Prince “HITnRUN Phase Two” NPG Let’s be honest, there was a long stretch of time when Prince stunk. He went experimental and developed a bad habit of publishing literally every musical thought that went through his head, no matter how malformed or unready it might have been. “HITnRUN Phase Two”
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Posted January 13, 2016in Sound Check
Posted January 13, 2016in Your Money
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Paid on Nov. 16, 2015 Amount: $79.20 To: Brown & Saenger For: Media supplies Amount: $23,058.61 To: City of Ankeny For: Fingerpringing/fuel Amount: $5,000 To: Mark J. Becker & Associates LLC For: Service Amount: $55.10 To: Carolina Biological Co. For: Instructional supplies Amount: $30.76 To: Federal Express For: Postage Amount:
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Posted January 13, 2016in Belly Up To...
Juniper Moon brings elegance to Des Moines
As young men, the owners of Juniper Moon each had a favorite Des Moines restaurant, bar and place to hang out. Now they have their own bar that Des Moines natives can call home, but it’s quite different than any other in Des Moines. Joe McConville, Daniel Smith, Josh Holderness
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Posted January 13, 2016in The Sound
Doing it their way
7 Minutes in Heaven has taken a few unique turns to get to where it is today. And while the band’s profile is still on the rise, the one thing that remains constant is its confidence in doing things its own way. “Being a DIY band is very interesting,” said
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Posted January 13, 2016in Civic Skinny
‘Check our progress,’ Branstad said. So Cityview did.
Five years ago, when Gov. Terry Branstad resumed office after a 12-year pause, he said the budget practices of the past — presumably he meant under Govs. Tom Vilsack and Chet Culver — amounted to “a mountain of broken promises.” He said that, in contrast, the Branstad administration would not
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Posted January 13, 2016in Your View
Votes shouldn’t have been a surprise
Civic Skinny seemed surprised by the “no” votes by Congressmen David Young and Steve King as well as Senators Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst to the $1.1 trillion in government funding for the current fiscal year. He mentioned being “particularly “ surprised by the “no” vote by first-term Young even though
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Posted January 13, 2016in Locker Room
Let’s go snowshoeing
Well, we knew it was coming, didn’t we? Sure, we got our white Christmas and ice-covered New Year, but now it’s January in Iowa, and the winds are a blowin’. Instead of doing your best bear impression, sweep the crumbs off your shirt and throw on a coat because it’s
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Posted January 13, 2016in On The Tube
Re-alienated
“Colony” Thursday, Jan. 14 (USA) Series Debut: Set in a dystopian near-future, “Colony” stars Josh Holloway (“Lost”) as a hunky ex-FBI agent torn between aiding mysterious alien overlords’ Earth minions in keeping a lid on Los Angeles (for the strong-armed safety of his family) and remaining with his fellow facial-hair
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Posted January 13, 2016in Sound Circuit
Des Moines’ Maytag man
A little more than a year ago, Dustin Smith started a new project. After having performed solo and having founded Dustin Smith & The Sunday Silos with his best friend Paige Harpin, Smith was ready for the next step in his sound. “The more I look back at The Sunday
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Posted January 13, 2016in Rap Sheet
Two of a kind
Ex-NFL star and first-round pick in the 2012 draft, Justin Blackmon, was arrested for DUI in December. This is the second DUI in three years for the 25-year-old, who was busted at 4:45 a.m. on a Saturday in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, back in Iowa, Didier Musore, 26, was also arrested after
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