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Posted January 06, 2022in Just Released

LWBJ joins UHY

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 [...]

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Posted January 05, 2022in The Culture Buzz

Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:

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 [...]

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Posted January 05, 2022in Feature 1

Winter Arts & Entertainment Guide

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? [...]

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Posted January 05, 2022in Feature 2

Psychic Guidance

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 [...]

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Posted January 05, 2022in Business Feature, Business Journal

Location, location, location

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 [...]

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Posted January 05, 2022in Civic Skinny

Sign of change at The Boat House. Iowa booze sales soar. LHF snubs longtime mud run race directors.

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 [...]

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Posted January 05, 2022in Political Mercury

‘If not me, who?’ former admiral asks in Senate campaign

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 [...]

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Posted January 05, 2022in Film Review

‘Nightmare Alley’

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 [...]

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Posted January 05, 2022in Food Dude

RC’s Diner

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 [...]

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Posted January 05, 2022in Des Moines Forgotten

Bowling in Des Moines

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 [...]

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