A 26-mile parade
Neighborhoods embrace IMT Des Moines Marathon. Jamie Seitz remembers the first year she and her husband read signs that their neighborhood would be shut down for the IMT Des Moines Marathon. Driveways would be [...]
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October 03, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Feature 3
October 03, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Civic Skinny
Caldwell-Johnson for Mayor? Sheriff to retire? Botched judicial choice could have consequences.
Teree Caldwell-Johnson is thinking of running for mayor next year. And Sheriff Bill McCarthy is thinking of retiring this year. Caldwell-Johnson, 62, is well-known in Des Moines. She was Polk [...]
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October 03, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Political Mercury
It’s hard to admit, but Andrew Yang may be right
It feels, sounds and smells like surrender of the basic, motivating values of more than 40 years for me. And it will to most of you, too. The facts, though, [...]
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October 03, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Film Review
‘The House with a Clock in its Walls’
Fear-inducing madness is sure to scare — and no doubt confuse — younger audiences. The first children’s movie by director Eli Roth, known for grotesque, grindhouse films like “Cabin Fever,” [...]
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October 03, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Food Dude
It’s Irina’s!
Winner of CITYVIEW’s Ultimate Steak de Burgo challenge It was inevitable. Russians won an American election, yet no one called for an investigation of Kremlin collusion. Irina’s won the Ultimate Steak de [...]
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October 03, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Your Neighbors
Soldier’s Mrs. Iowa journey lifts combat mask
Major Finken rediscovers herself through pageant. When Mrs. Iowa Jill Finken competed at the Mrs. America pageant in August in Las Vegas, it is quite likely that she was the only [...]
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October 03, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Joe's Neighborhood
If we build it, the bikers will come
There are more bikes than residents in the Netherlands. “Protected bike lanes are different from conventional bike lanes where the bike lanes are placed along the curb and protected from [...]
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October 03, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Center Stage
The power of musical theater
Two musicals open in Greater Des Moines with much fanfare. From an English mining town to 1907 Coney Island, two musicals open in Greater Des Moines with much fanfare. The [...]
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October 03, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in The Dish
Dinner with 600 farmers and some noble pigs
September is always a month of transition as summer retreats and fall foods finally sprout. Pumpkin spiced foods and beverages, to the chagrin of some, returned earlier than ever and began metastasizing. Starbucks served pumpkin [...]
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October 03, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Rants & Reason
Here’s some ‘loud sounding wisdom’ for you
Consider which incumbents should be promoted to “citizen.” A bizarre day, indeed — providing thoughts for this round-up of current events. First off, it began with a Des Moines Register news report [...]
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