Posted November 27, 2013in Cover Story
From the broad perspective of human history, the idea that women are spiritually challenged seems absurd. Most of the great ancient religions ascribed spirituality to the female principle and materiality to the male. If ancient Greeks wanted to smite their enemy with thunderbolts, they beseeched Zeus. To bring a plague
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Posted November 20, 2013in Cover Story
It’s time for last year’s winner to hand over her crown. Unfortunately, she can’t. We called her, and she seems to have misplaced it. “I lost it on one of my Sunday Fundays,” confessed Candace Nolan, Des Moines Sexiest person of 2012. Oh well. In this the fifth year Cityview
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Posted November 13, 2013in Cover Story
This may be the only time you’ll see drag queens compared with professional wrestlers, but here you go: When looking at both groups — even if you’re a fan of either of them — it’s sometimes easy to write them off as merely the sum of their parts. Wrestlers portray
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Posted November 06, 2013in Cover Story
The seemingly inevitable coronation of Hillary Clinton as the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee could, much like the 2008 election, take a sharp detour at the Iowa caucus. Widely considered the presumptive nominee following her successful term as President Obama’s Secretary of State, Clinton appears all but certain to make
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Posted October 30, 2013in Cover Story
Ever been called crazy? I mean, truly experienced the self shrink against the cold sincerity of someone’s towering accusation, the helplessness of possessing a powerless conviction that fails to move a doubter to your corner regardless of your disparity, your logic, your unwavering argument, your repeated swearing to God that
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Posted October 23, 2013in Cover Story
There is no substitute for a good book — the kind with paper pages harvested from trees. Despite their cute names and smart functions and convenient sizes, today’s electronic books lack that unique organic spirit, like cyborg versions of the original. But a book is a book, a safe keeper
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Posted October 16, 2013in Cover Story
What is it about vinyl that captures the imagination? People don’t get glassy-eyed with nostalgia over wax cylinders or eight-tracks or MP3s. Some in the punk scenes might argue that cassettes still have a healthy following, but it’s more a function of portability and the ability to record over them.
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Posted October 09, 2013in Cover Story
When the puck drops to the ice at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12 at Wells Fargo Arena, as the Iowa Wild faces off with the Oklahoma City Barons to open its 2013-14 season, it will mark the return of professional hockey to Des Moines following a four-year absence and
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Posted October 02, 2013in Cover Story
Walking back to your car to find it’s not where you left it leaves you with an eerie feeling. “Did someone steal my car?”… “Why would anyone want to steal my car? It’s a 1993 Ford Escort that doesn’t even have reverse!” “Is this a dream?” “Am I stoned?” “Dude,
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Posted September 25, 2013in Cover Story
Photographers call it “having the eye.” It’s a unique look at the mundane; it’s seeing things others might disregard, viewing something that is too often mistaken for normal, ordinary or commonplace. But with a tilt of the head and a squint of an eye, that otherwise average observation shows itself
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