July 02, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Iowa Artist
As Luke Hubbard approaches a blank canvas with his palette knife and paint, Pink Floyd music fills his basement studio. In the process, the rhythm offers a steady flow in conjunction with layering and moving paint around. Hubbard creates abstract contemporary and industrial art under the name Art By Luka.
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July 02, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Lunch With...
In our mind, Harlan “Bud” Hockenberg epitomizes “the good lawyer.” His 70-plus years of service to the Des Moines legal community has featured public service (he even created a “public service boot camp” to encourage younger people), bi-partisan politics and multi denominational religious communities. During a period when no one
Read More →‘Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations’ Archaeology isn’t boring, but it sure can seem that way from the outside (Indiana Jones excepted, of course). Tiny brushes and trowels and patient, years-long digs to unearth the detritus of ancient
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July 02, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Sound Circuit
Richard Prall, known as Dick, with the band Dickie, implores music lovers to discover new music. You might not only like the band, but you could be the reason for the band’s success, he says. “A lot of people say, ‘I’ve never heard of the band, and I’m not going
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July 02, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Art News
The late Des Moines artist Don Dunagan liked to say, “Artists are somewhat cool, but art thieves get the hot girls.” He had a point. I asked my Internet Movie Database (IMDb) app how many movies have been made about artists, and it returned 75. The same question about art
Read More →“Turn the channel, Shane. That show is making the living room dusty.” Those were my father’s words in one of his numerous attempts at humor while I was watching Silver and Scout kick up trail dust on “The Lone Ranger” TV show as a child. But Kemosabe, Tonto and their
Read More →4300 WESTOWN PARKWAY, WEST DES MOINES SALE DATE: 2025-03-10 SALE PRICE: $892,000 SELLER: GSL LLC BUYER: TRINITY INVESTMENT FIRM LLC ACRES: 9.942 SQUARE FEET: 107,068 3401 S.W. 61ST ST., DES MOINES SALE DATE: 2025-03-11 SALE PRICE: $575,000 SELLER: WEST LAKES PROPERTIES LC BUYER: STATE OF IOWA ACRES: 2.291 SQUARE FEET: 0
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July 02, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Belly Up To...
Step into the Guesthouse Tavern+Oyster and you might think you’re in a lodge, alongside a lake or river located in northern Wisconsin or bordering Minnesota. But you’re not. Instead, you’re in West Des Moines in a strip mall bordering Waukee. The Guesthouse Tavern+Oyster opened in February 2024 and was established
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June 24, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
From Iowa’s cultural epicenter, Mainframe Studios at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning independent radio station, KFMG-LP 98.9 FM (streaming simultaneously at www.kfmg.org), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. – John Busbee for The Culture Buzz The Culture Buzz Podcast Library – https://archive.org/details/@the_culture_buzz 2014 Iowa Governor’s Award for Partnership &
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