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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →‘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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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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