December 04, 2013 by justin
in Food Dude
Des Moines’ restaurant history can be told in chapters of immigration. More than 100 years ago, both southern Italian and southern Chinese restaurateurs came to town. Those café types evolved over the next century. Pizza did not appear on the menus of local Italian cafés during their first half century.
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch University of Minnesota Press Oct. 18, 2013 $24.95 127 pp. Of the many centennials observed this year, the one of which little is heard is the Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913. The author, Michael Schumacher, specializes in books about the Great Lakes
Read More →It’s time again for the Des Moines Music Collector’s Show. This month’s show is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 8 at the Downtown Holiday Inn. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will feature 20 dealers carrying vinyl, CDs, DVDs, posters and music collectables. Admission is just $1
Read More →FIRST DOWN You might choose to remember Johnny Football pointing to the scoreboard and making “mo money” signs with his fingers. Or the chaos that ended the Auburn-Alabama game. Or the continued ability of Pac-12 referees to seemingly make up the rules of organized football as they go. But us?
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November 27, 2013 by justin
in Film Review
“Oldboy” 2 stars Rated R 104 minutes Drama Starring: Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang Korean director/co-screenwriter Chan-wook Park’s haunting 2003 revenge drama “Oldboy” is one of the most unbearably intense films ever made. Based loosely on a Japanese graphic novel, the movie is the second installment in Park’s “Vengeance
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Julie Goodrich Touchstone Books 10/29/13 $17.99 384 pp. There aren’t enough synonyms for “awesome” to describe this book, “Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened.” Ridiculous, hilarious, emotional, awkward, brilliant, subtle, painful, comforting are all adequate
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! RATHER BE THE HAMMER THAN THE NAIL Police were called to the 2600 block of Arnold Street at 7:25 p.m. The caller said two men came to his door threatening to beat him up. They pulled on the door and popped off the
Read More →Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds “Live from KCRW” Bad Seed Ltd. Nick Cave is the master of the brooding, post-punk dirge. Cave’s other 2013 release, “Push The Sky Away,” dropped in February to nearly universal acclaim. It was while out promoting that album that Cave dropped by Santa Monica’s
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