Making virtual meetings work
While COVID-19 has disrupted “business as usual” in many ways, it has perhaps most drastically changed the way we communicate. Many face-to-face meetings have been eliminated, and businesses of all [...]
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Posted January 06, 2021in Business Feature
Posted January 06, 2021in Civic Skinny
Your tuition dollars at work. High-end home sales. New jobs for Dan Finney and Jason Clayworth.
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz is an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa, where she has taught for eight years. She makes $75,204 a year, according to state records. [...]
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Posted January 06, 2021in Political Mercury
Feenstra ‘excited’ about Vilsack nomination
Fresh from freshman orientation in Washington, D.C., Congressman-elect Randy Feenstra, R-Hull, says he’s encouraged at prospects for bipartisan work in the capitol on agriculture. Having a fellow Iowan — former [...]
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Posted January 06, 2021in Film Review
‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
Powerful acting is the engine to “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — a movie about, among other things, the struggle to achieve and maintain control. With a soundtrack that provides an [...]
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Posted January 06, 2021in Food Dude
New frontiers for tamales and pho
Tamales are corn’s most divine application. They are to tortillas as fentanyl is to street heroin— 60 times more potent, flavor wise, and relieving. One hundred years ago, the tamale [...]
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Posted January 06, 2021in Des Moines Forgotten
The Doors’ first, and only, show in Des Moines
Do you remember when The Doors played Des Moines? No? Well, they did, and it went down in history as the worst show in their entire history of performing. Ouch! [...]
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Posted January 06, 2021in Joe's Neighborhood
Old men — part 1
The boxwood stump, buried by leaves, snagged my dragging foot and landed me face-first in the soft ground. Ker-plop. No fanfare. No discussion. And certainly no dissent on the part [...]
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Posted January 06, 2021in Center Stage
Short-, mid- and long-term performing arts strategies
One thing that we’ve learned about a pandemic such as this is that this virus has no concept of calendars, seasons, economics or aesthetics. This relentless Covid-19 invasion doesn’t care [...]
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Posted January 06, 2021in Lunch With...
Fabiola Schirrmeister at El Fogon
Fabiola Shirrmeister is a Sonoran-born-and-raised media producer/host who came to Des Moines six years ago after working for Spanish language media mega nova Telemundo in Puerto Rico and for Azteca [...]
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Posted January 06, 2021in Sound Notes
Sound Advice
Wine and music go together, right? That’s what Brandie Ubben thought as she created her own rockin’ bottles of wine, called “Vine’yl Anthems.” Each bottle takes a spin on a [...]
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