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M
y suggestion to Michael Gartner
with his piece on Steve Deace and
Douglas Burns article showing
outrage at prayer: Remove the log from your
own eye before you tell someone to remove
the splinter from theirs. Gartner ignores
another liberal intrusion on private property rights, and calling One Iowa a human
rights organization is a farce; it would be like
calling a casino a math tutorial service. The
liberals, it seems, forget history. Mr. Burns,
please read Washington’s inaugural and
farewell speeches, and remember that, until
roughly the 1960s, even the Supreme Court
opened with prayer. It is right and just to
pray for our leaders — even for the godless
liberals we have now, we pray they can see
the light. Heck, compared to the Founding
Fathers, Mr. Gartner, Mr. Burns and the Supreme Court all need a refresher in the Bill of
Rights, including the 10th Amendment —
the powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution, are reserved to the
States and the people. Go with God, and tell
the truth.
Where can I get 5
percent?
Michael Gartner’s article on the closed door
shenanigans deal (Civic Skinny, Feb. 5) between AIB’s Nancy Williams and University
of Iowa’s Sally Mason to absorb AIB into the
U of I to increase student count and therefore
state aid reminded me of a local hospital buying Des Moines General Hospital for its bed
count then promptly shutting it down — all
to justify building more hospitals in West
Des Moines. Are there beds yet on the top
two floors of Mercy West Hospital? While
I like Gartner’s out-of-the-box ideas to turn
the sale of AIB into a positive for needy students, I wonder about his suggestion to “give
the money to the Greater Des Moines Community Foundation to invest.” He implies a
guarantee return of 5 percent. Last I checked,
Banker’s Trust was only offering 1.33 percent. How can a guy like me invest in the
GDMCF and get 5 percent?
Mike Rowley
Clive
Branstad’s big mistake
I recently read in the Des Moines media that
Terry Branstad, six-term governor of Iowa,
has announced that he probably won’t run
for a seventh term in three years. That’s a big
mistake. By making that announcement, he
has made himself an ineffective lame duck.
Theodore Roosevelt did that after taking office for a second term in 1905. He became
President upon the assassination of William
McKinley in 1901. So, at the start of his first
elected term, he rendered himself ineffective.
It was a big mistake for Roosevelt. It’s a big
mistake for Terry Branstad. History repeats
itself.
Gary Thelen
West Des Moines
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Cityview Magazine: Should Joe
Biden run for president, or pass?
G Michael Peter: Butt buddy Neil
would vote for him
Chivas Rivas: pass that dutchie to the
left hand side
Kathy Hinrichs Boe: This is a nobrainer.......just like Biden!
Thomas Tully: Biden is a great guy
but I believe this country is looking
for something new, different, and
energetic! Guess this means Hillary
should take a pass as well. The Dem’s
need a young fresh face...maybe Castro
or Sen. Booker?
Cityview Magazine: Should NBC
have fired news anchor Brian
Williams, or was a six-month
suspension good enough?
Adam Swihart: Meh. There’s more
important news out there. So he got
caught embellishing a story. Just shows
a newsman can be just as full of shit as
anyone.
Cityview Magazine: What do you
think of a complete ban of handheld
cell phone use for motorists?
Cityview Magazine: Which GOP
presidential hopeful do you think
will connect with voters? Which one
doesn’t have a prayer?
Jayce Darrah: Some people rely on
GPS on their phones to get to cities
they’ve never been to before.
Josh Orton: It maybe great if it’s
enforced and if “everyone” follows it.
Skip Hammerman: 100% supportive.
Brian Conley: Those without a prayer:
Cruz, Rubio, Santorum, Huckabee,
Walker, Lee, Christy, Bush, Carson,
Perry, Palin, Gilmore, Trump, Paul,
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Graham...I’ve got to be missing a few.
Peter Spaulding: I just moved here
from New Jersey, and am hopeful that
the people of this great state do not fall
for the plane crash that is Chris Christie.
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Bob Mahaffey won’t seek re-election to the city council.
Several eye school board. Tirrell overlooks a few things.
B
ob Mahaffey is not going to seek reelection this fall to the Des Moines
City Council.
His decision — which had not been
made public until now — could set off a
scramble for the northeast seat that the longtime Anderson-Erickson executive has filled
for the past 12 years.
“I would be 85 at the end of the next
term,” Mahaffey told Cityview. “I feel it’s
time for a younger candidate.”
One younger candidate, 64-year-old
Marty Mauk, already has announced. But
when word gets out that Mahaffey has decided to step down, other candidates could
step forward. Indeed, Monday morning
Linda Westergaard, a neighborhood activist and vice chair of the Zoning Board
of Adjustment, announced her candidacy.
Westergaard, 62, has been a real-estate agent
for the past 16 years and has lived in the
Douglas Acres area for 37 years.
Mauk, who runs estate and antique auctions, is a past chairman of the zoning board
and has been president of neighborhood associations. Lately, he has been attending the
council’s morning workshops and evening
sessions, and he is familiar with city issues.
The Ward 2 seat runs from the Des Moines
River east to the city limits and from University Avenue north to the city boundary.
The city election is Nov. 3. Mayor Frank
Cownie’s term also expires then, as do the
terms of south-side councilman Joe Gatto
and at-large council member Chris Coleman. …
Meantime, the Des Moines School Board
is getting set to fill a vacancy in its District
2, where the ailing Toussaint Cheatom is
stepping down. The district runs from Sherman Hill north to the city limits and west
to 30th Street, and it includes North High
School. The deadline for applying was Monday. The School Board is scheduled to meet
Wednesday of this week to review the submissions; a candidate could be chosen next
week and would serve until the school-board
elections on Sept. 8.
As of Monday morning, PTA activists
Thatcher Williams and Susan Griffiths
had applied, along with Assistant Attorney
General Nathan Blake, who last fall lost his
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bid for the state senate by just 17 votes. Ed
Linebach, who lost to Cheatom in 2013,
has said on Facebook that he is applying.
A majority of the seven school board
seats will be up for grabs at that Sept. 8 election. Besides the District 2 seat, the seats of
board chair Cindy Elsbernd and members
Bill Howard and Pat Sweeney will be up.
One seat is at large, and two are for districts
— districts 1 and 3. But since the district
system was just put in — the 1 and 3 districts will be electing members for the first
time — it’s unclear who will run for what.
Elsbernd and Sweeney both live in District
1, for example, and Howard lives in District
4, which is represented by Teree CaldwellJohnson, who is not up for re-election until
2017….
The American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees represents more than 4,000 workers at the University of Iowa. Yet the proposed 21-person
committee to be named to search for a new
president of the University apparently will
have no AFSCME representative on it.
The committee will include three members of the nine-member Board of Regents,
nine faculty members, two representatives
from the University of Iowa Foundation,
two from the alumni association, two members of the public appointed by the Board of
Regents, and the presidents of the university
Staff Council, of the Student Government,
and of the Graduate and Professional Student Government.
Initially, there was talk of putting a labor
member on the committee, but that apparently was vetoed by either the governor’s office or the Board of Regents office. “There’s
no fucking way” a union representative will
be included, one insider said. AFSCME interprets that as “no.” …
If you’re waiting to get your 12 cents on
the dollar from the money Marty Tirrell
owes you, forget about it for now.
The proposed bankruptcy settlement of
the radio sports guy and his wife was withdrawn after the bankruptcy trustee discovered the Tirrell debts were considerably
greater than Tirrell had said. Ultimately, the
trustee determined that the debts exceeded
the $383,175 limit allowed under a Chap-
ter 13 filing. At that point, both Tirrell and
the trustee moved to withdraw the petition,
which the judge allowed. The case was officially closed Dec. 29.
The Tirrells are barred from filing a petition under any chapter of the Bankruptcy
Act for 180 days.
“Creditors are now free to pursue collection from” the Tirrells, a lawyer for the
trustee told Cityview.
After the Tirrells filed their 12-centson-the-dollar plan, the trustee — Albert
Warford — filed an objection. The Tirrells’
statement of financial affairs failed to answer
many questions, and they didn’t document
that all their tax returns have been filed for
the past four years and didn’t supply documentation concerning their business interests, the court document states.
The Tirrells’ petition also didn’t accurately report on the court judgments against
them from two ticket brokers who provided
Tirrell tickets to major events but never
were paid. Those judgments total about
$287,000, but Tirrell had listed one as “unknown” and one as $33,000. The trustee report also says the Tirrells “failed to supply…
information to document [their] projected
income” and submitted proposed living expenses “which appear excessive.”
Charles Gabus Motors, the Toyota
dealer that has had a long and bitter dispute
with Tirrell, also objected to the proposed
12-cents-on-the-dollar plan. …
CoOportunity Health, Inc., was set up
under the Affordable Care Act “for the mutual benefit of its members,” according to a
petition filed in Iowa district court by the
Attorney General’s office when it was clear
the company was going belly up. Its federal
funding was running out, and its claims
were running up. It lost nearly $46 million
in the first 10 months of 2014.
The state insurance commissioner, Nick
Gerhart, says the company can’t be saved,
and he has gone to Polk County District
Court to ask that the company be liquidated. The company, which was licensed to
do business in Iowa on March 22, 2013, is
insolvent, court papers say, “and further attempts to rehabilitate CoOportunity would
be futile.” Chief Judge Art Gamble has set a
hearing on the liquidation request for next
Tuesday.
The insurer had 65,000 or so customers in Iowa and Nebraska, and thousands of
those will be hurt by the liquidation. They’ll
have to scramble to find new insurance, and
it might be a lot costlier. Many are high-risk
customers.
But it was a good thing while it lasted —
and among those benefiting were the officers
of the company. According to state records,
in 2013 — the year for which public figures
are available — Cliff Gold, who ran the
company, received a salary of $250,000 and
other compensation of $24,000. Stephen
Ringlee, the chief financial officer, also
earned $250,000. Controller Scott Geistkemper and vice presidents Lois Crilly and
Danielle Slifka each earned $151,500, and
Dexter Bodin, another vice president, made
$150,000. Geistkemper had extra compensation of $15,502, Bodin of $9,148, Crilly
of $7,276 and Slifka of $900. …
Jordan Creek Mall has sued the people
who guaranteed the lease for Champps Restaurant, the once-popular but now-closed
eatery at the mall.
In a filing last week in Dallas County
District Court, the mall said two Minnesota
companies and two individuals who guaranteed the lease owe the mall $677,258.99,
and the suit says that if Jordan Creek can’t
find a new tenant for the 10,143-squarefoot restaurant the Minnesotans will owe
$2,648,307.62 by the time the lease expires
in 2019.
Champps signed the lease for the prime
space on Dec. 31, 2003, and ultimately it
was guaranteed by Wayne Belisle and Laurence Pipkin, according to the lawsuit.
Belisle, at least, was a principal in Belwin
L.L.C., which did business as Champps. By
the time Champps closed, it was owned by
a Kansas City company called F&H Acquisition Corp., which filed for protection under the bankruptcy laws late in 2013. Then,
briefly, the restaurant was renamed EightySix-d, but that, too, closed.
But no matter who owned the restaurant, the lease was guaranteed by Belisle
and Pipkin, the suit says, and they should
pay. CV
Joe’sNeighborhood
By Joe Weeg
Mom and Pop
T
he corner door pushes open to a soft “dong.” That’s
it. No automatic swoosh of doors ushering you into
a neon-lit extravaganza of restaurants, dry cleaners,
coffee shops, post offices, liquor stores, pharmacies and groceries. Nope. This door you have to push with your hands.
And it pushes open only into a small mom-and-pop store.
No bustling of people stocking shelves, no clang of shopping
carts being rounded up by a machine in some football-field
parking lot, no crackling voice announcing “help needed in
aisle 25.” Nope. Not here. Just a warm hello from the smiling woman at the cash register — who will likely call you by
name — and then you are on your own. Quiet. Peaceful.
Slow shopping.
“There used to be all these corner groceries in Des
Moines. One over here in the Roosevelt Shopping Center.
There was the Waveland Market. There was one in Sherman Hills. There was Greenwood Market, where we’d stop
in every day coming home from Merrill. New City Market
has been the location of a grocery since the 1920s.”
Jim Raife explains with gestures as he identifies each corner grocery on some large imaginary map of Des Moines. A
thin man. Sixty-one years old. Small boned. Straight. His
peppery-grey hair, narrow face and rounded glasses are win-
dow-dressing to his smile. A slow, lazy affair. It starts at the
eyes, eases on down to his upper cheeks, then finally brings
the corners of his mouth upwards. It’s not in a rush. Nor is
he.
“I started work in what was then the Iowa Farmer’s Market in 1979. It was like the first natural foods market in Des
Moines. The Iowa Farmer’s Market was a private store. It
was like crocks on the floor and an old cooler in the back.
That was it.”
Jim straightens the long apron that loops around his neck
and falls below his knees. The costume of his trade.
“It was a bunch of us hippies back in the beginning. I
had a giant fro.”
Jim laughs at his image as a young man.
“In 1989, I bought the Iowa Farmer’s Market and immediately moved it here to this corner. I knew politically
this was right. I knew the natural food movement was a convergence of several movements. One a political movement
and one a health movement. And so there was a compelling
reason to think this would work.”
But really? Running a small business? Running a natural
foods store?
“I learned by trial and error. We did have a consultant
fairly early that helped us a lot. And I really worked to educate myself. This was a fledgling industry back then. People
were flying by the seat of their pants. You see small business
people who say, ‘No one’s going to tell me how to run my
business.’ And you look at them and think someone needs
to tell them how to run their business. I was not that type.
Whatever help you can give me, I’ll take it.”
Ah, and then there’s his wife Cindy. His indispensable
partner in all of this. She works the back room and he works
the front. Not too interested in any attention from me, she
keeps to the periphery as she periodically glances our way.
And children?
“We had our first child in 1981,” Jim says. “All my kids
grew up in the store. We were mom and popping it. Play
area in the front. One of our kids would use the bathroom
and yell across the store — ‘Mom, I need a wipe.’ ”
Jim laughs at how ridiculous it was.
“They all worked here. We ate and breathed and lived
this.”
Cindy continues to bustle in the background. Grey hair
pulled back tight. Softly curved eyes glancing our way. Gentle.
I intrude on her space and ask her what she thought when
she and Jim opened this store.
“Well, when we started, I had two kids and I was very
pregnant with the third. When Jim said we should buy this
place, I said he was crazy.” She pauses. “It was all good.
When our youngest was big enough to play, he had his Legos
set up in the front window while the older kids mixed peanut butter. My adult kids all still eat natural foods and are
healthy and well rounded. You can’t ask for more than that.”
And that’s enough goofing off. Cindy heads to the back
and Jim to the front.
The floor shines from polish. The large windows glitter in
the late afternoon sun. The cans and boxes are marshaled in
neat rows on the shelves. Vegetables and fruits are bright and
lush in the refrigerated case against the wall. And the barrels
of grains and beans are ready to be scooped into waiting bags.
All is well at New City Market. And a soft dong is heard in
the background. Mom and pop are back to work. CV
Joe Weeg spent 31 years bumping around this town
as a prosecutor for the Polk County Attorney’s Office. Now retired, he writes about the frequently
overlooked people, places and events in Des Moines
on his blog: www.joesneighborhood.com.
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By Herb Strentz
Sadly, for today’s Iowa GOP, it pays to be ignorant
A
lthough the Iowa press has not reported it yet, Louisiana Gov. Bobby
Jindal has taken himself out of the
Iowa caucus scene and the race for the GOP
presidential nomination.
Matter of fact, he did so two years ago
in January 2013 when he told fellow Republicans, “We must stop being the stupid
party.”
Given current affairs, it’s time to revisit
Jindal’s comment that stirred things up — at
least briefly.
Jindal’s comment came in the wake of
the 2012 elections in which blunder after
blunder cost the Republicans election victories. Remember Jindal’s full quote?
“We must stop being the stupid party. I’m serious. It’s time for a new Republican party that talks like adults. It’s time
for us to articulate our plans and visions for
America in real terms. We had a number of
Republicans damage the brand this year with
offensive and bizarre comments. We’ve had
enough of that.”
Had enough? Maybe for Jindal, but for
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the right wing of the GOP, “Stop being the
stupid party” is fightin’ words. “Being the
stupid party” remains the party mantra these
days.
