March 06, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Lunch With...
Author of books about early days of rock and longtime Des Moines Register editor speaks Larry Lehmer spent 25 years at the Des Moines Register, mostly under the radar on the sports desk. Since retiring he has published two books about the music industry – “The Day the Music Died,”
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March 06, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Art News
Des Moines lost its most celebrated artist. “All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.” Edgar Allen Poe Des Moines lost its most celebrated artist when Alex Brown died at his home on the penultimate day of January after an aneurism at age 52. Brown attended
Read More →International Chili Society World Championship beginning this fall in Ankeny. The last month was as good for food economies as it was for the stock market. Beef prices were way up. Pork prices close behind. Corn soared on increased demand for fuel. Restaurant openings outnumbered closings by huge numbers. That’s
Read More →The Iowa caucuses, Feb. 3, 2020, will again provide Iowa a chance to serve the nation — to usher in GOP alternatives to Donald Trump and to heal fractures in the Democratic Party. Yeah, sure. The vision for the caucuses is anything but 20-20. While the Iowa press proclaims Iowa,
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February 19, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
Last week’s news put furrows in my brow. As I ruminated on the headlines and details in the news accounts, I came away convinced something is out of whack somewhere. One of the reports was that Amazon, the online retailing behemoth, cancelled plans to build a corporate headquarters in New
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February 06, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Feature 1
The Best of Des Moines voting results are in! Inside the following pages, CITYVIEW reveals the winners of its Best Of Des Moines 2019 poll. We are honored to be entrusted with the annual task of tallying these votes — this year we had more than 12,000, which is more
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February 06, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Feature 2
Iowa Barnstormers prepare to defend their Indoor Football League crown. Predicting the outcome of a 14-game football season before the first snap has been taken is akin to sending an e-prayer via Facebook. While the intention may be good, in reality, it’s useless. The same can be said for football
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February 06, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Feature 3
And other confusing restaurant myths A favorite junior high school English teacher warned our class about “quality.” At the time, my friends were using the word as an adjective meaning super cool. Basically, Miss Evans reminded us that the word was utterly vague without a modifier. “There is high quality,
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February 06, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Civic Skinny
A federal grand jury has charged Marty Tirrell with mail fraud, wire fraud, two counts of bank fraud and fraudulent use of another person’s credit card. The charges follow years of scams by the one-time sports broadcaster and talk-show host, scams in which he defrauded friends and employers and advertisers
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February 06, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Political Mercury
Two more years of embarrassment will be an object lesson to King voters who looked the other way for years at his racist words and outrageous observations. (Editor’s note: The following column also published in the Carroll and Jefferson newspapers, which are both owned by Doug Burns’ family and serve readers in Congressman
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