Posted March 04, 2020in Iowa Artist
Her signature artwork consists of recognizable cityscapes in the Des Moines area. When artist Laura Todd begins painting, time seems to stand still. She doesn’t eat. She doesn’t check her phone. She simply listens to music, focusing on the brush strokes and color combinations on her blank canvas. It’s her
Read More →Urbandale couple creates a Christian board game to bring people and families together. If you walk into a local retailer looking for a Christian board game, you may be hard-pressed to find one, aside from the typical Bible trivia — but not anymore. Urbandale residents Derek and Lucy White, along
Read More →And you thought we had a problem with farm-raised salmon? The newest Year of the Rat infested the world with new forms of dread and old ways of spreading them. Food, it turned out, was the most likely cause for the coronavirus. And that’s not a Mexican beer joke. Just
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Posted March 04, 2020in Art News
DMAC show is Karla Black’s first solo effort in the United States. Karla Black is an abstract 3D art sculptor whose work explores the physicality of materials as a way of understanding and communicating the world around us. Her current retrospective at the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) — “Karla
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Posted March 04, 2020in Belly Up To...
Wear a cheesehead hat for an Instagram-worthy pic at this Wisconsin-themed bar. Wisconsinites, celebrate! If you want to experience a bit of Wisconsin in the heart of Iowa — complete with cheese, beer and the Packers — look no further. The Wisco Grub and Pub is the place to be.
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Posted March 03, 2020in Stray Thoughts
A bill now awaiting debate and a vote in the Iowa Senate is quite short. It adds a mere 10 lines to the Iowa Code. But those 10 lines are an important legal statement Iowa lawmakers should adopt before they finish their work for 2020. Senate File 2331 says employees
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