GOP candidates enter Iowa with fear
and trembling. Anticipating the worst, they
fear a campaign gaffe in which they say
something sensible — about vaccines, immigration reform, climate change and the
like — thus infuriating the religious right.
(Gil Cranberg, former editorial page editor
of The Des Moines Register and Tribune,
characterized the anti-vaccine crowd as demanding “A right to infect.”)
Here’s a hypothetical doomsday quote
for a GOP candidate in Iowa: “Regardless
of what your opinion is on climate change,
you should consider that reducing reliance
on fossil fuels and being concerned about
greenhouse gas emissions in our atmosphere
may make sense.”
Hah! Kiss that candidacy goodbye.
Likewise, it’s the end of the road in Iowa
for any candidate who does not scoff at scientific findings or research and who does not
endorse bizarre notions of creation, United
Nations plots and almost mandated concealed weapons.
If we’re going to go back two years for
Jindal’s futile plea, we might as well resurrect another from around that time by New
York Times columnist Gail Collins: “We
have seen the future, and everything involves
negotiating with loony people.”
Little did she know.
Rather than talking sense, GOP candidates are well-advised to praise Iowa’s Christian right for giving editions of The Founders’ Bible to each state legislator.
That’s the version of scripture beloved by
our “Founders.” You know, folks like U.S.
Sen. John Henry Hammond of South Carolina who, in 1858, praised God — May I
have an Amen! — for giving us slavery because, “I believe it to be the greatest of all the
great blessings which a kind Providence has
bestowed upon our glorious region.”
Amen! That’s our Founder talking.
Good grief!
If you want to talk sense instead of non-
sense, look again at part of Jindal’s 2013
comment: “It’s time for a new Republican
party that talks like adults. It’s time for us to
articulate our plans and visions for America
in real terms.”
There is yet time for a GOP candidate to
surface, someone who would help the Iowa
party regain its stature and welcome back
folks like those virtually driven out of the
party by the frenetic religious right. Those
are and were folks like Joy Corning, the
late Mary Louise Smith, Dottie Carpenter
and Art Neu and Andy Varley, Lyle Krewson, Sue Mullins and Maggie Tinsman, Jim
Leach and others who could make us proud
— not ashamed — to be Iowans. It really is
time for a new Republican Party to reclaim
its heritage in Iowa.
May we have an Amen! CV
Herb Strentz is a retired administrator and professor in the Drake
School of Journalism and Mass
Communication and writes occasional columns for Cityview.
By Steffen Schmidt
Iowa Caucuses and Straw Poll as relevant as ever
E
very four years, the contrarians come
out of the woodwork trashing the
Iowa Presidential Caucuses and the
Ames Straw Poll.
Retired Drake journalism school professor Herb Strentz had his opportunity at this
Whack-a-Mole in Cityview. In “Adieu to
the relevance” of the caucuses and poll, he
avers that Congressman Steve King’s Freedom Summit is proof of the irrelevance of
Iowa. He quotes the left-wing wag Scott
Galindez, featured in Anarchist publications
such as The Rag Blog, who wrote that Iowans are “God-fearing, pig-castrating, gun
toting whackos.”
First of all, Professor Strentz may have
missed the fact that there is no such a thing as
“Iowans.” There are Independent-No-Party
voters, there are lots of Democrats (Iowa
is probably still purple), there are seriously
lefty Bernie Sanders Democrats, there are
Libertarian-Rand Paul Republican Iowans,
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and there are even lots of moderate Republicans or Mitt Romney would not have tied
for first place in the last Iowa caucuses. Iowa
is much more diverse than the fool out of
town critics can ever imagine.
By the way, in Iowa we have members of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lutheran
Church–Missouri Synod, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, and, for all I know,
other diverse branches of the Lutheran faith.
Now that’s diversity!
Second, the Iowa caucuses are a terrific
testing ground for candidates. They can
hone their skills, meet lots of self-confident
people at cafés, community centers, the Iowa
State Fair, and people’s homes, people who
will straight out ask hard questions with no
intermediaries. And poor candidates like
Rick Santorum can beat a rich businessman
like Mitt Romney by burning up shoe leather and going to 99 counties shaking hands
and selling himself.
Third, Strentz misses the point completely that Iowa allows us and the massive media
horde that come here to assess the character and communications style and skills of
contenders. Anyone watching Steve King’s
Summit from “gavel-to-gavel” cold not help
but see the differences between Gov. Scott
Walker and Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina and
Sara Palin.
Fourth, the Ames Straw Poll is a terrific,
fun political festival. The media loves it.
Those attending the event (including me)
love it. The Iowa Republican Party loves
it since it raises a ton of money. Ames and
Story County love it because these fool politicians leave a big chunk of money with us.
It’s called a Republican stimulus package for
us.
Fifth, Joni Ernst WON the Senate race.
No matter how much the left dislikes her,
the Democrats blew that race and almost every other race in 2014. That’s how elections
work, Professor. The majority works hard,
turns out large numbers and wins elections.
I recommend that the Democrats carefully
study Joni’s campaign. They will learn how
to win elections.
And, of course, the East Coast dandies
who write about the Iowa caucuses have their
own axe to grind, and their own “groupies”
to satisfy.
I, for one, am a huge fan of the Iowa
Caucuses and the Straw Poll. They create
political excitement. They show what highly
motivated voters are as opposed to the low
information and low intensity voters who
turn out for primaries.
Let the candidates roll in! CV
Steffen Schmidt is originator and co-author of
the largest selling American government college
textbook and Professor of Political Science at
Iowa State University. His Iowa Caucuses online course launches in September.
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Raccoon River Brewing
Company to close in March
R
accoon River Brewing Co. announced
earlier this month it will be closing its
doors on March 7. The restaurant
and brewer has been in business for 18 years
and is located at 200 10th St. in the historic
Clemons Building, which will be sold. The
property’s prospective owners have plans to
redevelop it, but no details have been made
available at this time. The buyers have reserved the restaurant and brewing equipment in the purchase agreement, although
there is no speculation on the possibility of a
new restaurant opening there yet.
REI to open first Iowa location
in West Des Moines
REI, a Seattle-based outdoor retail company,
will open its first store in Iowa this fall. The
company plans to build a 23,500-square-foot
building in Mills Crossing, the new retail development on the corner of 60th Street and
Mills Civic Parkway. The nearest REI store
is currently in Bloomington, Minnesota, and
there are about 3,600 REI members in Iowa.
The retailer sells outdoor equipment such as
camping, climbing, cycling, hiking, travel and
snow sports merchandise. The one-story building is part of Hurd Real Estate’s new development project, which also includes Fresh Market and another 23,000-square-foot storefront.
West Des Moines beauty goods
store to close
After 25 years of service, Michael Spade will
close his beauty supply store, Beauty First,
on March 14. Spade will liquidate all the
inventory in his store before he retires, and
he will also sell his fixtures and equipment.
Spade tried to sell the business, located at
4100 University Ave., Suite 107 in West
Des Moines, but did not receive any offers. He opened the store in 1989 at Governor’s Square in West Des Moines, and it
was called Beauty Warehouse at the time.
He moved it to Watertower Place about five
years ago. Beauty First is currently open 10
a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday;
and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Call 515222-0332, visit www.beautyfirstdm.com or
find it on Facebook.
Hotel Fort Des Moines sold,
set for remodel
Raj Patel’s family purchased Hotel Fort Des
By David Rowley
Punch, punch, kick, kick
Moines, a downtown landmark, for $4 million with plans to begin $40 million renovation later in the year. Patel’s family bought
the landmark through a subsidiary of its
Burlington-based company, Hawkeye Hotels. The once-great hotel has suffered a slow
decline in recent years, but it used to host
presidents, celebrities and even foreign leaders. The renovations will include refurbishing the historical parts of the first and second Chance “Milkman” Cretsinger will take on
floors and gutting the upper floors. The ho- Center.
tel will close during the project for the first
on’t let the word “amateur” fool you
time since its opening 95 years ago. It is ex— the guys who will be stepping into
pected to reopen in late 2016 or early 2017
the ring are some of the area’s best
under the Hotel Fort Des Moines name, but
boxers and kickboxers.
under different operations. Hawkeye Hotels
On Feb. 21, 7 Flags Event Center will
is negotiating to operate it as either a Hiltonhost the Combat Championship Series, and,
or Marriott-brand property.
like gladiators entering the Coliseum, one
thing is for certain: You will be entertained.
Fresh Market expected to come
“Combat Championship Series (CCS)
to West Des Moines
consists of six boxing matches and six kickThe Fresh Market filed documents with boxing matches with some of the best amathe Polk County recorder’s office outlin- teur boxers and fighters in the area,” said
ing leasing plans for a 23,000-square-foot Rebecca Casey, co-owner of Trinity Promostore on the corner of 60th Street and Mills tions. “What spectators can expect with both
Civic Parkway in West Des Moines. The types of fighting is nonstop action by fighters
store could open as soon as this fall in the who are dedicated to their sport.”
Combat sports — which includes boxMills Crossing retail and commercial development, which is under construction. The ing, kickboxing and MMA — is growing,
company hasn’t announced any official word according to Vince Kelly, co-owner of Trinon the opening, but the documents detailed ity Promotions.
“Fortunately for us, several MMA fighta 10-year lease. The Fresh Market stores feaers
immediately requested a spot on the card
ture a bakery, meat counter, fresh seafood,
a large selection of cheeses and a product because kickboxing and boxing matches aldepartment with more than 400 items, in- low MMA fighters a chance to focus solely
on striking,” Kelly said. “With CCS, fighters
cluding a large selection of organic items.
can showcase their boxing and/or striking
The company’s plans depend on obtaining
ability without the ground element.”
approval from the city of West Des Moines.
There are quite a few bouts to look for
in both kickboxing and boxing, added Leslie
Few RadioShack stores will stay
Smith-Kelly, co-owner of Trinity Promoopen in metro
tions. Amateur MMA fighter Chance “MilkElectronics retailer RadioShack has or will man” Cretsinger holds two championship
close several locations in the Des Moines belts at 155 pounds in two popular MMA
area after going bankrupt, though a few circuits in Iowa kickboxing against an equally
stores will remain open for a time. Half of talented Steve Moore from Mankato MMA
the company’s 4,000 stores will be sold.
Stores that have or will be closed include COMBAT CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
2005 S.E. Delaware Ave., in Ankeny, and 7 Flags Event Center
those in Merle Hay Mall, Valley West Mall Saturday, Feb. 21 Doors open at 6 p.m. with
and Jordan Creek Town Center. The Ra- matches beginning at 7 p.m.
dioShack locations remaining open are all Admission: Tickets $15 for general
in Des Moines at 4841 S.E. 14th St., 2545 admission; $25 reserved, $35 (second row),
E. Euclid Ave., 3517 E. 26th St., and 4131 $45 for ringside, and $300 for a VIP table
University Ave. CV
(seats eight).
D
Tickets are available at www.cagetix.com.
Steve Moore on Feb. 21 at 7 Flags Event
in Minnesota. There is also Charles Heller,
coach from Team Bad Intentions, fighting a
strong competitor named Dallas Cady.
On the boxing side, DeAndre Harris, sixtime Iowa State Golden Glove Champion
and National Golden Glove Competitor, is
facing an equally decorated MMA fighter
named Jorge Serrano from Sioux City fighting at a catch weight. Additionally, there
will be two heavyweight fights with another
Golden Gloves State Champion/National
competitor Antonio Mireles versus Jerome
Ward, who was a Division 1 wrestler and
currently an amateur MMA fighter. Last but
not least, Tristian “Tree” James, ranked in
the top 5 amateur heavyweights (USA Boxing), will take on a natural and athletic former Nebraska Golden Gloves competitor
Clyde Johnson.
“CCS is an opportunity for fighters to
showcase their talent against other trained
fighters,” Smith-Kelly said. “This event provides fighters an opportunity to utilize their
skillset and get the experience in an actual
sanctioned bout and not just a hard night of
boxing or striking in practice.”
The goal of the CCS is to showcase talented fighters in the Midwest, give back to
the community by the charities CCS sponsors and provide a quality production that is
entertaining.
“We’d love for the fans old and new to
support this event because a portion of our
proceeds will be donated directly to the
South East Boxing Club,” said Casey. “Unfortunately, they were victims of theft and
vandalism last summer. The nonprofit youth
club has trained hundreds of boxers over the
course of several decades, and the act hurt
the club, taking necessary equipment from
boxers and coaches.” CV
David Rowley is an Iowa native with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University
of Iowa and a master’s in film journalism from
the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
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Is anyone else tired of seeing sad
stories of child stars in the news?
Marcus Paulk, child star from the
1990s sitcom “Moesha,” was arrested on Feb. 1 for possession of
marijuana and DUI. Paulk, 28,
was arrested in Arizona shortly
after driving too close to emergency vehicles stopped on the
side of the road while their lights were flashing. Authorities pulled him over and immediately noticed
that he smelled of alcohol, and they found the drugs
in his pocket.
Although
not
a child star,
this guy seems
just as capable
of making bad
decisions. Jack
Harris, 27, was
arrested on Jan.
26 for operating
while intoxicated. He was taken to
the Polk County Jail around noon
that day. His bail was set at $2,000.
Crimestoppers
This information was obtained from the Polk County Crime Stoppers website. All suspects are innocent until proven
guilty in a court of law. Des Moines Police Detective Bureau asks that anyone with information on the location or
identity of this suspect call 515-283-4864 or The Polk County Crime Stoppers anonymously at 515-223-1400.
The Urbandale Police Department is seeking help in locating two males in relation to a theft at a local business.
The first suspect was last seen wearing a light blue hoodie,
light colored jeans and a hat. The second was last seen
wearing a hat, a dark sweater and light colored pants. If
you or anyone you know has any information about these
individuals or the case in general, you are encouraged to
contact the Urbandale Police Department Criminal Investigation Division at 515-278-3926 or the Polk County
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Phantom of the garage
Authorities responded to a burglary report
on Feb. 5 made by Charles Stoll. The victim owns a house that is currently vacant,
but he goes there daily to work on it. Stoll
reported that someone had entered his detached garage the night before and tampered
with his truck that was in the garage. Stoll
reported that the steering column and ignition had been tampered with. He told police
he locked the garage the night before, and
nothing but the car had been tampered with
or stolen. He pointed out some suspicious
footprints in the snow that were not there
the day before. There are no witnesses or suspects at the time.
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Jim Monroe contact police on Feb. 8 about
a burglary at his home. He reported to police
that he and his wife own the house, but they
are currently separated, and she has been
away in Florida for a couple of weeks. He
reported that he stopped by the house to see
if some information had been dropped off,
and that he always enters the home through
the garage. Upon entering the garage, Monroe noticed that his wife’s car was gone. He
entered the house and saw that everything
was destroyed. Aside from the car, he noticed
that a Blu-ray player and television were also
missing. Authorities believe that this occurred sometime after Feb. 1.
Repeat offenders
Police responded to a burglary report made
by Zella Williams on Feb. 9. Williams reported that there was someone in her mother’s home, and they could see lights turning
off and hear people running around. Authorities proceeded to clear the house but
could not clearly see if anything was stolen
because the house was trashed. Williams’
mother who owns the house, Mary Devan,
is an elderly woman in a wheelchair who is
living with her daughter out of fear of her
house being broken into. This is the 19th
time police have responded to a burglary at
this address in the last six months. CV
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Weird news you can use
I
t turns out that a person having a heart attack is usually safer to be in an ambulance
headed to a hospital than to already be a
patient in a hospital, according to a study by
University of North Carolina researchers. It
takes longer, on average, for non-ER hospital staff to comply with hospital protocols in
ordering and evaluating tests (nearly three
hours, according to the study) than it does
for ER (and ambulance) staff, who treat every case of cardiac symptoms as life-threatening. Overall, according to a February Wall
Street Journal report, the study found the
mortality rate for heart-attack victims treated
in emergency rooms is 4 percent, compared
to 40 percent for patients already admitted
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The continuing crisis
The man hospitalized in fair condition in
January after being rammed from behind
by a car while on his bicycle happened to be
Darryl Isaacs, 50, one of the most ubiquitously advertising personal-injury lawyers in
Louisville, Kentucky. Isaacs calls himself the
“Heavy Hitter” and the “Kentucky Hammer” for his aggressiveness on behalf of,
among other clients, victims of traffic collisions. The (soon-to-be-poorer) driver told
police the sun got in his eyes.
