Posted August 31, 2016in Art News
Perhaps because, as Picasso remarked, artists are children who never grow up, the art world marks time to a school year calendar. Summer is for vacation, frivolity and fairs. September returns the arts to more serious things. It is no different this year, although the better nature of this month’s
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Posted August 31, 2016in People & Pets
According to Snapple Facts, it is illegal in Switzerland to own only one Guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness. Jackie Gautsch doesn’t have to worry if her two Guinea pigs — Baby Lady and Monkey — are depressed, because they now have each other. “I have a pet
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Posted August 31, 2016in Belly Up To...
“Obviously, you’re a moron.” That’s what potential investors, lenders and even friends told Anne Mathey and her business partner, Erik Brown, two years ago. The duo planned to put a new music venue into an old refurbished bar and name it after a three-legged dog owned by Mathey. Lefty’s Live
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Posted August 31, 2016in At Home With
“Chickens go insane over watermelon,” according to Lee Ford. As an urban farmer living just outside Des Moines’ city limits, he should know. Ford grew up in East Los Angeles, and, as a youth, he didn’t know how his life would play out. Sizing up the sanity of chickens wasn’t
Read More →“Rock ‘N’ Roll Impotence” Independent Short, fast and raw, the songs on Des Moines (slightly pop) punk band Quick Piss’ new album cling to the essential truth that a good punk song needs to be just over or under 2 minutes. Vocalist Stone Mills seems like he would be comfortable stepping
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Posted August 31, 2016in Your Neighbors
When Julius Bernal sees a problem, he’s the type of man who figures out a way to fix it. And when he sees a weed, he’s the kind of person who pulls it. Bernal is nearly 70 years old, retired, lives in Des Moines and enjoys frequenting the East Side
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Posted August 31, 2016in Book Review
In his latest historical spy novel, Alan Furst brings to life the French Resistance in the City of Light during 1941. Bombers are being sent from England, and numerous English flyers are brought down in enemy territory who need assistance to get back home so they can fly again. Mathieu
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Posted August 31, 2016in Sound Circuit
Last month the Des Moines music scene lost Jimi Scribner, AKA Jimi Strychnine, after a long battle with cancer. If you ever attended a show at House of Bricks, you saw Jimi. He was the venue’s soundman and head chef. He continued with the latter position when HOB changed to
Read More →Husker Du fans rejoice. The Bob Mould Band will be performing at Wooly’s on Sunday, Sept. 11. Showtime is 8 p.m. Tickets are $25. Doors open at 7 p.m. Also on that infamous September day a few blocks away, Gabe Dixon and David Ryan Harris will hit Vaudeville Mews for
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Posted August 31, 2016in Duffy
