December 26, 2012 by justin
in Featured Story, Food Dude
The three great cuisines of classical history — Chinese, Roman and Ottoman — all developed as spoils of empire. From Zheng He and Marco Polo to Ibn Battuta and Columbus, history’s greatest adventurers trekked around the world seeking new foods as much as anything else. From Bistro 43 and Sage
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December 26, 2012 by justin
in The Sound
Bonita Crowe is exhausting. She sweeps into the GrapeVine one chilly morning toting a coffee large enough to drown a small dog, and from the moment she starts to talk, her passion and positive attitude are apparent. And infectious. “A lot of the artists that we book here, this is
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December 26, 2012 by justin
in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Politics makes strange bedfellows.Or bedfellows make strange politics. Roxanne Conlin, high-profile lawyer and onetime Democratic candidate for governor and, later, for senator, and her husband, developer James Conlin, have sued the city of Des Moines, and last week the suit was moved to federal district court. It’s all about windows.
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December 26, 2012 by justin
in Locker Room
The earliest ice skates date back 5,000 years. In Switzerland people used leg bones of large animals and tied them to their feet with leather straps. In the 1500s, Dutch skaters nailed flat iron plates to wooden platforms which were then strapped to the feet. Back then skates were probably
Read More →Published arrest charges are obtained from official law enforcement records, which are available to the public. All who are charged are innocent until proven guilty. Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE… A man called police around 8:20 p.m. on Dec. 17 after he was allegedly
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December 26, 2012 by justin
in Cover Story
Newspapers have three primary functions: The first, obviously, is to report current events; the second is to entertain and inform readers; and the third is to keep a record of time and history for a society of people. The latter is the reason so many newspapers, Cityview included, historically adhere
Read More →DES MOINES – A federal and state probe into spending by Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz has gone nowhere nearly four months after a state lawmaker requested it, according to officials. The inquiry centers on $280,000 Schultz is paying a Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation staffer to hunt down voter fraud in
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December 19, 2012 by justin
in Featured Story, Political Mercury
What the hell is going on in that house? That’s what I thought routinely in Lake Worth, Fla., as I’d hear the cries of kids in the house next to me. Some screaming. Just strange stuff. It’s been 20 years since I lived there during an internship for The Palm
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December 19, 2012 by justin
in Recent Posts, Sound Notes
Ravi Shankar — the finest sitar player of his generation, inspiration to everyone from The Beatles to Philip Glass and father to Norah Jones — passed away last week. It’s been a tough December for fans of non-top-40 niche musicians, with the passing of progressive jazz legend Dave Brubeck on
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Bah! Humbug! The Grinch who stole Iowa
Is there anything worthwhile left in Iowa for the religious and political right to demean or destroy? In the Hawkeye equivalent of Sherman’s March through Georgia, the folks on the political and evangelical right have done much to devastate Iowa. If you doubt that, consider some of the best aspects
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