Elephants in love
India TV reported in January that a wild
male elephant from an adjoining sanctuary
had broken into the Nandan Kanan zoo
in Odisha, wildly besotted with a female,
Heera. The male cast aside two other females
trying to protect Heera and mated with her.
The male lingered overnight until zookeepers could shoo him away.
cords through NYC Open Data found that
the five most common first names of taxicab
drivers licensed by the city are five variations
in the spelling of the name “Mohammed.”
Wait, what?
Ms. Meng Wang filed a lawsuit recently in
New York City against Gildan Outerwear
over her disappointment with Kushyfoot
Shaping Tights. In television ads, Wang
wrote, a young model sashays down a city
street with her eyes dreamily closed and
“moans and utters highly sexually charged
phrases” “including ‘That’s the spot’ and ‘so
good’ ... passersby (stop) in their tracks to
look at her with mouths agape.” Wang said
the ad clearly implies that the tights produce
an orgasmic sensation of some sort, wrote
Gothamist.com, but that she, herself, has
come up empty.
Least competent criminals
Two men remain at large after stealing an
ATM from Casino Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, in January. They had smashed through
glass front doors, unbolted the machine, put
it on a dolly and rolled it to a waiting car
(though it briefly toppled over onto one of
the culprits). Managers told police the ATM
was empty, disabled and scheduled to be
moved to another location later that day. A
Calgary police officer expressed bemusement
at the city’s recent ATM smash-and-grab
epidemic, since the machines are hard to unbolt, hard to open and emptied several times
a day. “It’s a very ineffective way to make a
living.”
The ever-valuable Internet
In January, “Captain Mercedes,” a registered user of the Reddit.com social media
site, announced he had compiled a data file
cataloguing every bowel movement he had
in 2014 and was offering the file to other
users to design hypotheses and visual representations of the data in ways that might
improve his relationship with his alimentary
canal. According to the data-analysis website
FiveThirtyEight.com, the “researcher” used
the standard “Bristol stool scale” (seven categories of excreta, by shape and consistency)
“and produced interesting hypotheses in the
ensuing Reddit conversation.”
Recurring themes
One of the legendary American lawsuit
successes is the 1970 award of $50,000 to
Gloria Sykes, whose brain injury on a San
Francisco cable car left the previously modest Midwestern woman with an unrestrained
libido. News of the Weird reported a similar
such case, from London, in December 2006.
Now, in January 2015, the British Columbia
Supreme Court awarded Alissa Afonina $1.5
million for her auto-accident brain injury.
She was apparently a demure, high-achieving
student, but following the 2008 collision, she
had no impulse control, become “isolated,”
had “outbursts,” made “inappropriate sexual
comments” — and was able to earn a living
only as a dominatrix. (Alfonina’s mother,
also injured in the accident, was awarded
$940,000.) CV
Suspicions confirmed
A January examination of New York City re-
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Money
Compiled by Ashley Buckowing
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Paid for by taxpayers…
Des Moines City Hall
Paid on Feb. 9
Amount: $216.20
To: Demco
For: Tote bags, mug and jewelry box
Amount: $262.90
To: Brownells Inc.
For: Police academy equipment
Amount: $174.31
To: Adventure Lighting
For: Light fixtures and bulbs
Amount: $110.41
To: CDW Government
For: Wireless display adapter
Amount: $696.12
To: AmSan
For: Cleaning products
Amount: $942.83
To: Capital Sanitary Supply
For: Cleaning products for ire epartment
Amount: $392
To: Armored Knights Inc.
For: Kiosks and armored service
Amount: $17.87
To: Des Moines Iron & Supply Co. Inc.
For: Piping
Amount: $400
To: Bodholdt & Grummer Productions Inc.
For: Video production of father/daughter
dance
Amount: $10,145.09
To: Des Moines Water Works
For: Services
Amount: $6,750
To: Bibliotheca
For: 50,000 smart labels library tag
Amount: $485.07
To: Fastenal
For: Des Moines Parks and Facilities equipment
Amount: $74.38
To: Bone-A-Patreat
For: 40 pounds of Sportmix Fish
Amount: $98.97
To: Acme Tools
For: Tools
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Title .................. Physician
Department ..... Iowa Department of Public
Health
Annual Salary .. $249,496
Travel
The Des Moines City Council approved funding for travel for Human Resources Director
James Wells to visit Savannah, Georgia, from March 29 to April 2. Wells will attend the
National Public Employer Labor Relations Association annual conference, which features a
variety of timely and relevant session topics designed to provide an in-depth look at issues
relevant to public sector labor relations and human resources professionals. This comes at a
cost of $2,100 to taxpayers. CV
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By Douglas Burns
here’s a saying in Texas: It ain’t bragging if you can back it up.
It seems the Texas-ism packed its
bags, headed north and found a comfortable
home in Greene County, Iowa.
So here it is, backed up, with engine gunning: Greene County is the most vital rural
county in Iowa right now.
In fact, Greene County is enjoying a
growth spurt, a boom of optimism, that remarkably, is so spectacular, that if a politician
would have promised today’s reality in Jefferson only five years
ago, most people
would have tagged
the man a daydreamer, or a kook.
Attending
a
Greene
County
Development Corporation (GCDC)
meeting in early 2015 is almost a dizzying
appointment. There’s so much news, so
much happening.
In a span of just 26 hours this week, both
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst and Gov. Terry Branstad will visit Jefferson. Ernst will talk with
community leaders and Vietnam veteran
James O. Andrew and others about a federal
role in what is already a successful local-state
venture in Home Base Iowa. Andrew played
a crucial part in convincing his old college
pal, Branstad, to name Greene County the
lead city for the initiative aimed at recruiting
returning military men and women to Iowa
for careers.
GCDC Executive Director Ken Paxton is
getting national profile with his promotion of
Home Base Iowa. Paxton even introduced the
governor at an inauguration event last month.
For his part, Branstad will tour Power
Lift, an innovative business with an international reach. It’s a great tour. I’ve been on it.
In the next weeks, a housing developer
will announce plans for a major town-house
development, possibly 44 units, in Jefferson.
Some apartment complexes are expected
to follow in Jefferson, including the potential for a Kansas City-area developer’s plans
for an affordable-housing complex.
More big ag-business news is on the horizon with a major announcement outside of
Jefferson that could bring 30 to 40 quality
jobs to the region.
We’ve reported extensively on Wild
Rose Jefferson (expected to open in August),
Hy-Vee in Jefferson (expected to open in
weeks) as well as the multi-million-dollar
boost to medical services through projects at
Greene County Medical Center and with the
McFarland Clinic.
Manufacturing is big news in the county,
too, as the governor will see at Power Lift. Lt.
Gov. Kim Reynolds toured Scranton Manufacturing in 2014,
and U.S. Rep. Steve
King and Branstad both had recent events at AAI.
Greene County is,
as they say in political and development
circles, on the map.
So now is the time to go after even bigger
game: the full four-laning of U.S. 30 across
Iowa.
Largely (to this point) the vision of eastern Iowa advocates, the U.S. Highway 30
Coalition of Iowa is prioritizing some central
and western Iowa projects. At a recent meeting in Tama, the presence of Wild Rose and
expansion of Scranton Manufacturing were
both cited as reasons for four-laning 30 in
Greene County.
The coalition is in a long slog fighting for
four laning. Members meet regularly with
state and federal legislators, as well as with
the Iowa Department of Transportation.
The full four-laning of U.S. 30 across
Iowa would be an enormous development for
Jefferson and Greene County, and it would
boost Iowa’s second-largest city, Cedar Rapids, and one of the world’s top agricultural
research centers, Iowa State University.
Back to Greene County: Jefferson doesn’t
think like a two-lane town.
And it shouldn’t have to exist as one. CV
It ain’t bragging
if you can
back it up.
Douglas Burns is a fourth-generation Iowa newspaperman who
resides in Carroll. He and his family own and publish newspapers in
Carroll, Jefferson and other neighboring communities.
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SKI
IOWA?
Yes, there’s powder to be found and
exercise to be had at a number of ski
hills and flat grounds across our state
by Chad Taylor
M
aybe you have not looked outside in a while,
but here is a news flash for you: It is wintertime
out there. For many of us, that means staying
bundled up as warm as possible and being inside more often then not. But for others, the fun starts when the snow
falls. And for a lot of people, that means skiing.
We know. We have heard all the skiing in Iowa jokes.
Too flat. No mountains. And, yes, it might be true that
there is nothing inherent in the Iowa landscape that
evokes images of snow bunnies and slaloms. Even so, the
Hawkeye State is crawling with skiers of all types and
ages. Most split their winter recreation time between here
and places like Colorado or Utah, but many are just recreational types who like to exercise outside. No matter
how they got there, the end result is the same: There are
heaps of people skiing in Iowa.
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“You know what bugs me most?” asked Des
Moines native Natalie Woodbush. “It’s how
dismissive people are, for not good reason.
You say, ‘Oh, I like to ski’, and suddenly
they’re rolling their eyes and laughing. ‘Oh
yeah, on all of Iowa’s mountains?’ It’s like,
you know what, buddy? We’re not trying to
pretend like skiing in Iowa is the same thing
as skiing in Colorado. Playing basketball on
a playground isn’t the same as being on a
professional team, either, but it’s still fun.”
For people who are fans of skiing in the
state — or just fans of skiing in general —
the jokes are familiar.
“Why do you ski here? Are you afraid of
the real slopes,” Woodbush continued, outlining a few more ways people dismiss the
hobby. “I’m fine with the ‘real slopes.’ It’s
just that I don’t want to take a week off work
and spend $2,000 in Telluride every time I
feel like putting my skis on.”
Breaking through the notion that there
is no place in the state worth skiing is the
biggest obstacle skiing fans encounter when
they try to recruit new people to the sport.
And for anyone looking for a legitimate
downhill challenge, Iowa obviously comes
up short. The closest the state has to a genuine “mountain” slope is located within the
bluff-covered recesses of Dubuque County,
nestled in the embrace of Iowa’s “Driftless
Area,” where the hills and crags were untouched by the bulldozing action of glaciers
during the last ice age.
But while Iowa may not have a ton to
offer in the way of black diamond slopes, ski
lovers find that it makes up for it in other
ways.
“It’s just so convenient,” said Des
Moines’ Tracy VanVleet of the “ski Iowa”
experience. “And it seems so much simpler.
People are so much friendlier. I know it’s
short runs, but you go with the mindset
when you’re in Iowa of ‘I’m just going out
to have a blast,’ and you don’t take it too
seriously. It’s still a nice experience.”
VanVleet is a veteran skier who’s made
regular trips out to the Rocky Mountain
states. For her, Iowa’s ski slopes help scratch
that itch without breaking the bank, or trying her patience.
“We would go (to Colorado) in February or March,” she said. “You can barely get
in the parking lots, then you have to take a
tram to get to the lift line, and then you’re
waiting around for a lift.”
Another shortcoming that Iowa slopes
have to contend with that is virtually unheard of in the mountains is one of sufficient cover. Iowa’s recent past has provided
us with winters that have been bitterly cold,
accompanied by relatively little snowfall. So
when Mother Nature does not seem to want
to cooperate, Iowa’s ski slopes bring out the
Iowa Ski Resorts
Sure, there’s nothing in Iowa to rival the slopes of Colorado or Utah, but that doesn’t mean
there aren’t still places to get your downhill on. Here are some of the most popular.
Sleepy Hollow Sports Park, Des Moines
Sleepy Hollow manufactures all their own snow, so their slopes are always covered and
ready to go. All of Sleepy Hollow’s areas are lighted at night and groomed every day. Their
bunny hill offers free beginner lessons, and private lessons are available. They’ve also got a
rental shop for all the equipement you’d need.
Hours: Friday 5 to 9 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday noon to 8 p.m. Rates:
Adults lift tickets are $30, children under 13 are $25. http://shspdm.com/
Seven Oaks Recreation, Boone
Seven Oaks Recreation is family-owned and operated and offers skiing, snowboarding and
snow tubing. They also offer ski and snowboard rentals. Seven Oaks’ slopes consist of 11
runs varying from beginner to expert and offer a terrain park, rail yard and beginner area.
There are two triple chairlifts, two surface lifts and a snow tubing park.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. most days, see website for specifics. Rates: Lift tickets for adults
range from $10 to $34, depending on day and time. Kids under 12 are $10 to $25. www.
sevenoaksrec.com
Sleepy Hollow’s areas are lighted at night
and groomed every day.
heavy machinery: snow machines.
Snow machines do their thing by taking water, breaking it down into very small
particles, supercooling them, and spreading
the result in a fine powder of crystals. While
this is an effective method for covering any
of your hills’ bald spots, it does have one significant drawback: It requires a literal ton of
water.
For example, if a resort needs to cover
a relatively small area of 200 feet by 200
feet with 6 inches of snow, one would need
20,000 cubic feet of snow, which is created
from 1,000 cubic feet of water. For those of
you who do not have bar napkins handy to
do the math, this is 82,000 gallons of water
or roughly 11 truck tankers full. Then consider the fact that many ski areas can convert
more than 5,000 gallons per minute of water
into snow. That works out to 1,250 tons per
hour. Or, stated another way, a truckload
every minute. And the result, while good
enough to get the job done, is not ideal.
“Obviously it’s not the same consistency
as fresh snow,” VanVleet said. “The whole
texture and how you manipulate your skis
is different. When it’s man-made, it’s a little
bit wetter and sloppier.”
“Skiing on man-made snow is more of
a slog,” Woodbush added. “You can definitely feel the difference in your thighs when
you’re done. When it’s loose, it feels much
Seven Oaks’ slopes consist of 11 runs.
Mt. Crescent Ski Area, Honey Creek
One of the older ski resorts in the state, Mt. Crescent Ski Area has been open since 1961.
Ski Runs reach up to 2,400 feet and the resort comes equipped with snow machines, rental
and a 7,000 square foot, Swiss-style lodge.
Hours: Sunday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday
9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Rates: Adults range from $25 to $39, Children under 12 are $25 to $35.
www.skicrescent.com
Sundown Mountain Resort, Dubuque
Sundown Mountain Resort offers 21 runs, 2 terrain parks, 4 lifts with 2 conveyor carpets
and 475 feet of vertical. The resort also sports Two mountain top lodges overlooking 100
square miles of countryside, a total vertical drop of 475 feet, 21 scenic trails with beginner,
intermediate and advanced terrain, two terrain parks with progressive features, snowmaking
and grooming machines, and ski and snowboard lessons for all ages and abilities.
Hours: Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday
9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Rates: Adults range $32 to $44, children under 12 are $25 to $33. http://
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Sundown Mountain is located in Dubuque
on 85 acres.
Mt. Crescent Ski Area has been open since 1961.
heavier on your skis, which makes you expend more energy to turn.
“But when it’s packed,” she continued,
pausing to widen her eyes a bit, shooting a
hand out in front of her for emphasis. “You
just GO.”
The straight and narrow
But, of course, downhill skiing isn’t the only
way to get your kicks. There’s another way
to slap on some skis and enjoy the snow:
cross country skiing. And, while Iowa may
be sorely lacking in mountains, the state is
absolutely stacked when it comes to flat,
open spaces and trails.
Aimee Kittell has been cross country skiing for five years. A marathon runner and
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Ironman participant, Kittell was looking for
a good way to stay fit and keep her endurance up during the winter months.
“I tried downhill skiing and failed miserably,” she admitted. “You can’t bike in the
winter, and you don’t want to run because
of all the ice. (Cross country skiing) was a
way to get sunshine on your face and some
exercise in the winter.”
Now, Kittell says she gets out whenever
she can, but cross country skiing tends to be
a bigger slave to the whims of the weather
than downhill skiing. Where a resort can
fairly easily powder their slopes with man
made snow, it is another beast entirely to
coat a four-mile trail.
“You need at least 6 inches of snow on
the ground,” Kittell explained. “So the
problem with cross country skiing in Iowa
the last three or four years is a lack of good
snow. Most people work during the day, so
by the time they can get out, either it is too
dark to go far or the snow has blown around
or melted.”
