February 01, 2017 by Brent Antisdel
in Sound Circuit
For more than a decade, Sean Moeller has been one of the more prominent tastemakers in Iowa music. Moeller launched the website Daytrotter in 2006, featuring short sessions recorded in the Quad Cities by everyone from national acts like Norah Jones, Wilco and Glen Campbell to Iowa acts like Christopher
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February 01, 2017 by Brent Antisdel
in Collections & Hobbies
Some might say Randy Bieghler is sick. The Des Moines native works in IT, he has a family, and he generally appears to be a regular person — until he reveals that he roots for cold weather. “My wife would say I’m an ice fishing fanatic,” he laughs. “I enjoy
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February 01, 2017 by Brent Antisdel
in The Sound
Straight to the point with Dropkick Murphys vocalist Al Barr Dropkick Murphys has a penchant for delivering blue-collar, pint-hoisting, Celtic punk rock in strikingly consistent fashion. With nine albums under its collective belt, including the January release of its latest platter, “11 Stories of Pain and Glory,” the Massachusetts-based
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February 01, 2017 by Brent Antisdel
in Lunch With...
Frank Cownie has been called “a grown up all American boy,” and it fits. He’s tall, blonde, a champion swimmer and a successful businessman. He’s also become one of the most popular mayors in the city’s history and a surviving face of the Democrat Party of Iowa. He’s currently in
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February 01, 2017 by Brent Antisdel
in People & Pets
“She’s more of a fish girl, and I’m more of a coral guy,” says Dave Roth about the passion that he and his wife Deanna share for fish aquariums. Roth works in information technology (IT) by day. But at home, he labors over his two fish tanks with a watchful
Read More →‘Pure Heart: A Spirited Tale of Grace, Grit, and Whiskey’ By Troylyn Ball with Bret Witter Troy Ball grew up happily shadowing her father through his many business enterprises, so at a young age she acquired a fierce entrepreneurial spirit. When she married and had two boys born with special
Read More →Here’s an “alternative fact” for you: The Nobel Foundation announced today that, given the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States, it will award a posthumous Nobel Prize for literature to George Orwell (1903-1950) for his writing that includes “Animal Farm,” “1984” and the essay “Politics
Read More →If the Electoral College follows form, a person whom millions consider to be a buffoon and egomaniac or worse will be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. While the characterizations will upset some as at least disrespectful, it is rightly aimed at the man entering the presidency
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January 04, 2017 by Brent Antisdel
in Feature 1
America has been waging war on poverty since the Lyndon Johnson Administration when the 36th president famously declared “war” on this abstract idea during his state of the union address in January of 1964. And while America has long since bailed on the other war it was fighting at the
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January 04, 2017 by Brent Antisdel
in Feature 2
If these walls could talk, there’s no doubt that the Hatton House would spin splendid tales of high society while alternating sordid stories of some unsavory faces hailing from the lowest places. During the last 130 years, the grand old dame, located at 1730 Seventh St. in Des Moines, has
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