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R
ick Smith, in his letter on March 19, is
too dismissive of those who do not agree
with the majority of climate scientists.
I happen to agree that human activities have
increased the amount of carbon dioxide in our
atmosphere, and that those increases in CO2
likely do have some warming effect on our
global climate. But, the science is not as settled
as Rick Smith implies. Many factors affect climate trends, and scientists do not yet know
exactly which factors will have what magnitude of effect. Climate models have already
been shown to overestimate the rate warming.
Respected scientists do disagree, even if they
are in the minority. There well may be natural
feedback loops that will counteract the effect
of human action. History has shown, as Rick
Smith implied, that the “consensus of experts”
may be wrong. Additionally, even if the majority are correct, it does not automatically follow
that more government regulation and raising
energy costs is a better answer than keeping
energy costs low and letting people decide for
themselves how to best adapt to any changes
that might occur. Finally, rational debate
should not include name-calling such as “climate deniers” or “climate alarmists.”
Kurt Johnson
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Misses his Cityview
As a 9-year-old in 1966, I earned $1 a week
delivering a weekly publication called the Fox
Shopper to 100 homes in my Des Moines
neighborhood. A 13-year-old acquaintance
had the adjoining route with twice as many
homes at twice the pay. Somehow he would
always finish before me. Only later did I learn
most of his were delivered in bulk to either
the storm sewer or the trash. I was reminded
of this last Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday as I looked in vain for my weekly fix More funding for
of Cityview at Aspen Athletic on Hickman
Road in Clive. By Saturday I was forced to education
pick up a copy at Mickey’s Irish Pub in Wau- With three granddaughters enrolled in the
kee. I wonder if that same, now-61-year-old, Waukee School system, I am worried about
the quality of their education. Superintenhas picked up the route.
Mike Rowley dent Wilkerson warned of damage to the
Clive school system if only a 1.25 percent increase
proposed by Republicans is implemented.
Wilkerson wrote: “…the last several years
Flip-flopping Cruz
have been extremely challenging for setting
We need to make Sen. Ted Cruz feel the po- school budgets. The legislative process has
litical heat as Duffy’s welcoming ring of fire been frustrating and has complicated all
cartoon suggested March 26. Cruz, perhaps school districts’ abilities to plan for the futhe greatest critic of Obamacare, deserves to ture.”
be grilled about his decision to cave to realMany superintendents have reported that
ity and sign up for Obamacare. He acknowl- being underfunded again will cause increased
edged that since his wife is resigning her posi- property tax levies, significant cuts in staff,
tion and losing his coverage under her policy, longer bus rides, reduced course offerings
he will be joining the Obamacare exchange. and increased class sizes. With an estimated
Prior to Obamacare, he and his wife could 6 percent increase in state revenue beginning
have faced being turned down for insurance July 1 over current fiscal year revenue, priordue to preexisting conditions, paid excessive ity should be given to our students who canpremiums or been subject to limits on cover- not make up a lower-quality education. And
age. You might think he would be thankful, the needed funding should not fall solely on
but instead he continues to mislead about the individual property owners.
law by saying Obamacare has “wiped out the
Republicans have negotiated in “bad faith
individual market.” He will soon see that is bargaining” with Democrats who began
simply false. All of Congress and its staff have at a 6 percent increase and have bargained
multiple choices on DC Health Link, the down to 2.62 percent with the Republicans
Washington, D.C., Obamacare exchange. not budging. Republican refusal to negotiHe will have the choice to choose from four ate suggests that they vote as their party tells
private companies (Aetna, First Care, Kaiser them. Republicans should be ashamed for
Permanente, United Health) with multiple not considering the views of their constituchoices of plans and networks. Do you think ents, which includes school board members,
when he actually understands his new in- superintendents, school staff and parents.
surance is better, more affordable, provides
Julie Stewart Ziesman
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vate companies he will admit he has totally
misrepresented Obamacare?
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Tirrell: A divorce, a lawsuit — and another bankruptcy?
Mark Graziano sent to Leavenworth, Luebke to Clarinda.
M
arty Tirrell update:
1. A $350,000 suit against him
has been reinstituted in Houston,
Texas.
2. His wife was granted a divorce on
March 24. He did not show up in court.
3. And, according to the divorce papers,
he plans to file bankruptcy again.
First, the suit. Gow Broadcasting runs
a sports-radio network, and in late 2012
it made a deal for Tirrell to host a show.
“Tirrell represented that he had a pool of
advertisers for the show who would want to
purchase advertising time on Gow’s national network,” according to the lawsuit in the
district court of Harris County, Texas. Tirrell and Gow would split the revenue. Gow
also advanced Tirrell $69,000 to “cover
certain promotional expenses he wanted to
incur in connection with the 2013 Masters
Golf tournament” in Georgia.
It didn’t exactly work out, at least not
for Gow. “By July 2013, Tirrell owed Gow
over $320,000 in unpaid advertising invoices and advancements,” the lawsuit said.
It turns out, the lawsuit alleges, Tirrell was
collecting some of the money but wasn’t
sharing it. So it sued for $350,000 or so. A
trial was set for November of last year, but
before the trial, in August of last year, Tirrell and his wife — make that his then-wife
— filed for protection under the bankruptcy laws, so the suit was put on hold.
But the bankruptcy petition was dismissed when it was discovered Tirrell had
left out a few big debts he owed, hadn’t documented that his tax returns had been filed (in
fact, the government has liens against him
for not filing), and proposed living expenses
“which appear excessive.” His debts exceeded
the amount allowable under the provision of
the Bankruptcy Act he was using. The case
was officially closed on Dec. 29.
The filing for bankruptcy protection
automatically stopped any lawsuits against
Tirrell, but the dismissal of the petition allowed the suits to be reinstituted. So on Jan.
26, the Texas court allowed the suit back on
the docket. A trial date has not been set, but
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pleadings must be filed by June 26 of this
year.
Second, the divorce. Stephanie Gifford
and Marty Tirrell were married on Dec.
2, 2010, but the marriage had fallen apart
and there was “no reasonable likelihood”
it could be put back together, according to
her petition for divorce filed last Oct. 30 in
Dallas County district court. On March
24, the court granted the divorce after Tirrell basically ignored the proceedings. He
didn’t file an answer, and he didn’t file any
documents required at the pretrial conference (child support worksheet, financial affidavit and the like). “The court finds he
is in default and enters this decree,” Judge
Randy V. Hefner wrote.
Stephanie Tirrell, who was allowed to
resume her maiden name, was awarded
“sole legal care, custody and control” of the
Tirrells’ daughter, who was born in 2011.
Terrell may — the court emphasized the
word “may” — have parenting time “from
time to time.” Marty Tirrell, who makes
$90,000 a year, according to the document,
is to pay $1,031 a month in child support,
with the money garnished from his salary,
and must pay for medical insurance for the
child.
Stephanie Tirrell gets the couple’s condominium in Waukee, and Marty Tirrell
keeps the house on 75th Street in West Des
Moines. They each get a car.
Third, the new bankruptcy. The divorce
decree noted that “it is anticipated that each
party will subsequently file bankruptcy.”
Under the law, the Tirrells cannot file for
bankruptcy until 180 days after the dismissal of the previous bankruptcy petition,
which means it will be around June 30 before either can file.
Stephanie Tirrell filed a financial statement as part of the proceedings, and it indicated the Tirrells had debts of $492,731.63.
However, it listed as “unknown” the money
owed under two judgments against Marty
Tirrell, though court documents indicate
those total around $300,000. It also listed
a debt of $330,000 in the Gow Broadcast-
ing case, though that case hasn’t yet gone to
trial.
Marty Tirrell, who has worked for various radio stations in the Des Moines market, recently moved to “the Champ,” an
AM station at 1700, where he and Ken
Miller have an afternoon talk show. …
From a summary of a pleading in a case
filed the other day in federal court in Cedar
Rapids by Ob-Gyn Associates against Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc.:
“Contract. Defendant should not suspend plaintiff’s access to its medical software package for non-payment because defendant has refused to address costly errors
with the software, which included an incorrect billing phone number that connected
customers to a sex hotline.”
A wag wondered if the suit was filed under the Tart Claims Act. …
Update: Mark Graziano, the Bauder’s
pharmacist who was dealing drugs out the
back door of his Ingersoll Avenue pharmacy, reported to Leavenworth on March 26,
according to the office of the U.S. Attorney.
Lawyers, prosecutors and Federal Judge
James Gritzner all had agreed to recommend Graziano serve his two-year sentence
at the Federal prison in Yankton, S.D., but
the Bureau of Prisons makes the ultimate
call. “He has been designated to serve his
entire sentence in Leavenworth,” according
to U.S. Attorney Nick Klinefeldt, though
he can serve the last few months in a halfway house or home confinement in Iowa.
At Leavenworth, he has been assigned to
the minimum-security camp.
Second update: Steve Luebke, onetime
automobile sales manager and serial drunk
driver, now is in the Clarinda Correctional
Facility. His tentative discharge date is Nov.
8, 2017. …
Cityview joins those saddened by the
death last week of Harriet Anderson, who
loved animals and people. Mrs. Anderson,
who was 95, was severely beaten by a young
neighborhood thug who broke into the Andersons’ East Side home last July and killed
her husband, Andy. CV
COMMENT:
A GOOD CHOICE
The Board of Regents is about to name Jean
Robillard, 71, the interim president of the
University of Iowa.
It would be hard to find anyone better.
Robillard, a pediatric nephrologist, has
been around Iowa City a long time. In
2003, he was named dean of the College
of Medicine, and in 2007 he was made vice
president for medical affairs — overseeing
the medical school as well as the University
Hospitals.
The place was a mess when he took over.
The hospital was poorly run, and no one
could figure out the financial relationships
among the hospital, the medical college
and the private practice plan that lets faculty doctors have private patients. Everyone
was hiring consultants; at one point, the
university hired a consultant to interpret reports from two other consultants. Parts of
the hospital were getting a little seedy.
He brought logic, honesty, common
sense and much brainpower to the job,
bringing in new people who had the same
traits he had. Today, the medical school excels, and the hospital — with its new $300
million Children’s Hospital set to open next
year — is prospering while serving Iowans
rich and poor.
Robillard, who is heading the search
committee for a new president, is a friend
of Gary Fethke, the business school dean
who was interim president for 18 months
in 2006 and 2007, who helped engineer
the management change that put all things
medical under one man, and who in 18
months accomplished more than some
presidents do in five or 10 years.
Fethke said he wouldn’t take the permanent presidency if it were offered to him.
Robillard says the same thing.
That’s how smart these guys are. CV
— Michael Gartner
GuestCommentary
Time to update GOP platform, ala Cruz and Lane
By Herb Strentz
T
he Iowa GOP needs to update the
party’s platform to welcome what Sen.
Ted Cruz of Texas sees as his Christdriven presidential candidacy and to endorse
the mission of David Lane and the American
Family Association to make the U.S. once
again a Christian culture as God intended.
The 2014 party platform had been toned
down from several of its predecessors that
essentially called for the elimination of
the federal government, the arming of all
citizens to support any insurrection against
any vestiges of that federal demon, and
other more provocative proposals. In fact,
the platforms had so many oddball proposals that a few of them even awakened the
watch-dog press which was pretty much
unaware that the evangelical religious right
had seized such control of the GOP.
But with the Cruz candidacy, Lane’s bizarre approaches and the upcoming Iowa
Straw Poll and caucuses, we’re pretty much
going back to the fun-and-games-and-hate
provisions of previous party platforms.
To square with the re-evangelizing of the
Iowa GOP and the Cruz candidacy, here are
some platform demands that might be considered for 2016.
Reinstate God’s covenant with Noah
Eliminate all government flood-control
programs and flood responses offered under FEMA: We must be mindful of Genesis
9:13, in which God promised Noah that He
would not again destroy the world by flood.
As part of the Judeo-Christian culture
preached by Lane, the slogan will be “If it’s
good enough for Noah, it’s enough for me.”
Tell people how things really started
All national and state parks that have signage noting that the canyons and mountains impressing tourists are billions of
years old, must also carry wording that
such aging is “Merely a geological opinion”
and that based on holy scripture Archbishop James Ussher of Ireland (1581-1656)
proved that the first day of creation was
Sunday Oct. 23, 4004 BC, that Adam and
Eve were driven from Paradise on Monday
Nov. 10 4004 BC, and that Noah’s ark —
see above — touched down on Mt. Ararat
on Wednesday, May 5, 2348 BC. Consideration should be given to making those
dates national holidays.
Lower the minum wage
The minimum wage shall never exceed $1 an
hour, thus being in accord with the statement
attributed to Jesus Christ in Matthew 26:11,
“The poor you will always have with you.”
Eliminate federally mandated warning
labels from bottles, cans and other
containers
Such paternalism and supposed government wisdom are needless because, after
all, in Mark 16:16-17, we read “those who
believe…when they drink deadly poison, it
will not hurt them at all…” As for the nonbelievers, they’ll get what they deserve!
At least those are some of the planks that
come to mind with the Cruz candidacy and
the doctrinaire approaches that will soon
afflict the electorate and be treated as Gospel by the press.
Other scriptural references like beating
swords into plowshares, Isaiah 2:4 and Micha
4:3; loving your neighbor as yourself, Mark
12:33; blessing the peacemakers, the merciful
and the other bleeding hearts, Matthew 5:312, will require further study and perhaps are
the sole responsibility of the private sector.
It gets a bit complicated, particularly
when the likes of Cruz and Lane, and their
supporters, consider themselves to be “the
light of the world,” Matthew 5:14, except,
of course, for those scriptural cites requiring
further study. CV
Herb Strentz is a retired administrator and professor in
the Drake School of Journalism and Mass Communication and writes occasional
columns for Cityview.
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he school door swings open. A room.
Just like any other schoolroom. That
is, if your schoolroom was in Silicon
Valley and was called Apple, or Google or
Facebook.
“If I were going to sit down at a dinner
with 10 people at the table and ask everybody to draw a picture of what you think
a classroom look likes, nine out of 10 of
those pictures are going to look pretty similar. But if I ask 10 people to draw a kitchen,
they would draw something that they could
use, that was tailored to their needs.”
She’s tall. Soft eyes countered by a nononsense jaw. Strong hands. Sleeves rolled
back. She is a force. Perhaps she is that
teacher in 10th grade whom you accidentally called “mom” to the hilarity of your
peers. Or perhaps she’s that nun, with only
the oval of her face framed by her habit, for
whom you drew hearts in second grade. I
don’t know. It’s your fantasy. But, trust me,
an archetype she is.
