For Iowa’s art scene, autumn is the sobering, back-to-work season that follows carefree summers of big festivals and light entertainments. This year’s fall calendar supports such sobriety with a preponderance of big shows. The Des Moines Art Center will follow up its monumental installation of English artist Phylidda Barlow with
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Posted August 14, 2013in Cover Story
Ever wonder how much toilet paper attendees of the Iowa State Fair go through? How about how much cooking oil is used, beer is consumed and manure is produced from opening day on Aug. 8, to the “extreme Sunday” close-out in this 11-day event? Test your Iowa State Fair knowledge
Read More →Most of these facts are attributed to www.iowastatefair.org unless otherwise cited. 1. D) The first Iowa State Fair was held in Fairfield in 1854 before eventually moving to its present location at East 30th and East University in 1886. 2. D) Iowa State Fair attendance first topped the one million
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Posted August 07, 2013in Cover Story
Ah, the fair. It’s that magically stereotypical time of year that exemplifies the best and silliest things about being Iowan: the butter cow; every imaginable kind of food (and several it would have never occurred to you to think of) on a stick; the oppressive August heat, which may just
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Posted July 31, 2013in Cover Story
In primitive times, people of some cultures believed that the camera steals the soul. Some say that belief stemmed from the superstition that revealing identifying things, such as your name or likeness, gives the ill-intended all they need to work their voodoo on you. In that case, have any of
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Posted July 24, 2013in Cover Story
It’s all about you. That’s why we do this. We can spit out political articles, recommend the best bars and restaurants we know, report on stories of odd arrests and show the poor unfortunates who were captured by local authorities and suggest what books, movies and music to take in,
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Posted July 17, 2013in Cover Story
Don’t you just love it when a medical scientist or expert of the sort goes on the record with an announcement claiming things like: Beer is good for you? So many of these so-called experts offer contradicting claims, so in the end, why not go with the old sex psychologist,
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Posted July 10, 2013in Cover Story
The girls of summer are back, and they grace our pages again with our fourth annual Cityview Swimsuit Edition. In our first two years, we published a totally separate magazine and distributed it independently. Last year, after input from readers and advertisers, we opted to publish it in the pages
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Posted July 03, 2013in Cover Story
The rains and gloom of spring have passed us by, and summer is now in full swing. That means it’s time once again for the flagship event from the Greater Des Moines Music Coalition (DMMC) — 80/35 Music Festival. Now in its sixth year, 80/35 has become a destination event
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Posted June 26, 2013in Cover Story
Nothing seems to bring out America’s pyromania-like urges more than the Fourth of July. After all, what better way to celebrate our country’s independence than by lighting up a brick of Black Cat firecrackers, a few bottle rockets and… losing a finger or two in the process? Hearing is optional
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