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Posted June 08, 2016in Cover Story

Pride Fest June 10-12 festival is as East Village as apple pie

    Iowans are famous for being “Iowa nice,” but Des Moines made history in 1977 by way of a press conference where two non-Iowan activists and a slice of [...]

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Posted June 08, 2016in On The Tube

Torrid 10

  10 hot(ish) new series debuting this summer.   “Ride With Norman Reedus” (AMC; Sunday, June 12) Series Debut: The “Walking Dead” star gets his own motorcycle road-trip series because [...]

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Posted June 08, 2016in Political Mercury

In round after round, Bertrand pounds King back on heels

(Note: Douglas Burns wrote this column prior to Tuesday’s primary. It remains relevant for three reasons: First, Rick Bertrand could have pulled off an upset. Second, if Bertrand’s numbers are [...]

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Posted June 08, 2016in Joe's Neighborhood

A graduation gift of 3 stories

Listen, I don’t have an actual gift. And of course I missed both parties. Not to mention seeing them walk across the stage. But I’m an ocean away as my [...]

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Posted June 08, 2016in Food Dude

Wong’s Chopsticks

Suburban strip malls are far less predictable than they used to be. One of the greatest restaurant cities on Earth is Monterrey Park, California, where almost all its many great [...]

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Posted June 08, 2016in Sound Circuit

Davis bares her ‘Soul’

Rae Davis can be seen throughout the city as a part of a number of projects — fronting Rae & the Honeybees; supplying vocals for R&B powerhouse The Tighten Up; [...]

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Posted June 08, 2016in Locker Room

Gable’s way

  You don’t have to be a Frank Sinatra fan to know what Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, a movie and a tub of popcorn, and a pencil and an [...]

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Posted June 08, 2016in Sound Check

  This is the weekend for Pridefest, and there is plenty of music to be heard in Des Moines’ historic East Village neighborhood. In addition to headliners Tina She, DJ [...]

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Posted June 08, 2016in What the?

Think you’re funny?

Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com Next Week’s Photo       This week’s winner:   “Do you think this will suffice for a cover letter for employment [...]

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Posted June 08, 2016in Civic Skinny

U of Iowa hires $895-an-hour lawyers. Culver to the Y? A little lesson for Branstad. And some real-estate deals. 

    Your tax dollars — or your medical dollars or tuition dollars or philanthropy dollars or something — at work: The University of Iowa is about to hire McDermott, [...]

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