Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com This week’s winner: “Watch me whip, now watch me neigh neigh.” Jefferson Steelflex Runners-up: [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Uncategorized, What the?
Posted June 22, 2016in Food Dude
Wasabi moves west
Twenty-some years ago, American sushi joints began opening outside Japanese neighborhoods in California and Hawaii. Soon after that, a sociologist published an infamous study determining that, at age 41, [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Rap Sheet
Two of a kind
Farrah Franklin, 35, was arrested for public intoxication on June 2. Franklin is a former band member and singer for Destiny’s Child. The incident began with Franklin arguing outside [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Locker Room
Get up, get out
Ah, the beautiful days of July. Temperatures so high that chickens are laying fried eggs and squirrels are fanning their…walnuts. But unless you’re between the ages of 0 and 8 [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Joe's Neighborhood
Under the umbrella
Do you have a moment today? I know you’re awfully busy. But why don’t you walk under the Crusoe Umbrella. That’s right, it’s downtown in Cowles Commons. No, it [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Political Mercury
Western Iowa town to dog: Git, git outta town City holds first-ever ‘vicious dog’ appeal hearing
Like a marshal in a dusty Old West village, city officials from the western Iowa town of Carroll issued a lawbreaker an ultimatum. Leave town in three days. [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Sound Notes
Radiohead
“A Moon Shaped Pool” XL Recordings There is a lot about “A Moon Shaped Pool” and the events surrounding it that could be construed as Radiohead giving up. [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Civic Skinny
Architect Kirk Blunck had assets of about $6.4 million. Death: ‘Blunt force trauma, manner undetermined.’
Architect Kirk Blunck had assets valued at about $6.4 million when he died Jan. 24 under mysterious circumstances in a stairwell of the Teachout Building that he owned [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Sound Check
The Iowa Blues Challenge held its finals this past weekend at the downtown Mariott Hotel. This year’s winners were Bare Bones and the Jeff Banks Band. Both acts received [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Sound Circuit
No Good Deed heads back into the studio
In October of 2014, No Good Deed released its first album, “Looking for a Mantra.” Now, almost two years later and sporting a new drummer, the band is ready [...]
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