However, unlike downhill skiers who are
limited to a small number of slopes across
the state, cross country skiers have a lot more
options. Many people who live on the outskirts of a city or in a more rural area can
just slap on their skis and head out their own
back doors. But even people solidly within
the city limits can find multiple areas to go.
“A lot of people cross country ski out at
Waveland,” Kittell said. “You can see the
track marks as you drive down 235. Big
Creek is also nice.
“Places like that groom their trails,” she
continued. “They’ve got a machine that will
pack and groove the snow, so the skis just
automatically fit into it. Places like Walker
Johnson don’t groom, so it can feel more
freestyled.”
The other big advantage many people
find in cross country over downhill skiing, is
the learning curve. It can take quite a while
to master the nuances of downhill skiing
enough to tackle a Colorado slope. But cross
country skiing?
“If you can roller skate, you can cross
country ski,” Kittell said.
If you are going to go out and try some
Iowa skiing for yourself, you’re going to need
the right equipment. Skis, boots, bindings
to keep the former and the latter attached,
poles...it can be a lot to think about. Beginners starting from scratch can buy their way
in for about $300, but just like any other
hobby, there is plenty of space for the more
hardcore followers to go crazy on specialized
equipment.
“Cross country equipment can be very
straightforward,” said Jason Juehring at Active Endeavors in Clive. “It comes in two
types: waxable and non-wax. Obviously the
non-wax skis are simple. It snows, and you
take them outside and go. Traditionalists
are still going to want a waxable ski, but for
recreational skiing, it’s easy to not have to
worry about scraping old wax off and putting new wax on.”
Just like when you are picking out running shoes or swimsuits, getting the right
skis is all about proper fit. But while your
ski boots might be determined by the size of
your feet, skis are measured differently.
“Ski sizing really ultimately depends on
body weight,” Juehring explained. “Somebody could be tall and skinny or short and
stocky, so it’s all about how much weight is
going to be on top of that ski.”
The equipment used will differ, depending on if you’re hitting a slope or the open
range.
“Cross country skis are very skinny by
nature,” Juehring said. “Downhill skis are
wider, much more stiff, and have a metal
edge, which allows them to be turned.
(Cross Country skis) are much lighter, because they’re not going to have the internal
structure of a downhill ski.”
Most of the people interviewed agreed
that downhill skiing is the more popular of
the two types in the state, mainly because
so many of Iowa’s skiers are veterans of the
bigger slopes out west who are looking for
a cheap fix close to home. Cross country
skiing, on the other hand, probably has a
higher ratio of regular practitioners, due primarily to the sport’s “go anywhere” nature.
But for both varieties, the mercurial nature
of an Iowa winter will limit how often skiers
can get out.
“Those days with good snowfall lately
have been few and far between,” Juehring
said. “If we get snow, it all blows away and
there’s none in the open spaces where you’d
want to go skiing, or it snows and then it’s
too bitterly cold to go out and enjoy it.
We’re in that special area of the Midwest
where it’s kind of hit and miss.”
“There have been days when the weather
has been fantastic, but the snow is just too
damn thin or spotty to bother with,” Woodbush added. “Or you get the other end of the
spectrum, where there will be a gorgeous bed
of snow out there and the cold and wind just
pile on and make it unbearable.”
But for as difficult as it can be to actually go out and get your ski fix in Iowa, that
certainly will not stop people from trying.
When the slope or trail is right in your back
yard, it makes it easy to be persistent.
“Nobody is here training for a gold medal,” Woodbush said. “But there’s a lot of fun
to be had out there, if you just shut up and
strap on.”
“It’s just simple,” VanVleet said of the
state’s ski experience. “It’s just Iowa.” CV
BookReview
TechTalk
Think twice before
logging on to Wi-Fi
By Patrick Boberg
‘All the Light We Cannot See’
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are it was set up surreptitiously and is malevolent. Once connected, whatever data you
house on your device will be up for grabs.
But do you know what’s worse than a
honeypot? Unsecure Wi-Fi you personally
administer blindly. Nevermind your wireless
router that you fail to encrypt or password
protect, the shear volume of devices that produce wireless signals these days is untenable.
Besides receiving wireless TVs, computers,
printers, cars, modern home thermostats and
generally everything that can receive a signal
can also send one and be hacked as well. Say
you buy a car with Wi-Fi. If that system gets
hacked, then all the electronics in your car
are subject to a hacker’s whim. And not just
your stereo, but also all the systems that drive
the car, such as cruise control, steering, GPS,
and if you’re really tech savvy, the personal
information you’ve uploaded to your car’s
computer.
Thankfully, just as the computer industry developed security protocols to protect
devices over the years, car manufacturers are
starting to do the same. But users making use
of those security measures is the hard part.
What good is having wireless protection in
your Hyundai if you don’t use it?
At this point you might be thinking,
“Why get paranoid over the chance of
hacked cars and printers?” Well, the fact is
that you’re ultimately the one responsible for
protecting all your Wi-Fi-enabled devices.
As every tool in our lives becomes Wi-Fienabled, everything in our life is susceptible
to the ill-disposed. Meaning, at what point
does the convenience of wireless connectivity
get overtaken by the frightening thought of
securing and maintaining hundreds of wireless connections? CV
Patrick Boberg is a central Iowa
creative media specialist. Follow
him on Twitter @PatBoBomb.
he haunting World War II stories of a French girl and German boy
are told in parallel in Anthony Doerr’s beautiful and best-selling
novel, “All the Light We Cannot See.” Blind 12-year-old MarieLaure LeBlanc flees Paris with her father when the Nazi occupation of the
city begins. Her agoraphobic great uncle, still suffering deep psychological
wounds from the First World War, takes them in to his home in the walled
city of Saint-Malo on the coast of Brittany.
Child prodigy Werner Pfennig lives in a German orphanage with his
sister, dreading his inevitable future in the coalmines
By Anthony Doerr where their father lost his life. He finds his escape when his genius for
repairing radios is discovered and he is given the opportunity to attend
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in the brutality he witnesses. He is ultimately assigned to a team tracking
Resistance radio transmissions.
Unbeknownst to either of them, Marie-Laure and Werner share a chance connection from
childhood, adding to the reader’s anticipation that their lives will somehow intersect. Until they
do, the story bounces back and forth in time and place. Afterward, it fast-forwards to briefly
summarize the remainder of the lives of the characters who survived. While the survivors move
on and are able to lead fulfilling lives, the shadow cast by the war never completely disappears.
Short chapters alternate from the perspectives of Marie-Laure, Werner and several other
minor characters. A variety of subplots including the quest for a smuggled — purportedly
cursed — diamond contribute to the sprawling nature of this intricate, vividly detailed novel
to make it a perfect winter read. CV
Sally Wisdom retired from the Des Moines Public Library in 2011 and found her dream job at
Beaverdale Books soon after.
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orror films are
commonly built
around characters that do things that
seem destined to fail disastrously. Whether it’s
the 1958 horror classic
“The Fly” about a scientist whose teleporter
crosses his DNA with a
fly, or next week’s “The
Lazarus Effect” about
researchers who concoct a method to reanimate recently deceased living beings, common sense rarely exists in the horror genre.
With that said, if these fictional characters
could protest, I’m sure they’d all say their
experiments started with mankind’s best intentions in mind. In the real world, several
innovations follow this same storyline (think
napalm and DDT), and if I were to pick one
modern invention that may slowly be turning from societal gift to oppressive burden, it
might be Wi-Fi.
The ability to network electronic devices and gadgets via wireless connections has
been an absolute godsend to modern living.
Phones, televisions, computers, remotes,
cars, watches, cash registers and basically
anything that can house a computer now
communicates information across virtually
any distance if Wi-Fi is present. Considering how most of us have at least one Wi-Fienabled device on us at all times, it’s hard
to imagine the technology has only been
around for roughly 15 years. As a culture,
we’ve grown so accustomed to Wi-Fi that
if hotels, planes or businesses don’t offer it,
we quickly get perturbed. In fact, for many
Internet-addicted techies, discovering free
public Wi-Fi sets off the same endorphin
pleasure hormones as kissing or receiving a
gift. (It’s true.)
The problem is that many free public
wireless connections are what are known as
“honeypots,” or tempting gateways to the
Internet, which malicious entities set up to
rifle through electronic devices for information. Honeypots are entry-level hacking
tools, and to the uninitiated, they can be disastrous. Libraries, schools and coffee houses
are generally safe public Wi-Fi providers,
but hotels, casinos, convention centers and
airports almost always charge for wireless.
If your device discovers free Wi-Fi in these
heavily populated gathering spaces, chances
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By Bill Frost
“The Odd Couple” and “Vikings” return from history; “The Jack & Triumph Show” is a (literal) dog.
“The Odd Couple”
Thursday, Feb. 19 (CBS)
Like CBS’ recently canceled “The Millers,”
“The Odd Couple” (a remake of a ’70s sitcom, kids) is a case of a killer comedic cast
(Matthew Perry, Thomas Lennon, Lindsay
Sloane, Wendell Pearce and Yvette Nicole
Brown) saddled with an annoyingly laughtracked, numbingly beige network sitcom.
The song remains the same: Oscar (Perry)
and Felix (Lennon) are old friends who
move in together after their respective marriages fall apart; Oscar’s a slob of a sports-radio host (updated from sports columnist because, as you know, print is dead), while Felix
is a borderline-OCD clean freak. Wackiness,
etc. Despite his many post-“Friends” flops,
Perry can still bring the funny, and Lennon
(who will always be “Reno 911” Lt. Jim
Dangle) is an underrated master of cuttingly
subtle humor. Even if they don’t eventually
overcome the show’s lazy writing, “The Odd
Couple” will still be CBS’ least-terrible comedy. So that’s… something.
“Two & a Half Men”
Thursday, Feb. 19 (CBS)
The question isn’t so much “Will Charlie
Sheen return for the finale?” as it is “Who
cares anymore?” The end of “Two & a Half
Men” should have been Season 8, Sheen’s
last, when show creator/hack Chuck Lorre
and Warner Bros. Television had 177 episodes in the can so the sitcom could easily
live on in syndication perpetuity. But no,
here we are in Season 12(!), still printing
money with Ashton Kutcher, the Ghost of
Jon Cryer and no Half Man. So tease Charlie “Harper” Sheen’s possible comeback all
you want, CBS — just get this over with.
“Vikings”
Thursday, Feb. 19 (History)
In Season 3 of “Vikings” — aka “Game
of Thrones Lite,” “Sons of Anarchy With
Swords” or “The Last Somewhat Historical
Show on the History Channel” — Ragnar
(Travis Fimmel) is now the King of Denmark, having dispatched Horik to a better
place. His first move? Attack Paris! Sounds
accurate — didn’t a Dark Ages baguette turn
up on “Pawn Stars” recently?
“The Jack & Triumph Show”
Friday, Feb. 20 (Adult Swim)
Jack McBrayer (“30 Rock”) and Triumph
(the Insult Comic Doc with Robert Smigel’s
hand up his ass) star as Jack and Triumph,
the former child stars of a “Lassie”-esque TV
series from the ’80s; nice-guy Jack wants
nothing to do with show business anymore,
whereas decadent Triumph will do anything
to get back in — even pander to “the adolescent stoners watching Adult Swim.” Hey,
we’re not all adolescents, Triumph.
The 87th Annual Academy Awards
Sunday, Feb. 22 (ABC)
What’s on tonight besides the fashion show
that calls itself the Oscars: New episodes of
“The Walking Dead,” “Talking Dead” and
“Comic Book Men” on AMC; “Jinx: The Life
and Deaths of Robert Durst, ” “Girls, “Togetherness, ” “Looking” and “Last Week With
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and “Grantchester” on PBS; “Bar Rescue” on
Spike; “Total Divas” on E!; and, if you must,
“Sister Wives” on TLC. I’d also recommend
the recent stand-up comedy specials of Iliza
Shlesinger (“Freezing Hot”), Bill Burr (“I’m
Sorry You Feel That Way”) and Chelsea Peretti (“One of the Greats”) on Netflix. We good?
“Parks & Recreation”
Tuesday, Feb. 24 (NBC)
So never mind what I said in January about
the seventh season of “Parks & Recreation”
being unnecessary; as series finales go, it’s
been a wonderfully weird trip for NBC’s
Last Great Comedy. (Trust me, there’s
nothing funny coming in the pipeline from
the Peacock anytime soon.) So long, Leslie,
Ron, Ben, April, Andy, Donna, Jerry/Garry,
Ann, Chris — hell, maybe even Tom. CV
Bill Frost writes about television for Salt Lake
City Weekly, talks about it on the TV Tan
Podcast (Tuesdays on iTunes and Stitcher),
and tweets about it at @Bill_Frost.
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here are a number of things that make
“Kingsmen” really cool: seeing Colin
Firth — master of the period drama
— throwing punches in fight scenes; the
wonderfully choreographed action sequences; seeing Mark Hamill get some work.
There are, however, a few things that make
the film not so cool: the ridiculously slapdash CGI in the previously mentioned action sequences, the lazy third act, Samuel L.
Jackson’s lisp.
“Kingsmen” is a film about a super-secret
British spy force — whether they are actually
an arm of the British government is never
actually addressed — who have been keeping
the world safe for a couple of centuries. The
group’s size is both small and set: each member works under a code name corresponding
to one of the Arthurian Knights, and new
members are not recruited until a previous
member dies, thus making a seat at the table.
This is precisely what happens toward
the beginning of the film when Lancelot
(played with proper James Bond smarm by
Jack Davenport) is killed on a mission, and
each remaining Kingsmen is then tasked
with finding a recruit to bring in for training
and testing to fill his spot. Galahad (Firth,
who really is wonderful in the role) settles on
our hero, “Eggsy” Unwin (Taron Egerton).
Seventeen years previously, Eggsy’s father
was a Kingsmen hopeful (shown to us at the
film’s opening in flashback), who died on
his final test mission, so Galahad feels protective of Eggsy.
From there, the film settles into several
conventional tropes. Eggsy has lived a hard
life but shows a natural adeptness at gymnastics and a high intelligence. He comes
from the rough part of town, so he is immediately at odds with his other higher-bred
male recruits. It is the quick and easy, paintby-numbers method of script writing. Inoffensive, if not innovative.
By John Domini
Festival of surprises
Jackson plays
“Kingsmen: The
Valentine, a tech
Secret Service”
mogul billionaire
129 Minutes
and the film’s vilRated R
lain, to whom the
Starring: Taron
writers have given
Edgerton, Colin Firth,
a distracting and
Michael Caine
wholly unnecessary
lisp, which Jackson plays up in his usual, to the hilt fashion. There are a couple of scenes featuring
Jackson and Firth together that are among
the most interesting in the film, but the film
never really tries for high tension.
“Kingsmen” is all about the action, and
thankfully it gets that part of things right.
Fight scenes are acrobatic and beautifully
choreographed, with Firth’s visit to a Westboro Baptist-esque redneck church worth
paying particular attention to.
The only genuine lament comes in the
third act, when everything about the film
stops trying. The writing becomes lazy
with convenient timing and plot holes everywhere, the action gets decidedly more
violent, and the ending introduces a level of
raunch to the film that hadn’t been there before, thereby catching you off guard. Then
there is the matter of the bullet wounds.
There has been a trend lately of films
choosing to digitally insert bullet wounds
on people, rather than using physical effects
like squibs. “American Sniper” did the same
thing, with similar distracting results. Digital bullet wounds do not look convincing
and have a cheapening effect over the entire
scene in which they are inserted. When you
combine that with generally over-the-top
action like “Kingsmen” supplies, the end result is decidedly noticeable and shoddy.
“Kingsmen” is not as clever as it thinks
it is, not by a far sight. It is, however, every
bit as fun as it wants to be. At the end of the
day, sometimes that is just enough. CV
“The Big DIF,” Improv Festival. The Last Laugh Comedy Theater. Friday, Feb. 20: 7:30 and
9:30 p.m.; Improv Jam, 11:30 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 21, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.; Jam and
Afterparty 12:30 a.m.
T
he walls of the Last Laugh, Persian
blue, are decorated with empty picture
frames, a light tan. The owner, Josh
Chamberlain, quickly turned this into a joke.
“You can fill the frames in any way that
works,” he said. “Just like improv.”
In fact, Chamberlain would like to see
such spontaneous, interactive comedy everywhere. “That’s what this Festival is about,”
he says. “Trying to get the word out and expand the community.”
