, at the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) through Aug. 2, includes contributions from 32 artists from four continents. Reassembled painstakingly in three different galleries at the DMAC, [...]
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Posted May 27, 2015in On the Move
Sam’s Club opens in Ankeny
A new Sam’s Club store opened May 21 at 4625 S.E. Delaware Ave. in Ankeny south of Fleet Farm. The store is 139,000 square feet, will include a gas station [...]
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Posted May 27, 2015in Book Review
‘The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley’
“If there was a running motif throughout my brief life, it would be the close and present nature of death. I’d known it intimately from the start.” So begins the [...]
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Posted May 27, 2015in On The Tube
Charlie Don’t Surf
“Aquarius” Thursday, May 28 (NBC) Two-Hour Series Debut: In a semi-factual drama about one of America’s most notorious killers, the cop (David Duchovny) probably shouldn’t be more charming and charismatic [...]
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Posted May 20, 2015in Cover Story
Summer Art & Entertainment Guide
Music By Chad Taylor Summer wouldn’t be complete without a plethora of outdoor concerts to keep all the music lovers happy. Though there’s no way we could pack all the [...]
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Posted May 20, 2015in Sound Notes
Bonne Finken has released a new music video for her song “Fall,” and it is a veritable who’s-who of Des Moines music and entertainment. The video features clips of 30 [...]
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Posted May 20, 2015in Political Mercury
King: look to Milwaukee
America, it would seem, owes Congressman Steve King a collective apology. Yes, yes, the Kiron conservative made those comments comparing undocumented Latino immigrants to stray pets. And there’s the infamous [...]
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Posted May 20, 2015in Tech Talk
Yelp is cashing in on your reviews
Imagine you wake up tomorrow in Des Moines, and it’s 1985. Never mind searching for plutonium to power your flux capacitor, how would you figure out a good place to [...]
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The Iowa caucuses versus the U.S. Constitution
For all the red-white-and-blue hurrahs and chest thumping so dear to the hearts of those who promote the Iowa caucuses, it is sobering — even depressing — to consider how [...]
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