“We don’t treat our classrooms like
kitchens. We first think about the curriculum, and we may not even think of the
space. Changing the space changes how the
curriculum is taught. It causes you not to
stand and deliver. It causes you to design
things kids can do together.”
Maureen Griffin smiles. She is at the end
of her day. Tired. Too much going on. Of
course there is. Ms. Griffin is the STEM
Academy Director at Hoover High School,
among other things. STEM — Science,
Technology, Engineering and Math. STEM
academies are our country’s response to the
idea that we are not keeping up with technology while educating our kids. We’re
falling behind. Someone’s going to land
on the moon before us. So now we have an
Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council,
and Hoover High School is one of the few
schools in Iowa with a STEM Academy.
And how best to train these rocket scientists is Maureen’s job. So, this gets us to her
room. Right smack in the middle of Hoover
High School. A room used by about 75 students and multiple teachers in the course
of a day. And sometimes even the football
team.
We walk around the room.
A giant interactive white board hangs
against one wall with a projector shining on
it from the ceiling. It is possible to project
your computer screen onto the board and
then overlay it with notes drawn on the
white board. It is a group document in work
— something out of a science fiction novel.
A large low table with chairs sits kittycorner to the white board.
“This table allows you to write directly
on the table. I can bring my small group
to this table. I’m going to brainstorm here.
It allows the small group to interact on a
shared idea.”
Across from the table is a more traditional TV screen.
“This is the video conferencing area. We
use it to Skype. But it does everything. You
plug your computers to this connection,
and you project it onto the TV.”
Strange green mushroom-shaped chairs
surround the video area. Yup, they bounce
when you sit on them. “A student favorite,”
Maureen claims.
And then there’s the cushioned stairs,
with computer connections spread at the
base of each stair. And wide cloth chairs
with swivel arms for your notes. And even
a spot for a student to tinker on an idea isolated away from the group. Wow!
A schoolroom like none I’ve ever seen.
Ah, this is all well and good, but are acronyms and high technology the whole answer? Hmm…
Maureen and I walk the halls.
“Hoover is now one of the best schools in
Des Moines. It was all hands on deck. We
took control of everything. You screwed
up, there was consequences. Now people
are transferring here. We are doing things
right. Our graduation rate is higher than
anyone in the district. It’s all about individuals.”
Every 10 steps, I see what she means.
“Sarah, did you get that done? Do you
need some help?”
“Yes, Nathan, come and speak to me
later.”
“Olivia, what are you doing still here?”
Student after student is greeted, cajoled,
confronted, mildly scolded, greatly praised,
and certainly acknowledged. Maureen at
work.
“Every time a kid comes into my office and has screwed up, or needs help with
something, I draw a picture.”
Maureen starts drawing a time line on a
white board, with me as her student.
“Joe, this is you born, right here. This is
you dying. And this is you probably in high
school. And I’ll call it out. You’re an African American. You’re going to die probably
around 83 if you’re fortunate to live through
this tumultuous time. You’re going to live to
about 83.”
As Maureen draws the timeline, underscoring my birth and death with quick hash
marks, I swallow self-consciously and start
fidgeting.
“So you’ve been doing school your whole
life. And I’ve got this really short window
with you, four years. And I’m preparing you
for the rest of this time. Because if you never
see another teacher, if you never see another
person in an environment where you have to
be there from 7:40 to 3:10 every day, you’re
on your own. I have this little window to
help you. And you’re right here. And you are
still screwing up, and I only have this much
time left.”
Lord help me. I am right there. What am
I going to do? How do I get a handle on this
before it is all over? Yikes! I am screwing up.
“And so my theory is, if I get you for
6.5 hours a day, 180 days a year, if the only
pleasure of your day is you coming to school
and knowing that Ms. Griffin is going to
be there or your teacher is going to be there
and they’re going to welcome you, then I
want them to feel welcome. I think it’s our
duty to every kid. Don’t you think?”
I wipe my brow. “Yes, Ms. Griffin.”
And Ms. Griffin, perching her chin on
her hand, gives me a mildly skeptical look.
And then she heads out the door to take care
of her next kid. 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.
Money
Compiled by Ashley Buckowing
[email protected]
Paid for by taxpayers…
Des Moines City Hall
Paid for in the week of 3/30
Amount: $99
To: Acme Tools
For: Cordless power tool
Amount: $270
To: Halbrook Excavating
For: Labor and equipment
Amount: $194
To: Ri Tec
For: Industrial textured towels
Amount: $389.65
To: Hazardous Waste Management Inc.
For: Waste shipment
Amount: $319.20
To: Interstate All Battery Center
For: Spring top lanterns
Amount: $4,500
To: Motors@Work
For: Operations and support
Amount: $840.67
To: Verizon Wireless
For: Services
Amount: $37.19
To: Bone-A-Patreat
For: Dog treats
Amount: $952.27
To: Starch Pet Hospital
For: Exams and shots for bomb squad service dogs
Amount: $1,132.88
To: Century Link
For: Services
Amount: $230.75
To: In The Bag Corporate Cuisine
For: Food
Amount: $211.75
To: Ames Environmental Inc.
For: Feasibility services
Amount: $613.30
To: Midwest Office Technology
For: Ink cartridges for printers
Amount: $75
To: Polk County Medical Examiner
For: Blood draw
Salaries and such
Name ...................... David Acker
Title ........................ Associate Dean
................................ Academic & Global
................................ programs
Department ........... Iowa State University
Annual Salary ........ $192,935
Travel
The Des Moines City Council approved travel expenses for Mayor T.M. Franklin Cownie
($1,593) and Jason Underwood, sewer construction services coordinator ($1,387). Cownie
attended the Cities of Opportunity Task Force Meeting of the United States Conference of
Mayors from March 20-24 in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference focused on issues related to housing and transportation, building on strategies for addressing income inequality,
financial empowerment and job creation in America’s cities. Underwood visited Overland
Park, Kansas, from March 29-31 for Lucity Crystal reports training. The course teaches everything needed to provide the user the ability to create and run Crystal reports. CV
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Compiled by CV Staff
Two of a kind?
Baltimore Ravens running
back Bernard Pierce was arrested on March 11 for driving under the influence.
Pierce, 24, was arrested in
Maryland early in the morning. He told police that he
only had a couple shots, but
police reported that he was
highly intoxicated, as he failed the field sobriety
tests. Hours later, he was dropped by the Ravens
and has recently been picked up by the Jacksonville Jaguars, even though Pierce faces a twogame suspension.
Des Moines resident
Maurice
Moon, 26, was arrested for a similar
crime. On March
23, Moon was arrested for operating
while intoxicated.
He was taken to
Polk County Jail around midnight. His
bail was set at $1,000.
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 Des Moines Police Department is seeking help in finding information regarding a homicide investigation that started in November of 2014. Last year, patrol officers responded
to a call regarding a shooting victim. When they arrived at the scene, they found deceased
Aaron Michael McHenry, 24, in the driveway of the Hickman Lane home. Keith Meco
Collins, 17, was arrested for first-degree murder. Police say the crime was committed in
relation to narcotics. Police are still searching for Collins’ accomplice, who witnesses saw
driving a silver car. If you or anyone you know recognizes the vehicle in relation to this crime
that would have been in the area of Hickman Avenue and 26th at about 5:30 p.m., you are
encouraged to contact the Des Moines Police Department Detective Bureau at 283-4869 or
the Polk County Crime Stoppers at 223-1400.
Blotter — Des Moines
Television thief
On March 31, police responded to a burglary
at the home of Debra Simmons. The victim
reported to police that she was gone to work
from 7:45 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. A witness informed police that she saw a white Capitol
Cab pull out of the driveway sometime between noon and 3:30 p.m. Inside Simmons’
home, the back window was broken, likely
with a brick that was on the ground outside
the kitchen window. Two Vizio televisions,
a smart television, $300 cash and an Apple
laptop were all reported missing by the victim. She told police that she doesn’t know
who would do this to her and is continuing
to look up serial numbers for the missing
electronics.
Who’s Tran?
Police responded to a burglary at the home
of the Ghirst family. On March 29, Tommy
Ghirst called police and, upon their arrival,
his daughter Gwendolynn told officials that
the previous night around 11 p.m. an unknown white male walked into their apartment. Gwendolynn’s father, Tommy, wasn’t
home, and her mother was asleep at the time.
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Gwendolynn and her friend were in her
room on the top bunk of her bed when they
heard footsteps coming down the hallway, so
they hid under the blanket. When the man
reached Gwendolynn’s bedroom, she asked
the man what he was doing in their apartment. The victim reported that the man
kept asking “Are you here, Tran?” When no
one responded, the man stole Gwendolynn’s
iPad and left.
Search for food, get a crime
Matthew Hicks reported a burglary at the
residence of his aunt, Diane Olmested, on
March 31. When Hicks walked into the
apartment to look for some food, he didn’t
hear the television. He thought this was
strange because his aunt always leaves the TV
on. When Hicks went to go turn the television on, he saw that it was missing and the
rest of the apartment had been ransacked.
He immediately called his aunt, who wasn’t
home at the time, and then the police. Upon
the police arrival, Olmested reported several
items missing and noted that whoever broke
into her apartment also cut the surveillance
camera line. CV
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n unarmed man, suspected of no
crime, who three years ago was shot 16
times by police while lying in his bed,
told a Seattle Times reporter in March that
he bears no ill will for the cops who shot him.
Said Dustin Theoharis, now 32, “Sometimes
(police) make mistakes.” Theoharis was napping in a friend’s house in Puyallup, Washington, when police arrived to arrest the friend’s
son, and when Theoharis reached for his ID,
one officer imagined a gun, and the two officers opened fire, hitting Theoharis in the jaw,
both upper arms, both lower arms, wrist, hand,
shoulder, abdomen and both legs. He spent
months in a hospital and skilled nursing facility and today is largely immobile and unable
to work. (He “won” legal settlements totaling
$5.5 million, but one-third went to lawyers,
and much of the rest has paid medical bills.)
Can’t possibly be true
Despite the skepticism of a few tech writers,
the Internet pornography super-site Pornhub insists that it is developing a wristband
that stores energy (enough to power a cellphone) that can be generated by the “up and
down” motion of masturbation. Pornhub announced in February that it will soon begin
recruiting human testers for its Wankband.
Compelling explanations
According to the 17-year-old bicyclist who
was broadsided by a motorist at rush hour in
Sheffield, England, on March 6, a woman at
first alighted from the car to help. However,
upon seeing the extent of the cyclist’s injuries, she apologized and walked away, telling
the sprawled-out victim that her children
were in the car and would be “scared” to
see all that blood — and so she would drive
them on to school.
Papal jab
Trying to stake out a position on the Paris
murders of the staff of Charlie Hebdo magazine, Pope Francis in January told an audience during his Philippines tour that freedom of speech is important, but that there
are limits. “If my good friend Dr. (Alberto)
Gasbarri (who organized the pope’s visit and
was standing at his side) says a curse word
against my mother,” Francis said, “he can
expect a punch.” He then “threw” a mock
“punch” toward Gasbarri. (The Vatican
press office was later moved to clarify that violence in God’s name can never be justified.)
Awesome!
Chicago’s WGN-TV was forced to apolo-
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gize in March for a misjudgment in booking its “Morning Show” after an unconventional “circus” performer, in a live-television
publicity segment, took a power saw to a
metal box affixed to her crotch. “Dancer”
Shana Vaughan-Gabor, of the Cirque De La
Femme, created a dazzling shower of sparks,
provoking the male host to first demand that
the camera cut away, but then admitting,
“I’ve been waiting my whole life to meet a
woman like this.” In the follow-up segment,
a group of children who had witnessed the
scene used descriptions like “creepy” and
“stinky,” but Vaughan-Gabor later urged the
station to “save the children from ‘boring’
(entertainment).”
The litigious society
In March, the Administrative Office of the
Courts revealed a slight increase in federal
litigation in 2014, but a much larger increase
in prisoner lawsuits. Leading the upturn was
Dale Maisano, 63, serving 15 years for aggravated assault, who last year alone filed
3,613 cases concerning his Florence, Arizona, facility. Counting previous prison stints,
Maisano has filed 6,076 complaints against
various officials and prison system healthcare providers.
Unclear on the concept
In March, the investment bank Credit Suisse Group AG agreed to pay $16.25 million to settle a client’s charges that Credit
Suisse gave faulty investment advice on two
acquisitions by Freeport-McMoRan (one of
the world’s largest producers of copper and
gold). Actually, according to a Wall Street
Journal report, Freeport will receive only
$10 million in cash. The remaining amount
it agreed to accept, to make up for Credit
Suisse’s faulty advice, is $6.25 million worth
of future investment advice.
The aristocrats!
Police in Grandville, Michigan, arrested David Slovinski, 51, following a pair of January
incidents in which he approached employees
of Meijer stores and showed them cellphone
photos of his genitals. Slovinski, already a
“sexually delinquent person” under the law,
was on a GPS monitor during the incidents.
He later told a police investigator that he
knew what he was doing was wrong, but that
showing his penis to people “cheers me up
when I’m feeling down.” CV
Read more weird news at www.dmcityview.
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Crushing it
By David Rowley
Getting You
BACK ON
TRACK
FOOT & ANKLE
CLINIC
The Iowa Crush open the 2015 season this Saturday, April 11, at Valley Stadium.
A
fter a difficult season last year, the
Iowa Crush is back. The 2015 season kicks off this Saturday at 7 p.m.
at Valley Stadium in West Des Moines.
With five home games this season (two at
Valley Stadium; three in Martensdale) fans
will want to get out to the season opener to
help get the team off to a winning start.
“We plan on taking it one game at a
time,” said owner and quarterback Jen McIntire. “We were one win short of making
the playoffs last season, so one of our main
goals is to make the playoffs this year. However, we won’t be satisfied with just that, as
we expect to have success beyond the firstround game.”
Coming off a 3-5 season, the Crush is (at
the time of this writing) currently ranked second to last in the Midwest Division, according to the Independent Women’s Football
League (IWFL) website. This year’s opener
is once again the Madison Blaze, which is
ranked first and has been the Midwest Division Champs the last two years running. And
with the Blaze defeating them twice last year,
there’s no doubt the Crush is looking for a
little retribution.
“The Blaze are a good team and are expected to have a lot of depth this season,”
McIntire said. “Rather than focusing on
their players, we are preparing by focusing
on our team.”
IOWA CRUSH VS. MADISON BLAZE
Valley Stadium, April 11, 7 p.m.
Adults $10; students/seniors $5;
ages 7 and younger are free
Details about game times and locations can
be found on the Iowa Crush website,
www.theiowacrush.com
This year’s Crush team is a young one,
with 13 players in their first year. But that’s
doesn’t worry McIntire.
