Posted June 15, 2016in Book Review
I love books as art — thick, heavy books with deckled pages, tons of glossy pictures and a cover that just screams, “Read Me.” The cultural phenomenon that is the Broadway hit play, “Hamilton: The Revolution,” seems tailor-made for just such a book. Lin-Manuel Miranda is brash, insightful, hilarious
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Posted June 15, 2016in Film Review
How much enjoyment you get out of “Warcraft” is going to depend heavily on how familiar you are with the source material. “Warcraft” is a film based upon the spectacularly successful Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) “World of Warcraft,” a game that revolutionized how online games are played,
Read More →Darren Collison, 29, a point guard for the Sacramento Kings, was arrested on May 30 on a domestic violence charge. Police were summoned to the athlete’s home by a woman who had visible injuries and arrested Collinson for the domestic abuse and unrelated outstanding warrants. The Sacramento Kings condemned
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Posted June 15, 2016in The Sound
Scotland-born KT Tunstall had her two most recognizable hits right out of the gate with the singles “Suddenly I See” and “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” from her 2004 debut album, “Eye to the Telescope.” And while those hits have become the signature songs in her catalog, perhaps the
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Posted June 15, 2016in Sound Circuit
When Dust Radio was first formed, the project began as something of a local super group. Guitarist James Nicholson started what is now Dust Radio with High Crest duo Kat Darling and Aaron Earl Short, and Brother Trucker’s Lyle Hogue and John Conklin. Over time, those four would be replaced
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Posted June 15, 2016in Tech Talk
There have been two major camps throughout the history of comic books — D.C. and Marvel. Comic book fans were traditionally in one camp or the other. You were either with Spiderman or Superman (or, I guess, Batman if that’s all you care about). There were major fanboy delineations between
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Posted June 15, 2016in On The Tube
“Aquarius” is back on Charles Manson’s trail; “American Gothic” is more dim than dark. “Aquarius” Thursday, June 16 (NBC) Season premiere: When last we (meaning me; I’ve yet to meet anybody who watched Season 1) left “Aquarius,” it was spring 1968, Detective Hodiak (David Duchovny)
Read More →City of Des Moines To be paid on 5/24/2016 Amount: $15,783 To: REW Services Corp. For: Asbestos Removal at City Hall Amount: $5.16 To: Grainger For: Yellow wall marker paint Amount: $19,879.58 To: US Cellular For: City-wide phone bill Amount: $55.92 To: Jason’s Deli Store
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Posted June 15, 2016in Civic Skinny
Michael Gartner is on vacation. This column, about his father, ran in USA Today just before Father’s Day in 2006. My father never drove a car. Well, that’s not quite right. I should say I never saw him drive a car. He quit driving in 1927, when he
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Posted June 15, 2016in Locker Room
Nothing says “Happy Father’s Day” like a pack of 700-horsepower stock cars barreling around a racetrack at 150 mph, the thunder of their collective engines moving innards and eardrums alike. Such will be the case June 18-19 at Iowa Speedway when NASCAR once again comes to the self-proclaimed “fastest
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