Look inside to learn about the Iowa State Fair concerts including Vanilla Ice, Salt-N-Pepa, Color Me Badd and Tone Loc. Plus Kid Rock, John Mellencamp, Little Big Town, Alabama and more music than you can shake a corn dog at! The Iowa State Fair isn’t just a place to eat fried food and giggle about [...]
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This monumental international event is coming to West Des Moines The largest event in women’s golf is set to come to West Des Moines this month. From Aug. 14-20, Des Moines Golf and Country Club (DMGCC) will host the 15th Solheim Cup. The event is expected to draw approximately 30,000 attendees on match days and [...]
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Which local restaurant will be named king of the oldest, most revered and complicated food in world history? Each year CITYVIEW opens a contest to let our readers select the ultimate local version of a popular food. Sandwich lovers picked B&B Grocery Meat & Deli’s pork tenderloin as the ultimate sandwich in 2010. Then steakhouse [...]
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One-hundred and nine of the 1,121 employees of Polk County will make more than $100,000 in the fiscal year that started July 1, up from 102 employees in the year just ended. Once again, the highest-paid employee will be Gregory Schmunck, the county medical examiner, who will earn $250,767. Next in line is Mark Wandro, [...]
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Can John Norris cut into Republican heavy countryside in governor’s race? The winding Montgomery County roads from Red Oak to the Norris family farm served as something of a time machine July 10, with both forward and reverse levers available to a politician many Democrats believe can resurrect the party’s fortunes in rural Iowa. The [...]
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“Dunkirk” is a minimalist masterpiece from director Christopher Nolan We enter the town of Dunkirk with a group of five young men who appear to be looking for any rations or materials of value left within the city. Pamphlets fall from the sky and inform those Allied forces still in the area that they’ve been [...]
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Old Thresher’s Reunion is the most nostalgic recurring Iowa event. Held each year in Mount Pleasant on Labor Day weekend, it attracts a large number of former Iowans who moved their bones out of state but never got Iowa out of their bones. Old timers reminisce with the miracles of their rural youth, the machines [...]
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Dad’s Old Fashioned Lemonade has served its secret recipe to thirsty fairgoers since 1948. Sometimes life gives you lemons. It was 1948, and an unknown gentleman needed to leave town. He didn’t say why, and he didn’t say where he was going, but he needed to get to wherever he was going and fast. But [...]
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If you’re feeling a little down because of what is occurring in the world, wondering what is going to happen to health insurance, taxes and world peace, you should play the “small potatoes” game. It is fun-packed, travel-friendly, and can be played by the entire family. You’ve never played before? Ah, let me get you [...]
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Community awards unite, celebrate region’s theater Unfurl the red carpets. Let the spotlights blaze. The 2017 Greater Des Moines Cloris Leachman Excellence in Theater Awards will be presented in the grandeur of Hoyt Sherman Place at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 27. The third annual Cloris Awards recognize the best in locally produced theater. “We’re [...]
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Sports gambling is illegal in almost every state, and even the states where it is legal, it is highly regulated. For many, sports gambling is seen as a predatory evil that preys on the weak-willed and hurts society as a whole; others view betting on sports as a way to heighten the stakes of entertainment [...]
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Yellow Door Gallery “The door was yellow when we bought it, just for the record,” says Emily Susanin Kessinger. Kessinger and her husband Mason’s south-side house serves as more than a home; it is also the Yellow Door Gallery, taking the name from the bright yellow front door. The couple moved into their first home [...]
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In the year 2017, you wouldn’t think that two people would need to hide their relationship from each other’s families. I can’t even think of a time where someone told me that their religion was stopping them from being with someone, outside of it being a plot point of a good romance movie. My couchsurfers [...]
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Backyard bee breeding Jason Foley’s Des Moines home and the 1.72-acre property it sits on is entirely devoted to his bee breeding business, Foley’s Russian Bees. Foley has been breeding bees for 10 years and was successful enough to leave his desk job of 13 years to grow his bee breeding business. He is now [...]
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“Shouldn’t Iowa be the subject of a show at the Iowa State Fair?” asked my granddaughter while looking at travel photographs from Spain, Mexico, Santa Fe and Eastern Europe. It’s a most debatable question. Bill Woolston, a University of Idaho professor emeritus, presented an exhibition at the Fair in 2014 that was much more to [...]
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Krav Maga allows a man to walk in peace “Krav Maga is not necessarily a fighting system but a problem-solving system when the problem is violence,” says Paul Noreau. Noreau, 50, lives in Ankeny and works downtown in the insurance industry. Seven years ago, as he entered middle age, he felt the need to feel [...]
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Bruce Gerleman is a developer, general contractor and restaurateur best known for reviving the Court Avenue district and creating Jethro’s. We asked him to lunch recently to talk about his career in Des Moines. He chose the Altoona Jethro’s. “This is the most successful store in the chain. We will serve some 1,700 meals a [...]
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