Posted March 06, 2019in Belly Up To...
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 knows your name. When we asked the millennial bartender, Elsie, if she knew what the “Cheers” reference was or if
Read More →“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 talented embroiderers at the famous fashion house of Norman Hartnell. They have been selected to create the wedding gown and train
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Posted March 06, 2019in Art News
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 when Alex Brown died at his home on the penultimate day of January after an aneurism at age 52. Brown attended
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Posted March 06, 2019in Lunch With...
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 the sports desk. Since retiring he has published two books about the music industry – “The Day the Music Died,”
Read More →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 up. Pork prices close behind. Corn soared on increased demand for fuel. Restaurant openings outnumbered closings by huge numbers. That’s
Read More →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 the Democratic Party. Yeah, sure. The vision for the caucuses is anything but 20-20. While the Iowa press proclaims Iowa,
Read More →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 individual, local government, or intergovernmental project that best demonstrates the aggressive pursuit of efficiency over the past year. Clive and
Read More →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 Championship Chili Cook-off® to Iowa, making The District at Prairie Trail the new home of the event for the next
Read More →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 invited to participate in the 22nd annual juried art fair June 28-30, in downtown’s Western Gateway Park. The announcement comes
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