Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Commercial real estate transactions in Polk County from June 13, 2019, through June 29, 2019 ADDRESS: 5713 MADISON AVE., DES MOINES SALE DATE: JUNE 14, 2019 SALE PRICE: $159,240 SELLER: [...]
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July 31, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Commercial Real Estate Transactions
July 31, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Sound Circuit
Ducharme Jones
Popular blues, rock musicians return to native Iowa. The Ducharme Jones band is making the rounds at various Des Moines music venues. As a duo or with a full band, [...]
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July 31, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Iowa Artist
Stunning skyline photos
Mirza Kudic’s “Welcome to Des Moines” photos show his dedication. When Mirza Kudic purchased a camera four years ago, he quickly became obsessed. He snapped photos, stayed up countless nights, [...]
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July 31, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Collections & Hobbies
Time Machine
Interpreting history while living history and volunteering at Living History Farms. “Well, this is as close as I’m ever going to get to a time machine,” says Barb Raife, an [...]
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July 30, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:
“One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and [...]
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July 23, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:
“The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the nore you put into it, the more it will hold.” [...]
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July 16, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
Iowans’ wardrobes don’t need these overalls
This is a good week for Iowans to put away forever what a friend once called our “mental overalls.” The label was his way of describing the tendency of Iowans [...]
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July 16, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:
“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.” Matthew Arnold, in Preface to [...]
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July 09, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:
“To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this manner for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul [...]
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July 09, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
We need these reminders about immigrants
Years ago, when I was a young pup of a reporter for the Des Moines Register, my assignment was covering state and federal courts. Normally, it amounted to reporting on [...]
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