“We have a great group of rookies that
should make some exciting plays for our
team this year,” said McIntire. “We expect
them to have an impact in all aspects of the
game —offense, defense and special teams.”
Second-year head coach Dedric Ward
is ready to take his team further as well.
Ward has a lifetime of experience playing
and coaching. He played at the University
of Northern Iowa until 1997 when the New
York Jets drafted him. He went on to play
for several NFL teams, including the Super
Bowl XXXVIII Champion New England
Patriots. Since then, his coaching experience
has been at both the NFL and collegiate levels.
With seven players and their head coach
being selected for the IWFL’s all-star team,
the Crush are a talented bunch. Most of the
team is returning this season along with their
new pool of rookies.
“We aren’t the underdog but are known
for giving every team a good battle no matter
where they are in the league standings,” McIntire said. “With a new team being added
to our division, it is really tough to say which
team will be the one to beat.
“We want to build momentum as we
make our way through this season, and the
best way to do that is to start out with a good
game. Having the home crowd in the stands
to kick off the season is an added bonus.” 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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By Septuagenarian Steve
From the Des Moines City Council minutes
100 years ago (March 1915) :
Legal department asked to render an opinion on City rights, and manner of control or
regulation of fees of the new “so-called jitney
bus business” — aside from “ordinary taxicab regulation.” (A jitney, from 1906, is a “bus
which carries passengers for a fare,” then, typically a nickel, giving rise to this 1915 “Jitney
Jingle”: “I’ll give a nickel for a kiss” said Cholly
to a pretty miss. “Skiddo,” she cried, “you stingy
cuss. You’re looking for a jitney buss.”)
“License of Hollenbeck to move houses”
will be revoked unless, within 30 days, they
“remove the house they recently placed on
south 20 feet of lot 2, O.P. lot, in block 13,
East Fort Des Moines, to such a position on
said lot” that the adjoining lot owner is satisfied with, and files “her consent thereto.”
(This location is now under Riverhills Business
Park area.)
Council approves “sickness leave” for
Fireman George Rambo, Fireman F. Dunagan and Fireman Jesse Jackson.
Superintendent of Public Safety to “sell 5
head of horses, 2 colts, 3 motorcycles and the
old White Motor Company automobile”...
proceeds to go “into the Police Appropriation for the purchase of a new car.” In addition, the City Purchasing Agent to “sell
the old patrol wagon harness for $25” with
money held in trust to “apply on the purchase of a police automobile.” ($25 in today’s
money is $578.)
Resolution 3838: “That all five and tencent stores” are taxed at $125 per year if store
frontage is 25 feet or less and $200 if frontage is over 25 feet. ($125 = $2,900; $200 =
$4,600.)
Resolution 3869: “That telephone calls
and private conversations during Council
meetings be declared out of order.” Vote held
= Yeas: four; Nays: one. (Even 100 years ago,
there was one person who spoiled it for everyone.)
50 years ago (March 1965):
Bids approved by the Council:
Glenn’s Motor Co. bid approved to supply a four-door station wagon, Plymouth
Fury P-96 at $2167.59. (About $16,000.)
Jasch Harley-Davidson bid accepted to supply four three-wheel motorcycles at $1,696
(about $12,500) each for total $6,784 minus
trade-ins for $830. (Total more than $44,000.)
Higgins Ford Sales to supply Fire Station No.
1 with a four-door sedan Ford Custom at
$1,806.92 ($13,499) and will sell the City 43
more Fords for sum of $77,506.01. (About
$575,000 in today’s monies.)
KRNT-TV Vice President R.W. Dillon
granted permission “to present, from amplifiers on the KRNT-TV tower, chimes striking the hours of the day and night.”
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City Auditor to pay $7.40 ($55) to J.W.
Rullman because “City Testing Station”
damaged the hand brake cable on his car
while inspecting same.
“Definitions: For the purpose of...ordinance...Words used in the present tense shall
include the future, the singular number shall
include the plural and the plural number
shall include the singular; the word ‘shall’ is
mandatory, the word ‘may’ is permissive, the
word ‘person’ includes a firm, association,
organization, partnership, trust, company
or corporation as well as an individual; the
words ‘used’ or ‘occupied’ include the words
intended, designed, or arranged to be used or
occupied.” (‘nuf said...)
Dutch Elm disease is extensive and dozens
of elm trees “declared a public nuisance” to
be removed by the owner, or City removes,
and costs are “collected as other taxes” against
the property. Previous general fee of $55 per
tree now replaced with actual bid costs, varying, some are $35, most $60-$100, a few
$140. ($100 in ’65 about $742 today.)
Permission granted for upcoming Drake
Relays Parade and allowance “to use a public
address system.”
25 years ago (March 1990):
Invocation by Andy Bales, Door of Faith
Mission, opens first March meeting.
Regarding the Airport Terminal second
floor parlor asbestos removal, retracting previous low-bidder ESCORP, for failure to
provide insurance coverage, and, contract
approved for new low-bidder Controlled Asbestos, Inc.
Approved street closings: East First St.
from Grand to Locust for “Mayor’s Bike
Ride.” Drake University Relays allowed closing Third from Court to the “Alley north
of Jukebox for a dance.” “Downtown Des
Moines, Inc.” to close streets for upcoming
Farmers Market season.
Bids approved: For the Police Dept.,
Charles Gabus Ford to supply 26 vehicles at
total cost of $299,121.17 ($534,864 today),
and Dewey Ford to supply one vehicle at
cost $10,848 ($19,398). Bob Vollbrecht and
Associates to receive $39,960 ($71,453) for
parking meters and $32,931 ($58,884) for
meter replacement parts.
“Land Application of Sludge Agreement”
approved with Edward Ernst, Owner, and
Joseph Ernst, Operator, for application of
sewage sludge fertilizer on parcels in Marion
County. CV
OnTheMove
First Pita Pit opens in Clive
Submit to Eleni Upah
[email protected]
W
est Des Moines residents Lexi
and Bobby King opened Clive’s
first Pita Pit restaurant at 15700
Hickman Road on March 26. Offering a
healthier alternative to traditional fast food,
Pita Pit is best known for its made-to-order
pita sandwiches featuring a variety of lean
grilled meats, fresh vegetables, cheeses and
sauces. The restaurant also offers a wide salad selection. The couple hopes to eventually
open a second location in Ames. Call 515987-6578 or visit www.pitapit.com.
West Des Moines
breakfast spot closes
My Favorite Muffin & Bagel Café closed on
Feb. 19 after 14 years in business at 4949
Westown Parkway in West Des Moines.
The Illinois-based franchise said the location is for sale, and it is listed with the Henderson Business Group for $50,000. My
Favorite Muffin was known for its muffins,
bagels, breakfast and lunch sandwiches. It
was owned by franchisee Mike Bailey.
Panda Express opens
in West Des Moines
A fifth Panda Express location has opened in
the metro at 1580 Valley West Drive in a new
building near the Goodwill store. The fast-casual restaurant also operates a store in Valley
West Mall across the street, along with locations in Merle Hay Mall, Altoona and one on
Mills Civic Parkway. The California-based
chain has 1,742 locations around the world.
The Valley West Drive Panda Express is open
10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Sunday through
Thursday; and 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday. The drive-through is upon
until 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and
until 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Call
515-221-9689, visit www.pandaexpress.com
or find it on Facebook.
Royal Flooring opens second
metro location
A second location for Royal Flooring has
opened at 9850 Douglas Ave. in Urbandale,
offering flooring, cabinets, countertops and
more. The showroom has seven complete
kitchen models for viewing. Owners Nick
Fiala, Bill Ludwig, Scott Sullivan and Johnnie Kennell launched Royal Flooring in Altoona in 2005. The new showroom was the
former lumber warehouse, and it now employs about 15 people. Hours are 10 a.m. to
6 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., SatSteve Nelson-Vaux is a retired Iowa farmer- urday; and by appointment. Call 515-957turned-library explorer and vintage prospector 9738, visit www.shoproyalflooring.com or
digging Des Moines’ and S.E. Polk’s historical find it on Facebook.
aether-ore.
New City Market to close in April
New City Market, a natural food store
that has operated at 4721 University Ave.
in Des Moines for 27 years, will close at
the end of April. Owners Jim and Cindy
Raife have decided to retire. A closing sale
began on March 27, with most items being
marked down 20 percent. New City Market
was founded in 1973 as a natural deli near
Drake University called Prana. The Raifes
bought it in 1988 and renamed it to New
City Market. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.,
Monday and Friday; 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday.
Call 515-255-7380, visit newcitymarket.
com or find it on Facebook.
Raygun opens in new location
A new two-story commercial building welcomed one of its first tenants with the opening of Raygun on March 27. The T-shirt
shop moved its store to 505 E. Grand Ave.,
which will also host Thelma’s Treats, Mars
Café and soon Domestica will open in the
second floor. The new store will give Raygun more space than its former location,
and it will now offer a larger inventory of
the same products it is known for, including
men’s and women’s apparel, accessories and
other items. It is adjacent to the storefront
that will be shared by Mars Café, open 6:30
a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday,
and Thelma’s Treats, which will be open 8
a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Raygun’s hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday.
Domestica will move into the 1,400-squarefoot second floor in May, and Fredrikson
& Byron law offices are expected to move
into the second floor of the new building in
the middle of June. Another space, which
is about 1,500 square feet on the building’s
east side, is still waiting to be leased.
Brothers take over ownership of
Iowa Beef Steakhouse
Will and Joe Kellogg recently bought Iowa
Beef Steakhouse at 1201 E. Euclid Ave. in
Des Moines. The previous owner, Henry
Schneider, opened the restaurant 32 years
ago. The brothers have previously worked
as a cook and bartender at the restaurant.
The menu will remain the same with a few
additions such as barbecue ribs and hamburgers. Will Kellogg said he plans to open
the steakhouse for lunch within the next
few months. Hours are 5-9 p.m., Sunday
through Thursday, and 5-10 p.m., Friday
and Saturday. Call 515-262-1138 or find it
on Facebook. CV
PoliticalMercury
By Douglas Burns
No pizza for you!
Why religious law needs “False Fag Accusation” amendment
T
here’s an old saying about men older tell the suspected Sodomite.
than 40 who have never been marHere’s the thing: What if you are wrong?
ried: either they aren’t attracted to What if the dude isn’t gay? What if he
women at all, or they like women too much. lost the love of his life, a wife, a beautiful
Aging player or gay? That’s the question. woman, to cancer, and he just likes to dress
Of course, there are other categories that well, because, sometimes, if you look good,
explain advanced-age singledom: career in spite of the gnawing inner pain, you can
firsters for one, or bad breakers, guys who trick yourself into some fleeting happy mohave just been colossally clumsy or inept at ments.
love, a short-bus Casanova.
What’s more, let’s say the single man
It’s not always easy to identify the reason even agrees with the gay haters — that such
why you see a man eating fries at a restaurant a lifestyle is an abomination. And now he is
by himself, or perhaps with just one other being called gay? Denied his pepperoni, too?
man. I suppose there are even some straight,
There ought to be a remedy. Better yet,
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Our intention was to do something similar for Iowa’s unique food pioneers. That
evolved into a hall of fame for food institutions that give our city and state a unique
quality. Cityview’s Hall of Iowa Culinary
Excellence (CHOICE) awards begins this
year at a time when locals rue the passing
of two of the most memorable food icons in
Iowa history. The Younkers Tea Room was
lost in a fire one year ago, and Dahl’s stores
converted into Price Choppers last weekend.
For this charter edition of the awards, we
focused on venerability. The Japanese word
“sabi” refers to a kind of beauty attained by
aging, when an object’s elegance is revealed
by a changing patina. The word is most often applied to tea pots whose glaze have been
altered by decades, and even centuries, of
having tea intentionally poured over the top
to drip down over the pot. In that spirit, our
charter members have all been serving Iowa
for at least half a century.
Since the first Italian food store, Candy
Bunoni, opened in 1906, Italian food has
been a steadily increasing tourist attraction
in Des Moines. In 1915, ads for Italian restaurants began appearing in Des Moines
newspapers. By the 1940s, Willy Pedro’s,
Jennie Renda’s Aunt Jennie’s, Mr. V’s, The
Latin King and Joe Amino’s Wimpy’s were
all drawing visitors. During World War II,
Alphonsus Bisignano’s Babe’s became a cultural phenomenon, especially appealing to
soldiers and WACs stationed here. In the
1950s, Johnny & Kay’s, Vic’s Tally Ho,
Caesar’s, Luigi’s, The Latin King, Noah’s,
and Babe’s dominated fine dining in the
city. Gary Fatino’s, Rocky’s White Shutter
Inn, Mama Lacona’s, Riccelli’s, Lemmo’s,
Chuck’s, and Christopher’s soon joined that
scene.
All were owned by sons of Calabria, the
southernmost province on the Italian mainland. They featured tomato and olive oil
sauces, homemade pasta and sausage. To
this day, many locally owned Italian restaurants in Des Moines make at least one of
their pasta from scratch, arguing whether
to use whole eggs, yolks or whites. Chicken
livers and gizzards often distinguish a traditional Calabrese family restaurant from other Italian places. Homemade cavatelli is another old Calabrese favorite. Similarly, steak
de Burgo is an Italian Des Moines original,
though its origin is disputed. Its recipes differ wildly but almost every Italian place in
Des Moines offers one.
Three charter CHOICE members are
touchstones to this glorious past. They all
date themselves from 1947 — the earthshaking year when India was born, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball and
Congress overrode Harry Truman’s veto to
establish the Taft-Hartley Act.
“Mom & Pop” in every sense, Mr. V’s
began serving the south side when current
owner Joe Vivone was in elementary school.
Joe and his wife Eleanor run the place now
more like a community center than a restaurant. They keep prices low — ridiculously
low — because they know they are the only
restaurant that some of their customers can
afford. The café has two rooms, one with
tablecloths, a fireplace, art on the walls and
Venetian glass on the mantles. Many customers prefer a less formal room highlighted
with a full-sized bar and a Budweiser sign,
even though Mr. V’s serves no alcohol. That
Homemade cavatelli and marinara, like this dish at Mr. V’s, is a Calabrese staple.
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Noah’s served Des Moines’ first pizza.
room is decorated with an old-fashioned
gumball machine, family photos and a largescreen TV. Guests might bring their own
wine or beer, and anyone who asks if there’s
a corkage fee is answered with a look of consternation.
“I know a lot of pensioners and fixed income senior citizens who depend upon Mr.
V’s in the same way they depend on their
local parish,” explained Café di Scala owner
Tony Lemmo, one of Mr. V’s fans.
