September 04, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Civic Skinny
The Des Moines City Council’s proposed ban on camping within city limits, which criminalizes encampments of the city’s homeless, has raised the ire of some citizens and has been delayed [...]
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September 04, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Political Mercury
A modern political Mason-Dixon line appears to be taking form north of Mason City and south of Albert Lea — somewhere around the Minnesota-Iowa border. The crash of cultures is [...]
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September 04, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Film Review
“Jackpot!” is an American action-comedy directed by Paul Feig and written by Rob Yescombe. With an intriguing premise set in a not-so-distant dystopian future, the movie had the potential to [...]
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September 04, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Food Dude
When the millennium was new, Tony Lemmo opened his first café in the Metro Market. That brilliant incubator of food businesses was doomed by its limitations — mainly that it [...]
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September 04, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Des Moines Forgotten
In my July column, I mentioned that I went on the walking architecture tour downtown. I wrote about the first and only “death by elevator” event in Iowa history, which [...]
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September 04, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Joe's Neighborhood
Well, here I am in a big box store, and it’s happened again. The start is simple enough. My wife goes one direction to get granddaughter clothes, and I go [...]
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September 04, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Center Stage
As the month begins, the final Broadway chords of the North American Tour of “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” continue to reverberate from its signature two-week run at Des Moines Performing [...]
Read More →‘A Haunted Girl’ Over the last decade or so, mental health and its importance has been a balm for anyone with a chemical imbalance. Understanding and empathy have vastly improved [...]
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September 04, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Collections & Hobbies
Even though the Titanic sank more than a century ago, it still has fans who ride its waves with adoration. Conventions and fan clubs are aplenty across the globe and [...]
Read More →Why does Polk County send inmates to other county jails? One county jail might send inmates to another for a number of reasons. The most common ones are for court [...]
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