April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Civic Skinny
In the aftermath of March Madness, the Wall Street Journal released a ranking of the most valuable NCAA college basketball teams. As you may expect, two of the sports’ most [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Political Mercury
Many politicians can persuade you to believe in them. That’s a commonly reached feat. But the defining leaders, elected officials like Tom Harkin, Robert Ray, Henry Wallace and Harold Hughes, [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Film Review
Well, let’s just get this out of the way. If you’re reading this, this movie probably isn’t for you. No disrespect, of course. I mean it in the sense that [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Food Dude
In 1989, CITYVIEW predecessor Skywalker began publishing the column “Since I Quit Drinking.” It was a take on the Rip Van Winkle legend that used new sobriety as awakening to [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Des Moines Forgotten
I am writing this on the Monday following Record Store Day weekend, and, with all honesty, I didn’t indulge this year. I’m already sitting on more than 2,000 LPs, which [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Joe's Neighborhood
“Well, that was something,” she said out of the blue on a Tuesday. A phrase she was fond of saying for nearly any event from the grand to the not-so-grand. [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Center Stage
Periodically, new stage tribes form, answering the calls of their muses. They want to offer new perspectives in central Iowa’s performing scene. Some previous names that float through the memory [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Belly Up To...
“GOAT” doesn’t just refer to a hay-eating, climbing, hooved domestic animal. It is also an acronym — Greatest Of All Time — often referring to sports icons. Yet there is [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Walks of Life
The decision to host a foreign exchange student can come with a myriad of worries. Will the student want to eat the food we make? Will everyone get along? How [...]
Read More →“The Legend of Ochi” PG | 96 minutes Director/Writer: Isaiah Saxon Stars: Helena Zengel, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson A young girl named Yuri is raised to fear the reclusive forest [...]
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