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Read More →Nickelback, slated to play at Wells Fargo Arena next week, has canceled the rest of its current tour. Front man Chad Kroeger has developed cysts on his vocal chords and is on vocal rest until at least the end of the month, pending surgery. No makeup dates are in the
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Posted July 01, 2015in Political Mercury
Martin O’Malley can’t spot any Orioles these days in Baltimore, the city he served as mayor for eight years. Climate change chased the birds away, he said. On an acreage 1.5 miles southeast of Roselle, O’Malley, a Democratic presidential candidate, searched the trees Sunday afternoon for his beloved bird. He thought he
Read More →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 winner: “Soccer mom Sally had a first grader, a third grader, a
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Posted July 01, 2015in Tech Talk
When cell phone technology first made its public debut in the early 1980s, the technology was revolutionary. Sure, there had been mobile two-way radios, but nothing like the ability to walk down the street with a cordless phone in your hand and make a cross-planet call. But as with all
Read More →Stationery and history — this is sure to be a big hit for stationery aficionados. Those various items you find on your desk every day, how did they come to be? And why did they come to be? Although the book starts out as advertised — the history of the
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Posted July 01, 2015in Film Review
It can be easy to fault “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” for its non-titular characters. Everyone of them is an over-earnest caricature of themselves. Molly Shannon plays a long-suffering, heavy-drinking single mom who is going through a tough time and gets through it by flirting with the high
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Posted July 01, 2015in Locker Room
Think you’ve got agility skills behind the wheel? Is Johnny Law preventing you from testing your grit as a driver? Not this time. The Goodguys 24th Heartland Nationals will be rolling into the Iowa State Fairgrounds this Fourth of July weekend. This is your opportunity to test that classic ride
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Posted July 01, 2015in Duffy
Posted July 01, 2015in Civic Skinny
Dave Chivers, the new publisher of The Des Moines Register, has his work cut out for him. Audited figures show the newspaper’s slide in circulation is continuing unabated. In the quarter ended March 31, print circulation of the Sunday Register was 132,544. That’s down 13,330 from the year-earlier figure of
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