Michael Gartner’s reprinted 2006 tribute to his father (Civic Skinny, June 18) remains timeless and interesting. It got me thinking. While all of us are great-grandsons to someone the second we are born, it takes future generations to give us the opportunity to become fathers, grand and great. Mike Rowley -Clive
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Posted June 24, 2015in Joe's Neighborhood
Boredom is an art form perfected by teenagers, lifers in prison and pop culture. My money is on the teenagers as the pros in that group. When the hapless parent appears at school and tries to hand over last night’s forgotten homework, the disdain of the young teenager is something to
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Posted June 24, 2015in Film Review
Pixar does not miss. The animation studio has released 14 films before “Inside Out,” and each one has topped the box office on its opening weekend. That is a streak that “Inside Out” will be unable to extend, thanks to Universal’s dinosaurs, but rest assured, “Inside Out” is the most
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Posted June 24, 2015in Tech Talk
No need to adjust your television, it’s true — technology is improving at what seems to be an impossible rate. And, truthfully, that pace will only keep accelerating. Since the worldwide web first became a public tool in the early 1990s, technology has proliferated and become refined in virtually every
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Posted June 23, 2015in The Sound
Inspired by the most interesting variety of music around — nuevo flamenco, heavy metal and jazz, to name a few — international artists Rodrigo y Gabriela’s performance this Thursday at Hoyt Sherman Place shouldn’t be missed. Musically, the Mexico City natives make no bones about where there hearts lie, however.
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Posted June 17, 2015in Cover Story
On May 20, I set out on a mission to record, on paper and in imagery, what I thought would be an interesting junket of “wrecks, thugs and rock and roll,” as I deemed it. Over the course of three days, I would travel more than 800 miles to attend
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Posted June 17, 2015in Belly Up To...
It’s June in Des Moines. That means it’s hot and humid, and that vacation cannot come soon enough. In the meantime, why not make a trip to Saylorville Lake for the day? Relaxing on the beach, boating with buddies, fishing, water skiing — this is the life. But there’s something
Read More →Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to: celeste@dmcityview.com Enter for your chance to win two tickets to an Iowa Cubs game! Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “Apparently in these parts there is littering on the highway…and it sucks.” -Heidi Soliday Runners-up: “This may be the
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Posted June 17, 2015in Tech Talk
Thus far, 2015 has been a photographer’s dream. Quality equipment is cheap and abundant, picture taking — once restricted to the number of exposures on a reel of film — is practically limitless thanks to electronic media. And, thanks to online social networks, photos can be shared around the world
Read More →Nelson Construction & Development’s proposal to build luxury apartments on top of a new downtown parking garage gained a head start in the race to fill the space at Seventh Street and Grand Avenue in Des Moines. The City Council called for proposals last month and received three, but the
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