Renaissance of indulgent dining
When it comes to food choices, so much has changed for the better here the last 50 years that it’s tempting to think we live a golden age of culinary [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Featured Story, Food Dude
Posted September 16, 2015in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Forcing fat jokes on starvation diet no laughing matter
It’s one of those moments that cements a friendship, reveals character in a longtime pal, makes you happy to be riding shotgun in his car. My friend Matt, a Cedar Rapids native now living [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Featured Story, Locker Room
The race to zero
One in seven American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in the course of his life. That’s one in seven fathers, husbands, sons, brothers and friends. But you can [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Belly Up To..., Featured Story
The Waverly mixes up more than cocktails
Most everyone who’s looking for a new bar adventure is seeking something that sets one apart from all the others. Sports bars and dance clubs are a dime a dozen [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Sound Check
Sara Routh “Black Sheep” Independent The best ideas are often the simplest ones, and “Black Sheep” is a deceptively simple EP. For five songs, all you get is Routh and [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Sound Notes
After the departure of longtime Des Moines Register music writer Joe Lawler last week (Sept. 4 was Lawler’s last official day at the paper, though his last columns continue to [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Rap Sheet
Two of a kind
Former Miss Nevada Katie Rees, 31, was arrested Sept. 1 for felony possession of meth. Rees, who was stripped of her crown in 2006 after nude photos of her surfaced [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Sound Circuit
Welcome back, Roxi
The past year has been good to Roxi Copland. Since we last checked in with her, Copland’s 2014 LP, “Truth Be Told,” has become her most successful album to date. [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Your View
All lives matter
Let it be understood that, like most people, to witness or hear of the death of someone is anguishing to me, even if the individual is less than lovely. Sometimes, [...]
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White supremacy is alive and all too well
A New York Times obituary for Julian Bond, the civil rights icon who passed away this August, described the late leader as a “persistent opponent of the stubborn remnants of [...]
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