What the…
Think you’re funny? Send us your best caption… Email to celeste@dmcityview.com — Be sure to include your name Next month’s photo: This month’s winner “The office Christmas party was heating up [...]
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January 03, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in What the?
January 03, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Your Neighbors
No experience necessary
West Des Moines resident Dan Buscher, part owner of Integrity Printing, isn’t a carpenter or bed builder by trade, but he certainly became one. His wife and three daughters had [...]
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January 03, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in People & Pets
Dogs make her smile, laugh
As a lifelong animal lover, when Patty Lenz turned 60, she pondered her 44-year career training horses. Realizing it was time for a change, she switched gears and began training [...]
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January 03, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Iowa Artist
Public art
Metal sculptures crafted by artist Hilde DeBruyne dot Des Moines and its suburbs’ green spaces. “Simplicity” is found in Clive. In West Des Moines, find the “Circle of Life.” Or [...]
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January 03, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Sound Notes
Sound Advice
Platinum-selling blues rockers Big Head Todd and the Monsters are playing Hoyt Sherman Place on Jan. 12. The band will be performing selections spanning over three decades. Tickets start at $46. Mark your [...]
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January 02, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
Greeting, Cultural Catalysts:
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), [...]
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December 28, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in Morain
12/28/23
The year 2023 is almost over, and millions of people around the world are glad of that. Life today is challenging in the extreme for the population of Gaza, and [...]
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December 26, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:
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), [...]
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December 26, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
An issue that hasn’t been unfurled yet in Iowa
We Iowans apparently have been kidding ourselves. Somehow, as we focus on taxes, water quality and allegations of big-government overreach, as we wrestle with immigration, inflation, drug abuse, school choice [...]
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December 21, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in Morain
12/21/23
If you are a Palestinian in Gaza, what are your options? If you lived in north Gaza, you no longer do. You had to leave your home and most of [...]
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