Another star
Des Moines Menace men’s soccer team is on the hunt for its next PDL championship It’s the first day of practice for the Des Moines men’s Menace soccer [...]
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Posted May 18, 2016in Cover Story
Posted May 04, 2016in Cover Story, Homepage Cover Story
SoundOFF Stands Out
Twenty years and 1,000 episodes of sports-fueled lunacy on Sunday night TV. In the summer of 1999, I was obsessed with WHO-TV’s offbeat sports call-in show, “SoundOFF.” Every week, WHO [...]
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Posted April 20, 2016in Cover Story
Mr. Drake
Paul Morrison was hired by Drake University in 1945. He’s been going to work on the campus ever since. Paul Morrison leaned over a table piled high with [...]
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Posted April 13, 2016in Cover Story
downtown auto dealers
Where did they go? And will they ever come back? Zombie Burger is located where a used car lot used to be. East Village eatery, Alba, is inside what [...]
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Posted April 06, 2016in Cover Story
Play Ball!
Summer is almost upon us, and with it comes another season of Iowa Cubs baseball. Spring training has wrapped up, and the April 7 opening day is upon us. [...]
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Posted April 06, 2016in Belly Up To..., Cover Story
Granite City puts new spin on Sunday brunch
Granite City has been a staple restaurant and brewery in Clive for 15 years, especially as the spot for one of the best brunches in Des Moines. In those 15 [...]
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Posted April 01, 2016in Cover Story
River Vendors
Riverboat casino loophole allows first food truck barge in the Des Moines River — but controversy looms The first in a new breed of river-floating food trucks rolled off the [...]
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Posted March 23, 2016in Cover Story
Our Lust for War
It was a conflict that started out small, in fits and starts. A league of nations that fell apart, in disarray as one after another member became embroiled and dropped [...]
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Posted March 16, 2016in Cover Story
Queens of Green
The luck of the Irish has Des Moines doubling down on green this year. Not only is the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament coming to town, it’s pushing the 2016 Friendly [...]
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Posted March 09, 2016in Cover Story
Our Chance to Dance
This week, fresh on the heels of a slew of high school state championship events, Wells Fargo Arena will once again be packed with visitors, as the Iowa Events Center [...]
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