Take me out to the ball game
Like many youngsters across America, I played Little League baseball. I wasn’t a very good player, despite my mother’s encouragement, but I still enjoyed it. I could field the ball [...]
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Posted April 03, 2024in Publisher
Posted April 03, 2024in Art News
Riffing on the 1980s
Chris Vance’s annual show at Moberg Gallery cements his stature as Des Moines’ most popular painter. Some 32 of the paintings were sold before the exhibition even began. Vance consciously [...]
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Posted April 03, 2024in Iowa Artist
ArtForce Iowa
As artists, being heard and valued is key to creativity, belonging and a reflection in their artwork. For young people who have been in the court system, suffered homelessness, or [...]
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Posted April 03, 2024in Commercial Real Estate Transactions
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS IN POLK COUNTY FROM JAN. 15, 2024, TO FEB. 12, 2024.
2249 N.W. 86TH ST., CLIVE SALE DATE: 2024-01-15 SALE PRICE: $1,800,000 SELLER: THE RACK BILLIARDS CLUB LLC BUYER: TASTY TACOS INC ACRES: 1.053 SQUARE FEET: 5,774 915 S.E. 14TH COURT, [...]
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Posted April 03, 2024in Ask Cityview
Ask CITYVIEW
What exactly does Heartland AEA do? The Heartland Area Education Association is the central and partially eastern Iowa “area” under Iowa’s Area Education Association. The counties included in the [...]
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Posted April 03, 2024in Book Review
Book Reviews
‘Diavola’ Family drama with all of its undercurrents and toxicity is not a new concept for a book, but mixing that particular brand of unsettling anxiety with the slow dread [...]
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Posted April 03, 2024in Collections & Hobbies
Geodes reveal nature’s hidden beauty
People step on and over rocks most every single day without a second thought. They’re used in water features, gardens, concrete and more. Are most rocks just that, a rock? [...]
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Posted April 03, 2024in Sound Circuit
Val Air’s marvelous venue
Local music lovers and concertgoers enthusiastically embraced the newly remodeled Val Air Ballroom, which re-opened for its first concert on Feb. 29. The Val Air, an 80-year-old iconic ballroom, located [...]
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Posted April 03, 2024in Your View
Posted April 03, 2024in Lunch With...
Jake Christensen at the original Thai Flavors
Jake Christensen is a developer who has repurposed many of East Village’s 19th and early 20th century buildings, including E300 (Zombie Burger). That was a ground-up construction on a vacant [...]
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