Three rights do make a left
Michael Gartner’s reprinted 2006 tribute to his father (Civic Skinny, June 18) remains timeless and interesting. It got me thinking. While all of us are great-grandsons to someone the second we [...]
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Posted June 24, 2015in Your View
Posted June 24, 2015in Joe's Neighborhood
Not a shark attack in sight
Boredom is an art form perfected by teenagers, lifers in prison and pop culture. My money is on the teenagers as the pros in that group. When the hapless parent appears [...]
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Posted June 24, 2015in Film Review
Beautiful inside and out
Pixar does not miss. The animation studio has released 14 films before “Inside Out,” and each one has topped the box office on its opening weekend. That is a streak [...]
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Posted June 24, 2015in Tech Talk
Tinker with tomorrow in Maker culture
No need to adjust your television, it’s true — technology is improving at what seems to be an impossible rate. And, truthfully, that pace will only keep accelerating. Since the [...]
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Posted June 23, 2015in The Sound
Guitarists Rodrigo y Gabriela set to dazzle Des Moines
Inspired by the most interesting variety of music around — nuevo flamenco, heavy metal and jazz, to name a few — international artists Rodrigo y Gabriela’s performance this Thursday at [...]
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Posted June 17, 2015in Cover Story
Rock ‘n’ roll road trip
On May 20, I set out on a mission to record, on paper and in imagery, what I thought would be an interesting junket of “wrecks, thugs and rock and [...]
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Posted June 17, 2015in Belly Up To...
Float on up to Latitude 41 Bar and Grill
It’s June in Des Moines. That means it’s hot and humid, and that vacation cannot come soon enough. In the meantime, why not make a trip to Saylorville Lake for [...]
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Posted June 17, 2015in What the?
Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com Enter for your chance to win two tickets to an Iowa Cubs game! Next week’s photo: This week’s [...]
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Posted June 17, 2015in Tech Talk
Google goes unlimited* with Photos
Thus far, 2015 has been a photographer’s dream. Quality equipment is cheap and abundant, picture taking — once restricted to the number of exposures on a reel of film — [...]
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Posted June 17, 2015in On the Move
Rooftop green space gets first step in approval
Nelson Construction & Development’s proposal to build luxury apartments on top of a new downtown parking garage gained a head start in the race to fill the space at Seventh [...]
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