Posted September 30, 2015in Duffy
Posted September 30, 2015in Once Upon A Time
From the Des Moines City Council minutes
100 years ago (October 1915): Major event this month detailing the “Street Car Franchise,” requiring compromise, a new contract and Council Resolution. Just as important was the permission granted to the Des Moines Commercial Club to have traffic closed for three days on East Fifth Street between Locust and Grand
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Posted September 30, 2015in News of the Weird
From Cuba, with love
One of the remaining 116 Guantanamo Bay prisoners (a man suspected of having been close to Osama bin Laden) has a dating profile on Match.com captioned “detained but ready to mingle,” the man’s lawyer Carlos Warner told Al Jazeera America in September. Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani has relentlessly proclaimed his innocence,
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Posted September 30, 2015in Game Day
Minnesota Vikings (2-1) vs. Denver Broncos (3-0) When: Sunday, Oct. 4 Where: Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Denver, Colorado Kickoff: 3:25 p.m. CST The Minnesota Vikings have looked like a formidable team with wins against the Detroit Lions and the San Diego Chargers the past two weeks after laying
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Posted September 30, 2015in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Rubio is viable, in double digits, and not peaking early
Anyone who follows politics with even a challenged attention span can quickly summon from memory banks the basics of the 1960 presidential debates: Nixon sweating; Kennedy charming. Nixon, as the popular and conventional history goes, did better on the radio. In the last Republican presidential debate, the one with the candidates
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Posted September 30, 2015in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in…
Paid during the month of September Amount: $286.38 To: Academy Roofing & Sheet Metal Co. For: Repaired leaks in the wrestling room Amount: $3,913.76 To: Whitfield’s Lawn and Garden Specialist For: Landscaping services Amount: $183,625 To: Berg Audio & Video For: Epson Projector 595Wi Amount: $170 To: CIML For: 2015-16
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Posted September 23, 2015in Cover Story
100 Favorite Bars
When people see the cover of this issue, they sometimes ask, “100 bars? Isn’t that pretty much all of them in Des Moines?” Those people clearly don’t know the metro area very well. The Des Moines area is home to hundreds — plural — of bars, restaurants and other quirky places
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Posted September 23, 2015in Locker Room
Spend time with heroes
It’s not often you’ll see a mainstream sport like softball in the Locker Room, but some events are too good to pass up. Watch as heroes from around the nation step up to the plate for the third annual Charity Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Tournament, presented by Jethro’s BBQ on
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Posted September 23, 2015in News of the Weird
Your English teacher was right
In September, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery concluded that records of an investigation need not be released to the Memphis City Council — because there was no comma. The law requires the records’ release “only in compliance with a subpoena or an order of a court.” Slatery said if there
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Posted September 23, 2015in Sound Circuit
Getting into the head of MarKaus
MarKaus knows that Des Moines does not have the best relationship with hip-hop. The Kansas City-born MC has been a resident of Des Moines for the past four years and has watched the town’s hip-hop scene grow and change during that time. He has also seen the stagnation. “I feel
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