The second Fong’s Pizza location opened on April 21 at 1450 S. W. Vintage Parkway, Suite 120, in Ankeny. The spin-off of the original location in downtown Des Moines will seat 155 and feature 88 beers on tap. The new Fong’s will have the popular pizza specialties such as crab
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April 22, 2015 by justin
in On The Tube
After “Are you still writing for that paper?” and “Why did I assume you were dead?”, the question I’m most often asked is “So, what’s good on TV?” Sure, I write a readily-available weekly column about what’s good on TV (and not-so-good), and produce a podcast (TV Tan — look
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April 22, 2015 by justin
in What's Brewing?
We also don’t always spotlight Mexican beers, but when we do, we spotlight Dos Equis. Known for its often-quoted commercials, Dos Equis is a big brand with a small product line. For a Mexican brewing company to make it big with only two iconic beers to its name, that says
Read More →Mr. Gartner’s mention of Bruce Braley bailing out of Iowa after an election loss (Comment, April 16) reminded me of other past politicians who professed an “all for Iowa” loyalty and then walked. Probably none were more blatant than ex-congressman and gubernatorial candidate Fred Grandy. While he professed to be all Iowan, he
Read More →Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “You should see the sign over by the Peanuts.” –Jim McCool Runners-up: “Damn auto-correct.” –Natalie Thoreau Pohlman “And the last little chocolate piggy goes pee pee pee, all the way home.” –Neal Tracy Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption…
Read More →Erik Larson, one of the most popular history authors writing today, has picked the sinking of the Lusitania as his next study. The centennial of the Great War began last year, so the examination of the events that drew America into the war is very timely. As is his style,
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April 22, 2015 by justin
in News of the Weird
In March, offensive lineman John Urschel of the Baltimore Ravens added to his curriculum vitae by co-authoring the latest of his several peer-reviewed academic articles — “A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph Laplacians” in the Journal of Computational Mathematics. If Urschel can understand, and even
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April 22, 2015 by justin
in Your Money
Paid in the week of April 5 Amount: $179.96 To: Amazon.com For: Texas Instruments calculators Amount: $140 To: Des Moines Civic Center For: Field trip and other assorted ticket entry Amount: $882 To: Flying Hippo Inc. For: Services Amount: $1,223.90 To: Heartland Technology Solutions For: MacBook repairs Amount: $80 To:
Read More →In a day and age when it seems like so much music is subjected to autotune, digital enhancement and computer generation, it can be therapeutic to dip back into a simpler time. That is where Ev Nau and the Pride of Iowa Barbershop Chorus come in. The Barbershop Harmony Society
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April 22, 2015 by justin
in Locker Room
This week marks the 106th annual Drake Relays, and as Drake Relays Director Brian Brown has declared, “The Sky Is The Limit.” Some of the finest athletes in the world will descend upon Des Moines on April 22 and continue through April 26. “Nearly every elite athlete comments on the
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