Posted November 11, 2015in Civic Skinny
He has sold the naming rights for $1 million. He has built the building that will house the Prairie Meadows Pool at the new $40 million Wellmark YMCA downtown. Now all Vernon Delpesce needs is the pool. But to get it, the chief executive of the YMCA of Greater Des
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Posted November 11, 2015in The Sound
Martin Sexton — native of Syracuse, New York, and the 10th of 12 Sexton children — has gotten to where he is now in life through a series of battles. Growing up with 11 siblings can make even the most menial of daily tasks into a fight for limited resources.
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Posted November 11, 2015in Duffy
Posted November 11, 2015in Political Mercury
The youngest major-party candidate seeking the presidency passed something of a campaign endurance test Saturday in speaking for 90 minutes — much of it a question-and-answer session — with about three dozen people in the Guthrie Center public library. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, 44, weaved through a raft of socially fiscally conservative
Read More →Rapper DMX was arrested, yet again, and charged with a contempt of court warrant on Oct. 27. He had a warrant for allegedly failing to pay child support, but when he appeared in court that day, he begged the judge to release him from jail so he could perform at
Read More →Noce, the Max Wellman-run jazz and cabaret lounge, has announced the date and time for its grand opening celebration. The venue, located at 1326 Walnut St., will open its doors to the world on Dec. 31 when Noce hosts its first annual “Wild Party” New Year’s Eve celebration. The event
Read More →The grit is palpable in Joe Meno’s “Marvel and a Wonder.” So much so that at times I found myself forgetting that it took place in 1995 on a farm in Indiana and not out west in another century. The story starts with Jim Falls struggling to raise his grandson,
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Posted November 11, 2015in Food Dude
“The inevitable never happens, it is the unexpected always,” wrote economist John Maynard Keynes a century ago. Not much has changed in 100 years. Who foresaw the day when basketball players wore their pants below the knees and football players wore theirs above them? Or when the Des Moines Symphony
Read More →Brian Fox has opened a brewery and taproom at 103 S. 11th St. in West Des Moines. Located south of Railroad Avenue and S. 11th Street intersection, Fox Brewing Co. has an operation of seven barrels of craft beer to make a total of 210 gallons at a time. Fox
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Posted November 11, 2015in Joe's Neighborhood
At 5:15 this afternoon, the vet is coming to put our cat down. It’s hard to believe. Chester lies still on a blanket on our son’s bed. An old guy. Eighteen years old. One-hundred-twenty-six in cat years. A good, long life by anyone’s reckoning. But there is no purr today.
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