March 03, 2021 by Brent Antisdel
in Political Mercury
At age 87, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, first elected to office during the Eisenhower administration, smiled broadly when pressed by audience members about a potential re-election campaign next year in [...]
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March 03, 2021 by Brent Antisdel
in Film Review
On Dec. 4, 1969, the Chicago Police burst into the apartment of Black Panther Fred Hampton. Equipped with machine guns, rifles, shotguns and handguns, the police not only fired first [...]
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March 03, 2021 by Brent Antisdel
in Food Dude
There are few restaurant genres that Des Moines expects to conform to formula. Seafood cafés here are all over the place, from the air freighted opulence of Splash to the [...]
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March 03, 2021 by Brent Antisdel
in Des Moines Forgotten
Millennials can be split into two groups: those of us born in the 1980s and those born in the 1990s. The 1980s-born kids still had a chance to enjoy life [...]
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March 03, 2021 by Brent Antisdel
in Joe's Neighborhood
Should I take the steep, black diamond run on the mountain to the left, or the longer, curving run on the mountain to the right? Do I want deep snow [...]
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March 03, 2021 by Brent Antisdel
in Duffy
March 03, 2021 by Brent Antisdel
in Center Stage
This month marks the one-year anniversary of when stages across central Iowa went dark. As local producers mourn the loss, they remain resolved to adapt and find ways to overcome [...]
Read More →In March 2020, bars shut down right before St. Patrick’s Day. Shamrock-wearing, green-beer revelers are hoping that’s not the case for 2021. Many St. Patty’s Day celebrations include mask wearing [...]
Read More →As Kate Trimble centers a mound of wet clay on her pottery wheel, she closes her eyes. It helps her with her imagination and opens her mind. “My mind is [...]
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March 03, 2021 by Brent Antisdel
in Lunch With...
Joe Logsdon is owner of the French-style bakery and café La Mie. He is part of a local restaurant family that also includes his brother Steve (Lucca) and nephew Andy [...]
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