Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com This week’s winner: “Frosty, is that a new icicle forming or are you just happy to see me?” -Jason Follett Runners-up: “I want a divorce, Mabel. You’re frigid!” -Quinn Rinehart “Albert gives Wanda the cold shoulder.” -Kurt W.
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Posted January 13, 2016in What the?
Posted January 13, 2016in Tech Talk
Underwhelm comfortably at CES
Paradigm-altering technology is almost always unveiled at a major event. “Go big or go home” may be an atrocious cliché, but successful marketing is rarely built around sneaking onto store shelves. Companies generally pull out all the stops to make sure their new software, gadget, computer, game or software garners
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Posted January 13, 2016in Film Review
Breathtaking brutality
It did not take long at all for 2016 to deliver its first unforgettable film. “The Revenant” follows the true-life story of explorer Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), who is mauled by a bear during a fur trapping expedition, left for dead by his fellow trappers and subsequently crawls 100 miles
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Posted January 13, 2016in Center Stage
Schneider returns to his comedic roots
What really gets actor/comedian Rob Schneider excited is talking about Des Moines. The Funny Bone is once again hosting the comic Jan. 15-16 — his third visit in five years — and to hear him talk about it, you’d think the star of “Deuce Bigalow” was getting his first big
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Posted January 13, 2016in Book Review
‘Did You Ever Have A Family’
As dawn breaks over the small Connecticut town where Bill Clegg’s debut fiction takes place, we learn that a tragedy has occurred. During the night, a gas leak in June Reid’s home has caused an explosion that has killed her entire family. June’s daughter was to be married later that
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Posted January 13, 2016in Sound Notes
Lazer 103.3 has announced that there will be no LAZERfest in 2016, as the long-time metal and hard rock festival has played its last. Once one of the biggest draws in the state, the event had been flagging the past couple years, as venue changes, schedule idiosyncrasies and declining lineups
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Posted January 13, 2016in Joe's Neighborhood
The sledding hill
“Dad says it is your turn to go down the hill with me.” The young girl, her right side dipped in snow, her stocking cap covering only one ear, and a plastic blue sled trailing in her wake, looks up expectantly at the group of three moms standing at the
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Posted January 13, 2016in Duffy
Posted January 13, 2016in Political Mercury
Corn wars: Branstad vs. Cruz
Dr. Allen “Duke” Anneberg has showed up at dozens of events for Gov. Terry Branstad around Carroll County over the past four decades. The retired Carroll physician often registers his fervent support of Iowa’s Republican governor with the ringing of a cowbell. At a recent Ted Cruz presidential campaign event, Anneberg shook
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Posted January 06, 2016in Cover Story
Wasted
“Clean your plate, or you’re grounded.” Just about everyone heard some variation of that admonition growing up in mid-20th-century America. Filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman included scenes with willful children, often orphans, sitting up all night rather than complying. Etiquette taskmaster Emily Post was stern on the subject, writing in 1953
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