Posted April 04, 2018in Feature 3
Iowa’s Culinary Trendsetters Our fourth annual CHOICE awards The idea for the CHOICE awards originated 15 years ago and was inspired by Japan’s Living National Treasures. That program honors “preservers [...]
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Posted February 28, 2018in Feature 3
What’s corned beef got to do with it? St. Patrick’s Day is one of America’s great celebrations of ethnic pride and alcohol consumption. To most people here, it has much to do with shamrocks, [...]
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Posted January 31, 2018in Feature 3
Funding conundrums lead to head scratching “Is DART fiscally unstable?” I ask. I’m on the phone with Elizabeth Presutti, the CEO of the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART). If [...]
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Posted January 03, 2018in Feature 3
Someday food-loving people will remember 2017 as a year of discovery and gravitas in central Iowa. More things changed faster than in any year of my four decades covering the food scene here. The [...]
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Posted December 06, 2017in Feature 3
A social networking contest and charity event For the second year in a row, we asked our readers who they thought were the most “likeable.” More than a popularity contest, the finalists were also asked [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Feature 3
Shoppers are digging the surge in local thrift stores Like sharks sensing blood in the water, bargain hunters circle the void as the empty blue basin is wheeled away by the [...]
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Posted October 04, 2017in Feature 3
Crowds are preparing to go Iowa Wild for the team’s fifth anniversary season On many occasions since arriving before the 2013 season, Iowa Wild President Todd Frederickson imagined what Wells Fargo Arena [...]
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Posted September 06, 2017in Feature 3
Welcome inside the mind of an uptight CITYVIEW staff writer and fantasy football fanatic Most baby boomers remember where they were when John F. Kennedy was shot. Many in subsequent [...]
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Posted August 02, 2017in Feature 3
Which local restaurant will be named king of the oldest, most revered and complicated food in world history? Each year CITYVIEW opens a contest to let our readers select the [...]
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Posted July 05, 2017in Feature 3
We may not be as aquatic as our neighbors to the north, but Iowa does have its share of ponds, reservoirs and lakes Go jump in a lake! Or is [...]
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