Thanks given, 2022
It’s hard as ever to open a new restaurant these days with labor shortages, high-interest loans, and customers stressed by inflation. Yet people keep doing it, and doing it well. [...]
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Posted November 02, 2022in Food Dude
Posted November 02, 2022in Des Moines Forgotten
A romanticized view of raised-by-Grandma turkeys
I’m busy. I know a lot of folks from generations before me don’t understand this. Take your normal seven or eight hours in a workday and turn those into 12 [...]
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Posted November 02, 2022in Joe's Neighborhood
Looking for Hemingway’s grave
“It’s somewhere in here,” says my friend as she turns her car into the small cemetery, “but I’m not sure where.” No one is around. The smell of aspen trees [...]
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Posted November 02, 2022in Center Stage
Hidden gem for seeing next gen talent
November ushers in a two-month holiday season flood of performing arts opportunities for the cultural adventurer, beginning with Des Moines Performing Arts now operating at capacity with all of its [...]
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Posted November 02, 2022in Art News
Art and tomato soup, part 2
In October, British green anarchists attacked Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” with cans of tomato soup. Others glued themselves to Van Gogh’s “Peach Trees in Blossom.” Their motivation? “Fuel is unaffordable to [...]
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Posted November 02, 2022in Walks of Life
Iowa educators
They say that “teaching is a work of heart.” Even with widespread school staff shortages across the nation, there are those who continue onward. Whether during bus rides, sports practices [...]
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Posted November 02, 2022in Book Review
Book Reviews
‘Kaikeyi’ Retellings of epic tales have become a genre of their own, and I am here for it. In this sparkling, sad, brilliant debut novel, Vaishnavi Patel takes on the [...]
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Posted November 02, 2022in Ask Cityview
Ask CITYVIEW
How do campaign contribution limits work? For federal elections, the maximum donation from an individual to a candidate is $2,900 per election. Those numbers reset for the primary and general [...]
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Posted November 02, 2022in Collections & Hobbies
Sweeping stones
Des Moines Curling Club promotes Olympic sport. Older than baseball, football and basketball, nicknamed the “Roaring Game” and “Chess on Ice,” it’s America’s favorite sport — it’s… curling? OK, it may [...]
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Posted November 02, 2022in Your View