This weekend the Last Laugh will host
visitors from all over the Midwest, from
Kansas City to Minneapolis, in what Chamberlain is calling the Des Moines Improv
Festival — or, in keeping with the spirit of
the thing, “the Big DIF.”
“We’ll have so much variety,” he says.
“And then at midnight, we’ll go into an Improv Jam.”
Groups will offer whatever they’ve worked
up at home. This runs from extended sketches to minute-long blackouts, from slapstick to
bawdy songs. Meantime, they’ll face plenty of
surprises. Improv, in fact, depends on those
surprises — the suggestions from the audience. As ever, the crew handling music and
lights needs to stay sharp, too. They’ve got
to pick just the moment to go dark, or just
which song to pull off the computer.
“It’ll be a multimedia experience,” says
Chamberlain, “and a communal thing. And
really, I’d love to make it an every-year occurrence.”
Swapping ideas with others in this brand
of comedy goes hand in hand, after all, with
Chamberlain’s larger goal. “It’s all about
getting better,” he says, “The Festival allows
us to see how these other groups stack up
against Des Moines.”
Though if you ask him, the home team
has nothing to worry about. “The scene here
astonishes me. We’ve got people on a par
with anyone in Chicago.”
By “Chicago,” of course, he means Second City, the most famous improv organization in the world. Their touring group
wrapped up its Des Moines show just last
week, and Chamberlain himself has appeared
with various SC outfits. Some years ago, he
was all over Chicago’s comedy scene, but he
found his real calling behind the scenes.
“I started to work in training and in arranging events,” he explains. So when his wife
lured him to Des Moines in 2010, he didn’t
change careers. He went into business for
himself and began developing local talent.
“I couldn’t believe the quality of people
we found,” he says. “One of them is the head
of the Des Moines Teachers’ Union.”
Then in 2012, with the closing of Billy
Joe’s Picture Show, he found a venue. Now
Last Laugh has a cast of 25, some of whom
have joined together in specialized groups.
One has a name in Spanish, “Trabajos de
Manos.” Chamberlain cackles over the
translation: “Handjobs.”
I doubt even Chicago can top that.
Overheard in the Lobby: Aaron Smith and
Tiffany Johnson, from last year’s “Fences,”
prove brilliant again in the “The Mountaintop,” about Martin Luther King’s last night
alive, at Westminster Presbyterian in Beaverdale. CV
John Domini is a published local author who has lived on both coasts and
abroad and enjoyed theater everywhere. See www.johndomini.com.
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through April 19, takes its title from
the works of Alfredo Jaar, an artist from
Chile, one of the whitest nations on earth.
That alone challenges politically correct academic criticism that rejects showings of African art in contemporary museums. DMAC
director Jeff Fleming begins his introduction
to the exhibition’s excellent catalogue with
an acknowledgment that “collecting, interpreting and exhibiting works from a culture
that a Western curator cannot completely
comprehend or grasp fosters concerns about
misinterpretation and colonization.” Curator Gilbert Vicario noted that the museum
will be subjected to considerable criticism
from the politically correct wing of the art
world for daring to present a mix of traditional African artifacts and contemporary art
from the likes of Jaar.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. The
Art Center’s defiance pays off with one of
the most thought-provoking shows in years.
This exhibition is a veritable demonstration
of how Africa changed the rest of the world
and vice versa. Jaar, whom Vicario said is
very pleased to be included in this show,
contributes a series of cibachrome prints and
digital animations from his work in Rwanda
during genocide. The horrors of what he saw
convinced him to only allude to it in his art.
He shows a tobacco field, a road to a killing ground and a cloud above a church on
that killing ground. A separate work reveals
three young men embracing during a memorial service. Black and white prints accompany the works to relate the venues with the
horrors that took place there. Vicario thinks
the series has a poetic quality. Archibald MacLeish’s poem from “JB” comes to mind. “If
God is good, he is not god. If God is God,
He is not good. Take the even, take the odd.
I would not sleep here if I could, except for
the little green leaf in the wood.”
Jaar uses light boxes to illustrate the
green leaves of hope. Vicario says that is
an intentional repurposing of a medium
usually employed by advertisers trying to
sell their goods to people who do not need
them. Jaar explains things this way: “I have
a strong emotional connection to Africans,
and I think that is present in the way I approach my work. Africa was exploited and
now completely abandoned by the rest of the
world.”
Three contemporary artists recycle western goods with irony. Romuald Hazoumé
fashions a traditional African mask out of a
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plastic petro can, the kind that litter West
African highways. El Anatsui builds a giant
curtain, resembling a fish net, out of liquor
bottle caps. That invokes the slave trade —
slaves moved to the Caribbean in exchange
for rum. African American Nick Cave constructs altar sculptures with “black memorabilia saturated with the most vulgar, most
obscene oppression you can imagine.” One
Cave piece celebrates a Doberman pinscher
on a duvet, reminding us that many people
treat dogs better than humans. Another is
built on a bed of thistle seed (a bird seed also
known as “Niger seed”) and molds used for
ceramic roofing tiles. The molds are filled
with more black memorabilia that relate to
life, sex and slavery — a gun-shaped cologne
bottle, a heart-shaped liquor bottle, shaving
brushes, dice, chains, hands, etc.
African American Radcliff Bailey shows
“Notes from Tervuren,” a series of gouache
and ink drawings with cut-out photos on
sheet music. Those pays homage to the town
in Belgium that presented the first African
art show in Europe, one that would influence Picasso and a dozen other modern art
pioneers.
Moberg Gallery’s “Large Works” show
(through March 14) includes a local take on
the theme of “Field, Road, Cloud.” A Jordan
Weber painting mocks Wayne Thiebauld’s
trademark cakes by relating frosted doughnuts to the deaths of African American teenagers across a map of America. CV
Jim Duncan is a freelance writer who has
penned nine different columns for Cityview
and its sister publications beginning in 1987.
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14) Freedom from worry
15) Two-tone treat
16) Swindling of a UK football club?
18) Pinto or garbanzo
19) Jerome Bettis’s team, during
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20) Nissan SUV with an earthy name
22) Rowing machine unit
23) NPR’s Shapiro
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25) Quarterback known for kneeling
27) Ali of “Love Story”
29) Middle daughter on “Downton
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32) Raised sculptures
36) From ___ (at some distance)
37) Grade alongside the review
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42) Former Cabinet member Donna
43) One of the simple machines
45) “The pain reliever hospitals use
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49) Baseball great Ernie Banks’s
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52) ___ polloi (commoners)
53) “I ___ real American...” (Hulk
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54) Wise friend of Pooh
56) “Let’s suppose that...”
58) Got 100% on
59) Jamaica’s Ocho ___
61) Group including only elements
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63) Criminal’s alter egos, briefly
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Central Iowa’s connection
to the local music scene
By Chad Taylor [email protected]
Always in motion
F
or fans of the Minneapolis-based Motion City Soundtrack, it can be hard to
believe that 10 years have passed since
the release of the band’s seminal album,
“Commit This to Memory.” But a decade
it has, indeed, been, and to commemorate
that fact, the band is embarking on a nationwide anniversary tour.
It is easy to see why the band would
choose to commemorate the occasion.
“Commit This to Memory” is the album
that put the band on most people’s radar,
and it is largely considered to be a classic example of modern pop punk. Since then, the
band has ridden the momentum to continually higher levels of artistry and success but
not necessarily by following the formula set
out in “Commit This to Memory.”
“I think every time we get into the studio, it’s interesting, because we kind of
go one direction with the (band’s sound),
then we whiplash back and go in another
direction,” said guitarist Joshua Cain. “It’s
kind of whatever our mood is when we get
started. I think we’ve kind of been all over
the place.”
Whatever they’re doing, it’s working for
them. Critics and fans adored 2010’s “My
Dinosaur Life,” and the band’s most recent
album, 2012’s “Go,” was given similar approval. The past decade has served to tighten the band’s delivery and bless it with the
Motion City Soundtrack plays Wooly’s, 504 E. Locust, on Tuesday, Feb. 24.
perspective and self-awareness that tends to
come from the process of getting older. But
“Commit This to Memory,” for whatever
flaws it may have in retrospect, remains a
welcome snapshot of a band on the brink.
“I don’t think we’d do anything differently,” Cain agreed. “Our first record
(2002’s ‘I am the Movie’) was written over
a long period of time. We didn’t really
know what we were doing, but we had a
lot of time to do it. For ‘Commit This to
Memory,’ we just were in the right mindset to have that kind of record made and
to make sure that it was really put together
well.”
Speaking of that mindset, a good portion of the credit for keeping the band there
goes to the album producer (and Blink 182
bassist) Mark Hoppus.
“He had a lot to do with the sound,”
Cain concurred. “He was able to help us
stay out of our heads when we tended to
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fun guy who was really into what we’re doing. That was important to make it not feel
like we were making the wrong choices.
“He put together the team that was going to make the album. I found the studio
in L.A., but Mark put the team together.
He came to us from making all the Blink
records and took all that knowledge and applied it to our record.”
The band would return to Hoppus
when it came time to make “My Dinosaur
Life,” thus putting the Blink 182 star’s
name on the two most important albums
of the band’s career. But even on the album
where he doesn’t have a direct hand, the
lessons Motion City Soundtrack took away
from those sessions can still be felt.
“One thing he really did was put some
space in our songs,” Cain explained. “Our
first record is kind of all vocals, all the time,
and one of the big things he wanted to
do was to let the songs have some time to
breathe.
“One of the big things is just trusting in
our ability to write songs that work for us,”
Cain concluded. “Worrying about making
a song catchy and that everyone is going
to like is a lot to worry about when you’re
making a record. ‘Commit This to Memory’ was an important time in our band’s history, when we were just writing songs.” CV
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Central Iowa’s connection to the local music scene
By Chad Taylor [email protected]
SOUNDCHECK
SOUND CIRCUIT
Angle
“Definitive Bedtime Stories”
Independent
Fresh fruit
E
asy Fruit, a straight rock four-piece, is
one of the newer editions to the capital
city’s music landscape. That’s not to say
its component members lack experience with
playing music in town, however. All four of
them — Brad Turk, Thomas Oldham, Cory
Wendel and Chris Marshall — have played
for various bands around Des Moines for
years. But Easy Fruit marks something different for all of them.
“We wanted to make loud rock and roll,”
Turk explained plainly. “I’ve been in a lot of
pop bands, playing synthesizers and stuff like
that, and we just wanted to start a rock band.
That’s what the EP is. The EP is kind of balls
out.”
“Yeah,” Oldham concurred. “It’s about 19
minutes of in-your-face.”
“The EP” is the band’s self-titled debut, Easy Fruit plays DG’s Taphouse, 125 Main, Ames, on Friday, Feb. 20.
which, true to their word, is a half-dozen
tracks of some of the loudest, fuzziest rock
came together in January 2014, then settled into the studio
you’ll hear around town.
to start recording. Five months isn’t a lot of time to put toProduced by soundboard genius Phil Young, the album gether a bunch of songs, so most of the material is stuff that
was put together last summer, but the band sat on it for near- Oldham brought with him to the project. Still, everyone inly six months, tinkering. The EP was finally released to the volved agrees that it is a good example of what to expect from
world this past December in a joint release party with Volcano Easy Fruit in the coming months: they’re going to rock. And
Boys. Now, Easy Fruit is taking its talents north of the city.
they’re going to do it hard, they’re going to do it fast, and it is
“I’m excited to get up to Ames and put it in some people’s going to be best served loud.
hands who aren’t a part of the Des Moines music scene,” Old“All the songs on that EP are the very beginning of Easy
ham said. “Our local scene is amazing, but Ames is a little bit Fruit,” Oldham said. “The EP was really just a culmination of
of undocumented territory for us. So it’s exciting.”
all of us coming together and wanting to make some rock and
The EP is a good look at the birth of a band. Easy Fruit roll.” CV
SOUND ADVICE
T
he Des Moines music landscape has been running a bit gun shy during the past couple months as a number of
venues — House of Bricks, Hull Ave. Tavern and El Bait Shop — have either closed or dramatically cut back on
their music. Those jitters have been given new ammunition this past week, as the future of two more venues were
put into question.
First, there was the announcement last Tuesday that Raccoon River Brewery was closing its doors this spring after 18
years of operation. Their building was recently sold, and the new owners have their own, yet undisclosed, plans for the
space. The next day it was announced that Kum & Go had purchased the building housing Gas Lamp, putting the fate of
music in the Western Gateway area in potential jeopardy. For now, details on both locations are slim, but we will let you
know more as facts come to light.
Pick o’ the Week: Speaking of Hull Ave., in a spot of good news, the establishment is re-opening under new ownership and kicking things off on Saturday, Feb. 21, with a show featuring Ressurection Mary, Nest of Snakes and Wicked
Inquisition. There’s no cover at the door, and the party kicks off at 9 p.m. Mahalo. CV
D
es Moines does
not have a great
hip-hop scene. It
is not for a lack of trying,
it is just difficult to grow a
scene organically with no
major label backing and
no breakthrough commercial talent, ala Slipknot or
The Envy Corps. There is,
however, good stuff coming out of Des Moines, rap
included. Angle is one of the more tenured members of
the central Iowa scene — he’s been slinging since 2001
— and “Definitive Bedtime Stories” is easily the best
work he has released in that time. One big reason is
his improved flow. His lyrics are sharp, and his quick,
syncopated vocal rhythm makes him stand out much
the same way that Tech N9ne’s separates him from the
Kansas City crowd. Another reason the album shines is
because Angle is not afraid to allow his collaborators to
outshine him. At no point is this made more evident
(or with better results) than “Better Shake,” featuring
Chicago’s Psalm One, whose masterful mic work helps
make it the best track on the album. CV
Colin Hay
“Next Year People”
Compass
S
ince the breakup
of Men at Work in
1985, Colin Hay has
been pursuing a solo career
that has put the focus more
squarely on his own completely distinctive vocals.
It is an endeavor that he
has gradually gotten better
at, seemingly finding his
groove with 2007’s “Are You Lookin’ at Me?” “Next
Year People” doesn’t quite hit the highest highs of
some of Hay’s previous work, but there is plenty on the
album to make it more than just a throwaway addition
to his catalog. Tracks like opener “Trying to Get to
You” are light and poppy, which is Hay’s wheelhouse.
But most of the album is slower and more thoughtful,
giving the project a feeling of light melancholy that
rarely lets Hay’s voice truly shine. CV
Chad Taylor is an award-winning news journalist and music writer from Des Moines who would love to take his talents abroad if the
rent were not so much more affordable in Des Moines.
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Dos Rios has become a bargain
I
n Iowa, chili cook-offs
have become a
rite of winter.
Country clubs,
churches, taverns
and
hospitals
all hold them.
Last week, one
transported me to
another time and place.
The Altoona Fire Department hosted such
an event to raise money for state-of-the-art
medical rescue equipment. The firehouse
was filled with American flags, lockers and
fire trucks, staffed by uniformed Boy Scouts
and attended by a large crowd. Wheel chairs
and oxygen tanks outnumbered Asians and
African Americans by double figures. Sugar
Shack edged out Christ the King church for
the best chili award. Norman Rockwell’s
America is not completely dead and gone.
The chilies had less diversity than the
audience. There was one white chili with
chicken but other than that, they came in
two varieties — barbecue with beans and
loose meat with beans. Most were in tomato
stocks. Bell peppers were more prevalent
than chile peppers. That left me wondering
how, at least in pockets of Iowa, chili ended
up having so little to do with chilies. New
Mexico’s state motto is “red or green?” That
refers to chilies that are made with chilies.
Is Iowa’s take on that, “barbecue or loose
meat?”
Across the metro that same evening,
the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society held
another chili cook-off. Mike Holman won
By Jim Duncan
DOS RIOS
316 Court Ave., 282-2995
Mon. – Sat. 11 a.m. – close
Food
Dude
A $5 order of shrimp tostadas at Dos Rios’ Happy Hour.
that event, adding to his victory in the Iowa
regional Culinary Fight Night. Holman is
executive chef at Dos Rios, a place I figured
would entertain my chile quest.
When Dos Rios opened in 2007, I wondered if it would become a landmark restaurant or another “ahead of its time” effort
at taking Mexican cuisine upscale in Iowa.
