When imagining a symphony, one might visualize violin players playing classical music. Think again. The Black Jacket Symphony is a rock band that performs classic rock albums in its entirety. They will perform AC/DC’s “Back in Black” album on Nov. 15 at Hoyt Sherman Place. Tickets start at $47. Singer,
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Posted November 05, 2025in Collections & Hobbies
For most people, curling is a sport they tune into during the Olympics when one of the other major ones is not on screen. For others, it is their hobby. For Jacob Pitzenberger, it is one of several hobbies Pitzenberger grew up in Mason City and graduated from Iowa State
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Posted November 05, 2025in Cars in the City
Five years ago, CITYVIEW’s Cars in the City column debuted, featuring “wheels” stories and new vehicle reviews. After test driving shiny new cars, suddenly my trusty 2012 Honda Accord seemed dated, lacking cool tech and safety features. Shortly after driving an $80,000 Lincoln Navigator with massaging seats, I thought this
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Posted November 05, 2025in Art News
Last month, Steve Logsdon turned the sesquicentennial architecture of his Lucca café into evidence of a personal awakening. Two years ago, Logsdon told us it would be absurd to put art on his restaurant’s brick walls. In October, he covered the walls, upstairs and down, with more than 50 supersized
Read More →“Predator: Badlands” PG-13 | 107 minutes Director: Dan Trachtenberg Stars: Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi Cast out from his clan and stranded on “the most dangerous planet in the universe,” a young predator named Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) is no longer the hunter but the hunted. In this treacherous wilderness, his only
Read More →‘The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life’ I would love to tell you that I’m a lifelong journaler and that I have reams of my thoughts ready to burn at my funeral. Alas, instead I have boxes of journals I’ve started but never could maintain the
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Posted November 05, 2025in Lunch With...
Yoni Diller is an American Italian Israeli who escaped from Hamas terrorists at the Nova Festival Oct. 7, 2023. Iowans Supporting Israel brought him to Des Moines in October. We asked him to lunch and met at Drake Diner, the site of its own senseless massacre in 1992. Our lunch
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Posted November 05, 2025in Your Neighbors
The Eastern Polk County Quilters Guild had some simple missions as of a few months ago: make some stockings, and help supply care packages for the Blue Star Mothers of Iowa, a nonprofit of mothers, stepmothers, grandmothers, foster mothers and female legal guardians who have children serving in the military,
Read More →Who on the Des Moines City Council, Polk County Board of Supervisors and Police Department have received campaign donations and dollars from Crow Tow? Crow Tow is a towing service company in Des Moines that has come under scrutiny over the years for alleged predatory towing practices. The towing company
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