Posted January 01, 2025in Lunch With...
John Busbee has been covering, creating, managing, promoting and producing the Iowa art scene for more than five decades. He and I both have columns in CITYVIEW and radio shows on KFMG. I thought it was time to finally break bread together and asked him to lunch. We met at
Read More →With 2025 now upon us, and as we begin to break the New Year’s Resolutions we committed to just days ago, I can’t help but think about the importance of our small businesses and the impact that buying from them has on all of us — financially and emotionally. Simply
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Posted January 01, 2025in Collections & Hobbies
Sure, football draws more spectators than other sports. We all know that. After it, there isn’t much of a conversation. However, the Central Iowa Coed Soccer League boasts one of the largest memberships of any coed soccer league in the Midwest. Craig Marker, a longtime player and former president and
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Posted January 01, 2025in Iowa Artist
As Tom Whalley sits in his living room, he points out 26 unique wood pieces he has created, all displayed on his own crafted wood tables. These gallery-type works of exquisitely handcrafted wood join hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pieces he has created in his lifetime. Whalley is a woodworker yet
Read More →1604 S.E. 37TH ST., DES MOINES SALE DATE: 2024-10-10 SALE PRICE: $751,250 SELLER: DEAN R MEYER REVOCABLE TRUST BUYER: CITY OF DES MOINES ACRES: 6.008 SQUARE FEET: 0 2244 N.E. 54TH AVE., DES MOINES SALE DATE: 2024-10-11 SALE PRICE: $730,502 SELLER: THE RASMUSSEN GROUP INC BUYER: WESTERN MONTANA LAND &
Read More →“Nosferatu” R | 133 minutes Director: Robert Eggers Writers: Robert Eggers, Henrik Galeen, Bram Stoker Stars: Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård Robert Eggers’ 2024 “Nosferatu” reimagines the classic vampire tale with his signature historical and atmospheric approach. Starring Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok and Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen, the
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Posted January 01, 2025in Art News
Jeff Fleming will kick off the 2025 cultural year in Des Moines Jan. 10 with an exhibition of all new works based on old family photos. Fleming paints ghosts and retrieved memories in gesso, India ink, white charcoal and pencil. He calls these canvasses “chalkboards,” meaning they have been used
Read More →‘The King Arthur Baking Company Big Book of Bread: 125+ Recipes for Every Baker’ I love a challenge, so it’s not surprising that I joined with the many thousands who have tried to master bread baking over the last few years. It turns out, it’s both more complicated and blissfully
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