Noah Lacona began selling prepared
food in the Rock Island Depot downtown in
the late 1940s. In the 1950s and ’60s, banks
didn’t loan money to build restaurants, so
the great Italian restaurateurs of Des Moines
expanded one wall at a time — from a tiny
kitchen to a two storied, multi-roomed food
palace in the case of Noah’s Ark. The first
Calabrese restaurant on the west side, this
restaurant took off after Noah designed a gas
oven that simulated the wood-burning ovens
of his native land and a pie-making machine
that duplicated the Neapolitan crusts that
American soldiers learned to love in World
War II.
All of Noah’s original recipes come from
his mother, Teresa, who managed his kitchen in its early years. None have changed in
seven decades, though the menu has added
many new dishes as it expanded four times
and survived two fires. Homemade mozzarella, yeast rolls and steaks all have fans,
but pizza are the focus here — thin, crispcrusted pies include more mozzarella and
less tomato than typical.
Jimmy Pigneri came to Des Moines
from Calabria, but first spent some time in
New York City’s Latin Quarter. He worked
in restaurants there and brought the Little
Italy influences to Des Moines where he and
wife Rose opened The Latin King in 1947.
In 1983 the Pigneris sold to Bob Tursi,
the American-born son of Calabrese parents.
While twice remodeling the original building, Bob and his wife Amy kept faith with
the southern Italian and Little Italy flavors.
Tomato sauces are made with concentrated,
homemade pastes that evoke another time.
Ravioli, manicotti and potato gnocchi are
made fresh in the kitchen. Chicken spiedini
is a signature dish, and marinated breast
chunks are breaded and broiled and served
with a choice of homemade sauces. In Calabrese fashion, there are multiple preparations for chicken livers or gizzards. The steak
de burgo recipe is from Johnny & Kay’s,
which half of Des Moines believes to be the
original. Pan-fried potatoes have a cult following. The excellent tiramisu and cannoli
are prepared in the kitchen.
Louis Graziano opened a grocery
business in 1912 while his brother Frank
remained a railway worker until the store
got on its feet. From San Morello in Calabria, Graziano Brothers endeared itself to
a generation of the south side community
by extending credit to all in need during the
Great Depression. They expanded the business into a wholesale distribution company
in 1948, which enhanced the reputation of
their Italian sausage, link, bulk and patties.
Today, their sausage is nationally famous, yet only a small percentage of its fans
realize the original market is still operating
and stocking the city’s best inventory of all
things Italian. Cheeses and charcuterie are
both local and imported. Exotic dried mush-
Bruce Reitveld has been making Pella bologna for more than 20 years.
rooms, rare white balsamic vinegars, olive
oils, tomato products, wines and local Italian breads make Graziano Brothers a unique
market.
Crouse Café in downtown Indianola
has been serving classic diner food for 70
years. The family café specializes in breakfast
buffets, scratch-made potato dishes, heavy
gravies, hand-breaded pork tenderloin, fried
chicken (Sundays) and small-town friendliness. Yet they are most famous for Rhonda’s
scratch pies, especially a cherry pie.
It’s also home to perhaps the most eclectic customer profile in Iowa — a haunt for
worldly opera performers, college professors,
farmers and city folk who make the drive
from Des Moines several times a month.
When George Karaidos Jr. opened
George the Chili King in 1953, it was
the new store in the family business. His
father, who emigrated from Greece at 15,
had opened a similar restaurant downtown
in 1920. After winning a newspaper chili
competition, he renamed it George the
Chili King. In 1947, Karaidos’ brother, Jim,
opened a new store at Harding (now MLK)
and Euclid. George Jr. opened the current
store at age 19 in 1952. Not much has
changed. The classic diner counter is the last
of its kind in Des Moines. So is the carhop
service, which bustles on classic car nights.
And so, of course, is the secrecy of the famous chili recipe.
Founded in 1922, B & B Grocery
Meat & Deli is the heart and soul of Sevastapol, a formerly independent town founded
just south of East Village during the Civil
War. Part community center and part political hangout, this place was originally home
to the area’s Russian population before being annexed by Des Moines in the 1920s.
Its walls are covered with historic newspapers that go back to the end of WWI. The
meat market still cuts to order from whole
carcasses.
Nine Brooks family members currently
staff a place that mixes an old-fashioned
butcher shop with a deli that is unique in
several ways. First of all, it includes a grill
and a deep fryer. So, besides its signature
submarine-type sandwiches, one can order
burgers in sizes ranging up to one-and-athird pounds of beef. Want some fried oysters with your corned beef sandwich? Just
add 75 cents per mollusk. Want headcheese
or souse on your sub? Take your choice of
several kinds. Need a pig’s head or a butt
with the skin left on? No problem.
B & B makes pork tenderloins in the
literal sense. Most places make these out of
tenderized portions of the entire loin, including the less desirable blade and sirloin
ends. “We only use real tenderloin from
pure pork,” John Brooks explained of a
sandwich that was voted “Des Moines‘ Ultimate Sandwich” in a Cityview competition
six years ago.
No other small town in Iowa has so many
things associated with its name as Pella: windows, tulips, Dutch letter pastries, heavy
duty machinery like trenchers and harvesters, and a unique charcuterie treasure that
has been in continuous production since the
1860s. Pella bologna can probably blame
the second word in its name for its relative
obscurity outside Iowa. It’s not American
bologna, which is required to be ground to
a uniform consistency with no visible traces
of lard. It’s not Bologna’s bologna either,
which is actually mortadella. Pella bologna is
really one of the great American salami. It’s
never made with fillers, chickens, turkeys,
pork or by-products. It is made primarily
with beef hearts and cheeks.
“That’s where the flavor comes from. I
tried making it once without them, and it
didn’t have any flavor,” claims Bruce Reitveld, a butcher at In’t Veld’s Meat Market for more than 20 years.
Reitveld says traditions are vanishing,
even in Pella. “When I was a little kid, there
were six places in town making Pella bolgona. It was even being made here in grocery
stores. Now there’s just us.”
In’t Veld’s employs an all-wood-burning
smokehouse. Their bolognas are mixed with
secret seasoning recipes, stuffed into horseshoe-shaped rings, cured and hung several
hours in their smokehouses. The store is a
full service butcher shop with a large, twostory café.
During WWII, The Nazis controlled the
world’s Roquefort cheese market. Iowa State
scientists Clarence Lane and Bernard W.
Hammer created a method of making blue
cheese with homogenized cow’s milk. At
the time, E.H. Maytag, son of the appliance
company founder, had assembled a herd of
prize-winning dairy Holsteins. His son, Fred
II, heard about the ISU discovery and recreated it with his father’s famous cows and
company-owned caves outside Newton.
Today, the prize-winning herd is gone,
but most else is the same with Maytag
blue cheese. Milk is purchased from Iowa
farms, and each wheel is made by hand in
small batches before being aged in the caves.
When Iver Erickson began AE Dairy
in 1930, there were 150 licensed dairies
in Des Moines. They are the lone survivor
because they made dairy products that appealed to the city. Eric Ziebolt is Iowa’s
most renowned chef. He was executive chef
at The French Laundry in California, perhaps America’s most famous restaurant, and
won a James Beard Award at his City Zen,
in Washington, D.C. He imports shipments
of AE sour cream dips and has even created
A signature coney at George the Chili King.
deconstructed versions of them in his café.
All AE milk comes from Iowa family
farms and is tested and retested for purity.
All is also free from antibiotics, pesticides
and added growth hormones.
The state’s most popular food event is
the Iowa State Fair. Two aspects of the
12-day event suggest why it’s hall of fame
material. The campground hosts the greatest
tailgate party in the Midwest. Campers line
up overnight, a mile long, waiting for the
gates to open. These aren’t kids buying concert tickets as much as their grandparents.
They gain no advantage by lining up early
either, all the choice campsites are reserved
years — often decades — in advance. These
campers come early because there is nowhere
else they’d rather be.
Families show up 40 strong, five generations apart. Some have members who began
attending in horse-drawn wagons. One family campsite can employ 10 trailers, three
balanced tables, a food tent that seats 50,
a deep freezer, three refrigerators, a double
sink with a hot water heater, two ovens, a
four-burner gas stove, five butchered hogs,
one butchered cow, a half-ton of harvested
vegetables and a flat-top grill big enough to
cook 30 pounds of bacon at a time.
Another aspect of the fair’s grandeur is its
food division, which claims to be the world’s
largest cooking competition. Last year there
were 226 divisions with 883 classes and
10,500 entries. Cooks test their prowess
against the best in the state. Categories like
cinnamon rolls and pie making can make
reputations that last decades. CV
CHOICE AWARDS CHARTER MEMBERS
Mr. V’s (206 Indianola Ave., 243-9964)
Noh’s Ark (2400 Ingersoll, 288-2246)
Tursi’s Latin King (2200 Hubbell Ave., 266-4466)
Graziano Brothers (1601 S. Union St., 244-7103)
George the Chili King (5722 Hickman Road, 277-9433)
Crouse Café (115 E Salem Ave., Indianola, 961-3362)
In’t Veld’s Meat Market’s Pella bologna (820 Main St., Pella, 641-628-3440)
Maytag Cheese (800-247-2458)
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Noah’s Ark
Sully’s
Owner:
Jim Lacona
Address:
2400 Ingersoll Ave.
Phone:
288-2246
Website:
www.noahsdesmoines.com
How many years have you been in
business? Noah’s was opened 67 years
ago in 1946, and I took it over from my
father in 2010.
What products/services/cuisine do
you offer? Our most popular item is
pizza, as well as traditional ItalianAmerican cuisine with our own sauces,
bread and rolls made from scratch daily,
steaks I hand-cut myself and seafood.
What makes your business unique
from the chains that carry similar
products/services/menu items? Noah
introduced pizza to the Des Moines
area 66-some years ago, when he
handed out samples to customers who
had not heard of or seen pizza before.
We have a full scratch bakery to bake
bread and rolls every day, and our
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for the biggest St. Patrick’s Day Tent Party in central Iowa and are conveniently
located at the corner of 63rd and Grand in West Des Moines.
Sully’s is a great stop for sports teams, offering $5 domestic pitchers for any
team who stops in before or after their game. We are a strong supporter of the
biking community, located right off of Walnut Creek trail, offering bike racks, a
covered patio and $5 domestic pitchers for groups of five or more bicyclists.
Every Thursday, Sully’s hosts a $10 steak night and 2-for-1 drinks. You will find
some kind of special going on just about every night of the week here.
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Address: 1901 N.W. 92nd Court, Clive
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The Learning Post in Urbandale has a new owner
Owners: Kym Howe
Address: 2761 100th St., Deerfield Crossing, Urbandale
Phone: 515-331-8008
Website: www.learningpostltd.com
Hours: Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
For more than 38 years, The Learning Post at 2761 100th
St. in Urbandale has been a resource for educational
products and classroom supplies for teachers,
homeschoolers, daycares and parents. With a recent MBA
from the University of Iowa and her experience in retail
and 17 years of technology experience as the former Vice
President of IT at Kum & Go, new owner Kym Howe hopes
to reach new customers throughout the state. Howe, a
mother of three and formerly a frequent customer who
loved the store, brings new ideas to make The Learning
Post more efficient and easier to shop for customers both
in the store and, in the future, online.
Kym plans to upgrade the store’s current website
(www.learningpostltd.com) and expand its educational
materials and brands to reach more educators with
a larger variety of hard-to-find products for all ages
and levels. She retained most of the original store’s
employees, which are former or current teachers, so
they can continue to provide the best service for existing
and new customers. The Learning Post will continue to
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Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel is one of the most prominent destination properties in the Midwest. It features
Las Vegas-style gaming with more than 1,400 slot machines, Keno, Racebook, Poker, Craps, Roulette, Blackjack,
Three-card Poker, Fortune Pai Gow, Mini Baccarat, Let It Ride, Double Deck Blackjack, Texas Hold’em Bonus and
a 550-seat high-stakes Bingo hall for the total gaming experience. Make it a weekend stay in our 404-room hotel,
including 16 whirlpool suites, two governor suites and one presidential suite with an indoor pool, or pamper
yourself in our Winding Stream Spa/Salon. Meskwaki offers five venues for your dining pleasure, The Prime Cut
Grill, The Jackpot Buffet, Full House Café, Food Arcade and our concession stand. Meskwaki also offers a 50-spot
RV park located directly behind Meskwaki, offering electricity, showers, laundry facilities, dump station, restrooms
and water. And finally, want to just relax? Enjoy our new lounge with live entertainment on weekends and your
favorite alcoholic beverages.
Meskwaki is proud to offer more than 14,000 square feet of conference and meeting space. This facility will
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free from the distractions of daily business life. We take the guesswork out of planning and budgeting. The result?
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What made you want to open your business? Once I got
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by assisting them. I also enjoy educating my customers on all the information and
facts that people need to know.
What do you and your business bring to the community? Customer service
and education is very important in the insurance field. I like to make sure every
client is getting the most out of every dollar.
What can people expect when they first walk in to your business? To get a
quick and friendly answer to their questions. If we cannot answer, I will always
return a call very promptly.
How do you want people to remember your business when they leave?
Feeling confident they made the right choice and that their assets and important
things are protected.
What do you think can be done to improve locally owned shopping? Des
Moines is getting better, but we can all be more aware of what is new and locally
owned and supporting them. That is why I enjoy Cityview. More people need to
show support to locally owned businesses. Q
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Fresh Mediterranean Express
Fleet Feet
Owners: Hassan Atarmal and Jeni Betts
Address: 15 N.E. Carefree Lane, Waukee (right off Hickman Road)
Phone: 515-987-6870
Website: www.freshmediterraneanexpress.com
Fleet Feet Des Moines takes the time you need to get you in the right shoes for
running and walking. Opened in June, Fleet Feet is locally owned by Kathy and
Andy Roat and serves people who want to get or keep moving. Experience the
Fleet Feet fit process and see what might be the best type of shoe for your foot,
considering your foot’s shape, how it moves and how you’ll use your shoes. For
women, Fleet Feet also offers custom sports bra fittings.
Looking for clothes to look great while you’re moving? Shop Fleet Feet for
Nike, Saucony and some smaller lines such as lucy, Onzie and Katie K.
Join us! Fleet Feet has interactive classes each Tuesday with “Try Something
New Tuesday,” and runs from the store on Wednesday’s, Thursday’s and Friday’s
— all are free. If you’re looking to get moving, join our next “No Boundaries”
class.
Fleet Feet is easy to find at E. Sixth and Locust in the East Village, with free
covered parking next door. www.fleetfeetdesmoines.com Q
Fresh Mediterranean Express brings
the flavors of the Mediterranean
to the Greater Des Moines area in
a casual café setting. The unique
kitchen and dining room layout
allow customers to experience the
food preparation process while
enjoying the lively international
music and décor.
