Return of the Franchise
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 [...]
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Posted December 16, 2015in Cover Story
Posted December 09, 2015in Cover Story
State of the music scene
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 [...]
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Posted December 02, 2015in Cover Story
Immigrant Trump
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 [...]
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Posted November 25, 2015in Cover Story
Black Friday
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 [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in Cover Story
Des Moines’ Sexiest People 2015
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 [...]
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Posted November 11, 2015in Cover Story
Wheels to nowhere
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, [...]
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Posted November 04, 2015in Cover Story
Seeking the truth
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 [...]
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Posted October 28, 2015in Cover Story
What we fear
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. [...]
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Posted October 21, 2015in Cover Story
Fall books guide
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 [...]
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Posted October 07, 2015in Cover Story
Game on
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 [...]
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