Jewel
Still saving souls In 1995, an Alaskan named Jewel Kilcher released her debut album “Pieces of You.” The songs “Who Will Save Your Soul” and “You Were Meant for Me” [...]
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Posted December 06, 2017in The Sound
Posted December 06, 2017in Sound Circuit
The Fuss
DIY guitar pop goodness “It was cold, it was fall, it was depressing,” Joey Lyons says of how The Fuss was born. While he had been casually writing and recording [...]
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Posted December 06, 2017in Fashion
Posted December 06, 2017in Walks of Life
Posted December 06, 2017in Lunch With...
Josh Mandelbaum
Josh Mandelbaum was the new star in the local political sky this election cycle. He not only upset a likable Democratic party insider and party boss, but he trounced him [...]
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Posted December 06, 2017in Our View
Freedom of information
It’s wrong to keep taxpayers in the dark One of the nastiest controversies in local government in Iowa in many years was the impeachment in May of Muscatine Mayor Diana [...]
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Posted December 06, 2017in Rants & Reason
Candy canes and coal for your holiday stocking
We have surpluses of grinches and gloom this holiday season, so our stocking stuffers include lumps of coal along with the joys, people and events we rightly cherish. Consider: In the holiday [...]
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Posted December 06, 2017in Sound Notes
Sound Advice
Celebrate the season with Christopher the Conquered and friends for his third annual “A Conquered Christmas” at The Basement in the Des Moines Social Club on Thursday, Dec. 7 at [...]
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Posted December 06, 2017in Art News
Real and imagined aspects of architecture
Amy Worthen’s works are both fantastical and architectural Amy Worthen is endowed by spirits from another age. As both an artist and art historian, she hangs around with ancient ideas [...]
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7 Christmas wishes for Iowa’s children
In writing out my Christmas wishes for Iowa’s children, I thought I would focus on what gifts we Iowans can offer to our kids — what I wish for our [...]
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