Grimes, IA — John Kliegl, a longtime Des Moines-area special needs advocate, who has been on the Special Olympics Iowa (SOIA) staff since February 2016, will become President and Chief Executive [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Feature 1
“One pack, all in” and big changes for the 2017-2018 season with Des Moines’ rebranded NBA affiliate Des Moines was recently named the No. 1 Minor League Sports Market by the SportsBusiness Journal. In [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Feature 2
The afterlife of our body parts In Iowa, November is the month of death and decay. It begins with the four-day “Day of the Dead” celebration and ends, without baseball [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Feature 3
Shoppers are digging the surge in local thrift stores Like sharks sensing blood in the water, bargain hunters circle the void as the empty blue basin is wheeled away by the [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Civic Skinny
The sad tale of Kirk Blunck drags on. The police have gathered all they could gather about that Sunday afternoon in January of 2016 when the often-praised and often-sued architect [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Political Mercury
Or can Fred Hubbell, the embodiment of the Des Moines establishment, resurrect rural Iowa? Mr. and Mrs. Rural Iowa. Or to put it more directly, my friends and neighbors: I [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Film Review
Forget what the 1990’s taught us about Jackie Chan. If everything you loved was taken from you, what would you do to get a hold of the people responsible? It’s a familiar [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Food Dude
Getting straight to the point — greater Des Moines is now served by a San Gabriel class Chinese restaurant. San Gabriel, California, is the first U.S. city with a majority Asian population, [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Your Neighbors
Baby Jesus, plus cookies, and after three days… This holiday season, when the women at Valley United Methodist Church host a festival of nativity scenes, they won’t be feeding 5,000 [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Joe's Neighborhood
“Everyone does drag. Each one of us in our everyday life puts on a costume and does a performance piece as whoever it is we are.” – Joe Fraioli. The [...]
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