The Des Moines Community Playhouse has the most celebrating, eye-popping, song-singing, 100-year loving, big-doings season ever. The theatre’s 100th season includes six musicals, plus drama, comedy, and family shows. Playhouse season tickets go on sale April 3, 2018, online at dmplayhouse.com and at the Playhouse ticket office. The 2018-19 Mainstage
Read More →West Des Moines, Iowa (February 28, 2018) — Bank Iowa says its scholarship committee is accepting applications for the bank’s annual Spirit of Chandy Scholarship Program now through March 5, 2018 (submissions must be postmarked by this date). The program will award $500 to one high school boy and one
Read More →WHAT: Bottle & Bottega in Des Moines is bringing together local pet-loving residents and community members for an imaginative “Paint Your Pet” event…a gathering to paint, toast, sip and celebrate the beloved four-legged friends in our lives, and it’s all for a good cause. A portion of the event’s proceeds
Read More →WASHINGTON — Today, an unprecedented coalition of more than 50 leading associations, companies, nonprofits, magazines, newspapers and other stakeholders joined forces as the American Mail Alliance to advocate for a common sense approach to setting new postal rates, promoting the long-term health and success of the United States Postal Service (USPS),
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Posted February 28, 2018in Stray Thoughts
Mr. President, may I have a few minutes of your time? I would like to suggest an alternative to the big Veterans Day parade in Washington, D.C., that you asked the Pentagon to plan. I certainly appreciate your desire to honor the men and women in our armed forces who
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Posted February 28, 2018in Feature 1
The who, what, where and how with Des Moines fashion show producer Camille Renee Des Moines is a well-dressed metro, according to Camille Renee. The 26-year-old model has returned home, and she likes what she sees, saying Des Moines men have great shoes and its women have great hair. Raised in the Midwest, Renee has modeled
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Posted February 28, 2018in Feature 2
The past, present and future of Des Moines’ favorite amateur hockey team SOLD. Last fall the United States Hockey League announced the sale of the Des Moines Buccaneers hockey team to Orchard View Sports and Entertainment (OVSE). According to the team’s new president, Nate Teut, OVSE is led by New York City financial investor Michael
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Posted February 28, 2018in Feature 3
What’s corned beef got to do with it? St. Patrick’s Day is one of America’s great celebrations of ethnic pride and alcohol consumption. To most people here, it has much to do with shamrocks, green beer, leprechauns and corned beef with cabbage. The celebration took off in 1947 when the first St. Patrick’s Day parade in New
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Posted February 28, 2018in Civic Skinny
Hy-Vee’s decision to quit putting weekly advertising inserts into newspapers is another blow to Iowa’s newspapers — and it’s a particular hit at the 75 or so small dailies and weekly papers where grocery-store ads are an economic lifeline. “It’s big money,” says the publisher of one small daily, but
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Posted February 28, 2018in Political Mercury
And he doesn’t speak Spanish Never in the annals of human history has a gay man so brilliantly wooed a straight woman. Apple CEO Tim Cook and other forces at the tech Goliath, the latest apps and wizardry in hand, seduced our governor with the siren song of Siri, boosting
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