Kelly’s Little Nipper
Dive bar since 1940 As I sat chatting with the bar patrons at Kelly’s Little Nipper, we pondered the bar’s appeal. Austin said it’s like the “Cheers” bar, where everyone [...]
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Posted March 06, 2019in Belly Up To...
Posted March 06, 2019in Book Review
Book Reviews
“The Gown” by Jennifer Robson “The Gown” tells a beautiful story set in 1947 London, when England is still recovering from World War II. Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin are two [...]
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Posted March 06, 2019in Duffy
Posted March 06, 2019in Lunch With...
Lunch with Larry Lehmer at the Merle Hay mall food court
Author of books about early days of rock and longtime Des Moines Register editor speaks Larry Lehmer spent 25 years at the Des Moines Register, mostly under the radar on [...]
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Posted March 06, 2019in Art News
Look closer, before it’s too late
Des Moines lost its most celebrated artist. “All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.” Edgar Allen Poe Des Moines lost its most celebrated artist [...]
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Posted March 06, 2019in The Dish
Good times keep rollin’
International Chili Society World Championship beginning this fall in Ankeny. The last month was as good for food economies as it was for the stock market. Beef prices were way [...]
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Posted March 06, 2019in Rants & Reason
Run for your lives! The caucuses are coming!
The Iowa caucuses, Feb. 3, 2020, will again provide Iowa a chance to serve the nation — to usher in GOP alternatives to Donald Trump and to heal fractures in [...]
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Posted March 05, 2019in Just Released
Clive and Urbandale recognized for collaboration on Fire Station #43 in Urbandale
The Taxpayers Association of Central Iowa (TACI) has awarded the 2019 In the Public Interest Award to the cities of Clive and Urbandale. The award is given annually to an [...]
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Posted March 05, 2019in Just Released
INTERNATIONAL CHILI SOCIETY SELECTS THE DISTRICT AT PRAIRIE TRAIL IN ANKENY AS THE NEW HOME OF THE ICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CHILI COOK-OFF
After a competitive selection process that included 17 cities in the Midwest, the International Chili Society (ICS) and DRA Properties, L.C., have reached an agreement to bring the ICS World [...]
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Posted March 04, 2019in Just Released
Des Moines Arts Festival Announces the 180 Artists Selected for 2019 at REVEAL Event
The Des Moines Arts Festival presented by Nationwide released the list of the 180 professional visual artists representing 33 states plus Vancouver, Ontario and British Columbia, Canada who will be [...]
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