2017 Ultimate Chicken Challenge
Which local restaurant will be named king of the oldest, most revered and complicated food in world history? Each year CITYVIEW opens a contest to let our readers select the [...]
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Posted August 02, 2017in Feature 3
Posted August 02, 2017in Civic Skinny
The curious cases of Mr. Doe and the former Mr. Doe. Property-tax suits filed. County salaries. Godfrey case.
One-hundred and nine of the 1,121 employees of Polk County will make more than $100,000 in the fiscal year that started July 1, up from 102 employees in the year [...]
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Posted August 02, 2017in Political Mercury
The Democrats’ great rural Iowa hope?
Can John Norris cut into Republican heavy countryside in governor’s race? The winding Montgomery County roads from Red Oak to the Norris family farm served as something of a time [...]
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Posted August 02, 2017in Film Review
Never surrender
“Dunkirk” is a minimalist masterpiece from director Christopher Nolan We enter the town of Dunkirk with a group of five young men who appear to be looking for any rations [...]
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Posted August 02, 2017in Food Dude
Conversion succeeds the wrecking ball
Old Thresher’s Reunion is the most nostalgic recurring Iowa event. Held each year in Mount Pleasant on Labor Day weekend, it attracts a large number of former Iowans who moved [...]
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Posted August 02, 2017in Your Neighbors
The more things change…
Dad’s Old Fashioned Lemonade has served its secret recipe to thirsty fairgoers since 1948. Sometimes life gives you lemons. It was 1948, and an unknown gentleman needed to leave town. [...]
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Posted August 02, 2017in Joe's Neighborhood
The ‘small potatoes’ game
If you’re feeling a little down because of what is occurring in the world, wondering what is going to happen to health insurance, taxes and world peace, you should play [...]
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Posted August 02, 2017in Center Stage
Cloris Awards recognize metro’s best
Community awards unite, celebrate region’s theater Unfurl the red carpets. Let the spotlights blaze. The 2017 Greater Des Moines Cloris Leachman Excellence in Theater Awards will be presented in the [...]
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Posted August 02, 2017in Tech Talk
Snap and the IPO gamble
Sports gambling is illegal in almost every state, and even the states where it is legal, it is highly regulated. For many, sports gambling is seen as a predatory evil [...]
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Posted August 02, 2017in At Home With
Emily Susanin Kessinger
Yellow Door Gallery “The door was yellow when we bought it, just for the record,” says Emily Susanin Kessinger. Kessinger and her husband Mason’s south-side house serves as more than [...]
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