Yankee Doodle Pops Details
DES MOINES – The Des Moines Symphony today announced the details of its 27th annual Yankee Doodle Pops Concert, as well as its second summer of Water Works Pops Concerts. [...]
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Posted March 11, 2020in Just Released
Posted March 10, 2020in Stray Thoughts
There should not be a price tag to vote
Iowans take considerable pleasure in enumerating the various ways our state stands apart from the other 49 states — beyond our endangered first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses. For many years, we pointed [...]
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Posted March 09, 2020in Joe's Extra
Tromping around with a dog
Dogs just aren’t my thing. Sorry all you dog lovers. It’s just the way it is. Sure, I’ve had more than my share of the mangy critters. Why? Because my wife [...]
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Posted March 05, 2020in Your View
Letter to the editor: Response to Graham Gillette
With all due respect, the article written by Graham Gillette regarding Dr. Ahart and the new stadium (CITYVIEW, January 2020) was rather harsh and misleading. Graham did not present all [...]
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Posted March 04, 2020in Feature 1
Only in Iowa
Iowans embrace the state’s quirks. We believe wiener schnitzel should be made with pork instead of veal and served on a bun, and that French dressing should be orange and [...]
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Posted March 04, 2020in Feature 2
Records and Rankings
Humans yearn for orderliness: Where do things stand?… How high are those things stacked?… How far away is this?… What’s the pecking order of that? After understanding where stuff is [...]
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Posted March 04, 2020in Business Feature
Wireless Internet
Walk into most any coffee shop in downtown Des Moines, and you’ll see laptops open, phones out and patrons typing away. Some will be using their own mobile hotspots, while [...]
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Posted March 04, 2020in Civic Skinny
Door of Faith boots Tirrell; Massachusetts jails him. Christensen to head Court; Young pays back taxes.
Marty Tirrell, the smooth-talking scammer and loud-talking sports-radio host, has been kicked out of the Door of Faith residential treatment center where he was awaiting his April 7 sentencing in [...]
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Posted March 04, 2020in Political Mercury
Greenfield positioning herself as ‘feisty farm girl’ in bid to challenge Ernst
Win or lose, primary or general, Des Moines businesswoman Theresa Greenfield rolled off one of the better observations about small-town living I’ve heard, a comment that shows she understands the [...]
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Posted March 04, 2020in Film Review
‘Birds Of Prey’
After an animated backstory of Dr. Harleen Quinzel’s journey to becoming Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), she breaks up with the Joker as only Harley can: BOOM! goes Ace Chemicals. Unaware [...]
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