Cries of ‘We want Willkie’ echo today
A testimony to the Cowles-Willkie friendship and their civil rights advocacy stands at 900 17th St. in Des Moines Talk about good timing! Consider the recent release of “THE IMPROBABLE [...]
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October 31, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Rants & Reason
October 31, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Couch Surfing
Tori from La Crosse
Maybe millennials just do things backwards. Fall wedding season is in full effect, and I have had to turn away a few travelers coming through town due to the volume [...]
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October 31, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Art News
A German genius in Des Moines
Neo Rauch is one of Europe’s most interesting and wealthy painters. Orphaned as an infant, he grew up in the old East Germany, near Leipzig. He has lived life from [...]
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October 30, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
We must stop tearing each other down
Let’s skip the debate over whether our president bears even a smidgen of blame for contributing to the domestic terrorist incidents last week in the United States. Let’s agree we [...]
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October 24, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
Honoree’s life shows what a helping hand can mean
Each year in October, when the Iowa countryside transforms from gorgeous summer greens to harvest season hues of tan, some of the world’s top agricultural scientists and anti-hunger activists gather [...]
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October 10, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
Secrecy doesn’t serve Indian Hills’ best interests
There’s an old expression that officials of Indian Hills Community College obviously have not heard about — or have chosen to ignore. The expression is simple: If you find yourself [...]
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October 03, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
Kavanaugh’s mouth is just as troubling
It’s confession time: I cannot say with confidence what transpired in that upstairs bedroom in a suburban home in Montgomery County, Md., on that summer evening, apparently in 1982, during [...]
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October 03, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Feature 1
Pages of horror
Des Moines man publishes Little Shoppe of Horrors magazine for 46 years…and counting. I had heard rumors about a man who had been publishing his own horror fanzine in the basement of his Des [...]
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October 03, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Feature 2
Pucks in the city
The hunt is on for playoff hockey in Des Moines. Tune up the Zamboni. Prepare the penalty boxes. Start practicing your slap shot. Here come the power plays, missing teeth, Minnesota accents, red lines, [...]
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“Judge” Besler
If Jason Besler is a judge, he should resign. Besler was one of two men nominated to fill a vacancy on the Sixth Judicial District Court in Iowa City. Gov. [...]
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