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Paid on July 31 Amount: $3,140.12 To: Barton Solvents Inc. For: 330 Gallons Barsol S-108 Amount: $11,270.50 To: Family Tree Care LLC For: Stump removal Amount: $264.54 To: Acme [...]
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Posted August 12, 2015in Your Money
Posted August 12, 2015in The Sound
Witchy woman
Stella Katsoudas is no stranger to the Des Moines scene, though a large number of people may not actually know her by her full name. The Chicago native was first [...]
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Posted August 12, 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 August 12, 2015in Sound Circuit
Better late than never
Unlike virtually everyone else in the local music scene, Brian Holtz did not come to music as a toddler, amped up and ready to rock. Instead, Holtz came to the [...]
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Posted August 12, 2015in Rap Sheet
Two of a kind?
Atlanta Hawks forward Mike Scott, 27, was arrested on a Georgia highway after reaching 98 mph on July 30. Scott stopped the car after a two-mile chase, and that’s when [...]
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Posted August 12, 2015in On The Tube
Summer rewind
“Another Period” (Comedy Central) After a meh first episode, Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome’s “Downton Abbey”/“Kardashians” parody became bolder and funnier (and dirtier) every week. It’s “Wet Hot 1902 Summer.” [...]
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Posted August 12, 2015in Book Review
‘The Wright Brothers’
The Wright Brothers, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and an airplane. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Not so, and David McCullough dispels that notion within the first few pages. Orville and Wilbur [...]
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Posted August 12, 2015in News of the Weird
The entrepreneurial spirit
Grande Hotel San Calogero, the planned centerpiece of a Sicilian tourist renaissance, is still nowhere close to opening — 61 years after construction began. It took 30 years to build, [...]
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Posted August 12, 2015in Locker Room
Pitching petrified poo
What to do, what to do? The Iowa State Fair has once again taken over the greater Des Moines area, and for good reason: It’s the Iowa State Fair. Don’t [...]
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Posted August 12, 2015in Uncategorized
Macho Men
On Aug. 18, visitors to the Iowa State Fair will have a chance to take a free trip back to the disco era when The Village People perform at the [...]
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