A northern Iowa county has doubled the bounty on beavers from $25 to $50 each… When asked what will happen if the beaver population isn’t controlled, officials said, “We’ll be dammed.” Gov. Terry Branstad took some heat after making a joke about pushing lawyers through the head of a combine…
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October 29, 2014 by justin
in GoodNightIowa
October 29, 2014 by justin
in On the Move
RoCA opens on Court Avenue
The newest downtown dinner restaurant opened last week at 208 Court Ave., where the Sbrocco wine bar used to be. Three real estate brokers, Tyler Dingel, Todd Millang and Brian Martin, own RoCA, and its managing partner is Jason Kapela, co-owner of Louie’s Wine Dive in Des Moines. The unique
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October 29, 2014 by justin
in Rap Sheet
Two of a kind Justin Bieber, 20, was arrested shortly after 4 a.m. on a Thursday in January for drag racing in Miami Beach, Florida. He was driving a rented Lamborghini when police pulled him over, and he failed to pass a sobriety test. The then-19-year-old was charged with DUI.
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October 29, 2014 by justin
in Sound Check
Foo Fighters “Sonic Highways” RCA The Foo Fighters are at a point now where they can really mess around and do things on a whim. It’s that feeling of exploration that drives “Sonic Highways,” which is both an album and HBO special documentary. In the words of the iconic Dave
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October 29, 2014 by justin
in Sound Notes
Max Wellman has announced five concert dates at Drake University’s Turner Jazz Center. Wellman, long a fan of the criminally underused space on Drake’s campus, now has shows running at the Center from November to June of 2015, including his popular, annual “Home for the Holidays” show. The first event,
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October 29, 2014 by justin
in Political Mercury
King on gays: ‘I don’t expect to meet them should I make it to heaven’
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, suggests gays won’t make it to heaven. What’s more, in an interview, King intimated that the divorced or cohabitators could be thwarted in the pursuit of eternal salvation as the Christian faith teaches it. Those assessments from the conservative western Iowa congressman came during his
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October 29, 2014 by justin
in Tech Talk
Google Fiber, the superhero ISP
Americans have a fantastic talent for yielding to malfeasance. Political shenanigans, continually rising college tuition, highway traffic jams, movie spoilers — these things and many more eventually become a fact of life to which we all acquiesce. As far as tech grievances go, as products evolve many annoyances are cleared
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October 29, 2014 by justin
in Belly Up To...
Granite City: Where happy hour comes twice a day
Granite City isn’t your average restaurant chain. It’s part food, part brewery — all fun. Granite City takes pride in its in-house brewed beer, featuring such creations as the Broad Axe Stout, with notes of roasted chocolate and coffee; the Bennie, which is a German-style lager with caramel flavors; the
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October 22, 2014 by justin
in News of the Weird
The new normal New York Giants tight end Larry Donnell manages his own fantasy league team by “drafting” NFL players for virtual competitions based on their real-life statistics of the previous weekend. Donnell lamented to New Jersey’s The Record in October that he had benched virtual “Larry Donnell” on his
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‘Safety’ trumps sanity in Ames-East fiasco
By now, just about everyone agrees that the Ames-Des Moines East high school football game should have been played Oct. 17 and not cancelled by Ames and the Iowa High School Athletic Association because some jerk was said to have threatened to maybe harm those who attended the game. The
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