Here’s Johnny!
It has been really difficult to take Johnny Depp seriously for much of the 21st century. The first “Pirates of the Caribbean” film came out in 2003. Since then, Depp [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Film Review
Posted September 23, 2015in Joe's Neighborhood
A rack of clothes
“I don’t have any trinkets under the counter,” the man says as he looks at me, cheekbones smiling, eyes soft, freckles splattered across his face. “I only have service.” He [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Featured Story, Food Dude
Paula’s sweet nostalgia
Lunch counters have gone the way of soda fountains. When most folks liked Ike, and Ozzie & Harriet ruled the airwaves, both genres were ubiquitous. Then teenagers found less innocent [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in What the?
Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “Roll, roll, roll your bike Quickly down the hill. Bear-ly, bear-ly, bear-ly, bear-ly, [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in On the Move
Twisted Vine Brewery to move into West Des Moines space
Twisted Vine Brewery currently operates in a small corner of the Madison County Winery in St. Charles, but it will soon move into its own larger space in West Des [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in…
Paid on Sept. 9 Amount: $144.32 To: Schneider Graphics Inc. For: Signs and installation services Amount: $10.71 To: American Marking For: One black and white nameplate Amount: $30.40 To: ITB [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Rap Sheet
Two of a kind
Not one to stay out of the headlines, Aldon Smith was charged on Sept. 11 with DUI with prior conviction and refusal to submit to chemical test, hit and run [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Featured Story, On The Tube
Vegas, Baby!
“The Player” Thursday, Sept. 24 (NBC) Series Debut: Phillip Winchester (“Strike Back”) plays Alex Cane, an ex-FBI operative now working as a Las Vegas security consultant who’s approached by the [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in The Sound
Toro! Toro! Toro!
Toro y Moi (Columbia, South Carolina-born Chaz Bundick) is not the kind of guy for whom general labels mean much. In a way, that is good. Bundick is credited as [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Book Review
‘The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789’
Joseph Ellis has written a very readable history on the development of the Constitution of the United States, a process he termed the second American Revolution. He notes that the [...]
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