Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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Feature Story
Here come the cubbies!

The Iowa Cubs team is an institution in Des Moines. I-Cub fans pack the ballpark all season long and even watch at home. The fan loyalty is evidenced by CITYVIEW readers who voted for the Cubbies as the Best Local Sports Team and Best Local Outdoor Sporting Event for yet another year in the Best [...]

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Feature Story
Iowa Barnstormers return key players for 2025

After a challenging season in 2024, the Iowa Barnstormers are looking to make a comeback for 2025. Barnstormers Head Coach Dave Mogensen and his club entered the season after a 5-11 performance by the Indoor Football League team in 2024. They missed the playoffs by just two games last year.  “Several games we only lost [...]

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Feature Story
Drake is winning

  Growing up in 1950s Des Moines, my family’s backdoor neighbor was an elderly German professor of Humanities at Grinnell College. Because our backyards were our baseball fields, we kids had several run-ins with the prof whenever we tried to retrieve foul balls from his fenced-in yard.  “Get out of my yard. I will turn [...]

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Business Feature
The business of chocolate

Chocolate isn’t just a treat. It’s a business built on creativity, strategy and its fair share of planning. At three metro chocolate shops, owners are doing all that and more to satisfy sweet tooths everywhere. The art of trying something new Chocolate Storybook on Grand Avenue in West Des Moines is a family business. Meg [...]

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Civic Skinny
Why is Iowa the only state not to double in population since 1900? How have the tariffs impacted Iowans? And were sharks added to Iowa’s list of dangerous wild animals?

Iowa is the only state in the union that has not seen its population double since 1900. Don’t expect that to be part of our state’s economic development marketing campaign anytime soon, but it is true, according to the Iowa Chamber Alliance Talent Poll. In 1900, Iowa’s population was 2.2 million. In 2024, it was [...]

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Political Mercury
‘Yellowstone’ is the most anti-adoption series in TV history

Any conflicted pregnant woman who watched the just-concluded Paramount series sensation “Yellowstone” likely scheduled an abortion before the final cowboy deserted Kevin Coster and Taylor Sheridan’s fictional Montana ranch. Costner should reimburse them. “Yellowstone,” a wildly popular and exceedingly entertaining show, sent strong signals about blood and bloodlines, legacy and lore, and villainized Jamie, the one adopted [...]

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Film Review
Th-th… that’s (not) all, folks!

  The Warner Bros.-owned franchise began as a series of animated shorts that were released during the golden age of American animation between 1930 to 1969, and more than 1,000 episodes were released under Looney Tunes and spin-off banner Merrie Melodies. Although no one director, writer or artist is ultimately responsible for the brilliant heights [...]

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Food Dude
Chicago Speakeasy is an ode to comfort

The year was 1978, a most Dickensian time. A murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, ended 909 American lives while Israel and Egypt were finding accord at Camp David, Maryland. Argentina won its first World Cup after Peru’s national team laid down and allowed six Argentine goals in a strange group stage semifinal, just enough to keep [...]

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Des Moines Forgotten
Animatronics and pizza

Hell must have frozen over, because I am writing about ShowBiz Pizza. As a kid in the early 1990s, spending a birthday or two at a mall arcade blowing a pocket full of quarters on The Simpsons and Mortal Kombat was common. If you had even cooler parents, you had a birthday party at either [...]

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Joe's Neighborhood
One more loss

The letter began well enough: “Dear friend.” Who doesn’t want to be a friend? But then it quickly went south: “Back Country will be closing its doors for good in the next few month.” Oof! Aging is a little like playing that game where you take away blocks all stacked on top of each other. [...]

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CITYVIEW's Question of the Week

CITYVIEW’s question of the week

How many foreign languages can you speak?

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