Posted August 17, 2015in Nightlife Photos
Posted August 14, 2015in Uncategorized
Rock and roll all night
There are few pleasures in life that are finer than getting together with some friends, partaking in a few adult beverages and swapping seemingly endless tales about how things were so much better back in “The Day,” that pseudo-magical time period when the cars were faster, boys were tougher and
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Posted August 12, 2015in Cover Story
Takin’ it to the streets
There’s no way around it: Iowa loves bicycling. Hoping to raise money for a charity event? Host a moonlit pub-to-pub bike ride. Want to take a relaxing day trip? Pedal the scenic High Trestle Trail. Taking a week off work in July? Must be for RAGBRAI. No other place in
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Posted August 12, 2015in Civic Skinny
Oops: Grassley’s judge pick for Iowa lives in South Dakota.
“Iowan Leonard Strand Nominated for Federal Judgeship,” said the headline on the press release issued the other day by the office of Sen. Chuck Grassley. Well, not quite. Leonard Strand, a U.S. magistrate in Sioux City and the man whom Grassley proposed and President Barack Obama (much to the dismay
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Posted August 12, 2015in Your View
Trump is a rabbit in a track meet
Des Moines Register writer Deb McMahon has harshly (again, as per usual) hammered a conservative in a newspaper. This time it’s The Donald, referring to him, among other things, as narcissistic. But where’s the perspective? Unlike many progressives, I will concede a point now and then. Donald “is” a narcissist!
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Posted August 12, 2015in Political Mercury
When will the lion’s lynch mob come for you?
Maybe you’re yelling at your kid a little too much in the grocery. You hear your own voice raised, recognize the fault in it as Lucky Stars spill from the cereal box your son, with snot-nosed precociousness, ripped wide. Perhaps, you’ve screamed something at another driver you regret because it’s
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Posted August 12, 2015in Sound Check
MarKaus “White Mans Burden” Independent “I’m graded at what I’m made of/I’m the realization of what Reagan was afraid of.” So goes the opening line of verse three in the track “Down to Earth.” It may be the seventh track off “White Mans Burden,” but “Down to Earth” serves as
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Posted August 12, 2015in Tech Talk
Windows latest upgrade, a downgrade
One of the worst sins in rock and roll is singing your band’s name in a song. Nothing rings more lame or inauthentic, which is bizarre because in hip-hop, rappers are constantly saying their name. In fact, some of the biggest rappers of all-time made a name for themselves by
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Posted August 12, 2015in Sound Notes
The Bone Thugs N Harmony show, originally scheduled for this Friday, Aug. 14, has been canceled. The band has announced no reason, and the Val Air Ballroom was unavailable before press time. No makeup date has been announced, and refunds are being given. The Des Moines Metro Opera has received
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Posted August 12, 2015in Duffy
