Winter Arts & Entertainment Guide
Are you bouncing off the walls? Or are you under the weather with cabin fever? Are you irritated by an annoying itch that only some good old-fashioned fun can scratch? [...]
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Feature Story
Psychic Guidance
Goddess Keyes, aka Yvette Keyes, pauses, looking hard at the cards. I feel a tingly whisper of warning on the back of my neck. Will she see that my wife [...]
Read More →Business Feature
Location, location, location
Location, location, location. The old adage says it is everything in real estate and business. However, sometimes business owners find what might have been a great location at one time [...]
Read More →Civic Skinny
Sign of change at The Boat House. Iowa booze sales soar. LHF snubs longtime mud run race directors.
The Johnston City Council started hearing complaints in July regarding a sign posted at The Boat House, a bar located across from Hyperion Field Club at 7695 N.W. Beaver Drive [...]
Read More →Political Mercury
‘If not me, who?’ former admiral asks in Senate campaign
As a western Iowan who worked in two packing plants, grew up the son of a teacher and machinist and served decades in the Navy, Ret. Adm. Mike Franken sees [...]
Read More →Film Review
‘Nightmare Alley’
When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena Krumbein (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he earns [...]
Read More →Food Dude
RC’s Diner
Des Moines has long boasted of an extraordinary number of Italian, mostly Calabrian, restaurants. Since Bob Ray opened the state to immigrants from Southeast Asia and Mexico in the late [...]
Read More →Des Moines Forgotten
Bowling in Des Moines
As a child, my father would drag me to Town and Country Bowling and Cocktail Lounge in Rock Island, Illinois. I remember a giant Chief Black Hawk sign in front [...]
Read More →Joe's Neighborhood
‘Begone, Satan!’ or ‘Come hither, Iowa Angels’?
It began when she was 14 years old. Secret voices. Shameful desires. Unholy thoughts of suicide and mayhem. This went on for 26 years until she had enough of the [...]
Read More →Center Stage
What does 2022 have to offer?
Puppets take center stage in the live theater scene in January. From a singing feathered critter to golden TV icons, appealing characters anchor a fun month, launching a new — [...]
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CITYVIEW’s question of the week
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- SOLD! The Iowa Cubs Triple-A baseball team will have a new ownership group. - 12/8/2021
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa Receives Grant from Variety – the Children’s Charity - 12/6/2021
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- Chow’s Winter Classic, Jan. 13-16, at Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines; features a dual meet between the Iowa State Cyclones and Temple Owls - 11/24/2021
- Ankeny Art Center Proudly Presents: 2021 Members Show - 11/23/2021
- Sean Kenney’s Nature Connects® Made with LEGO® Bricks Coming to Muscatine Art Center - 11/9/2021
- New Artistic Director and Conductor for the Des Moines Gay Men’s Chorus Starts January 1 - 11/2/2021
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- Midwest Family Lending Celebrating 25 Years of Service - 10/18/2021
- PROCLAMATION ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL COLIN POWELL - 10/18/2021
- Liz & Beau Grindle Announce Return to Regular Gallery Hours - 10/15/2021
- Fall Gala to benefit the Des Moines Ronald McDonald House: 40 Years Serving Iowa - 10/8/2021
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Stray Thoughts
State gov’t may be harming Iowa population challenges
I stumbled across a statistical tidbit the other day that probably will surprise many people. U.S. Census Bureau figures show that between 1900 and 2000, the state that grew the [...]
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Senate change won’t better inform Iowans
Typically, in the days leading up to the start of a new session of the Iowa Legislature, the attention is on lawmakers’ goals and priorities — and on the pledges [...]
Read More →People & Pets
Unique dogs
Two dogs, originally bred to keep lions at bay and protect hunters in Africa, have made their way to their new home in Altoona. Winnie and Walter are Rhodesian Ridgeback [...]
Read More →Sound Circuit
Scot Sutherland is ‘pretty easy to get along with’
On his way to becoming a seasoned blues bass guitar player, national Blues Foundation award winner, and Iowa Blues Hall of Fame member, Scot Sutherland, has played with hundreds of [...]
Read More →Cars in the City
Kia Stinger
There are dozens of car manufacturers, but I’ve only owned three different brands in my entire life. One car I’ve never driven or ridden in is a Kia. I wasn’t [...]
Read More →Lunch With...
Chrissy Johnson and ‘Mama’ Helen Frizzell
Mike Whalen, a developer, restaurateur and pundit, once spoke to the Iowa Restaurant Association suggesting that a restaurant, as well as any institution, personifies our collective humanity. That was a [...]
Read More →Art News
The prodigal artist and friends
Moberg Gallery’s Winter Group Show offers artwork in many styles, shapes and colors. It features James Ellwanger, an artist known mostly for sculptures and public art. He also is a [...]
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