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Posted February 14, 2023in The Culture Buzz

Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:

From Iowa’s cultural epicenter, MainFrame Studios at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning independent radio station, KFMG-LP 98.9 FM (streaming simultaneously at www.kfmg.org), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. [...]

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Posted February 09, 2023in Morain

02/09/23

Diplomacy is not for amateurs. Members of our Congress can easily make it political. The ever-present complexity of foreign relations tempts some members of our government to take positions entirely [...]

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Posted February 08, 2023in The Culture Buzz

Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:

From Iowa’s cultural epicenter, MainFrame Studios at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning independent radio station, KFMG-LP 98.9 FM (streaming simultaneously at www.kfmg.org), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. [...]

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Posted February 08, 2023in Just Released

Lilly Luft receives first-ever IBA Student Athlete Achievement Award for girls wrestling

JOHNSTON, IOWA (Feb. 7, 2023) — State champion Lilly Luft took home another award at the Iowa High School Girls Wrestling State Tournament last weekend. She became the first recipient [...]

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Posted February 08, 2023in Just Released

Hoyt Sherman Place recipient of multiple grants funding Once Upon This Stage production

Hoyt Sherman Place has received funding from the 2023 Humanities Collaboration Grant and the Arts Midwest Grow, Invest, Gather (GIG) Fund. Both awards will be used to provide artists’ compensation [...]

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Posted February 07, 2023in Just Released

‘Epic” poetry event comes to Des Moines April 2023

April is National Poetry Month. For the first time in nearly 20 years, Poetry& of Greater Des Moines is hosting Poetry Palooza! – an epic celebration of poetry and poets [...]

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Posted February 07, 2023in Just Released

Public asked to help decide which local transportation projects to fund 

Residents of Greater Des Moines are invited to share their opinions on which local transportation projects they would like to see receive funding from the Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning [...]

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Posted February 07, 2023in Just Released

Des Moines Art Center announces Dr. Kelly Baum as new John and Mary Pappajohn Director

DES MOINES, IA (February 2023) – The Des Moines Art Center Board of Trustees has announced Dr. Kelly Baum as the museum’s next John and Mary Pappajohn Director. In this [...]

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Posted February 06, 2023in Stray Thoughts

Governor supports a different indoctrination

A recent public opinion poll found that three-quarters of Americans want members of Congress to end their bickering and begin compromising more with their colleagues from the other party. The [...]

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Posted February 02, 2023in Book Review

‘From Scratch: Adventures in Harvesting, Hunting, Fishing and Foraging on a Fragile Planet’

David Moscow was the kid who played the Tom Hanks role in “Big” before he got so. Jon is his dad, an ethics expert and asylum facilitator. This is no [...]

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