Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “It was the first and last time Margaret asked her husband to pick up some Coke for the kid’s birthday party.” Brandon Thomas Runners-up: “Sally always encouraged Dad’s eccentricity, but Mom and most
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May 25, 2016 by justin
in Food Dude
At 5 p.m. on a recent Sunday, three hours before closing time, I tried to order a few things from Des Moines’ newest African café — Safari. Fish? Sorry, sold out. Goat, then, with plantain fufu? All gone. Which is gone, the goat or the fufu? Both gone today.
Read More →Wendell Pierce, 53, star of HBO series “The Wire,” was arrested recently after assaulting a woman at a hotel. Pierce allegedly got into a disagreement with the woman while discussing politics. Pierce is a staunch supporter of Hillary Clinton, and the victim is a Bernie Sanders supporter. Pierce hit her
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May 25, 2016 by justin
in Belly Up To...
If you’re ever on the floor at C.J.’s II Tap — the bar owned by Claude Johns on East 30th Street near the Iowa State Fairgrounds — and wondering where your life took the unhappy turn that landed you on the cool cement of this old-school tavern, do yourself a
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May 25, 2016 by justin
in The Sound
Every band — or at least every band that is doing it right — places a premium on authenticity. You should be true to the music, and the music should be true to your roots. If either end of that agreement is missing, your sound will lack soul and passion.
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May 25, 2016 by justin
in Film Review
As of this writing, if you were to look up “The Nice Guys” on MetaCritic, you would see a rating of 68 percent positive, which is a good descriptor of the movie itself. While it is not a complete waste of money, a lot of its potential was left
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May 25, 2016 by justin
in Joe's Neighborhood
“Honestly, officers, I just forgot it was there.” Words I have heard many a guilty criminal utter as they are hauled away to jail. The 5-inch, copper-cased bullet was wrapped in soft tissue paper and buried among the copper coffee grinders, the copper pan, the copper plate and
Read More →Boomtown Ankeny The numbers are in, and Ankeny is growing at the third-fastest annual rate in the country at 6.5 percent, according to 2015 U.S. Census statistics comparing cities with more than 50,000 people. The suburb has doubled its population in the last 15 years, raising its number to
Read More →How much money is enough for America’s top executives? The AFL-CIO just released compensation comparisons showing the average CEO pay is now 335 times that of the average worker. The average pay for America’s CEOs in 2015 was $12.4 million, while the average employee made $36,900. The pay gap between
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May 25, 2016 by justin
in Sound Circuit
Newton native Jacey Gutknecht has been interested in music virtually her entire life. By the time she was a freshman in high school, she was playing guitar and writing original songs. But for the 21-year-old, who now goes by just her first name, the road to the stage
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