(corned) beef?

Transcription

(corned) beef?

OUR 23rd YEAR / MARCH 12 - 18, 2015 / Central Iowa’s Alternative Newsweekly / www.dmcityview.com / FREE
INSIDE
where’s the
(corned)
beef?
And the cabbage? And the green
beer? Learn where and why we
celebrate these popular Irish
traditions on St. Patrick’s Day.
by Eleni Upah
The road to Wrestlemania
LOCKER ROOM sPAGE 16
Preach on
THE SOUND sPAGE 24
OpeningShot
By Dan Hodges
Flash dance
Chris
Franjola
March 11–14
Chris is currently a writer and a regular performer
on E!’s hit show Chelsea Lately. Chris also starred
on the scripted comedy series After Lately, which
aired for three seasons on E! He is also the host of
the Sons of Anarchy after show Anarchy Afterword,
airing live on FX. When he isn’t busy writing and
acting, he’s performing stand-up on the road,
headlining venues all over the country.
Untamed
Shrews
March 18–21
Sex education was never like this – and if it was
no one would have cut health class. A mix of
traditional stand-up, improv and music, The
Untamed Shrews is a bawdy variety show with
no limits that has been entertaining audiences for
more than a decade. Rated RRR for content.
John
Heffron
March 25–28
After winning the 2nd season of Last Comic
Standing, John’s popularity grew tremendously.
John’s amusing and extensive material has earned
him 3 specials on the hit stand-up show
Comedy Central Presents. He is a regular on
numerous TV shows. John’s youthful personality
and cynical wisdom result in a witty combination
that nobody can resist!
Purchase tickets online at
www.funnybonedm.com
Text DMFUNNY to 68247
for great deals, promotions & giveaways!
560 S. Prairie View Dr.
Suite 100
7EST'LEN4OWN#ENTERs7$-
Dancer Innah Raks was motion, spangles and color as she danced during the Holi celebration at El Palacio last Friday. CV
(515) 270-2100
2sCITYVIEWs-!2#(
Tell us what you think. Email your letter to [email protected].
#)496)%7s-!2#( s
YourView
MAR. 12 - 18, 2015
6/,s.5-
comments from our readers
Don’t punish public schools
PUBLISHER
EDITOR
CONTRIBUTORS
Shane Goodman
Darren Tromblay
Eleni Upah
Chad Taylor
Jim Duncan
Bill Frost
Joe Weeg
Brian Duffy
Dan Hodges
David Rowley
Patrick Boberg
Ashley Buckowing
DISTRIBUTION MGR
Brent Antisdel
SALES MGR
Ashley Sohl
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES
Chani Tancredi
Rebekah Olson
Katie Hawley
DESIGN MGR
Celeste Jones
ADVERTISING DESIGNERS
Karen Ericson
Tyler Nash
DIGITAL
Brian Olson
BUSINESS OFFICE MGR
Brent Antisdel
ADDRESS
5619 N.W. 86th St.
Suite 600
Johnston, Iowa 50131
PHONE
515-953-4822
FAX
515-953-1394
WEB
www.dmcityview.com
Advertising and calendar deadline: Every Friday at noon.
Fax 953-1394 or email [email protected].
Cityview® is delivered throughout central Iowa to more
than 700 locations every Wednesday and Thursday.
To request delivery of Cityview to your business, or to
inquire about our distribution services, call Brent Antisdel
at 515-953-4822, ext. 316. Annual mailed subscriptions
are available by mail at a rate of 52 issues for $49.
Cityview® is a weekly newspaper published by Big
Green Umbrella Media, Inc., an Iowa corporation.
Contents® 2014 Big Green Umbrella Media, Inc. All
rights reserved. Nothing may be reprinted in whole or
in part without permission of the publisher. First copy of
Cityview® is free at the newsstand. Subsequent copies
are $1 each. Copies of past issues, as available, may be
purchased for $3 each (plus shipping if required) from
the Cityview® offices. One copy per reader, please. It
is unlawful to remove copies in bulk; violators will be
prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
J
eff Jorgensen, Republican Pottawattamie County Chair, stated
that Sen. Gronstal needs to be discussing charter schools, virtual
schools, school voucher programs and homeschooling in order
to find solutions for public schools. It seems the focus should instead
be on what proven educational reforms needed to be implemented
in public schools. How can Iowa improve public schools by siphoning off funds to be used to benefit for-profit businesses and private
individuals? If a family chooses to homeschool, they should pay the
expenses and not the taxpayers. If a company wants to make a profit,
it should look to its students and not the taxpayers for financial help.
Since Iowa was settled by families, public education has been a top
priority. In 1858, the Iowa legislature passed an education bill making the civil township the official school district along with towns of
more than 1,000 residents. There are areas in Kentucky where illiteracy thrives due to no public education. Is that what Iowans want?
Julie Stewart Ziesman
Waukee
Glory days
In 1971, Dowling High School (in what I am sure was a cost-cutting
move) took yearbook photos of freshmen grouped together by homeroom. One of our classmates, Mike Kaas, stuck around the whole
day and slipped in to nearly every homeroom photo taken that day. I
bring this up because it appears Kevin Chen may have tried the same
thing in your “Cityview Best of Des Moines” photos. He’s everywhere. Then, although perhaps the thickest edition ever, I find to my
horror no Civic Skinny article. I almost demanded my money back.
Mike Rowley
Clive
Editor’s note: Civic Skinny is back. Kevin Chen is everywhere. And
your full subscription refund is in the mail.
A warning courtesy of Alabama
A federal district court judge ruled Alabama’s ban on marriage equality as unconstitutional. The United States Supreme Court declined
to issue a stay on the federal judge’s ruling. As such, both same-sex
and opposite-sex couples should now be able to marry in Alabama.
Except, well, not so fast. The Alabama Supreme Court’s Chief Justice
ordered Alabama judges to not grant marriage licenses to same-sex
couples. This order directly contradicts the federal court’s ruling and
Editorial Policies: Contact the publisher for permission to
reprint articles, cartoons or other portions of the paper.
Cityview® is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts.
All letters received become the property of the publisher.
We reserve the right to print letters in condensed form
and to edit them for libel.
the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to issue a stay on the federal court’s
ruling.
What does this mean? It means our nation’s great judicial system
on both the federal level and the state level entered a crisis. The word
“crisis” possibly seems too strong a word for some, but not for me.
This is about something more — something about our very existence
as citizens.
As an Iowan and an American, I am not sure what binds our wonderful country together. Did God create, or at the very least, have a
hand in guiding our founders to craft such an elaborate government?
Does our respect for the rule of law hold our delicate country together in a way God and/or the founders hoped the rule of law would
do just that? Unfortunately, I have no answer.
Whatever you think, I hope we can all agree on several basic
points. First, we live in the greatest country ever known. This is a
fact. Second, our system of government, although sometimes imperfect, is a system we as people rely on for justice. Third, and finally,
without the federal judicial system and each state’s judicial system
fully operating and existing in comity with the others, we quickly
become a nation not of united citizens, but a nation whose citizenry
exists without purpose.
Our purpose, after all, is to become whomever we wish, believe
whatever want, et cetera. Let us remember our individual, family,
group, state, and federal purposes while the needless constitutional
crisis unfolds in Alabama. We must not allow the system we should
be so proud of having to fall into the hands of people like the Alabama Supreme Court’s Chief Justice. After all, the judiciary protects
our freedoms. The judiciary is the last stop when others wish to harm
us. We cannot let one judicial officer trample upon our system of
nearly boundless freedom. This is the United States of America where
no one person is able to trample over our rights.
One last thing: As an Iowa boy, I cannot thank God, my family,
my friends, my fellow citizen and the state and federal governments
for the blessing I received by being born, raised and now settled in
Iowa. Even though our politics get a little shaky at times, I am confident in the goodness of my fellow Iowans.
Tyler Coe
Des Moines
Email your opinions to [email protected]. Mail to 5619 N.W. 86th St., Suite 600, Johnston, IA 50131. Fax us at 9531394. Please limit letters to 200 words or less. Cityview reserves the right to edit for length and clarity. The writer’s address
and daytime phone number will not be printed but must be given for verification.
cityview magazine
(comments unedited)
Cityview Magazine: What’s the first thing you plan to do once
all the snow has melted?
Cityview Magazine: What upcoming concert are you most
looking forward to?
Rob Burditt: Mow
Zeke Campbell: DHT and Apathy Syndrome tonight!
Shane Kennedy: Rev. Horton Heat
Kris Hudson: The Steepwater Band on March 25.
4sCITYVIEWs-!2#(
PollPosition
This week’s question
Do the benefits of a publicly financed Des
Moines convention hotel outweigh the risks?
P Yes, benefits are worth it
P No, risk of failure is too high
Scan the QR code to cast your vote,
or go to www.dmcityview.com
Results from last week’s poll
Should Iowa’s list of those who hold permits
to carry handguns be private or public?
Private
42%
Public
58%
ReTweets
(unedited)
@audipenny: [god, creating ducks] Just like put a surfboard mouth on a
big pigeon and make it like a loud idiot. I don’t know
@bridger_w: All I want from Uber is to be driven around until I fall
asleep, carried over the driver’s shoulder into my home, and tucked into
bed
@DamienFahey: Just heard someone screaming outside and my instinct
was to turn up the TV. Whatever the opposite of a superhero is, I’m that.
@sbellelauren: sometimes when i’m doing my taxes i’m like, maybe
prison would be easier
@LandonAshworth: When googling Gary Oldman I
highly suggest not forgetting the “R”
#)496)%7s-!2#( s
CivicSkinny
Judge list is cut to 11; Eric Branstad buys a house.
Did your child graduate in four years? Probably not.
E
leven people apparently have made
the cut for second interviews with
the Grassley pals who are screening
applicants to advise him on whom to back
for two open federal judgeships in Iowa.
Yes, Chuck Grassley is a Republican and
Barack Obama is a Democrat, but Grassley
isn’t just any Republican; he’s chair of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, which must
approve any Obama appointees before they
get to the full Senate. And Iowa no longer
has a Democratic Senator. So look for a deal
— a deal that will affect the Iowa judiciary.
The 11 are — Cityview is told:
State court judges Sean McPartland
of Cedar Rapids and Rebecca Goodgame
Ebinger, Larry McLellan and Karen Romano of Des Moines; federal magistrate
judges Helen Adams of Des Moines and
Len Strand of Sioux City; federal bankruptcy judge Thad Collins of Cedar Rapids;
assistant United States attorneys C. J. Williams and Patrick Reinert of Cedar Rapids,
and Steve Locher, a lawyer with the Belin
firm in Des Moines.
Romano was the choice of former Sen.
Tom Harkin, but the name was sent to the
White House late in the year and was one of
scores that the White House never acted on.
Two Des Moines lawyers who are tunedin to things like this say you might want to
put your money on Judge Ebinger. She’s a
Yale Law School graduate, clerked for Federal Appellate Judge Michael Melloy and
was an assistant U.S. Attorney both in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines before being
appointed to the state bench by Gov. Terry
Branstad in 2012.
If Ebinger ultimately joins the Federal
bench in Des Moines, it would mean that
all three active (as opposed to senior) judges
— Ebinger and John Jarvey and Stephanie
Rose — will be people who spent their entire lawyering career as prosecutors.
An Ebinger ruling will be the subject of
an Iowa Supreme Court hearing this week.
Former Indianola city attorney John Hoyman is appealing his fraud conviction of last
year. Among other things, he says Ebinger
should have recused herself from the case
since her daughter was the flower girl in the
wedding of Rob Sand, the assistant attorney
general who prosecuted the case. Sand and
Ebinger’s husband, Des Moines lawyer Louis Ebinger, are friends, court documents say.
Ebinger sentenced Hoyman to 10 years
in prison. …
Eric Branstad — one of the governor’s
sons — and his wife, Adrianne, have bought
6sCITYVIEWs-!2#(
a five-bedroom, four-bathroom home on
1.3 acres on 51st Street, south of Grand Avenue. The home was owned by Sheldon and
Roselind Rabinowitz and is part of a threehome compound that backs up to Ashworth
Park.
The other two homes are owned by Rose
Pomerantz, the widow of Marvin Pomerantz, and Harry and Pam Bookey. Roselind Rabinowitz and Marvin Pomerantz
were siblings. The conversations could be
pretty interesting when Branstad and Bookey meet in the driveway; Bookey is one of
the town’s more fervent Democrats.
The Branstads paid $447,500 for the
ranch-style house, which was built in 1961
and is assessed at $436,800. The house has
about 3,800 square feet of living space, and
the lot includes a tennis court that was built in
1980. County records also list the Branstads
as owners of a house in West Des Moines that
they bought for $210,000 in 2008 as well as
a condominium in West Des Moines that he
bought for $130,000 in 2004.
Eric Branstad is the Iowa Director of
America’s Renewable Future, a nonprofit
political organization that works to make
sure the government keeps the so-called renewable fuels standard, which greatly helps
Iowa’s ethanol companies.
A stately, 95-year-old home at 5500
Grand Avenue has sold for $900,000, the
highest price for any single-family home
in Polk County so far this year. The fourbedroom, three-bathroom, 4,000-square
foot brick-and-stucco home was sold by the
Tamara Stroh trust to William and Amy
O’Brien. David Stroh bought the home in
1998 for $375,000.
At about the time of the sale, Tamara
Stroh purchased a somewhat smaller brick
home on half an acre at 147 34th St., where
34th runs into Elmwood Drive. She paid
$529,000 to Zachary Eubank, who bought
the house in 2008 for $501,000. It is assessed at $412,900. …
Your tuition dollars at work: The fouryear graduation rate for the entering class of
2010 at the three state universities was 45.7
percent, according to data prepared for this
week’s meeting of the Board of Regents. The
six-year graduation rate for the class of 2008
was 70 percent at the University of Iowa, 68.9
percent at Iowa State University and 63.8 percent at the University of Northern Iowa.
The average employee at the universities
missed 7.2 days because of sickness last year.
That cost the schools $42.5 million. The average employee took 17.8 days of vacation —
COMMENT: THE REGENTS
Mary Andringa and Patty Cownie are welleducated, well-liked, well-known, well-connected — and wealthy — Iowa Republican women.
They surely will do a good job as new members of the Board of Regents.
And they surely will be confirmed by the
Iowa Senate.
Still….
The appointments once again show Gov.
Terry Branstad obeying the letter of the
law but just laughing at the spirit of it, sticking his thumb in the eye of the Iowa voter.
For with the addition of the two Republican
women, the nine-member board will have just
two Democrats on it. And one of those was a
registered Republican as recently as 2010 and
before that was registered as an independent.
Iowa law dictates the makeup of boards. If
a board has nine members, no more than five
can be of the same party. So the new Regents
board will comply. Republicans Andringa and
Cownie will join fellow Republicans Bruce
Rastetter, Milt Dakovich and Larry McKibben on the board.
The other four? Subashi Sahai, a doctor
from Webster City, has been a registered Democrat for at least the past 10 years, though his
only political contribution to a state candidate
in the past 8 years was a $5,000 check to Branstad last year. Katie Mulholland, an educator
from Marion, was a “no party” registrant until
June 2010, when she became a Republican.
A month later she registered as a Democrat;
shortly thereafter, she was appointed a Regent
— which already had a full complement of Republicans. Recently, she has contributed modestly to politicians of both parties.
Sherry Bates, the Scranton social worker
appointed to a two-year stub term last December, is registered as a “no party,” though
she has been a Democrat in the past. And Rachael Johnson, the recently appointed student Regent, also is a “no party,” according to
state records.
The departing Regents are Iowa City lawyer
Bob Downer, long a moderate Republican;
Cumming businesswoman Ruth Harkin,
whose Democratic credentials are never in
doubt, and University of Iowa senior Hannah
Walsh, whose experience includes stints as
an intern in the Mitt Romney campaign and
work for two Iowa Republican legislators.
The Board of Regents historically has been
nonpartisan. That image started to slip a bit
under Gov. Chet Culver — he pressed for a
pro-labor vote on a key issue — and now there
is little doubt. The shabby treatment of the proposed Harkin Institute and of Sen. Tom Harkin
— Iowa State graduate and prodigious gatherer of federal funds for the Regents schools
— by then-Board President Craig Lang is the
most outrageous political play, but there are
other examples. The latest: the exclusion of
labor from the committee screening candidates
for the presidency of the University of Iowa.
A Regent is supposed to act in the best
interest of the taxpayers and the students in
overseeing the administration of the universities, the hiring and firing of presidents, the
dealings with the Legislature, the reining in of
the board staff, and the overall atmosphere at
the universities. Most issues that come to the
board are routine, but some require open and
robust debate — debate that can shape the
atmospheres of the campuses, the futures of
students, the health of the universities and the
pockets of taxpayers.
That debate is stifled in boards that are run
by dictate or that are made up of people who
think alike. Where is the robust debate on the
University of Iowa’s continued ranking as one
of the top party schools in the nation, on its
appearance on a list of the top 10 schools that
threaten free speech on campus, or on the outrageous athletic budgets at the University of
Iowa and Iowa State University?
For example.
Andringa and Cownie, and presumably
student Johnson, will be fine additions to the
board, without a doubt. There’s no doubt that
Andringa and Cownie are dedicated Iowans
who love the state and who will do their
homework, think independently and speak out
during the next six years.
Still…. CV
about three-and-a-half weeks — in addition
to the nine paid holidays and two unscheduled days off that are part of state policy.
And the universities spent $563.2 million for insurance and retirement programs
last year. About 24,000 employees are covered by the TIAA-CREF retirement plan,
and the universities contribute a sum equal
to 10 percent of an employee’s salary into
the plan; the employee contributes another
5 percent. Another 5,500 or so employees
are covered by IPERS; the universities contribute 8.93 percent into IPERS and the employee contributes 5.95 percent.
Finally, the average salary for a professor at the University of Iowa in 2013 was
$135,342 for an academic year; at Iowa
State, it was $122,279, and at UNI it was
$77,274. At the University of Iowa medical
school, the average was $315,500. CV
— Michael Gartner
Joe’sNeighborhood
By Joe Weeg
Reflections of a 50-year-old cop
T
he hallway is empty. High ceilings
stretch off in the distance. Dark
woodwork marks the openings for
doorways hidden in shadowed recesses.
And a low murmur of voices provides background. One-thousand-six-hundred voices
to be exact. Oh, yeah, and one cop.
I follow the directions from the front
desk. Right. Then left. Then another left.
“And then you’re there. On the right.”
Now was that a right, then a left?
“I still hear the stories about my dad when
he was a police officer. It was a different time
back then. My dad grew up boxing. He was
an east-side boxer. He brought that knowledge to my brother and me. We both knew
how to fight. I grew up fighting. It’s come in
handy sometimes.
I ask the guy at the front desk to give
me the directions again. It doesn’t help. I
know I am somewhere in Roosevelt High
School. Lost for sure. Wandering the halls
looking for the promised land. Will I have to
re-enroll in high school?
“I was aggressive in my early career. I was
23 when I came on to the Des Moines Police
Department. I was probably immature. But
I had a goal to put as many bad guys in jail
as I could. With maturity came understanding. It is not always about putting bad guys
in jail. I was on the SWAT team for 20
years. I was in the gang unit for nine years. I
worked the east side on patrol. I was in the
most aggressive areas of the department.”
I continue down the hallway. A little
worried. Knowing that at any minute a bell
will ring, the doors along the hall will open,
and I’ll be swept away into teenage angst.
Not a pretty sight. I didn’t do so well the
first time around.
“I wanted to be where the excitement
was. Where it was 100 mph with my hair
on fire all the time. Chasing people. Being
shot at. All that stuff was great, and exciting,
and never the same thing twice. That’s why
I loved the job. I absolutely loved it. And if
they would have told me we’re going to take
away half your pay, I would have still done
it.”
Finally, a voice calls my name at the far
end of a long hallway. A waving figure in
blue, handsome in a rakish way, with a big
smile and a balanced stance, laughing and
