Posted May 11, 2016in Sound Circuit
For the past seven years, aspiring guitar players in Des Moines have had the option of learning from one of the best in the business, local guitarist James Biehn. Biehn’s Central Iowa Music Lab (CIML) has been operating across from The Shops at Roosevelt since 2009, and for the
Read More →Comedian and actor Katt Williams, 42, was arrested on April 27 at a suburban Atlanta restaurant. Witnesses told police an argument erupted when members of Williams’ family seated themselves in an area reserved for another party. Allegedly, Williams threw a saltshaker and bloodied the lip of the restaurant manager.
Read More →Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity has opened a new resale shop, ReStore, with its second metro area store at 4033 N.W. Urbandale Drive in Urbandale. The 25,000-square-foot building provides discounted wares to retail shoppers, remodelers and house-flippers. Habitat’s first local ReStore originally opened on Second Avenue in 2003, and
Read More →In Polk County To be paid on 5/2/2016 Amount: $106,494.31 To: Total capital outlays for the period for human services needs For: Department of Human Services Amount: $32,538.65 To: Youth emergency services and shelter For: Human services Amount: $341,899.03 To: Total capital outlays for the
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Posted May 11, 2016in Political Mercury
Donald Trump, the bombastic billionaire who has defied convention, confounded expert prediction, and punctured the business of punditry to obsolescence, now has his self-described large hands gripping the Republican presidential nomination. His speech last Tuesday from Trump Tower in New York City amounted to a rhetorical basketball net cutting for this
Read More →Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “Billy prostrates himself before the Artisan Beer Troll Gods.” Jo Berry Runners-up: “Troll worshipping was on the rise since heavy beer drinking was encouraged to reach that particular meditative state being demonstrated by Tom.”
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Posted May 11, 2016in The Sound
In 2012, Baroness was almost dead. Literally. While on tour in England, the band’s tour bus plunged 30 feet off a viaduct, severely injuring three of the band’s members, including frontman John Baizley’s leg and arm so badly that doctors thought they might have to amputate. Baizley’s arm was saved,
Read More →Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “Tim Burton’s ‘Dwarf Planet Of The Apes.’ ” Patrick Graham Runners-up: “Is a small Bigfoot still a Bigfoot?” Philip H. “Although Harry was the shortest Sasquatch ever, there was no reason why he
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Posted May 04, 2016in Duffy
Posted May 04, 2016in Cover Story, Homepage Cover Story
Twenty years and 1,000 episodes of sports-fueled lunacy on Sunday night TV. In the summer of 1999, I was obsessed with WHO-TV’s offbeat sports call-in show, “SoundOFF.” Every week, WHO sportscaster Keith Murphy and local funny man Steve “The Round Guy” Pilchen would talk about virtually anything people called in
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