Kasey Chambers “Bittersweet” Warner “Bittersweet” is Australian-born Kasey Chambers’ first solo album in four years, and her first music of any kind since splitting with husband Shane Nicholson in 2012. [...]
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Posted July 29, 2015in Sound Check
Posted July 29, 2015in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in…
Paid on July 21 Amount: $1,500 To: Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center For: Other services and charges Amount: $10,000 To: North Des Moines Girls Softball League For: Miscellaneous charges Amount: [...]
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Posted July 29, 2015in Rap Sheet
Two of a kind
R&B singer Angie Stone, 53, was arrested on March 10 for domestic aggravated assault after she assaulted her 30-year-old daughter. Stone told police her daughter punched her in the face, [...]
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Posted July 29, 2015in Book Review
‘The Cherry Harvest’
Featured as one of this month’s Midwest Connections picks, “The Cherry Harvest” is a coming-of-age novel and love story set in Door County, Wisconsin, during World War II, around the [...]
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Posted July 29, 2015in Belly Up To...
Country chic cocktails and cooking
According to Bridal Guide magazine, the No. 2 wedding theme for 2015 is “rustic chic,” while “flea market,” “country style” and “vintage living” are trending searches on the Better Homes [...]
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Posted July 29, 2015in Civic Skinny
Wife-beating charge could complicate plea deal in Sorenson case. Grassley’s money. And Juice.
If you’re awaiting sentencing on federal charges that could send you to prison for up to 25 years but hoping you can cut a deal for lesser time, it’s probably [...]
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Posted July 29, 2015in Food Dude
Farmhouse elegance
The worst part of caucus season is the pandering to outdated rural stereotypes. Event planners import bales of hay, fiddlers and square dance callers to modern Des Moines corporations. That [...]
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Posted July 29, 2015in Political Mercury
Grassley: Trump shows humility in private
Only minutes into a town hall in Carroll Saturday morning, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, interrupted a compliment on his longevity and consistency of service from Dr. Walter Anneberg. “You’re a [...]
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Posted July 29, 2015in Center Stage
Dirty angels kicking ass
For “Rent” the staging is in-the-round. Inside the entrance, designer Tim Wisgherof set up a riser for the guitar, keyboard, drums and bass. The musicians riff and tootle, pumping up [...]
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Posted July 29, 2015in Film Review
Paper cuts
Heads up, everyone: The following review is going to contain spoilers, because I do not want you to see this movie. “Paper Towns” is a film about Margo (fashion model [...]
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