January 02, 2013 by justin
in Featured Story, Food Dude
In this post-New Year’s season of diets, resolutions and purges, even a meat-eating sinner such as I figured it was time to try out New World Café, Des Moines’ first all vegan restaurant. What’s that? Vegans avoid eating all the things that vegetarians refrain from eating plus any foods derived
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January 02, 2013 by justin
in The Sound
Founded in 1981, The Queers are one of the last holdovers of the east coast, melodic pop-punk sound typified by the Ramones. The Queers were heavily influenced by “da brudders,” a fact they saluted by releasing a song-for-song cover of the Ramones’ “Rocket to Russia” in 1994. When your stock-and-trade
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January 02, 2013 by justin
in Cover Story
The year 2012 was an extremely eventful one in cinema. Expanded distribution channels meant more film titles being released than ever before. The growth of Video-on-Demand allowed movie audiences to avoid audience members who can’t refrain from talking, texting or chatting on their cell phones while watching a film at
Read More →1.) ‘JOURNEY’ (E) Sony Computer Entertainment PlayStation Network The best game of the year can be finished in a single sitting. In fact, it has to be. You don’t get to kill anything, and nothing you encounter can kill you. You never learn the name of your avatar or the
Read More →Amount: $12,651.27 To: Menards Inc. For: Purchase of construction materials for a lean-to building at Supply Yard South, including delivery $49.95 in delivery fees. Amount: $1,750 To: 1 Staff Training (Omaha, Neb.) For: Purchase of two Adobe Premier CS6 systems at $399 a piece, including onsite delivery travel costs
Read More →The popular photo-sharing website Instagram modified its legal terms of service last week causing insta-outrage across the Internet. Many interpreted it as Instagram allowing itself to “sell” users’ images to third parties, as in, transfer copyright and ownership. This caused so much backlash that the Instagram “export” service, Copygram, was
Read More →The good The National Family Partnership (NFP) recently announced the winners of the 2012 National Red Ribbon Photo Contest: “The Best Me Is Drug Free.” The nation’s oldest and largest drug prevention campaign reaches more than 80 million people every year. Students from throughout the U.S. participated by decorating their
Read More →Together we make Des Moines better I just wanted to send a quick note of appreciation for the innovative approach to Chad Taylor’s feature story about the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival’s 10th Anniversary event (“Coming Up Roses,” Nov. 8). His story was well-written, and Kimberly and I enjoyed our
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