Cheaters never win at the Iowa State Fair, despite some participants making grand efforts HOG HEAVEN The Iowa State Fair features more than Ferris wheels and people eating every kind of fried food. It’s one of the largest livestock shows in the world, and it is the highest level of competition of its kind in [...]
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Iowa’s largest places where people congregate and what they mean about us. Iowa breached the national consciousness with its exceptional inclination for coming together. No other state saw such a high percentage of its men volunteer to fight in the Civil War — 76,000 out of a total population of 675,000 in 1860. Walk through [...]
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We may not be as aquatic as our neighbors to the north, but Iowa does have its share of ponds, reservoirs and lakes Go jump in a lake! Or is it a pond? And what’s the difference, anyway? And when does a lake become a pond? Believe it or not, even 21st century science hasn’t [...]
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Attorney General Tom Miller‘s staff indicated to Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds or her staff weeks in advance that he was going to rule she would not have the constitutional authority to appoint her successor after she took over the Governor’s duties from Terry Branstad. So her “surprise” at the May 1 ruling was feigned, her [...]
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The comedian Bill Burr invented another shooting sport should the worlds of Amazon.com, the Goliath of modern e-commerce, collide with the diminished rural regions of the nation for which the Internet is proving to be something akin to the Smallpox-infected blankets white soldiers gave to Native Americans in the 1800s. Redneck skeet shooting with prizes. [...]
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Latest Transformers movie is overstuffed, overlong, boring and exhausting Sometimes a movie comes along that leaves certain audiences wondering, “Why?” Why was this movie made? Who was this made for? What was the point the movie wanted to make? You get the idea. “Transformers: The Last Knight” is the fifth film of the Transformers series [...]
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Des Moines keeps turning out new restaurants at a pace that old timers think is unsustainable. The city also continues to support a number of traditional old restaurants where newcomers are rarely tempted to go. The hardest positions to maintain are in between those concepts — the places that were new and trendy 10 to [...]
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Old school passion with a twist During the workday, Joseph Chapman is all business. As the chief of environmental management service at the VA hospital, he manages the housekeeping, laundry, linen, waste removal, interior design and pest control. While he’s doing that, he wears a suit, tie and starched shirt. But when 5 o’clock rolls [...]
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Spandex shorts, wicking shirt, sport socks. Check, check, check. Weight-lifting gloves, yoga mat, roller tube. Got ’em. High-performance shoes carried in my high-performance bag. Yup. And don’t forget the protein drink and proper hydration bottles. At last, I zip up my breathable, rain-resistant jacket, and I’m ready to go. It’s time to work out. The [...]
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The night of the last election, I stayed up reading James Baldwin. His work from the 1960s seemed the best way to grapple with my own moment — and apparently lots of others felt the same. Baldwin has recently enjoyed a resurgence. There’s even a documentary, celebrating his essays, novels and activism. “But he was [...]
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As Chairman of the Board of Hubbell Realty, James (Jim) W. Hubbell III has watched Des Moines change and grow from a top-floor perch. We asked him to lunch to talk about 45 years of real estate development in Des Moines. He chose Bauder’s. “I have been coming here since grade school. I was a [...]
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Home sweet home isn’t déjà vu The question catches Mark Godwin off guard. He stops to consider, reflect and contemplate: “What were the best 60 seconds of your life?” Many 60-second spans are in the debate raging in his head, and he understands the caveat: He isn’t allowed to take the easy answer out, such [...]
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It may not seem like the sexiest of tech innovations, but printer ink cartridges have just sent a shockwave through the tech history. In Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on whether or not Impression Products could legally take the sold and dispensed ink cartridges of Lexmark [...]
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The secret is officially out Mixology Night was CITYVIEW’s 2017 winner of “Best Kept Secret on the Local Nightlife Scene” and has become a favorite of those in the know. The Science Center of Iowa (SCI) first began Mixology Night in 2011, six years after its new 110,000-square-foot downtown location opened. “What it was five [...]
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Jordan Weber is a chronicler of environmental degradation and its effects on communities, particularly African-American communities. He has made quite a name, too, having been invited to big shows on both coasts and being paired with some of the biggest names in African-American art. Most recently he did an exhibition in Omaha with Lachelle Workman [...]
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William Elliott Whitmore and David Zollo first met while Whitmore was still a teenager. Whitmore gave Zollo a demo tape, a recording that Zollo said left him “stunned.” They became friends, and as their careers progressed, worked together occasionally, with Zollo performing on Whitmore’s “Animals in the Dark.” “For the last five or six years, [...]
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Nine chickens and counting Backyard chickens may be a trend of urban hipsters, but for Des Moines resident Nicole James and her family, they are beloved backyard pets. The James family has kept chickens since 2013, and it hasn’t always been smooth sailing in the poultry department. “We started with two, but we were very [...]
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