Sound Notes Pick o’ the Week
Want to see some shows on the cheap? Got a little time to trade? Head down to Wooly’s on Mondays. That’s when you can get free tickets to shows in [...]
Read More →Want to see some shows on the cheap? Got a little time to trade? Head down to Wooly’s on Mondays. That’s when you can get free tickets to shows in [...]
Read More →‘The Following’ features the world’s most unlikely evildoer I’ve always argued that a Kevin Bacon performance is never without merit, no matter the production. But I’ve finally lost the argument [...]
Read More →The comedy phenom is on a roll with the second season of ‘Girls’ Part of me would love to be 26-year-old Lena Dunham: widely hailed as a comic genius when [...]
Read More →Dropkick Murphys ‘Signed and Sealed in Blood’ Born and Bred Records It’s 2013, so it’s time for a new Dropkick Murphys album. The Irish punk Massholes have been releasing a [...]
Read More →To look at the world out of 18-year-old eyes brings a certain clarity to the landscape, a certain freshness to encounters. Every day is literally a new day, because you [...]
Read More →The Des Moines Symphony has received $1.5 million in corporate pledges to its 75th anniversary campaign. The corporate support, which comes in from businesses including Principal Financial, Meredith Corp., Aviva, [...]
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Harper Collins 5/22/2012 $24.99 226pp. The current trend in cookbooks is toward sumptuous tomes replete with tantalizing photographs. A new cookbook with [...]
Read More →To drink or not to drink: On Dec. 17, KCCI and the Des Moines Register both reported that The Marquee — the former Ingersoll Dinner Theater — was losing its [...]
Read More →Rage Against the Machine ‘XX’ Epic There is probably no album that more perfectly captures the zeitgeist of the early ’90s better than Rage Against the Machine’s 1992 debut. Zach [...]
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Reviewed by Fay Jones St. Martin’s Press February 2013 $24.99 336 pp. Julie Kibler’s debut novel tells the story of two women as they embark on [...]
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