A little more than a year ago, Dustin Smith started a new project. After having performed solo and having founded Dustin Smith & The Sunday Silos with his best friend Paige Harpin, Smith was ready for the next step in his sound. “The more I look back at The Sunday
Read More →Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com This week’s winner: “Frosty, is that a new icicle forming or are you just happy to see me?” -Jason Follett Runners-up: “I want a divorce, Mabel. You’re frigid!” -Quinn Rinehart “Albert gives Wanda the cold shoulder.” -Kurt W.
Read More →Ex-NFL star and first-round pick in the 2012 draft, Justin Blackmon, was arrested for DUI in December. This is the second DUI in three years for the 25-year-old, who was busted at 4:45 a.m. on a Saturday in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, back in Iowa, Didier Musore, 26, was also arrested after
Read More →Paradigm-altering technology is almost always unveiled at a major event. “Go big or go home” may be an atrocious cliché, but successful marketing is rarely built around sneaking onto store shelves. Companies generally pull out all the stops to make sure their new software, gadget, computer, game or software garners
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January 13, 2016 by justin
in Film Review
It did not take long at all for 2016 to deliver its first unforgettable film. “The Revenant” follows the true-life story of explorer Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), who is mauled by a bear during a fur trapping expedition, left for dead by his fellow trappers and subsequently crawls 100 miles
Read More →As dawn breaks over the small Connecticut town where Bill Clegg’s debut fiction takes place, we learn that a tragedy has occurred. During the night, a gas leak in June Reid’s home has caused an explosion that has killed her entire family. June’s daughter was to be married later that
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January 13, 2016 by justin
in Center Stage
What really gets actor/comedian Rob Schneider excited is talking about Des Moines. The Funny Bone is once again hosting the comic Jan. 15-16 — his third visit in five years — and to hear him talk about it, you’d think the star of “Deuce Bigalow” was getting his first big
Read More →Lazer 103.3 has announced that there will be no LAZERfest in 2016, as the long-time metal and hard rock festival has played its last. Once one of the biggest draws in the state, the event had been flagging the past couple years, as venue changes, schedule idiosyncrasies and declining lineups
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January 13, 2016 by justin
in Joe's Neighborhood
“Dad says it is your turn to go down the hill with me.” The young girl, her right side dipped in snow, her stocking cap covering only one ear, and a plastic blue sled trailing in her wake, looks up expectantly at the group of three moms standing at the
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