Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves,” has recently reprinted her 1998 publication, “Black Glass.” With these 15 short stories, novelist Fowler delivers an inventive, provocative collection. The title story is the lengthiest and perhaps the most elaborate. With innovative fashion, Fowler
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Posted October 14, 2015in Locker Room
“Over and over, athletes tell us it’s the support of the community and the welcome they get from the volunteers and even the spectators,” said Elizabeth Keest Sedrel, IMT Des Moines Marathon public relations. “We’re a big race — 10,000 athletes the past few years — with a very small-town
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Posted October 14, 2015in Food Dude
Iowa’s love affair with pizza is so intense today that young people can barely believe it when grandparents tell them about a day in the 1950s when they discovered the new miracle of baked flatbread with sauce, cheese and other toppings. Today pizza is being made from scratch in convenience
Read More →The third annual Music University kicks off this weekend at Drake University. In three short years, the Des Moines Music Coalition (DMMC) has streamlined Music University, honing its focus and making what it believes to be a more effective, better event. “It’s sort of an overwhelming thing to try and
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Posted October 14, 2015in The Sound
Mary Chapin Carpenter started her career in country music, taking home five Grammy Awards and a pair of Female Vocalist of the Year CMA awards for her efforts. But as the 1990s gave way to the early 2000s, Carpenter’s music moved further and further away from those roots and gradually
Read More →Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “The bumper sticker reads, ‘My other car is a palomino.’ ” –Jeni N. Runners-up: “These horse flies are getting to be a real nuisance!” -Richard M. “I don’t care how many horses you
Read More →Paid on Oct. 1 Amount: $705.30 To: MidAmerican Energy For: Electric charges Amount: $53.86 To: OfficeMax (Kansas) For: Various supplies Amount: $714.25 To: G & L Clothing Commercial For: Multiple clothing items Amount: $116.42 To: Ingram Library Services (Missouri) For: Various items for the Des Moines Public Library Amount: $90
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Posted October 14, 2015in Civic Skinny
It sounded too good to be true. And, alas, it was. The best show in town this fall could have been on Nov. 5 at Drake University, with lawyers Jerry Crawford and Doug Gross squaring off for the first time in a courtroom. Republican Gross and Democrat Crawford are old
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Posted October 14, 2015in Film Review
Hollywood takes a lot of flak for releasing so many reboots and remakes of the same, tired material. But sometimes there can be a fresh take on an old property that completely changes how you view a story and offers new insights that you would have never come to on
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Posted October 14, 2015in Tech Talk
Connoisseurs of late 1990s television might remember a certain VH1 roundtable discussion show, “The List,” which basically laid the blueprint for modern Internet content. The concept of the show was simple enough: A host and four celebrity guests discuss and rank the quality of people, places and things based on
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