Posted November 04, 2015in Joe's Neighborhood
The youthful-looking man comes out on the stage trailing the announcer. He is dressed all in black, with black hair, black short beard and dark eyes. A dancer for sure, with feet turned out, head upright and neck long. He stops at center stage — although nothing else about him
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Posted November 04, 2015in Duffy
Posted November 04, 2015in The Sound
Rosanne Cash has fielded thousands of questions about her father. More appropriately, she has fielded the same four or five questions thousands of times. Everyone wants to know what influence the Man in Black had on her music, on her writing, on her life. So it throws her for a
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Posted November 04, 2015in Political Mercury
Marco Rubio wants to change the very immigration system that allowed his family to migrate to the United States from Cuba. And the Republican presidential candidate’s call in the CNBC debate last week for a move from immigration based on family ties to a merit evaluation won’t sit well with the Latino
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Posted November 04, 2015in Belly Up To...
When owners Ryan Greening and Sarah Cattoor opened The Keg Stand five years ago, they had no idea how far their vision would take the bar. They began with only 12 beers on tap and were actually performing keg stands on the bar floor. The Keg Stand now hosts everyone
Read More →The pre-Halloween debate gave Republicans an opportunity to pull out all their scary political ghosts (the Federal government is the enemy) and goblins (the mainstream media is a shill for the Democrats). It was a night of bashing anything associated with government and the media (other than FOX and Limbaugh).
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Posted November 04, 2015in Film Review
“Our Brand is Crisis” is based on the 2005 documentary of the same name by director Rachel Boynton. It is the fictional account of American consultants and their morally ambivalent involvement in a Bolivian presidential election. Retired American campaign strategist, “Calamity” Jane Bodine — played exquisitely by Sandra Bullock —
Read More →Lurra Cocina, a Mediterranean and Spanish restaurant, opened Oct. 23 at 1420 Locust St. in Des Moines. The 5,000-square-foot space seats 120 and is open for lunch and dinner. Mike Crownover, who previously worked at Django and Centro, operates the restaurant, and Spencer Vandeberg, who owns a construction company, remodeled
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Posted November 04, 2015in On The Tube
“Master of None” Friday, Nov. 6 (Netflix) Series Debut: Comedian/actor Aziz Ansari (“Parks & Recreation”) plays a New York City comedian/actor who’s a hell of a lot like Aziz Ansari. Depending on your Aziz Ansari tolerance levels, this is either great or terrible news (and nobody’s asking you, “Family Guy”).
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Posted November 04, 2015in Center Stage
When the executive producer of Pilobolus tells me his dancers have “a sandbox attitude,” he says it proudly. “We make all our work collaboratively,” explains Itamar Kubovy. “We’re always, in some way, talking to each other.” Kubovy has helped create a number of the famed troupe’s pieces, and he was
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