The cafe offers a fresh, flavorful
menu filled with foods found in the
Mediterranean, including gyros,
kabobs, falafel, chicken shawarma,
salads, soups and rolled baklava.
Complementing the menu are the
10 different sauce and dip choices,
including two flavors of hummus all made fresh in house.
Fresh Mediterranean Express is locally owned and operated by husband-andwife team Hassan Atarmal and Jeni Betts. The café is located at: 15 N.E. Carefree
Lane in Waukee (right off of Hickman Road). For more information, visit www.
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Stop in for all your gardening needs. We have beautiful bedding plants, gorgeous
hanging baskets, perennials, vegetable plants and so much more. Check out our
fairy garden items, garden art and wall art. Need fertilizer? Ask us about Jacks!
All of our plants are raised here at Renes Greenhouse, so we know what we
grow!
And we are excited to announce the opening of our new location at 29154
360th St. in Van Meter, formerly home of Heirloom Gardens. Renes Greenhouse
opens for the spring season on Thursday, April 9.
Don’t forget to check out our Facebook page and catch Chuck on Wednesdays
at 6:40 a.m. on KCWI’s “Great Day.” Q
Owners: Mosqueda family – three generations
Address: Six Des Moines area locations
Website: www.tastytacos.com
“Nada Es Imposible” or Nothing is Impossible has
been the driving force behind the Tasty Tacos
Operation. We now have six flourishing locations,
with our newest at 6326 Mills Civic Parkway. Tasty
Tacos has been family owned and operated since
1961. We strive to make each experience fast and
friendly. Our food is homemade and made fresh
daily with the finest ingredients. We are famous for
our delicious, mouth-watering Flour Tacos, filled
with your choice of meat, lettuce and cheese. We
were voted 2014 BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT in Des Moines by Cityview readers.
Tasty Tacos also offers tons of Tasty Tacos apparel. Including “Got Tacos”
T-shirts (long sleeve and short sleeve), hoodies and stocking hats. Gift cards are
also available in any denomination and good at ALL locations.
We appreciate the generations of loyal customers who we have been privileged
to serve and hope to meet many new customers in the years to come. For more
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Getting the best grooming experience
for you and your pet
There are many things to think about
when it comes to grooming your beloved
pet. Does my pet like its groomer? Am I
keeping him or her on a regular schedule?
Should I be doing more at home? Does my
groomer have the experience required to
handle any situation? Do they really have
my pet’s best interest at heart? These are all
questions that can only be answered by a
professional. To help address your concerns,
here are some tips to put your mind at ease
and allow for an easy grooming process for
you and your pet.
When first finding a groomer, it is
important to keep a few things in mind.
First, make sure you are picking a grooming
facility that suits you. Be sure you’re
comfortable with the staff, the facility is
clean and they have a schedule that works with yours. Also be sure you understand
their policies, from how they charge for appointments to their drop-off and pickup windows. You want to be sure your groomer is experienced and has all the
required knowledge to be able to understand your pet’s behavior. This will keep
your pet safe and happy; it also assures that they have a positive experience and
are well groomed.
Your groomer’s knowledge should extend beyond simply animal behavior. Be
sure you pick a groomer who has had experience with different types of dog
breeds. You also want to be sure they are knowledgeable about different coat
types, textures and skin types. It’s also important that your groomer is continuing
to learn more about grooming and animal care so they are always able to properly
care for your pet. Effective communication is also necessary between you and
your groomer. If your pet isn’t groomed according to your preferences, you need
to be able to express your concerns to the groomer. A good groomer will be sure
to discuss the appointment with you and check that you’re pleased with the cut;
if it’s less than what you expected, they should work with you on what to change
so everyone is happy. A good groomer will give your pup a trim that best suits its
hair type and personality, as well as your lifestyle.
When you’ve found the right groomer, make sure you continue to keep up
this relationship. Every groomer can have a different process, so it is best to keep
your pet with the same groomer. This allows the groomer to really understand
your pet. They should know what behaviors are normal, notice any changes in
your pet’s skin or coat between appointments, and know what they like and
dislike during the appointment. Forming a relationship with one person takes
the stress out of grooming for your pet and allows him or her to bond with
and be excited to see the groomer because it knows what to expect. Work with
your groomer on developing a regular schedule for appointments. Your groomer
should be able to advise you on how frequent appointments should be based
on your preferred style and your pet’s hair type. Regular appointments help
keep your pet’s coat in good condition and make the grooming process easier.
Planning these appointments in advance can also be easier on you as an owner
and assure your pet’s schedule won’t be disrupted.
Finding a groomer doesn’t have to be a hard process. Be sure to shop around,
ask any questions you may have for the shop’s staff and find someone you’re
comfortable with. If you continue to communicate your needs and concerns with
your groomer, you and your pet should always leave happy and confident. Q
Repertory Theater Of Iowa: Classic
Theater for Contemporary Audiences
“The Merchant Of Venice”
In 2004, Repertory Theater of Iowa was founded with a mission to establish
central Iowa’s first resident, professional theater ensemble comprised of actors,
directors and designers from Iowa. Local theater artists were hungry for an
opportunity to grow as performers in their home community of Des Moines. The
dream also included making sure every member of the cast and crew is financially
compensated for their art and talent. More than 10 years later, that mission and
dream is full steam ahead, breathing fresh life into theater classics.
From 2004 to 2006, RTI produced 13 plays in seven different locations. In 2008,
the Drama Workshop (est. 1951) merged with RTI in order to preserve its 57-year
history of producing classic dramatic works. That same year, RTI opened its first
production in September, Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons,” to critical and public
acclaim.
Since 2008, RTI has presented a three-play season every September through
May. Each year, the residency company members curate a season that is grounded,
thoughtful and challenging. In addition, since 2009 RTI has collaborated with
Salisbury House and Gardens to produce its “Shakespeare on the Lawn” series
and the Terrace Hill Foundation to produce its “Thriller on Terrace Hill” and
“Victorian Voices” programs. As of 2015, the company remains at 18 members
strong with various talents including acting, directing, design and tech.
RTI is deeply committed to Des Moines’ growing cultural organizations.
Currently, RTI is proud to hold the position of resident theater company of
Des Moines Social Club’s Kum & Go Theater. Since its unveiling, the Kum & Go
blackbox theater has been home to RTI productions “Our Town,” “The Crucible,”
“Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf,” “A Christmas Carol,” and “Clarence Darrow: A
One-Man Play.”
We continue to be supported through individual donations and with local
grants from BRAVO, the Iowa Arts Council, the Principal Financial Group, Miller
Mechanical Specialties Inc., and the Iowa Foundation for the Environment,
Education and the Arts.
You can catch our newest show, “The Diary of Anne Frank,” running
April 10-26 at our home in Des Moines Social Club’s Kum & Go Theater.
We’ll then be partnering with the Salisbury House this summer for our
Shakespeare On The Lawn series with “Much Ado About Nothing,”
running June 11-14. Bring a picnic basket and share some laughs with us!
For more information on Repertory Theater of Iowa, visit our website at www.
rtiowa.com Q
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Owner: Kim Baer
Address: 838 Fifth Ave., Des Moines, Iowa 50309
Hotline: 515-INJURED
Phone: 515-279-2000
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Unfortunately, most people dread calling an attorney for legal help. Usually
this is because they are afraid of a large legal bill or that the attorney will not
understand or really care about what the client is going through. At the Baer
Law Office, the attorneys understand that they are in the service industry. They
understand that if a client hires them to work on a case or a claim they are on the
client’s team. Kim Baer understands that clients are customers who want to be
treated with compassion but also want to understand the legal process and their
legal options so they can make an informed decision. The Baer Law Office was
recently voted as one of the Best Law Firms in Des Moines in Cityview’s recent
Best of Des Moines 2015 readers’ poll.
The Baer Law Office also offers free thirty minute consultations to new clients.
They do this so they can listen to the client’s needs and give the client an estimate
of legal costs before the law firm is hired. Often the project might be charged as
a flat fee. For example, the attorneys at the Baer Law Office are able to set up a
simple will at a flat fee starting at $400 or set up a Limited Liability Company for a
flat fee starting at $350. They also offer a flat fee of $750.00 for persons charged
with OWI 1st. The fees and details may vary depending upon the circumstances
but the Baer Law Office will try hard to keep the price affordable.
Kim Baer, the owner of the Baer Law Office, has been practicing law since
1989. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa in
1985 and her Juris Doctorate degree, summa cum laude, from Washington
College of Law, American
University,
Washington
D.C. The Baer Law Office
has two other attorneys,
Maureen Cosgrove and
Eva Morales. Maureen has
been practicing law since
2009 and Eva just joined the
firm after graduating from
Drake Law School in 2014.
Eva speaks fluent Spanish.
The Baer Law Office
attorneys have a general
practice in the areas of
business law, business litigation, personal injury, nursing home litigation, family
law and criminal matters. For personal injury cases there is no legal fee unless
the Baer Law Office recovers damages for the client. The attorneys are willing to
travel throughout the State of Iowa to meet with clients who need our help.
Kim Baer has served on numerous Boards and was honored to be named the
“Immigrant Champion of the Year” for her legal work in the community. Kim
Baer is recognized throughout the legal community for handling complex cases
that other lawyers have referred to her. She enjoys legal challenges and looks
forward to working hard for her clients. That is what makes the Baer Law Office
different... they are dedicated to protecting your rights and pursuing your claim
when you need an attorney.
Call (515) INJURED for your FREE consultation today. Q
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By Bill Frost
“The Comedians” delivers the laughs, but you only care about “Game of Thrones”
“The Comedians”
Thursday, April 9 (FX)
mildly self-absorbed, whereas Gad goes allin to make “Josh” a delusional man-child
idiot (which he’s played before, but takes to
a whole new, creepy level here). “The Comedians” may not fix hearts, but it could
fix Crystal’s comedy cred after years of lazy
hackery (take note, Steve Martin).
“Comedy is like heart surgery — it gets
botched all the time,” says Josh Gad (as Josh
Gad) in the pilot episode of “The Comedians.” “But, if you keep it loose and don’t
overthink it…you can fix people’s hearts.”
Gad is the other half of “The Billy & Josh
Show,” a fictional FX variety series that was
forced upon Billy Crystal (as Billy Crystal)
after his one-man-show version was soundly
rejected by test audiences, and “The Comedians” is the fictional behind-the-scenes doc
— you follow? Even funnier than the idea
that FX would buy a dated train wreck like
“Billy & Josh” are Crystal and Gad’s clashing heightened-character comedic styles:
Crystal plays “Billy” old school and only
“Game of Thrones”
Sunday, April 12 (HBO)
Finally, “GoT” truthers (“I refuse to watch
anything until “Game of Thrones” returns!”) have something to live for once
again. You know, there are other worthwhile
series on TV — I write about them here every week. But I digress. With Tyrion’s (Peter
Dinklage) none-too-dignified escape complete, Varys (Conleth Hill) provides him
with a new mission beyond drinking himself
to death in hiding (“Can I drink myself to
death on the road?” he asks). Meanwhile,
Daenerys’ (Emilia Clarke) rule in Meereen
is being undermined — and don’t even ask
about the dragons. Among the questions not
answered in the “Game of Thrones” Season
TORY BURCH
5 premiere: Which will crash first under
massive demand, HBO Go or HBO Now?
“Veep”
If you thought the country was screwed with
“House of Cards” Commander in Chief
Frank Underwood, wait till you get a load
of Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and
her SuperCut ascending-by-default to the
office of president: She and her staff discover something they’re even more inept at
than managing the vice presidency. Which
leads to glorious excesses of profanity,
trash-talking (“Veep” staples) and a scriptless Selina faking her way through her first
speech as president (“I detest jazz, but this
is impressive,” quips her strategist, played
by the indispensible Gary Cole). Now, it’s
up to this motley crew to get Selina elected
for real; she’ll be campaigning and “building a roadmap to peace” simultaneously…all
of which probably end in more frightening
political truth than “House of Cards,” if not
C-SPAN.
“Silicon Valley”
Speaking of “datageddon” (my new favorite tech-nonsense term, courtesy of “Hooli”
CEO Gavin Belson), every venture-capitalist
company in Silicon Valley is now courting
Richard (Thomas Middleditch) and Erlich’s
(T.J. Miller) startup Pied Piper and their
compression platform, while thinly-veiled
Google stand-in Hooli is plotting to crush
them before they can even begin. As he did
with corporate culture in Office Space, “Silicon Valley” creator Mike Judge has painted
a hilariously real picture of code monkeys as
ill-equipped superstars, full of overly lavish
(and overly awkward) parties and gone-ina-nanosecond tech victories. And the stakes
are even higher in Season 2 — or at least the
jargon is deeper. 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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value. New release CDs were usually $15,
and sometimes $20 or more. Since the turn
of the century with the peer-to-peer downloading revolution began by Napster and the
digital music sales iTunes ushered in, the
bottom has completely fallen out of the music industry. Today, albums have virtually
disappeared, and individual songs are either
streamed for free or sold for less than $1.
Late last year, Taylor Swift famously
pulled all of her music from Spotify, citing the royalties generated by the popular
streaming service were so paltry it equates
to piracy of her work. In 2013, David Lowery, frontman for the band Cracker, posted
online that his group’s 1990s hit “Low” had
been streamed just over one million times on
Spotify and generated only $42.25. Artists
are fed up with the streaming service pittance
and the current state of the music industry.
So out of that rage comes “Tidal,” an artistbacked service where art will be fairly valued
and rewarded.
Owned by Jay-Z and supported by Daft
Punk, Kanye West, Madonna and many
more, Tidal is the artist-first streaming option. Whereas Spotify, Pandora, Rdio and
others offer advertising-driven free options
for music fans to stream music, Tidal is a
paywall-only service. Seeing itself as the Netflix of audio, Tidal has tiered levels of delivery that gives music lovers some premium
options. To access Tidal’s gated-garden of
artistic material including music, videos,
interviews and forthcoming exclusives, the
entry fee is $9.99 a month for radio quality streaming and $19.99 per month for the
high-definition access. Since Tidal gives artists the first cut of the proceeds, and all users
need to pay to play, artist royalties could end
up being significantly higher than any other
service.
The problem is that music streaming is
nearly a zero-sum game. Pandora and Spotify have struggled for years to be profitable.
While artists are getting paid pennies, the
billions in revenue generated from streaming have gone to record labels, managers
and distributors. Artists are generally the
last in line to get paid. Traditionally artists
have made their millions touring and selling
merchandise, and unless they sell a million
or more albums, music royalties have historically been a joke. Think the bus fare royalties
from streaming is bad? Radio pays nothing,
and it has been that way forever.
