Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:
Continue to be creative. Be safe and conscientious. – John Busbee for The Culture Buzz 2014 Iowa Governor’s Award for Partnership & Collaboration in the Arts Podcasts of past interviews [...]
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Posted November 03, 2021in The Culture Buzz
Posted November 03, 2021in Feature 1
Veterans helping veterans
Those who served our country continue to serve each other and those around them. When wounded soldiers and sick U.S. military veterans returned home from both the Spanish-American War (1898) [...]
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Posted November 03, 2021in Feature 2
Beyond the tall corn
With Iowa no longer the beef capital, what are our state’s special foods? My aunt and her family visited Iowa from Oregon in the late 1950s. They wanted to eat [...]
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Posted November 03, 2021in Business Feature, Business Journal
21 from 2021
Honoring business people who made a positive difference in the community in the past year. For the third year, CITYVIEW’s Business Journal recognizes the contributions of outstanding business leaders. The [...]
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Posted November 03, 2021in Civic Skinny
A whistleblower, a mountain lion, $604 for addicts and some not-so-desirable rankings
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is from Iowa City. The former Facebook data scientist, who is the daughter of two professors and grew up attending the Iowa caucuses with her parents, [...]
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Posted November 03, 2021in Political Mercury
Why they support Trump
Thousands gather at Iowa State Fairgrounds on Oct. 9 to advocate for the former president. Supporters of former President Trump who showed up in the thousands at the Iowa State Fairgrounds [...]
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Posted November 03, 2021in Film Review
An immersive cinematic experience
“Dune: Part One” is a spectacular film that deserves to be seen on the biggest screen possible. Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of (the first half of) Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic is [...]
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Posted November 03, 2021in Food Dude
Asian upgrades in Johnston
The burbs have become far more diverse than they were a generation earlier. Until the 21st century, Des Moines proper contained the overwhelming percentage of good ethnic restaurants while the [...]
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Posted November 03, 2021in Des Moines Forgotten
Remembering pies from Bontels
Former East 14th Street restaurant and bakery brings back great memories for people, especially at Thanksgiving time. As a former employee of Bishops Buffet in Cedar Rapids in both [...]
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Posted November 03, 2021in Joe's Neighborhood
Sam the Barber
“Aging is a journey that many don’t experience. They were born old, and they die old.” The parking lot is full. Men in dress pants and jackets. Women in dresses [...]
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