Posted May 07, 2019in 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, exhibitions and more offer. Sally forth and reward yourself. Featured Cultural Offering: Market Day. Sat May 11, 2019, 9 am
Read More →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: They are all proud graduates of East High School and will be inducted into the EHS Alumni Hall of Fame
Read More →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 with their friends. And it’s free. Kate Williams and Connie Terry plan to duplicate that iconic scene this summer in
Read More →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 items. Held at the Ron Pearson Center, Tango is a signature fundraising event for CFI. Proceeds from this event help
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Posted May 01, 2019in Feature 1
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” to your snow boots. It’s time to dig out your dancing shoes and enjoy May, June, July and August. Summer
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Posted May 01, 2019in Feature 2
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 to the latest trends and fads. And when we think of the word promenade, our minds immediately travel to the
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Posted May 01, 2019in Feature 3
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 so full of new beginnings for the Des Moines Menace that lilacs might expect to bloom in new colors, shapes
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Posted May 01, 2019in Civic Skinny
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 believed to be the bike path on MLK Parkway at 16th Street. The accident, around noon on April 16 of
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Posted May 01, 2019in Political Mercury
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 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke — who frames his candidacy as something of an urgent generational answer to questions he
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Posted May 01, 2019in Film Review
“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 to be is grown-up. And when you’re grown up, all you want to be is a superhero. No? Well, you
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