beckoning me with open arms. A man who
is not lost.
“Like I say, with maturity and understanding, things started to change. It was a
learned thing. It came from a lot of older policemen. They told me, it’s not all about put-
ting people in jail; it’s about changing lives.”
Des Moines Officer Mike Moody gave
me a big hug. Yes, a hug. Is this the crazy kid
I taught in police recruit class 26 years ago?
Whose enthusiasm to get the bad guys made
me more than a little nervous? Who was so
certain of himself it made me uncertain? Is
this really Mike Moody? A school resource
officer? It can’t be.
“My
job
now is to provide a safe
place for these
kids to come
and get an
education.
I
take it a step
further. I want
to get to know
these kids, get
to know what’s going on in their heads,
in their families, what they do outside of
school. So if they have a problem, they can
feel comfortable coming to me, talking to
me about it. It’s a completely different law
enforcement. I went from kicking in doors
and pointing guns at people, telling them
to get on the ground, to sitting down in an
office with a 16-year-old kid and just trying to figure out what’s going on in his or
her life. To see what I can do to help them
out. It’s cool. It’s a great change. It’s an awesome change. I love it.”
Officer Moody is interrupted as we sit in
his office.
“What’s up, Anthony?”
“Hi Jordan.”
“Hello Michael.”
Clearly, I was occupying a chair reserved
for these kids.
Officer Moody began to tell stories. A
boy climbing up on a building at the shopping center to hold up a sign asking a girl to
homecoming. A gang kid learning to trust
Officer Moody as he relentlessly engaged the
kid at school — day after day after day. Two
girls being spiteful to a third girl, taking her
purse, texting where the purse was located,
and then the two girls crying in remorse in
Officer Moody’s office. This isn’t complicated. Right and wrong, poor behavior and
good character, wallowing and getting on
with the task. Life lessons. Everyone ends
up with Officer Moody for a chat sooner or
later.
“I have a good rapport with many of these
kids because I have the same maturity level.”
Officer Moody laughs at himself — slow
and easy. “I still haven’t grown up. When I
was 15 years old, I told my dad, ‘When I
grow up I want to be a policeman.’ He said,
‘Son, you can’t do both.’ I never understood
what that meant until now.”
So this tough, aggressive, in-your-face
cop sits behind a desk at Roosevelt High
School in Des Moines, Iowa. Buying lunches for the senior basketball players, just so he
can find out about their plans and make sure
they have a future. Encouraging a freshman
basketball player to persevere, when he sees
the kid pouting on the bench. Shaking the
outstretched hands of fathers he’s arrested,
because the fathers are thrilled Officer
Moody is watching over their kids.
“This is the greatest school on earth. I
swear to God. It has the best administrators,
the best teachers, and the best kids. Kids
from south of Grand, kids from the ’hood,
kids from the east side, and they all come
here. I have not seen anything about racism;
it is everybody hanging out together. If our
city was as good as this school, we’d have no
problems.”
Happy as a clam, Officer Moody is home.
REGISTER
NOW!
SPRING
REGISTRATION
IS NOW OPEN!
“This is the best job on earth. I get paid
to build relationships with kids that I actually like. I get actual feelings for these
kids. I say to them, ‘Dude, I get to know
you for four years. We are going to be great
friends. Do you want to know the worst part
of this job? When you graduate.’ ”
Officer Moody’s eyes glisten at the very
thought. Really?
“I love the job, Joe. I can’t say enough
about it.”
And Officer Moody leads me out of Roosevelt High School. Safe and sound. 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.
#)496)%7s-!2#( s
GuestView
By Kent Carlson
Charmed, I’m sure
M
aybe it was the period in time I
was raised, or maybe it was who
raised me, but the term “charming” really wasn’t a big part of my vocabulary. At least not until I met my friend,
Dennis. Dennis was about 15 years older
than me. He not only introduced me to the
term, he was charming. He was a bit of a
scoundrel, but charming nonetheless. In
fact, charm goes a long way in winning over
people. Over time I really appreciated the
term, as well as Dennis. It’s not a term that
is used often these days, and I think for good
reason. The concept isn’t really appreciated.
That indefinable little element that takes
something from being kind of interesting to
downright charming seems to be disappearing with the generations.
Several decades ago, there was a wonderful little event in Greenwood Park called
“Art in the Park.” It wasn’t terribly formal.
It was a gathering of artisans of different
interests who shared their craft with others
in what seemed to be a magical forest. It
smelled of nature. Shafts of sunlight would
shine through the towering oaks creating a
natural light show during the day. People
could bring a blanket and some lunch and
hang out elsewhere in the park enjoying the
shade or the sun while taking in our Iowa
summer. It was...charming.
But, as is often the case, success brought
change. “Art in the Park” grew in size and
scope. Parking became a challenge. Rain
sometimes brought slick, muddy hillsides.
Organizers decided to move the event several times and changed the name to “The Des
Moines Arts Festival.” More vendors, more
artists, more attendees. The event has finally
settled in the Western Gateway.
Another one of my favorite, unique Des
Moines events has been the Salisbury Concours d’Elegance, a world-class show of classic vehicles on the grounds of the world-class
Salisbury Mansion. I thought it a miracle,
and a bit of genius, when organizers managed to combine a fabulous landmark with
landmark vehicles for the public to enjoy.
The Salisbury House and grounds are an
amazing gift to Des Moines that I never tire
of. It is hard for me to describe the joy the
event has been for those who appreciate the
artistry found in great automobile marques
and great architecture. It’s a step back to the
Gatsby era and all the charm that goes with
it.
Once again, the success of an event has
The
hieftains
C
with Paddy Moloney
Friday, March 13 • 7:30 pm
Sponsored by
Purchase
Tickets Today
Starting
at $20!
Stephens Auditorium Ticket Office (no service fees) • ticketmaster.com • 1-800-745-3000 • Ticketmaster Outlets
8sCITYVIEWs-!2#(
forced it to move. It is now the “Des Moines
Concours d’Elegance.” And like the arts festival, it now takes place in the Western Gateway. Missing from the event is the Salisbury
House, and the elegance it brought to the
show.
My two favorite summertime activities in Des Moines now take place on the
asphalt in downtown Des Moines. It seems
charm is inversely proportionate to success.
The Western Gateway has all the charm
of a Wal-Mart parking lot, with some odd
sculptures thrown in for conversation pieces.
Traipsing across steaming asphalt to look at
art or classic automobiles is hardly charming
or unique, no matter how convenient it is
to organizers. I’m sure city hall is thrilled to
have something to fill the vacuum they created by imploding blocks of downtown Des
Moines. For me, the thrill is gone. And so is
the charm. CV
Kent Carlson is a native Iowa artist interested
in the preserving Iowa’s architectural heritage
and the common sense of its leaders. And he
writes a few columns for Cityview, too.
GuestView
By Herb Strentz
A modest suggestion: Give up ignorance for Lent
S
uccumbing to the temptation that one usually knows what is better for others, may I
suggest that instead of giving up chocolate, gin or cursing for Lent, we’d be a lot better
off if people would give up ignorance. Give it a try. Forsake ignorance, if only just for
what’s left of the 40 days of Lent.
That notion occurred as I leafed through the March issue of National Geographic, in
which the cover story, THE WAR ON SCIENCE, is a horror story all its own — peppered
as it is with graphic lift outs such as “A THIRD of Americans believe humans have existed
in their present form since time began” and “LESS THAN HALF of all Americans believe
the Earth is warming because humans are burning fossil fuels,” along with lines about people
who believe Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were pranksters in a hoax about landing on the
moon.
Predictably, for me, this led to revisiting a favorite quote from the play, “Inherit The
Wind,” a drama about the so-called 1925 “Monkey Trial” over the teaching of evolution in
Tennessee.
On the witness stand, the anti-evolutionist William Jennings Bryan character asks the
courtroom to consider the defense attorney, Clarence Darrow: “Is it possible that something
is holy to the celebrated agnostic?”
“Yes!” Darrow replies. “The individual human mind. In a child’s power to master the
multiplication table there is more sanctity than in all your shouted ‘Amens!’ ‘Holy Holies!’
and Hosannahs!’ An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man’s
knowledge is more of a miracle than…the parting of waters.”
Those lines still resonate this Lenten season, perhaps even as much as the Sunday Old
Testament Lesson or the Epistle or the Gospel for the day. Indeed, the idea of giving up
ignorance for Lent is reinforced everywhere, it seems.
In an op-ed piece for The New York Times — Happy Talk History — Timothy Egan
notes that not only are many political leaders in denial of science, as noted in National Geographic, they’re also in denial of history. Because history courses were not sufficiently proAmerican and pro-Biblical, Egan wrote, Oklahoma “State Rep. Dan Fisher, a Republican,
a Baptist minister and an active promoter of the view that church must meddle more in the
affairs of state… got a legislative committee to approve an ‘emergency bill’ to ban A.P. history
courses for college credit in Oklahoma high schools.”
The “good news” Egan writes is “Fisher has been mocked, mercilessly, in his home state.
His legislation seeks to deny high school students access to a voluntary program that offers
them college credit — a leg up in life, and a tuition-saver.”
The not-so-good news is that denial of science and denial of history is in vogue. The
National Geographic notes, “We live in an age when all manner of scientific knowledge —
from the safety of fluoride and vaccines to the reality of climate change — faces organized
and often furious opposition.” Empowered by their own certainty and reinforced by fellow
believers, “doubters have declared war on” well-founded consensus.
Small wonder that satirist Andy Borowitz of The New Yorker should write, “In the hopes
of appealing to Republican primary voters, candidates for the 2016 Presidential nomination
are working around the clock to unlearn everything that they have learned since the third
grade, aides to the candidates have confirmed. “With the Iowa caucuses less than a year away,
the hopefuls are busy scrubbing their brains of basic facts of math, science, and geography in
an attempt to resemble the semi-sentient beings that Republican primary voters prize.”
That seems an invitation to Iowa to counter fear-driven and fear-driving candidates by
giving up ignorance for Lent. And maybe beyond? CV
Lyrics to “If I Only Had A Brain”
(As a GOP theme song — with apologies to Oz’s scarecrow)
We could do away with Perrys
With Carsons and with Christies
And with the man from Bain
We could do real soul searchin’
Instead of phony churchin’
If we only had a brain
We’d listen to the people
And not just the creep who’ll
Bankroll our campaign
With the thoughts we’d be thinkin’
We could be the party of Lincoln
Oh, we could do so much
To close the income gap
Cope with climate change, take ISIS
off the map
And then dysfunction we could zap
We’d wonder ‘bout Giuliani
Our latter-day McCarthy
Good grief! The guy’s a pain
We would do our ‘nash-nul’ duty
Forsakin’ guys like Rudy
We would not just be a poutin’
Trumpin’, hatin’ and shoutin’
And just plain raisin’ Cain
We could win the election
Say goodbye to dis-affection
If we only had a brain CV
Skip downtown congestion
and high prices!
Come home to high quality
downtown living.
./#)-65(̓;51)5,))'-5R5/,(#-"5;5( /,(#-"
Herb Strentz is a retired administrator and professor in the Drake School of Journalism and Mass Communication and writes occasional columns for Cityview.
Immediate approvals and move-ins.
PARK PLACE APARTMENTS
lgk5,%5.,.5R5-5)#(-
515-284-5900
#)496)%7s-!2#( s
:
DESTINATION
VALLEY JUNCTION
ENTERTAINMENT
EVENTS | FOOD
DRINK | SHOPPING
Spring Has Sprung at
The Funky Zebras
Valley Junction
TH3TREETs
Urbandale
$OUGLAS!VENUEs
Ankeny
3%/RALABOR2OADs
FUN FOR EVERYONE
137
FIFTH STREET | 555.3642 | VALLEYJUNCTION . COM
hop
to
it!
get your delicious
treats today
Nan’s Nummies
mon–sat 9:30am–5:30pm Ï sun 12pm–5pm
5th and elm Ï valley junction in wdm
277.2201 Ï www.nansnummies.com
NAN’S NUMMIES
Nan's Nummies is going on 27 years in business. Nan makes all
the cookies, brownies, bars, Dutch letters and fudge in the store
from scratch. The frosted sugar cookies have sour cream and
almond flavor and are one of our best-selling products. The Dutch
letters are big and full of almond paste filling. The fudge is made
one pan at a time with special care. Nan’s also carries a large
selection of bulk candy, chocolates, sugar-free chocolates, Jelly
Bellies, taffy and three brands of truffles. They have a limited
number of Easter eggs covered in chocolate, with flavors of
coconut, raspberry, sea salt caramel and buttercream. Nan also
has a long arm quilting business, two papillons, loves to read and
to hand appliqué.
10sCITYVIEWs-!2#(
$10 OFF
With a $50 Purchase
ENTERTAINMENT | EVENTS | FOOD | DRINK | SHOPPING
FUN FOR EVERYONE
VALLEYJUNCTION . COM
Spring Cleaning?
BUY ONE GET ONE
FREE!
Are your precious family photos hidden, gathering dust,
getting torn or faded in drawers and boxes?
Gather them up!
to share or display proudly.
can restore and print new photos
Vacationwear Year Round
Do you have boxes and drawers crammed with photos, slides,
movies and videos? SCAN/TRANSFER to CD or DVDs today!
*In store details.
Exp: 3/21/15
Estimates are always FREE!
113 5th Street, West Des Moines
TUES, WED,FRI 9–6; THU 9–7; SAT 10–5
515/288-6888
SEE SAMPLE RESTORATION AT alexandersphoto.com
Dressing you artfully from head to toe!
115 5th Street t West Des Moines
515-557-0740 t facebook.com/ivylaneiowa
FIGHT AGING SKIN.
BETTER SKIN STARTS WITH US.
Our dermatologist and skin experts specialize in affordable monthly
skin treatments and memberships programs designed to target
and fight the signs of aging, allowing you to age gracefully and
always look your best.
$50 OFF
your first
treatment
$150 or more.
Expires 4/1/15.
MedSpa
Sign up for a
membership and
get 1 month
Expires 4/1/15.
120 - 5th STREET WEST DES MOINES
www.skingymbyashley.com
FREE!
515.330.1123
#)496)%7s-!2#( s
RapSheet
Compiled by CV Staff
Two of a kind?
MERLE HAY
Vanilla Ice is back with a
brand new invention? No,
this time it’s a conviction.
He was arrested on Feb. 18
on burglary and theft charges. He stole approximately
$3,500 worth of furniture
from a Florida home. Ice
claims he thought the items
were OK to take because they were on the curb.
However, his “Vanilla Ice Project” crew allegedly claims that they were instructed to go inside the vacant house and take specific things.
Ice could face prison time.
free-throw
event
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.
SHOOT 10
The Urbandale Police Department is seeking help in
identifying two individuals in regard to a theft at a
local business. The first suspect was last seen wearing
dark pants, a dark sweater, and a black hat with white
lettering. The second was last seen wearing a varsitystyle jacket, dark pants and earrings. The third was
last seen wearing gold-colored pants, a dark jacket
with four different white animals on the front, and
a black hat with white lettering. The three suspects
were last seen driving away in a black Sedan-style vehicle. If you or anyone you know has any information
about this case or the individuals involved, contact
the Urbandale Police Department at 278-3926 or the
Polk County Crime Stoppers at 223-1400.
FOR A CHANCE TO WIN
$
20!&
REGISTER
FOR A CHANCE TO WIN
A
500
$
SHOPPING SPREE!
Blotter — Des Moines
Mystery thief
Police responded to a burglary on March 1.
Jodi Hastings lives at her home with her son,
Andrew, who was planning to move out of
his mother’s house in the upcoming weeks.
Andrew was planning to take some old furniture of his mother’s that she didn’t want anymore. On March 1, Hastings returned home
from being out of town on business to find
items from her home missing. She noted that
her mirror, clock, filing cabinet and lamp
were gone. She called Andrew about the
items, but he said he didn’t know anything
about it. Hastings stated that she felt her windows looked to be tampered with, and she
believed that someone broke into her home.
Police didn’t find enough evidence of breaking and entering, but Andrew was planning
to come home to help his mom figure it out.
March 13 &14
FROM
Noon - 5 PM
IN FRONT OF KOHL’S
S P O N S O R E D BY
MerleHayMall.com
3800 MERLE HAY ROAD | DES MOINES, IA 50310 | 515.276.8551
12sCITYVIEWs-!2#(
He’s not a rapper, but this man
is also back with
a brand new
conviction here
in Des Moines.
Brian Field was
also arrested on
Feb. 18 for theft.
Field, 45, was taken to Polk County
Jail around 9 p.m. His bail was set at
$300.
Making a mess
Bill Swoboda called police on March 2 in
regards to a burglary in his backyard shed.
Swoboda reported that his shed in his back
yard has two double doors with a padlock on
it. It looked like the suspect tried to remove
the lock with heavy pliers, but succeeded
in breaking the shed door handle instead.
The suspect then proceeded to remove an
extensive amount of tools and spread them
throughout Swoboda’s back yard. Nothing appeared to be missing, but the victim’s
chainlink fence had also been disturbed. Police found footprints in the snow, but there
are no suspects at this time.
An even exchange
Police responded to a burglary on March 2 at
the home of Douglas Otandon. The victim
had been out of town, and upon his return,
he saw that someone had broken into his vehicle. The vehicle was parked at Double Tree
Hotel when this happened. Otandon reported the driver’s side window was broken
out, and the firearm that was in the middle
console was taken. The suspect left a buck
knife in the passenger seat. An investigation
is ongoing. CV
Money
Compiled by Ashley Buckowing
[email protected]
Paid for by taxpayers…
Des Moines City Hall
Paid for in the week of March 2
Amount: $116.65
To: Alibris
For: Des Moines Public Library books
Amount: $78.95
To: Firestop Education
For: Firestop inspection handbook
Amount: $3,323.30
To: Jerico Services Inc.
For: 4,975 gallons of liquid calcium chloride
Amount: $300
To: Sebern Structural Services PLLC
For: Engineering review of Grand View
University pedestrian bridge
Amount: $4,712.49
To: Kimco Facility Services LLC
For: Monthly janitorial services
Amount: $287.22
To: Mail Services LLC
For: Des Moines Public Library postage
Amount: $13,500
To: Murphy Tractor & Equipment Co. Inc.
For: John Deere tractor rentals
Amount: $665.81
To: Recorded Books Inc.
For: Audiobooks for Des Moines Public Library
Amount: $59.88
To: Zee Medical Inc.
For: Assorted medical supplies
Amount: $348.60
To: Nite Owl Printing
For: Printing of 35 spec books and 35 proposals
Amount: $66.37
To: UPS
For: Shipping charges
Amount: $94.20
To: Verizon Wireless
For: Monthly charges
Amount: $271.45
To: OES Global Inc.
For: 35 traffic cones
Amount: $67.83
To: Aramark Uniform Services
For: Uniform jacket for Des Moines waste
and water facility
Salaries and such
Name ...................... Eric Johnson
Title ........................ Assistant Defensive
Line Football Coach
Department ........... University of Iowa
Annual Salary ........ $227,040.86
Travel
The Des Moines City Council approved funding $1,279 in travel expenses for Mayor T.M.
Franklin Cownie to participate as a panelist for the FOCUS 15 event in Washington, D.C.
from March 4-7. The French Embassy covered most costs for the event, which provided
an opportunity for U.S. mayors and French officals to meet and determine how U.S. cities
should participate in the upcoming Paris Climate Conference. CV
#)496)%7s-!2#( s
NewsoftheWeird
By Chuck Shepherd
Fine points of the law
ŽƉƐ
ŐĂŝŶƐƚ
ĂŶĐĞƌ®
S
WƌŽƚĞĐƟŶŐĂŶĚ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ
ĂŶĐĞƌ&ĂŵŝůŝĞƐŝŶEĞĞĚ
͞&ŝŶĚŝŶŐĂƉŽƐŝƟǀĞůŝĨĞĂŌĞƌĐĂŶĐĞƌͲ
/ŵƉƌŽǀŝŶŐǇŽƵƌŵŝŶĚ͕ŚĞĂƌƚĂŶĚƐŽƵů͟
^Ăƚ͕DĂƌϮϴ͕ϮϬϭϱ͕ϴ͗ϬϬʹϯ͗ϯϬW
Z^Zsd/KE^ZYh/Z
&ƌĞĞĂǇĨŽƌĂŶĐĞƌWĂƟĞŶƚƐ͕^ƵƌǀŝǀŽƌƐΘĂƌĞŐŝǀĞƌƐ͘
ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͕>ƵŶĐŚĂŶĚ^ŶĂĐŬƐ
ǁŝůůďĞƉƌŽǀŝĚĞĚ͘
ĚĂǇĨƵůůŽĨŵŽƟǀĂƟŽŶ͕
ŝŶƐƉŝƌĂƟŽŶĂŶĚƐƵƉƉŽƌƟǀĞ
ƌĞƐŽƵƌĐĞƐŝŶƌĞŶĞǁŝŶŐĂŶĚ
ƌĞƐƚŽƌŝŶŐŚŽƉĞĨŽƌĂƉŽƐŝƟǀĞ
ůŝĨĞĂŌĞƌĐĂŶĐĞƌ͘
<ĞůůĞǇŽŶĨĞƌĞŶĐĞĞŶƚĞƌ
/ŽǁĂDĞƚŚŽĚŝƐƚDĞĚŝĐĂůĞŶƚĞƌ
ϭϰϭϱtŽŽĚůĂŶĚǀĞŶƵĞ
ĞƐDŽŝŶĞƐ͕/
;tĞƐƚƐŝĚĞŽĨ/DĞƚŚŽĚŝƐƚĂŵƉƵƐͿ
dŽƌĞƐĞƌǀĞƐĞĂƟŶŐĐĂůů;ϱϭϱͿϳϴϯͲϵϴϯϯ
Guest Speakers will include
Nick Mezacapa - Rochester, Minnesota
has inspired audiences across the country
building upon the theme “Survival and
Spirituality.”
Dr. Michael J. Page, M.D., FACS, FASCRS,
Iowa Clinics, Des Moines, specializing in
colon & rectal surgery, Dr. Michael Page, is
one of the country’s best ranked doctors.
Dr. Richard Benning, MD is medical
director of Mercy Cancer Center in Des
Moines, Iowa. Dr. Benning is known in
the community for the compassionate
care he provides cancer paƟents and their
families and is also the founder of “Above
+ Beyond Cancer.”
Erin Sullivan Wagner, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
cerƟĮed >ife Coach and Cancer Survivor.
Erin facilitates small group. workshops
and spiritual conferences for paƟents
