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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Posted July 05, 2023in Feature 2
The idea for the CHOICE awards originated eight years ago and was inspired by Japan’s Living National Treasures. That program honors “preservers of important intangible cultural properties.” In the years after World War II, anxiety arose in Japan that their unique cultural traditions — noh, kabuki, origami, kumi, sumo, teapot
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Posted May 31, 2023in Feature 2
Times are changing in the workplace. Overall, young people are less eager to join the labor market than previous generations, particularly since COVID shutdowns. Many companies are turning to retired, part-time workers because they say they have a more serious work ethic. Traditional first jobs for young people, like shoveling snow
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Posted May 03, 2023in 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 05, 2023in Feature 2
When Todd Cappel finished serving nine months in prison, he hesitated to apply for work. Thankfully, unlike many others emerging from incarceration, he had plenty of community support. “Part of the whole recovery process is being honest,” he said. “So, once I got out, I was a little nervous about
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Posted March 01, 2023in Feature 2
A look back on the pandemic — and a glimpse of the future Masks hanging from rearview mirrors. “Unprecedented times.” Clear plastic partitions. “Stop the spread.” Social distancing stickers scattered on floors. Look around and you’ll find echoes of a global health crisis, its onset now three years in the
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