A final goodbye
They say that all good things must come to an end. Try as we might, no matter how hard we hold on to the things we like in this [...]
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Posted May 18, 2016in The Sound
Posted May 18, 2016in Your View
The Party of Lincoln is about to crown a con artist
It’s certainly fascinating and very amusing watching the Republican Party attempting to justify, accept and unify around Donald Trump. From the very beginning of the Trump campaign, most Republican [...]
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Posted May 18, 2016in Center Stage
A whodunit gone haywire
At first, “Every Five Minutes” suggests a whodunit. Jay Jagim’s set threatens to drown us; it suggests a swimming pool, blue, sloping away to the far corner. Laura Sparks’ [...]
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Posted May 18, 2016in Joe's Neighborhood
How to eat a herring
“There are multiple ways of cleaning a herring. What I do is chop the head off, chop the belly off, make sure the skin is off, the fins are off. [...]
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Posted May 18, 2016in Locker Room
Kickin it, Aussie-style
There was once a time when ESPN consisted of a singular channel — ESPN. Go figure. There was no ESPN II, ESPN III or ESPN Classic. It was just [...]
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Posted May 11, 2016in Homepage Cover Story
Keeper of the Legacy
Beach Boys frontman Mike Love talks about the good — and bad — vibrations of the past 50 years. It can be easy to forget how great the Beach [...]
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Posted May 11, 2016in Belly Up To...
Noce couples first-class jazz with classic-style cocktails
It’s Tuesday night at Des Moines’ hopping jazz joint, Noce. The three-piece band on stage mixes a cello’s deep bass with the sound of a brass horn and a piano.The [...]
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Posted May 11, 2016in Food Dude
Joe’s relentless pursuit of perfection
I’ve reviewed so many good new restaurants the last two months (Gilroy’s, Kue’d, Jetheroni Pepperoni, Reed’s Hollow, etc.) that readers said I was getting soft. I figured that was an [...]
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Posted May 11, 2016in On The Tube
Catch up!
A few shows you need to watch as TV gears up for summer May is mostly a dead zone of season finales and reruns as TV gears up for [...]
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Posted May 11, 2016in Sound Check
CD REVIEWS
Beyonce “Lemonade” Parkwood “You ain’t married to no average bitch, boy.” Those words, taken from one of the more devastating tracks on “Lemonade,” should be enscribed on Jay-Z’s [...]
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