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Posted April 05, 2023in Feature 2

Second chances

When Todd Cappel finished serving nine months in prison, he hesitated to apply for work. Thankfully, unlike many others emerging from incarceration, he had plenty of community support. “Part of [...]

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Posted April 05, 2023in Business Feature, Business Journal

Shared workspaces

Maddy Fusco is a freelance illustrator in Des Moines. When she began her career, she primarily worked out of her home. However, as time went on, she needed some work-life [...]

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Posted April 05, 2023in Joe's Neighborhood

Learning to ski for those older than 65 and for those younger than 5

The students are cautiously lining up. They are dressed in pinks and blues and reds and purples and whites… and, look, there’s someone in a sparkling glitter affair good for [...]

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Posted April 05, 2023in Book Review

Book Reviews

‘The Destroyer of Worlds’ The juxtaposition of sci-fi, the horrors of racism, and the twisted nature of HP Lovecraft’s legacy make for some absolutely riveting fiction. So much is said [...]

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Posted April 05, 2023in Duffy

Duffy’s View

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Posted April 05, 2023in Art News

In the year 2184, if man is still alive

Tom Jackson is a dazzling, versatile Iowa artist. He has worked in painting, photography and ink brush drawing. His abstraction works tend to become fascinated with geometrics. His realist works [...]

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Posted April 05, 2023in Sound Circuit

Blackberry Smoke

For fans of Americana and Southern country-rock music, musicians such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers and Molly Hatchet often make the Top 20 lists. Adding to that elite list is [...]

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Posted April 05, 2023in Film Review

‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ is another example of great action-film making

Ever since the original “John Wick,” the franchise has set the standard of what action in Hollywood ought to be. Thanks to Chad Stahelski’s knowledge of the technical aspects of [...]

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Posted April 05, 2023in Ask Cityview

Ask CITYVIEW

I was reading your story on Des Moines bridges and saw that one of the bridges was raised several feet. How do you raise a bridge? The bridge in reference [...]

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Posted April 05, 2023in Iowa Artist

Chris Vance

Artist Chris Vance sits casually on a paint-stained stool, wearing a black Metallica T-shirt and torn jeans, among tall walls, including dozens of half-started paintings. He points to his reserve [...]

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