Posted December 07, 2021in The Culture Buzz
From the beautiful MainFrame Studios Building at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, Iowa comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning independent radio station KFMG-LP 98.9 FM, bringing you music, literature & cultural news from the American [...]
Read More →Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa received a grant from Variety – the Children’s Charity to fund two mobile Maker Spaces to support STEM programming. Boys & Girls Clubs [...]
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Posted December 01, 2021in Feature 1
Our Christmas classic for the holidays Publisher’s note: Forty-four years ago, when Michael Gartner was editor of The Des Moines Register, he walked over to the desk of writer Bob [...]
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Posted December 01, 2021in Feature 2
Join us in giving two dozen thumbs ups for two dozen likeable people. More than a half-million people call central Iowa home, and since our state is known for being [...]
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Posted December 01, 2021in Business Feature
Consolidation and COVID-19 have driven changes in the automotive industry both nationally and locally. When Mark Hummel’s great grandfather opened a Plymouth-DeSoto dealership in Beaverdale in 1929, his was [...]
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Posted December 01, 2021in Christmas Skinny
Twelve drummers drumming… …for “Max and Amy in the morning” — WHO radio’s morning duo of Max Schaeffer and Amy Sweet — but we miss Van (Harden) and Bonnie (Lucas)…for [...]
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Posted December 01, 2021in Civic Skinny
After losing a Polk County towing contract despite being the lowest bidder, towing operator Randy Crow, owner of Crow Tow, wrote to CITYVIEW to speak out against the Polk County [...]
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Posted December 01, 2021in Political Mercury
And Michael Steele thinks country is in ‘staging area’ for civil war. Gov. Kim Reynolds insists a life in Washington is not for her. But Michael Steele, the former chairman of the [...]
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Posted December 01, 2021in Film Review
A soft reboot of the original. Being a “Ghostbusters” fan has been a tough gig. The original was one of the greatest movies ever — a perfectly paced, perfectly structured [...]
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Posted December 01, 2021in Food Dude
The dining room is run by Andrew Wilson, who came to Des Moines from Charlie Palmer’s Dry Creek Kitchen. My first glimpse of Proudfoot & Bird was a personal downer. [...]
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