January 31, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in What the?
Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to celeste@dmcityview.com — Be sure to include your name Next month’s photo: This month’s winner “Karen got the highlights color bottles mixed up.” — Teresa Hamilton Runners Up A time traveler from 1969 thought people would be more civilized and wise by
Read More →Why does the DOT need 12 cranes, some next to each other, for the east mix project? We posed this question to the Iowa DOT, and District Construction Engineer Scott Nixon responded. “The contractor is getting ready to receive the steel girders for the section of the new flyover that
Read More →1100 ARMY POST ROAD, DES MOINES SALE DATE: 2023-11-19 SALE PRICE: $155,000 SELLER: LILE, KAREN BUYER: STJ INVESTMENTS LLC ACRES: 0.177 SQUARE FEET: 1,364 1077 27TH ST., DES MOINES SALE DATE: 2023-11-20 SALE PRICE: $220,000 SELLER: BUCKINGHAM ASSETS LLC BUYER: PARE, JASON ACRES: 0.182 SQUARE FEET: 2,563 9439 PLUM
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January 31, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Collections & Hobbies
When someone thinks about playing a card game, the typical thoughts come to mind. For the older generations, it could be UNO, spades, rummy, solitaire, and maybe even blackjack for you gamblers. Many in younger generations grew up with a different style of card games, like the seemingly infinitely popular
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January 31, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Sound Circuit
As a saxophone player, Tommy Doggett’s musical path has experienced numerous curves, not only in teaching and performing, but among a variety of music genres over the years. He’s played contemporary, rock and roll, soul, funk and jazz for major audiences. The saxophone is often associated with jazz, but it’s
Read More →‘The Parliament’ I’m a huge fan of parallel stories — books that flutter back and forth between two worlds, two people’s lives, or the past and the future. Here, in this gorgeous, deliciously dark modern fairy tale, the author gives us two stories in one in the best way —
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January 31, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Cars in the City
With Iowa in full swing in winter driving conditions, it’s easy to criticize your current ride’s ability to handle snow drifts, slick spots and unplowed paths. If your car didn’t quite make it in the latest blizzard, you might want to consider an all-wheel-drive vehicle, such as the Subaru Crosstrek.
Read More →“Madam Web” PG-13 | 116 minutes Director: S.J. Clarkson Writers: Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Claire Parker Stars: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced “Meanwhile, in another universe…” A reality separate from the sacred timeline of the MCU, “Madam Web” promises to deliver less of a typical superhero movie than a
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January 31, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Art News
“We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Jeff Fleming paints “absurdities,” delightful, sometimes ghostly, works on canvas using gesso, India ink, white charcoal and pencil. The effect is that of a chalkboard used over and over again. To demonstrate that ongoing Geist, a very
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