Posted October 28, 2015in Cover Story
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. But not anymore. Society’s lust for a good scare now stretches well beyond a single day of the year. For
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Posted October 28, 2015in Locker Room
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 out of Sleepy Hollow’s Haunted Scream Park. The newest flagship attraction, called “Black Ops: Zombie Paintball,” is Sleepy Hollow’s twist
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Posted October 28, 2015in Food Dude
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 James Beard Awards chefs. Because relatively smaller venues are available, interesting offbeat genres have a place in the village. Open
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Posted October 28, 2015in Civic Skinny
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 in 2012 and was pretty well trounced, getting just 41.4 percent of the vote. He is running again next year.
Read More →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 Urbandale. The new owners, Chris Van Horn, Chris Lynch and Jeremy Paine, have updated the bar’s look and added new
Read More →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 be easy to overlook or marginalize. And, like disco, the pair’s sound can be a bit saccharine at times but
Read More →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 will. Outside of that track, “Confident” is the next step in Lovato’s progression from wholly owned subsidiary of the Disney
Read More →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 course you are a fan of either team. Then it might as well be the Super Bowl. The Detroit Lions,
Read More →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 regard to a dispute between Miller and two women. Reports said Miller was “aggressive and uncooperative” when they arrived. Police
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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 polling about where undeclared candidates do. But in a demonstration that even a blind hog finds an occasional acorn, the
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