Will Tidal reverse the decade-long industry collapse? Extremely unlikely. Only
25 percent of Spotify’s 60 million users pay
$9.99 a month for premium access, and
Tidal is entering the fray just as tech giants
Apple and Google are unveiling streaming
options of their own.
Sadly, most consumers only find value in tangible goods. An iPad, which has
the necessity of a basement pool table, has
only increased in price since its debut in
2010. Whereas music, a product you can’t
hold and is ridiculously abundant, seems
like something perfectly OK to pilfer. So
it doesn’t matter how many Jay-Zs, Jack
Whites, Coldplays, Beyonces and Rihannas
link arms and cry over royalties, their fans
are still going to pick the cheapest method to
find their tunes. CV
Patrick Boberg is a central Iowa
creative media specialist. Follow
him on Twitter @PatBoBomb.
BookReview
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books
Review by Fay Jones
‘Where All Light Tends To Go’
D
eep in the Appalachian Mountains near rural Cashiers, North
Carolina, the McNeely family persists in its legacy of drugs and
violence. Eighteen-year-old Jacob wants out but is resigned to his
fate: “There was no escaping who I was or where I’d come from.” In his
beautiful yet brutal novel, author David Joy insightfully portrays a young
man ensnared in grim circumstances that leave little room for hope.
Jacob’s volatile father heads a methamphetamine ring and would
“slip a knife in (his) throat while (he) slept if the
mood hit him right.” His hopeless “crank-head”
By David Joy
mother is rarely sober and lives out her days in a
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for his abusive dad, wanting to believe that one day he’ll receive pay for
the hours that his dad claims to log. With a remarkable, authentic voice,
Joy gives us a raw view of the uncompromising life Jacob sees no way of changing. “I’d let
what I was born into control what I’d become. Mama snorted crystal, Daddy sold it to her,
and I’d never had the balls to leave.”
When Jacob’s father has him dispose of a snitching employee and the murder goes awry in
a horrifying scene, Joy intensifies the pace and we are carried along on a suspenseful, harrowing ride. Jacob’s dark, violent days are punctuated by his childhood friend and ex-girlfriend,
Maggie Jennings. A bright contrast to what he faces at home, she is all that is good, pretty
and intelligent. CV
Fay Jones was born with a love of literature, which was finely shored up throughout her early years
by her parents and a beloved children’s librarian who wore the thickest glasses ever manufactured.
Ms. Jones once won a coupon for a free ice cream cone after her suggestion for a name for the local
Reading Is Fundamental mascot was selected.
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Dance the night away
I
n so far as it is possible for a tribute act
to really, genuinely be referred to as “legendary,” The Atomic Punks fit that bill.
Founded in 1994, The Atomic Punks
are the only Van Halen tribute act officially
endorsed by the actual Van Halen, and former members can be found far and wide:
two former guitarists have played with David Lee Roth on his own tours, and founding lead singer Ralph Saenz has gone on to
front metal act Steel Panther.
“The Atomic Punks started — this
is the 21st year of the band — purely on
accident,” said current lead singer Brian
Geller in a phone interview. “Scott Patterson, who’s our drummer, had a gig with
his cover band, and the lead singer couldn’t
make it. A friend of his was there who happened to do a pretty good David Lee Roth
impression, so they decided, ‘Let’s just play
all Van Halen songs tonight.’ It snowballed
from there.”
For the uninitiated, there is a definite
difference between a cover band and a tribute act. Most notably musically, the tribute
act is performing songs all from one act.
Visually, tribute acts strive to emulate the
look and feel of a band. It is work that takes
commitment as much as genuine musical
talent, and The Atomic Punks bring both
to the stage, in spades.
“I’ve been a Van Halen fan since sixth
The Atomic Punks play the Val Air Ballroom, 301 Ashworth Road, on Saturday, April 10
at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15.
grade,” Geller said “I’ve seen them on every
tour, and I know the ins and outs of Dave. I
went and saw the Atomic Punks in 2003 and
was blown away. Right then and there, I said
I was going to be a part of that someday. I
had never sang a lick before that show.”
“When I first started this whole process,
my concern wasn’t studying David Lee
Roth and studying his moves and how he
acted,” he continued. “I was just thinking,
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start singing until I was in my 30s.”
Geller was a fast learner. Five years after that first Atomic Punks show, he was
onstage, belting out iconic Van Halen hits
with the band.
The Atomic Punks’ show has the capabilities to be extremely diverse. Geller
said the band has played shows consisting
of one entire album, and has even taken to
the road re-creating a specific tour’s set list.
But while the quality of the music needs to
be consistently high, Geller admits that authenticity is not always as big of a deal as
one might think.
“My wardrobe consists of costumes
from every tour that they’ve done, ‘78 to
‘84,” he said. “But as far as the ‘Dave attitude,’ it’s kind of a fine line. Let’s face it,
people coming out to the show nowadays,
chances are they were born after David was
fired from the band in ‘85. So a lot of them
might not get the fact that, at one time, David Lee Roth was ‘The Man.’ ”
Similarly, as much as it might please the
band — consisting of Geller, Patterson, Joe
Lester on bass and Lance Turner on guitar
— to play “Women and Children First” in
its entirety, the band also understands that
a large part of its audience may not be the
hardcore VH fans that they are.
“When it comes down to it, there are
12 to 15 songs that we have to play every
night, just like the real band. We know we
can’t leave a venue without playing ‘Panama’ or ‘Jump,’ ” says Geller.
“But I love the way the crowd reacts to
those songs,” he continued. “I like the songs
that let the band really shine. Stuff that
shows people, ‘Hey, we’re not just a cover
band or a tribute band, we’re professional
musicians.” CV
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Death Cab For Cutie
“Kintsugi”
Atlantic
Codependent
T
here tends to be a stereotype when
it comes to certain acts. You see
an act get on stage dressed in
costumes or masks, for example, and
you assume there is going to be a lot of
yelling and G-chord. So when you hear
“husband/wife singer-songwriter duo,”
certain images come to mind. Simple
melodies, female-led vocals, songs about
love. Har-Di-Har has always made it a
point to go against the grain.
That is why the dream-pop duo,
comprised of Julie and Andrew Thoreen,
plays sets that include songs that are musically complex and lyrically dense and
feature vocals that do not so much harmonize as they intertwine.
“That’s definitely what we’re going
for,” said Julie in a phone interview.
“There’s a stereotype for the husband/ Har-Di-Har plays Vaudeville Mews, 212 4th St., on Saturday, April 10 at 9:30 p.m.
wife duo. That it’s a very singer song- Admission is $7.
writer-ey, acoustic sort of thing. Right
away we started to learn that kind of
ing measures to challenge our preconceived notions of what a
codependent drumming we do. To a fault, our plan was to song is.”
never do things the way other people have.”
“What we have realized as we’ve developed as artists is why
As mentioned, the pair shares percussion duties in Har- we do that,” Julie concluded. “We’ve always written collabDi-Har, both manning drums of some sort on virtually every oratively — probably because we’re both stubborn and consong. Equally as enmeshed are the singing and songwriting trolling — and as we’ve played more shows, we’ve come to
duties. From the very beginning, the pair wanted to make sure understand that the codependent drumming and singing style
that each of them carried one half of the DNA of Har-Di-Har. is really reflective of what it’s like being married.”
“For our first songs, we took a whole month to write,”
Har-Di-Har, much like married life, is a shared endeavor.
Julie explained. “The only rule was that we couldn’t work on The Thoreens succeed or fail as a team, as much a devoted
anything unless we were together.”
duo onstage as off. It is not a life that is for the faint of heart.
“We use it as a challenge to expand the possibilities of what It takes trust. But when it works — in music or in life — the
a duo can do,” Andrew continued. “We like to take painstak- results are gorgeous. CV
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T
he Iowa State Fair has announced its grandstand ticket prices for this year. They range from a low of $32 for Casting
Crowns up to $60 to check out Carrie Underwood. Full prices and schedules are available at www.iowastatefair.org.
Speaking of the Fair, on Sunday, Aug. 23, the grandstand will feature Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, Dokken, Warrant and Firehouse. Ticket info for that show is still TBA.
Finally, Nitefall on the River continues its roll out of concert dates, this week announcing Hairball on May 23, The
Nadas on June 5, Michae Franti & Spearhead on June 11 and Los Lonely Boys on June 17. Tickets for all shows went
on sale last Friday and are available at nitefalldsm.com.
Your Pick o’ the Week this week is at Zimm’s Food & Spirits on Thursday, April 9. Head that way at 8 p.m. to check
out the Des Moines solo/duo preliminary round of the Iowa Blues Challenge. Performing will be the Eastside Brothers,
Bodley & Cantrell and “Freight Train” Frank Strong. Admission is $8, with Blues Society members getting $2 off.
Mahalo. CV
D
eath Cab For Cutie
is perhaps the most
transparent band
ever. For much of its career, the band was content
to wallow in the Elliot
Smith, doom and gloom
end of the sonic pool.
Then singer Ben Gibbard
found love, and out comes
2011’s preternaturally boring “Codes and Keys.” Now
Gibbard is divorced, and founding member/producer Chris Walla has left the band, so it is time to get
gloomy again. When it works for them, it really, really works. With its deeper-than-they-sound lyrics and
delightfully delivered guitar, “Little Wanderer” is the
best track on the album and one of the best Death
Cab songs since 2008. But too often “Kintsugi” becomes bogged down by the band’s own navel gazing.
The album frequently gets lazy and expects Gibbard’s
vocals to do the heavy lifting. He has pulled it off before, but here, with tracks like “Hold no Guns” and
“Binary Sea,” he just sounds bored. So are we, Ben.
So are we. CV
William Elliott Whitmore
“Radium Death”
Anti-
I
owa’s own black earth
troubadour is back.
“Radium Death” offers
a different look at Whitmore’s sound and serves as
a genuine departure from
2011’s “Field Songs.” The
man’s solid, dusky vocals
are now backed by a full
band, taking some of the
pressure off his voice. But do not think that Whitmore
uses the relief as an excuse to take it easy. Instead, with
a broader sound behind him to help carry the stories,
Whitmore feels free to explore the width and breadth
of his own vocals. Some people still will not like it, because the extra instrumentation ensures that you never
get a really good, long listen to the glorious texture of
Whitmore’s voice. But for those willing to give the album more than one listen, “Radium Death” provides
one of the most nuanced looks at Whitmore that we
have ever seen. 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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Atom Age
at Gas Lamp
by Dan Hodges
HaHa Tonka
at Wooly’s
by Dan Hodges
Brooks Strause and
the Gory Details
at Vaudeville Mews
by Dan Hodges
Nick Moss
at Val Air Ballroom
by Dan Hodges
Abbe And The Sawyers
at Wooly’s
by Dan Hodges
Fetal Pig
at Vaudeville Mews
by Dan Hodges
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1) Wednesday stuff
4) Rehearsed ahead of time
10) Second addendum to a letter, briefly
13) Siegfried’s colleague
14) Quasi-eco-themed Pauly Shore
movie
15) Cry of recognition
16) Rock guitarist’s accessory
17) Deviating off-course
18) “Danny and the Dinosaur” author
___ Hoff
19) Stores owned by the guy who
played Frasier’s dad?
22) Like xenon or krypton
23) Landing place
25) In ___ (working in harmony)
26) Just ___ (a little under)
31) Hand-held fare
32) Irish-Caribbean island chain?
34) Blackjack component
37) Ready-to-hug position
38) ___ de la Cite (Notre Dame’s
locale)
39) Showy birds at the dance?
41) Creamy cracker spread
42) John Denver Band bassist Dick
(anagram of SINKS)
43) Laments loudly
47) Carpentry tools
49) Ab-developing exercise
50) Make a circular trip starting
between California and Nevada?
56) Columnist Savage
57) It goes up and down while you eat
58) Stare at
59) L squared, in Roman numerals
60) High flier
61) Raymond’s nickname on “The
Blacklist”
62) Big boss
63) “Capote” costar Catherine
64) ‘60s campus gp.
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Musketeer
2) Lots and lots of
3) Tex-Mex ingredient?
4) Kingly title
5) British party member
6) Levine of Maroon 5
7) “You’ve ___ Friend” (James Taylor
hit)
8) Abu Dhabi VIP
9) Cruise ship levels
10) Rye topper
11) Yearly exam
12) Hangdog
14) Hell-___ (determined)
20) “Lord of the Rings” beast
21) “Let’s Roll” jazz singer James
24) Throw out, as a question
26) Ogre in love with Princess Fiona
27) “Masters of the Universe”
protagonist
28) Dinosaur in Mario-themed Nintendo
games
29) Bassoons’ smaller relatives
30) Goat-legged deities
32) Savion Glover’s specialty
33) Cleveland ___, OH
34) “Dancing Queen” music group
35) Uno, e.g.
36) Actor Hector of “Chicago Hope”
and “Monk”
40) Like “haxored” and “pwn’d”
43) “Chandelier” chanteuse
44) They may be significant
45) Encouraged, with “up”
46) Does 80 in a 40, perhaps
48) He’ll tell you there’s no “I” in
“TEAM”
49) Part attached at the hip?
51) Well-off person, so to speak
52) Stubbed piggy toe, e.g.
53) “Israel Through My Eyes” author
54) Pledge drive bag
55) ___ about (roughly)
56) Hip-hop’s Run-___
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FilmReview
By John Domini
‘Fast and Furious’ franchise
paints itself into a corner
Dream and nightmare
“Independence.” Tallgrass Theater, West Des Moines. Fri. – Sat. April 10-11, 7:30 p.m.
Y
ou can thank God you never had a
mother like Mary Bricker. Her face
set in a grim, seamy square like a box
of drawers set with traps, Bricker continues
to break down and manipulate her daughters long after they’ve grown to adulthood.
“Independence” may be the latest Tallgrass
“Dream Project,” but this woman brings the
nightmare.
Bricker, however, wasn’t the only actress
who had this “Dream.” Co-star Rebecca
Scholtec joined her in requesting Lee Blessing’s play, an all-woman show, and a nice
contrast to last year’s “True West,” a testosterone fest, featuring Micheal Davenport
and Shawn Wilson. Scholtec, in fact, provides the only foil to Bricker most of the
way. She plays Kess, the lone daughter out of
three to have escaped the mother’s clutches.
