Xnmate
Ex-convict serves heaping plates of home cooking to the hungry. It’s an indisputable fact: Bykrmark Carver (formerly known as Mark Carver) used to be a bad man. Indeed, this truth [...]
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October 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Your Neighbors
October 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Joe's Neighborhood
An Italian mother
I want an Italian mother. Don’t get me wrong, the wedding itself was heavenly. It flowed with a gracious ease that can be so elusive at many formal events. For [...]
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October 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Center Stage
One mean musical
“Mean Girls” provides different twists to the familiar odd fish in an established hierarchal pool storyline. “Mean Girls” soon will spill onto the Des Moines Performing Arts stage like students [...]
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October 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Belly Up To...
Mickey Finn’s
Urbandale bar opens early, closes late. Since 1983, Urbandale folks have kissed — or at least touched — the worn blarney stone located at the entrance just outside Mickey Finn’s. [...]
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October 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Des Moines Forgotten
Remembering Southridge Mall
Did you ride the “Hydrotube”? The new season of “Stranger Things” has sparked nostalgic interest in shopping malls. The show highlighted an abandoned mall that was brought back to life [...]
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October 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Financial Strategies
Corporate Citizenship ROI
Des Moines is an amazing place to live, work and raise a family. This is due to many factors, but I believe our culture of corporate support for charitable organizations [...]
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October 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Art News
Female artists dominate the galleries
“Kicking Abstract and Taking Names” The autumn art season kicked off with female artists dominating the galleries. Drake’s Anderson Gallery hosted “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” with an accompanying poster [...]
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October 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Banking
Is an ESOP right for your company?
Businesses in every industry are looking to Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) to help with succession planning. There are nearly 7,000 employee-owned companies in the United States with 250+ new [...]
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October 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Duffy
October 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in The Sound
50 years of Little Feat
Will music last? “Beethoven’s done well.” Bill Payne of Little Feat is excited to perform at Hoyt Sherman Place on Oct. 8 and for his return to Iowa for the [...]
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