Play reflects on the filming of “Cold Turkey” in Greenfield.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the filming of “Cold Turkey” in central Iowa — much of it in Greenfield — and the community is celebrating with a stage [...]
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Posted November 12, 2019in Just Released
Posted November 11, 2019in Just Released
Valley Junction stores gear up for holiday shoppers
Stores in Historic Valley Junction are gearing up for holiday shopping! Many stores have extended holiday shopping hours, and the district will celebrate its annual Jingle in the Junction events [...]
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Posted November 07, 2019in Just Released
LOVE sculpture by Robert Indiana to take brief hiatus from Pappajohn Sculpture Park
Des Moines, IA (November 2019) – The “already loved” LOVE sculpture by American Pop artist Robert Indiana sited in the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park will be moved off [...]
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Posted November 06, 2019in Feature 1
Best-selling menu items
Learn about Des Moines diners’ favorite dishes at the chains and the indies. Literature and painting have chronicled the foods that delighted and enchanted people of other centuries. What foods [...]
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Posted November 06, 2019in Feature 2
Iowa’s best basketball… bar none
Men with elite athletic ability invade Wells Fargo Arena, as the Iowa Wolves begin NBA G League action. More than a half million students lace up basketball sneakers each winter [...]
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Posted November 06, 2019in Feature 3
Restaurant ambiance
What is it, and which ones have it? Restaurant critics used to employ the word ambiance, or ambience, as a factor in their ratings. That’s not as common as it [...]
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Posted November 06, 2019in Civic Skinny
Drake, schools plan new stadium on Forest. A judge calls Branstad’s lawyer a liar. The night they raided the old Cargill Hotel.
UPDATE: On Nov. 13, Drake and the Des Moines School District announced plans to build a $19.5 million stadium just east of the Knapp Center. The 4,000-seat stadium would be [...]
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Posted November 06, 2019in Political Mercury
An accidental nickname
And 7 other political takeaways 1. Retired Adm. Michael Franken of Sioux City, a native of the Sioux Center area of Iowa and a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, said [...]
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Posted November 06, 2019in Film Review
Nothing is what it seems
“The Lighthouse” is a hypnotic and hallucinatory tale. “How long have we been on this rock? Five weeks? Two days? Help me to recollect.” Nothing is what it seems at [...]
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Are community papers akin to a circus?
There’s times when producing a community paper can seem like being in a circus. One moment you are the acrobat balancing your way across a high wire and the next [...]
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