November 03, 2021 by Beckham Miller
in Duffy
November 03, 2021 by Beckham Miller
in Lunch With...
Tony Lemmo at Breakfast Club
Restauranteur talks about COVID, family, creative geniuses and a dream house. Tony Lemmo owns Aposto at Café di Scala and is a partner in Gusto, Juniper Moon, El Guapo, Breakfast Club and Anna Dolce. We asked him to lunch recently, and he chose Breakfast Club in East Village. Fifty years
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November 03, 2021 by Beckham Miller
in Your Neighbors
Meet the Des Moines Women’s Novice Hockey League
Mondays the women take the ice at Urbandale’s Metro Ice Sports Facility. Des Moines Women’s Novice Hockey Club is a group of “amazing women” who want to learn more about hockey. But they aren’t interested in only accruing knowledge by being hockey moms or hockey wives or by simply watching
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November 03, 2021 by Beckham Miller
in Collections & Hobbies
Running out of room at the inn?
Merrilyn Mohan’s 150-plus nativity sets come in many shapes and sizes. If it’s mid-November, then it’s time for Merrilyn Mohan to pack away the large teddy bear collection in her Ankeny basement and clear a spot for baby Jesus. “They may have run out of room in the inn in
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November 03, 2021 by Beckham Miller
in Belly Up To...
Zora
Multi-level bar reportedly cost $5 million to build, and it boasts a spectacular backdrop of downtown Des Moines. Location, location, location. Or is it all about the view? For the new Zora rooftop bar and restaurant, the answer might be both. Located at the corner of Martin Luther King Parkway
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October 22, 2021 by Beckham Miller
in Uncategorized
October 18, 2021 by Beckham Miller
in Stray Thoughts
The wacky extremes with ‘two-sideisms’
The requirements for becoming a teacher were always straightforward: Earn a college degree in education, take enough classes in your area of specialty, practice your teaching skills for a semester as a student teacher. Politicians have added a new skill this year in some states: Be a mind-reader. That’s what
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October 12, 2021 by Beckham Miller
in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:
The pandemic persists. Be safe. Be considerate. Be compassionate. Continue to be creative. Find ways to safely celebrate your thankfulness with family, friends and others. – John Busbee for The Culture Buzz 2014 Iowa Governor’s Award for Partnership & Collaboration in the Art Quote of the Week “Life is like a
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October 12, 2021 by Beckham Miller
in Stray Thoughts
These men have eloquent guidance
Richard Deming, the son of a grain elevator worker and grocery store clerk from small-town South Dakota, is a modest, soft-spoken man. He has spent the majority of his adult life with people when they are most vulnerable — when they or loved ones are fighting cancer. Ron Fournier came
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October 06, 2021 by Beckham Miller
in Feature 1
Time to get Wild!
Iowa Wild set to drop the puck on a new — and hopefully full — American Hockey League season. There was absolutely nothing that could have prepared Iowa Wild Coach Tim Army for what transpired off the ice that, for all intents and purposes, melted his last two seasons. That,
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