Paul Simon is coming to the Des Moines Civic Center for a show on May 18. Tickets went on sale last week and are available at the Civic Center box office or through Ticketmaster. Slipknot is returning to Des Moines for the first time in more than seven years to
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Posted March 02, 2016in Sound Notes
Posted March 02, 2016in Tech Talk
Customer experience is about to become a cable priority
Some things in life are painfully inescapable. If you’re a parent, at some point you inevitably become your child’s nemesis. No matter how friendly you are with your boss, on occasion you will see him or her as a brainless stooge. Finally, if you are a cable subscriber, without fail,
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Posted March 02, 2016in Civic Skinny
Divorce terms give Tom Miller an incentive to run again.
Attorney General Tom Miller apparently is about to hire Mari Culver for a top job in the AG’s office. Culver, the wife of former governor Chet Culver, has long been with the Duncan Green firm in Des Moines. Though she has been a trial lawyer, the job she is likely
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Posted March 02, 2016in Political Mercury
Dreams of Eisenhower in Trump’s mad reality
Whether followed tweet by tweet, or consumed in more middle-aged fashion on cable TV loops, the Republican free-for-all is showing kids exactly how to fight a bully. Don’t run to the authorities (the GOP party boss or the principal as it were). Don’t complain or lament the loss of higher ground, the
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Posted March 02, 2016in Center Stage
From confrontation to communication
During the past six months, the best performance in a Des Moines production may have come from an African-American. Aaron Smith, in “A Soldier’s Play,” drew audiences into a howling private torment. Yet he was working under a death threat. “Before opening night, we got a terrifying phone call. The
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Posted March 02, 2016in Film Review
Flying high
Disney has done consistently well when it comes to its live-action films and adaptations of feel-good true stories — sports stories in particular. These films are not always Oscar-worthy entries, nor are they guaranteed to necessarily stay exactly true to their source material, but they have just enough truth to
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Posted March 02, 2016in On the Move
Mo money
The big downtown convention hotel that is slated to be built soon and connected to the Iowa Events Center was approved for an additional $10-million guarantee by the Des Moines City Council last week. This is on top of the $14.2 million already committed by the city in the form
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Posted March 02, 2016in What the?
Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com This week’s winner: “Peter Peter Pumpkin eater. Made a bet but couldn’t beat her. His wife was smart and also right. She knew the gourd was too big a bite.” – Howard Rye Runner’s Up: “Todd demonstrates how to
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Posted March 02, 2016in On The Tube
Politics as usual
“The Family” Thursday, March 3 (ABC) Series Debut: ABC has only launched a single winner in the 2015-16 TV season: “Quantico” (aka “Federal Beautiful Investigators,” aka “How to Get Away With Homeland,” which returns March 6, if you were wondering). Everything else has been DOA, and “The Family” will likely
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Posted March 02, 2016in Sound Check
Bonnie Raitt “Dig in Deep” Redwing Records Bonnie Raitt stands as one of the greatest counter-arguments to those who say that great musicians have to write their own music. For much of her career, Raitt’s strength has not been in penning her own songs, but in taking someone else’s work
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