2019 CHOICE Awards
CITYVIEW’s Hall of Iowa Culinary Excellence A veritable hall of fame for people and food institutions that give our city and state a singular quality and/or identity. The idea for [...]
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Posted April 03, 2019in Feature 3
Posted April 03, 2019in Civic Skinny
Harry hops into town. Tirrell trial delayed. Still more bills in the Chris Godfrey case.
Three things, perhaps in order of importance: Thing No. 1. Rejoice. Harry is here. Harry arrived without fanfare several months ago from London. He came on British Airways, hoping to [...]
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Posted April 03, 2019in Political Mercury
South Bend mayor rising in Iowa
Buttigieg thinks he has chops to take on Trump. Ascending to the Oval Office is a “seismic jump” for senators and governors and national figures, says the 37-year-old mayor of [...]
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Posted April 03, 2019in Film Review
Failed experiments
“Us” is a haunting exploration into our country’s past transgressions and its inability to recognize the trauma it caused. Jordan Peele’s sophomore feature after last year’s “Get Out,” “Us,” goes [...]
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Posted April 03, 2019in Food Dude
Tangerine and El Pollo Catracho
Des Moines’ food culture continues to diversify. Des Moines’ food culture has been diversifying and sophisticating for the last 15 years at a pace no one foresaw when it started. [...]
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Posted April 03, 2019in Your Neighbors
Twice retired
U.S. Army Reserves welcomes new ambassador. Dale Andres retired in 1995 after spending nearly a quarter of a century serving in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve where he attained [...]
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Posted April 03, 2019in Joe's Neighborhood
Lost in Venice
Just walk to the edge. I’ve been lost as a child. It was in an Iowa cornfield. You know, you’re young, you’re playing around with your cousins, running and hiding [...]
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Posted April 03, 2019in Center Stage
‘Hello, Dolly!’
“Bridges” world premiere performer returns to Des Moines to star in multiple Tony Award-winning hit show. The shifting sands of a Broadway touring show will give Des Moines audiences the [...]
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Posted April 03, 2019in People & Pets
For the birds
16-year-old bird like a “grumpy old man.” Walking into Abby Kruse and Holden King’s home, I didn’t have to look far for their pet birds, Hugh and Peanut, since both [...]
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Posted April 03, 2019in Book Review
Book Reviews
‘American Dialogue: The Founders and Us’ In “American Dialogue,” Joseph Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, has taken some of the most vexing issues of the current political scene and related them [...]
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