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Posted May 26, 2020in Just Released

Des Moines Corporate Games Kicks Off Virtually

Metro Area Competition Engages Employees and Builds Company Pride  DES MOINES, Iowa, May 26, 2020 – The 5th year of the Des Moines Corporate Games has begun, but you won’t be [...]

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Posted May 26, 2020in Stray Thoughts

The benefit that comes from perspective

The shackles could not hold us. The Evanses cast them aside last week and traveled to Bloomfield and Cedar Rapids to visit our parents. There are few social distancing concerns [...]

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Posted May 26, 2020in Just Released

Waukee Named Fastest-Growing Large (20,000+) City in Iowa

Waukee, Iowa — The State Data Center at the State Library of Iowa has released estimates for populations of Iowa cities in 2019 from the U.S. Census Bureau. These estimates [...]

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Posted May 21, 2020in Just Released

Smash Park Announces New Virtual Event Packages

Local Business Releases Virtual Team Building Options in Light of COVID-19 WEST DES MOINES, IA: New this week, Smash Park revealed a different way for companies to keep its employees engaged [...]

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Posted May 20, 2020in Book Review

Book Reviews

‘The Paris Hours’ by Alex George “The Paris Hours” tells the stories of four characters on a single day in 1927 and culminates when all cross paths at the end [...]

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Posted May 20, 2020in Just Released

GLOBAL ART INSTALLATION RESPONDING TO COVID-19 COMING TO IOWA

Can a fortune cookie connect us in times of isolation?  West Des Moines, Iowa, May 20, 2020 –  A pile of fortune cookies will be showing up to the Des [...]

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Posted May 20, 2020in The Culture Buzz

Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:

The Covid-19 pandemic persists. Find ways to culturally and creatively continue explore. Please be safe and wise if you have to venture into public areas. – John Busbee for The [...]

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Posted May 20, 2020in Just Released

Des Moines Art Center looks forward to welcoming visitors “home” to the galleries this summer with favorites from the permanent collections

COMMUNITY-CENTRIC EXHIBITION JUSTIN FAVELA: CENTRAL AMERICAN SLATED TO OPEN IN 2021  DES MOINES, IA (May 2020) Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Des Moines Art Center exhibition, Justin Favela: Central American has been moved from [...]

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Posted May 20, 2020in Just Released

Central Iowa Business Conference Postponed

DES MOINES, IA – The Central Iowa Business Conference has been postponed until 2021. The fourth annual CIBC will now be held on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at the Meadows [...]

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Posted May 18, 2020in Publisher's Note

Challenging times

  We all have to face things outside of our control. It is the cold reality of life — and, unfortunately, death. The current situation with the COVID-19 is causing [...]

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