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Send us your best caption… email celeste@dmcityview.com Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: This week’s winner: “Spike appeared nervous about which bathroom he would use on his first dog park [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in What the?
Posted June 15, 2016in Food Dude
Happy days return to Prime
The building at 1261 Eighth St. in West Des Moines peaked several incarnations and one nefarious lawsuit ago. As Eighth Street Seafood, it featured live jazz, fresh seafood and a [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Art News
Far from the madding crowd estimates
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli said there are three kinds of lies — “Lies, damned lies and statistics.” Mark Twain liked the quote so much he stole it. Summertime in [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Joe's Neighborhood
Capturing the wind
The 160 acres of black dirt was near Stratford, Iowa. Corn and beans and cattle and chickens and a large garden made up my grandpa’s farm back in those [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in On the Move
Altoona shopping center to begin construction
A new Altoona shopping center, originally planned to open this fall, will begin construction this month and have its grand opening in October 2017. The 34-acre, 300,000-square-foot outlet mall [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Your View
Run, Bernie, run
Bernie Sanders has never been elected to office as a Democrat. Bernie Sanders has always won as a Socialist. Now is the time for all good Progressives to write [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Political Mercury
Patty Judge says Trump will drag Grassley down
In his nearly 60 years of public service — having first been elected to the Iowa Legislature in 1958 — U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley has run on tickets with many [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Belly Up To...
The draw of GoodSons
There are times when you just need to chill. And a good place to chill is at Goodson’s in Beaverdale. “It’s a real mellow place,” says a bartender [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Sound Notes
Slipknot front man Corey Taylor underwent back surgery last week, which will keep him sidelined through the originally scheduled start of Slipknot’s summer tour. To accommodate the recovery time, the [...]
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Better labels, better food
Here’s an option for food manufacturers who don’t want to disclose all that sugar they use: Use less. Food labels are changing. In the past, you could only see [...]
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