Best of Des Moines
You won’t find the iconic black and white Best Of Des Moines logo everywhere you go, so, when you do, a feeling of comfort is sure to set in. You’re [...]
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Posted January 31, 2024in Feature 1
Posted January 31, 2024in Feature 2
Love will keep us together
What is your favorite true-life love story? Always an interesting question when getting to know someone, it can solicit many different answers. Achilles and Patroclus’ love story has been both [...]
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Posted January 31, 2024in Business Feature
The tournament boom
The Iowa High School Athletics Association (IHSAA) and the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU) bring in thousands of fans with their annual tournaments at Wells Fargo Arena each [...]
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Posted January 31, 2024in Civic Skinny
University sabbaticals — cookbook, bees, knitting. Also… Baby names. Broken records. Growth ranking.
For most of us, taking a “sabbatical” is veiled as a simple vacation. It is a nice break from work, if nothing else. However, the definition, at least according to [...]
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Posted January 31, 2024in Political Mercury
What Tom Harkin would do if he were running for political office in 2024
Tom Harkin still has it. The pulse of Iowa on instinct auto dial and a force of moral clarity and that defining doggedness, an aw-shucks ease with voters, and a [...]
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Posted January 31, 2024in Food Dude
Romance by any other name…
Romance has been defined more ways than there are to ask for a date to the prom. Hollywood and the merchants of St. Valentine brand our young minds with very [...]
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Posted January 31, 2024in Des Moines Forgotten
The Bock Stops Here
It’s the busiest time of the year at the CITYVIEW offices with our annual BEST OF DES MOINES winners being announced. I thought it would be fun to dive into [...]
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Posted January 31, 2024in Joe's Neighborhood
Bad luck as… comedy?
Bad luck is bad luck. True enough. But there are certainly different types of bad luck. There’s the really bad luck of being in the wrong place at the wrong [...]
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Posted January 31, 2024in Center Stage
From stage famine to performance feast
February stages come to vibrant life, enticing winter dwellers from their cozy confines. A tantalizing range of shows spans from classic to comedy to musical to children’s theatre as the [...]
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Posted January 31, 2024in Publisher
Being the ‘Best’
The word “best” is used quite frequently in today’s world. Everyone seemingly has a best recipe or a best route or a best friend. The dictionary defines “best” as “the [...]
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