Commercial real estate transactions
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS IN POLK COUNTY FROM AUG. 1 – SEPT. 11, 2020 NEW JOHNSTON SPORTS SUPER COMPLEX… Ignit Johnston, LLC paid $2.25 million to buy the property at [...]
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Posted September 30, 2020in Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Posted September 30, 2020in Collections & Hobbies
Blood, sweat and stained glass
Diane Bacon keeps a box of Band-Aids at the ready. The skilled stained-glass artisan has had her hands bloodied more times than she can count while pursuing her passion. “Hundreds,” [...]
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Posted September 30, 2020in Art News
Classics thrive when not much is new
The art world lags behind the sports world in reopening — except in the public schools of Des Moines where they are recalcitrant to offer activities to the students. So, [...]
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Posted September 30, 2020in Film Previews
Film Previews
‘Mank’ R | TBD Director: David Fincher Stars: Lily Collins, Tom Burke, Amanda Seyfried The film is David Fincher’s first feature-directing effort since “Gone Girl” (2014) and chronicles Herman Mankiewicz’s [...]
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Posted September 30, 2020in Sound Circuit
Dustin Farrow
When Dustin Farrow learned to play the guitar, his favorite songs to play in his high school band were by hard metal band Metallica. But that was about to change. [...]
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Posted September 30, 2020in Iowa Artist
Restorative artist
Sara Jo Boesen conserves old paintings. Sara Jo Boesen liked to paint, yet she didn’t really want to be an artist. She loved the art and history aspect, as both [...]
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Posted September 30, 2020in The Sound
Too much time on their hands
It’s March 16, 2020. The governor of Iowa just shut down bars to slow the spread of COVID-19. Local musicians who perform at dozens of venues each week are suddenly [...]
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Posted September 30, 2020in Sound Notes
Sound Advice
We’d love to provide a full calendar of music opportunities, but who knows what the pandemic may bring? Before heading out, please check with the venue first to make sure [...]
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Posted September 30, 2020in Duffy
Posted September 30, 2020in Lunch With...
Steven Vail at Lucca
Steven Vail is an international art dealer whose Steven Vail Fine Arts gallery is in Des Moines. I asked him to lunch, and he chose Lucca, Steve Logsdon’s mostly Italian [...]
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