Posted April 03, 2019in Feature 3
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 the CHOICE awards originated 15 years ago and was inspired by Japan’s Living National Treasures. That program honors “preservers of
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Posted April 03, 2019in Civic Skinny
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 avoid the fate of his older brother, Simon, who came on United a couple of years ago and who unfortunately
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Posted April 03, 2019in Political Mercury
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 South Bend, Indiana, who is in Iowa mulling his own bid for the presidency and making a case for generational
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Posted April 03, 2019in Film Review
“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 bigger — in scale, message and ambition. But even as his budgets increase, Peele’s signature style continues to be the
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Posted April 03, 2019in Food Dude
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. Two recent openings suggest that such things are still gaining momentum. The Des Moines Art Center Café reopened under the
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Posted April 03, 2019in Your Neighbors
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 the rank of brigadier general. During his first retirement, Andres took a position as chief pathologist and chief medical officer
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Posted April 03, 2019in Joe's Neighborhood
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 and yelling, and then, suddenly, you are completely lost. Green stalks block your vision in every direction. Is that the
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Posted April 03, 2019in Center Stage
“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 opportunity to welcome back a performer who was part of the world premiere of the Iowa-centric 2015 musical, “The Bridges
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Posted April 03, 2019in People & Pets
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 were perched on their owners’ shoulders throughout the interview. Hugh is a 2-year-old pineapple green-cheeked conure, and Peanut is a
Read More →‘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 back to the Founding Fathers. He reflects on Thomas Jefferson and race, John Adams and economic inequality, James Madison and
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