Sound Check
Gloom Balloon “Drying the Eyes of the Goddess of Gloom, Underneath the Stars and the Moon” Maximum Ames Records Probably the most polarizing Des Moines act of the last half [...]
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Posted October 04, 2017in Sound Check
Posted October 04, 2017in Sound Circuit
The music of Night Stories
It was a sunny Monday afternoon, and Phil Young and Greg Meister had asked me to meet them at Woodland Cemetery. The location is near Young’s Sherman Hill home, and [...]
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Posted October 04, 2017in Lunch With...
Lila A. T. Akrad at Greenbriar
Lila A. T. Akrad is a patent attorney, veterinarian, dog rescuer, jewelry designer and cancer survivor. She is also the granddaughter of Dr. William Lacy Brown, the legendary scientist who [...]
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Posted October 04, 2017in Couch Surfing
Ian
Meet Ian: a 34-year-old painter from Marfa, Texas. For those who have never seen the Amazon Prime show, “I Love Dick” (starring Kevin Bacon), Marfa is a small artist colony [...]
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Posted October 04, 2017in Sound Notes
Sound Advice
The Vaudeville Mews has a pair of notable acts rolling through toward the end of the month. Indie-pop duo Cults and their infectious tunes play the Mews on Thursday, Oct. [...]
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Posted October 04, 2017in At Home With
Ghosts?
Paranormal expert Brian McGilvra shares his experiences “It’s more than running around graveyards at night,” Brian McGilvra laughs. McGilvra is a professional paranormal researcher living in Des Moines. Growing up, [...]
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Posted October 04, 2017in Belly Up To...
Black Sheep
A titillating tequila bar Black Sheep in the East Village is unlike any other bar in Iowa, and that’s the way Frankie Farrell, the bar’s owner, designed it. “Des Moines wants to [...]
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Posted October 04, 2017in The Sound
Har Mar Superstar gets personal
“Personal Boy,” the titular song on Har Mar Superstar’s new EP is epic. Like eight-minutes-long epic. It’s like a mini “Lemonade” by a chubby white boy from Minneapolis, though Beyonce [...]
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Posted October 04, 2017in Book Review
Book Reviews
‘It Devours!’ Night Vale is a weird little town with a lot of heart. It was first made popular in podcast form and then in its first brilliant novel and [...]
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Posted October 04, 2017in Collections & Hobbies
Sgraffito artist
Stay-at-home mom uses her garage studio to make ceramics Shorty after ancient nomads discovered fire, historians suspect mankind began using clay to form water-carrying vessels. As such, pottery is millions [...]
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