January 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Walks of Life
January 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Your View
January 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Duffy
January 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
Bush 41 and Iowa farm couple have lit the way
We all have something we can give. We Americans are an impatient bunch. We typically don’t like to wait in line — unless there’s something we truly want, like much-sought-after concert tickets or whatever this year’s Tickle Me Elmo gift was on Black Friday. That’s why the scene last week was unusual — the thousands
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January 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Lunch With...
Dick Grangaard at Manhattan Deli
Brokering, fishing, skiing and gambling Dick Grangaard is a retired stockbroker. Active stockbrokers cannot talk to the media without jumping through hoops, so I recently asked Grangaard to lunch to discuss a lifetime of changes in the brokering business as well as in fishing, skiing and casino gambling. At the Manhattan Deli, Grangaard told me
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January 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Sound Notes
Sound Advice
After all the merrymaking over the holidays, 2019 starts a bit slow in the arena concert scene. This might be a good time to bundle up and check out smaller bar music venues. Local acoustic blues guitarist Matt Woods released his third album, “Tired and Dirty,” in December. He’s a threetime winner of
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January 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Tech Talk
Flying below the radar on Reddit
“The front page of the Internet” has everything in place to be the next YouTube. The Internet can be a fickle place when it comes to success. For years, a business can be gaining steam and acquiring users or customers and then suddenly, BANG! You’re MySpace. With many of these
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January 02, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Collections & Hobbies
R-e-s-p-e-c-t
Nearly 6,000 memorials added to online archives such as www.findagrave.com and The IAGenWeb Project. Death is something all humans eventually accomplish. But on the way, many get to be mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, husbands or wives. Cemetery plots aren’t just rectangular pieces of dirt, and gravestones are more than start
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December 18, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
Here’s an antidote to our nation’s discord
Americans these days seem to get along like dogs and cats. We don’t trust each other. We constantly snipe back and forth. This person is a crook. That person is dumber than a box of rocks. This acrimony and animosity have not provided a very fitting backdrop for the tranquility
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December 05, 2018 by Brent Antisdel
in Feature 1
Who are Des Moines’ Most Likeable People?
Eight men and eight women selected for social networking contest and charity event. “Mirror, mirror of Des Moines, who is the most likeable central Iowan of them all?” For the third straight year, this was the question CITYVIEW asked its readers as it set out to determine the most likeable man and woman in our area.
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