Posted January 31, 2018in Fashion
Posted January 31, 2018in Couch Surfing
Wayne from North Carolina
A “digital nomad” and his pug Meet Wayne from North Carolina. A 28-year-old bachelor who calls himself a “digital nomad.” He has traveled northwest on a skiing adventure with his dog, Mindie. This is the first guest I have had who has brought an animal with. Animals are normally a
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Posted January 31, 2018in Book Review
Book Reviews
‘It’s Not Yet Dark’ Simon Fitzmaurice is an award-winning Irish writer and film director, and his beautiful memoir — a No. 1 bestseller when it was published in Ireland — is his courageous story of being afflicted with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). A month after he receives a call from
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Posted January 31, 2018in Art News
‘Wanderlust’
The kind of show that would make my grandfather roll his eyes The Des Moines Art Center has hosted many exhibitions that could easily have been subtitled “Wanderlust.” Their retrospective on Henri Cartier-Bresson particularly comes to mind. That show was about the great photographer’s worldwide search for truth and meaning.
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Posted January 31, 2018in Collections & Hobbies
3,000 frogs, plus two live ones
Possibly Iowa’s largest collection of frog figures This started with a gift from her mother. Charlotte Loter was in seventh grade. It was a frog made of cloth and stuffed with something similar to whatever it is they put into Beanie Babies — although it pre-dated Beanies by years. If you had asked her
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Posted January 31, 2018in The Sound
Matisyahu
The Jewish reggae rapper returns Matisyahu looks different today than he did when fans were first introduced to him. The singer broke through in 2005 with the live version of his uplifting, beatboxing, reggae-infused song “King Without A Crown” (from the album “Live at Stubb’s”) and instantly stood out. Of
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Posted January 31, 2018in Belly Up To...
Des Moines Yacht Club
Boat shoes optional “We used to get boating magazines,” Des Moines Yacht Club co-owner Dirk DeBolt says. Admittedly, the name has caused some confusion outside the city of Des Moines, Iowa. Des Moines, Washington, also has a Des Moines Yacht Club — but it is devoted to actual marine craft.
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Posted January 31, 2018in Duffy
Posted January 31, 2018in At Home With
Bringing the resort home
Dickersons add tropical touches to house and yard While some of us may have a “home away from home,” Sherry and Scot Dickerson are striving for a “resort away from resort.” When not at Sandpearl Resort at Clearwater Beach, Florida — one of the Dickersons’ preferred vacation spots — the couple’s Clive home keeps
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Posted January 31, 2018in Rants & Reason
A ‘very stable genius’?
Or unhinged and unfit for office? This is the last Donald Trump item this column or CITVYIEW will publish. If you believe that, then you likely agree with Trump’s characterization of himself as a “very stable genius.” (Caveat: You are reading this at least a month after Trump’s VSG self-assessment.
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