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Feature Story
Summer Arts & Entertainment Guide

That’s right Iowa; summer is back. With it comes a whole host of reasons to get out of the house and get out the sunscreen. Des Moines and the surrounding [...]

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Feature Story
Soccer — The future is here, and now

It’s called “the beautiful game.” Soccer has been known as joga bonito since 1970 when Brazil’s national selection won the World Cup with “total football” teamwork that has been emulated [...]

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Business Feature
Rethinking the trades

Trade schools — now categorized as Career and Technical Education Programs (CTE) — encompass more than electrical, plumbing or welding. Although these trades are still popular, community colleges including Des [...]

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Civic Skinny
Most valuable NCAA basketball teams. Some concerning scores. No sweat. And the ‘model’ governor?

In the aftermath of March Madness, the Wall Street Journal released a ranking of the most valuable NCAA college basketball teams. As you may expect, two of the sports’ most [...]

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Political Mercury
Why Josh Turek is Iowa Democrats’ best candidate for U.S. Senate

Many politicians can persuade you to believe in them. That’s a commonly reached feat. But the defining leaders, elected officials like Tom Harkin, Robert Ray, Henry Wallace and Harold Hughes, [...]

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Film Review
The strange and alluring magic of ‘A Minecraft Movie’

Well, let’s just get this out of the way. If you’re reading this, this movie probably isn’t for you. No disrespect, of course. I mean it in the sense that [...]

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Food Dude
Los Laureles — it’s still the one

In 1989, CITYVIEW predecessor Skywalker began publishing the column “Since I Quit Drinking.” It was a take on the Rip Van Winkle legend that used new sobriety as awakening to [...]

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Des Moines Forgotten
When Tiny Tim was in Des Moines

I am writing this on the Monday following Record Store Day weekend, and, with all honesty, I didn’t indulge this year. I’m already sitting on more than 2,000 LPs, which [...]

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Joe's Neighborhood
Well, that was something

“Well, that was something,” she said out of the blue on a Tuesday. A phrase she was fond of saying for nearly any event from the grand to the not-so-grand. [...]

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Center Stage
New theatre company debuts

Periodically, new stage tribes form, answering the calls of their muses. They want to offer new perspectives in central Iowa’s performing scene. Some previous names that float through the memory [...]

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CITYVIEW's Question of the Week

CITYVIEW’s question of the week

How many sodas or energy drinks do you consume each day on average?

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