By Chad Taylor soundcheck@dmcityview.com Trouble Lights ‘The Endless Prom’ Maximum Ames If you live in central Iowa and enjoy electro-pop, you had damn well already be familiar with Trouble Lights. With apologies to the Midwest’s other purveyors of dance floor pop, there’s nobody around doing it better than the Ames
Read More →1 2 3 4 5 6 Name that crime Sept. 6 – 13 A. Operating while intoxicated, second offense; four counts of failure to appear. B. Possession of marijuana; manufacturing marijuana; failure to affix drug tax stamp. C. Domestic abuse assault with injury; arrest without warrant. D. Domestic abuse assault,
Read More →When a judge refuses to allow the prosecution of a person who has killed a man thus creating a widow and an orphan, s/he does not deserve to be retained in office. Such is the case with Polk County District Judge Carolyn Egly. She refused to allow any formal adult
Read More →This isn’t right. In a business populated by people you’d rather not know, the Beastie Boys’ MCA was one of the good guys. He’s not supposed to be dead, if only because he didn’t do any of the things that typically make rock stars die. If rock stars are going
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September 19, 2012 by justin
in Classic Film Review
‘Team America: World Police’ Directed by Trey Parker 2004, Rated R, 98 minutes Geniuses of satire Matt Stone and Trey Parker bring big laughs to the big screen with a cast of square-jawed marionettes who fight terror by way of North Korea’s Kim Jong II in a relevantly childish reading
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September 19, 2012 by justin
in Art News
Art Stop, Des Moines’ autumnal celebration of the arts, has been expanded this year to three full weekends. Three very different artists’ new shows demonstrate a range of creativity worth celebrating. Since he opened a gallery 10 years ago, with Jackie Moberg, TJ Moberg has been too busy to prepare
Read More →April 28, 2005 Street food is the most ephemeral of dining fixes. More importantly, a food renaissance befitting Des Moines’ place in the middle of the richest agricultural land on earth is centered, like Drake, in the heart of the city. Only a food fool would leave the Drake area
Read More →April 28, 2005 Our no-nonsense guide to the Drake Relays By Jim Duncan In 1980, Sports Illustrated reported a big football upset, “For the second consecutive year, Colorado lost to Drake, better known as a track meet.” From the distance of a quarter century, the most incredulous thing about that
Read More →April 21, 2005 An Earth Day portrait of Iowa’s environment is not a pretty picture By Carolyn Szczepanski When the first Earth Day erupted, rivers were burning and citizens were suffocating in a country infected with oppressive pollution. On April 22, 1970, a massive protest descended on the nation’s capitol,
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Guest Commentary
Here’s a milestone of sorts. In July, for the first time since 1998, the House of Representatives voted to maintain the current military budget rather than increase Pentagon spending. It’s the first step toward bringing the budget down. Within the bill, which included more than $600 billion for the military,
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