Happily, they have succeeded where La
Fonda and Cabo San Lucas failed. The biggest change from eight years ago is in prices.
In 2007, they crossed the $30 entrée barrier,
a threshold The Washington Post calls too
steep for most East Coast diners. Now only
two entrees cross the $20 threshold. Those
are solidly worth their prices, too. Seared scallops ($20) are among the best in town, with
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sauce (that’s the Argentine word for de Burgo), served with the same potatoes, tomato
escabeche, fried onions and red chile butter.
Pork belly ($17) is rather famous here served
with sweet corn salsa, mashed sweet potatoes
and a dark mole. The restaurant holds some
delightful aromas, mainly from a free-range
chicken rotisserie and freshly squeezed limes.
Some of the latter come with the tableside
guacamole ($5-10), made with roasted poblano chilies in mocajetes — lava mortars that
other Mexican cafés use only as decor.
Different masas were used for handmade
tortillas, empanadas, tamales, gorditas and
Side Dishes: Ava Chin, author of “Eating
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Memorial Union… Culinary Fight Night
returns to Des Moines in late April when
Mike Holman faces winners from Chicago,
Milwaukee and Minneapolis. CV
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penned nine different columns for Cityview
and its sister publications beginning in 1987.
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American
B-Bops: We have the best burgers in town! For
21 years we’ve won Cityview’s “Best of Des Moines”
readers’ poll and are proud to serve these burgers
at more than seven locations throughout the metro.
Multiple locations in Des Moines, Ankeny, Altoona,
Urbandale and Ames. www.b-bops.com.
Big City Burgers and Greens: Located on
the first level in Capital Square in Downtown Des
Moines, Big City is fresh, healthy and socially responsible. Serving local meats and greens, using organic
beef and free-range poultry and being one of Iowa’s
first 100 percent compostable restaurants, Big City is
“green.” Catering also available. 400 Locust St., St.
195, 537-8433. Order online at www.bigcityburgersandgreens.com.
The Club Car: While great food and service
may be the “primary products” of The Club Car,
the casual atmosphere also elicits captivation from
the moment you walk in the front door. Railroad
memorabilia, original framed posters, model train
cars and signs from “way back” always draw attention. 13435 University Ave., #200. Clive. 226-1729.
www.clubcardining.com.
Food Arcade: The Food Arcade offers a wide
array of grab-and-go food options like whole or bythe-slice pizza, burgers, tenderloins, wings, fries,
hot beef sandwiches, homemade soups, subs, ice
cream and much more. Open 10 a.m.–7 a.m. daily.
Meskwaki Bingo and Casino, 1504 305th St., Tama.
(641) 484-2108. www.meskwaki.com.
Holiday Inn Cityscape Lounge: Discover the
delicious Cityscape Lounge for downtown dinner
and drinks… with a view! Located in the Holiday
Inn downtown, Cityscape Lounge offers daily Happy
Hour drink specials and half-price appetizers Monday-Friday during Happy Hour. From our almondcrusted tenders and skyline platter to our cowboy
steak and old-world, baked cavatelli pasta… whatever you do, make sure you save room for dessert!
Come escape the day and enjoy the view. 1050 Sixth
Ave. 283-0151.
Jackpot Buffet: The Jackpot Buffet at Meskwaki Casino is one of the largest buffets in the Midwest
with more than 20 homestyle entrée choices along
with our fresh, never-frozen, broasted chicken, many
homemade desserts and, of course, our famous
Friday Seafood Night featuring jumbo snow crab,
shrimp scampi, fried whole catfish, fried shrimp,
herbed-baked fish, clam strips and many other seafood favorites. The Jackpot Buffet is also well known
for an outstanding breakfast, which is served daily
Monday through Saturday. Meskwaki Bingo and Casino, 1504 305th St., Tama. (641) 484-2108. www.
meskwaki.com.
Quinton’s: Located at 506 E. Grand in the East
Village, Quinton’s is open seven days a week from
11 a.m.-2 a.m. and serves food until midnight. Our
unbeatable all-day drink specials are supplemented
with a daily happy hour from 3-7 p.m. featuring
$3 23-oz. domestic Big Girl beers, $4 premium Big
Girls, $5 Big Girl mixed drinks and half-price chips
and salsa, C.C.Q. and spinach artichoke dip. We can
accommodate groups of up to 60 people. Visit us at
www.quintonsdm.com to check our menu of unique
sandwiches, breadbowl soups, giant loaded spuds,
fresh salads and gourmet burgers, with take-out always available.
Trostel’s Greenbriar: Trostel’s Greenbriar is
offering a new menu featuring five seasonal specialties, cracker-crust pizzas, and of course, your favorite
entrees. Not just for special occasions but for every
occasion when you want… Simply the best! Reservations accepted. 5810 Merle Hay Road, Johnston.
253-0124. www.greenbriartrostels.com.
Twin Peaks: Twin Peaks is your ultimate man
cave. 48 big screen TVs, made-from-scratch comfort
food, 29 degree beer; all served up by our beautiful Twin Peaks girls. Eats-Drinks-Scenic Views. 4570
University Ave., West Des Moines. 528-8294.
Asian
King & I: Authentic Thai cuisine as well as sushi
bar at 86th Street and University Avenue in West
Des Moines. Dine in or order to go. Head Chef Mao
Heineman. Beer, wine and sake served. Select American menu items for kids of all ages. Our 11th year!
Please come and enjoy with our Thai family. 1821
22nd St., West Des Moines. 440-2075. www.kingand-i-thaicuisine.com.
BBQ
Jethro’s BBQ: If you’re looking for some of the best
BBQ in town, this Drake neighborhood sports bar
is the place to go. Jethro’s racked up the awards in
Cityview’s 2011 “Best Of Des Moines” readers poll,
winning Best BBQ and runner-up for Best American
Food and Best Nachos. Serving ribs, pork, beef brisket, whole chickens and turkey that is smoked daily
in our 750-lb. capacity smoker. Stop by and see why
we are the best. 3100 Forest Ave., Des Moines; 2601
Adventureland Drive, Altoona; 9350 University Ave.,
Waukee; 1425 S.W. Vintage, Ankeny, and 5950
56th St., Johnston. www.jethrosdesmoines.com.
Jethro’s BBQ Pork Chop Grill: The State Fair
Pork Chop, Pork Chop on a Stick, The Shake and
Bake Pork Chop, a Stuffed Pork Chop, a double cut
Smoked Pork Chop — you will find them all here as
Jethro pays homage to the 21 million pigs in Iowa.
This brand new Johnston Jethro’s features 29, huge
60- and 70-inch TVs that will bring you all the sports.
Twin 900-lb. smokers cook all of Jethro’s award-winning “Amazing Slow Smoked Meats.” Jethro’s Pork
Chop Grill, Your Johnston Neighborhood Sports Bar.
5950 N.W. 86th St., Johnston. 421-4848. www.jethrosdesmoines.com.
Woody’s Smoke Shack: Woody’s has championship BBQ and offers catering, dine-in or carry out
options. Home to the best corn bread in Iowa. Come
early, call ahead or even fax your order! 2511 Cottage Grove Ave. Phone: 277-0005. Fax: 277-0022.
www.woodyssmokeshack.com.
Catering
CateringDSM: Catering DSM, located in Capital
Square in downtown Des Moines, offers a full range
of catering services and cuisine options. With partnerships with venues such as Dos Rios and Big City
Burgers and Greens, Catering DSM can do it all; from
playoff parties to office parties to wedding receptions. Contact us to plan your next event! 400 Locust
St., Suite 193, 508-0829. www.CateringDSM.com.
Cajun
Jethro’s BBQ Jambalaya: What a concept! Barbeque and Cajun Creole Creations all served in Your
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better than this made-from-scratch cooking. Serving
all of Jethro’s “ Amazing Slow Smoked Meats” plus
Cajun food favorites like Jambalaya, Red Beans ‘n’
Rice, Crawfish Etouffe and Spicy Gumbo. Try the Alligator or the BBQ Shrimp; the blackened Mahi is as
close as you will come to the Big Easy in Iowa. The
Cajun sampler platter will tickle your tummy. Jethro
is hooping and hollering excited for you to come visit.
9350 University Ave., West Des Moines. 987-8686.
www.jethrosdesmoines.com.
Jethro’s BBQ Lakehouse: Jethro has built his
very own LAKEHOUSE in the booming city of Ankeny. Two patios overlook the serene water of Prairie
Trail Lake as a giant moose and trophy elk gaze. 22
big screen TVs bring you all the sports action. Twin,
750-lb. hickory fired smokers cook all of Jethro’s
award-winning “Amazing Slow Smoked Meats.”
The Cajun Creole Creations made famous at Jambalaya are proudly served. Imagine how good the taste
of Walleye served fresh from the lake is at Jethro’s
LAKEHOUSE, Your Ankeny Neighborhood Sports Bar.
1425 S.W. Vintage Parkway, Ankeny. 289-4444.
Coffeehouse
Smokey Row: Open Monday through Thursday
6 a.m.-10 p.m., Friday 6 a.m.-11 p.m., Saturday 7
a.m.-11 p.m. and Sunday 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m. 1910
Cottage Grove, Des Moines. 244-2611.
Deli
Palmer’s Deli & Market: At Palmer’s, we believe
in “Great Food. Great Health. Great Life.” Palmer’s
Deli is about community, family, and quality food —
quality products and quality ingredients. We offer
many delicious choices to eat right and live healthy.
We use fresh products when preparing our sandwiches, soups and salads. Our breads and desserts
are baked from scratch everyday. Classic favorites…
irresistible tastes! 4949 Westown Parkway #180,
West Des Moines. 223-0123. 7509 Douglas Ave.
#1, Urbandale. 270-6561. 655 Walnut St. #219, Des
Moines. 288-4466. 110 N. Ankeny Blvd. #200, Ankeny. 963-4500. 2843 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines.
274-4004. www.palmersdeliandmarket.com
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Italian
Pizza
Crouse Cafe: Crouse Café is located off Indianola’s
Town Square – just a short drive from Des Moines’
south side. The third-generation, family-run eatery is
proud to offer the best in homemade. Whether stopping by for breakfast, lunch or dinner, Crouse Café
is serving up all your favorites including biscuits and
gravy, hot beef sandwiches and pork tenderloins. Or
stop by for just a piece of homemade pie – you won’t
be disappointed. 115 E. Salem Ave., Indianola. 9613362.
Biaggi’s Ristorante Italiano: Biaggi’s is a fun,
casual, white-tablecloth restaurant that offers an
extensive menu featuring a full selection of housemade and imported pasta, soups, salads, pizza, seafood, fresh fish, chicken, veal, steaks and desserts.
Fresh. Affordable. Italian. 5990 University Ave., West
Des Moines. 221-9900. www.biaggis.com.
Cosi Cucina: Under new (old) ownership and
newly remodeled, enjoy a romantic atmosphere with
cheerful service. A Des Moines favorite for more than
21 years, try a house favorite pasta or pizza from
the original wood-burning oven. Make sure you save
room for Cosi’s famous cheesecake! They offer a variety of wine-by-glass and select bottles. 1975 N.W.
86th Street, Clive. 278-8148
Noah’s Ark Ristorante: Noah’s Ark Ristorante
has been a well-known Ingersoll tradition for decades. It offers a comfortable, relaxed, inviting atmosphere combined with a friendly and helpful staff.
Serving up a full menu of delicious Italian cuisine,
you are sure to find something you love. 2400 Ingersoll Ave. 288-2246.
Tumea & Sons: Don’t feel like cooking dinner? Come to Tumea & Sons for a tasty Italian meal.
With a host to choose from including traditional
pasta dishes and homemade Italian pastries – the
whole family will be satisfied. 1501 S.E. First St., Des
Moines. 282-7976. www.tumeaandsons.net
Orlondo’s: At Orlondo’s we make everything from
scratch, often utilizing fresh veggies from our onsite
garden. We have daily lunch and dinner specials
available, along with pizza by the slice. Tuesdays are
$11 large, one-topping pizza. Also, try one of our delicious appetizer items. 4337 Park Ave., 244-3637.
RedRossa: A passion for flavor — RedRossa
began with a passion for fresh, flavorful and authentic Italian/American dining. Offering affordable
Italian and American cuisine, RedRossa’s signature
recipes highlight the finest ingredients, prepared in
the tradition of old-world Italy, in a comfortable and
festive atmosphere. 12695 University Ave., Clive.
221-2529. www.redrossa.com.
Sam & Louie’s: Sam & Louie’s is a family
owned, casual, New York-style pizzeria and Italian
restaurant. Specializing in hand tossed pizza, pasta,
burgers, chicken sandwiches, calzones, stromboli,
salads, gluten free options and more! They are experts in catering for all types of corporate and family events. Party room available at no charge. 8561
Hickman Road, Urbandale in the Cobblestone Market. 515.537.8361. samandlouiespizza.com.
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Products
Bolton & Hay: Established in 1920, Bolton & Hay
Inc. is a locally owned and family operated foodservice equipment business based in Des Moines.
Bolton & Hay’s mission is to provide quality foodservice equipment and supply products at discounted
factory direct prices to our valued customers. Bolton
& Hay is your leading source of commercial kitchen
equipment and supplies to the foodservice industry.
2701 Delaware Ave. 265-2554. www.boltonhay.
com
Law Equipment: Serves all your restaurant,
food service and bar equipment needs. New and
used equipment, smallwares and glasswares in
stock. Full line dealer. If we don’t have it, we can
get it. Ground up design services available. Special
orders welcome from one piece to complete build
out. 10095 Hickman Court, Suite B, Clive. 334-5036.
www.lawequipment.com.
Greek
Yanni’s: We offer a wide variety of fine Greek and
Italian dishes prepared by a team of professional
chefs and wait staff. Our commitment is to provide
a high-quality, authentic dish at an affordable price.
Our menu offers a rainbow array of Greek and Italian dishes that are guaranteed to please the most
demanding taste. Not only do we offer Des Moines
and Ankeny fine Greek and Italian cuisine, but we
also have a fully stocked wine menu and full bar/
lounge. Have a business meeting, reception or just
a get together? We have private facilities and meeting room available for the asking. 3160 8th St. S.W.,
Altoona (515) 957-9391. 410 S. Ankeny Boulevard,
Ankeny, (515) 965-7802. Tues-Fri: 11 a.m.-9 p.m.,
Saturday 4-10 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (Brunch).
Closed Monday.
Indian
India Star: Welcome to India Star, offering the best
Indian cuisine in Des Moines. Here you delight in the
finest variety of authentic North Indian dishes. Come
and enjoy an exceptional and memorable dining
experience! Dinner reservations accepted. We also
offer take-out and catering services. Lunch buffet is
Monday-Saturday 11:15 a.m.-2:15 p.m. Dinner is
Monday- Saturday 5 p.m.–9:30 p.m. Closed on Sundays. 5514 Douglas Ave., Des Moines. 279-2118.
Mediterranean
Fresh Mediterranean Express: Fresh meets Waukee. When you enter our doors you will be greeted by
the sights, sounds, scents of the Mediterranean. Send
your taste buds on a journey of discovery with our fresh
menu items. Now open at 15 N.E. Carefree Lane, Waukee. 987-6870. www.freshmediterraneanexpress.com.
Mexican
Cabo Sol: Cabo Sol is a great place to eat — combining a family-friendly atmosphere with great tasting, authentic food that will make your taste buds
have a fiesta. Come in to enjoy our daily specials.
Inside dining, carry-outs, catering and full-service
bar. 5010 Mills Civic Parkway, West Des Moines.
515-223-6319.
Dos Rios: More than just a typical Mexican restaurant, Dos Rios offers tableside guacamole, homemade corn tortillas, top-notch margaritas with house
sour and 100 percent blue agave tequilas, chocolate
and pumpkin inspired moles, fried plantains, fresh
herbs, local produce and free-range chicken, beef and
pork. You won’t be disappointed! 316 Court Ave.,
Des Moines. 282-2995. www.dosriosrestaurant.com.
Tasty Tacos: A family-owned Des Moinesbased Mexican restaurant serving family recipes for
50 years! Most everything is made daily. Six convenient locations throughout the Des Moines metro.