struggling to deĮne and create inƟmacy in
their relaƟonships.
AddiƟonal speakers from Mercy Cancer Center and John Stoddard Center on proper
nutriƟon, physical Įtness, prescripƟon assistance, human services and Įnancial planning.
ŽƉƐŐĂŝŶƐƚĂŶĐĞƌǀĞŶƚʹZĞƐĞƌǀĂƟŽŶƐZĞƋƵŝƌĞĚ
dŽĞŶƐƵƌĞǇŽƵƌƐĞĂƚƚŽƚŚŝƐŝŶĐƌĞĚŝďůĞ&ZsEdƉůĞĂƐĞƌĞƐĞƌǀĞďǇ
ϯƉŵ͕DŽŶĚĂǇ͕DĂƌĐŚϮϯĂƚǁǁǁ͘ĐŽƉƐĂŐĂŝŶƐƚĐĂŶĐĞƌ͘ŽƌŐŽƌďǇĐĂůůŝŶŐ;ϱϭϱͿϳϴϯͲϵϴϯϯ
&ƵŶĚŝŶŐĨŽƌƚŚŝƐĨƌĞĞĞǀĞŶƚŚĂƐďĞĞŶƉŽƐƐŝďůĞĨƌŽŵŐƌĂŶƚƐĂǁĂƌĚĞĚƚŽ
ƚŚĞŽƉƐŐĂŝŶƐƚĂŶĐĞƌŽƌŐĂŶŝǌĂƟŽŶ͘
14sCITYVIEWs-!2#(
hooting “upskirt” photos of a 13-yearold girl is not illegal in Oregon, declared Judge Eric Butterfield in February, thus acquitting Patrick Buono, 61,
of the crimes of invasion of privacy and
“encouraging child sexual abuse.” Buono’s
behavior was “appalling,” Judge Butterfield
noted, but since the girl was in a public place
(a Target store) and no nudity was involved
(she wore underpants), the specifics of Oregon statutes were not violated. Said Buono’s
lawyer, “It’s incumbent on us as citizens to
cover up whatever we don’t want filmed in
public places.”
Is this a great country or what?
The annual National Basketball Association
All-Star game in February provided a windfall for the co-host arena’s proprietor, James
L. Dolan, whose family owns not only Madison Square Garden but also the NBA’s richest
franchise (the Knicks), hockey’s second-richest (the Rangers), and the New York region’s
telecom juggernaut Cablevision. Among
the government handouts Dolan receives is
the 33-year (and counting) exemption from
property taxes for the Garden’s four square
blocks (“among the most valuable [plots of
land] on Earth,” according to New York City
Mayor Bill de Blasio) — a government gift,
in 2014 alone, worth $54 million.
Great art
The three-week February exhibition of Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera consisted of a
blank wall in Chicago’s West Loop gallery —
with the artist present only in the sense that
he was residing in a narrow, 10-foot crawl
space behind the wall with only a single sign
alerting patrons (“I am here, but you will not
see me”). Diaz-Perera’s “In the Absence of a
Body” was designed, he said, to explore the
boundary between presence and absence.
Continuing crisis
America’s Least Interesting Couple: Bill
Bresnan, 74, of Toms River, New Jersey, has
written a love letter to his wife, Kirsten, also
74, every day for nearly 40 years — more than
10,000 in number — and continuing, according to a February ABC News report. “We’ve
never had a fight,” he said. Their romance continues over, for example, playing “Boggle” at
breakfast or having candlelit dinners with wine.
Latest religious messages
Margurite Haragan, 58, was charged with
two harassment counts against a Jewish
woman in Boise, Idaho, in February after the
victim complained of being screamed at and
roughed up by Haragan, who was trying to
pressure her to acknowledge a belief in Jesus Christ. After Haragan allegedly stepped
on the woman’s neck and pulled her hair
upward, the victim promised to become a
Christian. Haragan then departed but returned two days later to continue the alleged
harassment. (The genesis of the women’s
relationship was unclear from news reports.)
Perspective
The Mississippi Department of Education
reported recently that federal student privacy law bars local schools from alerting the
MDE about college-age student teachers
who might be having inappropriate relationships with the K-12 students they teach. The
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
apparently controls regulation of the student
teachers during on-the-job classroom training (or, as a reporter for the Clarion-Ledger
of Jackson wrote, “What happens in college,
apparently, stays in college”). The MDE,
which issues educator licenses, thus may never learn of the inappropriate behavior of the
student teacher.
People with issues
“Mummy Maxine” and her husband, Derek
Ventham, run adult baby nurseries (the current
one, in North Liverpool, England), charging
men the equivalent of $115 an hour to lounge
in their cribs, in man-sized infant clothing,
while being fawned over as if they were helpless pre-toddlers. (No sex play is allowed, but
diaper-changing costs about $40 extra.) Even
tamer is the “adult preschool” in New York
City that Michelle Lapidos and a partner intend to start soon. A month-long course will
allow grownups to “relive their pre-K days”
with finger-painting, show-and-tell and nap
time, she told the Village Voice in January, all
while dressing in “your 4-year-old best.”
Say what?
News of the Weird has reported on joyous
“fertility” festivals in South Korea and Japan
in which uninhibited celebrants brandish
artistic “penises” (from parade floats to souvenir phalluses as jewelry, flower pots, food,
etc. — serving adults and little kids alike).
It turns out that Greece, too, has such an
annual spectacle, “Bourani,” in the town of
Tirnavos, on the first day of Lent, with historic roots based on inspiring fertile crops as
well as human fertility. Wrote Vice.com in
its dispatch, “People keep kissing (the penises), taking selfies with them, and wearing
them as earrings.” CV
Read more weird news at www.dmcityview.
com or www.WeirdUniverse.net.
OnTheMove
Submit to Eleni Upah
[email protected]
The View Nightclub opens
in Des Moines
he View Nightclub is celebrating its
grand opening March 13-14 in the
former location of Le Boi Bar at 508
Indianola Road in Des Moines. The View
will be open Wednesday through Saturday,
9 p.m. to close, but owner Rusty Brammer
says hours will be adjusted later this spring.
Brammer said he is excited for everyone to
see the changes he’s made to the bar, which
is divided into four areas: a dance bar, show
lounge, sports bar and the rooftop patio. The
grand opening will feature two “Ladies of the
View” shows at 10:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m.
and a buy-one-get-one drink special on wells
from 9-10 p.m. Call 515-280-5182, visit
www.theviewnightclub.com or find it on
Facebook.
T
moved to 6600 Westown Parkway, Suite 270
in West Des Moines. The company opened
its Johnston office in 2013 and now requires
more space after hiring several new employees and increasing business. The West Des
Moines office now houses 15 employees,
though the company plans to hire more. The
firm is based in Milwaukee and has 11 offices in Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. Hupy
and Abraham represents people involved in
auto accidents, pharmaceutical class actions,
workers’ compensation and other lawsuits
regarding personal injury. West Des Moines
hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday. Call 888-807-2752 or visit www.
hupy.com for 24/7 service, or call 515-9840091 for the West Des Moines office.
Clive spa moves to new location,
expands services
Serendipity Spa is moving its offices to 2190
N.W. 82nd St., Suite 4 in Clive and adding new services to its menu. The spa, which
used to be located in Clive’s Ravenwood Office Plaza, is owned by licensed aesthetician
Melissa Poley. Serendipity offers skin care,
permanent makeup, spray tanning, eyelash
extensions and mineral makeup. Clinical
aesthetician Carly Jones has joined the team
and offers microdermabrasion and waxing
services. It is open 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. or 9
a.m. to 6 p.m., alternating Mondays; 9 a.m.
to 8 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays; 9 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m., Wednesdays; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Fridays; and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., every other
Saturday. Call 515-276-0481 or visit http://
serendipityspadsm.com.
Specialty bakery to open in
Urbandale
Bentley’s Bakery will open this spring in
the former Satellite City location at 11101
Plum Drive in Urbandale and specialize in
Scandinavian baked goods. Rick Bentley
operated a cake decorating business from
his home in Mitchellville before deciding to
expand to a storefront. The full bakery will
offer breads, pies, cakes, pastries and other
items. Bentley’s Bakery is expected to open
in late March or early April, and it will be
open 5:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through
Saturday. Call 515-270-2252 or visit www.
bentleys-bakery.com.
Fort Des Moines project moves
forward
The Des Moines City Council approved a
$2 million incentive package for the project
that would convert six buildings into 142
apartments at the Fort Des Moines site. The
$37 million project has been in the works for
more than two years by a development team,
Blackbird Investments, led by Justin Doyle,
a local engineer. Doyle aims to break ground
in May this year, with the first units opening
in the third quarter of 2016.
Hupy and Abraham moves its
offices out of Johnston
Hupy and Abraham, a personal injury law
firm formerly located in Johnston, has
La Hacienda moves to West Des
Moines
The Mexican restaurant has closed its 3121
Ingersoll Ave. store and reopened in the
former Carlos O’Kelly’s located at 4055
Westown Parkway in West Des Moines.
Gustavo Perez, the owner of La Hacienda,
said the move is happening as a result of a
new development scheduled for the area
that requires the Ingersoll building to be
torn down. Perez also owns the La Hacienda
restaurant at 6250 S.E. 14th St., which happened to formerly be a Carlos O’Kelly’s as
well. The Ingersoll restaurant had been in
the same location since 2009. The new West
Des Moines location will have the same
menu and prices, and its hours will be 11
a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Thursday;
11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday;
and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday. Visit www.
mexicanrestaurantdesmoines.com. CV
#)496)%7s-!2#( s
LockerRoom
By Ashley Rullestad
The road to Wrestlemania
IT PAYS TO BE
Kofi Kingston, Big E and Xavier Woods will be among the many wrestlers at WWE’s
Monday Night Raw at Wells Fargo Arena on March 16.
$ENSIBLE
W
You don’t need to be Einstein to know $ensible
Checking is the smart choice when it comes to
checking accounts! You can earn unlimited cash
back for debit card purchases and enjoy free
services like online, mobile and text banking, bill
pay, identity theft protection and surcharge-free
access to over 3,300 ATMs nationwide.
Visit our website at bankiowabanks.com for all the
details on how it pays to be $ensible or stop by
your local Bank Iowa.
LIVE IOWA. WORK IOWA. BANK IOWA.
Altoona 515.967.7283 / Johnston 515.727.4484
West Des Moines 515.225.0710 / bankiowabanks.com
Member FDIC
16sCITYVIEWs-!2#(
orld Wrestling Entertainment’s
(WWE) biggest superstars — including John Cena, Seth Rollins,
Big Show, Daniel Bryan, Roman Reigns,
Kofi Kingston and Kane — are headed to
Des Moines for WWE’s Monday Night
RAW Road to WrestleMania that will be
broadcasted live to the world from Wells
Fargo Arena on Monday, March 16.
Fans will be treated to a show that’s like
nothing else in the world of entertainment.
WWE shows are known for being biggerthan-life. It’s like a manly, testosterone-filled
soap opera where good guys battle evil in a
raucous series of body slams to see who will
be victorious.
“It’s an ongoing story, and everyone who
is in the ring has a story,” says superstar Kofi
Kingston. “Basically, when you break it
down, it comes down to good versus evil. You
sprinkle in some athletics and pyrotechnics
and music and twists and turns of the story,
and it’s unlike anything that anyone has ever
seen. Cavemen used to sit around and tell
stories, and we’re an updated version of story
time, and that’s what makes it so unique.”
Kingston himself had wanted to be a
WWE wrestler since he was a kid, and he decided as an adult to give his childhood dream
a shot. It was a lot of putting himself into
the right place to be seen at the right time,
as he says, and the rest is history. Just ask his
fans — he has more than 3 million likes on
Facebook alone.
Now a multi-time Intercontinental and
U.S. Champion, Kingston has battled everyone from Cesaro to Bray Wyatt. In November 2014, Kingston formed The New
Day with Big E and Xavier Woods. The trio
boasts a new focus and drive that has made
them a force to be reckoned with in the tag
team division. Kingston promises a good
show on Monday.
The upcoming show at Wells Fargo is
also one of the last on the road to Wrestlemania, the Super Bowl of WWE events,
which began in 1985. The 31st Wrestlemania will be held in Santa Clara, California,
on March 29.
“The greatest thing about WWE is you
never know what to expect,” Kingston says.
“We keep everyone on their toes. But we
promise it will be a great show, and all your
favorites will be there. The closer we get
to Wrestlemania, the bigger and better the
show gets. The show in Des Moines will be
awesome. Every show is a great buildup to
the big one, and it’s something you don’t
want to miss because you never know when
we’ll be back in your town.”
Tickets, starting at $15, are available at
the Wells Fargo Arena Box Office, all Dahl’s
Foods, online at www.dahlstickets.com or by
phone 866-55-DAHLS. CV
PoliticalMercury
By Douglas Burns
Old Ike wouldn’t be lovin’ Branstad’s
kid-cocooning
T
he difference between an 18-year-old
fresh-faced freshman and a 21-yearold senior in college is the most profound I’ve experienced in a work, social or
living arrangement.
The first is a boy. The second is a man.
Yet, the two coexist in American college
fraternities.
Which is great for mentoring, role-modeling — and hazing, the latter being the
gentleman’s term for bullying.
In 1987, a little more than a month removed from turning 18, I found myself on
the third step of the dining room at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. I was
a pledge, a voluntary probationary member
of the fraternity, located in a four-story, ivycovered residence hall facing Lake Michigan
just north of Chicago — a long way from my
native rural Iowa.
The parties at SAE, often with six or
seven or 12 kegs of beer, weren’t monitored
by university officials. Which was great. The
visiting girls were smart. Really smart. Even
better. The older guys in the house, the actives, were smooth operators, top students.
But admission to SAE came with a price.
For a full quarter, you were a pledge.
We had to memorize a book, “The Phoenix,” about the founding of our fraternity,
its strange Alabama roots. We committed to
quick memory the hometowns and other details about the 75 or so members of the frat
and busied ourselves collecting signatures for
doing various tasks in our pledge books. We
studied long into the night. No one wanted
to bring down the house grade-point average.
And then there was The Third Step, a
spot literally three little hops up the staircase
from the basement dining room. At dinner,
pledges were called randomly to stand on
the third step and field questions, endure
insults, gamely absorb lampooning. (One of
the most skilled members of our SAE chapter at hazing us would later go on to be the
creative force behind the McDonald’s “I’m
Lovin’ It” advertising campaign. So the verbal shots lobbed at us often were exquisite.)
It’s hard to imagine soft-shelled millennials, the helicopter-parented kids of today,
standing there, taking it. But as Gen-Xers,
we’d not only steady ourselves on the third
step but also light up cigarettes.
I guess some of the taunts hurt. But only
in the way of those ephemeral day-dreamed
crushes lost to time. No scars here.
I knew I was being tested on the third
step. We all did.
It is one of the great ironies of my life
that the fraternity — generally regarded as a
premier guardian of group-think, statuesque
in its celebration of rigid, unblinking conformity — gave me a sense of self-sustained
by what separates me, what makes me unlike
the other.
You see, you have to own those differences, embrace them, if you have any shot at a
life that’s not yoked to The Great American
They, the what-other-people-thinkers.
Which brings us to Gov. Terry Branstad’s anti-bullying legislation. The governor
wants to expand school districts’ responsibilities from their campuses to online and
off-school-grounds bullying.
No third steps in the ladder of Iowa life,
says the governor.
It’s a good thing REI, the Seattle-based
outdoors outfitter, is locating in the Des
Moines area. Public school superintendents
are going to need sleeping bags so they can
camp on the porches of students. Never
know when an overnight party of teens may
involve insults. School principals may just
want to start moonlighting at local pizza
joints, lest they let slip some opportunity to
intervene as kids pepperoni their conversations with hurtful words for others.
And if you are a teacher, buy some extra
iPads, find Internet service faster than anything South Korea has imagined, and turn
that spare bedroom into a computer-screenfilled command center for tracking what the
teenies are saying about each other in the
clipped social-media parlance of the day.
For a quarter century, Branstad has
preached the gospel of small government.
Now, through the school districts, he wants
to insert the government into our lives
around the clock. He told me this himself.
“Here’s what we hear from the kids:
they’re being tormented 24/7 on social media,” Branstad said in a recent interview in
Jefferson. “And it’s much worse than it was
years ago before we had social media. So
they feel it’s a hostile environment, and they
don’t feel safe at school.”
So the school day, under Branstad’s ex-
panded regime, never ends for the administrator, the educator-policewoman. The
kid never fully transitions from the government’s hands to the parents’.
Branstad promises a guardian angel for
our kids. But what if a school overlooks evidence of bullying, misses a taunting tweet,
an inciting Instagram shot? Will schools be
liable, morally and legally, for all unkind
adolescent exchanges?
“I’m extraordinarily concerned about
that,” said State Rep. Chip Baltimore, the
Boone Republican who chairs the House Judiciary Committee.
It’s a good thing the state’s most high-profile trial lawyer, Bruce Braley, isn’t in Congress. He’s free to sue schools that can’t interrupt a Twitter barrage on a kid in real time.
Why not just put all of our kids in statefunded cocoons where they hear nothing but
soothing music and piped-in words of affirmation. Earned self-esteem? What’s that?
At what point do our young people learn
that cruelty exists, that capitalism involves
winners and losers — and that winners often
bully the losers to maintain their favorable
positions in the all-American split?
“Don’t fight back, we’ll do it for you!” —
Is that the rallying cry of our modern nation?
The world has to look at our bullying discussion and laugh. Or cry. The sleights suffered by your average Iowa kid don’t amount
to much compared to the bumper crop of
atrocities humans commit against each other
in less-prosperous reaches of the globe.
Do you think Dwight D. Eisenhower,
who had six brothers, ever complained to
anyone about being bullied?
And what if he had? Who would he have
become?
More important, who would we be today
as Americans?
Speaking from experience, you have to
stand on that third step. Alone. No parents.
No government.
It’s the only way to truly achieve a life
free from fear. CV
REGISTER
NOW!
SPRING
REGISTRATION
IS NOW OPEN!
Douglas Burns is a fourth-generation Iowa newspaperman who
resides in Carroll. He and his family own and publish newspapers in
Carroll, Jefferson and other neighboring communities.
#)496)%7s-!2#( s
Duffy’sView
18sCITYVIEWs-!2#(
where’s the
(corned)
beef?
And the cabbage? And the green
beer? Learn where and why we
celebrate these popular Irish
traditions on St. Patrick’s Day.
by Eleni Upah
T
here probably aren’t many times that someone’s asked what
sounds good for lunch and you emphatically answered “boiled
cabbage for me, please!” And yet, when it comes to St. Patrick’s Day, people call every Irish bar in town to find out which ones
haven’t run out of the corned beef and cabbage.
While beer and whiskey definitely take first place in the contest of
St. Patrick’s Day specials, the traditional Irish dishes aren’t far behind.
We did a little digging to find out why a salty beef roast and boiled
cabbage slices make up some of the biggest requests every March 17.
Tell us what you think. E-mail your letter to [email protected].
CITYVIEWs MARCH 12 - 18, 2015 s
Where it all began
the late 19th century with the Irish immigrants.
“It came about because the Irish immiCorned beef and cabbage just sounds Irish,
grants
in New York essentially couldn’t afdoesn’t it? The name draws up an image
of redheaded families of 12 sitting around ford the traditional food,” said Sean Courtlong wooden tables with plates of meat and ney, manager of the Royal Mile in downtown
slightly soggy cabbage in front of each per- Des Moines. “Beef was cheaper, and since a
son, rolling hills in the view outside the win- lot of them lived in the same neighborhood
as a lot of Jewish immigrants, they visited a
dows.
People often think the dish is a tradition- lot of Jewish delis and a lot of Jewish streetal Irish cuisine dating back centuries. In real- cars. And since it was cooked and seasoned
ity, it was first served right here in America. similarly to the bacon, they used that as the
“It was the Irish-Americans who started option.”
Corned beef wasn’t exclusive to the
it,” said Bill Boggs, owner of Sully’s Irish
Pub, the oldest Irish bar in the Des Moines American Irish population, though. It dates
metro. “It was actually when the Irish came back to 12th century Ireland as a delicacy.
Since
cattle
over here in the
were a very
1800s. The reavaluable item
son it’s corned
in trade, cows
beef is because
were typically
beef was cheaponly
eaten
er over here —
when
they
over there, they
could no longer
started
with
work or provide
pork and pota– Bill Boggs, owner of Sully’s Irish Pub
