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Posted September 04, 2019in Film Review

‘Good Boys’ is overkill on kids behaving badly

Nearly impossible not to telegraph every joke before the punchline Where “Booksmart” was essentially a gender-bent “Superbad,” “Good Boys” follows a similar story archetype though substituting tweens for high school [...]

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Posted September 04, 2019in Food Dude

Cool Basil masters balance

The biggest Thai place in town is also my favorite. Forty years ago, Thai cuisine was a new thing in Des Moines. Prasong “Pak” Nurack and his wife, Beni, introduced [...]

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Posted September 04, 2019in Your Neighbors

Painting a picture with yarn

Joyce O’Brien’s fiber art has been displayed in the offices of Gov. Terry Branstad, U.S. Congressman David Young and State Senator Jack Whitver. “I made it up,” says Joyce O’Brien. [...]

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Posted September 04, 2019in Joe's Neighborhood

Bald men full of grandeur

“Jason Statham saved a lot of guys.” Smacked broadside by a car at the top of a hill, I was 5 years old when I had my first bike accident. I [...]

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Posted September 04, 2019in Center Stage

From love to murder in musical comedy extravagance

September marks the start of Greater Des Moines’ 2019-2020 theater season. A promising array of musicals, comedies, family theater and drama await the cultural consumer. More than a dozen companies [...]

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Posted September 04, 2019in Sound Circuit

TOAST3R pops up the hits

Musicians provide complex vocal harmonies. When Steve Radke played golf with his buddies at Woodward Granger High School, they discussed putts and birdies, but also guitars and music. He and [...]

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Posted September 04, 2019in Film Previews

Film Previews

‘IT: Chapter Two’ R | 165 minutes Unlike Stephen King’s novel which took place in the late 1950s and then in the late 1980s, the first film in this series [...]

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Posted September 04, 2019in Fashion

Football fashion for my fan girls

Football has been America’s second favorite F-word for longer than we’ve all been alive. And with the month of September comes thoughts of touchdowns, tailgate parties, and more importantly, team [...]

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Posted September 04, 2019in Belly Up To...

The Operating Room

It’s just what the doctor ordered. In a typical hospital operating room, doctors commonly ask for scalpels, gauze or a hemostat. In the Operating Room at West Glen Town Center, [...]

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Posted September 04, 2019in People & Pets

‘Foster fail’ nets a new dog

Cat lover never dreamed of owning a dog. As a devoted cat person for most of her life, Kate Crane never dreamed of owning a dog. Growing up, her family [...]

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