Posted January 01, 2020in Food Dude
Bartender’s Handshake and Lucky Lotus add personality to Des Moines’ most eccentric street. No other restaurant neighborhood in Des Moines has changed more, and more often, than Ingersoll Boulevard. It [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Your Neighbors
Local Dungeon Master Paul Privitera works to build the popularity of polyhedral dice in central Iowa. Maybe you pretend that Earth’s oceans have flooded, the ice caps have melted, the [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Joe's Neighborhood
A little love here, a little push there, a little encouragement wherever it was needed. “So, you want to try the Fernet?” the bartender asked as he leaned across the [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Center Stage
50th anniversary tour visits Des Moines. Anyone who has followed the world of musical theater for any length of time recalls the opening rock guitar riff that signaled a dynamically [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Des Moines Forgotten
So’s Your Mother and The Laughing Iguana Most of my faithful readers are aware of my weekly music program on 98.9 FM KFMG called “Iowa Basement Tapes” — a show [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Collections & Hobbies
A grandpa’s legacy: “The Moraine Collection” Mr. Harry Pittman, Jr. knew beans about baseball cards, but the bubblegum card collecting craze was peaking in 1988, and his 8-year-old grandson, Adam [...]
Read More →Recent interest rate compression has left many in the C Suite scratching their heads on how to access reasonable rates of return for corporate held assets. These accounts may be [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Iowa Artist
Sebern Beachy searches for a creative high. When Judy Sebern Beachy was early into her art career, she was asked by a friend to draw a portrait of her nephew. [...]
Read More →The new year may have already arrived, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to get a marketing strategy in place for the new year. What did you do last [...]
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