milk. And betoes.”
cause salt was
The
Irish
version was traditionally called bacon and expensive at the time, corned beef was a rare
cabbage, and it consisted of unsliced back dish.
“As a matter of fact, in Ireland, only
bacon that was boiled with cabbage and
sometimes potatoes, turnips, onions and car- until recently they didn’t even eat corned
rots. It was common in Ireland because most beef,” said Mike O’Connell, president of
the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Central
families grew vegetables and raised pigs.
It seems surprising that with our culture’s Iowa. “They made corned beef and exported
current obsession with bacon, we wouldn’t it, but they didn’t really eat it there. At least
revert back to the origins of this meal. Al- not the general population.”
Yet corned beef and cabbage remains one
though, the bacon used in the original dish
would be unrecognizable if placed next to of the most popular meals on St. Patrick’s
the typical slices consumed with our pan- Day here in America, although Courtney
said he “can’t possibly imagine” why.
cakes and eggs — but more on that later.
“Cabbage is fine in coleslaw, but othSo corned beef it remains. Like Boggs
mentioned, the switch to beef happened in er that I can usually live without it,” he
“Everybody’s Irish
on St. Patty’s Day.
”
Some Irish bars in the metro
20sCITYVIEWs
Bennigan’s
4800 Merle Hay Road,
Urbandale
515-276-7777
Mickey’s Irish Pub – Waukee
Opens at 7 a.m.
50 S.E. Laurel St., Waukee
515-987-9604
Cooney’s Tavern
3708 Beaver Ave., Des Moines
515-255-5566
Kathy’s Irish Pub
6705 Hickman Road, Des Moines
515-270-9921
Down Under Bar and Grill
Opens at 2:30 p.m.
8350 Hickman Road, Clive
515-278-6718
The Royal Mile
Opens at 8 a.m.
210 Fourth St., Des Moines
515-280-3771
Mickey’s Irish Pub –
Downtown
Opens at 6 a.m.
206 Third St., Des Moines
515-288-8323
Sully’s Irish Pub
Opens at 6 a.m.
110 Grand Ave.,
West Des Moines
515-255-9970
MARCH 12 - 18, 2015
Irish beef stew
laughed. “Put enough pepper on it, and it’s
fine. It’s one of those things I eat once a year
because I feel like I have a genetic responsibility, but other than that, no.”
“That’s the problem with Irish food,”
agreed O’Connell. “It’s all kind of boring!”
For those who aren’t familiar with the
making of this traditional dish, corned beef
gets its name from the large grains of rock
salt, called corns, used in preserving the
meat. The beef is rubbed with spices and salt
and left to sit in the fridge, usually for about
a week. It can also be marinated with a brine
of salts and seasonings, usually made up of
black pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg and mustard. As for the cabbage, it’s simply cut into
slices and boiled, with or without a few other
vegetables.
If you don’t have a week to prepare, you
can find corned beef already cured and prepare it similar to a roast, which is the preferred method at Sully’s.
“On Sunday we’ll probably do two to
three roasts and three or four things of cabbage,” said Boggs. “And then we’ll have it on
St. Patty’s Day, in the morning and all day.”
Since Sully’s is open from 6 a.m. to midnight on St. Patrick’s Day, Boggs says they
don’t have time to cook all the roasts themselves, so they get more from Hy-Vee when
they run out.
And it’s likely they’ll run out, because
even though many people don’t touch cabbage the other 364 days out of the year, on
March 17, they’re calling ahead to make sure
it’s there.
“Oh yeah, we have people calling and
asking all day long if we’re serving it,” Boggs
said.
Courtney said last year the Royal Mile
served an estimated 150 orders of corned
beef and cabbage, and they expect a similar
number this year because it will be available
all day.
“The corned beef and cabbage is just
another Irish meal that people want on St.
Patty’s Day,” said Boggs. “Because on St.
Patrick’s Day, everybody’s Irish; everyone
wants to eat like they do.”
Beyond the famine
Cabbage and potatoes have traditionally
been staples in many Irish cuisines, mainly
because they were readily available — that
is, up until the Great Famine between 1845
and 1852.
In a mere six years, historians estimate
more than 1 million people died of starvation and disease and another million emigrated from Ireland to escape the same fate.
Still, the potato maintained its status as
Ireland’s main crop by the end of the 19th
century, producing the highest per capita
consumption of potatoes in the world — at
a whopping four pounds a day.
Now, Americans love their potatoes,
whether in the form of fries, mashed, baked
or scalloped and smothered with cheese.
Even with all of the flavorful, if not carboverloaded, varieties we have today, it’s hard
to imagine consuming four pounds of that a
day.
But when potatoes are what you’ve got
to work with, you find a lot of ways to use
them.
One of Ireland’s traditional dishes is a
variation of mashed potatoes most Ameri-
cans probably haven’t seen or thought to
try. It’s called colcannon, and it consists of
mashed potatoes with kale or cabbage.
Considering how popular kale has become with foodies and health nuts in recent
years, it might come as a surprise that this
dish hasn’t regained widespread attention
in the States. Some variations add scallions,
leeks, onions and chives to the mix, and it
is typically served with boiled ham or back
bacon.
Back bacon was a popular item in many
Irish meals. It’s a different cut of bacon than
American or Canadian bacon, although
most people say its texture more closely resembles that of Canadian bacon. It is sliced
to include pork loin from the pig’s back and
a portion of the pork belly in the same cut.
Back bacon is much leaner than the American style of bacon.
For those interested in trying out this
special Irish bacon, the Royal Mile will be
serving it from 8 to 11 a.m. as part of its traditional Irish breakfast, which also includes
eggs, beans and tomatoes. Corned beef hash
and eggs, steel cut Irish oatmeal and corned
beef and cabbage will also be available for
breakfast.
Courtney said they had to order the back
bacon from a specialty meat store in Des
Moines, but they decided to offer breakfast this year because so many people asked
about it last St. Patrick’s Day.
“Since the last St. Patrick’s Day, we’ve
started doing a weekly breakfast on Saturday
and Sunday anyway when we open early, so
we’ve got the materials, and my guys know
what they’re doing now,” said Courtney.
Where there’s an
Irishman,, there’s
whiskey
Of course, we couldn’t write a story about
St. Patrick’s Day without mentioning the
drinks. From green beer to whiskey to car
bombs — the drinks will be flowing from
dusk till dawn.
For the Royal Mile, Courtney said he expects to go through a lot of Guinness.
“I know we went through six or seven
kegs of Guinness last year,” he said. “It’s a
lot of Guinness; you pretty much just open
that tap and leave it open for most of the
day. I’ll sell a lot more Guinness than I will
green beer.”
Courtney only gets one keg of green
beer for the occasion and says it will likely
last through the whole day. Guinness is
their most popular beer on any given night
throughout the year, so it’s no surprise demand goes up for the Irish celebration.
They’ll also be serving it upstairs at the Red
Monk, a Belgian bar that doesn’t normally
offer Guinness.
“The Irish have always been known for
being drinkers. But I think it all has to do
with cabin fever and people wanting to get
out,” said O’Connell of how St. Patrick’s
Day likely became such a big drinking day.
The St. Patty’s Day celebrations in Ireland are typically much smaller than they
are in America. O’Connell said Dublin has
always had a parade, but only in recent years
have the smaller towns started holding them.
“They’re kind of catching up to us as far
as celebrations go,” he said.
O’Connell remembers tent parties at
Sully’s back in the 1980s, but says they were
nothing like they are now, as far as the number of people and the scale of the party.
“All of a sudden, something just happened,” he said. “Everybody just lets loose.”
And the winner is...…
Irish whiskey dates back to the 12th century, and it remains a favorite here. Sean Courtney
estimates the Royal Mile will go through more than a case on St. Patrick’s Day.
Courtney is also prepared to sell more
than a case of whiskey and a lot of car bombs.
“I’m going to sell a lot of car bombs, a lot
of Irish coffee — you know, the standards,
what you’d expect,” he said. “As for me, I
just drink Irish whiskey.”
The Royal Mile has one of the largest
selections of whiskey in town, including six
different varieties of Jameson and a dozen
other brands — and it never goes to waste
on St. Patrick’s Day.
“We’ll probably do at least a case of
Jameson and several bottles of the other
mainstream ones,” he added.
Irish whiskey came about in the 12th
century and was one of the earliest distilled
drinks in Europe. It was one of the most
popular spirits in the United States in the
early 20th century, until prohibition forced
many distilleries to go out of business.
Now Ireland maintains fewer than 10
distilleries, while Scotland has more than
100 in operation. Irish whiskey has seen
a major surge in popularity following the
1990s, and its growth continues today.
Whether consumed on the rocks, in a
shot or with coffee, whiskey is a prominent
menu item in Europe and America.
And while whiskey plays a role in the ever
popular “Irish” car bombs sold in nearly every American bar celebrating St. Patrick, car
bombs won’t be found at any pub in Ireland.
In fact, ordering an Irish car bomb is taboo in most British establishments, due to
its reference to the car bombings that took
place during “The Troubles” in Ireland.
The Troubles, also known as the Northern
Ireland Conflict, took place from 1968 to
1998, during which time four car bombs
killed 33 people and injured hundreds more.
No one was ever convicted in the attacks,
and it remains a sensitive topic in the country.
The cocktail was actually invented in a
saloon in Connecticut in 1979 — hence, another “Irish” tradition beginning in America.
St. Patrick’s Day is known for being a
boozy holiday, but the reason for that can
be traced back to the Irish and their love for
social drinking.
So it’s true that even boiled cabbage can
draw in crowds at least one day out of the
year. But then the question is: Do they come
for the beer, or do they come for the food?
It depends who you ask. Courtney says
it’s a little bit of both, depending on the
people. And considering St. Patrick’s Day
falls on a Tuesday this year, people probably
won’t be ordering quite as many pints and
car bombs as they would on a Friday or Saturday.
But if you ask Boggs and the crew at Sully’s, they’ll say the food is secondary to the
drinking.
“No, they want their beer more,” laughs
Boggs.
So there you have it. Come for the cabbage, stay for the Guinness. CV
Corned beef and cabbage
Ingredients:
s One 3- or 4-pound package
of corned beef with seasoning
packet
s One medium to large head of
cabbage
s 4 to 6 medium potatoes
(optional)
s ½ package baby carrots
(optional)
s 4 cups water
Directions:
1. Rinse the corned beef and put it in a crockpot.
2. Add water and sprinkle the seasoning packet over the meat.
3. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.
4. Cut cabbage into thin to medium wedges and scatter over the top of the meat.
5. Drizzle some of the broth over the cabbage, replace the lid and cook an additional
OnTheTube
Undeadhead
By Bill Frost
“iZombie” shows some life; “Community” returns; “One Big Happy” is just sad.
“The Royals”
Sunday, March 15 (E!)
First Bravo with “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce,” now E! turns to scripted drama with
“The Royals”? Has the “reality” finally all
been filmed? Unlike “GG2D,” “The Royals”
proudly dons the Soap Opera tiara and takes
it over the tawdry top, with fictional modern
British Queen Helena (Elizabeth Hurley)
attempting to reign in her tabloid-fodder
children (“My daughter, behaving like a
common whore — explain this, but make it
original this time,” just one Hurley’s many
snidely perfect burns). “The Royals” plays so
big and brash, there’s really no need to add
Joan Collins as the Queen’s mum, but there
she is. Glossy, sexy trash that entertains for
an hour — E! could have done far worse.
“iZombie”
Tuesday, March 17 (The CW)
The last Vertigo/DC Comics TV adaptation (“Hellblazer” to NBC’s “Constantine”)
didn’t work out, but The CW is an easier
fit for comic-book lore these days — even
purpose helping a homicide cop (Malcolm
Goodwin) solve cases — did I mention that
Thomas and Ruggiero created “Veronica
Mars” back in the day? The disparate crime
procedural/horror comedy/CW snarkfest
elements haven’t quite aligned yet, but
“iZombie” has potential (and a longer shelf
life than “Constantine”).
for something as out-there as “iZombie.”
Writer/producers Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero have de-weirded “iZombie”
somewhat for TV, but still: Perky medical
resident Liv (Rose McIver) gets infected and
turns part-zombie, withdrawing from life
and becoming a “goth” coroner to feed her
brain-a-month diet that retains her human
consciousness and keeps her from going “full
Romero.” Since she also absorbs the memories of the murder victims whose grey matter
she turns into brain lo mien, she finds new
“Community”
Tuesday, March 17 (Yahoo Screen)
Donald Glover is busy making horrendous
hip-hop (Childish Gambino); ditto Yvette
Nicole Brown with terrible television (“The
Odd Couple”); Chevy Chase … R.I.P.?
Anyway: “Community” still has core cast
members Joel McHale, Alison Brie, Danny
Pudi and Gillian Jacobs, as well as ancillary players Jim Rash (woo!) and Ken Jeong
(meh), and creator/writer/producer Dan
Harmon — and even some comedy-tested
new additions (Paget Brewster and Keith
David). So what if you have to watch it on
Yahoo? A screen is a screen, old man! Season
6 promises more of the same ridiculousness
that got “Community” canceled by NBC,
though Yahoo will be rolling out episodes
week-by-week instead of dropping all 13 at
once, Netflix-style. Wonder if Bing would
be interested in reviving “Constantine” …
“One Big Happy”
Tuesday, March 17 (NBC)
A lesbian (Elisha Cuthbert) agrees to have her
perpetually-single-and-straight best friend’s
(Nick Zano) baby — but then he suddenly
marries a British girl (Kelly Brook) on the
second date, and “a different kind of family
is born.” One that believes yelling their lines
over canned laughter makes hackneyed sex
jokes funnier (it doesn’t) and producer Ellen DeGeneres can do no wrong (she can, so
hard). “One Big Happy” is like a Funny or
Die parody of an awful sitcom … that goes
on 20 minutes longer than it should. 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.
Getting You
BACK ON
TRACK
Let me help protect you before mayhem strikes.
From a tree branch falling on your car during a windstorm to a GPS that sends you the
wrong way down a one-way, mayhem can strike anytime. So get an Allstate
Agent like me who knows how to help you make sure you’re protected. Don’t
wait—call me today!
FOOT & ANKLE
CLINIC
2929 Merle Hay Road
Des Moines
[email protected]
Subject to terms, conditions and availability. Allstate Fire and Casualty Insurance Co., Allstate Indemnity Co. © 2013 Allstate Insurance Co.
22CITYVIEW
MARCH 12 - 18, 2015
122977
Tim Brehm
515-270-4818
515-271-1731 | www.DMUClinic.org
TechTalk
FCC to the Net Neutrality
rescue
By Patrick Boberg
I
n case you haven’t heard, the last couple
of weeks have been pretty big concerning
the future of the Internet. Net Neutrality, a term that means everything and nothing, depending on your web literacy, was
for all intents and purposes cemented in the
Federal Communications Commission’s
book of regulations. The simple explanation on what this means to you is that the
Internet will continue to be the fast-moving, cat meme-filled, pornography-laden
super highway it has always been — i.e., no
changes. The complicated explanation takes
much concentration, so grab a cup of coffee
and maybe a protractor because, seriously,
this is important.
At this point there’s no way around it —
we all take the Internet for granted. It is the
most important and intricate communication tool ever invented, and every time you
turn on a web-enabled device you expect
it to be there. Well, truthfully there is no
“there” to it. The Internet isn’t a place, but
an impossible network of interconnecting
computers and servers that feed information
back and forth to each other upon request.
The web — or the part you interact with —
is the processed layer on top of the Internet
that organizes and translates the various data
types available.
Net Neutrality was the one commandment that kept order in the Internet’s godless computer world — that is until last January when a federal court ruled the FCC had
designated its Net Neutrality rules under the
wrong justification. Setting aside that federal
reasoning is the biggest pile of bureaucratic
crap in the history of time, that decision was
the equivalent of the Internet shot heard
’round the world. See, if the Internet is just a
ton of connected computers, someone needs
to administer those connections, and that’s
where Internet service providers (ISPs) such
as Mediacom, CenturyLink, Comcast, Verizon and AT&T come into the picture.
Net Neutrality tells those ISPs that all
information on the Internet needs to be delivered to any user requesting it at the same
speed. Think it of like electricity: No matter where you live in town, utility providers
must deliver services to all their customers at
the same pace. It’s illegal for MidAmerican
to govern electricity supply for Norwalk to
half speed, while supplying Johnston at maximum speed. Net Neutrality does that except
with content on the web. No matter if you’re
reading your Twitter feed, streaming a music video on YouTube or downloading 100
hours of HD film, Net Neutrality says the
ISP must treat all of that content the same.
Then the federal courts voided it, and all
hell broke loose. For the last 13 months, the
sky was falling with worries of ISPs charging
both consumers and content providers more
for access to content that requires fast delivery, such as streaming media. Alas, in late
February the FCC voted to designate ISPs
the same as utility providers — or common
carriers — forcing them to follow the same
customer and content equal delivery laws,
and Net Neutrality was restored. Suddenly
all is right in the Internet world again.
Or maybe not. As with anything government-related, the red tape never seems to
end. While Net Neutrality is once again the
rule of the land, the reclassification of ISPs as
common carriers allows the federal government to exact federal service and governance
fees. So even though we aren’t paying more
for content fast lanes fraudulently established by ISPs, our Internet bills will likely
go up as that federal fee gets passed down
to subscribers. Funny how the government
ends up looking like the hero saving Net
Neutrality, while at the same time is secretly
the villain causing our bills to go up. CV
Patrick Boberg is a central Iowa
creative media specialist. Follow
him on Twitter @PatBoBomb.
BookReview
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books
Review by Harriet Leitch
‘The Innovators’
T
his is an account of the history of the digital age, from Ada Lovelace’s mathematical writings in the 19th century to the emergence of
the Internet that we have today. In between, there are
many fascinating stories of the people who worked together
to make it happen.
Isaacson’s theme of the importance of a team to bring innovation to the marketplace is demonstrated in two Iowans’
stories. John Atanasoff developed what could be considered
the first computer. He was called away to serve in World War
By Walter Isaacson II, and with few collaborators at Iowa
State University to carry on, the maSimon & Schuster
chine was stored away and essentially
Oct. 7, 2014
lost. Since a lawyer inexplicably failed
Hardcover $35
to file a patent claim on it, the inven542 Pages
tion did not result in lasting credit or
wealth. Another Iowan, Grinnell College graduate Robert
Noyce, along with a team of men who had complementary
strengths, brought the microprocessor to life in the firm he created, Intel.
Women are among the unsung heroes in the growth of the digital age. During World War
II, women provided much of the programming necessary to make the machines work. They
worked together well as a team, but their efforts went unrewarded. At the apex of a successful
effort, the men went off for a celebratory event, and the women made their way home.
Isaacson’s book is a testament to the power of collaboration in innovation. CV
Julie is a collector of unusual words, strange friends and obsolete college degrees. She lives in Grimes
with an obscene number of books. She’s just killing time, waiting for a mad man in a blue box.
Lead.
Or
follow.
t m
f @dmcityview
cityview magazine
dmcityview
sign up at
www.dmcityview.com
<BMROB>PF:K<A*+&*1%+)*. 23
THE SOUND
DES MOINES
Central Iowa’s connection
to the local music scene
By Chad Taylor [email protected]
Preach on
R
everend Horton Heat has spent the
past 25 years melting the faces of
anyone who strays too close. The
act, consisting of Jim “Reverend Horton”
Heath, upright bassist Jimbo Wallace and
drummer Scott Churilla, serves as the gold
standard for modern rockabilly, and the
trio is lauded by fans for its relentless touring schedule and high-energy output.
Heath’s signature sound comes from the
frets of a signature Gretsch 6120 hollow
body guitar. A longtime staple of the rockabilly sound, Heath has taken the guitar to
rare heights and is able to coax a huge, raw
sound out of it that few others can replicate without use of distortion pedals or
over-sized amps, both practices that Heath
