Twisted Vine Brewery gets new location
The Twisted Vine Brewery has found a new location. The beer-maker has moved 25 miles from St. Charles to a much bigger space in West Des Moines, where Denny [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in On the Move
Posted June 22, 2016in Your View
Making us all feel great again
Given the recent terrorist attacks — the nine church members in South Carolina last year and now a member of the British Parliament — shouldn’t we expect Donald Trump [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in The Sound
Grand Funk comes to your town
Grand Funk (Grand Funk Railroad, if you’re nasty) became mega-stars in the 1970s with hits like “We’re an American Band” and “Some Kind of Wonderful,” but infighting, personal conflicts [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Belly Up To...
Della Viti — ‘Froyo’ for adults
“The building you are in has a great history.” That’s the first line in the narrative that explains what’s happened in this building, which now houses Della Viti, [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in On The Tube
Killer queen
“Queen of the South” heats up USA; “Roadies” is out of tune. Queen of the South Thursday, June 23 (USA) Series Debut: USA continues to get somewhat browner; baby [...]
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Posted June 20, 2016in Uncategorized
Q&A with Ty Dillon
By Jeff Pitts Meet Ty Dillon. He’s the grandson of NASCAR legend Richard Childress, the man who famously owned the No. 3 car while Dale Earnhardt was making racing [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Cover Story
‘You took away my worth’
A sexual assault victim’s powerful message to her attacker On Jan. 17, 2015, a 19-year-old Stanford University freshman, Brock Allen Turner, was spotted by two fellow Stanford students [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Center Stage
King and fool, rage and redemption
Could King Lear be showing the Christmas spirit? The aging monarch presides over a tragedy — possibly Shakespeare’s greatest. By play’s end, the bodies onstage include Lear’s three daughters, [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Sound Check
New Member Charles
“Rock and Roll Alligator” Independent New Member Charles does the quirky, oddball indie thing properly. It is something that many bands in town attempt, but few manage to do [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Duffy
