Icona Pop “This is…Icona Pop” TEN/Big Beat Icona Pop is intriguing, because it’s a band that seemed to have more potential than might first be evident. Take, for example, its now ubiquitous hit, “I Love It”: Replace the synth beats with a guitar, and put that song in the hands
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September 25, 2013 by justin
in Sound Check
September 25, 2013 by justin
in Civic Skinny
Who, what, when, where, why and how
WHO…. …is teaching your children at the state universities? Not necessarily the faculty. At the University of Iowa, only 45 percent of total undergraduate student credit hours were taught by tenured and tenure-track faculty in the fall of 2012, the latest period for which there are figures. Non-tenure-track faculty —
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September 25, 2013 by justin
in Belly Up To...
Ready for some football, B-Dub style?
Nearly everyone who’s ever had a hankering for hot wings, a tall, frothy beer and a big screen TV to highlight every detail of the weekend’s must-see game has probably been to Buffalo Wild Wings somewhere in the country. The franchise includes 600 establishments in 41 states across the nation.
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September 25, 2013 by justin
in Game Day
It’s a plot, we tell you!
FIRST DOWN… and goal to go: Baylor scores 70 points a week, produces Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks, and does everything that the Texas Longhorns are SUPPOSED to do. And yet the word on the street is that some of the high-rollers in Austin feel they’re above poaching the little brother
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September 25, 2013 by justin
in Joe's Neighborhood
The end of the season
“Two books of tickets, please.” You shout over the music and through the small hole in the glass. Money passes one direction; tickets slide out the other direction. Vicki Smith looks out at you with a weariness. It’s late, and the season is almost over. You are another one of
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September 25, 2013 by justin
in Your View
Thankful for Neal Smith
Perhaps the most important comment to be published in Cityview came last week from Michael Gartner (Civic Skinny Comment, Sept. 19). His comments about Neal Smith were most appropriate, including the fact that after being defeated, the Smiths moved home to Des Moines — not taking the usual lobbying or
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September 25, 2013 by justin
in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… West Des Moines
Amount: $2,383.82 To: Midwest Tap LLC (Ohio) For: Purchase of DVDs for the library. Amount: $800 To: Memorial Services of Iowa Inc. For: Payment for two memorial services — a grave opening and closing — performed on July 19 and Aug. 8 ($350 for an urn and $450 for
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September 25, 2013 by justin
in News of the Weird
First Amendment blues In the public libraries of Seattle (as in most public libraries), patrons are not allowed to eat or sleep (or even appear to be sleeping) or be shirtless or barefoot or have bad body odor or talk too loudly — because other patrons might be disturbed. However,
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September 25, 2013 by justin
in Tech Talk
Federally mandated health insurance made easy
Three years after the Affordable Healthcare Act was signed into law, the Jan. 1, 2014, deadline is fast approaching for uninsured Americans to either acquire health insurance or pay a penalty. Thankfully, the federal government has established a powerful and slick website to help find a policy that best fits
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