Posted April 05, 2017in At Home With
Three kitchens and a cook Cyd Koehn doesn’t remember when she made her first cupcake, but she knows she was doing it at a very young age. “I grew up in a huge family at a bed and breakfast,” she says. As the fifth of seven siblings, Koehn often found
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Posted April 05, 2017in Belly Up To...
Come for the views, stay for the drinks and food The Republic on Grand is the East Village’s latest addition. The new bar is located on the sixth floor of the newly completed AC Hotel by Marriott on East Fourth and Grand Avenue. The dress code is casual, says Nick
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Posted April 05, 2017in People & Pets
A Drake alum and director of Drake’s annual Beautiful Bulldog Contest, Niki Smith already had a deep-seeded love for the breed. But in September of 2016, she finally became a bulldog owner. Seven-year-old Dexter is not an English Bulldog — the breed synonymous with the university — but rather is
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Posted April 05, 2017in Lunch With...
John Ramsey has worked and played in the local automobile game for 50 years, playing a role in car dealerships at various locations bearing his family name. Cityview asked him to lunch recently to talk about a half-century in, perhaps, the most American of all businesses. He chose Trostel’s Greenbriar.
Read More →For openers, here are a few lines I sent to Dan Finney at The Des Moines Register because I am weary of those who defend their homeland with puffery of “Only in Iowa…” or “You’re not an Iowan unless…” “Dan: Your…piece included a point you’ve made before, one that always
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Posted April 05, 2017in The Sound
Eleven years ago, the Denver band Dressy Bessy was labeled “up and coming” due to the buzz regarding its album “Electrified.” The problem? “Electrified” was Dressy Bessy’s fourth album, and the band had been around nine years at that point. Last year Dressy Bessy released “Kingsized,” its sixth album and
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Posted April 05, 2017in Art News
“Working Part Time at the Five & Dime” is the first thing that most visitors see entering Chris Vance’s latest show at Moberg Gallery. It is a painting of geometric diagrams on a black background. Yet it’s so unlike Des Moines’ most popular artist that some people check out the
Read More →“Heartworms” The Shins Columbia Records Early in their career, a Natalie Portman character blessed/cursed The Shins with an endorsement that will follow the New Mexico band until its eventual demise. For a while, it seemed like the end might have already occurred, but following a hiatus and a five-year gap
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