The list is long, and it’s as comprehensive as possible, but it’s pretty much impossible to include them all. Still, here’s our best effort at bringing you a summer-long lineup of musical acts to hit the indoor and outdoor stages, patios and venues across the metro in 2014. Check back
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Posted May 14, 2014in Cover Story
Motorcycles are built with equal portions of romance and mechanics. From Robert Persig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” to Patrick Symmes’ “Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Legend,” biker literature has spawned a cult of self-discovery that exceeds all other human-machine relations, save the airplane. In fact motorcycles and airplanes
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Posted May 07, 2014in Cover Story
Windows down, toes out the passenger side bopping in the wind to a local country station that splits Tanya Tucker and Toby Keith hits with DJ announcements of senior living menus and auction calendars — ahh, it’s a road trip in Iowa summer. This is our third annual Vacationing Iowa
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Posted April 30, 2014in Cover Story
It’s time for the best season of the year in Iowa, and we ain’t talking about summer: It’s festival season. All summer long (and into the fall and winter), cities and towns all over the Hawkeye State are going to be throwing parties. Indoor, outdoor, one-day or multiple, chances to
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Posted April 23, 2014in Cover Story
“When there’s a fire burning behind you, you don’t get to choose where to go. You just run.” That’s how Wilondja “Willy” Msiando explained how a family gets separated while fleeing from the carnage of war and genocide. He, his wife and their children were forced out of their home
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Posted April 16, 2014in Cover Story
For decades, the race for President of the United States has always been front and center in the Iowa political arena. But for the first time in years, the battle for the White House is taking a temporary back seat to the blockbuster state races in the 2014 election. The
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Posted April 09, 2014in Cover Story
With a name like Breezy, you’d think life would be easier. But the 9-year-old papered wheaten terrier purebred has, her entire life, suffered from ongoing bacterial skin infections, stomach ulcers and bouts of violent vomiting, says her owner Marilyn Soper. But life could be worse. She could be like her
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Posted April 02, 2014in Cover Story
There was only one point in the past six months when I thought I was going to die. I was sitting in a house on the south side of Des Moines with six Skinheads, discussing the “beat in” ritual for initiating new members. Midway through the conversation, a seventh member
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Posted March 26, 2014in Cover Story
Traffic is flowing across the Grand Avenue Bridge as freely as the Walnut Creek waters below it. But thousands of local and commuting motorists traversing the creek via winding residential detours caused by bridge construction last year remember a time when travel between Des Moines and West Des Moines was
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Posted March 19, 2014in Cover Story
Iowans may be witnessing the final days of judgment for Bob Vander Plaats and his Family Leader. The past few years have not been good for Vander Plaats, who is now wandering the political desert, searching to make himself, once again, politically relevant. How are the mighty fallen – Samuel
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