COVER STORY: Welcome to the new Cityview  Additional content. More pages. Increased press run. More distribution. Larger format. Glossy covers. High-bright newsprint. These are some of the changes that you will notice in this new monthly version of Cityview, but let’s start with some of your old favorites that you can continue to rely on. The popular Civic Skinny column continues, providing
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Joes Neighborhood: Rio Bound 
“There is always a certain game flow. When you don’t know beach volleyball, you don’t see it.” The women clear the net with ease. It looks like a water ballet in the air. Soft, gentle, acrobatic. But then the ferocious smash of the ball removes all doubt as to what is happening. I expect to see blood in the sand. But everyone is still alive. Everyone is still breathing. Point to the team that survives. READ MORE
FOOD DUDE: Garden Fresh at Chef's Kitchen  After 29 years of weekly columns in Cityview (and its sister publications), this is my first monthly column. I chose Chef’s Kitchen because it represents what is best about both the old and new in Iowa restaurants — neighborly, small-town service and a third millennium emphasis on fresh ingredients.
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DUFFYS VIEW 
CIVIC SKINNY: The Register’s circulation takes another big fall. Mezvinskys, Kushners, Clintons and Trumps.  For the first time in close to 100 years — since the early 1920s — fewer than 100,000 people across the state now are getting the Des Moines Sunday Register delivered to their doorsteps or mailboxes. Sales at newsstands are declining, too. For the quarter ended March 31, paid circulation of the print edition ….
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POLITICAL MERCURY: Third World antics in a small-town parade  A 1941 International fire truck graced a summer field adjacent to U.S. Highway 30 in western Iowa. Surely it summoned smiles from passersby, many of whom no doubt can remember the old fighting-red rescue vehicle. For my part, I loved seeing the truck, and the 100th anniversary of the Arcadia Fire Department, a wonderful volunteer organization.
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TECH TALK: Time to take BlackBerry off life support  The BlackBerry is dead. It doesn’t matter that it once dominated the planet. The classic BlackBerry design — with a half screen, half physical keyboard and a mouse-like selector button — is toast. Many companies have been stubborn about their importance and style, but few have gone down with the ship. Ford famously opened the door to competitors in the early 20th century when it refused to sell cars...
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FILM REVIEW: Inexplicably successful  Paul Feig sold his soul to the devil. There is no other way to explain it. Prior to 2007, Feig had directed such critical and box office flops as “I am David” (38 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), and “Unaccompanied Minors” (31 percent). Then Feig released his soul to Beelzebub, and suddenly he is a successful director.
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