Posted May 01, 2024in Feature 2
If you are looking for fast-paced sporting action this spring and summer, you are in luck. The Des Moines Menace soccer team and the Iowa Barnstormers arena football team, although being quite different, provide a similar atmosphere for their current and soon-to-be fans. On the following pages, we share some
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Posted April 03, 2024in Feature 2
The high arts are flirting with existential jeopardy. What are the “high arts?” Late Des Moines artist Don Dunagan explained: “ ‘Titanic’ defined it. The music on the first class level was ‘high,’ and the music in steerage was ‘low.’ So were the clothes and food.” High arts’ elitism
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Posted March 06, 2024in Feature 2
Who was St. Patrick? Why does he get a parade? And why is his parade so much fun? At the core of St. Patrick’s Day, those with Irish heritage recognize St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, and celebrate their Irish heritage. St. Patrick is heralded on March 17, which
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Posted January 31, 2024in Feature 2
What is your favorite true-life love story? Always an interesting question when getting to know someone, it can solicit many different answers. Achilles and Patroclus’ love story has been both cherished and debated for 3,300 years. It was also far more honorable than the love “that launched a thousand ships,”
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Posted January 03, 2024in Feature 2
“Iowa is a special place that has crafted itself to claim a big part of the future but, at the same time, never sacrificed those values of person and community upon which a successful society must rest.” — Hugh Sidey Iowa’s glorious and renewable productivity was fashioned by
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Posted December 06, 2023in Feature 2
Even with record-high temperatures in 2023, a trend that is expected to continue, do not underestimate Iowa’s ability to accumulate enough snow to last into the spring season. The snow will eventually fall, and the lakes will eventually freeze, turning your favorite parks and hills into ice skating, sledding, skiing
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Posted November 01, 2023in Feature 2
Des Moines is considered a small market, at least for media, entertainment and designers. That’s changing now in a world flash-shrunk by the Internet. Before the last 20 years, most Iowa artists with ambition left the state, usually for New York. Iowa was more famous for the people who left
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Posted October 04, 2023in Feature 2
The little black and white bundle is not much bigger than my two hands as he rolls in the long grass with feet in the air and tail wagging. The young couple is excited to show him off. My wife and I smile but worry that they will have a
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Posted September 06, 2023in Feature 2
Football is the new national pastime. It took down all competitors during the last 50 years. The game generates more interest than all other sports in the U.S. It sells the most advertising of all sports or entertainments. Fox Broadcasting said that this year’s Super Bowl hit $600 million in
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Posted August 02, 2023in Feature 2
Breakfast is not what it used to be. In the days of the classic diners of Des Moines, breakfast was a 24-hour-a-day offering of eggs any way you wanted them, with hash browned potatoes and a choice of bacon, sausage or ham with white or wheat toast and jam. Pancakes
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