Iowa State Fair Music
It’s time to turn up the volume and dance away the calories consumed in the fried Twinkie you enjoyed at the Iowa State Fair. It’s August again, which means it [...]
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August 10, 2016 by justin
in Feature 2
Corporate art
American Enterprise Group (AEG) reopened its historic Sixth Avenue headquarters last year after a long $30-35 million restoration of the original Gordon Bunshaft building. The famous architect’s design featured two [...]
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August 10, 2016 by justin
in Feature 3
Fall arts & entertainment guide
Fall weather is a welcome respite from the oppressive and blazing heat of summer. But just because summer days have come and gone, it doesn’t mean the party is over. [...]
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August 10, 2016 by justin
in The Sound Exclusive
Heaven’s sevens
Michael Sweet’s relentless pursuit of The Way
After more than 30 years of being in the crosshairs of pastors, parents and pundits alike, Michael Sweet knows that being the front man of Christian hard rock’s most successful [...]
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August 10, 2016 by justin
in Belly Up To...
Good times at Gas Lamp
Gas Lamp is an old-school music venue in the Western Gateway portion of downtown that recently finished some redecorating. “There are no more nudes,” said Antonio Javier Manilla Rodriguez IIV. [...]
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August 10, 2016 by justin
in Food Dude
Garden fresh at Chef’s Kitchen
After 29 years of weekly columns in Cityview (and its sister publications), this is my first monthly column. I chose Chef’s Kitchen because it represents what is best about both [...]
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August 10, 2016 by justin
in Art News
American mirth
Things are looking a bit more like business as usual again at Steven Vail Fine Arts. The second-floor gallery in the Teachout Building was inaccessible for weeks because of crime [...]
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August 10, 2016 by justin
in Book Review
‘The View from the Cheap Seats’
Neil Gaiman is a master of many genres. Comic books, juvenile fiction, young adult, short stories, novels, fantasy, sci-fi, TV, video games… there seems to be no genre he can’t [...]
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August 10, 2016 by justin
in Civic Skinny
The Register’s circulation takes another big fall. Mezvinskys, Kushners, Clintons and Trumps.
For the first time in close to 100 years — since the early 1920s — fewer than 100,000 people across the state now are getting the Des Moines Sunday Register [...]
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August 10, 2016 by justin
in Tech Talk
Time to take BlackBerry off life support
The BlackBerry is dead. It doesn’t matter that it once dominated the planet. The classic BlackBerry design — with a half screen, half physical keyboard and a mouse-like selector button [...]
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