Posted March 23, 2016in Food Dude
Most ethnic cuisines in Des Moines began in the inner city in neighborhoods attractive to immigrants. Italian restaurants spread from the south side, Vietnamese from the Drake and Riverbend areas, Jalisco/Michoacan from the east side, and Chinese from downtown. In most cases, it took several decades before any reached the
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Posted March 23, 2016in Homepage Cover Story, Tech Talk
How many times have you found yourself complaining about the limited amount of space on your phone? Across the planet, billions of smartphone users have encountered this frustrating experience. If you can get past your personal frustrations for a second, consider the firestorm of rage the companies that power the
Read More →Civic Skinny painted a powerful “What if” column about Neal and Bea Smith. After being denied equal pay for equal jobs early in their careers, the road they chose eventually took them to Washington, D.C. Civic Skinny wrote, “If it (a Des Moines insurance company) had offered Bea Smith the
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Posted March 23, 2016in Civic Skinny
What is an “infamous crime?” And who should decide that question? And who cares? The first two questions will be argued before the Iowa Supreme Court next week in an expanded session — each side has been given twice the time normally allotted to argue a case that has attracted
Read More →Garth Brooks may never leave Des Moines. The country music legend has added a stunning five shows to his initial stay in town, and the six total events have combined to sell nearly 80,000 tickets. Salisbury House has announced the spring lineup for its appropriately named “Music Series at Salisbury
Read More →DES MOINES — Cityview, an alternative newsweekly in Des Moines published by Big Green Umbrella Media, and its affiliated publications brought home the coveted General Excellence Award during the Midwest Free Community Papers Association’s annual spring conference March 11-12 at Prairie Meadows Casino Hotel in Altoona. Midwest Free Community Papers
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Posted March 16, 2016in Cover Story
The luck of the Irish has Des Moines doubling down on green this year. Not only is the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament coming to town, it’s pushing the 2016 Friendly Sons of St. Patrick’s Day Parade back a day. While this makes some feel a little blue, maybe the grass
Read More →I love books that defy easy explanation. Some of my most beloved books are those that are impossible to categorize or sum up in a few words. “All the Birds in the Sky” may be the quintessential impossible-to-define novel — and I adore it. Patricia and Laurence are typical outsider
Read More →Two popular buffet restaurants recently closed abruptly without giving notice to their workers or customers. Ryan’s Buffet, an all you can eat restaurant in Clive, is closed, and so is Old Country Buffet on Southeast 14th Street in Des Moines. A press release by a mother company in San Antonio
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Posted March 16, 2016in Belly Up To...
“Everybody calls it a dive,” said Candice Crane, the bartender at Stan’s Place on Second Avenue. She goes on to say they’re also known for doing “free pours,” which means they don’t measure how much alcohol goes in each drink. “That’s kind of rare,” she said. The sign out front
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