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 scene and in possession of marijuana and $6,000 in cash. He was charged with reckless conduct and marijuana possession. Similarly,
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Posted November 18, 2015in Center Stage
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 of Madison County.” She claimed she “owed a lot” to little companies in eastern Iowa. Around Des Moines, young Stanley
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Posted November 18, 2015in Art News
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 the 1960s, he switched to architecture to make a living. “I took every arts course I could, everything from ceramics
Read More →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 (Washington) For: Various products Amount: $145 To: American Marking For: City of Des Moines Municipal employee parking sign Amount: $1,723.31
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 Des Moines City Council considers an idea for a new sculpture.” -Dennis Moore Runners up: “New for the holidays: Martha Stewart’s nicotine spice cupcake.” -Heidi Soliday “How clever, Jim worked out a
Read More →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. Cobain was, as anyone who knew him or saw him live will attest, a fascinating individual. But all “The Home
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Posted November 18, 2015in Food Dude
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 and on new independents downtown. While a few excellent locals (Zombie Burger, Taste of New York, Wok in Motion) have
Read More →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. Billie Breslin has left California for New York, where she lands a job as an executive assistant to the editor
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Posted November 18, 2015in Film Review
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, with only enough food to last 30 men three days, this is a tale that’s captivating no matter how it
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Posted November 18, 2015in The Sound
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 of weird we are talking about. Instead, the way that TSO has gone about its business has made it one
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