eschews.
“If you want good distortion, 100-watt
amps aren’t the way to go,” he said in a
phone interview from the band’s tour bus.
“Guys these days get these huge amps, these
big Marshall 100s, but the sound is too
clean. Get a small amp, and crank it to 10.”
Heath grew up in and around San Antonio and Corpus Christi, Texas, listening
to Mexican-influenced country and rock
acts like Freddy Fender and Al Dean and
The All Stars. Both acts would go on to
influence Heath’s own guitar playing with
their emphasis on high technical ability and
quick pacing.
The Reverend Horton Heat plays Wooly’s, 504 E. Locust, on Thursday, March 12 at 8 p.m.
“Freddy Fender was really great songwriting and really great singing,” Heath
said. “Classic songs from the ’50s and early
’60s — ‘Wasted Days and Wasted Nights.’
Al Dean and The All Stars were really toplevel musicians. That’s the thing about
country music, especially back then: Those
guys were really hot guitar players. They
could play really fast and really clean.”
And when it comes to playing fast and
THIS BLOOD THINNER IS CAUSING DEATH
LEGAL HELP IS AVAILABLE. CALL TODAY!
D. Miller Law
Have You Taken Xarelto?
Call us for a free case consultation. 800-410-0371
MARCH 12 - 18, 2015
Let our readers
pencil you in.
submit your event at
http://calendar.dmcityview.com
If you or someone you know have
experienced bleeding problems after
taking Xarelto, we need to speak with you
immediately. You may have a claim against
the drug manufacturer because it is alleged
that they did not properly warn the public
about this serious life threatening side effect.
24CITYVIEW
clean, there are not many people who can
hold a candle to The Rev. After kicking the
door in with its 1990 debut on Sub Pop
Records, “Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em,”
Reverend Horton Heat has been synonymous with hard driving, balls to the wall
rock ‘n’ roll. Not only has the band’s music developed a devoted legion of fans, but
The Rev has been a go-to act for video game
soundtracks. The act’s music has been in
everything from “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater”
to “Redneck Rampage.” But arguably the
biggest outside influence on the band’s following came in 2007 when the single “Psychobilly Freakout” was featured in “Guitar
Hero II.”
“Guitar Hero was a really popular
game,” Heath said. “The gamer crowd
started coming to see us. A lot of older
people I’d meet that have kids would say,
‘I’ve never heard of you, but my kids know
all about you!’ Having a song in a popular
video game is almost like having a hit song
on the radio now.”
The band took a small detour in sound
with 2009’s “Laughin’ and Cryin’ With
The Reverend Horton Heat,” an album
that leaned further toward the band’s country roots than anything else they have released. But when Heath started working on
the components of what would eventually
become 2014’s “Rev,” a return to psychobilly form felt inevitable. The band was
signed to Chicago-based Victory Records
in 2012, but the label stayed out of the way
and trusted in The Rev’s process.
“It never ends up being the way I
planned,” he continued, talking about his
method of fleshing out an album. “Music
hits me out of the blue, like a bolt from outer space that I’m just a medium for. There’s
almost no explaining it.”CV
Concerts & Live Music
art & Galleries
Theater & Comedy
children/family
fairs & festivals
sports
karaoke
& More!
THE SOUND
FRONT ROW
CIGARETTES
©2015 SFNTC (1)
The Candymakers
at Wooly’s
by Dan Hodges
*
Visit NASCIGS.com or
call 1-800-435-5515
PROMO CODE 95543
*Plus applicable sales tax
The Point Past Insanity
at Val Air Ballroom
by Dan Hodges
Offer for two “1 for $2” Gift Certificates good for any Natural American Spirit cigarette product
(excludes RYO pouches and 150g tins). Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. Offer and
website restricted to U.S. smokers 21 years of age and older. Limit one offer per person per 12 month
period. Offer void in MA and where prohibited. Other restrictions may apply. Offer expires 12/31/15.
Exotype
at Val Air Ballroom
by Dan Hodges
<BMROB>PF:K<A*+&*1%+)*. 25
THE SOUND
Central Iowa’s connection to the local music scene
By Chad Taylor [email protected]
SOUNDCHECK
SOUND CIRCUIT
Madonna
“Rebel Heart”
Boy Toy
Getting strong now
S
Photo by Brenna Norman
trong Like Bear is an alt/jam/prog/
rock four-piece out of Ames. For
those familiar with the band, its
willingness to experiment and get a little
weird with its sound is the act’s biggest hallmark. Frequently seen messing
around with surrealist blues outfit Electric Jury, the two bands have joined forces for projects ranging anywhere from
performing Pink Floyd’s “Animals” in its
entirety to live-scoring Alejendro Jodorowsky’s surrealist fantasy masterpiece,
“The Holy Mountain.”
The music is intellectually heady stuff
and a far sight away from where the act
started.
“(We) started out as just Jordan and
I,” guitarist Bryon Dudley said of the
band’s start with singer Jordan Mull.
“She and I got together after she moved
back to Ames and asked if we could play
music together. We started out playing Strong Like Bear plays “Nova Labs Unplugged” at The Treehouse, 3329 Lincoln
acoustic music at places like Ritual Cafe. Way, Ames, on Saturday, March 14. Show starts at 8 p.m.
A few months later, the rock band I was
more room to just play.”
in broke up, and we kind of joined forces
When he’s not playing with Strong Like Bear, Dudley
and started electrifying our songs.”
Mull and Dudley added bassist Greg Bruna and drummer heads up Ames-based recording studio Nova Labs, who have
Rachel Dudley to the mix, and Strong Like Bear was off and turned out highly regarded music from the likes of Holly and
running. What had started with quiet acoustic songs quickly The Night Owls and Leslie and the Lys. Having Strong Like
turned into sprawling, prog-centric works with a high empha- Bear’s music come out on his own label affords Dudley and
his bandmates even more freedom to experiment with their
sis placed on sonic experimentation.
“It’s been very organic,” Dudley said of the band’s evolu- sound and follow their own creative whims, which is right
tion. “Melody is important, so we always try to make sure that where Dudley feels like the band’s wheelhouse lies.
“I have a huge experimental streak,” he admitted. “So
everything is written on an acoustic guitar. Our bassist has a
really strong jam band background, so he was the one who if anyone wants to go a little weirder, I’m right there with
brought up the idea of having fewer set pieces in the songs and them.” CV
SOUND ADVICE
T
he Hinterland Music Festival has already experienced healthy success in terms of sales for its inaugural season:
VIP tickets for the event sold out in 10 seconds. Now, festival organizer Sam Summers is listening to fan requests
and adding camping space for the two-day event. Camping passes will range from $150 to $250 and will go on sale
March 12. Check out www.hinterlandiowa.com for full details or to purchase tickets and camping passes.
The Iowa State Fair has added Carrie Underwood to its 2015 Grandstand lineup. Underwood is set to perform on Aug
17. Check out www.iowastatefair.org for full lineup schedule and ticket info.
This week’s Pick o’ the Week is the early show at Vaudeville Mews on Tuesday, March 17. Head on down to Mews
at 5:30 p.m and check out Shapes and Colors, playing along with Get at Me, Lake of Fat Kids and Stoopid. Show is all
ages, and $10 gets you in. Mahalo. 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.
26CITYVIEW
MARCH 12 - 18, 2015
“
Y
ou’re
gonna
love this,” Madonna claims in
the first line of the song,
“Bitch I’m Madonna.”
But despite her seemingly
confident proclamation,
love never really blooms.
The Diplo-produced track
is almost completely uninspired and quickly devolves into a mish-mash of EDM
ear-barf. The rest of the album is not quite as bad, but
the entire project never seems to escape this feeling of
desperation. As she has gotten older, Madonna has
resolutely dug her heels in and refused to acknowledge
the fact that certain things have passed her by. So here
we are, getting to listen to autotuned, dubstepped Madonna name dropping Beyonce and Lady Gaga as if
she is still one of them. But Madonna churning out
club songs at 50 is a bit like watching an old-timer’s
baseball game. Sure, it is great to see the legends trot
out for a last round of applause, but nobody thinks
they can still hit a fastball. CV
Of Montreal
“Aureate Gloom”
Polyvinyl
O
f Montreal is like
the smart kid in
grade school who
was always a little too
smug about his life. “Aureate Gloom” is — assuming
you are a fan of the act to
begin with — probably the
best work that you have
heard from Of Montreal
in five years. But hiding the work behind titles like
“Apollyon of Blue Room” and “Empyrean Abattoir” is
just gratuitous. The actual music on the album at times
feels slap-dash and mercurial, which is fitting given
Kevin Barnes’ in-the-moment writing style. There are
moments of genuine brilliance (the previously mentioned “Apollyon...”), but just as many moments of
discordant, aimless wandering. If Barnes could ever
climb out of his own navel and get the voices in his
head to sing together, Of Montreal could be capable
of Pink Floyd-levels of genius. But don’t hold your
breath. CV
Crossword
WhatThe...#!&%?
By Matt Jones
Know now!
Think you’re funny?
And now you know
Send us your best caption...
Email to: [email protected]
Next week’s photo:
This week’s winner:
“Dang, Jed, how did you rope me into doing this?”
Heidi Soliday
Runners-up:
“Torture? Heck,
Jim Bob, this water
boarding is fun!”
Rod R
“Tom did not read the
fine print on the new
Wisconsin Dells ride
attraction.”
Jim McCool
Send your “What The...?” caption and image entries
to [email protected]
Deadline for entries is Monday at noon.
ACROSS
1) Go out
4) Faddish 1990s collectibles
8) Hawke of “Boyhood”
13) Bovine opinion
14) “Head Like ___” (NIN song)
15) A nephew of Donald
16) AM drinks
17) Looked longingly
18) Checkout line count
19) Comedian Garofalo gives negative feedback?
22) Least tropical
23) Execute perfectly
24) Topeka residents provide
instructions?
30) “This ___” (1979 hit)
31) One of The Judds
32) Schnitzel stuff
36) “South Park” surname
39) Period of silence
40) Appearance at home?
42) 2010 Apple release
44) Brew inspired by a fictional
search engine on “The Good
Wife”?
50) Not quite the leader
51) Yuletide refrain
53) Grammy category for five-yearolds?
57) “Beer Barrel” dance
58) Actor ___ William Scott
59) “Get it, man?”
60) Herb in pesto sauce
61) “All My Children” femme fatale
62) Prefix before brow
63) Needed a bath badly
64) 40-yard race
65) Longfellow contemporary
DOWN
1) Modern pictograph
2) “___ Horseman” (title character
voiced by Will Arnett)
3) 1990s conflict site
4) Imaginary figure
5) Move like The Blob
6) “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”
singer Campbell
7) Car styles
8) Slurred speech?
9) All-out battle
10) A nephew of Donald
11) Uses a scope
12) “Dr. Mario” platform
14) “Open” author Andre
20) Ending for Hallow
21) “Boo-___!”
25) “Boiler Room” co-star Long
26) Reduce to essentials
27) Work the soil
28) Chanted syllables
29) Comedian’s forte
32) “Wet/dry” buy
33) Shakespearean suffix
34) “Aladdin” monkey
35) Glove material
37) Detox place
38) Size for some margins
41) Daytime fare with Sharon
Osbourne
43) Troi on “Star Trek: TNG”
45) Sport-___ (4WD vehicle)
46) Gathered in a crowd
47) “Solve for x” subj.
48) Bedridden
49) Bad weather culprit, sometimes
52) Texas A&M player
53) Junk or dinghy
54) “Let It Go” singer
55) Giga- times a thousand
56) Je ne ___ quoi
57) “Downton Abbey” airer
2015 Jonesin’ Crosswords
[email protected]
Solution for last week
<BMROB>PF:K<A*+&*1%+)*. 27
CenterStage
FilmReview
By John Domini
By Chad Taylor
Spilling blood in the courtroom Almost human
“Clarence Darrow.” Repertory Theater of Iowa, Kum ’n’ Go Theater. March 11-14.
Wednesday-Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
D
rama can be all in the eyes. Rich
Richards, the whole show in “Clarence Darrow,” can raise the tension
with a hardening stare or lighten it with a
sidelong glance. In a late rehearsal, his look
even seemed to change the scenery, going
from a seat in a small-town ballpark to staggering back from a Chicago riot.
Granted, the actor threw in a good deal
of body English as well. Still, he kept his audience close. According to Richards and his
director, Shawn Wilson, that’s the only way
RTI’s new production will work.
“We want it to feel as if you’ve stopped
in Darrow’s office and he’s starting telling
stories,” says Wilson.
“He’s regaling you with stories,” agrees
Richards. “This is his way of relaxing — to
share his amazing history.”
History would have been different without Clarence Darrow. Back in the 1890s,
this lawyer took on some of America’s most
vicious robber barons, and his victories
helped insure humane work conditions. In
the 1920s, he won landmark cases for African-Americans and helped to found the
American Civil Liberties Union. In 1925
came the famous “Monkey Trial” in which
he defended a Tennessee teacher who dared
to teach Darwin.
That trial itself became the basis for a hit
play, “Inherit the Wind,” which later was
made into a film. In the 1970s, David Rintels
pulled together this one-man show, using the
lawyer’s court documents and other writings.
For the title role, he was lucky enough to reel
in icon Henry Fonda. With Fonda’s clout,
the show went to Broadway. One production
last year starred Kevin Spacey.
To attract players like that, “Darrow” has
28CITYVIEW
MARCH 12 - 18, 2015
got to offer more than a history lesson. Its
courtroom battles have to leave blood on the
stage — as Rich Richards, a longtime Federal prosecutor, knows they can. So while
the script tosses in a bit of the personal, with
Darrow’s Ohio upbringing, his failed marriage and subsequent lovers (by the 1920s,
he was a proponent of free love), what this
show emphasizes is the adversarial nature of
the legal system.
The set features a witness stand front and
center, which separates the audience to either side of the stage. In the same way, two
major pieces of furniture stand opposed: a
battleship of a desk and a slant-top defendants’ dock. Working from one to the other,
Richards offers some of America’s most eloquent defenses of civil liberty and workers’
rights. Yet while the argument can be political, indeed Socialist, Richards and Wilson
keep it lively.
“Because we use Darrow’s courtroom
presentations, a lot of the drama is presentational,” Richards explains, a Shakespeare
soliloquy, ranging far and wide and rising to
a crescendo.
“After all, in the courtroom, Darrow was
a master of drama,” he said.
Sometimes, it would seem, simply by
shifting his gaze.
Overheard in the Lobby: The Playhouse
has added an extra performance for “The
Somewhat True Robin Hood” on March
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.
R
emember last week’s discussion about
the difference between entertaining
movies and good movies? Neill Blomkamp has given us another example to work
with in “Chappie.”
On a purely emotional, gut level, “Chappie” does everything it sets out to. It is
moving, funny, exciting and gut-wrenching. Taken purely from that point of view,
“Chappie” is virtually a must-see film. However, when looked at critically, with an eye
for both the art of storytelling and technique
of filmmaking, “Chappie” is a bit of a mess.
“Chappie” opens on Deon Wilson (a
sadly underused Dev Patel), an engineer
for Tetravaal, a South Africa-based robotics firm. Tetravaal has recently created the
world’s first all-automated police force —
called “Scouts” — for the city of Johannesburg, and lead designer Deon is the company’s golden boy. For his next trick, he has
been working from home on perfecting the
world’s first true artificial intelligence and —
after a bit of back story on the film’s part
— he finally perfects the algorithm. After
having his request for a Scout to put into
his AI program is rebuffed by Tetravaal’s
CEO (Sigourney Weaver), Deon goes rogue,
swiping the battered chassis of a Scout that
has been designated for destruction. On his
way home with his stolen goods, Deon is
kidnapped by a trio of J-berg gangsters who
want to use Deon’s Scout as firepower for a
heist they need to pull.
That is when the movie hits its stride
— for a while, anyway. Deon’s AI program
doesn’t fire up as a fully realized, intelligent
operating system, ala Scarlett Johansson in
Spike Jonze’s “Her.” Instead, Chappie is
born like a child: timid, trusting and an intellectual blank slate. It is that single creative
decision by Blomkamp that keeps “Chappie” from being a total failure. The innocent,
vulnerable, child-like Chappie (voiced almost to perfection by Sharlto Copley) is the
only emotional attachment the audience has
to the film, but for
“Chappie”
an hour or more,
120 Minutes
that connection is a
Rated R
devastating one.
Starring: Dev Patel,
From a storyHugh Jackman,
telling standpoint,
Yolandi Vasser
the biggest problem
with the film comes
in the form of Hugh Jackman. It is not that
Jackman does anything particularly egregious with his performance, rather that his
character is terrible. Jackman plays Vincent
Moore, an ex-military man and another employee of Tetravaal. While Deon was creating the Scouts, Vincent was working on the
Moose, a larger, bulkier, more military-grade
robot designed to be remotely controlled by
a human pilot. But at the film’s opening, it
is clear that the Scouts have won. The human Johannesburg cops love them, crime is
way down, and nobody is interested in the
Moose program. So from the beginning,
Vincent is a character with no traditional
engineering experience working on a project
that nobody wants and that Tetravaal is not
interested in funding anymore. He is a useless cog and exists purely because the story
needed a comically over-the-top bad guy. At
one point, he even physically accosts Deon
at his desk and threatens him with a gun before laughing it off as a joke and returning to
his desk. Tetravaal has the worst HR department in the world.
All of these pieces collide in the third act
where the film turns decidedly more violent,
and the storytelling becomes, sadly, more
lazy. Ultimately, the film sets itself up for an
ending that could have erased all the bad will
and given the story a finish that was satisfying
in spite of itself. Blomkamp, however, decides
to blow past that ending and continue on to a
“happier” one that is much less satisfying.
I wanted to love “Chappie.” And for about
90 minutes, I actually did. But in the end,
“Chappie” misses the mark in a couple of very
important ways, and that is sad to see. CV
Cityview
Bites
Local dining guide
Little Morocco revives the pop-up
“
I
f Des Moines does
not allow unbridled
access to food
trucks, then the
young
professional tribe will
leave, and this
city’s renaissance will
be dead and gone.” That
mantra has spread now from the manual
of hipster talking points to the mainstream
media. Here in the local, alternative media, the issue looks to be overstated. This
writer travels a lot and has not observed the
kind of laissez-faire mobile food town that
proponents of food truck liberation claim
is already stealing our future. Ann Arbor,
Michigan, the trendiest, most high-tech of
Midwest towns, has more venture capital
and more cafés per capita than any town in
Silicon Valley. Food trucks there are strictly
regulated to a single “food truck park” that
does not directly compete with the restaurant scene. That’s a role model worth emulating, certainly more so than a downtown
area where food trucks occupy the parking
places in front of independent cafés.
Before food truck obsession, pop-up restaurants and a permanent indoor farmers market were darlings of our scene makers. Those
institutions also provided cash-strapped food
entrepreneurs an entry-level position in the
American dream — the worthiest argument
for easing food truck regulations. Taste of
Thailand, the restaurant that would lead the
East Village revival, began as a pop-up in Lit-
By Jim Duncan
winter — all swimming in a harissa rouille.
Their dessert course, highlighting Fez,
included a honey semolina cake, a saffron
rice pudding that was thicker than what one
finds in local Indian cafés, and an almond
briouat. Mint tea was served afterward, with
little balls of sweetness called “ghoribas.”
Service was fast and efficient, a considerable
achievement for an understaffed pop-up.
Essaidi said he intends each pop-up
menu to be completely different in order to
introduce as many dishes as possible to Des
Moines before hopefully opening the area’s
first Moroccan café. Keep an eye on Little
Morocco’s Facebook page for news about
future events.
Food
Dude
A Tanjwia shorba at Little Morocco.
tle Joe’s Diner on Court Avenue. Café di Scala, one of the city’s best restaurants, evolved
from a weekend stall at Metro Market. So let
it be with Little Morocco.
Chef Taoufik Essaidi and pastry chef
Jenna Irving have been selling ghoribas, briouats, gazelle horns, kikat smidas and other
pastries at the Downtown Farmers Market
(and through their website www.littlemoroccopatisserie.com) for a couple of years. Last
Sunday, they tried their second pop-up restaurant — a completely sold out affair at
Red, which is closed on Sundays. Essaidi
moved to America after winning a nationwide competition to represent Moroccan
cuisine at Disney World. In Des Moines, he
GREAT FOOD!
FRIENDLY
SERVICE!
Try us for a fast and
delicious lunch!
STOP IN TO
CABO SOL
TODAY!
Buy one Combination
Lunch or Dinner (#1-37)
plus 2 Drinks and get
the 2nd Combination (#1-37)
Find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @El_AguilaReal for
DAILY
SPECIALS
FREE!
$
10 off $1.99 MARGARITAS
$
5 off
$3.00 off
$1.50 off
