Posted August 21, 2013in Locker Room
When’s the last time you looked to the sky and were truly in awe? Honestly. Unless there’s a shooting star or some other natural wonder, is there really much to see? You bet your little black box there is. Fly Iowa 2013 is the signature event of the Iowa Aviation
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Posted August 21, 2013in Food Dude
The franchise restaurant industry has been busy this summer reacting to trends and troubles. Darden restaurants had a particularly bad summer after stomach viruses, traced to salad mixes, struck a number of customers at the company’s Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants. Two years ago, the same company was criticized
Read More →The Des Moines Music Coalition (DMMC) has announced the date and speaker lineup for its “Music University” event this fall. The event will be held on Oct. 19 at the Harmon Fine Arts Center of Drake University from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Guest speakers include (among others) Imagine Dragons
Read More →Play the “Name That Crime” Quiz! TOOL BAG BURGLAR Police responded around 2:30 p.m. to a burglary at the 600 block of 17th Street, which was being remodeled by the victim. He arrived that day to find several of his tools had been stolen from a tool box. The
Read More →“Escape from Polygamy” looks inside a creepy religious sect You’d expect a TV movie called “Escape from Polygamy” to be a predictable docudrama, but this Lifetime production offers plenty of surprises in its story of a teenage girl trapped among religious fundamentalists (Saturday, 7 p.m.). Julina (Haley Lu Richardson) joins
Read More →Think life is over just because summer is ending and the fair is gone? Think again, my friends. Summer’s wane just means it is time to roll out the autumn fun: The kids are back in school, back sweat is a thing of the past and soon there will be
Read More →Somehow Iowans fail to let the brisk breeze of autumn chase us indoors with the threat of yet another long winter. But it’ll take more than dipping temps to bring Iowan down. Acclimated to fickle and often severe Mother Nature mood swings, Iowans always manage to survive, thrive and stay
Read More →Perhaps no more eclectic line-up exists in central Iowa than in the realm of the performing arts. Theatres big and small, professional and amateur, continue to offer Iowans an array of entertainment rich with culture and guaranteed to leave lasting memories. Whether the story is told through song, motion, comedy
Read More →Moviegoers, start your engines, because the season of Oscar contenders is upon us. You have the best chance of seeing a better-than-average, if not truly exceptional, movie in the fall season. Film studios are busier than ever rolling out films they hope will secure spots in every critic’s top-10 lists.
Read More →For Iowa’s art scene, autumn is the sobering, back-to-work season that follows carefree summers of big festivals and light entertainments. This year’s fall calendar supports such sobriety with a preponderance of big shows. The Des Moines Art Center will follow up its monumental installation of English artist Phylidda Barlow with
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