Kess has been on her own for years,
but middle daughter Jo remains under
Mom’s thumb, and so the younger sister’s
cry for help forces the oldest to return Independence, Iowa. There, over a couple of
tumultuous weeks, everyone in the family
— the youngest is Sherry, an unapologetic
sexual predator — proves a candidate for the
town’s Mental Health Institute. The women
test the love they bear each other, teetering
in a four-way tug o’ war. Overall, they imbue this tragedy with so much energy, you
wonder why Blessing is better known for “A
Walk in the Woods,” a quiet drama of international diplomacy.
Certainly the script offers terrific nuggets. “The best way out of the house?” Sherry asks Jo, combatively. “Dedicate yourself
to meaningless sex.”
Tiffany Flory handles Sherry, and it’s
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By Chad Taylor
great to see her revel in slut freedoms. Flory
pushes past her past work as Lady Macbeth,
especially when she goes toe to toe with Kess.
She even gets the older sister to let down her
guard — the squared shoulders and flatmouth Scholtec maintains — as the closest
thing to sane throughout most of the play.
Yet in what may be the funniest moment,
the gay Kess and hetero Sherry swap stories
of callous sexual encounters. They smirk in
shared wickedness, with legs tangled together across the battered sofa.
All the furniture looks worse for wear, as
does the house itself, with sick-yellow walls
torn away here and there to reveal ratty brown
slatting. The distressed materials of the set
seem a departure for Tim Wisgerhof, and
that’s a good thing. The look matches Jo’s:
an aging stay-at-home in frumpy clothes.
Director Maxwell Schaeffer understands
that Jo is the story’s fulcrum. He arranges
things so that when Bricker sinks to her
creepiest, her prey is Susan Sherriff as Jo. As
victim, Sherriff’s gaze is a cornered rabbit’s,
yet later when she develops gumption, her
eyes grow still larger, wetter, as if the rabbit’s
spotted a way out. For Jo, it’s fight or flight
— and it’s a rare show that takes us into such
desperation.
Overheard in the Lobby: Complexions
Ballet comes to the Civic Center April 11...
“Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay
Man” opens at the Temple April 14. CV
John Domini is a published local author who has lived on both coasts and
abroad and enjoyed theater everywhere. See www.johndomini.com.
T
he franchise has developed a reputation for being a kind of dumb, kind
of fun action franchise. But now that
there are seven installments, I was genuinely curious as to whether or not one needed
to be versed in the past iterations in order
to fully enjoy the current one. Turns out,
somewhat surprisingly, the answer is yes.
Since I had not seen a single film from
the franchise before this past week, I sat
down and watched all of them before setting
out to watch “Furious 7.” It wound up being
a good move, because the film’s convoluted
story line made several references to events
that had occurred one, three, even six films
ago. So anyone setting out to make “Furious 7” his or her first “Furious” film will, at
points, be out of the loop on certain characters’ lives or motivations. But now that
there are seven installments to the franchise,
it is less and less likely that new viewers will
be drawn in fully aware of the surprisingly
thick back-story. So, we have a conundrum.
However, it also appears that there may
not be much cause for concern because virtually everything about this film has an air
of finality to it. Billion-dollar franchises are
difficult to kill, of course, and the producers have already talked of planning for an
eighth installment. However, the direction
future films would take is up in the air after the untimely death of Paul Walker, the
charismatic actor who has anchored six of
the franchise’s seven films.
“Furious 7” once again revolves around
Brian O’Conner (Walker) and Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), this time as they return
home to Los Angeles after the events of the
sixth film (and, to a lesser degree, the third
— the franchise’s chronology is a bit of a
mess). Toretto tries to help his wife, Letty,
(played by Michelle Rodriguez and her dead
eyes) regain her memory after being revealed
to have amnesia in film six, which is admit-
tedly an improve“Furious 7”
ment upon her prePG-13
vious state of being
137 minutes
presumed dead since
Starring: Paul
film four. O’Conner,
Walker, Vin Diesel,
meanwhile, is setDwayne Johnson,
tling down with his
Jason Statham
wife and child and
adjusting to life as a
regular family man. All of this relative bliss
is ruined, however, by Deckard Shaw (Jason
Statham), whose brother Owen was the big
bad of film six and rendered comatose by
Toretto and his crew. Do you see just how
much you need to know about this sevenfilm franchise to follow along?
There is a story arc involving a hacker
and something called a God’s Eye, which is
a computer virus that turns your laptop into
the NSA. Toretto and his gang rescue her
from Shaw’s men, then spend the rest of the
film alternately keeping her safe and driving her off cliffs to keep her safe. There are
car chases, gun fights, questionable physics and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson even
performs his patented “Rock Bottom” wrestling move on Statham in one particularly
memorable fight scene.
At the end of the day, what do you expect
from a “Fast and Furious” film? It is over
the top, full of plot holes and convenient
timing and, at points, laughably stupid. But
it was also oddly fun. The action sequences
involving the cars are phenomenal, though
the fight scenes lose some steam thanks to
absurd settings and horrible camera work.
The film ties itself up nicely with a nice
tribute to Walker and where the franchise
has come over the years, and the ending
does set itself up for an eighth installment,
should the producers choose. But as the series continues to grow, and the target audience ages, new fans may be harder to come
by. CV
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Culinary Loft debuts
T
he first time I
interviewed
Z a c h
Mannheimer, I
was impressed
by his talent at
piecing together
multiple sources of
funding. Similar coalitions of generosity had been assembled to
save the Temple of the Performing Arts from
the wrecking ball. That was part of a local
civic effort to preserve an historic architectural treasure, and it was organized by lifelong Des Moines supporter Harry Bookey
and his wife Pam. Mannheimer was an East
Coast guy who wanted to build a social club
with a myriad of activities — theater, circus,
wrestling, art, music — many of which appealed more to hipsters than the old guard
of Des Moines.
Mannheimer’s vision for the Des Moines
Social Club found a permanent home last
year in another historic architectural gem
— the former downtown fire station. Last
week, its latest feature opened to the delight of an older demographic than earlier
perceived. The Culinary Loft is a cooking
school and events venue like no other in
town. Its space took over what had been seven different rooms in the firehouse. Because
the windows outside were deemed historic,
changing them was not possible. They were
old windows that were far from soundproof.
That noise factor scared off the first two
organizations who considered running the
school — Meredith Corporation and Or-
Local dining guide
By Jim Duncan
something for all tastes: breakfast and yoga
on first Saturdays, elementary gastronomy
on third Tuesdays, a non-specific cheese
series, a “six-ingredient date night” on first
Sundays, global kitchen on fourth Wednesdays, Libations 101 on fourth Tuesdays,
gastronome’s book club on fourth Mondays,
dinner and movies on third Tuesdays, a rotating restaurant series on fourth Fridays,
Baking 101 on third Sundays, networking
lunches on first Fridays, a farmers market
“shop and cook” on various dates, wine seminars on second Wednesdays, Pico Brew on
the 15th of each month, and health nut on
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Classes range in price from $20 to $50
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Mannheimer decided to have the DMSC
run the place themselves. “I really wanted
this. Nothing engages a community like
food,” he explained. Both Meredith and
Orchestrate remained as sponsors. Steve
and Cathy Lacy joined a team that also included organizer Chris Diebel. They raised
$360,000 to get going, with Kitchen Collage chipping in with state-of-the-art equipment. Mannheimer found Jeff Claeys and a
crack staff at Weitz Company. They added
an inner layer of soundproof windows and
converted seven rooms into one with a storage and refrigeration room behind it. Then
he hired Amanda Mae Phillips from Whole
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cakes with shallots and poblano salsa, and
almond honey cakes and lemon semolina
ghoribals (from Little Morocco). The feature was magnificent porchetta from bonein shoulders with twice the back fat one
finds at local supermarkets. It was presented
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chicken tenders, cheddar cheese, white cheddar sauce and tater tots in 2 minutes and 55
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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
almond-crusted 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) 4842108. 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.
king-and-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.
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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: 2770022. 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! Barbecue and Cajun Creole Creations all served in Your
Waukee Neighborhood Sports Bar. It doesn’t get any
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.www.jethrosdesmoines.com.
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 every day. 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, An-
keny. 963-4500. 2843 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines.
274-4004. www.palmersdeliandmarket.com
Diner
Crouse Cafe: Crouse Café is located off Indianola’s Town Square – just a short drive from Des
Moines’ south side. The third-generation, familyrun 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. 961-3362.
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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.
Italian
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
Mediterranean
Fresh Mediterranean Express: Fresh meets
Waukee. When you enter our doors you will be
greeted by the sights, sounds and 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.
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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
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Pizza
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
www.jethrosdesmoines.com.
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, 515-287-0848;
Mills Civic Parkway, West Des Moines 515-333-5665
and Bass Pro Drive, Altoona 515-957-9600.
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
slow-roasted 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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A bigger and better Beer Can Alley
By Ashley Buckowing
T
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living in Iowa
might seem dull,
lackluster and full of
corn. To those of us
who live here, however, Des Moines has
a great mixture of smalltown simplicity and big-city ex- t r a v a gance — with some cornfields in between.
When people come here from other cities,
the locals’ love for their state is magnetic.
So when business owners want to channel
the classic Iowa feel into their bars, there are
three major requirements: friendly people,
loud country music and beer. A lot of beer.
Slip on your cowboy boots, throw on
your jean jacket and check out Beer Can Alley’s new third-floor location, which opened
recently where the Venue was formerly located on Court Avenue, next to The Exchange.
“The one thing I want people to know
is that it’s still the same Beer Can feel that
you had from the first floor,” explained Ted
Hawley, one of the bar’s owners. When Beer
Can Alley was still located on the first floor,
the space was small and did not have the capacity to hold everyone who wanted to stop
in. Lines were always long, and the bar was
so busy it took too long to get a drink in
216 Court Ave., Des Moines 50309
(515) 554-2606
Sun.–Wed.: 7 p.m. – 2 a.m.
Thurs.–Sat. 5 p.m. – 2 a.m.
Live music every Thursday night
Country bar enthusiasts and nightlife lovers alike will enjoy every aspect of the new
and improved Beer Can Alley.
every customer’s hands. The first floor could
hold about 250 people, and 50-70 less than
that if a live band was playing.
“I know that the biggest fear that a lot
of our fans had is that we would change the
whole feel of the bar,” said Hawley. “It’s still
Beer Can Alley. We took everything that was
good with the first floor, but the things that
needed to be changed we were able to change
with the added space of the third floor.”
The location has changed, but the look,
feel, environment and overall appeal of Beer
Can Alley is still there. Same great drinks,
same great music and same great bartenders
and wait staff.
“The best part is that we have the same
amount of bartenders in a bigger space, so
the flow of the bar is better now, and people
can move better; it’s easier to get drinks,”
Hawley said when explaining how the
changes have benefited the bar’s business.
Another benefit to the larger venue is the
spacious area designated for pool, bags and
darts. No more messing up someone’s pool
game when your wild dance moves get out
of hand, which is a major plus.
Thursday Night Live is still a featured
night at the bar, and with the larger stage
area and dance floor, it’ll be a whole new experience for guests. The owners plan to have
live music more often on weekends, thanks
to the better layout. Visit the Beer Can Alley Facebook page for details on upcoming
events and band information.
For a bar that’s 90 percent country and
10 percent just a damn good time, it’s likely
to continue filling up its new, bigger space
just as well as it did the original. So grab your
best flannel, dig out those cowboy boots (we
know you have them) and get ready for the
biggest country party outside of the barn. CV
Thursday, April 9
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ART & GALLERIES
sMaking Art Public. Making Art Public explores the
beauty and history of public art in Iowa, 9 a.m. State
Historical Museum of Iowa.
s Wall of Iowans Museum Exhibit. This new
interactive exhibit display uses a large projection to
show images and biographical information of nearly 30
Iowans – from Peggy Whitson and Meredith Willson to
Carrie Chapman Catt and Alexander Clark – who made
important contributions to our state, nation, world
or respective fields of work. 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. State
s Battle Flag Hall Museum Exhibit. Explore the
stories behind more than a dozen battle flags from the
Museum’s collection, including national and regimental
flags from the Civil War (including a Confederate flag),
Spanish-American War and World War I. These battle
flags have been fully stabilized and preserved, and will
be on display through summer 2015, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
State Historical Museum of Iowa.
s Chris Vance plus Sculpture Exhibit. One of
the region’s most prolific artists returns for his annual
exhibit with new works that are reminiscent of his past
while hinting at a future style and new direction. A back
gallery installation focused on sculpture will accompany
the exhibit. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Moberg Gallery.
BENEFIT/CHARITY/FUNDRAISER
s Ankeny MOPS Silent Auction. Ankeny MOPS
Silent Auction to be run between March 25 and April
8. Because “It Takes A Village,” April 9 is the chance
to support Ankeny MOPS, a supportive Christian
organization for Mothers of Preschoolers, by bidding
on Walt Disney World passes, a night stay golf package
at Honey Creek Resort, a Fred Hoiberg-autographed
basketball, and much more at our biennial silent auction,
7 p.m. Ankeny Free Church.
CHILDREN/FAMILY
sIce skating. Our warm and safe synthetic ice surface
called “Super Glide” is easy for beginner skaters, 1 p.m.
The Ice Ridge.
CONCERTS/LIVE MUSIC
s The Soul Searchers. Blues, no cover, 9 p.m., The
Greenwood Lounge.
s Iowa Blues Challenge Solo / Duo and Band
Competitions. Eastside Brothers, Bodley & Cantrell
and “Freight Train” Frank Strong, 8 p.m., Zimm’s Food
& Spirits.
EVENT
s Beginner Bridge Lessons. Whether you are a
beginner or returning to bridge, it’s a perfect place to
start. Learn the basics of bidding, play and defense.
Join the fun at these weekly classes. $40 for an eightweek course (plus bonus lesson) or $5 per week as a
refresher course. Course book price = $15. Contact Mike
Smith, 515-991-3193, 6 p.m. Greater Des Moines Bridge
Center.
FAITH & PHILOSOPHY
s The Common Thread. Discussions pertaining to
Spiritual / Metaphysical studies, 10:30 a.m. 414 31st St.
in basement of Unity Church.
HEALTH/SUPPORT GROUPS
s Opiate Support Group for Women. Call 6337968 or 274-3904 for questions and to RSVP. 7 p.m.
Friends House Conference Room. 4211 Grand Ave.
KARAOKE
s Thursday Night Karaoke. 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. AJ’s on
East Court. 419 East Court Ave. Des Moines.
s Karaoke. 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. Beaver Tap. 4041
Urbandale Ave. Des Moines.
s Karaoke At The Camelot. 7-10 p.m. Family hour
from 7-8 p.m. The Talent Factory. 1114 6th St. Nevada.
