The Culture Buzz
There is a diverse and appealing array of cultural indulgences awaiting the Cultural Adventurer in Central Iowa. Leave the personal devices behind and savor the rich offerings that performing arts, [...]
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Posted May 07, 2019in The Culture Buzz
Posted May 03, 2019in Just Released, Uncategorized
2019 EHS Alumni Hall of Fame Inductees
Question: What do a successful Des Moines business owner, a Danish Knight, a beloved East High secretary, an award-winning sports columnist, and an educator & coach have in common? Answer: [...]
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Posted May 03, 2019in Just Released
Free Summer Concert Series in Earlham City Park
Ahhhhh. Summer in the park on Sunday evening in small-town Iowa. Residents are sitting on lawn chairs or blankets, while listening to live music, and children are running around, playing [...]
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Posted May 03, 2019in Just Released
Tango Gala Restores Hope
On Friday, April 26, The Foundation for Children & Families of Iowa (CFI) hosted its annual Tango Gala, an evening of dancing to live music, great food and exciting auction [...]
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Posted May 01, 2019in Feature 1
Summer Arts & Entertainment Guide
Central Iowa’s sizzling summer slate of music, theater, art, film and outdoor fun. Enjoy greater Des Moines’ most comprehensive events guide. Take this wind-chill factor and shove it! Say “sayonara” [...]
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Posted May 01, 2019in Feature 2
East Village in the Springtime
Take time this month to soak in the sun and the fashion When we think of fast fashion, we think of inexpensive clothing produced rapidly by mass-market retailers in response [...]
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Posted May 01, 2019in Feature 3
Menace soccer team welcomes new dawn
A new coach, a new league, a new stadium and a new home office. In the U.S., soccer begins again each spring, when everything renews itself. This year, however, is [...]
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Posted May 01, 2019in Civic Skinny
City pays $1.5 million to biker who hit new curb on bike path. A primer on property tax. Good guys: Bill Stowe, Daryl Hecht.
The city of Des Moines has paid Mark Evans $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit he filed after hitting a 6-inch-high, unmarked curb the city built across what most bikers [...]
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Posted May 01, 2019in Political Mercury
‘Approachable’ Beto makes his Iowa pitch
Presidential candidate delves into rural issues, immigration. Onica Ulveling of Carroll stumped a stumping White House aspirant. If but for a moment. The 41-year-old pharmacist, a mother of two, asked [...]
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Posted May 01, 2019in Film Review
Fun, sharp, adorable
“Shazam!” is very much a family film — like blending up elements of “Goonies” and “Gremlins,” served over a heaping bowl of “Big.” When you’re a kid, all you want [...]
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