Posted December 16, 2015in Cover Story
We could recap how we got here — six monumental films; countless multimedia spinoffs, including books, videogames and television series, just to name a few; clothing, costumes, and a culture unto itself; put simply, the most iconic entertainment franchise of all time — but we’ll just get right to it:
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Posted December 09, 2015in Cover Story
It is December, and everyone knows what that means: time for “year in review” articles! Most of them will be coming at the end of the month, so we wanted to get ahead of the crowd and talk about the year that was in local music. And boy, was it
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Posted December 02, 2015in Cover Story
Donald Trump, at his campaign kickoff last June, famously said that Mexico was purposely sending immigrants to America with “…lots of problems. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists…” Trump’s nativist march has continued apace; he even recently flirted with the idea of creating a nationwide database of Muslims. Yet here’s the
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Posted November 25, 2015in Cover Story
Long lines curving through the store, massive crowds pushing up against the walls and piles of clothes strewn about the tables and floor. That’s what millions of people will be leaving their Thanksgiving celebrations for when malls open their doors at 6 p.m. For years, Black Friday has been extending
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Posted November 18, 2015in Cover Story
Cityview readers nominated them, now you get to decide who Des Moines’ Sexiest man and woman are on Friday, Dec. 4. In the six years of Des Moines’ Sexiest People voting, our readers have introduced us to some inspiring, motivated and community-centered people residing in the Des Moines area. We’ve
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Posted November 11, 2015in Cover Story
If you had to name the one thing that sets Des Moines apart from any other city, what would that be? Des Moines is absolutely a great place to live, but what makes it a destination worth driving to, spending a few hundred dollars on a weekend in a hotel
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Posted November 04, 2015in Cover Story
Bill Maher is the closest any of us alive today will get to fulfilling every definition of the word “iconoclast.” In the Byzantine era, some 700 years after the events depicted in the Bible, iconoclasts were people who literally destroyed religious imagery. Maher — a loudly outspoken atheist — has
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Posted October 28, 2015in Cover Story
Horror movies and ghost stories were once virtually exclusive to Halloween, the day in which thrill seekers indulge in haunted houses with chainsaw-wielding, masked serial killers who invoke blood-curdling screams. But not anymore. Society’s lust for a good scare now stretches well beyond a single day of the year. For
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Posted October 21, 2015in Cover Story
Yet another summer has come and gone, and we find ourselves in the midst of fall, waiting for winter to wrap its chilly arms around us. Many of us think of summer as a time to relax, put our feet up and finally get around to reading that stack of
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Posted October 07, 2015in Cover Story
One of the biggest joys of seeing Des Moines grow and improve during the past decade or so is the fact that we now live in a town that features professional sports year-round. Between the Iowa Barnstormers, Iowa Cubs and Iowa Energy, winter, spring and summer are all well stocked
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