Blood, Annie Lennox and crack: a conversation with GWAR
GWAR has been doing whatever it is they do for more than 30 years now. Known for a stage show that is full of blood, bodily fluids and plenty of [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in The Sound
Posted August 26, 2015in Civic Skinny
Slipknot widow accuses artist of theft, trespass.
The widow of Paul Gray, the masked Slipknot bassist who died of a drug overdose five years ago, is suing a sort-of-well-known Des Moines artist she hired to help produce [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in News of the Weird
Cecil speaks
The distress across the Western world in July over the big-game killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe was apparently misdirected, according to veteran “animal communicator” Karen Anderson of Elk, [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in Film Review
The fun, flawed world of ‘American Ultra’
There’s a very subtle kind of genius going on in “American Ultra” — a film that obviously had high goals for itself and ultimately falls short — that has everything [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in Book Review
‘Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen’
In her 30-plus years in the copy department of The New Yorker, Mary Norris has corrected the work of many of the finest writers of the time, dedicating herself to [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in Belly Up To...
Join the club at WineStyles
If you’ve ever found yourself wondering what the difference is between an earthy wine and an oaky wine, or perhaps asked what classifies a wine as robust, the wine tasting [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in Your View
Full disclosure needed
If only the commercials for politicians had to follow the same side effect disclosure rules of pharmaceutical commercials. Instead of “Viagra: It will help men get and keep an erection…” [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in Joe's Neighborhood
The cow days of August
Wet with dew in the morning, dry and dusty by noon, the August grass is course and thin and dying. Even before each day gets too far along, the heat [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in Center Stage
Critical mass and the Cloris Awards
The best homegrown American theater might be here in the Midwest. Few companies have the impact of Chicago’s Steppenwolf, the birthplace of stars like John Malkovich. Yet when Steppenwolf first [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in Food Dude
County Line Café is a classic
An out-of-town journalist recently asked me what turned Des Moines into a significant food town. I said something I had not previously given any thought to: The best chefs and [...]
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