Sound Advice
Oakridge Neighborhood’s major annual fundraiser is going virtual for 2020. Jazz, Jewels & Jeans, An Evening at Noce, will feature cool jazz from your home. Featuring The Max Wellman Quartet, [...]
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Posted September 02, 2020in Sound Notes
Posted September 02, 2020in People & Pets
Mother and daughter share feline affection
When Mary West’s kids exited the school bus, cats walked to greet them on the long lane. Mary West never considered herself a cat person. Yet, as the mother of [...]
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Posted September 02, 2020in Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Commercial Real Estate Transactions
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS IN POLK COUNTY FROM JULY 1 – AUG. 6, 2020 ADDRESS: 5327 N.W. SECOND ST., DES MOINES SALE DATE: JULY 1, 2020 SALE PRICE: $535,000 SELLER: [...]
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Posted September 02, 2020in Art News
Art in the year of the virus and violence
The Des Moines Art Center has re-opened with some cute posters of famous pieces of art with people wearing those familiar baby blue masks that Hanes, the men’s underwear company, [...]
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Posted September 02, 2020in Book Review
Book Reviews
‘This is My America’ Tracey Beaumont has 267 days to save her father’s life. He is an innocent black man on death row, and 17-year-old Tracey will not stop until [...]
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Posted September 02, 2020in Belly Up To...
Rita’s Cantina
Are you up for something with a tropical feel while sipping margaritas on a breezy patio designed to cure coronavirus blues? Then head over to Rita’s Cantina. Located off S.E. [...]
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Posted September 02, 2020in Film Previews
Film Previews
‘The King’s Man’ R | NA Director: Matthew Vaughn Stars: Gemma Arterton, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Goode Adapted from the Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons comic book series “The Secret Service,” [...]
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Posted September 02, 2020in Your View
Posted September 02, 2020in Collections & Hobbies
Attack of the drones
Drone racing isn’t virtual reality, even though participants appear to be wearing VR goggles. And drone racing isn’t a video game, even though the hand-held controllers function in a similar [...]
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Posted September 02, 2020in The Sound
B2wins
When twins Walter and Wagner first played the violin at age 11, they never imagined they would be filming a music video on a private jet 20 years later. They [...]
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