The good The State Veterans Home in Marshalltown has been awarded $23,840,617 from the Department of Veterans Affairs for renovation to the Dack and Malloy buildings at the State Veterans Home. “Our veterans deserve the best care available, and these funds will go a long way toward providing resources and
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June 26, 2013 by justin
in Good Bad Ugly
June 26, 2013 by justin
in Your View
I remember, too
I enjoyed the article by Michael Gartner (“Memories of 715 Locust St.,” May 30). I have never met Mr. Gartner, but we seem to have parallel lives concerning The Des Moines Register and Tribune. He was born in 1938 and graduated from Roosevelt in June of 1956. I was born
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June 26, 2013 by justin
in Belly Up To...
West Glen’s gone country y’ all
Living in the Grand Canyon State lends itself to a whole slew of western saloons for any drinker to choose from. Even though I was young, I can still remember a family trip to the Rusty Spur in Scottsdale, Ariz. My dad sat me and my sister up on the
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June 26, 2013 by justin
in Food Dude
Big Night in Des Moines
In Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott’s 1996 film “Big Night,” two passionate Italian restaurant owners on the Jersey Shore bank their future on serving a grand dinner for a famous jazz singer. Their guests relish the feast, but the celebrity never shows. A modification of “Big Night” played in Windsor
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June 26, 2013 by justin
in Cover Story
Fire in the sky!
Nothing seems to bring out America’s pyromania-like urges more than the Fourth of July. After all, what better way to celebrate our country’s independence than by lighting up a brick of Black Cat firecrackers, a few bottle rockets and… losing a finger or two in the process? Hearing is optional
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June 26, 2013 by justin
in Film Review
The DC crime ring eats its own
“White House Down” 1 star PG-13 137 minutes Action Starring: Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal Copycat redundancies to the recent “Olympus Has Fallen” aside, “White House Down” is an unintentionally laughable action movie that wallows involuntary cynicism about how America — or screenwriter James Vanderbilt at least — views
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June 26, 2013 by justin
in Political Mercury
King: Immigration green flag jeopardizes American ideals
Concerned his party may be abandoning core principles in a rush to immigration reform, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, organized a “press conference” outside the nation’s capitol last Wednesday to protest what he called a push to amnesty for millions of people living in America without proper papers. About a
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June 26, 2013 by justin
in The Sound
Aren’t We All wants to shatter your misconceptions about metal
It’s easy to close your eyes, conjure up the mental image of a local metal show and see a lead singer leaning over the front of the stage, foot on the monitor, neck bulging with effort as he screams and howls his way through the set. And to be sure,
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June 26, 2013 by justin
in Locker Room
Make way for the Mega Monster Truck Tour
It’s loud, it’s dirty and it will make every other man in the room feel somewhat insignificant in its presence. It’s monster truck time in Des Moines once again. Monster truck racing typically involves men who hail from the rural pockets of the U.S. who have loads of free time
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June 26, 2013 by justin
in Civic Skinny
Branstad, TV stations play with the numbers.
Before Terry Branstad got to the real news on Iowa Press the other day — the sigh-of-relief-news that Floppy won’t be in the Historical Building’s doghouse for too long — he said: “We’ve created over 100,000 jobs” since retaking Terrace Hill in January of 2011. The Des Moines Register’s Kathy
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