Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! CALL TO CANZ Police were called to Canz Bar and Grill, 2956 E. Grand Ave., regarding a third-degree burglary. Sometime between 5 and 6 a.m. on Dec. 11, someone had broken through the front glass door and damaged three machines containing money. The
Read More →Yellow and brown values A Swedish TV show, “Biss och Kajs,” found itself in the spotlight in November in Russia, where government-run television apparently used it to send a political message to Ukraine by highlighting the program’s theme of teaching children about bodily functions. The episode Russia chose featured three
Read More →What are the odds of a black-and-white 1950s sitcom being funny in 2013? Extremely low — unless the sitcom is “I Love Lucy.” In the “I Love Lucy Christmas Special” (Friday, 7 p.m.), CBS offers us a holiday gift by airing two 1956 episodes, “The Christmas Episode” and “Lucy’s Italian
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December 18, 2013 by justin
in Film Review
“August: Osage County” 3 stars Rated R 121 minutes Comedy Starring: Meryl Streep, Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play loses an hour-and-a-half from its original running time, but none of its dramatic impact in the playwright’s own screenplay adaptation. Arriving during the holidays, when American family members
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December 18, 2013 by justin
in Civic Skinny
Twelve drummers drumming… …oh so vigorously for Phil Dorweiler and his many Kirke in-laws, especially Bob and Laurel…loud enough to be heard through vinyl windows for James and Roxanne Conlin…to thank councilman Ted Ohmart of West Des Moines for 16 years of fine service…and to welcome new councilman Rick Messerschmidt…for
Read More →The League of United Latin Americans of Iowa is calling on Des Moines Water Works to eliminate fluoride from the public drinking water supply (“Troubled Water?” Dec. 5). The public water supply system should not be used as a method to deliver fluoride. This is a matter of choice and
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December 18, 2013 by justin
in The Sound
Remember high school? For many of us, it was a time for bad skin, Drakkar Noir and a capella groups like The Nylons and Rockapella. Once we graduated and set out into whatever reflection of the real world we chose, most of us left the trappings of high-school life behind.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. — America’s EB-5 visa-investor program has opened a gateway for Iranian operatives to infiltrate the country, a government memo says. Citing a report by the Homeland Security Investigations division, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley said EB-5 is vulnerable to the “export of sensitive technology and economic espionage,” as well as
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