Burger Daddy fills a need in Grimes
There’s a new place to get your burger fix in Grimes, and it’s also making a name for itself in game day locales. Burger Daddy opened in September in the [...]
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Posted September 30, 2015in Belly Up To..., Featured Story
Posted September 30, 2015in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Rubio is viable, in double digits, and not peaking early
Anyone who follows politics with even a challenged attention span can quickly summon from memory banks the basics of the 1960 presidential debates: Nixon sweating; Kennedy charming. Nixon, as the popular [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Featured Story, Food Dude
Paula’s sweet nostalgia
Lunch counters have gone the way of soda fountains. When most folks liked Ike, and Ozzie & Harriet ruled the airwaves, both genres were ubiquitous. Then teenagers found less innocent [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Featured Story, On The Tube
Vegas, Baby!
“The Player” Thursday, Sept. 24 (NBC) Series Debut: Phillip Winchester (“Strike Back”) plays Alex Cane, an ex-FBI operative now working as a Las Vegas security consultant who’s approached by the [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Featured Story, Political Mercury
The scourged and the sought
Tyson Fresh Meats’ decision to permanently cease beef-packing operations at its Denison plant in August jettisoned some 400 workers, many of them Latino immigrants with varying degrees of language proficiency and connections [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Belly Up To..., Featured Story
Meet your football family at Cheap Seats Sports Bar
The official start of fall was Sept. 23, but many people probably considered Thursday, Sept. 17 as the beginning of the season. Why? Football. The NFL season kicked off with [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Featured Story, Tech Talk
Apple, a national treasure
Dear President Obama: With the Iowa Caucus nearing and political drama starting to consume the news cycle, I’m sure you’ve heard the rumblings for a federal holiday on Election Day. [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Center Stage, Featured Story
Humdinger of a problem
John Viars, director of “Into the Woods,” gets the crowd scenes. In big numbers like “First Midnight,” he shuttles his glittery troupe in all directions. The comings and goings create [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Center Stage, Featured Story
Comedy, dramedy, dream
As you bask in Repertory Theater of Iowa’s luminous production of “Broadway Bound,” by Neil Simon, at times nothing on stage shines so brightly as Kerry Skram. Always a local [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Featured Story, Food Dude
Renaissance of indulgent dining
When it comes to food choices, so much has changed for the better here the last 50 years that it’s tempting to think we live a golden age of culinary [...]
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