March 19, 2014 by justin
in Locker Room
For some, the best motivation comes in the form of tough-as-nails, no-nonsense criticism that is biting, unapologetic yet entirely encouraging. Others need a nurturing voice that reminds them that they are at their best when they are trying their hardest. Jillian Michaels manages to combine both strategies in her fitness
Read More →George Michael “Symphonica” Island “Symphonica” is not, in the strictest sense of the term, a new album. The vast majority of what’s covered here is from 1999’s “Songs From the Last Century” and 2004’s “Patience.” The vocals are great, of course — nobody’s ever doubted that Michael could sing —
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March 19, 2014 by justin
in Joe's Neighborhood
A streetcar is trying to kill me. I thought you should know. Crazy? Maybe. Paranoid? Certainly. But untruthful? You be the judge. The bell is what announces the streetcar’s arrival. There is no rumble, no whistle, and no escaping steam to give warning. Silence reigns as she smoothly glides along
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March 19, 2014 by justin
in The Sound
Molly Ringwald has pretty much always been a singer. “I started out singing jazz with my dad when I was 3,” Ringwald recalled during a phone interview. At the age of 6, the ingénue had recorded her first album “I Wanna Be Loved By You: Molly Sings” with her father
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” quiz! HITTING A GIRL WITH GLASSES The victim called police around 2:30 p.m. after a friend of hers broke into a house where she was sleeping at the 300 block of East McKinley and assaulted her. The suspect broke a window and came inside, then
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. — A fast-growing foreign-student work program is taking jobs from U.S. citizens, while its “alarming mismanagement” poses a national security threat, critics charge. “Foreign students, sometimes aided by school officials, are currently abusing the Optional Practical Training program to acquire unauthorized employment in the United States,” said Sen. Charles
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March 12, 2014 by justin
in Joe's Neighborhood
A clump of paper birch trees was planted by my neighbor in his front yard several years ago. Today, the white-bark trees stand out proudly against his blue house in Des Moines. They delight the eye. Their cousin, the river birch, is in our front yard across the street. Eighty
Read More →Local artists have been selected for the “CarpeDM Music Mix” CD, a collection of music produced by the Greater Des Moines Partnership that includes Brother Trucker, Poison Control Center, Mary McAdams, The Uniphonics, Holy White Hounds, Chad Elliott, Bonne Finken, Dustin Smith, Gloom Balloon, Foxholes, Bright Giant, The Nadas, North
Read More →In mid-Manhattan, the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater is a behemoth. Along Ninth Avenue, you’ll see the name plastered across the largest dance space in the world. In Des Moines, though, you’ll see how, inside Ailey’s space, everyone seeks to express a simple humanity. That even goes for the leaps that
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