Kavanaugh’s mouth is just as troubling
It’s confession time: I cannot say with confidence what transpired in that upstairs bedroom in a suburban home in Montgomery County, Md., on that summer evening, apparently in 1982, during [...]
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Posted October 03, 2018in Stray Thoughts
Posted October 03, 2018in Feature 1
Pages of horror
Des Moines man publishes Little Shoppe of Horrors magazine for 46 years…and counting. I had heard rumors about a man who had been publishing his own horror fanzine in the basement of his Des [...]
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Posted October 03, 2018in Feature 2
Pucks in the city
The hunt is on for playoff hockey in Des Moines. Tune up the Zamboni. Prepare the penalty boxes. Start practicing your slap shot. Here come the power plays, missing teeth, Minnesota accents, red lines, [...]
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Posted October 03, 2018in Feature 3
A 26-mile parade
Neighborhoods embrace IMT Des Moines Marathon. Jamie Seitz remembers the first year she and her husband read signs that their neighborhood would be shut down for the IMT Des Moines Marathon. Driveways would be [...]
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Posted October 03, 2018in Civic Skinny
Caldwell-Johnson for Mayor? Sheriff to retire? Botched judicial choice could have consequences.
Teree Caldwell-Johnson is thinking of running for mayor next year. And Sheriff Bill McCarthy is thinking of retiring this year. Caldwell-Johnson, 62, is well-known in Des Moines. She was Polk [...]
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Posted October 03, 2018in Political Mercury
It’s hard to admit, but Andrew Yang may be right
It feels, sounds and smells like surrender of the basic, motivating values of more than 40 years for me. And it will to most of you, too. The facts, though, [...]
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Posted October 03, 2018in Film Review
‘The House with a Clock in its Walls’
Fear-inducing madness is sure to scare — and no doubt confuse — younger audiences. The first children’s movie by director Eli Roth, known for grotesque, grindhouse films like “Cabin Fever,” [...]
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Posted October 03, 2018in Food Dude
It’s Irina’s!
Winner of CITYVIEW’s Ultimate Steak de Burgo challenge It was inevitable. Russians won an American election, yet no one called for an investigation of Kremlin collusion. Irina’s won the Ultimate Steak de [...]
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Posted October 03, 2018in Your Neighbors
Soldier’s Mrs. Iowa journey lifts combat mask
Major Finken rediscovers herself through pageant. When Mrs. Iowa Jill Finken competed at the Mrs. America pageant in August in Las Vegas, it is quite likely that she was the only [...]
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Posted October 03, 2018in Joe's Neighborhood
If we build it, the bikers will come
There are more bikes than residents in the Netherlands. “Protected bike lanes are different from conventional bike lanes where the bike lanes are placed along the curb and protected from [...]
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