‘Biloxi’ “Always Happy Hour” by Mary Miller was one of my favorite books of the year when it came out, and she did not disappoint with her latest offering, “Biloxi.” “Biloxi” is named for the city in which it takes place, Biloxi, Mississippi. Miller tells the story of Louis McDonald,
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Posted July 03, 2019in The Sound
Headliner, Grammy winner to perform at 80/35. The 80/35 music festival is scheduled for July 12-13 at Gateway Park. This year’s extravaganza features more than three dozen acts playing on five different stages. Portugal. The Man is one of 80/35’s headlining acts, and the band is scheduled to perform on
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Posted July 03, 2019in Lunch With...
Cowgirl and marksman is one of several women who dominate upscale catering in Des Moines. Cyd Koehn owns Catering by Cyd. She has catered in Des Moines now for 25 years. We asked her to lunch recently, and she chose Wasabi. Wasabi is one of five restaurants that former New
Read More →A life detour brings artist to Des Moines and Mainframe Studios. With five different college majors in 11 years, Amy O’Brien struggled deciding what to do with her life. She waited tables. She tried marketing. She attempted interior design. She once owned a restaurant. She even tried her hand as
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Posted July 03, 2019in Business Feature
Central Iowa vendors learn the fireworks business. Two years after the Iowa Legislature opened the doors for the sale of fireworks within the state’s borders,vendors say they’re focused on how to make theirventure profitable and to set themselves apart from their competitors. State fire marshal officials and vendors say most
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Posted July 03, 2019in Belly Up To...
Striving to keep things local When Confluence Brewing Company opened up in 2012, the staff created a handful of beers inside the brewery in an industrial district close to Gray’s Lake. With potential for expansion, the grassy area in the back offered an untapped gem with the nearby bike trail.
Read More →Late spring was a time of revolution and consternation in the food world. Meatless meat thrived on. Best known to the general public as Beyond Meat, the genre is now being compared to the dot com craze of the Clinton years. BM was trading at five times its IPO value
Read More →Purchasing cards (p-cards) are a type of commercial credit card that allow acompany’s employees to make payments without using a traditional, paper-basedprocess. P-cards are popular among corporations due to a number of benefits: 1. Efficiency – P-cards integrate with a company’s existing expense managementsystems and every transaction is automatically factored
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Posted July 03, 2019in Des Moines Forgotten
Big dreams were behind the Warren County track, as it was to be one of the premiere road-racing tracks in the U.S. In October of 2012, I co-hosted Home Movie Day Des Moines, a film event where people brought in their homemade 8mm and 16mm films. Janet Barcheski Green had
Read More →Family-owned businesses represent 64 percent of our country’s GDP. 40 percent of those companies will experience a change of ownership in the next 15 years and the unfortunate reality is that only 30 percent will transfer successfully. In fact, only 12 percent of today’s business will be viable past the
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