JAZZ UP YOUR JANUARY AT THE 1920s GATSBY GALA ON JAN. 18!
Roar into the 2020s with the 1920s Gatsby Gala at the Mainframe Studios, 900 Keosauqua Way, Des Moines, from 7:30-11 p.m. on Jan. 18. Plans call for live music from [...]
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Posted January 07, 2020in Just Released
Posted January 06, 2020in Just Released
Charter Bank Hires New Marketing Director
Tim Heldt, CEO of Charter Bank, announced the hiring of Brooke Ruddy as Marketing Director. She will succeed Debra Heldt who retired on December 31, 2019 from Charter Bank where [...]
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Posted January 06, 2020in Just Released
38 Special at Hoyt Sherman Place, Friday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m.
After more than three decades together, 38 SPECIAL continue to bring their signature blast of Southern Rock to over 100 cities a year. And at each and every show, thousands [...]
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Posted January 03, 2020in Tribute
Ken Fuson — 1956-2020
Here’s a one-paragraph, one-sentence, 293-word essay Ken Fuson wrote for The Des Moines Register on a warm spring day in 1995: Here’s how Iowa celebrates a 70-degree day in the [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Feature 1
Cuddling therapy
When intermingling with people and getting hugs isn’t enough, this therapeutic and platonic touch may be the answer. Michelle White was looking for a way to fulfill her need for [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Feature 2
Winter Arts & Entertainment Guide
CITYVIEW’s quest to eradicate hibernation continues. Wicked arctic blasts have invaded central Iowa, and Old Man Winter now occupies the region. This evil bully rules with an ice-cold fist while [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Business Feature
A cloud of uncertainty
EDITOR’S NOTE: After this story went to press, President Donald Trump signed a bill that raises the federal legal age for purchasing tobacco from 18 to 21. Beginning in the [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Civic Skinny
Jeff Young’s spotty record. Tirrell’s sentencing date set. Kauffman is a reporter again. Godfrey bills. Dog treats.
The Des Moines City Council on Dec. 16 gave the go-ahead for the plan by developer Jeff Young to turn the old Franklin Junior High School into an entertainment center, [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Political Mercury
A coffeehouse Q&A with Biden
The former vice president talks small-town retail, future of ag and nuclear arms. American agriculture can get to net-zero carbon emissions and make money doing it while still feeding the [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Film Review
‘Knives Out’
A whodunit with a lot on its mind besides catching a killer Director Rian Johnson shows his love for the murder mystery genre but avoids falling into its predictable plot [...]
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