What we fear
Horror movies and ghost stories were once virtually exclusive to Halloween, the day in which thrill seekers indulge in haunted houses with chainsaw-wielding, masked serial killers who invoke blood-curdling screams. [...]
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Posted October 28, 2015in Cover Story
Posted October 28, 2015in Locker Room
Zombie hunters
As George Romero taught us, “When there’s no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth.” What no one could have imagined is that Hell’s spillover would trickle [...]
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Posted October 28, 2015in Food Dude
East Village’s latest niche
East Village’s restaurant scene has been developing in its own fashion. Unlike the west side of downtown, small restaurants pop up as often as places with hundreds of seats and [...]
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Posted October 28, 2015in Civic Skinny
Challenger Charleston sues Sheriff McCarthy again.
The bad blood between Sheriff Bill McCarthy and Dan Charleston is spilling over into court again. Charleston is a sergeant in the Polk County Sheriff’s Department. He ran against McCarthy [...]
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Posted October 28, 2015in On the Move
The U Neighborhood Bar & Grill opens in Urbandale
The recently closed Victor’s Sports Club didn’t have its doors locked for long, as The U Neighborhood Bar & Grill opened recently in its place at 7500 Douglas Ave. in [...]
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Posted October 28, 2015in Sound Circuit
Midwest disco
Electropop duo MAIDS describes themselves as “Midwest disco.” It is a fitting descriptor. Much like the land from which Danny Heggen and Mickey Davis hail, MAIDS is unassuming and can [...]
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Posted October 28, 2015in Sound Check
Demi Lovato “Confident” Safehouse Let’s start with a potentially divisive declaration: Demi Lovato’s “Cool For the Summer” is the best song written this year. Do with that information what you [...]
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Posted October 28, 2015in Rap Sheet
Two of a kind
Jason “Mayhem” Miller, 34, used a ceramic tile as a weapon during a fight with police on Oct. 16 when they were called to his home early Friday morning in [...]
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Posted October 28, 2015in Game Day
Detroit Lions (1-6) vs. Kansas City Chiefs (2-5) Sunday, Nov. 1, 8:30 a.m. CST Wembley Stadium, London, England Games like this can be tough to get excited about, unless, of [...]
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Some mental health conditions are easy to diagnose
I don’t agree with much that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has had to say in the Republican presidential sweepstakes and, apparently, not many in his political base do either. He’s [...]
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