Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “Billy prostrates himself before the Artisan Beer Troll Gods.” Jo Berry Runners-up: “Troll worshipping was on the rise since heavy beer drinking was encouraged to reach that particular meditative state being demonstrated by Tom.”
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May 11, 2016 by justin
in The Sound
Controlled chaos
In 2012, Baroness was almost dead. Literally. While on tour in England, the band’s tour bus plunged 30 feet off a viaduct, severely injuring three of the band’s members, including frontman John Baizley’s leg and arm so badly that doctors thought they might have to amputate. Baizley’s arm was saved,
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May 04, 2016 by justin
in What the?
Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “Tim Burton’s ‘Dwarf Planet Of The Apes.’ ” Patrick Graham Runners-up: “Is a small Bigfoot still a Bigfoot?” Philip H. “Although Harry was the shortest Sasquatch ever, there was no reason why he
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May 04, 2016 by justin
in Cover Story, Homepage Cover Story
SoundOFF Stands Out
Twenty years and 1,000 episodes of sports-fueled lunacy on Sunday night TV. In the summer of 1999, I was obsessed with WHO-TV’s offbeat sports call-in show, “SoundOFF.” Every week, WHO sportscaster Keith Murphy and local funny man Steve “The Round Guy” Pilchen would talk about virtually anything people called in
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May 04, 2016 by justin
in Belly Up To...
Crown warfare
Flash back to 2009. It’s fourth and goal. The Iowa Hawkeye football team is down four points with two seconds left. The team has won 11 straight games going back to the previous season, but its unbeaten streak is on the line as they line up for one
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May 04, 2016 by justin
in Tech Talk
Slide your own Kismet with Tinder
Nearly every industry offers a good that comes with a stigma. Setting aside pornography, if you buy a $100,000 sports car, you’re compensating for something. If you go to the theater alone, you’re a sad, lonely guy. Smoke cigarettes and you’re a selfish, uneducated fool. This list could
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May 04, 2016 by justin
in On The Tube
Belly laughs
Ali Wong delivers a “Baby Cobra”; “Grace & Frankie” return for Round 2. “Ali Wong: Baby Cobra” Friday, May 6 (Netflix) Stand-Up Special: Ali Wong is one of the funniest comedians you’ve probably never heard of — and she’s definitely the most pregnant one you’ve ever seen in her
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May 04, 2016 by justin
in Center Stage
Two dudes and big smiles
“What Matt and Trey do is an amazing thing,” exclaims Daxton Bloomquist, referring to Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of “The Book of Mormon,” the uproarious musical about Mormons seeking converts in Africa. Bloomquist has been with the show for three years, but the subject still makes him
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May 04, 2016 by justin
in Political Mercury
What Hillary Clinton thinks when she thinks about rural America
Hillary Clinton covered a wide swath of issues — many dealing specifically with rural economic development, opportunities for Iowa small towns — in a 23-minute interview with Political Mercury on a summer Sunday afternoon in Carroll leading up to Iowa caucuses. Clinton, who logged more than a million miles of
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