LECTURE/WORKSHOP
s BusinessLaunch! Class runs 12 sessions, meeting
every Tuesday and Thursday evening for six weeks, $350,
6 p.m. ISED Ventures Women’s Business Center.
s Fingerman Lecture 2015: Roberta Smith.
Roberta Smith is the co-chief art critic for The New
York Times. Space is limited. Reservations are required,
please make your FREE reservation beginning March 3
by visiting www.desmoinesartcenter.org and click on the
EVENT RESERVATION bubble on the homepage or by
phone at 271-0313, 6:30 p.m. Des Moines Art Center.
sSmart Talk - Tina Brown. Tina Brown is an awardwinning journalist, editor and author. 7-9 p.m. Hoyt
Sherman Place.
MISCELLANEOUS
s Departures. As part of the International Film
Series, Drake University will be hosting the Japanese
film “Departures” subtitled in English. Sponsored by
Evans Foundation, World Languages and Cultures, and
Principal Financial Group Center for Global Citizenship.
7-9 p.m., Drake University, Aliber Hall 101.
SPORTS
s Iowa Wild vs. Rockford IceHogs. 7 p.m., Wells
Fargo Arena.
THEATRE AND COMEDY
s Open Mic. The Last Laugh Comedy Theater’s open
mic night for aspiring comics. Admission is free. 8-10
p.m. The Last Laugh Comedy Theater. 1701 25th St. West
Des Moines.
s “To Kill A Mockingbird.” Now touring its 65th
consecutive year, the National Players will be performing
Harper Lee’s classic “To Kill A Mockingbird” at the Pella
Saturday, April 11
9 p.m.
Star Bar, 2811 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines
Opera House, 7 p.m. Pella Opera House.
s “The Workshop” a Sketch Comedy Show.
Sketch comedy show featuring local comedic writers,
actors, improvisers and stand-ups who collaborated their
talents and skill sets to build one full show. Admission
is free, $1 off domestic beers! Workshop will be after
the comedy open mic from 7:30-9 p.m. The Last Laugh
Comedy Theater.
Friday
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sTrunk Show. Meet with a Sticks designer and watch
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inspirations! Up to 15 percent upcharge waived for this
exclusive event! Seats are limited - call today to make
your appointment! 282-0844 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sticks
East.
sGallery Night with Special Guest Jill Wilhelm.
Gallery Night offers art lovers and art novices alike,
an opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of exhibitions,
opening receptions, special events, demonstrations, and
refreshments at the Palek Studio & Gallery. Free and open
to the public. Come enjoy an evening of grandiose fun!
6:30-9 p.m. Palek Studio & Gallery.
s Women Helping Women. The event offers
stimulating, motivational speakers and an exceptional
opportunity for networking. Join us to hear Roxanne
Conlin, nationally recognized attorney and advocate
for civil justice, share entertaining and inspiring stories
of how she has assisted women in need throughout
her remarkable career. Luncheon reservations are $ 75
and $50 for those 35 and younger; OR be recognized
as a Women Helping Women Leader - $200 includes a
reservation. Call 274-4006 or email [email protected] to
make a reservation today. 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Embassy
Suites Hotel.
CHILDREN/FAMILY
The Ice Ridge.
s$5 Family Night. Kick off your weekend by building
a rocket, traveling through outer space in one of SCI’s
dynamic experience platforms or experiencing a largerthan-life IMAX film with extended hours, 5-8 p.m.
Science Center of Iowa.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 12 1 – 4 PM
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music, and science at the Art Center. Enjoy multidisciplinary activities,
demonstrations, student performances, and museum experiences.
Light refreshments will be available.
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Des Moines Art Center,
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sBob Pace & The Dangerous Band. World Famous
Work Release Party with guitar-driven blues, R&B, funk
and classic rock. Always a Blast! 4:30-7:30 p.m., Gas
Lamp.
s Rick Burke. Acoustic, no cover, 9 p.m., The
Greenwood Lounge.
sAbby Normal. Rock, 9 p.m., Bourbon Street Bar and
Grill.
sFinal Mix Show Band. 9 p.m. - 1 a.m., Ingersoll Tap.
s Jazz Happy Hour. The best in local and regional
Jazz in a funky basement club reminiscent of Greenwich
Village circa 1960. Catered food. All Ages. See the
website for band schedule www.synergyjazz.org, 5:307:30 p.m., The Basement @ Des Moines Social Club.
sDamon Dotson. 9:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m., Star Bar.
sDavid Zollo. Blues, rock, 8 p.m. - 12 a.m. Finish Line
Show Lounge.
s Mike Aceto. Live music with Mike Aceto. 9 p.m.
Benchwarmers. 705 S. Ankeny Blvd. Ankeny.
sCharlson Trio with Gina Severino-Gedler. Vocal
stylings, 7-10 p.m. Chuck’s Restaurant.
s Lincoln RockHouse. Lincoln RockHouse is fast
moving party music, but we’re not afraid to slow down
and show a little bit of heart. 8 p.m., Misfits Pub & Grub.
KARAOKE
sFriday Night Karaoke. 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. AJ’s on East
Court. 419 East Court Ave. Des Moines.
s Fireball Friday Karaoke. 9-11:45 p.m. Overboard
Sports Bar. 1101 Army Post Road.
sKaraoke. 9:30 p.m. - 1 a.m. Striker’s Sports Bar. 655
N.E. 56th St. Pleasant Hill.
s Karaoke. Weekly karaoke challenges with prizes to
be won. 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Okoboji Grill Ankeny. 2010 S.E.
Delaware. Ankeny.
sKaraoke with Live Music Videos. 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Mickey’s Irish Pub Waukee. 50 S.E. Laurel St. Waukee.
Saturday
MISCELLANEOUS
sOpen Mic Karaoke Night. Open 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.
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ART & GALLERIES
them draw your new piece using your imagery, ideas,
and inspirations! Up to 15 percent upcharge waived
for this exclusive event! Seats are limited - call today
to make your appointment! 515-282-0844 10 a.m.-6
p.m., Sticks East.
s Slow Art Day. Attend a drop-in, docent-led tour
SPORTS
s Iowa Wild vs. Oklahoma City Barons. 7 p.m.,
Wells Fargo Arena.
THEATRE AND COMEDY
s The Last Laugh Mainstage Show. We perform
games like those seen on TV’s “Whose Line Is It,
Anyway?” getting the audience in on the action by
using their suggestions and even getting them up on
stage, 7:30-9 p.m./9:30-11 p.m. The Last Laugh Comedy
Theater.
s “The Diary of Anne Frank.” $15-$30. 7:30 p.m.
Des Moines Social Club Kum and Go Theater.
s “Around the World in 80 Days.” Hold onto
your seats for the original amazing race! Join fearless
adventurer Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant,
Passepartout, as they race to beat the clock. Danger,
romance and comic surprises abound in a whirlwind
show in which five actors portray 39 characters as they
traverse the globe. Des Moines Community Playhouse.
s Comedienne Sonya White. Sonya White
combines southern charm with big city street smarts to
create a show that won her multiple appearances on
CBS’ “Star Search” and a promo spot on NBC’s “Last
Comic Standing 4. 8-10 p.m. The Talent Factory.
s “Francine’s Will.” $10-$15. 7:30 p.m. Ankeny
Community Theatre. 1932 S.W. 3rd St. Ankeny.
Summer
from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. or explore the museum on
your own. Participating is simple. 1. Browse our list of
recommended pieces and spend 10-15 minutes with
one (or more of them) 2. Share your experience on social
media using #DSMSlowArtDay 3. Claim your Slow Art
Day participation prize at the Art Center front desk. 10
a.m. - 4 p.m., Des Moines Art Center.
s Sit on It! The Young Women’s Resource
Center Benefit. Be part of the solution while enjoying
a delicious dinner in a candlelight setting as you support
a much-needed resource in our community. The Young
Women’s Resource Center offers in-school, after school
and summer programs that support young women, ages
10-21, as they deal with issues in our very complex
world. 5:30-9:30 p.m., Community Choice Credit Union
Convention Center at Veterans Auditorium.
BOOKS/AUTHOR
s Meet the Author - Elaine Erickson. In addition
to composing poems, Erickson composes music. She has
written five operas, and a variety of chamber, orchestral
and choral works. 1:30-2:30 p.m., Beaverdale Books.
CHILDREN/FAMILY
sMuseum Trek: A Closer Look at the Exhibits.
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.
The Ice Ridge.
CONCERTS/LIVE MUSIC
s Brazilian 2wins. Doors open for Margarita Happy
hour at 7:30 p.m., band starts at 9:30 p.m., Palacio
Events Center.
sAbby Normal. Rock, 9 p.m., Bourbon Street.
s Bob Pace & The Dangerous Band. Blues, R&B,
funk and whatever kind of music turns you on! 4-7:30
p.m., Hawkeye Elks Lodge.
sRobert Gruca - Classical Guitarist. Robert Gruca
is an exciting guitarist who performs a wide range of
solo, chamber and concerto repertoire, 7:30-9 p.m.
Capitol Hill Lutheran Church.
s Final Mix Show Band. 9 p.m., Mickey’s Irish Pub,
Waukee.
sNo Glory. 9 p.m., Thirsty Sportsman.
s Fireside Music with Richard Spierenberg.
7-10 p.m., The Hotel Pattee.
s 2 Tall 4 You. Acoustic/vocal, 7-10 p.m., Chuck’s
Restaurant.
s Rob Ankum Trio. Rock, no cover, 9 p.m., The
Greenwood Lounge.
sMatt Woods. 9 p.m. - 12 a.m., Star Bar.
sSalem & Moore. 8-11 p.m. Trostel’s Dish.
sJacob County & the Damaged Goods. Rock, 8
p.m. - 12 a.m. Finish Line Show Lounge.
s DBSA (Depression/Bipolar Support).
“We’ve been there, we can help.” Contact Debbie at
[email protected] for more info. 2 p.m. Lutheran
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LECTURE/WORKSHOP
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heritage. Tickets are $10 per person and include a box
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s The Last Laugh Mainstage Show. The Last
Laugh Comedy Theater’s signature show. We perform
stage, 7:30-9 p.m./9:30-11 p.m. The Last Laugh Comedy
Theater.
s "Twelve Angry Jurors" auditions. 10 a.m. noon. Ankeny Community Theatre.
s “The Diary of Anne Frank.” $15-$30. 7:30 p.m.
Des Moines Social Club Kum and Go Theater.
s Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Founded
in 1994, Complexions’ groundbreaking mix of methods,
styles and cultures has created an entirely new and
exciting vision of human movement over the past 20
years. 7:30 p.m. Civic Center. 221 Walnut St. Des Moines.
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Four Seasons. Experience art, music, science and dance
through a variety of hands-on activities at a special Art
Sampler in conjunction with the Four Seasons Project, a
collaboration among DanzArts Studio, Des Moines Art
Center, Des Moines Symphony Academy, and Science
Center of Iowa. 1-4 p.m., Des Moines Art Center.
CONCERTS/LIVE MUSIC
sSunday Tunes. 3-6 p.m. Summerset Winery.
s Million Dollar Quartet. This thrilling Tony
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Memphis to Stephens and takes you inside the famed
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greatest jam session ever. 7 p.m. Stephens Auditorium.
Lincoln Way and University Boulevard. Ames.
s Iowa Blues Challenge Solo / Duo and Band
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and the Wingtips and Vinyl Vagabonds, 8 p.m., Zimm’s
Food & Spirits.
sSweet Sounds of Spring. A celebration of popular
music from the 1920s-1970s. 3-4:15 p.m. First Baptist
Church. 8250 N.W. 62nd St. Johnston.
FAITH & PHILOSOPHY
s Bible Study Classes/Worship Services. All
ages. Nursery provided. 9:30/10:45 p.m. New Life
Center. 1057 23rd St. Des Moines.
sAdult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) Meeting.
Free. Anonymous meeting. 11:15 a.m. Central
Presbyterian Church. 38th St and Grand Avenue Second Floor.
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CONCERTS/LIVE MUSIC
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sThe Pants Off Sing Off. 9 p.m. Whiskey Dixx. 215
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s Co-Ed Naked Karaoke. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Whiskey
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romance, and comic surprises abound in a whirlwind
s "Twelve Angry Jurors" auditions. 6:30-8:30
p.m. Ankeny Community Theatre.
s Stand Up Against Hunger. The Urbandale Food
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on Monday, April 13 to raise funds and enjoy some
stand-up comedy with Willie Farrell at the Funny Bone
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1057 23rd St. Des Moines.
Sunday, April 12
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Lounge.
sNAMI. Support group for persons coping with mental
health conditions. Peer oriented. 2 p.m. Plymouth
Church. 42nd and Ingersoll, Burling Room. Des Moines.
s Emotions Anonymous. 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.
KARAOKE
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s Flavaproductions DJ Rod. Karaoke and dancing.
8 p.m. - midnight. Yo Yo’s Bar and Grill. 2400 East Dean
Ave. Des Moines.
s Karaoke. Weekly karaoke challenges with prizes to
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Ankeny.
s Karaoke. 7 p.m. - 1:45 a.m. RockStar Bar and Grill.
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local landfill and recycling programs. You’ll even learn
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Jasper Winery.
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Conservation Board as we light up the night sky! Learn
about the valuable role fire plays in the prairie ecosystem
and watch how a prairie burn is done. This program is
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SPORTS
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Fargo Arena.
THEATRE AND COMEDY
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Man.” Hilarious new three-character comedy based on
the best-selling book of the same title, Tuesday-Friday,
7:30 p.m., Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday, 3 p.m. The Temple
Theater. 1011 Locust St. Des Moines.
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and inspirations! Up to 15% upcharge waived for this
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& Support. Contact Duane at 243-1742 or
[email protected] for more info. Skywalk
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Des Moines.
s Emotions Anonymous. 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.
KARAOKE
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sJ&M Karaoke. 7-11:30 p.m. Fazio’s University Tap.
NIGHTLIFE
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The Blazing Saddle. 416 E. 5th St. Des Moines.
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Mickey Finn’s. 7020 Douglas Ave. Urbandale.
THEATRE AND COMEDY
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Different show every night guaranteed. Free. 8 p.m. The
Last Laugh Comedy Theater. 1701 25th St. West Des
Moines.
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– Jordan Belfort
The Exchange operates on a dynamic pricing system. Prices are always fluctuating; the more popular a drink is, the higher its cost. This is how the market works
and that means you need to keep your eyes on the ticker (and on select TVs located throughout the bar). You can choose your drinks strategically based on the money
you’re willing to invest in your alcohol portfolio. The market is a fickle mistress and The Exchange is no exception.
Market crashes are guaranteed to occur, so buy up during the periodic crash windows when everything is available for rock bottom pricing.
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