Winter Arts and Entertainment Guide
Get ready to bust out your winter boots, heavy coats, thick gloves and ice scrapers if you have not already. Some snow has started to fall, and so, too, has [...]
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Feature Story
Oak Studio is mining genius on the ‘island of misfits’
That aphorism is so rife with wisdom that it has been ascribed to the legendary philosopher Lao-Tzu, the Medieval Sephardic rabbi Maimonides, the Communist dictator Mao Zedong, plus the Buddha, the [...]
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Women in construction
Walk through almost any construction site — building, road, roofing, infrastructure — and you likely won’t see many women. But the industry is changing, and more women are seeking and [...]
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Tourism grants total $300,000. Great Iowa Treasure Hunt returns $386,701,365. Don’t speed in Des Moines. State Fair wins 21 awards. And Iowans love Tito’s.
Des Moines Police Sergeant Paul Parizek tells CITYVIEW the speed camera story is “challenging,” “long” and “complex.” And he is right. A little background: In 2011, the Des Moines [...]
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JD Vance’s boyhood mistaken gay confession story smacks of head-spinning inflation
In reading the-then (and now-again) publishing sensation “Hillbilly Elegy” eight years ago as it announced a culture-crashing new voice, I found myself stopping at points in the book, both angry and doubtful [...]
Read More →Film Review
Nostalgia for the 1990s hits an all-time high in ‘Y2K’
Kyle Mooney and Evan Winter’s “Y2K” is a throwback to the dope show that was the late 1990s — packed with outrageous humor, absurd situations and a hefty dose of [...]
Read More →Food Dude
La Mie remains true to its French roots
Because we have been covering the local food scene since the late 1980s, we’re often asked what jump-started the Des Moines restaurant renaissance. Good bread is our best answer. A [...]
Read More →Des Moines Forgotten
The walls never knew what hit them
Nostalgia doesn’t have to date back a decade or more. In fact, I am going to go out on a limb and say it doesn’t have to even go back [...]
Read More →Joe's Neighborhood
A simple room above an Irish pub — a New Year’s resolution
I tired of New Year’s resolutions long before I became an old man. But, before I did, my resolutions were the typical nutty variety that I always circumvented by the [...]
Read More →Center Stage
New Year, new offerings, new opportunities
While most performing arts presenters take a well-deserved post-holiday break, there still are some shows beckoning January audiences. This is also a great time to add an enticing resolution to [...]
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CITYVIEW’s question of the week
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Stray Thoughts
Never put off what you might later regret
I have been kicking myself since being reminded that procrastination comes with a price. This lesson arrived the week before Christmas when I spotted a small obituary in the Bloomfield [...]
Read More →Belly Up To...
Shirley’s Bar & Grill
One of West Des Moines’ newest restaurants is NOT a sports bar. At least that’s what it says on the back of the servers’ T-shirts. Take a peek into Shirley’s [...]
Read More →Cars in the City
Honda Accord Touring Hybrid
The Honda Accord is one of the best-selling sedans of all time, claiming the top 10 best titles 39 times since 1989, often wrestling with the Toyota Camry for the [...]
Read More →People & Pets
Wildlife rehabber
An abandoned nest of baby bunnies. An injured squirrel on the side of a road. These are the subjects of some of the calls Melinda Austin fields from members of [...]
Read More →Sound Circuit
Dance an Irish jig
Some of Ireland’s biggest rising musicians and Irish dancers are set to perform in Des Moines on Jan. 18. The Byrne Brothers concert is sponsored locally by the Celtic Music [...]
Read More →Lunch With...
John Busbee at Waterfront
John Busbee has been covering, creating, managing, promoting and producing the Iowa art scene for more than five decades. He and I both have columns in CITYVIEW and radio shows [...]
Read More →Art News
Jeff Fleming’s unbearable lightness of being
Jeff Fleming will kick off the 2025 cultural year in Des Moines Jan. 10 with an exhibition of all new works based on old family photos. Fleming paints ghosts and [...]
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