Opening in May: The nation’s biggest skatepark
The biggest skatepark in the nation? In Des Moines? Yes. Roughly 15 years in the making, the Lauridsen Skatepark is set to open at the end of May in the [...]
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Feature Story
Won’t you be my neighbor?
A map of Des Moines outlines the 52 official neighborhood associations chartered by the city. These groups of hard-working volunteers aim at bettering the spaces surrounding their family, friends and [...]
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Protecting personal and business assets
A customer is about to enter your business on an icy Iowa day, slips and falls, breaking a bone… A diner in your restaurant gets sick after eating your special [...]
Read More →Political Mercury
Meet the man behind Iowa’s Twitter vaccine finder
The mother of a 7-year-old Iowan said she’s used the recently launched and increasingly popular public-minded Twitter account Iowa Vaccine Alerts as a real-life and contemporary example of what the [...]
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‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’
“Zack Snyder’s Justice League” is finally here, and it is a markedly different film than what was released in theaters in 2017 after Warner Brothers brought in director Joss Whedon [...]
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Mulberry Street Tavern
Mulberry Street Tavern, in the newish Surety Hotel, covers the world to provide a cross sampling of marvelous amenities from both small villages and large cities. Surety is a part [...]
Read More →Des Moines Forgotten
Life before I-235
Many most of us take for granted that we can get most anywhere in the metro area in less than 20 minutes. We are all used to waiting until the [...]
Read More →Joe's Neighborhood
Vaccine — do you need another reason?
Seven of my siblings wait in line before me. Judy, Carol, Marla, John, Joyce, Jim and Cathy. I’m at the tail end. One at a time, they go into a [...]
Read More →Center Stage
The evolution of central Iowa theatre continues
Performances persist. Creativity will find a way to release, fulfilling the needs of both the creators and the consumers. Central Iowa’s producers have proven to be resolute in their commitment [...]
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Jim Nahas is fired by county, and it’s a mess. He lawyers up as supervisors hunker down.
Jim Nahas has been fired as head of human resources for Polk County. It’s complicated, it’s messy, it’s unusual — it’s hard to get fired by the county — and, [...]
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Stray Thoughts
Where oh where are today’s Bob Rays?
It’s hard for those of us of a certain vintage to realize it has been 39 years since Robert Ray was Iowa’s governor. In spite of the passage of so [...]
Read More →Sound Circuit
Suede
It was nearly four months since the group Suede played for a live audience indoors. For their first concert in their 2021 “Come Back Tour,” they played Doc’s Lounge in [...]
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Beaver Tap
The Beaver Tap is located in the heart of Beaverdale, and its building has been a mainstay in the neighborhood for more than half of a century. As different bars [...]
Read More →Collections & Hobbies
Twinkle, twinkle
Psst! Wanna know about a century-old local secret? Have you ever wondered about the copper-domed building with limestone walls that sits between fairways on Waveland Golf Course? That’s the Drake [...]
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Alex Hall at St. Kilda’s
Alex Hall is a London-born, Melbourne-raised kid who opened five restaurants in New York City before moving to Des Moines. Another five restaurants later, and he is only 47 years [...]
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Mutt extraordinaire
Kristen and Cory Schattschneider attempted to be dogless after their first dog passed away from cancer. But before long, they both craved a canine companion. After searching through animal rescue [...]
Read More →Cars in the City
Volvo va-va-voom
Once you step into a new car, the first thing you do after buckling yourself in, is to put the car in drive and depress the accelerator, anticipating an exciting [...]
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