Of equal or lesser value. One coupon per party.
Not valid with any other offer. Excludes water.
Expires 03/31/15.
3520 Beaver Ave.
Des Moines
MONDAYS
Frozen Strawberry, Lime, Mango and Peach
– or – On the Rocks
any order of $50 or more
SAVE ON LUNCH
any order of $25 or more
5010 Mills Civic Pkwy. in WDM t 223.6319
worked for Steve Logsdon at Café di Scala
before spending most of a decade in Canada.
Irving is a pastry chef who was looking for
a niche when she met and married Essaidi.
For their recent pop-up, they presented
a three-course dinner that represented three
distinct regional cuisines of Morocco. Their
first course, drawn from Casablanca, featured three salads — firm roasted beets covered in microgreens, olives and chick peas
and harissa carrots. Their main course, from
Tangiers, was “shorba,” a word that simply
means “soup.” If so, all soups should be
Tangiers-style. This was a cioppino/bouillabaisse stew of mussels, clams, fish and some
of the most delicious shrimp I’ve tasted all
Of equal or lesser value. One coupon per party.
Not valid with any other offer.
Expires 03/31/15.
Buy one
Lunch
and take
2nd Lunch
*Dine in only
SAVE ON DINNER
*Dine in only
Side Dishes: Pam Patton (Patton’s) will be
given an American Dream award this April
by the National Restaurant Association’s
Education Foundation. The Georgia native’s restaurant defied a lot of established
bunk when she opened, east of the state
capitol, in 2010. People told her white tablecloth dining and soul food were mutually
exclusive and that fine dining was doomed
in the La Plaza neighborhood. Her menu
and her all-you-can-eat lunch buffets have
become word-of-mouth legends. During
last year’s Junior Olympics, she was so busy
she had to stay open several hours later than
usual to accommodate all the out-of-town
visitors. CV
Jim Duncan is a freelance writer who has
penned nine different columns for Cityview
and its sister publications beginning in 1987.
MONTERREY
& MAZATLAN
8801 University Ave. #29, Clive s 457-8900
9974 Swanson Blvd., Clive s 334-9693
6630 Mills Civic Pkwy., WDM s 224-5989
NEW WEST DES MOINES LOCATION!
Bring in
this ad for a
1
/2 price
dinner or Lunch
when you buy one at regular price
Tuesday Nights:
Buy 1 small Margarita,
get 1 small for $1!
MONDAY–SATURDAY 11am–10pm Q SUNDAY 11am–9pm
MARCH 12 - 18, 2015 s#)496)%7s 29
ALL YOUR FAVORITES ...ALL THE TIME!
DRIVE THRU OPEN
24 HOURS!
and a medium drink
FIND OUT WHY WE ARE THE BEST!
DRIVE THRU!
2510 Ingersoll Avenue
515-243-3743 s Des Moines
abelardosmexicanfood.com
5 DES MOINES LOCATIONS!
ANKENY LOCATION COMING SOON!
30s#)496)%7s-!2#(
CityviewBites
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) 484-2108. www.
meskwaki.com.
Quinton’s: Located at 506 E. Grand in the
East Village, Quinton’s is open seven days a week
from 11 a.m.-2 a.m. and serves food until mid-
night. 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. 4402075. 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,
CityviewBites
Your Johnston Neighborhood Sports Bar. 5950
N.W. 86th St., Johnston. 421-4848. www.jethrosdesmoines.com.
Woody’s Smoke Shack: Woody’s has
championship BBQ and offers catering, dine-in or
carry out options. Home to the best corn bread in
Iowa. Come early, call ahead or even fax your order! 2511 Cottage Grove Ave. Phone: 277-0005.
Fax: 277-0022. www.woodyssmokeshack.com.
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.
Catering
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.
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
ALL
ABOARD!
Coffeehouse
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, Ankeny.
963-4500. 2843 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines. 2744004. 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.
Food / Restaurant
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.
light 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
Indian
Mediterranean
India Star: Welcome to India Star, offering the
best Indian cuisine in Des Moines. Here you de-
Fresh Mediterranean Express: Fresh meets
Waukee. When you enter our doors you will be
DON’T MISS OUT! TUESDAY, MARCH 17 ONLY
CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE SPECIAL
11am to 9pm
EVERY MONDAY &
TUESDAY NIGHT:
Burger & Brew
SPECIAL
Purchase any one of our
burgers & receive a
FREE BEER!
5NIVERSITY!VEs#LIVEssWWW#LUB#AR$ININGCOM
,OCALLY/WNED/PERATED
MARCH 12 - 18, 2015 s#)496)%7s 31
CityviewBites
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.
Mexican
find out more
ONLINE.
www.dmcityview.com
5",&"4-*$&0650'5)&13*$&
BUY
ONE PIZZA
GET ONE
FREE
EXP
03/31
SUN - THURS
11:00AM–9:00PM
FRI & SAT
11:00AM–10:00PM
)*$,."/30"%Ş63#"/%"-&
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. 2822995. www.dosriosrestaurant.com.
Tasty Tacos: A family-owned Des Moinesbased Mexican restaurant serving family recipes
for 50 years! Most everything is made daily. Six
convenient locations throughout the Des Moines
metro. 1418 E. Grand Ave., 2900 Euclid Ave.,
5847 S.E. 14th St., in Des Moines, 8549 Hickman Road, Urbandale, 2401 S.E. Delaware Ave.,
in Ankeny, and 6326 Mills Civic Parkway in West
Des Moines. Go to www.tastytacos.com for more
information or join them on Facebook.
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 cor-
porate 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.splashseafood.com.
Small Plates
Trostel’s Dish: You’ll love the unique dining experience at our restaurant. We offer small dishes
with fresh flavor from around the world and new
seasonal selections every three months. Enjoy
wine flights and cheese flights. Private dining area
for business meetings or intimate gatherings. Bar
opens at 4 p.m. Monday–Saturday. Dinner starts
at 5 p.m. 12851 University Ave., Suite 400, Clive.
221-DISH. www.dishtrostels.com.
Specialty Stores
Vom Fass: VOM FASS has earned the reputation
as the shopping destination of choice for your extra virgin olive oils, balsamic vinegars and nut oils.
Also, check out their amazing selection of singlemalt Scotch and Irish whiskies, brandies and fine
liqueurs. Imagine the fun as you taste your way
through the shop! 833 42nd St., Des Moines.
244-5020. www.vomfassdsm.com.
Steakhouse
Jethro’s ‘n Jake’s Smokehouse Steaks: Now
in Altoona. Still at Drake. No Australian or Texan
spoken here. These steaks are corn-fed, Iowaraised, 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
SAMANDLOUIESPIZZA.COM
515.537.8361
32s#)496)%7s-!2#(
the salad bar comes with your meal. Enjoy handcut 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, panfried 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) 484-2108.
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
www.dmcityview.com/nightlifephotos
Your guide to... highlighted calendars, drink specials
and photos of people on the town.
Find your lucky charms at Mickey’s Irish Pub
W
ith so many bars
participating
in the Court
Avenue Official Block
Party to celebrate St.
Patrick’s Day, it’s hard
to know where to go.
They all open early, most
offer special Irish foods, and each bar offers some sort of unique drink special. But
where’s the best place to go? The crowds are
massive and, although the event is crazy-fun,
it can get overwhelming. Sometimes it’s better to pick your favorite bar and stick with it
for the day — especially the ones that open
early.
Only the truest St. Patty’s Day fanatics
stick with their green all day and all night,
and they need a bar that they can rely on
from an early breakfast to a late night — and
all the pints in between. The kissing of all
those who are Irish commences at 6 a.m.,
and the green beer keeps flowing until 2 a.m.
With these long hours of dedicated Irish
folk, they need a home, a base, a meeting
place, a starting point and an ending point.
Mickey’s Irish Pub will be that place, and
more, to hundreds of customers on March
17. Crowds will begin to fill the corner of
Third and Court before the birds are even
chirping, just waiting to start the celebra-
Hours
Mon. – Thurs. 5 p.m. – 2 a.m.
Fri. – Sat. 4 p.m. – 2 a.m.
Happy hour
Mon. – Thurs. 4 – 8 p.m.
206 Third St., Des Moines
Across from the parking ramp and next
to Voodoo Lounge
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with friends and endless green beer at Mickey’s Irish Pub’s
block party.
tions with a green beer.
The St. Patrick’s Day specials at Mickey’s will keep patrons happily buzzed from
morning till night. They’re offering a slew of
different specials, like three-for-one drinks,
$2.50 Captain Morgan’s, $1 off drinks, and
$3 Guinness, Smithwick’s, Harp, and Red
Bull and vodka drinks. There’s always some
sort of drink special going on, and it’s an
Irish bar, so you know the whiskey is never
in short supply. Also, let’s not forget that
r
y
r
e
’s
D
Voted BEST
NORTHSIDE BAR
s Tuesday
7ELL$RINKSsOFF,ONG)SLANDS
s Thursday
3PICE2UMs$OMESTIC4ALL"OYS
Check our Facebook for more daily specials!
Mickey’s won Best Irish Bar in 2015’s Best
of Des Moines competition, and that was for
the fifth year in a row.
Mickey’s definitely looks like a pub,
with its dimly lit, stained glass lamps and
bookshelves lining the walls behind the corner booths. On any given afternoon, it can
be one of the more relaxing places to buy
a pint. But the great thing about Mickey’s
is its versatility, meaning that even though
it’s a nice place for a quiet drink at 4 p.m.
KARAOKE
on a Wednesday, it also plays home to wild
crowds of bar hoppers buying shots for their
friends and anyone else who happens to be
nearby.
And when summertime swings around
the corner (we promise, it will happen eventually), Mickey’s has one of the best downtown patios in the metro. It offers plenty of
space to walk around — and dance, if you’re
into that sort of thing — and it has a large
bar outside for convenience, although don’t
be surprised if it takes several minutes and
some serious pushing to make your way
through the crowd just to get to the bar.
With one of the best St. Patrick’s Day celebrations around, great drink specials, a
spectacular patio and all-around great Irish
vibes, Mickey’s Irish Pub is the place to be.
So grab a Guinness — or a green beer on
St. Patty’s day — and kick back. CV
6 NIGHTS A WEEK!
STARTING AT 9PM TUES-THU-SUN
STARTING AT 7PM WED, FRI & SAT
St. Patty’s Day
s Monday
$2.50 Domestic Bottles
$3 Domestic Tall Boys
$3 Shots of Fireball, Jager & Rumple Minze
s Wednesday
2 for 1s from 9pm to 11pm
(calls, well, and bottles)
$3.50 Jack, Crown, Devils Cut, & Jameson
By Ashley Buckowing
2 FOR 1
DRINKS
ON WELL CALLS AND BOTTLES
2014
FROM 3PM TO 6PM AND 11PM TO 1AM.
Drink
us on
Specials Find
Facebook
Daily [email protected]
Located back behind Day’s Inn
4845 Merle Hay Road, Suite B s Des Moines s 278-2810
$6.25 car bombs
JEANNIE’S
BOTTLE
3839 Merle Hay Road Ó 278.9797
Thursday, March 12
TOAD’S TAVERN
Price-is-right happy hour 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Spin the wheel to drink for cheap! $2.50
any rum, 6 p.m.-2 a.m.
4UBUF"WFt
www.toadstavern.net
EXTRA INNINGS
Karaoke 8:30 p.m. – 1 a.m. $3.50 Tall
boys. $3 Fireballs. Free house shot if you
sing!
1500 S.E. First St.
MANNING’S
Come see April! Busch Light – Two cans
for $4! $3 Captain & Cokes. $3 Jack &
Cokes. Two for $5 Sambuca. $2 cans of
Old Milwaukee.
*OEJBOPMB"WFt
20+ YEARS OF MAGICAL
MUSIC FROM IRELAND
TAPZ PUB
Buy one get ones 4-6 p.m. $5 Moscow
mules, $3 Three Olives, $4 bombs.
)JDLNBO3PBE$MJWFt
THE DERRY’S LOUNGE
$3 spice rum, $3 domestic tall boys.
.FSMF)BZ3PBE4VJUF#t
Saturday, March 14
JOKER’S
Two-4-ones, $4 domestic bottles, $4
wells and bombs.
$PVSU"WFt
XXXKPLFSTETNDPN
VOODOO LOUNGE
Happy hour 4-6 p.m. $2 off select tapas.
$2 off all martinis. $2 off select wine. $2
Fireball, beers, drinks 6 p.m. - 12 a.m.
5IJSE4UttXXX
WPPEPPETNDPN
THE STUFFED OLIVE
$2 off all martinis. $2 off select wine.
Half price C-martinis 6 p.m. - close.
5IJSE4Ut
XXXUIFTUVòFEPMJWFDPN
Friday, March 13
TOAD’S TAVERN
Price-is-right happy hour 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Spin the wheel to drink for cheap! $3
Fireball all day.
4UBUF"WFt
www.toadstavern.net
$2.50 dom. bottles, $4 select bombs.
.FSMF)BZ3PBE4VJUF#t
8:00pm
Hoyt Sherman Place
1501 Woodland Ave.,
Des Moines
dIC<EdS ΨϮ5 advance ͻ Ψϯ0 at door
BEER CAN ALLEY
BEER CAN ALLEY
STUFFED OLIVE
STUFFED OLIVE
Tickets Available
At Ticketmaster, Hoyt Sherman Boǆ Kĸce
And CMA Ticket Outlets
MŽrĞ ƟcŬĞt ŝŶĨŽrmaƟŽŶ ͻ 515-ϳϳ1-ϮϮ15
www.thecma.org
sCITYVIEWs
MARCH 12 - 18, 2015
EXTRA INNINGS
Live music – Check out Facebook for
weekly performers.
1500 S.E. First St.
MANNING’S
Come see April! PARTAYYY! $3 “double
cheeseburgers” all day long.
*OEJBOPMB"WFt
VOODOO LOUNGE
$3.50 Captains and Vodka Redbulls, $10
potions 6 p.m. - 12 a.m.
5IJSE4Ut
XXXWPPEPPETNDPN
TAPZ PUB
Buy one get ones 3 - 6 p.m. $3 Fireballs,
$4 vodka Red Bulls.
)JDLNBO3PBE$MJWFt
THE STUFFED OLIVE
off F, R and I martinis 6 p.m. - close.
5IJSE4Ut
JOKER’S
$1 domestic bottles 8-11:30 p.m., BOGO
bottle service (buy one get one free).
8-11:30 p.m., power hour $4 bombs, $4
fireball shots midnight - 1 a.m.
$PVSU"WFt
XXXKPLFSTETNDPN
Saturday, March 14
TOAD’S TAVERN
5 minute happy hour every hour from 10
a.m.-2 a.m.
4UBUF"WFt
www.toadstavern.net
THE EXCHANGE
BEER CAN ALLEY
THE EXCHANGE
STUFFED OLIVE
EXTRA INNINGS
College football. Bloody Mary Bar. $3
Fireballs. $3 Tall Boys.
1500 S.E. First St.
$3 assorted Bacardi flavors, $3 shots of
Fireball, Jager and Rumple Minze.
.FSMF)BZ3PBE4VJUF#t
TAPZ PUB
$12 buckets during games, $4 bombs,
$3 tallboys.
)JDLNBO3PBE$MJWFt
Join Us For Our Annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration
Saturday, March 14
Pre-Patty’s Partying!
NOON
Tapping of The
Green Keg
9pm-1am
Monkey
Monkey
Monkey
playing live
Tuesday, March 17
St. Patrick’s Day!
7am Open for Breakfast
10:30am Iowa Scottish Bag
Pipes & Drums
3pm-6pm Brad Seidenfeld
takes the stage
7pm-11pm Gimikk!
playing live
FUN ALL DAY INTO THE NIGHT!
Don’t forget to wear the green!
NEVER A COVER AT MICKEY’S!
To see upcoming live music schedule, go to
www.MickeysWaukee.com
50 SE Laurel St., Waukee 987-9604
(5 minutes W of I-35/80 on Hickman Rd. & S on Warrior Ln.)
www.MickeysWaukee.com
St. Patrick’s Day
Party!
Tuesday, March 17
FREE
FOOD!
DOORS
OPEN
10AM
VOODOO LOUNGE
cider beers, $3 Kinkys, $3 bombs 6 p.m.
- 12 a.m.
5IJSE4Ut
XXXWPPEPPETNDPN
JOKER’S
All mixed drinks are served as doubles
8-11:30 p.m., POWER HOUR $4 bombs
and $4 fireball shots midnight - 1 a.m.
$PVSU"WFttXXX
KPLFSTETNDPN
THE STUFFED OLIVE
off S, A & T martinis 6 p.m. - close.
5IJSE4Ut
Sunday, March 15
LIVE
MUSIC!
Fahrenheit
performs
530pm–930pm
HEATED
OUTSIDE
PATIO!
Green Beer s $5 Green Beer Pitchers
Irish Car Bomb special s Jameson special
Baileys and Patron coffee specials
$100 Bar Tab for Best Irish Dressed
Bags and more!
TOAD’S TAVERN
All day happy hour. Free pool, 10 a.m. close.
4UBUF"WFt
www.toadstavern.net
EXTRA INNINGS
Game day. Bloody Mary Bar. $3 Tall boys
all day long. $2.50 bottles.
1500 S.E. First St.
TAPZ PUB
$12 buckets, $2 domestic draws, $2
wells, $3 fireball.
)JDLNBO3PBE$MJWFt
$2 PBR, Busch Heavy, Natural Light tall
boys, $3 domestic tall boys. Free pool.
.FSMF)BZ3PBE4VJUF#t
JOKER’S
Industry night, $1 domestic bottles, $1
wells and $1 fireball shots 8 p.m. - close.
$PVSU"WFt
XXXKPLFSTETNDPN
Monday, March 16
TOAD’S TAVERN
Spin the wheel to drink for cheap! SIN
night: late night happy hour from 10
p.m. - 2 a.m.
4UBUF"WFt
www.toadstavern.net
MICKEY’S WAUKEE
MICKEY’S WAUKEE
MICKEY’S WAUKEE
MICKEY’S WAUKEE
OLD FAT TONY’S
NEW OWNER
&
NEW NAME!
Across from
Tumea & Sons
1500 SE 1st Street in Des Moines
Monday–Thursday 1pm–2am s Friday–Sunday 11am–2am
sCITYVIEWs
MARCH 12 - 18, 2015
Join us at
SULLY’S IRISH PUB
for the ALTtimate
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
BASH!
HEATED TENT PARTY
No Cover!
Music provided by Alt 106.3
6am: OPEN for Irish Breakfast
SERVING CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE ALL DAY!
7am: Traditional IRISH FLAG-RAISING with Friendly Sons
3pm: TENT OPENS with PERFORMANCE BY BAGPIPERS AND DRUMS
3pm: First 500 people in the tent get FREE custom St. Pat’s KOOZIES!
3:30pm: MUSIC with ALT 106.3 until midnight. GIVE-AWAYS all evening!
Stop by our PHOTO BOOTH for a chance to
WIN A BUDWEISER PARTY!
Go to sullysdesmoines.com and sign up for the Shamrock
Room & King Kybo!
Sunday, March 156#46+0)#60110
FREE CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE with purchase of drink
110 GRAND AVENUE WDM
www.sullysdesmoines.com
Like us on
@Sullys Irish Pub & Follow us on
@SullysDesMoines
EXTRA INNINGS
Football. $3 tall boys and $2 wells
during the games!
1500 S.E. First St.
MANNING’S
Come see April! Two for $5 domestic
bottles. $2 shots of peppermint
schnapps!
*OEJBOPMB"WFt
TAPZ PUB
Buy one get ones 4-6 p.m. $2 domestic
draws, $3 captains, $3 jagermeister.
)JDLNBO3PBE$MJWFt
sCITYVIEWs
MARCH 12 - 18, 2015
VOODOO LOUNGE
Half priced potions 6 p.m. - 12 a.m.
5IJSE4Ut
XXXWPPEPPETNDPN
$2.50 domestic bottles, $3 dom. tall
boys, $3 shots of Fireball, Jager, Rumple
Minze.
.FSMF)BZ3PBE4VJUF#t
SULLY’S
EXTRA INNINGS
SULLY’S
SULLY’S
SULLY’S
SULLY’S
THE STUFFED OLIVE
Half price martinis 6 p.m. - close.
5IJSE4Ut
Tuesday, March 17
TOAD’S TAVERN
Price-is-right happy hour 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Spin the wheel to drink for cheap! Mug
night: $5 for a mug then $2 refills all day.
4UBUF"WFt
www.toadstavern.net
EXTRA INNINGS
Steak Night 5-9 p.m. 2 for 1s from 9 p.m.
- 1 a.m. $2 domestic draws.
1500 S.E. First St.
MANNING’S
Come see April! Busch Light – Two cans
for $4! $2 cans of Old Milwaukee.
*OEJBOPMB"WFt
TAPZ PUB
Buy one get ones 4-6 p.m. $3 import
draws, $4 Guiness, $6 domestic pitchers.
)JDLNBO3PBE$MJWFt
sCITYVIEWs
MARCH 12 - 18, 2015
$2.50 well drinks, $1 off Long Islands
.FSMF)BZ3PBE4VJUF#t
VOODOO LOUNGE
Half priced top shelf liquors 6 p.m. - 12
a.m.
5IJSE4Ut
XXXWPPEPPETNDPN
THE STUFFED OLIVE
Half price beers 6 p.m. - close.
5IJSE4Ut
DERRY’S LOUNGE
JEANNIE’S BOTTLE
DERRY’S LOUNGE
JEANNIE’S BOTTLE
Wednesday, March 18
THE STUFFED OLIVE
Half price wine 6 p.m.-close.
5IJSE4Ut
EXTRA INNINGS
$4 bombs and $3 Fireball 9 p.m. – close.
1500 S.E. First St.
TOAD’S TAVERN
Spin the wheel to drink for cheap! $3
you-call-it on wells and calls, 6 p.m. - 2
a.m.
4UBUF"WFt
www.toadstavern.net
VOODOO LOUNGE
Half priced Moscow Mules with purchase
of a cup 6 p.m. - 12 a.m.
5IJSE4Ut
XXXWPPEPPETNDPN
MANNING’S
Come see Molli! $3 Fireballs. $4 vodka
Redbulls!
*OEJBOPMB"WFt
EXTRA INNINGS
JOKERS
EXTRA INNINGS
EXTRA INNINGS
2-for-1’s 9-11 p.m. (calls, well, bottles),
$3.50 Jack, Crown, Devils Cut, Jameson.
.FSMF)BZ3PBE4VJUF#t
TAPZ PUB
Buy one get ones 4-6 p.m. $3 Captains,
$3 tallboys.
)JDLNBO3PBE$MJWFt
JOKERS
ST. PADDY’S DAY PARTY!
#ÌC; Ì
;PT
;[;);;Ì;OH64
dmcityview.com/nightlifephotos
Hundreds of photos from local Des Moines
hot spots updated weekly.
NO
HUGE CROWDS
COLD TENT
LONG LINES
COVER
PRICEY DRINKS
Just relax with your friends and enjoy yourself.
Green Beer
Jello Shots!
$1 Shooters
Free Irish Stew
8350 Hickman Road [ Clive
www.greatestbar.com
YOUR NUMBER ONE BAR FOR ALL THINGS SPORTS!
TheWeek
March 12 through 18
All entries must be submitted by 7 a.m. on Monday.
Online at www.dmcityview.com/calendar, or email
entries to [email protected].
Thursday
12
(%!,4(3500/24'2/503
s /PIATE 3UPPORT 'ROUP FOR 7OMEN Call 633-
7968 or 274-3904 for questions and to RSVP. 7 p.m.
Friends House Conference Room. 4211 Grand Ave.
!24'!,,%2)%3
s-AKING!RT0UBLIC Making Art Public explores the
+!2!/+%
beauty and history of public art in Iowa, 9 a.m. State
Historical Museum of Iowa.
s +ARAOKE 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. Beaver Tap. 4041
s!DVENTURE!WAITS4RAVELTHROUGHTHE#AMERA
OF6ICTORIA(ERRING Enjoy a scenic trip through some
s +ARAOKE !T 4HE #AMELOT 7-10 p.m. Family hour
from 7-8 p.m. The Talent Factory. 1114 6th St. Nevada.
of the world’s most beautiful places! Monday - Friday, 11
a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Polk County Heritage Gallery.
s 3IMPSON %XHIBIT &EATURES !RTIST 2OBERTS The
colorful paintings of artist Darrell Roberts are now on
exhibit at the Farnham Galleries on the Simpson College
campus, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Farnham Galleries.
Urbandale Ave. Des Moines.
,%#452%7/2+3(/0
s "USINESS,AUNCH Class runs 12 sessions, meeting
every Tuesday and Thursday evening for six weeks, $350,
6 p.m. ISED Ventures Women’s Business Center.
s3MART4ALK,ISA-YERS Politics and Women: Why
Should We Care, 7-9 p.m. Hoyt Sherman Place.
"%.%&)4#(!2)49&5.$2!)3%2
s#HURCH2UMMAGEAND"AKE3ALE Sack sale. We
-)3#%,,!.%/53
have a big variety including all size clothes, holiday books,
jewelry, housewares, misc. Profits will go to local missions
and church budget. Thursday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.,
and Saturday, 9 a.m. - noon. Simpson United Methodist
Church.
s"LACK-ARIA&ILMAND6IDEO&ESTIVALIndependent
#(),$2%.&!-),9
s)CESKATING Our warm and safe synthetic ice surface
called “Super Glide” is easy for beginner skaters, 1 p.m.
The Ice Ridge.
s"OYS(IGH3CHOOL3TATE"ASKETBALL $10,
Films for Independent Minds. All films shown in Levitt
Auditorium are selected with an adult audience in mind,
6:30 p.m. Des Moines Art Center.
30/243
#/.#%243,)6%-53)#
s 4HE 3OUL 3EARCHERS Blues, no cover, 9 p.m. The
Greenwood Lounge.
s4HE4ARAKIS9 p.m. Star Bar.
s/NE.IGHTOF1UEENPaying tribute to the greatest
rock ’n’ roll band of all time, Gary Mullen & The Works
will be performing hit songs by Queen at the Pella Opera
House, General Admission: $37, Box Seats: $50, 7 p.m.
Pella Opera House.
%6%.4
s "EGINNER "RIDGE ,ESSONS 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. COST: $40 for an eightweek course (plus bonus lesson) or $5 per week as a
refresher course. Course book price = $15. To register,
contact Mike Smith, 991-3193, 6 p.m. Greater Des
Moines Bridge Center.
&!)4(0(),/3/0(9
s 4HE #OMMON 4HREAD Discussions pertaining to
Spiritual/Metaphysical studies, 10:30 a.m. 414 31st St. in
basement of Unity Church.