1418 E. Grand Ave., 2900 Euclid Ave., 5847 S.E.
14th St., in Des Moines, 8549 Hickman Road, Urbandale, 2401 S.E. Delaware Ave., in Ankeny, and
6326 Mills Civic Parkway in West Des Moines. Go
to www.tastytacos.com for more information or join
them on Facebook.
Seafood
Splash Seafood Bar and Grill: Splash Seafood
Bar and Grill is a great place to enjoy fresh fish,
oysters and hand-cut steaks all in a fun and vibrant
surrounding right in downtown Des Moines. Visit
our oyster bar for some of the freshest original menu
items or our famous clam chowder. 303 Locust St.,
#100. 244-5686. www.splash-seafood.com.
Small Plates
Trostel’s Dish: You’ll love the unique dining experience at our restaurant. We offer small dishes with
fresh flavor from around the world and new seasonal
selections every three months. Enjoy wine flights
and cheese flights. Private dining area for business
meetings or intimate gatherings. Bar opens at 4 p.m.
Monday–Saturday. Dinner starts at 5 p.m. 12851
University Ave., Suite 400, Clive. 221-DISH. www.
dishtrostels.com.
Specialty Stores
Vom Fass: VOM FASS has earned the reputation
as the shopping destination of choice for your extra
virgin olive oils, balsamic vinegars and nut oils. Also,
check out their amazing selection of single-malt
Scotch and Irish whiskies, brandies and fine liqueurs.
Imagine the fun as you taste your way through the
shop! 833 42nd St., Des Moines. 244-5020. www.
vomfassdsm.com.
Steakhouse
Jethro’s ‘n Jake’s Smokehouse Steaks: Now in
Altoona. Still at Drake. No Australian or Texan spoken here. These steaks are corn-fed, Iowa-raised,
USDA Choice meat, hickory smoked over a campfire
and broiled to perfection in our 1,600 degree Jethro’s ‘n Jake’s fire machine. This seals in the juices
and flavors. All our steaks are seasoned with black
pepper and salt and finished with a touch of smoked
garlic butter. Your Altoona Neighborhood Sports
Bar. 2601 Adventureland Drive, Altoona. 957-9727.
John and Nick’s: After 30 years, John Jaeger
left his family business and opened John and Nick’s
Steak and Prime Rib in Clive. Enjoy his famous salad
bar — bigger and better with more than 60 fresh
homemade items, including homemade shrimp and
crab salads, a wide selection of olives and too many
more to list. The best part is the salad bar comes with
your meal. Enjoy hand-cut black angus, USDA choice
steaks, aged 21 days for maximum taste and tenderness, including Shot gun Blackened Rib-eye, New
York strip, filet mignon, Steak De Burgo, and many
others. Try the amazing selection of incredible seafood, such as Parmesan crusted Mahi Mahi, Salmon
Florentine, Yellow Fin Ahi Tuna, Bacon Wrapped
Scallops, and many others. The offerings continue
with chops, pasta and John’s house specialty, Prime
Rib, USDA choice ribeye slow roasted and carved to
order, plus many other tasty menu items. The cozy
atmosphere and delicious food will make your dining experience unforgettable. 15970 Hickman Road,
Clive. 987-1151. www.johnandnicks.com.
Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse: Features
steaks, chops, seafood and Italian specialties. Enjoy the vintage cool atmosphere with the sounds of
Frank, Dean and Sammy Davis, Jr. as well as contemporary crooners like Michael Buble and Harry Connick Jr. Enjoy classic martinis, specialty cocktails or
our extensive wine list at the Blue Bar. Private dining,
banquet and meeting space make it perfect for any
occasion. 6800 Fleur Drive, Des Moines, 515-2870848; Mills Civic Parkway, West Des Moines 515333-5665 and Bass Pro Drive, Altoona 515-9579600.
Prime Cut Grill: At the Prime Cut Grill, we
serve the best steaks available along with a full line
of pasta, seafood, sandwiches and cocktails, open
Wednesday through Sunday nightly. Some of our
guests’ favorites include hand cut boneless ribeye
steak, bacon-wrapped filet mignon, hand-breaded
deep-fried jumbo shrimp, pan-fried walleye fillet, traditional French onion soup, and of course our slowroasted prime rib, which is served every Friday and
Saturday night. After dinner don’t forget to stop by
the lounge where we have live bands every Friday
and Saturday night with no cover charge. Meskwaki
Bingo and Casino, 1504 305th St., Tama. (641) 4842108. www.meskwaki.com.
Tapas
Stuffed Olive: The Stuffed Olive is all about the
entire “Martini Experience.” From your favorite classics to new and exciting blends you’ve never seen
before, you’re sure to find a cocktail to love on our
vast martini menu. Add a warm, comfortable atmosphere, great wines, beers and top-shelf spirits, and
The Stuffed Olive will become your favorite place to
start, end or spend your evening. Our tapas menu
offers appetizer-sized portions of globally influenced
entrees, for a sampling and sharing dining experience. 208 3rd St., Des Moines. 243-4456. CV
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W/ DYLAN BOYLE
$3 assorted Bacardi flavors, $3 shots of
Fireball, Jager and Rumple Minze.
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$12 buckets during games, $4 bombs,
$3 tallboys.
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FEB 20 WORK RELEASE FEAT BOB PACE & THE DANGEROUS BAND
4:30-7:30PM $5
FEB 20 GIMMIK 9PM $10
FEB 21 THE SAPWOODS W/ PEAS AND CARROT AND THE NEW BODIES
9PM $5
FEB 24 PARTY!PARTY! THE ULTIMATE KARAOKE BAND 9PM FREE
FEB 27 SHE’S CRAFTY (BEASTIE BOYS TRIBUTE) W/ DJ ENRG &
DJ RICHIE DAGGERS 9PM $10
FEB 28 SLEEP STUDY W/ CANBY 9PM $5
MAR 1 CONTINENTAL (RICK BARTON) 8PM A LIVE LIVE MUSIC SHOW
MAR 6 AMERICAN PINUP W/ THE OTHER BROTHERS 9PM $5
MAR 7 THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND W/ RUMBLE SEAT RIOT
9PM $15
MAR 10 MOTION THEATRE 7PM $5 A LIVE LIVE MUSIC SHOW!
MAR 18 TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET W/ LIPSTICK HOMICIDE
+ THE BLENDOURS 9PM $10
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FEBRUARY 19 - 25, 2015
VOODOO LOUNGE
Happy hour 4-6 p.m. $2 off select tapas. $2
off all martinis. $2 off select wine. $3 cider
beers, $3 Kinkys, $3 bombs 6 p.m. - 12 a.m.
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All mixed drinks are served as doubles
8-11:30 p.m., POWER HOUR $4 bombs
and $4 fireball shots midnight - 1 a.m.
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off S, A & T martinis 6 p.m. - close.
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TOAD’S TAVERN
All day happy hour. Free pool, 10 a.m. close.
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EXTRA INNINGS
Game day. Bloody Mary Bar. $3 Tall boys
all day long. $2.50 bottles.
1500 S.E. First St.
TAPZ PUB
$12 buckets, $2 domestic draws, $2
wells, $3 fireball.
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$2 PBR, Busch Heavy, Natural Light tall
boys, $3 domestic tall boys. Free pool.
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Industry night, $1 domestic bottles, $1
wells and $1 fireball shots 8 p.m. - close.
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Monday, Feb. 23
TOAD’S TAVERN
Spin the wheel to drink for cheap! SIN
night: late night happy hour from 10
p.m. - 2 a.m.
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EXTRA INNINGS
Football. $3 tall boys and $2 wells
during the games!
1500 S.E. First St.
MANNING’S
Come see April! Two for $5 domestic
bottles. $2 shots of peppermint schnapps!
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TAPZ PUB
Buy one get ones 4-6 p.m. $2 domestic
draws, $3 captains, $3 jagermeister.
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VOODOO LOUNGE
Half priced potions 6 p.m. - 12 a.m.
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EXTRA INNINGS
$2.50 domestic bottles, $3 dom. tall boys,
$3 shots of Fireball, Jager, Rumple Minze.
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TAPZ PUB
Buy one get ones 4-6 p.m. $3 import
draws, $4 Guiness, $6 domestic pitchers.
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Half price martinis 6 p.m. - close.
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$2.50 well drinks, $1 off Long Islands
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Tuesday, Feb. 24
TOAD’S TAVERN
Price-is-right happy hour 10 a.m. - 6
p.m. Spin the wheel to drink for cheap!
Mug night: $5 for a mug then $2 refills
all day.
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www.toadstavern.net
EXTRA INNINGS
Steak Night 5-9 p.m. 2 for 1s from 9 p.m.
- 1 a.m. $2 domestic draws.
1500 S.E. First St.
MANNING’S
Come see April! Busch Light – Two cans
for $4! $2 cans of Old Milwaukee.
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VOODOO LOUNGE
$2 off all martinis. $2 off select wine. Half
priced top shelf liquors 6 p.m. - 12 a.m.
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THE STUFFED OLIVE
Half price beers 6 p.m. - close.
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Wednesday, Feb. 25
THE STUFFED OLIVE
Half price wine 6 p.m.-close.
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EXTRA INNINGS
$4 bombs and $3 Fireball 9 p.m. – close.
1500 S.E. First St.
TOAD’S TAVERN
Spin the wheel to drink for cheap! $3 youcall-it on wells and calls, 6 p.m. - 2 a.m.
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www.toadstavern.net
MANNING’S
Come see Molli! $3 Fireballs. $4 vodka
Redbulls!
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2-for-1’s 9-11 p.m. (calls, well, bottles),
$3.50 Jack, Crown, Devils Cut, Jameson.
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TAPZ PUB
Buy one get ones 4-6 p.m. $3 Captains,
$3 tallboys.
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VOODOO LOUNGE
Happy hour 4-6 p.m. $2 off select
tapas. $2 off all martinis. $2 off select
wine. Half priced Moscow Mules with
purchase of a cup 6 p.m. - 12 a.m.
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THE EXCHANGE
Derry’s
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NORTHSIDE BAR
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$2.50 Domestic Bottles
$3 Domestic Tall Boys
$3 Shots of Fireball, Jager & Rumple Minze
s Tuesday
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s Wednesday
2 for 1s from 9pm to 11pm
(calls, well, and bottles)
$3.50 Jack, Crown, Devils Cut, & Jameson
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Online at www.dmcityview.com/calendar, or email
entries to [email protected].
Thursday
19
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s-AKING!RT0UBLICMaking Art Public explores the
beauty and history of public art in Iowa, 9 a.m. State
Historical Museum of Iowa.
#(),$2%.&!-),9
p.m. The Last Laugh Comedy Theater. 1701 25th St. West
Des Moines.
s!3TREETCAR.AMED$ESIRETennessee Williams’
tragic story begins with fragile former schoolteacher,
Blanche DuBouis, who leaves her family plantation home
and moves to New Orleans to live with her sister, Stella,
and Stella’s animalistic husband, Stanley. She quickly
gets a gritty life lesson in the seamy, steamy underbelly of
1940s life in the French Quarter. Des Moines Community
Playhouse.
s)CE3KATING Our warm & safe synthetic ice surface
called “Super Glide” is easy for beginner skaters, 1 p.m.
The Ice Ridge.
#/.#%243,)6%-53)#
s -AX 7ELLMAN Max Wellman performs jazz
standards every Thursday and Sunday evening at 6 p.m.
at this longtime Des Moines establishment, 6-8 p.m. El
Patio.
s ,EE +ONITZ$AN 4EPFER 4RIO Jazz classics and
originals, 7:30 p.m. Caspe Terrace.
s 4HE 4ARAKIS The Tarakis is a roots reggae band
featuring many Bob Marley classics, 9 p.m. Star Bar.
s 4HE (OT 3ARDINES Jazz, 7:30 p.m. The Temple
Theater. 1011 Locust St. Des Moines.
s 4HE 3OUL 3EARCHERS Blues, no cover, 9 p.m. The
Greenwood Lounge.
&!)4(0(),/3/0(9
s 4HE #OMMON 4HREAD Discussions pertaining to
Spiritual/Metaphysical studies, 10:30 a.m. 414 31st St.
in basement of Unity Church.
&//$7).%
s 4OUR 4ASTING The price is $20 per person and
includes: Cellar Wine Tour, Tasting of Summerset Wines,
Cheese Platter, Summerset Logo Wine Glass to take
home, 3 p.m., Summerset Winery.
(%!,4(3500/24'2/503
s /PIATE 3UPPORT 'ROUP FOR 7OMEN Call 633-
7968 or 274-3904 for questions and to RSVP. 7 p.m.
Friends House Conference Room. 4211 Grand Ave.
s #ARING AND 3HARING 'ROUP 1:30 p.m. Unity
Church of Des Moines. 414 31st St. Des Moines.
+!2!/+%
s +ARAOKE 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. Beaver Tap. 4041
Urbandale Ave. Des Moines.
s+ARAOKE!T4HE#AMELOT 7-10 p.m. Family hour
from 7-8 p.m. The Talent Factory. 1114 6th St. Nevada.
4(%!42%!.$#/-%$9
s /PEN -IC The Last Laugh Comedy Theater’s open
mic night for aspiring comics. Admission is free. 8-10
Friday
20
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s %XHIBITION OPENS h3INGLECHANNEL $ANCE
n+ENT-ONKMAN$ANCETO-ISS#HIEFvSingle–
4HURSDAY&EBPM
4HE4EMPLE4HEATER
,OCUST3T$ES-OINES
Milwaukee Rock Act The Complication Appears in Des
Moines for a Chick Rock Show Benefiting Girls Rock!
Des Moines, 9 p.m. Des Moines Social Club.
s0ASTMASTERS"AND1960s and 1970s dance music.
8:30 p.m. - midnight. Riverside Casino.
s!BBY.ORMAL9 p.m. Team 36.
#(),$2%.&!-),9
s *AMES "IEHN "AND Rock, no cover, 9 p.m. The
s)CE3KATINGOur warm and safe synthetic ice surface Greenwood Lounge.
called “Super Glide” is easy for beginner skaters, 1 p.m. s 4IM AND -YLES 4HOMPSON 0ERFORMANCE A
The Ice Ridge.
father/son duo from Nashville, TN, perform a dazzling
s3TORY3PROUTS Story Sprouts will offer families 32 display of complex, intricate jazz phrasing that brings to
weeks of books, songs, puppets, activities and more. mind the music of such masters as Chet Atkins, Django
Children 1-17 are $3; regular admission rates apply for Reinhardt, Stephane Grapelli, Chick Corea, New Grass
adults and seniors. Members free, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Revival and more. There is a recommended $15 donation
Greater Des Moines Botanical Center.
that will go directly to the artists, 7-9 p.m. Java Joes
s 3ECOND !NNUAL -OTHER3ON $ANCE Moms, Coffeehouse.
grandmas and aunts, grab your sons, grandsons and s/PEN-IC6-8:30 p.m. Inspired Grounds.
nephews — young and old — and enjoy dancing, s*OHN+RANTZ*!::WITH%RIC+RIEGERJohn Krantz
contests, snacks, punch, a photo booth and opportunities playing REAL JAZZ at the keyboard with bassist Eric
for lots of fun! Tickets are $25 per couple; $5 for each Krieger from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Sam and Gabe’s Italian
additional child. They can be purchased at www.faithlc. Bistro.
org, 7-9 p.m. Faith Lutheran Church.
s 4HE !USTRALIAN "EE 'EES 3HOW Touring for
more than 17 years, The Australian Bee Gees Show has
#/.#%243,)6%-53)#
mastered the look, sound and personality of the adored
s"OB0ACE4HE$ANGEROUS"ANDWorld-Famous trio while cementing their reputation as the world’s
Work Release Party. Blues, rock, R&B, funk. Always fun, leading Bee Gees tribute. Relive your favorite Bee
never predictable, 4:30 p.m. The Gas Lamp.
Gees moments with this multimedia theatrical concert
s ! .IGHT OF #ONTEMPORARY 7ORSHIP St. experience. 7 p.m. Stephens Auditorium. Lincoln Way
Mark Praise Team presents “A Night of Contemporary and University Boulevard. Ames.
