“Caught Stealing” R | 107 minutes Director: Darren Aronofsky Writer: Charlie Huston Stars: Austin Butler, Carol Kane, Bad Bunny Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going OK. He has got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), tends bar at a
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Posted September 03, 2025in Belly Up To...
“Saturday Night Live.” “Jaws.” “All In the Family.” “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” It was 1975 when these shows and movies were popular. Meanwhile, one other 50-year landmark is still going strong. Charlie’s Filling Station, located at 305 Grand Ave. in West Des Moines, was created from an old
Read More →‘Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language’ Every generation gathers its own stew of slang to scandalize their parents and, eventually, grows up to be those scandalized parents. Endless concern and overblown reactions to the evolution of expression is as old as humanity. Just ask the ancient
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Posted September 03, 2025in Your Neighbors
Patrons of the Des Moines Farmers Market might have noticed a wild-looking mascot during this season’s farmers market, courtesy of Jennifer Hess, owner of Psycho Sweets. Like many, Hess learned to bake from her mother. While her mom perhaps didn’t show her the wild side of what treats can be,
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Posted September 03, 2025in Art News
September is a self-contradiction. It is our ninth month, yet named as if the seventh. It marks the end of summer and the beginning of the end of all things perennial. It is the time of year that makes us most conscious of time. Time measures, organizes and judges everything
Read More →Ask CITYVIEW anything by emailing editor@dmcityview.com. Why have so many lights been out along the Gray’s Lake trail for so long? With the park open from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. and daylight dwindling, there are hours at a time when long stretches of the trail are very dark. It’s
Read More →1316 22ND ST., DES MOINES SALE DATE: 2025-04-16 SALE PRICE: $575,000 SELLER: ALFAS PROPERTIES LLC BUYER: CWF 1316 22ND ST LLC ACRES: 0.667 SQUARE FEET: 5,943 7865 DRAKE ST., CLIVE SALE DATE: 2025-04-21 SALE PRICE: $271,000 SELLER: PATTEE, SUSAN R BUYER: CITY OF CLIVE ACRES: 0.246 SQUARE FEET: 1,384 7421
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Posted September 03, 2025in Iowa Artist
Creating and selling yarn art is essential to Stephanie Majeran’s creativity, yet she takes it one step beyond and provides space for other artists to be creative as well. To accomplish that, she joined the board of the nonprofit, Art Is Rad. It was established by Jeremiah and Megan La
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Posted September 03, 2025in Lunch With...
Don Cotran heads the C Fresh Supermarket and Pho 515 restaurant. He recently returned from a four-week family research trip to Vietnam, covering every province in search of new things to eat and sell. We asked him to lunch and met at Pho 515. Over durian smoothies, fresh-squeezed lemonade and
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Posted September 03, 2025in Publisher
You work all week. You are tired. And you just want some rest. I am right there with you. But, before you know it, years go by and you realize how little of this great Iowa life you have experienced. Going to shows at our amazing art galleries. Experiencing local
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