Gloom Balloon “Drying the Eyes of the Goddess of Gloom, Underneath the Stars and the Moon” Maximum Ames Records Probably the most polarizing Des Moines act of the last half decade or so has been Gloom Balloon, Patrick Tape Fleming’s collaboration with Chris Ford. Gloom Balloon’s live shows and recordings
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Posted October 04, 2017in Sound Circuit
It was a sunny Monday afternoon, and Phil Young and Greg Meister had asked me to meet them at Woodland Cemetery. The location is near Young’s Sherman Hill home, and it seemed like a fitting area to discuss Night Stories, The Wheelers duo’s side project is creating horror movie-inspired music.
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Posted October 04, 2017in Lunch With...
Lila A. T. Akrad is a patent attorney, veterinarian, dog rescuer, jewelry designer and cancer survivor. She is also the granddaughter of Dr. William Lacy Brown, the legendary scientist who was the first PhD that Henry Wallace hired at Pioneer, in 1945. Brown would serve both as president and CEO
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Posted October 04, 2017in Couch Surfing
Meet Ian: a 34-year-old painter from Marfa, Texas. For those who have never seen the Amazon Prime show, “I Love Dick” (starring Kevin Bacon), Marfa is a small artist colony in the middle of the desert of west Texas. Ian has been traveling for three months by heading north in
Read More →The Vaudeville Mews has a pair of notable acts rolling through toward the end of the month. Indie-pop duo Cults and their infectious tunes play the Mews on Thursday, Oct. 26. This is an all-ages show and starts at 6 p.m. Tickets are $15. A few days later, Minnesota native
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Posted October 04, 2017in At Home With
Paranormal expert Brian McGilvra shares his experiences “It’s more than running around graveyards at night,” Brian McGilvra laughs. McGilvra is a professional paranormal researcher living in Des Moines. Growing up, he was the kid who would check out books about ghosts and other unexplained phenomenon from the library. He always
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Posted October 04, 2017in Belly Up To...
A titillating tequila bar Black Sheep in the East Village is unlike any other bar in Iowa, and that’s the way Frankie Farrell, the bar’s owner, designed it. “Des Moines wants to be hip so bad, yet there are really not a lot of hip things going on in nightlife, and people just go
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Posted October 04, 2017in The Sound
“Personal Boy,” the titular song on Har Mar Superstar’s new EP is epic. Like eight-minutes-long epic. It’s like a mini “Lemonade” by a chubby white boy from Minneapolis, though Beyonce wasn’t who Har Mar had in mind while creating the song with Lazerbeak of Doomtree and BJ Burton. “I didn’t
Read More →‘It Devours!’ Night Vale is a weird little town with a lot of heart. It was first made popular in podcast form and then in its first brilliant novel and now selling out live shows all over the world. It seems there’s nothing the strange little town in the desert
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Posted October 04, 2017in Collections & Hobbies
Stay-at-home mom uses her garage studio to make ceramics Shorty after ancient nomads discovered fire, historians suspect mankind began using clay to form water-carrying vessels. As such, pottery is millions of years old, and it is one of the oldest decorative arts known to man. Pottery is also known as
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