May 07, 2014 by justin
in Food Dude
“Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle.” That phrase, coined by Elmer Wheeler in the 1920s, urges salesmen to focus on the experience around a product rather than on the object itself. The idea is to appeal to the senses and emotions of the customer. The phrase made a comeback
Read More →Brain cancer is rare. According to the American Cancer Society, about 1.4 percent of all new primary cases of cancer found annually in the United States are of the brain or nervous system. It may be rare, but it is a bad kind of rare. And glioblastoma is perhaps the
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Wisconsin Historical Society Press 11/25/13 $ 15.95 160 pp. The Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua, starting its 29th season, brings live performances — singing, dancing and storytelling — under a tent theater at the base of Mount Ashwabay Ski Area in northern
Read More →The Downtown Community Alliance (DCA) is launching a new series of weekend festivals this summer. The monthly series, called “Music Under the Canopy” will start with its first installment on June 20. The first weekend will feature local acts including Josh Davis, Brother Trucker, Randy Burk and James Biehn and
Read More →As a Mother’s Day present, ABC’s “Trophy Wife” offers a holiday-themed episode involving the sitcom’s multiple moms (Tuesday, 8:30 p.m.). While Pete (Bradley Whitford) deals with a disaster at work, his former wives (Marcia Gay Harden, Michaela Watkins) extend a surprising offer to current wife Kate (Malin Akerman), whom they
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May 07, 2014 by justin
in Civic Skinny
A home on Lincoln Place Drive in Des Moines sold for $1.4 million the other day, the highest price for a house in the Des Moines city limits in more than a year and a half. It was only the fourth million-dollar-plus residential sale in the city limits in the
Read More →Civic Skinny calls the $525,591 paid to date in legal fees to the trial lawyers defending Gov. Branstad “nuts,” (Gartner Comment, May 1). These outrageous fees have been charged by private trial lawyers hired by Branstad to defend him against a $1 million lawsuit brought by Workers Compensation Director, Chris
Read More →The Standard martini bar and its second-floor Image Nightclub downtown are undergoing upgrades and name-changes, as owners Brendan Kelley and Rob Iovinio have awarded Cedar Falls’ Barmuda Companies a management contract on March 1. Image Nightclub closed on May 4, and preliminary renovations have begun. The Standard will do the
Read More →“The Intergalactic Nemesis” may be sci-fi fantasy, full of technobabble, but the real fun in it is watching people at play. In particular, Christopher Lee Gibson, who is one of three actors in this “live-action graphic novel,” takes on no fewer than nine characters from the wicked hypnotist Mysterion to
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Not exactly a sterling silver end to racism
People who enjoy viewing with alarm or pointing with pride had a field day with the soap opera and showdown involving the National Basketball Association and its face-off with the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. First there was widespread surprise and alarm that the team owner, Donald Sterling, 80,
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