Two of a kind
Ex-NBA player Glen Rice Jr. was arrested late in October after a gunfight in Atlanta. After Rice, 24, was shot in the leg, cops found him trying to leave the [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in Rap Sheet
Posted November 18, 2015in Center Stage
Jumpin’ Jr.
While interviewing visiting New York actors, I’ve been told many times that they began in community children’s theater. The latest was Cedar Rapids native Elizabeth Stanley, now starring in “Bridges [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in Art News
Red Fox out of hibernation
Bill Ludwig is a well-known architect but a little-known artist. He says his heart was always in art, but after nearly earning a fine arts degree at Iowa State in [...]
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Posted November 18, 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: “The Des Moines City Council considers an idea for a new sculpture.” -Dennis [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in…
Paid on Nov. 4 Amount: $123.90 To: Surefire LLC (CA) For: Batteries for rifle scopes Amount: $85 To: Koch Brothers Inc. For: Repair services Amount: $92.12 To: Security Imaging Corporation [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in Sound Check
Kurt Cobain “Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings” Universal Here is possibly the worst thing that “The Home Recordings” does: It comes very, very close to making Kurt Cobain boring. [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in Food Dude
Bonefish Grill
The food business in the Jordan Creek area is so different from the inner city food business that one local restaurateur proposed a moratorium on new chains in the ’burbs [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in Book Review
‘Delicious!’
Ruth Reichl has worked as a chef, a food writer, restaurant critic, cookbook writer, editor of Gourmet magazine and author of bestselling memoirs. “Delicious!” is her first foray into fiction. [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in Film Review
Won’t be missed
Five years ago, 33 miners were buried alive in Chile’s 121-year-old San Jose mine. Trapped in an unstable mountain that continued to move throughout the rescue, in 90-plus degree heat, [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in The Sound
Open letters
There is no other way to really put it: Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSC) is a weird act. The band’s music is not particularly freaky or outlandish. That is not the kind [...]
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