LWBJ joins UHY and expands UHY’s presence into Iowa for the first time. The combination of firms, effective January 4, 2022, adds 65 employees to UHY’s Midwest region. UHY is the 31st largest accounting firm in the U.S. with 25 offices and more than 1,200 team members. Regarding the combination,
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Posted January 05, 2022in 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 Heartland and beyond. ― John Busbee for The Culture Buzz 2014 Iowa Governor’s Award for Partnership & Collaboration in the Arts
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Posted January 05, 2022in Feature 1
Are you bouncing off the walls? Or are you under the weather with cabin fever? Are you irritated by an annoying itch that only some good old-fashioned fun can scratch? Well, get ready to rid yourself of those ants in your pants and say “See ya later!” to boredom. The
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Posted January 05, 2022in Feature 2
Goddess Keyes, aka Yvette Keyes, pauses, looking hard at the cards. I feel a tingly whisper of warning on the back of my neck. Will she see that my wife is cheating with my father’s estranged brother who is in prison for stealing the pig my uncle won in a
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Posted January 05, 2022in Business Feature, Business Journal
Location, location, location. The old adage says it is everything in real estate and business. However, sometimes business owners find what might have been a great location at one time no longer fits their needs. COVID-19 impacted how many business owners do business — and where they do business. An
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Posted January 05, 2022in Civic Skinny
The Johnston City Council started hearing complaints in July regarding a sign posted at The Boat House, a bar located across from Hyperion Field Club at 7695 N.W. Beaver Drive in northern Johnston: “Trump 2024 National Headquarters,” the banner read, along with a message against defunding police and a reference
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Posted January 05, 2022in Political Mercury
As a western Iowan who worked in two packing plants, grew up the son of a teacher and machinist and served decades in the Navy, Ret. Adm. Mike Franken sees himself as the sort of independent-minded — and branded — Democrat who can cut through GOP-leaning tribalism in a statewide
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Posted January 05, 2022in Film Review
When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena Krumbein (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he earns his golden ticket to success, using the newly acquired knowledge of the ways of mentalists to grift the wealthy elite
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Posted January 05, 2022in Food Dude
Des Moines has long boasted of an extraordinary number of Italian, mostly Calabrian, restaurants. Since Bob Ray opened the state to immigrants from Southeast Asia and Mexico in the late 1970s, Des Moines has added so many excellent Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, Michoacan, Jalisco and Central American restaurants that Tony Bourdain
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Posted January 05, 2022in Des Moines Forgotten
As a child, my father would drag me to Town and Country Bowling and Cocktail Lounge in Rock Island, Illinois. I remember a giant Chief Black Hawk sign in front of it. This was sometime between 1989 and 1991, when smoking was still allowed in public places. Guests would walk
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