Posted August 02, 2023in Belly Up To...
Since opening on the corner of E. Grand and E. Fifth Street in 2019, Ernie’s Boondock has crafted a uniqueness that’s hard to come by with affordable prices, outside-the-box cocktails, a divey interior, a patio to host a food truck on the weekends, and enough space leftover to hold the
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Posted August 02, 2023in Cars in the City
In 2019, Kia debuted its Telluride, a midsize crossover SUV. In the years since, the Telluride’s popularity has soared. In 2020, the Telluride hit the “best of” lists, including Kelly Blue Book’s Best Buy, Motor Trend’s SUV of the Year and 2020 World Car of the Year Award. Why is
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Posted August 02, 2023in Art News
The great Kickapoo artist Pahponee (Snow Woman) taught this writer about the religious qualities of clay. After seeing a sacred white buffalo and a white buffalo calf, she started dreaming about white buffalo pottery. She knew nothing about ceramics but was so moved by her dreams and visions that she
Read More →‘Medusa’s Sisters’ There are a lot of successful books out there that take classic stories and spin them around, showing the villain’s side of a fairy tale, for example, or reframing the hero into something completely different. The recent wave of mythological fiction has drudged up a twist on this
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Posted August 02, 2023in Iowa Artist
As a long-time art instructor and educator, Melynda Van Zee knew the techniques she needed to teach her students. Underpainting, shadowing and more help budding artists develop a framework to start their creation. Meanwhile, in the back of her mind, Van Zee dreamed of being a fine artist and creating
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Posted August 02, 2023in People & Pets
As store owners get creative with increasing sales and retaining customers, one four-legged friend is all about making guests feel welcome. Dude, a Weimaraner, is the official greeter at Wild Birds Unlimited, alongside the store owner and Dude’s owner, Scott Knox. As a customer walks into the store, Dude happily
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Posted August 02, 2023in Your Neighbors
Chris Sullivan and Jordan Sandquist both grew up in the Des Moines metro — Sullivan on the east side of Des Moines and Sandquist in Johnston. While their paths into the world of art are from different perspectives and directions, the meeting of the two has resulted in several murals
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Posted August 02, 2023in Sound Circuit
If you lived through the 1980s music scene, you know it was full of rock ballads and big-hair musicians stringing guitar licks on MTV. Rock bands were mostly male-dominated, until an all-female rock group — Vixen — arrived. Vixen was the first all-female rock group from the 1980s to sell
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Posted August 02, 2023in Collections & Hobbies
Hot rodding and racing have been part of the Hay family for nearly 100 years. Chris Hay, director of the Des Moines Valley Region of Sports Car Club of America, has been competing and racing since he was a teen, in cars that he rebuilt or modified. The Hay family,
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