Cosmopolitan Des Moines update
Who doesn’t love dumplings? A friend who spends time in France each year was baffled about the popularity of Subway with the Gallic people. A lover of French breads and [...]
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Posted September 05, 2018in Food Dude
Posted September 05, 2018in Your Neighbors
Welcome to the library
A helpful hand for nearly four decades “There is no more shushing at the library,” informs Tina Brooks. The long-time library clerk then pauses, ponders and decides to improve her statement. “There [...]
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Posted September 05, 2018in Joe's Neighborhood
‘A friendly, honest place.’
“My motto is to buy from people you know and as close to home as you can get.” — Lisa Bean Nearly 45 years ago, the Iowa City Coop was [...]
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Posted September 05, 2018in Center Stage
‘Fun Home’
A beguilingly misleading title It’s challenging to find new themes when it comes to creating a Broadway musical. “Fun Home” achieves that status, delivering a breathtaking experience based on Alison [...]
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Posted September 05, 2018in Rants & Reason
Trump sins
Acolytes shout ‘Hallelujah! Amen!’ A trinity of points to open this theological treatise: First, here’s a line from a commercial popular before many readers of CITYVIEW were born: “I’m not [...]
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Posted September 05, 2018in Your View
Posted September 05, 2018in Book Review
Book Reviews
‘The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies’ The focus of a recent episode of a missing history program was on William [...]
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Posted September 05, 2018in Walks of Life
Posted September 05, 2018in People & Pets
Snakes alive!
Snake enthusiast moves to U.S. to raise reptiles. A Jim Stafford song from the 1970s, “I Don’t Like Spiders and Snakes,” ran through my head as I drove to my [...]
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Posted September 05, 2018in The Dish
Lots of new things
And the word nugget is passé. Midsummer cooled down after a blistering, thunderous early summer. This assuaged fears that the hostile storms of June and July had damaged our summer [...]
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