In January, a 1991 Radio Shack print ad was circulating the Internet. It featured 15 different top-of-the-line consumer electronics for the time: a portable CD-player, a VHS camcorder, high-fidelity speakers, a desktop computer and many more. Combined, all of the items could be purchased for just more than $3,000 and
Read More →The Duffy cartoon appearing in the Cityview (Feb. 27) features a wild-eyed Ted Nugent surrounded by several of his most outrageous and disgusting statements from the past. In one of the most recent insults he calls President Obama a “communist,” “gangster” and a “subhuman mongrel.” There are two totally unacceptable
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March 05, 2014 by justin
in Food Dude
Blue Tomato Kitchen is named after a new, cross-pollinated fruit that gourmets are comparing to the legendary New Mexican chile. Created in 1913 at New Mexico State, and improved 20 times, the New Mexican chile dominates that state’s agriculture and cuisine. Iowans flock to Hy-Vee each August when it imports
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March 05, 2014 by justin
in Political Mercury
Many gay-obsessed conservatives are no doubt a lot like Iowa Senator Mark Segebart of Vail. They’ve done their “research” about what turns the eyes of otherwise red-blooded Hawkeye State men from the pages of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition to, well, the eyes of other red-blooded Iowa men. They are
Read More →Labeling Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams a rock n’ roll refugee from the 1980s is akin to saying the Grand Canyon is nothing but a hole in the ground. No, pause and peer past the eye candy. Inside the grandeur there’s more — much more — and to truly appreciate it,
Read More →A 10-year-old girl named Bo (Johnny Sequoyah) has extraordinary powers, along with being extraordinarily cute. She can see the future, control nature and even save the world — that is, if the bad guys don’t kidnap her for their own nefarious purposes. At the start of the new series “Believe”
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March 05, 2014 by justin
in Belly Up To...
“Oh great. It’s a cop bar.” That was my friend’s first reaction when I invited him to belly up with me at the new Honors Lounge in Clive. And to be honest, it was my first notion, too, after a quick creep on Honors’ Facebook page turned up the bar’s
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March 05, 2014 by justin
in Cover Story
Marriage and divorce have inspired comedians for centuries, for good reasons. In his “Act of Creation,” Arthur Koestler explained that all jokes are creative inventions that must end in surprise. What other institution provides as many unexpected developments as marriage and divorce? Almost no one enters a marriage with the
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March 05, 2014 by justin
in Locker Room
Board games have a public-image problem. This is likely because many remember their childhood and being forced to play “Monopoly” according to rules set by their siblings instead of by the instructions. Who would want to subject themselves to that again? More than you might expect, as a steadily increasing
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