May 27, 2015 by justin
in The Sound
Royal Blood is tired of hearing about the rebirth of rock. With an apologetically amp-driven sound, the Manchester duo of Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher has been praised far and wide for being the saviors who will make rock and roll cool again. But if you think rock and roll
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May 27, 2015 by justin
in Art News
Fiber Sculpture 1960-Present, at the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) through Aug. 2, includes contributions from 32 artists from four continents. Reassembled painstakingly in three different galleries at the DMAC, it is, with only a couple of exceptions, the same material that first played at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
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May 27, 2015 by justin
in On The Tube
“Aquarius” Thursday, May 28 (NBC) Two-Hour Series Debut: In a semi-factual drama about one of America’s most notorious killers, the cop (David Duchovny) probably shouldn’t be more charming and charismatic than his target — especially when that killer is Charles Manson (Gethin Anthony of “Game of Thrones”). Duchovny’s 1967 LAPD
Read More →“If there was a running motif throughout my brief life, it would be the close and present nature of death. I’d known it intimately from the start.” So begins the last day in the life of funeral home employee Paddy Buckley. His mother died when he was 4, his father
Read More →A new Sam’s Club store opened May 21 at 4625 S.E. Delaware Ave. in Ankeny south of Fleet Farm. The store is 139,000 square feet, will include a gas station and sits on 19.7 acres in the growing retail area. It is the second Sam’s Club location in the metro,
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May 20, 2015 by justin
in Cover Story
Music By Chad Taylor Summer wouldn’t be complete without a plethora of outdoor concerts to keep all the music lovers happy. Though there’s no way we could pack all the music offerings Des Moines has into one issue, we’ve done our best to make this list as all-inclusive as possible.
Read More →Bonne Finken has released a new music video for her song “Fall,” and it is a veritable who’s-who of Des Moines music and entertainment. The video features clips of 30 different local musicians, artists and entertainers (and yours truly — whatever you’d call me) lip-syncing the song, intercut with clips
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May 20, 2015 by justin
in Political Mercury
America, it would seem, owes Congressman Steve King a collective apology. Yes, yes, the Kiron conservative made those comments comparing undocumented Latino immigrants to stray pets. And there’s the infamous “cantaloupe” thighs ding, the pinnacle in his career of provocations of the Mexican and Central American immigrant community King suggests brings
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May 20, 2015 by justin
in Tech Talk
Imagine you wake up tomorrow in Des Moines, and it’s 1985. Never mind searching for plutonium to power your flux capacitor, how would you figure out a good place to eat? There’s no Facebook to bounce ideas off your friends (who coincidentally are probably infants in the mid-’80s), just two
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The Iowa caucuses versus the U.S. Constitution
For all the red-white-and-blue hurrahs and chest thumping so dear to the hearts of those who promote the Iowa caucuses, it is sobering — even depressing — to consider how the caucuses don’t much care about the wisdom of the U.S Constitution in general or the spirit of Article VI
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