People in their truest state are more like animals than we’d like to admit. As we stir from our comatose winter slumber and crawl from our dark couch caves for an almost orgasmic post-hibernation stretch; and after we rub our sandy eyes so they may adjust to the bright and colorful world that has bloomed [...]
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There’s a nexus of contrast in a small village town just down the Raccoon River from West Des Moines. A place where Cy and Herkey can sit down and have a reconciling beer. It’s a biker bar that welcomes both Harley and Schwinn to its patio past times. A union of country and city colliding. [...]
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The saying around the track is that if you think racing is boring to watch, then you’ve never seen it live. Well, for those naysayers out there, here’s your chance. The Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series is the United States’ premier 410, 360 and 305 sprint car series, with 18 races from April 20 [...]
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“Star Trek Into Darkness” 3 stars Rated PG-13 123 minutes Action Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana “Star Trek Into Darkness” is a lot of movie. It gets personalities and dialogue right, but lets gigantic plot problems slide around like ocean-bound rubber duckies on an oil slick. The tremendous effort that the screenwriters, filmmakers [...]
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Little Ruckus — potentially the member of the Fairfield/Maximum Ames crowd that’s least known to Des Moines audiences — is nominally an electro-pop act. But what the 23-year-old really specializes in is a kind of avant garde-performance art that happens to have music attached. Much like Andrew W.K. (the man he’ll be opening for on [...]
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DES MOINES – Iowa leaders have taken over an investigation into the state’s first publicly reported case of cheating on the standardized tests that determine the overall performance of schools. Officials with the Davenport Community School District recently turned over to the state materials from their investi ...
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DES MOINES – Officials with the Iowa Department of Education say they won’t release information collected in an investigation of a cheating scandal involving Davenport third-through fifth-graders at Madison Elementary School. They declined to do so at the advice of Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who said th ...
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Braley says abortion issue “balances” of rights of mother, baby; King says traditional marriage transfers values, no judgment on gays. Cityview: If a woman wants a child, we call it a baby. If a woman doesn’t want a child, it’s called a fetus. Why should a woman have that power of definition, that kind of ...
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