November 06, 2013 by justin
in Political Mercury
One in six Americans is Latino. The ethnic group is the fastest-growing in the nation. More than half of all babies born in the United States are minorities — and the average age of a Latino is 27.6. According to 2012 U.S. Census figures, Latinos are now the largest minority
Read More →Nest of Snakes “Molt” Independent Even if you’ve never heard Nest of Snakes before, with track titles like “Wall of Tusks” and “Demon’s Chair,” you have a good idea what you’re getting into. And, while the ground the band is treading may not be new or particularly inventive, there’s enough
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November 06, 2013 by justin
in Belly Up To...
When a bar has been around for as long as three generations can remember, people come to know it for a lot of things depending on their age or tastes. A lot of people talk about what it was, as the name may change over the years, or they talk
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books By Jayne Anne Phillips Scribner Pub. date: Oct. 15 $28 464 pp. Award-winning fiction writer Jayne Anne Phillips grew up in West Virginia haunted by her mother’s stories of the gruesome 1931 murders of at least two women and three children in nearby Quiet Dell. In
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November 06, 2013 by justin
in Food Dude
At the turn of this decade, lunch was the new dinner. Flarah’s had just moved its lunch business into a larger spot in Beaverdale and opened the first of two downtown outlets. Proof was the hottest new café in town with weekday lunches and a single evening service. Flour became
Read More →I’ve always said, the key to eternal youth is behaving like a child — not with tantrums or baby talk, but with awesome moments of pure joy and imagination, the stuff of dreams. The Broadway musical, “Wicked,” is a potent potion to induce such an effect. On Halloween night, a
Read More →There are two sacred cows in smartphone-user experience: battery life and constant connection to information. One of the best features of smartphones is the ability to notify users of new content through a background tool known as push notifications. For years popular services such as email, text messages and social
Read More →Amount: $990 To: Des Moines Area Community College For: Purchase of 120 Color Workshop books for the Youth Justice Initiative Family Classes at $8.25 a piece. Amount: $70,408 To: GBA Systems Integrators Inc. (Kansas) For: Payment for professional networking services provided between Aug. 31 and Sept. 27, including plant
Read More →I’m powerless to resist a documentary about John F. Kennedy. Though I’m well aware of the late president’s faults, I’m drawn in by his charisma every time. I cheer his triumphs and bemoan his tragedies. And I always respond to images of the assassination, as if I’m seeing them for
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