Worship” The event is for all ages, so bring your friends s#HARLSON4RIOWITH-AX7ELLMANVocal stylings,
and family for a fun evening celebrating our God through 7-10 p.m. Chuck’s Restaurant.
music, 7-8 p.m. St. Mark Lutheran Church.
s *OHN +RANTZ John Krantz playing JAZZ at the
s-ICHAEL(OPE9:30 p.m. Star Bar.
keyboard accompanied by one of Des Moines’ finest jazz
s 4HE #OMPLICATION WITH 4HE (ONEYBEES bassists and sometimes with drummer Jim Eklof, 6:300ATRESA (ARTMAN 'IRLS 2OCK $ES -OINES 9:30 p.m. Sam and Gabe’s Italian Bistro.
channel is a program dedicated to the exhibition and
interpretation of important single-channel video by
contemporary artists, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Des Moines Art
Center.
&!)4(0(),/3/0(9
s 7OMEN OF 0OWER #ONFERENCE 5:30-10 p.m.,
Neveln Center.
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+!2!/+%
s&RIDAY.IGHT+ARAOKE9 p.m. - 1 a.m. AJ’s on East
Court. 419 East Court Ave. Des Moines.
s&IREBALL&RIDAY+ARAOKE 9-11:45 p.m. Overboard
Sports Bar. 1101 Army Post Road.
s+ARAOKE9:30 p.m. - 1 a.m. Striker’s Sports Bar. 655
N.E. 56th St. Pleasant Hill.
s+ARAOKE Weekly karaoke challenges with prizes to
be won. 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Okoboji Grill Ankeny. 2010 S.E.
Delaware. Ankeny.
s+ARAOKEWITH,IVE-USIC6IDEOS9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Mickey’s Irish Pub Waukee. 50 S.E. Laurel St. Waukee.
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s/PEN-IC+ARAOKE.IGHTOpen Mic Poetry Night.
Come enjoy original poetry and other performances by
local poets, artists and musicians. 6-8 p.m. Java Joes
DART Bus Station. 620 Cherry St. Des Moines.
s0RIME4IMERSOF#ENTRAL)OWA$OMINOE.IGHT
Hosted by John Lynch, bring a small appetizer to share, 7
p.m. 505 36th St., Unit 201.
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s $RAKE "ULLDOGS 7OMENS "ASKETBALL VS
%VANSVILLE7:05 p.m. Drake Knapp Center.
4(%!42%!.$#/-%$9
s!3TREETCAR.AMED$ESIRETennessee Williams’
tragic story begins with fragile former schoolteacher,
Blanche DuBouis, who leaves her family plantation home
and moves to New Orleans to live with her sister, Stella,
and Stella’s animalistic husband, Stanley. She quickly gets
a gritty life lesson in the seamy, steamy underbelly of
1940s life in the French Quarter. Des Moines Community
Playhouse.
s h!DAMS %VEv $10-$15. 7:30 p.m. Ankeny
Community Theatre. 1932 S.W. 3rd St. Ankeny.
s"ANANA0UNCHPRESENTSh7HATEVER
)T 4AKESv Banana Punch, the oldest established
permanent floating sketch comedy group in Des
Moines, returns to the stage with a new comedy show
that promises laugh-out-loud looks at sports banquets,
revolutionaries, public service announcements, driving
schools, and celebrity improv. $10 at the door, 7:30 p.m.,
Rex Mathes Auditorium. 1401 Vine. West Des Moines.
s"IG$)&)MPROV&ESTIVAL The Last Laugh Comedy
Theater hosts improv comedy groups from all over the
country. Local groups and national acts create instant
comedy by getting suggestions from the audience, $14
per show. Nightly and weekend passes available, 7:309 p.m./9:30-11 p.m./11:30-11:45 p.m. The Last Laugh
Comedy Theater.
s ,ITTLE 7OMEN $10-$18. 7:30 p.m. Des Moines
Social Club Kum and Go Theatre.
Saturday
21
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s-AKING!RT0UBLIC Making Art Public explores the
s !RT !FTER (OURS Come to the library after hours
for an art opening featuring three local artists. Look at
the art, mingle with interesting people, and snack on free
hors d’oeuvres, 5:30-7 p.m. Johnston Public Library.
s 0ALEK 0AINT 0ARTY If you’re looking for a fun and
memorable night with a relaxed environment, wine, food,
and a little creativity, these classes are perfect for you!
Within a couple of hours, with step-by-step instruction,
you will paint and take home your own masterpiece! No
painting experience necessary. Each class is 2.5 hours
and by the end you will take home your own completed
masterpiece! Adults Only, $40 per class all supplies
included, 6-9 p.m. Palek Studio & Gallery.
REGISTER NOW!
#(),$2%.&!-),9
s-USEUM4REK!#LOSER,OOKATTHE%XHIBITS
11 a.m. to noon. Get interesting facts and a closer look
at artifacts on display with a museum guide. Free for
visitors of all ages. State Historical Museum of Iowa. 600
E. Locust St. Des Moines.
s)CESKATINGOur warm and safe synthetic ice surface
The Ice Ridge.
s %VERY &AMILY 2OCKS &AMILY -USIC -OVEMENT &ESTIVAL Every Family Rocks! is a fun-
filled day featuring diverse music, science, art and handson activities to celebrate central Iowa families, 10 a.m. - 5
p.m. Science Center of Iowa.
#/.#%243,)6%-53)#
SPRING BREAK WORKSHOPS
AGES 4–12
entirely
unexpected
Grab your passports and join us at the Art Center
for a five-day adventure of fun, culture, and creativity!
View complete spring break schedule and register online
at desmoinesartcenter.org.
s0ASTMASTERS"AND 1960s and 1970s dance music.
8:30 p.m. - midnight. Riverside Casino.
s 0OPS #ONCERT !N %VENING WITH
!UDRA-C$ONALD7:30 p.m. Des Moines Civic Center.
FREE ADMISSION IS SUPPORTED BY PRINCIPAL
FINANCIAL GROUP AND ART CENTER MEMBERS
MEDIA SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
CITYVIEWs&%"25!29 s
221 Walnut St.
s-IKE!CETO9 p.m. Saints Pub & Patio. 165 S. Jordan
Creek Parkway. Des Moines.
s &IRESIDE WITH "RYAN "AKER 7:00 p.m. Hotel
Pattee. 1112 Willis Ave. Perry.
s$REW"IRDSALL9 p.m. Star Bar.
s!BBY.ORMAL9 p.m. Team 36.
s (EATH !LAN "AND Blues, no cover, 9 p.m. The
Greenwood Lounge.
s 2OUND!"OUT Classic rock, 9 p.m. Mickey’s Irish
Pub.
s 'RATEFUL $EAD %XPERIENCE 4HE 3CHWAG The
Schwag will play an evening of high-energy organic
Grateful Dead music. The Schwag has played more than
3,000 concerts in their career lasting more than 23 years.
The band features Jimmy Tebeau, who has played with
JGB (Jerry Garcia Band) for four years, 9 p.m. Wooly’s.
s2OB,UMBARD8-11 p.m. Trostel’s Dish.
s 3YNERGY *AZZ &OR )OWA #ONCERT 3ERIES Erica
von Kleist is a renowned flautist, saxophonist, composer
and educator who had made her mark on the music
scene worldwide, 7:30 p.m. Turner Jazz center/Drake
University.
s (OME 'ROWN 4OMATOES Gothic yearning, midwestern practicality, and stubborn romanticism mixed
with humor and terminal sensibility. $12. 7 p.m.
ArtsCentral. Waukee.
s $IAMOND #LEAR #UT 2OCK "AND This
Marshalltown based band performs Classic Rock Covers
from the 1960s-1990s, Tickets: $10 - Seniors: $8, 7-9
p.m. The Talent Factory.
s2AY*ANE$UOAcoustic/vocal, 7-10 p.m. Chuck’s
Restaurant.
4HE!USTRALIAN"EE'EES3HOW
&!)4(0(),/3/0(9
Neveln Center.
&//$7).%
s#ABIN&EVER3PIRITS3WEETS Dare to pair one
of a kind mini-tinis mixed by Iowa artisan distillers with
bite sized sweets and savory items created by local
eateries. Visit with distillers about the process of making
spirits with Iowa corn, 3-6 p.m., Living History Farms’
Visitor Center.
s .ATIONAL -ARGARITA $AY Celebrate National
Margarita Day by offering its 12-ounce House Margarita
— Frozen or On The Rocks — for just $2 all day On
The Border.
s7INTER3OUP"READ0AIRINGS#OOKING#LASS
Chef Christina Ryan-Pfleeger and dietician Missy Anker
will be demonstrating three fabulous and hearty pairings:
tomato basil bisque with cheesy bread, minestrone with
breadsticks, and white chicken chili with biscuits. Besides
learning from the experts, Missy and Christina will help
participants make their own dough at the class that they
can take home and bake for dinner. Register at www.
johnstonlibrary.com or by calling the library at 515-2785233, 10:30 a.m. - noon Johnston Public Library.
(%!,4(3500/24'2/503
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3UPPORT
“We’ve been there, we can help.” Contact Debbie at
[email protected] for more info. 2 p.m. Lutheran
Hospital. Penn & University Level B Private Dining Room.
&RIDAY&EBPM
3TEPHENS!UDITORIUM!MES
+!2!/+%
s&RIDAY.IGHT+ARAOKE9 p.m.- 1 a.m. AJ’s on East
Court. 419 East Court Ave. Des Moines.
s#OFFEE+ARAOKE We will play any clean song you
can find on Youtube.com. 7-9 p.m. Java Joes DART Bus
Station. 620 Cherry St. Des Moines.
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start each Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden.
s'ARDEN'ROWERS.O$IRT.ECESSARY Epiphytes
are plants that perch on other plants. They don’t require
dirt to grow. Learn about our favorite plants that perch
here at the Botanical Garden, called air plants. Make
your own air plant craft to take home and enjoy, 10:30
a.m. - noon Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden.
s ,EARN ON 3ATURDAYS Drawing from Iowa’s
horticultural professionals and skilled gardeners, the
series will showcase a curated array of programs, 10:30
a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden.
s'ARDEN'ROWERS.O$IRT.ECESSARYEpiphytes
are plants that perch on other plants. They don’t require
dirt to grow. Learn about our favorite plants that perch
here at the Botanical Garden, called air plants. Make
your own air plant craft to take home and enjoy, 10:30
a.m. Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden.
s 3EW &ITTINGLY Learn how to make great fitting
clothes using a customized dress form. Costume draper
Ginny McKeever will lead the hands-on workshop and
will demonstrate the same techniques she uses to fit
her theater clientele, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Trinity United
Methodist Church. 102 Lynwood Drive. Huxley.
s ,EARN /N 3ATURDAYS 2AISING "ACKYARD
#HICKENS AND 7HAT 7ORMS #AN $O &OR 9OU
Drawing from Iowa’s horticultural professionals and
skilled gardeners, the series will showcase a curated
array of programs. The traditional two-class format
remains the same, but with a later start time — classes
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s ,EARN ON 3ATURDAYS Drawing from Iowa’s
horticultural professionals and skilled gardeners, the
series will showcase a curated array of programs, 10:30
a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden.
s $OXIE $ASH During the first intermission of the
Buccaneers’ game, the Bucs and the Animal Rescue
League of Iowa will bring “wiener dog” racing to Des
Moines once again, 7 p.m. Des Moines Buccaneers
Arena.
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s)MPACT0RO7RESTLING3HOWKiandra will face off
against Miss Frankie Jay in a Fans Bring The Weapons
Match! In the other main event of the evening AJ
Smooth will defend his IPW Heavyweight Championship
against No. 1 contender James Jeffries, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Forte @ Baratta’s.
s"ASKETBALL3IMPSONVS,ORAS2 p.m. Simpson.
4(%!42%!.$#/-%$9
s h! 3TREETCAR .AMED $ESIREv Tennessee
Williams’ tragic story begins with fragile former
schoolteacher, Blanche DuBouis, who leaves her family
plantation home and moves to New Orleans to live
with her sister, Stella, and Stella’s animalistic husband,
Stanley. She quickly gets a gritty life lesson in the seamy,
steamy underbelly of 1940s life in the French Quarter.
Des Moines Community Playhouse.
s h!DAMS %VEv $10-$15. 7:30 p.m. Ankeny
Community Theatre. 1932 S.W. 3rd St. Ankeny.
s"IG$)&)MPROV&ESTIVAL The Last Laugh Comedy
Theater hosts improv comedy groups from all over the
country. Local groups and national acts create instant
comedy by getting suggestions from the audience, $14
per show. Nightly and weekend passes available, 7:309 p.m./9:30-11 p.m./11:30-11:45 p.m. The Last Laugh
Comedy Theater.
s"ANANA0UNCHPRESENTSh7HATEVER
)T 4AKESv Banana Punch, the oldest established
permanent floating sketch comedy group in Des Moines,
returns to the stage with a new comedy show that
promises laugh-out-loud looks at sports banquets,
revolutionaries, public service announcements, driving
schools, and celebrity improv. $10 at the door, 7:30 p.m.,
Rex Mathes Auditorium. 1401 Vine. West Des Moines.
s "IG $)& #OLLEGE )MPROV 3HOWCASE College
improv groups from around the state come to the Last
Laugh Theater to perform instant comedy at the Big DIF
improv Festival. See the comedians of tomorrow today,
5:30-7 p.m. The Last Laugh Comedy Theater.
s "LIND 0IG #OMEDY 3HOWCASE $5 tickets at the
door. Headlining is Jack Comstock with him comes
Brandon Cordes. The evening will also feature local
comedians Alex Carter, Dan Umthun, Madeleine Russell
and hosted by Toll McGrane, 8:30 p.m. Streetcar 209.
s,ITTLE7OMEN $10-$18. 7:30 p.m. Des Moines
Sunday
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The Ice Ridge.
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s "OTANICAL "LUES Regular admission rates apply.
Food and beverages will be available for purchase from
Trellis Catering, 2-4 p.m. Greater Des Moines Botanical
Garden.
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and Sunday evening at El Patio for a solo set of standards
from the Great American Songbook, 6-8 p.m. El Patio.
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1057 23rd St. Des Moines.
Neveln Center.
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entertainment and fun games! Oh, and don’t forget
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and Bock beers, 1 p.m. - 2 a.m., Hessen Haus.
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Forsgren, former director for the Global Youth Institute
will speak on the GYI “Danish” experience in Hjorring,
Denmark, in 2012. Invited guests include representatives
of the Danish Brotherhood and Sisterhood and Lynnette
Rasmussen, Honorary Consul for Denmark in Des
Moines. The public is invited. Refreshments will be
served, 2-4 p.m. Crown Pointe Community Center.
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schoolteacher, Blanche DuBouis, who leaves her family
plantation home and moves to New Orleans to live
with her sister, Stella, and Stella’s animalistic husband,
Stanley. She quickly gets a gritty life lesson in the seamy,
steamy underbelly of 1940s life in the French Quarter.
Des Moines Community Playhouse.
sh!DAMS%VEv$10-$15. 2 p.m. Ankeny Community
Theatre. 1932 S.W. 3rd St. Ankeny.
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Presbyterian Church. 38th St and Grand Avenue Second Floor.
Greenwood Lounge.
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Maple Grove United Methodist Church.
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health conditions. Peer oriented. 2 p.m. Plymouth
Church. 42nd and Ingersoll, Burling Room. Des Moines.
s %MOTIONS !NONYMOUS Des Moines Emotions
Anonymous Chapter, EA fellowship of weekly meetings in
a warm and friendly environment. Emotions Anonymous
is a Step 12 program of recovery for emotional issues
and maintaining emotional health. 12:15-1:15 p.m. Java
Joes. 214 4th St. Des Moines.
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Ankeny.
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2301 S.W. 9th St. Des Moines.
designing with epiphytes. Epiphytes, such as orchids
and bromeliads, are plants that perch and make great
specimens to mount on driftwood. Design your own
piece to display in your home, 6:30-8 p.m. Greater Des
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Hilton Coliseum.
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4th St. Des Moines.
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s&LAVAPRODUCTIONS$*2OD Karaoke and dancing.
9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Down Under Bar and Grill. 8350 Hickman
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Mickey Finn’s. 7020 Douglas Ave. Urbandale.
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a death-defying journey to find meaning in his existence.
7:30 p.m. Civic Center. 221 Walnut St. Des Moines.
with games like those seen on TV’s “Whose Line Is It,
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Moines.
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