The Walnut
Buildings constructed nearly a century ago don’t generally survive, unless it was a quality build. For The Walnut, a bar and grill located at 1417 Walnut, it’s like time stood [...]
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Posted December 06, 2023in Belly Up To...
Posted December 06, 2023in Your Neighbors
Part-time volunteer, full-time matriarch
Cynthia Hunafa, or Miss Cynthia as she was referred to by fellow volunteers inside of the Creative Visions building, has her influence interwoven throughout Des Moines. Hunafa was born in [...]
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Posted December 06, 2023in Lunch With...
Bill Mulstay and Mike Hughes
Bill Mulstay is a former fireman, carney and an artist with more than 60 years of significant work in Des Moines. Mike Hughes is a guitar maker, post beam constructionist [...]
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Posted December 06, 2023in Film Previews
“Napoleon” R | 158 minutes Director: Ridley Scott Writer: David Scarpa Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim “Napoleon” begins in 1789, when Marie Antoinette is guillotined in the French [...]
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Posted December 06, 2023in Walks of Life
Early risers
While most of us are catching our last few Zs before dragging ourselves out of bed, others have long been awake and busy, many of them making it possible for [...]
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Posted December 06, 2023in Cars in the City
Best-selling Chrysler Pacifica offers ‘cool’ features
For those with a large family, the trusty station wagon transported siblings in the way-back seat. Then, the minivan debuted in the 1980s and took over as a top-selling family [...]
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Posted December 06, 2023in Your View
Posted December 06, 2023in Book Review
Book Reviews
‘The Iliad’ If you are shuddering from echoes of long, boring classes back in school, stick with me for a few minutes. I promise, there is more to the classics [...]
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Posted December 06, 2023in People & Pets
What’s all the buzz?
When Ellen Bell started beekeeping with two hives in her backyard, she never imagined she’d have nearly 6 million bees 10 years later. Bell is a beekeeper at Bell Farm, [...]
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Merry Christmas…
Twelve drummers drumming… …for some folks who are stepping down — Frank Cownie, who served 20 years as mayor and now can go back to selling fur coats…and proud East-sider [...]
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