&//$7).%
s 4OUR 4ASTING The price is $20 per person and
includes: Cellar Wine Tour, Tasting of Summerset Wines,
Cheese Platter, Summerset Logo Wine Glass to take home,
3 p.m., Summerset Winery.
42sCITYVIEWs-!2#(
Schedule varies. Wells Fargo Arena.
4(%!42%!.$#/-%$9
s /PEN -IC The Last Laugh Comedy Theater’s open
mic night for aspiring comics. Admission is free. 8-10 p.m.
The Last Laugh Comedy Theater. 1701 25th St. West Des
Moines.
sh4HE3OMEWHAT4RUE4ALEOF2OBIN(OODvThe
charming but egotistical Robin Hood leads his band of
merry men and lovely Maid Marian in a battle with the evil
Prince John and Sheriff of Nottingham. This is a frantically
funny, Monty Python-esque retelling of the classic tale.
“The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood” will lead you on
an irreverent jaunt through Sherwood Forest you won’t
soon forget. Des Moines Community Playhouse.
s h-URDER FOR 4WOv The perfect blend of music,
mayhem and murder. Tuesday - Friday, 7:30 p.m.,
Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday, 3 p.m. The Temple Theater. 1011
Locust St. Des Moines.
sh#LARENCE$ARROW!/NE-AN0LAYv $15-$30.
7:30 p.m. Des Moines Social Club Kum and Go Theater.
s 7ALL OF )OWANS -USEUM %XHIBIT 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 "ATTLE &LAG (ALL -USEUM %XHIBIT 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
s %XHIBITION OPENS !NTIQUE !BSTRACTION With
roots in the last years of the 19th century, purely abstract
art, with no reference to objects in the material world,
began to appear in many countries in the early 1910s,
and has now been with us for a century, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Des Moines Art Center.
Blvd. Ankeny.
s +ISS !RMY 4RIBUTE $9.95 in advance, $15 DOS, 8
p.m. Val Air Ballroom.
s4HE9OUNGESTWith: Chad Elliot, Chris Fairbank, 21plus, $5, 10 p.m. The Vaudeville Mews.
s%XPIRE With: Rotting Out, Suburban Scum, Bent Life,
Mizery - all ages, 5:30 p.m. Vaudeville Mews.
s *AZZ (APPY (OUR The best in local and regional
Jazz in a funky basement club reminiscent of Greenwich
Village circa 1960. Catered food and no cover. Donations
are accepted. All ages, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The Basement @
Des Moines Social Club.
s #HARLSON 4RIO WITH 4INA (AASE&INDLAY Vocal
stylings, 7-10 p.m., Chuck’s Restaurant.
s 4HE #HIEFTAINS WITH 0ATTY -AHONEY Six-time
Grammy Award-winners, The Chieftains, have uncovered
centuries of Irish song and made these traditional
works their own. Their inimitable style has won them
countless fans over the decades, and their iconic sound
is synonymous with the revival traditional Irish music. 7
p.m. Stephens Auditorium. Lincoln Way and University
Boulevard. Ames.
+!2!/+%
"%.%&)4#(!2)49&5.$2!)3%2
and church budget. Thursday – Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.,
and Saturday 9 a.m. - noon. Simpson United Methodist
Church.
#(),$2%.&!-),9
The Ice Ridge.
s3TORY3PROUTSStory Sprouts will run every Friday for
eight consecutive weeks per season. Instead of Toddler
Times being offered 12 times per year, Story Sprouts
will offer families 32 weeks of books, songs, puppets,
activities and more, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Greater Des
Moines Botanical Center.
s(OME2EMODELING3HOWNew family fun
this year: build a LEGO® house, visit with Living History
Farms and shop the plant sale and Greater Des Moines
Habitat for Humanity ReStore. Connect with local experts
offering inspiration, products and services to meet all
your home and remodeling needs. Event dates are Friday,
March 13 at 1-8 p.m.; Saturday, March 14, 9 a.m. - 7
p.m.; Sunday March 15, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Admission is $5
for adults; children 5 and younger enter free. Free parking,
too. www.dmhomeandremodelingshow.com. Iowa State
Fairgrounds.
s&AMILY.IGHT Explore SCI with your family with
$5 general admission, documentary IMAX films and Food
Chain Cafe specials! Kick off your weekend by building
a rocket, traveling through outer space in one of SCI’s
dynamic experience platforms or experiencing a largerthan-life IMAX film with extended hours, 5-8 p.m. Science
Center of Iowa.
#/.#%243,)6%-53)#
s *OHN +RANTZ John Krantz playing JAZZ at the
keyboard accompanied by one of Des Moines’ finest jazz
bassists and sometimes with drummer Jim Eklof, 6:309:30 p.m. Sam and Gabe’s Italian Bistro.
s"OB0ACE4HE$ANGEROUS"AND Work Release
Party features Guitar-driven blues, R&B, classic rock, 4:307:30 p.m. Gas Lamp.
!24'!,,%2)%3
s2ICK"URKEAcoustic, no cover, 9 p.m. The Greenwood
s-AKING!RT0UBLIC Making Art Public explores the Lounge.
beauty and history of public art in Iowa, 9 a.m. State s3MOOTHSAYERS9:30 p.m. Star Bar.
s 4HE "ARRELHOUSE 2OCKETS Rapid-fire honky-tonk
s!DVENTURE!WAITS4RAVELTHROUGHTHE#AMERA piano, thundering rhythm from the drums and doghouse
OF6ICTORIA(ERRING Enjoy a scenic trip through some bass, buttery twang guitar, and full harmonic vocals
of the world’s most beautiful places! Monday - Friday, 11 spotlight this show! 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Gas Lamp.
s 4HE #OMFORT :ONE "AND No cover, 9 p.m. All In
3IMPSON %XHIBIT &EATURES !RTIST 2OBERTS The the Family.
Friday
s!BBY.ORMAL9:30 p.m. Southside Club.
s -IKE !CETO 9 p.m. Benchwarmers. 705 S. Ankeny
13
s&RIDAY.IGHT+ARAOKE 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. AJ’s on East
Court. 419 East Court Ave. Des Moines.
s &IREBALL &RIDAY +ARAOKE 9-11:45 p.m. Overboard
Sports Bar. 1101 Army Post Road.
s+ARAOKE 9:30 p.m. - 1 a.m. Striker’s Sports Bar. 655
N.E. 56th St. Pleasant Hill.
s +ARAOKE Weekly karaoke challenges with prizes to
be won. 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Okoboji Grill Ankeny. 2010 S.E.
Delaware. Ankeny.
s+ARAOKEWITH,IVE-USIC6IDEOS9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Mickey’s Irish Pub Waukee. 50 S.E. Laurel St. Waukee.
-)3#%,,!.%/53
s/PEN-IC+ARAOKE.IGHT 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.
30/243
s -## -ORENO VS 3TITT Tix Prices: $50 - $25,
7:30 p.m. Hy-Vee Hall.
4(%!42%!.$#/-%$9
sh4HE3OMEWHAT4RUE4ALEOF2OBIN(OODvThe
charming but egotistical Robin Hood leads his band of
merry men and lovely Maid Marian in a battle with the evil
Prince John and Sheriff of Nottingham. This is a frantically
funny, Monty Python-esque retelling of the classic tale.
“The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood” will lead you on
an irreverent jaunt through Sherwood Forest you won’t
soon forget. Des Moines Community Playhouse.
s 4HE ,AST ,AUGH -AINSTAGE 3HOW 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.
mayhem and murder. Tuesday - Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday
8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. The Temple Theater. 1011 Locust
St. Des Moines.
s #OMEDY 80ERIMENT 7:30 p.m. Stoner Studio
Theater.
Saturday
14
!24'!,,%2)%3
OF6ICTORIA(ERRING Enjoy a scenic trip through some
important contributions to our state, nation, world or
respective fields of work. 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. State Historical
Museum of Iowa.
s 3MALL "IZ 3ATURDAY 3PRING 3HOPALOOZA A
shopping event hosting more than 20 artists and small
businesses local to Des Moines and surrounding areas.
Artists will be showcasing their work for purchase
and viewing featuring - soaps, sweets, fibers, clothing,
jewelry, fine art, décor, pottery, body art, cooking stuff,
photography, spooky art and much more. Stop in, show
your support, and shop local in 2015. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Z’s
Bar and Grill/Legion Hall.
"%.%&)4#(!2)49&5.$2!)3%2
and church budget. Thursday - Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; and
Saturday 9 - noon. Simpson United Methodist Church.
"//+3!54(/2
s-EETTHE!UTHOR*AMES%RWIN James Erwin is
the author of “Rome, Sweet Rome,” a short story posted
on Reddit that became a Warner Brothers screenplay. He
is also the author of two historical encyclopedias and a
contributor to several more. He lives in Des Moines. 1-3
p.m. Beaverdale Books.
#(),$2%.&!-),9
s -USEUM 4REK ! #LOSER ,OOK AT THE %XHIBITS
11 a.m. to noon. Get interesting facts and a closer look at
artifacts on display with a museum guide. Free for visitors
of all ages. State Historical Museum of Iowa. 600 E. Locust
St. Des Moines.
The Ice Ridge.
March 13 at 1-8 p.m.; Saturday, March 14, 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.;
Sunday March 15, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Admission is $5 for
adults; children 5 and younger enter free. Free parking,
too. www.dmhomeandremodelingshow.com. Iowa State
Fairgrounds.
s0I$AY3.141592653… Pi Day is an annual celebration
commemorating the mathematical constant (pi). This year’s
celebration is extra special because it falls on 3/14/15 –
the first five digits of pi. Join us to celebrate with activities,
including: “Pie-plosion” – Kick-off the celebration with
an enormous (clean) “pie” explosion; Pi Bee – Test your
brain and see how many digits you can name; Length of
Pi – Participate in our goal of writing as many digits of pi
as possible in chalk around the building. 10 a.m. Science
Center of Iowa.
LECTURE
Image source: Google Image
The Landscape of Environmental Poverty in Africa
KELLY BAKER Assistant Professor, Occupational
and Environmental Health at the University of Iowa
entirely
unexpected
Thursday, March 19 / 6:30 pm / Levitt Auditorium
Reservations required; make FREE reservations at
desmoinesartcenter.org
Right: Kelly Baker
FREE ADMISSION IS SUPPORTED BY PRINCIPAL
FINANCIAL GROUP AND ART CENTER MEMBERS
MEDIA SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
CITYVIEWs-!2#( s
#/.#%243,)6%-53)#
s 4HE #OMFORT :ONE "AND No cover, 9 p.m. All In
the Family.
s -IKE !CETO 9 p.m. Benchwarmers. 705 S. Ankeny
Blvd. Ankeny.
s 2AINBOW AND !LVAREZ Acoustic, no cover, 9 p.m.
The Greenwood Lounge.
s-IKE0ROFlTT9 p.m. Bourbon Street Bar and Grill.
s4HE3HEET9 p.m. Star Bar.
s !NNUAL 3T 0ATS 0ARTY 6-11:45 p.m. Bennigan’s
Merle Hay.
s !N %VENING WITH 4HE 2IVIERAS 1950s & 1960s
Rock, 5-11 p.m. Palacio Event Center.
s4RACE!DKINSVIP $45 in ADV & $50 DOS/ GA $30 in
ADV & $35 DOS, 8 p.m. Val Air Ballroom.
s'REATER$ES-OINES#OMMUNITY"AND3PRING
#ONCERTOur ensemble of 65 musicians is reviving some
great selections that haven’t been heard in central Iowa
for decades! 1-2 p.m. Merle Hay Mall, Sears Court.
s4HE$AWN$RAPESWith: Foxholes, Canyons, 10 p.m.
The Vaudeville Mews.
s+ICK5 p.m. The Vaudeville Mews.
s2ON"URCHETT8-11 p.m. Trostel’s Dish.
s $ERVISH 8-10 p.m. Hoyt Sherman Place. 1501
Woodland Ave. Des Moines.
s #HARLSON 4RIO WITH 3COTT 3MITH 7-10 p.m.
Chuck’s Restaurant.
&//$7).%
Cheese Platter, Summerset Logo Wine Glass to take
home, 1 p.m., Summerset Winery.
s "ARREL )NTO 3PRING This event will showcase the
products of a number of breweries and distilleries with
a focus on barrel aged beverages. Tickets will be limited
to 600 for this exclusive event. Tickets for this sampling
event can be purchased by going to www.tikly.co/
events/443 or at Miss Kitty’s, 12-4 p.m. Miss Kitty’s.
s"EER@N"READMeet the people behind your favorite
Iowa craft brews, and explore the art of home-brewing
with experts. Enjoy a variety of micro-brew tastings and
sample fresh artisan breads. To assure ample opportunity
for tasting, there will be two sessions at 3 and 5 p.m.
3-6:30 p.m., Living History Farms.
s 3UPERCHARGE 3UPPER 2AW 6EGAN #OOKING
#LASS Supercharge your supper with Kelsey Seaberg
of Happy Avocado. Kelsey will be at Johnston Public
Library to demo three tasty raw vegan recipes: tacos
with romaine heart shells, spring roll wraps with teriyaki
dipping sauce, and a spiced apple crumble. Curious?
Come see for yourself what raw vegan cuisine is all
about. RSVP at johnstonlibrary.com. 10:30 a.m. – noon.
Johnston Public Library.
(%!,4(3500/24'2/503
be featuring the works of several great artists. Various
items will be available for purchase in addition to our
silent auction. There will be snacks from The Cheese Shop
along with a cash bar for Jasper Winery and Madhouse
Brewery products, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Jasper Winery.
s 4URKEY (UNTING AND 3AFETY 3EMINAR Bring
your turkey calls to participate in our “hands-on” calling
session. Lunch will be provided. The workshop fee is $10.
warrenccb.org/turkeyhuntingseminar. (515) 961-6169. 8
a.m. - 2 p.m. Annett Nature Center.
30/243
s )OWA #URLING #UP 20 teams from the Des
Moines area will vie for the coveted Curling Championship
of Iowa in a double elimination tournament. Proceeds
will benefit the Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity.
Let’s go Curling, 7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Buccaneers Arena.
4(%!42%!.$#/-%$9
s h4HE 3OMEWHAT 4RUE 4ALE OF 2OBIN (OODv
The charming but egotistical Robin Hood leads his band
of merry men and lovely Maid Marian in a battle with
the evil Prince John and Sheriff of Nottingham. This is
a frantically funny, Monty Python-esque retelling of the
classic tale. “The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood”
will lead you on an irreverent jaunt through Sherwood
Forest you won’t soon forget. Des Moines Community
Playhouse.
s4HE,AST,AUGH-AINSTAGE3HOWThe Last Laugh
Comedy Theater’s signature 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.
mayhem and murder. Tuesday - Friday, 7:30 p.m.;
Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. The Temple Theater. 1011
Locust St. Des Moines.
s #OMEDY 80ERIMENT 7:30 p.m. Stoner Studio
Theater.
s"OB:ANYS/NE-AN4WO#HICKSA"AY"EE
3HOWBob Zany is wry, sarcastic, insulting, lovable, and
well... zany. Show starring Bob Zany with Keith West
& The Zanettes. Master Illusionist Keith West and The
Zanettes (AKA One Man and Two Chicks) bring a mindboggling splash of Vegas-style magic to the stage, 8:30
p.m. The Talent Factory.
Sunday
15
#(),$2%.&!-),9
The Ice Ridge.
March 13 at 1-8 p.m.; Saturday, March 14, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.;
Sunday March 15, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is $5 for
adults; children 5 and younger enter free. Free parking,
too. Visit www.dmhomeandremodelingshow.com for
details. Iowa State Fairgrounds.
s 5,4)-!4% 3PRING "REAK Book your ULTIMATE
Spring Break trip at the Science Center of Iowa! Travel to
the fierce jungle of South America, the faraway island of
Madagascar, the larger-than-life world of “Jurassic Park”
– without leaving the state! Ultimate Dinosaurs, Ultimate
Dig Pit, Ultimate IMAX, Ultimate Discounts at the cafe’,
12 p.m. Science Center of Iowa.
#/.#%243,)6%-53)#
s,OS4UCANES$E4IJUANA With: Banda Maguey, La
Energia, Nortena, Alerta Zero, $40 Val Air Ballroom.
s'REATER$ES-OINES#OMMUNITY"AND3PRING
#ONCERTOur ensemble of 65 musicians is reviving some
great selections that haven’t been heard in central Iowa
for decades! 2-3 p.m. First Christian Church.
s*OHN With: Green Death, Grave Corps, Dueling at
Dawn, Sinister Theory, 5 p.m. The Vaudeville Mews.
s3UNDAY4UNES3-6 p.m. Summerset Winery.
&!)4(0(),/3/0(9
s"IBLE3TUDY#LASSES7ORSHIP3ERVICESAll ages.
Nursery provided. 9:30/10:45 p.m. New Life Center. 1057
23rd St. Des Moines.
&//$7).%
Cheese Platter, Summerset Logo Wine Glass to take
home, 12 p.m., Summerset Winery.
s 0ICKET &ENCE #REAMERYS 3T 0ADDYS 3AMPLE
3UNDAY Iowa food and wine sampling, fresh cheese
curds, shamrock cookie decorating, pulled pork
sandwiches with Russ ‘n Franks BBQ, hot fudge sundaes,
see the cows & calves, balloon animals, guest vendors,
and super deals in the country store full of foods from
more than 100 Iowa families! Noon - 5 p.m. Woodward.
4(%!42%!.$#/-%$9
s h4HE 3OMEWHAT 4RUE 4ALE OF 2OBIN (OODv
The charming but egotistical Robin Hood leads his band
of merry men and lovely Maid Marian in a battle with
the evil Prince John and Sheriff of Nottingham. This is
a frantically funny, Monty Python-esque retelling of the
classic tale. “The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood”
will lead you on an irreverent jaunt through Sherwood
Forest you won’t soon forget. Des Moines Community
Playhouse.
s h-URDER FOR 4WOv Murder for Two is the perfect
blend of music, mayhem and murder, Tuesday - Friday,
7:30 p.m., Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday, 3 p.m. The Temple
Theater. 1011 Locust St. Des Moines.
2 p.m. Des Moines Social Club Kum and Go Theater.
Monday
16
!24'!,,%2)%3
OF6ICTORIA(ERRINGEnjoy a scenic trip through some
s -AKING !RT 0UBLIC (ANDS/N !RT !CTIVITIES
Iowa Arts Council staff and guest teachers will lead a
different hands-on activity each day, revolving around
the recently new exhibition “Making Art Public,” which
explores the beauty and history of public art in Iowa.
Photographs, museum artifacts and original artworks
highlight the earliest beginnings of public art in the state,
significant artists (including Grant Wood), major themes,
the creative process and where it is found in Iowa, 10
a.m. State Historical Museum of Iowa.
s $"3! $EPRESSION"IPOLAR 3UPPORT “We’ve
!24'!,,%2)%3
been there, we can help.” Contact Debbie at wally3610@
yahoo.com for more info. 2 p.m. Lutheran Hospital. Penn
& University Level B Private Dining Room.
(%!,4(3500/24'2/503
s !DULT #HILDREN OF !LCOHOLICS !#! -EETING
#(),$2%.&!-),9
Free. Anonymous meeting. 11:15 a.m. Central
Presbyterian Church. 38th Street and Grand Avenue Second Floor.
+!2!/+%
s&RIDAY.IGHT+ARAOKE9 p.m. - 1 a.m. AJ’s on East
Court. 419 East Court Ave. Des Moines.
s #OFFEE +ARAOKE We will play any clean song you
can find on Youtube.com. 7-9 p.m. Java Joes DART Bus
Station. 620 Cherry St. Des Moines.
s*-+ARAOKE 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. Fazio’s University
Tap.
,%#452%7/2+3(/0
s,EARN/N3ATURDAYS Elvin McDonald – It Takes a
Garden to Survive Retirement, 10:30 a.m., Cindy and
Richard Schreiber – Fit Your Lifestyle: How to Grow
Your Plants Anywhere, 11:30 a.m. Greater Des Moines
Botanical Garden.
/54$//23
s4ROUT5NLIMITEDS.ORTH"EAR#HAPTER!NNUAL
&UNDRAISEROur theme this year will be art, and we will
44sCITYVIEWs-!2#(
+!2!/+%
s#USTOMER!PPRECIATION+ARAOKE9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
AJ’s on East Court. 419 East Court Ave. Des Moines.
s 0ARTY 0ARTY 4HE 5LTIMATE +ARAOKE "AND
9:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. Hessen Haus. 101 4th St. Des Moines.
-)3#%,,!.%/53
s"LACK-ARIA&ILMAND6IDEO&ESTIVALIndependent
Films for Independent Minds. All films selected with an
adult audience in mind, 1:30 p.m. Des Moines Art Center.
30/243
s)OWA7ILDVS5TICA#OMETS Tix Prices: $9 - $50,
5 p.m. Wells Fargo Arena.
The Ice Ridge.
s-USEUM6AULT4OURS Museum staff will highlight
artifacts in the State Historical Museum’s permanent
collection. Featured artifacts will include children’s toys,
Native American items, a 1940 X-Ray Shoe Fitter used in
Knoxville and the original Iowa Lottery wheel. These tours
filled up during last year’s Spring Break and are expected
to be in high demand again this year. Make reservations
on-line at www.iowahistory.org/springbreak. Contact
Jessica Rundlett at 515-281-7471 for more information.
Ages 10 and up State Historical Museum of Iowa.
s -ATINEES AT THE -OVIES n h$ESPICABLE -Ev
Catch a film that has a strong connection to Iowa
and complements the current Museum exhibition,
“Hollywood in the Heartland.” Museum staff will offer
brief remarks prior to each movie to further showcase the
Iowa connection, 1 p.m. State Historical Museum of Iowa.
#/--5.)49
s&REE#OMMUNITY-EALFor Families and individuals
of all ages. 5:30-7 p.m. New Life Center. 1031 23rd St.
Des Moines.
#/.#%243,)6%-53)#
s*AZZINA&UNKY0LACEJazz, no cover, 8:30 p.m. The
s -AKE A -URAL Students will work together to
decide on a theme and collaborate on creating a mural
using a variety of art materials. Instructor Nicole K.
James is an experienced arts educator and artist who
has taught a variety of courses for children and adults
at the Des Moines Art Center. Learn more about Nicole
at www.nicolekjames.com/teaching-artist, 3-4 p.m. State
people, have fun, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Felix and Oscar’s on
Merle Hay Road.
(%!,4(3500/24'2/503
s.!-)Support group for persons coping with mental
health conditions. Peer oriented. 2 p.m. Plymouth Church.
42nd and Ingersoll, Burling Room. Des Moines.
s %MOTIONS !NONYMOUS Des Moines Emotions
Anonymous Chapter, EA fellowship of weekly meetings in
a warm and friendly environment. Emotions Anonymous
is a Step 12 program of recovery for emotional issues and
maintaining emotional health. 12:15-1:15 p.m. Java Joes.
214 4th St. Des Moines.
Greenwood Lounge.
s$ICKIE$ICK0RALLAND"ENJAMIN#ARTEL$10 at
#(),$2%.&!-),9
+!2!/+%
the door, All ages, 7 p.m. Des Moines Social Club.
s-OODIE"LACK With: Skin Of Earth, MediumPenis, 9
p.m. The Vaudeville Mews.
s &LAVAPRODUCTIONS $* 2OD Karaoke and dancing.
The Ice Ridge.
Native American items, a 1940 X-Ray Shoe Fitter used
in Knoxville and the original Iowa Lottery wheel. These
tours filled up during last year’s Spring Break and are
expected to be in high demand again this year. www.
iowahistory.org/springbreak. Contact Jessica Rundlett at
515-281-7471 for more information. Ages 10 and older.
State Historical Museum of Iowa.
8 p.m. - midnight. Yo Yo’s Bar and Grill. 2400 East Dean
Ave. Des Moines.
s +ARAOKE Weekly karaoke challenges with prizes to
be won. 8-11 p.m. Benchwarmers. 705 S. Ankeny Blvd.
Ankeny.
s+ARAOKE 7 p.m. - 1:45 a.m. RockStar Bar and Grill.
2301 S.W. 9th St. Des Moines.
+!2!/+%
s4HE0ANTS/FF3ING/FF 9 p.m. Whiskey Dixx. 215
4th St. Des Moines.
s #O%D .AKED +ARAOKE 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Whiskey
Dixx. 215 4th St. Des Moines.
-)3#%,,!.%/53
s #ATCH $ES -OINES 2ELEASE 0ARTY The Spring/
Summer 2015 Catch Des Moines Release Party brought
to you by Bankers Trust is set for Monday, March 16
at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden! Catch
complimentary cocktails and light appetizers, 5-6:30 p.m.
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden.
