Posted May 03, 2017in Food Dude
Analyzing the menus at Sam & Gabe’s and Tumea & Sons When is a comma worth $10 million? When a government dictates “manual of style” etiquette to lawmakers. In Maine, an Oxford comma (one used after the penultimate item in a list of three or more things, before “and” or
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Posted May 03, 2017in Your Neighbors
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Man & Woman of the Year will be announced at the Grand Finale Gala on Saturday, May 20 The nightmare began on Feb. 20, 2013. Tricia Gonyo took her daughter, Ashley, to the doctor. The 4-year old’s body pains were so extreme her mother couldn’t wash
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Posted May 03, 2017in Joe's Neighborhood
My wife is stuck. Having climbed up into the top bunk of the sleeper car, legs forward, head tucked, she can’t unfold. The ceiling is just a bit too close for her 6-foot frame to unbend. And now here she is. A human sandwich traveling to Denver on Amtrak. How
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Posted May 03, 2017in Center Stage
Playhouse board of directors implements a three-legged leadership stool John Viars is happy to break down the numbers. “When I began here, we did six shows a year and employed two folks full-time,” says the man who’s run the Des Moines Playhouse since 1982. No longer, however. “Now we’ve got
Read More →“Whiteout Conditions” The New Pornographers Concord The New Pornographers seems like a band that should have imploded a decade ago. It’s made up of enough successful individuals (A.C. Newman, Neko Case, Dan Bejar) that the band gets called a supergroup, making a Fleetwood Mac-style breakup all but inevitable. The band’s
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Posted May 03, 2017in At Home With
Half-court home court The gym can be a hassle. Parking usually isn’t great, lines form for equipment, and there always seems to be unattended children running around. Looking to shoot hoops? Forget about it. If a gym has a basketball court, it’s seemingly always occupied either by league play, pick-up
Read More →Happy Law Day! Even if you didn’t celebrate Law Day on May 1, there is time to do so now. Law Day, like The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and other meaningful holidays, merits commemoration. When it comes to Law Day, however, praise and appreciation aren’t the first things that may
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Posted May 03, 2017in Lunch With...
Wanting to write this column with someone in law and order, I asked several people in the criminal justice system for recommendations. The unanimity amongst their responses amazed me. Waukee Police Chief John Quinn is so well respected among colleagues, and former adversaries, that phrases like “Iowa’s super cop,” “the
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