Posted June 05, 2019in Belly Up To...
Giant taproom breathes life into former Dahl’s grocery store. Two Ankeny businessmen, Shawn McNeeley and Jeff Heng, have taken on a mistress, which Shawn’s wife is OK with. But this mistress is something everyone can enjoy — Mistress Brewing. Mistress Brewing’s first location in Ankeny opened in 2016 with a
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Posted June 05, 2019in Business Feature
Five tips small-business owners should consider for transactions. Small-business owners who want to compete for customers’ money have more options than ever to accept payment. Check and cash have been mostly replaced by credit cards, and now the shift is toward online, application and contactless methods of payment. While many
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Posted June 05, 2019in Sound Circuit
Original music influenced by Buddy Holly As a child, Jason Buns listened to his dad playing Buddy Holly songson his guitar. Jason didn’t understand the importance of who BuddyHolly was until later, when his dad explained the history. “My dad went to the Surf Ballroom for Buddy Holly’s final concertbefore
Read More →‘Late Night’ PG-13102 minutesStars Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) has a problem. The pioneering and legendary late-night talk-show host is accused of being a “woman who hates women,” prompting the quick affirmative action hire of Molly (Mindy Kaling). Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, Katherine’s snap
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Posted June 05, 2019in Lunch With...
Keith Miller is a distinguished professor of law at Drake. He teaches torts, products liability, gaming law, and workers compensation. With big changes in gaming law coming to Iowa in late August and bigger changes probably by winter, we asked him to lunch to talk about gaming and other things.
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Posted June 05, 2019in Collections & Hobbies
3 generations of speedsters are tough to beat. Nearly 8 billion people live on planet Earth. West Des Moines soap box racer Kara Darr finished ahead of all but three of them at last year’s All-American Soap Box Derby World Championships held in Akron. She competed in the Rally Masters
Read More →Commercial real estate transactions in Polk County from March 29, 2019, through April 28, 2019 Address: 7641 DOUGLAS AVE., URBANDALEDate: March 29, 2019Price: $168,000Seller: M&M HOLDINGS LLCBuyer: ZB INVESTMENTS LCAcres: 0.327Square feet: 1,400 Address: 12129 UNIVERSITY AVE., CLIVEDate: March 29, 2019Price: $3,550,000Seller: UNIVERSITY PLACE LLCBuyer: UCI HOLDINGS LLCAcres: 1.739Square feet:
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Posted June 05, 2019in The Sound
Multi-genre group plays Brenton Skating Plaza on June 25. Lake Street Dive lead singer Rachael Price says their music doesn’t fit a specific genre, and people frequently inquire about what type of music they play. “We say our influences are mostly core influences, such as the Beatles, Paul Simon, David
Read More →Thank the gods of lunch meats Lawyers had a huge quarter challenging long-established food brands and free-speech rights. Last year, much of Hawaii was outraged to learn a Chicago restaurant chain owner had trademarked the name “Aloha Poke” while demanding that cubed fish shops around the country stop using the
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Posted June 05, 2019in Fashion
And with the sunshine comes shopping in Valley Junction It’s been said that you could visit the Louvre Museum in Paris every day of your life to see one piece of art each time and over the course of an entire lifetimehave never seen it all. Historic Valley Junction, that
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