0/,)4)#3
s -OVE TO !MEND #HAPTER -EETING Move to
Amend is a national grassroots organization working
to protect democracy from undue influence by megacorporations. We advocate a constitutional amendment
that abolishes both corporate personhood and money as
free speech, 7-9 p.m. Plymouth Congregational Church.
s -ATINEES AT THE -OVIES n h,ITTLE -ERMAIDv
Catch a film that has a strong connection to Iowa
and complements the current Museum exhibition,
“Hollywood in the Heartland.” Museum staff will offer
brief remarks prior to each movie to further showcase the
Iowa connection, 1 p.m. State Historical Museum of Iowa.
30/243
s77%2!7See WWE Monday Night Raw TV live and
broadcasted to the world from Des Moines, 6:30 p.m.
Wells Fargo Arena.
Tuesday
17
!24'!,,%2)%3
s /FlCIAL #OURT !VENUE 3T 0ATRICKS $AY
"LOCK 0ARTY The Mickey’s Patio opens at 6 a.m. for
breakfast and the freshest green beer in town. At noon
the party moves to the street as Court Avenue closes for
Iowa’s Biggest St. Patty’s Day Block Party. The World’s
Biggest Irish Flag is raised and Live Music and Live DJ’s
all day and night. 6 a.m. - 2 a.m. Mickey’s Irish Pub
Downtown.
s 3T 0ATRICKS $AY 0ARTY Party/Showcase at
Vaudeville Mews. Beer, Good Music, and Performances
by Dmi’s Hottest Artists! Doors open at 9:30 p.m. The
Vaudeville Mews.
s 3HAPES AND #OLORS With: Get At Me, Lake of Fat
Kids, Stoopid, 5 p.m. The Vaudeville Mews.
s 3AINT 0ATRICKS $AY 7 a.m. - open for breakfast
with a full buffet, $9.99 for adults and $6.99 for children
younger than 10; 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. - limited lunch menu
is available along with Irish specialties such as corned
beef and cabbage, fish and chips, bangers and mash;
10:30 a.m. - Iowa Scottish bagpipes and drums, Bud Girls
making guest appearance; 3-6 p.m. - Brad Seidenfeld
playing live music; 4-11 p.m. - Irish specialties, beer
burgers and quarter-pound hot dogs will be available;
7-11 p.m. - Gimikk playing live music. No cover all day!
Green beer! Tented and heated patio! Mickey’s Irish Pub
Waukee.
%6%.4
s 3HOW AND 4ELL $ES -OINES FOR GROWNUPS
Don’t you just miss show and tell? Everyone can show an
item and share what they know about it. The theme of the
night is ancestors. Come and tell something about your
ancestors. Featured speakers from Iowa Genealogical
Society and Robert Boldrige will start, then we’ll open
up the floor until 8:30 p.m. Learn something new, meet
Native American items, a 1940 X-Ray Shoe Fitter used
in Knoxville and the original Iowa Lottery wheel. These
tours filled up during last year’s Spring Break and are
expected to be in high demand again this year. www.
iowahistory.org/springbreak. Contact Jessica Rundlett at
515-281-7471 for more information. Ages 10 and older.
State Historical Museum of Iowa.
#/--5.)49
s&REE#OMMUNITY-EALFor families and individuals
of all ages. 5:30-7 p.m. New Life Center. 1031 23rd St.
Des Moines.
#/.#%243,)6%-53)#
s "OB 0ACE 4HE $ANGEROUS "AND Blues, 7-10
,%#452%7/2+3(/0
p.m. Zimm’s Food & Spirits.
s "USINESS,AUNCH Class runs 12 sessions, meeting
every Tuesday and Thursday evening for six weeks, $350,
6 p.m. ISED Ventures Women’s Business Center.
4(%!42%!.$#/-%$9
&!)4(0(),/3/0(9
s 4EEN 9OUTH 'ROUP !CTIVITIES!LL !GES
#LASSES Nursery provided. 6:30 p.m. New Life Center.
1057 23rd St. Des Moines.
s 0OETRY 3LAM Des Moines Poetry Slam, the oldest
literary event in the city continues at Java Joes on 4th
Street. Every third Tuesday of the month, free, sign- p at
6:30 p.m. with a start at 7 p.m. Poetry Slam.
Wednesday
18
!24'!,,%2)%3
#/.#%243,)6%-53)#
s ,INCOLN 'RIMES Acoustic, no cover, 8 p.m. The
Greenwood Lounge.
The Ice Ridge.
(%!,4(3500/24'2/503
s %! 0EER 3ESSIONS FOR 0ERSONAL )NVENTORIES
3UPPORT Contact Duane at 243-1742 or
[email protected] for more info. Skywalk
accessible. 1 p.m. 7th & Walnut. 1st Floor, Suite 131. Des
Moines.
s %MOTIONS !NONYMOUS Des Moines Emotions
Anonymous Chapter, EA fellowship of weekly meetings in
a warm and friendly environment. Emotions Anonymous
is a Step 12 program of recovery for emotional issues and
maintaining emotional health. 12:15-1:15 p.m. Java Joes.
214 4th St. Des Moines.
+!2!/+%
s7EDNESDAY.IGHT+ARAOKE9 p.m. - 1 a.m. AJ’s on
East Court. 419 East Court Ave. Des Moines.
s&LAVAPRODUCTIONS$*2ODKaraoke and dancing. 9
p.m. - 1 a.m. Down Under Bar and Grill. 8350 Hickman
Road. Clive.
s+ARAOKE 9:30 p.m. - 1 a.m. Striker’s Sports Bar. 655
N.E. 56th St. Pleasant Hill.
s 0ARTY 0ARTY 4HE 5LTIMATE +ARAOKE "AND
9:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. The Keg Stand. 3530 Westown
Parkway. West Des Moines.
s*-+ARAOKE7-11:30 p.m. Fazio’s University Tap.
.)'(4,)&%
s4RIVIA.ITE Game starts at 9 p.m. every Wednesday.
The Blazing Saddle. 416 E 5th St. Des Moines.
s ,IVE 4EAM 4RIVIA Round-by-round prizes. 7-9 p.m.
Mickey Finn’s. 7020 Douglas Ave. Urbandale.
4(%!42%!.$#/-%$9
s )MPROV 3HOW Performers create instant comedy
with games like those seen on TV’s “Whose Line Is It,
Anyway?” Audience interaction and hilarity ensues.
Different show every night guaranteed. Free. 8 p.m. The
Last Laugh Comedy Theater. 1701 25th St. West Des
Moines.
s 4HE ,AST ,AUGH -AINSTAGE 3HOW 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.
Every Wednesday is Free. Friday and Saturday $14, 8-9:30
p.m. The Last Laugh Comedy Theater. #6
#(),$2%.&!-),9
CITYVIEWs-!2#( s
HELP WANTED
Drivers
Regional Positions Available
Based in Des Moines, IA
JANITOR. $15/hr. Four days/week.
Three hours/day. Location is on Army
Post Rd. Three year government position. Call Kathy/Regina at 614-864-6582.
AS 031215.
$50,000–$65,000 /
Year
PRODUCT MANAGER - Ideation to
Development. Bach deg (or foreign
HTXLYLQDQ\HQJU¿HOG,7RUUHO¿HOG
2 yrs rel exp to incl working w/industrial
turbo-machinery operations & control;
SURGXFWGHVLJQRUWHVWLQJSURJLQGXV
WULDOFRQWUROFXVWRPHUVXSSRUWWUDLQLQJ
req’d. Willing to travel nat’l &/or int’l up
to 10% as needed. Job location is Des
0RLQHV,$6XEPLWUHVXPHVWR-RDQQH
0DQWHUQDFK&RPSUHVVRU&RQWUROV&RU
SRUDWLRQVW6W'HV0RLQHV,$
50323. EOE. AS031215
EMPLOYMENT / HELP WANTED
Scheduled Weekly Runs
w/ Regular Weekly Hometime
Free Medical Plan
and 401K Available
Tanker & Hazmat required
for some positions.
1 yr. T/T exp. required.
Apply online at
www.ruan.com/jobs
For more information, call
800-879-7826
Dedicated to Diversity. EOE
Barbershop 288.5377
Beauty Salon 288.3109
Mon–Sat
9am–8pm
3312 Indianola Ave.
PERSONALS
MEET LOCAL SINGLES Browse & Reply FREE! Straight 515-226-1100 Gay/
Bi 515-267-0900 Use FREE Code 3245
CT 012915
BIG
Advertise here
and
get
you can find us online. anytime.
www.dmcityview.com
SEE EVERYTHING ONLINE <<<<<<<<<<<<<
results! >>>>>> www.dmcityview.com
Call 515.953.4822
Cityview – Des Moines’ true alternative paper! FIND EVERYTHING (AND MORE) ONLINE AT WWW.DMCITYVIEW.COM
WARNING
TOURNAMENT
Friday, March 20 + 7pm
Sign-up 6pm + $45 Entry Fee
Croatian Slavic Center
6575 INDIANOLA AVE.
Des Moines
For more information,
please call Ed Hoffman
515-520-1752
46sCITYVIEWsMARCH
12, 2015 – MARCH 18, 2015
www
.
dm
city
view
.
com
2531
www.MegaMatesMen.com
515.267.0900
Des Moines
515.226.1100
FREE to
Listen & Reply
to Ads!
18+
UP
Des Moines
24/7 Friendly Customer Care 1(888) 634.2628
TEXAS
HOLD’EM
2015
HOT
GUYS!
made
©2013 PC LLC
FIND OUT WHAT’S
Dating
Easy
FREE
TO LISTEN &
REPLY TO ADS!
FREE CODE : City View
For other local numbers call:
1-888-MegaMates
TM
FREE CODE:
City View
For other local numbers call
1-888-MegaMates
24/7 Friendly Customer Care 1(888) 634.2628 18+ ©2013 PC LLC
TM
3098
NATIONAL MARKETPLACE Pets
ADVERTISE HERE AND reach up to 45 million households weekly! Call 515.953.4822 ext. 303
CARS/TRUCKS WANTED! Top $$$$$
PAID! Running or Not, All Years, Makes,
Models. Free Towing! We’re Local! 7
Days/Week. Call Toll Free: 1-888-4162330 (NANI)
GET CASH TODAY for any car/truck. I will
buy your car today. Any Condition. Call
1-800-864-5796 or www.carbuyguy.com
(NANI)
MOTORCYCLES WANTED: 60’s and
70’s Motorcycles. DEAD OR ALIVE! 920371-0494 (MCN)
Cliff Viessman Inc. is accepting
applications for Regional Tanker Drivers
for the Cedar Rapids terminal.
$500 Sign On Bonus. $50 K+ per year.
+HDOWK 'HQWDO . 3UR¿W 6KDULQJ
Quarterly safe driving bonus. CDL with
VIAGRA 100MG and CIALIS 20mg! 40 tanker endorsement required. Two years
Pills + 10 FREE. SPECIAL $99.00 100% experience required or driving school
guaranteed. FREE Shipping! 24/7 CALL graduate with six months experience.
Some weekend work required. Contact
NOW! 1-888-223-8818 (NANI)
Bruce at 800-353-0344. Option 5.
AIRLINES ARE HIRING for those with [email protected].
www.
)$$FHUWL¿FDWLRQ)LQDQFLDODLGLITXDOL¿HG viessmantrucking.com. "A Driver Friendly
- Job placement assistance. Get the Company" (MCN)
A&P training at Aviation Institute of
GUN SHOW: Pocahontas, Iowa, March
Maintenance 888-686-1704 (NANI)
21 & 22, 2015, Saturday 9 - 5; Sunday
CASH FOR CARS: All Cars/Trucks 9 - 3; Pocahontas Expo Center; Buy,
Wanted. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. Sell, Trade, Food on Site; Contact Chad
We Come To You! Any Make/Model. Call Boysen at 712-358-1051 (MCN)
For Instant Offer: 1-800-864-5960 (NANI)
HERO MILES - To Find Out More About
How You Can Help Our Service Members,
DIVORCE, ETC. $240-$550* Covers Veterans and Their Families in Their Time
Children, etc. *Excludes govt. fees! For of Need, Visit the Fisher House Website at
D/RFDO2I¿FH&DOO([W ZZZ¿VKHUKRXVHRUJ0&1
400 or 1-888-498-7075, Ext. 500 BAYCOR
& ASSOCIATES
Established 1973 TRAILER CLOSE-OUT SALE! Aluminum
(NANI)
Snowmobile trailers: 10’, 12’, 20’ &
24’; 6’x12’ V-nose ramp door cargo
Do you owe over $10,000 to the IRS or $2,750.00; 7’x10’ V-nose ramp Trike
State in back taxes? You could get a Trailer $2,999.00; 10’, 12’ & 14’ dump
settlement for as low as 25% of previous trailers; 101”x25’, 28’, 30’ & 32’ Hi-deck
IRS settlements. Call now! 1- 800-741- Gooseneck 24,000#; 515-972-4554 www.
9104 (NANI)
FortDodgeTrailerWorld.com (MCN)
Struggling with DRUGS, ALCOHOL,
PILLS? Talk to someone who cares. Call
ADDICTION HOPE & HELP LINE for a
free assessment. 800-768-9180 (NANI)
TOP CASH PAID FOR OLD GUITARS!
1920's thru 1980's. Gibson, Martin,
Fender, Gretsch, Epiphone, Guild,
Mosrite, Rickenbacker, Prairie State,
D'Angelico, Stromberg. And Gibson
Mandolins/Banjos.
1-800-401-0440
(NANI)
Got Knee Pain? Back Pain? Shoulder
Pain? Get a pain-relieving brace -little or
NO cost to you. Medicare Patients Call
Health Hotline Now! 1- 800-491-6053
(NANI)
Make a Connection. Real People,
Flirty Chat. Meet singles right now! Call
LiveLinks. Try it FREE. Call NOW: Call
1-877-737-9447 18+ (NANI)
Sell your structured settlement or annuity
payments for CASH NOW. You don't
have to wait for your future payments any
longer! Call 1-800-714-4724 (NANI)
SOCIAL
SECURITY
DISABILITY
BENEFITS. Unable to work? Denied
EHQH¿WV" :H &DQ +HOS :,1 RU 3D\
Nothing! Contact Bill Gordon & Associates
at 1-800-290-8321 to start your application
today! (NANI)
SELL/RENT YOUR TIMESHARE Now!
*XDUDQWHHG 6HUYLFHV ¿QG PRUH EX\HUV
renters. NO GIMMICKS JUST RESULTS!
www.BuyATimeshare.com
1-888-8798612 (NANI)
Cash for unexpired DIABETIC TEST
STRIPS! Free Shipping, Best Prices & 24
hr payment! Call 1-855-440-4001 www.
TestStripSearch.com. (NANI)
Spring Break at the Grand Harbor Resort,
Dubuque, IA. Enjoy the indoor waterpark,
River Museum/Aquarium, Cherry Lanes
Bowling, Tony Roma’s, kids activities &
more! Mention “Community 15” and get
15% off room rate March 13-April 4. 866690-4006 or www.grandharborresort.com
(MCN)
PREGNANT?
CONSIDERING
ADOPTION? Call Us First! Living
expenses,
Housing,
Medical
and
continued support afterwards. Choose
Adoptive Family of Your Choice. Call 24/7.
ADOPT CONNECT 1-866-951-1860 (Void
in IL & IN) (MCN)
FRUIT TREES Low As $16.00! Blueberry,
Grape, Strawberry, Asparagus, Evergreen
& Hardwood Plants.
FREE Catalog.
WOODSTOCK NURSERY N1831 Hwy
95 Neillsville, WI 54456 Toll Free 1-888803-8733, www.wallace-woodstock.com
(MCN)
$25,000 REWARD for older FENDER,
GIBSON,
GRETSCH,
MARTIN,
MOSRITE, NATIONAL guitars. Paying
from $500 to $25,000 or more. Please call
Crawford White in Nashville, TN at 1-800477-1233 or email NashvilleGuitars@aol.
com (MCN)
$14.99 SATELLITE TV. Includes free
installation. High speed internet for less
than $.50 a day. Low cost guarantee. Ask
about our FREE IPAD with Dish Network.
Call today 1-855-331-6646 (Not available
in NE) (MCN)
TAKE VIAGRA/CIALIS? 40 100mg/20mg
Pills, only $99! Get 4 BONUS Pills!
Satisfaction or Money Refunded! Call
1-888-796-8871 (MCN)
VIAGRA 100mg, CIALIS 20mg. 40 tabs
+10 FREE, $99 and FREE SHIPPING.
1-888-836-0780
or
Metro-Meds.net
(MCN)
CASH FOR CARS: Any Make, Model or
Year. We Pay MORE! Running or Not Sell
your Car or Truck TODAY Free Towing!
Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3805 (MCN)
DONATE YOUR CAR, TRUCK OR BOAT
TO HERITAGE FOR THE BLIND. Free
3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free
Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care Of.
1-800-283-0205 (MCN)
Cash paid for Antique Harley Davidson
motorcycles and related parts from 1900
thru 1970. Any condition including rough
or incomplete. Will pay top price and
pick up anywhere. Phone 309-645-4623
(MCN)
*CASH TODAY* We’ll Buy Your Car
+27(/6 )25 +(52(6 ± WR ¿QG RXW
Today! (Any Condition) + Free Same-Day
more about how you can help our service
Pickup. Best Cash Offer Guaranteed! Call
members, veterans and their families in
for FREE Quote: 1-888-339-5747 (MCN)
their time of need, visit the Fisher House
ZHEVLWHDWZZZ¿VKHUKRXVHRUJ1$1,
A UNIQUE ADOPTIONS, LET US HELP!
MODULAR SALE - Two display homes 3HUVRQDOL]HG $GRSWLRQ 3ODQV )LQDQFLDO
with $10,000 off for immediate delivery. Assistance, Housing, Relocation and
Very nice homes - 1,620 sf and 2,106 sf. More. Giving the Gift of Life? You Deserve
CENTURY HOMES OF OSKALOOSA the Best. 1-888-637-8200. 24HR Hotline.
(VOID IN IL) (MCN)
1-877-241-3621 (MCN)
ALL AREAS ROOMMATES.COM. Lonely?
Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roommate
to complement your personality and lifestyle
at Roommates.com! (AAN CAN)
ALL THINGS BASEMENTY! Basement
Systems Inc. Call us for all of your
EDVHPHQW
QHHGV
:DWHUSURR¿QJ
Finishing, Structural Repairs, Humidity
and Mold Control. FREE ESTIMATES!
Call 1-800-640-8195 (MCN)
CASH FOR CARS: Any Car/Truck.
Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We
Come To You! Call For Instant Offer:
1-888-420-3808
www.cash4car.com
(AAN CAN)
LIVING WITH KNEE PAIN? Medicare
recipients that suffer with knee pain may
qualify for a low or no cost knee brace.
Free Shipping. Call now! 855-948-5623
(MCN)
DISH TV RETAILER - SAVE! Starting
$19.99/month (for 12 months). FREE
Premium Movie Channels. FREE
Equipment, Installation & Activation.
CALL, COMPARE LOCAL DEALS! 1-800390-3140 (MCN)
PREGNANT?
THINKING
OF
ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency
VSHFLDOL]LQJLQPDWFKLQJ%LUWKPRWKHUVZLWK
Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES
PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift
Adoptions. 866-413-6293. Void in Illinois/
New Mexico/Indiana (AAN CAN)
Get Fast, Private STD TESTING. Results
in 3 DAYS! Now accepting insurance. Call
toll free: 844-284-8093 (Daily 6 am to 10
pm CT) (MCN)
Switch & Save Event from DirecTV!
Packages starting at $19.99/mo. Free
3-Months of HBO, STARZ, SHOWTIME
& CINEMAX. FREE GENIE HD/DVR
Upgrade! 2015 NFL Sunday Ticket
Included with Select Packages. New
Customers Only IV Support Holdings LLC$Q DXWKRUL]HG 'LUHF79 'HDOHU 6RPH
exclusions apply - Call for details 1-800269-4217 (MCN)
ATTENTION: VIAGRA AND CIALIS
USERS! A cheaper alternative to high
drugstore prices! 50 Pill Special - $99
FREE Shipping! 100 Percent Guaranteed.
CALL NOW: 1-800-795-9687 (MCN)
If you or a loved one suffered a
stroke, heart attack or died after using
testosterone supplements, you may be
entitled to monetary damages. Call 866368-0546 (MCN)
Canada Drug Center is your choice for
safe and affordable medications. Our
licensed Canadian mail order pharmacy
will provide you with savings of up to 75
percent on all your medication needs. Call
today 1-800-263-4059 for $10.00 off your
¿UVWSUHVFULSWLRQDQGIUHHVKLSSLQJ0&1
FIND THE LOVE YOU DESERVE!
Discover the path to happiness. New
members receive a FREE 3-minute love
reading! Entertainment purposes only. 18
and over. 800-981-0092 (MCN)
ATTENTION
POLE
BUILDING
CONTRACTORS! Stop Lifting Posts the
Old Way! If you Set Posts for A Living,
You Must See This Revolutionary Skid
Steer Attachment! See our video at: www.
TheBrutPostGrabber.com or call Scott at
208-964-6666 (MCN)
AG EQUIPMENT TRANSPORTATION.
Need your large equipment transported?
Give us a call. Dealer transfers, auction
purchases, tractors, combines, hay/straw,
RYHUVL]HRYHUZHLJKW HWF )XOO\ LQVXUHG
PARKER SPECIALIZED, Long Prairie,
MN Jason/Josh 320-815-8484 (MCN)
DISH TV and Internet Deals - 50% OFF
our Most Popular Packages. Individual
Services Start at $20/month. FREE
Equipment, FREE Installation, FREE
Activation. Call Now and Start SAVING!
800-335-9263 (MCN)
People
FREE $50 WAL-MART GIFT CARD & 3 since 2001. Genuine Opportunity. No
)5((LVVXHVRI<RXU)DYRULWH0DJD]LQHV Experience Required. Start Immediately.
www.theworkingcorner.com (AAN CAN)
Call 866-932-0426 (MCN)
CASH PAID for unexpired, sealed
DIABETIC TEST STRIPS! 1 DAY
PAYMENT &
PREPAID
shipping.
HIGHEST PRICES! Call 1-888-389-0695.
www.cash4diabeticsupplies.com (MCN)
FREE Medicare Quotes! Get Covered and
Save! Explore Top Medicare Supplement
Insurance Plans for Free! It’s Open
Enrollment, So Call Now! 855-613-1406
(MCN)
needing
Start your humanitarian career! Change
the lives of others while creating a
sustainable future. 1, 6, 9, 18 month
DISH NETWORK - $19 Special, includes programs available. Apply today! www.
FREE Premium Movie Channels (HBO, OneWorldCenter.org 269-591-0518 info@
6KRZWLPH &LQHPD[ DQG 6WDU] DQG oneworldcenter.org (AAN CAN)
Blockbuster at home for 3 months. Free
installation and equipment. Call NOW! MAKE $1000 Weekly!! Mailing Brochures
1-866-820-4030 (MCN)
From Home. Helping home workers
9,$*5$ 3¿]HU EUDQG ± /RZHVW 3ULFH AUTO INSURANCE STARTING at $25/
CDL Drivers needed to haul livestock, from USA Pharmacies. No doctor visit Month! Call 877-929-4394 (MCN)
KRPH RQ ZHHNHQGV *UHDW %HQH¿W needed! Discreet Home Delivery. Call
Are You in BIG Trouble With the IRS? Stop
Package for Full-Time Drivers! www. 855-821-1799 (MCN)
ZDJHEDQNOHYLHVOLHQVDXGLWVXQ¿OHG
lynchlivestock.com or call Angie @ 563tax returns, payroll issues, & resolve tax
776-3051 for more information. EOE
SAFE STEP WALK-IN TUB: Alert for debt FAST. Call 1-855-820-6752 (MCN)
(MCN)
Seniors. Bathroom falls can be fatal.
Approved by Arthritis Foundation. REDUCE YOUR PAST TAX BILL by as
MAKE $1,000 WEEKLY! Paid in advance! Therapeutic Jets. Less than 4 Inch Stepmuch as 75 Percent. Stop Levies, Liens
Mailing Brochures at Home! Easy In. Wide Door. Anti-Slip Floors. American
and Wage Garnishments. Call the Tax
pleasant work. Begin Immediately! Age Made. Installation Included. Call 800-985DR Now to see if you Qualify - 1-800-721XQLPSRUWDQWZZZ+RPH3UR¿WV%L]FRP 0685 for $750 Off (MCN)
2793 (MCN)
(MCN)
PAID IN ADVANCE! MAKE $1000 A
WEEK mailing brochures from home!
Genuine Opportunity! No experience
required. Start Immediately!
www.
localmailers.net (VOID IN SD, WI) (MCN)
MEET SINGLES RIGHT NOW!
No
paid operators, just real people like you.
Browse greetings, exchange messages
and connect live. Try it free. Call now:
800-357-4970 (MCN)
AVIATION Grads work with JetBlue,
Boeing, NASA and others- start here with
KDQGV RQ WUDLQLQJ IRU )$$ FHUWL¿FDWLRQ
)LQDQFLDO DLG LI TXDOL¿HG &DOO $YLDWLRQ
Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563
(AAN CAN)
AUTO INSURANCE STARTING AT $25/
MONTH! Call 855-977-9537 (AAN CAN)
Curious About Men? Talk Discreetly with
men like you! Try FREE! Call 1-888-7792789 www.guyspyvoice.com (AAN CAN)
¿Hablas Español? HOT Latino Chat.
Call Fonochat now & in seconds you can
be speaking to HOT Hispanic singles in your
area. Try FREE! 1-800-416-3809 (AAN CAN)
Feel the Vibe! Hot Black Chat. Urban
women and men ready to MAKE THE
CONNECTION Call singles in your area!
Try FREE! Call 1-800-305-9164 (AAN CAN)
Where Local Girls Go Wild! Hot, Live,
Real, Discreet! Uncensored live 1-on-1
HOT phone Chat. Calls in YOUR city! Try
FREE! Call 1-800-261-4097 (AAN CAN)
HERE!
REACH
45
million
GINGER
THE CAT
Ginger is an older gal who is looking
for a home with lots of love and
affection. She loves to curl up on a
warm lap or in her very own special
spot. It may take some time for
Ginger to be confident in her new
home, but once she settles in you’ll
have the most loyal companion.
Learn more about Ginger at
ARL-Iowa.org
ARL Main
up to
5452 NE 22nd Street
Des Moines
households weekly!
THE DOG
Roman’s 3 favorite things are
people, treats and toys! He has lots
of energy and will do well in a home
where he gets daily exercise.
Because Roman loves toys and
treats so much, he likes to keep
them all to himself. The ARL
Behavior staff can teach you how to
work with him on sharing. Roman
would do best in an adults-only
home. Learn more about Roman at
ARL-Iowa.org.
NEW BIZ OPPORTUNITY - but only the
adventurous need apply. New Free report
reveals the secrets to success in today's
hottest growth industry. www.moneyop.
com (800) 679-1959 (AAN CAN)
ADVERTISE
Call 953.4822
ROMAN
515.262.9503
www.arl-iowa.org
Brought to you by:
ext. 303
CITYVIEWsMARCH 12, 2015 – MARCH 18, 2015
47
&
48sCITYVIEWs-!2#(
#)496)%7s-!2#( s

(corned) beef?

Transcription

Similar documents

Oskaloosa - Iowa District Church of the Nazarene

Place des Arts

Xstamper Instructions Email - Pay

KJWW Des Moines 25 Anniversary

A Five-Star - Central Iowa Honor Flight

88% 77% 71% 74% - Des Moines Home + Garden Show

the schedule here

From the HOTEL DES LICES (Lices square) to the Bus lines at

singer kyle Riabko bares it all on-stage and off.

Pages 62-73 - The Principal Charity Classic