August 19, 2015 by justin
in Food Dude
“How many of these different kinds of bars have you been to?” asks a social media survey. There were 27 choices — full bars, wine bars, neighborhood bars, dive bars, fern bars, singles bars, women’s bars, gay bars, lesbian bars, brew pubs, topless bars, tapas bars, English pubs, drag bars,
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August 18, 2015 by justin
in Uncategorized
Starship will perform on the Bud Light Stage on the last day of the Iowa State Fair, Sunday, Aug. 23 at 8 p.m. Lead singer Mickey Thomas visited with Cityview by phone from his home in Palm Desert, California recently. CV: What has the band been doing as of
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August 17, 2015 by justin
in Nightlife Photos
August 14, 2015 by justin
in Uncategorized
There are few pleasures in life that are finer than getting together with some friends, partaking in a few adult beverages and swapping seemingly endless tales about how things were so much better back in “The Day,” that pseudo-magical time period when the cars were faster, boys were tougher and
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August 12, 2015 by justin
in Cover Story
There’s no way around it: Iowa loves bicycling. Hoping to raise money for a charity event? Host a moonlit pub-to-pub bike ride. Want to take a relaxing day trip? Pedal the scenic High Trestle Trail. Taking a week off work in July? Must be for RAGBRAI. No other place in
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August 12, 2015 by justin
in Civic Skinny
“Iowan Leonard Strand Nominated for Federal Judgeship,” said the headline on the press release issued the other day by the office of Sen. Chuck Grassley. Well, not quite. Leonard Strand, a U.S. magistrate in Sioux City and the man whom Grassley proposed and President Barack Obama (much to the dismay
Read More →Des Moines Register writer Deb McMahon has harshly (again, as per usual) hammered a conservative in a newspaper. This time it’s The Donald, referring to him, among other things, as narcissistic. But where’s the perspective? Unlike many progressives, I will concede a point now and then. Donald “is” a narcissist!
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August 12, 2015 by justin
in Political Mercury
Maybe you’re yelling at your kid a little too much in the grocery. You hear your own voice raised, recognize the fault in it as Lucky Stars spill from the cereal box your son, with snot-nosed precociousness, ripped wide. Perhaps, you’ve screamed something at another driver you regret because it’s
Read More →MarKaus “White Mans Burden” Independent “I’m graded at what I’m made of/I’m the realization of what Reagan was afraid of.” So goes the opening line of verse three in the track “Down to Earth.” It may be the seventh track off “White Mans Burden,” but “Down to Earth” serves as
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August 12, 2015 by justin
in Tech Talk
One of the worst sins in rock and roll is singing your band’s name in a song. Nothing rings more lame or inauthentic, which is bizarre because in hip-hop, rappers are constantly saying their name. In fact, some of the biggest rappers of all-time made a name for themselves by
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