April 08, 2015 by justin
in Joe's Neighborhood
The school door swings open. A room. Just like any other schoolroom. That is, if your schoolroom was in Silicon Valley and was called Apple, or Google or Facebook. “If I were going to sit down at a dinner with 10 people at the table and ask everybody to draw
Read More →Death Cab For Cutie “Kintsugi” Atlantic Death Cab For Cutie is perhaps the most transparent band ever. For much of its career, the band was content to wallow in the Elliot Smith, doom and gloom end of the sonic pool. Then singer Ben Gibbard found love, and out comes 2011’s
Read More →Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com Deadline for entries is Monday at noon. Enter for your chance to win two tickets to an Iowa Cubs game! Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “After binging on some dead mice, Felix knew he would eventually need
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April 01, 2015 by justin
in Joe's Neighborhood
The grizzled man climbs up out of the litter-strewn riverbank at dusk. He hesitates. Flannel shirt wrongly buttoned over multiple undershirts, pants bunched on top of long underwear, a tight stocking cap pulled over a shaggy head with long white hair hanging from the sides. A homeless man. The blackened
Read More →After purchasing a large space of real estate with plans to move its headquarters to downtown Des Moines, Kum & Go has begun acquiring several properties and spaces of land throughout the Des Moines metro. At the time of Kum & Go’s purchase of the Gas Lamp building in February,
Read More →“Bacon House Nation” Wednesday, April 1 (FYI) The producers of “Tiny House Nation,” the reality series in which families scale down their living spaces from McMansions to custom 500-square-foot mini homes, have fried up the next logical step: houses fashioned entirely out of bacon. Host Padma Lakshmi (“Top Chef”) and
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March 31, 2015 by justin
in News of the Weird
Researchers are now preparing a study seeking to confirm that dog slobber, by itself (and not just the psychological advantages of playing with and petting a dog), might provide human health benefits (such as relief from asthma, allergies and inflammation). Specialists from the University of Arizona and University of California
Read More →I’m writing to let you know that I am disappointed in the lack of coverage of the cock-fighting they have every month in the basement of the governor’s mansion. When I say “they” I don’t mean to be a snake about it, but I have to be. They don’t want
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Time to update GOP platform, ala Cruz and Lane
The Iowa GOP needs to update the party’s platform to welcome what Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas sees as his Christ-driven presidential candidacy and to endorse the mission of David Lane and the American Family Association to make the U.S. once again a Christian culture as God intended. The 2014
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