Posted June 08, 2016in Cover Story
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 fruit pie apparently didn’t get the memo. Beauty-queen-turned-singer-turned anti-gay-rights crusader Anita Bryant, who was in town lobbying against legislation regarding
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Posted June 08, 2016in On The Tube
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 AMC sure as hell wasn’t going to tell him no. “Ride” works well enough as a biker-culture travelogue show, as
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Posted June 08, 2016in Political Mercury
(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 strong enough for financial supporters, he could mount an independent candidacy in the 4th District general election. And third, no
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Posted June 08, 2016in Joe's Neighborhood
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 friends’ boys graduate from Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. It’s a big deal. Will and Henry Gunderson and Eli
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Posted June 08, 2016in Food Dude
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 restaurants are in strip malls. Across America, restaurateurs are taking chances locating in aging strip malls with lots of parking.
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Posted June 08, 2016in Sound Circuit
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; and bouncing between a number of instruments in her cover band, Cover Grrls. But for 2016, Davis has broken new
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Posted June 08, 2016in Locker Room
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 eraser have in common. That’s right: Like love and marriage, you can’t have one without the other. And here in
Read More →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 Pain 1 and Be Steadwell, there will also be performances by local acts Cover Grrls, Run DSM, and Des Moines
Read More →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 at Willy Wonka?” Dennis Moore Runners-up: “When you go dumpster diving in Hershey, Pennsylvania, you just might hit the
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Posted June 08, 2016in Civic Skinny
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, Will & Emery, a Chicago law firm, to “assist and advise” it in response to a subpoena from the U.S.
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