Thursday, July 27, 2017 Mary Chapin Carpenter will be gracing the Hoyt Sherman Place stage at 7:30 PM. Five-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Mary Chapin Carpenter hits the road in 2017, performing songs from her expansive 14-album catalog and new songs from her latest
Read More →The contestants may be all smiles and slobber, but this year’s Beautiful Bulldog Contest® at Drake University promises to be the fiercest competition in history. Registration for the 38th annual event closed this week with a record-breaking number of applicants — more than 120 English bulldogs from 13 states. The
Read More →2017 Iowa Genealogical Spring Conference will be held Saturday, April 8, 2017 at the IGS Library, 628 E. Grand Ave. , Des Moines, IA 50309. The conference will feature J. H. Fonkert from FourGenerations Genealogy. (https://fourgenerationsgenealogy.wordpress.com/ ) For most of his career, Jay worked as a state government policy analyst
Read More →With a Goal to Raise $100,000, More than 30 Volunteers Will Go Bald What: Funny Bone in West Des Moines, Iowa, will host a St. Baldrick’s Foundation signature head-shaving event to raise funds and awareness for lifesaving children’s cancer research on Tuesday, March 7. With a goal of raising $100,000, more than 30 participants will go
Read More →The ever-restless songwriter Joe Jackson traveled the world to record ‘Fast Forward,’ his first collection of original songs in seven years, released in October of 2015 via Work Song/Caroline. Originally conceived to be released as a series of EPs, the album was produced and arranged by Jackson, and features four
Read More →Grinnell Mutual, Kent Corporation, Sukup Manufacturing to invest in Accelerator, which will graduate first class at World Food Prize GREATER DES MOINES, IA — The Greater Des Moines Partnership and the Cultivation Corridor today announced the name of an accelerator focused on agtech startup companies: the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator. The
Read More →The YMCA of Greater Des Moines announced today that they will partner and support the American Lung Association in Iowa’s 2017 Fight For Air Climb, Sunday, April 9. The Wellmark YMCA (at 501 Grand Ave.) will be the starting point for thousands of participants of the Fight For Air Climb. The event takes place
Read More →Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Daryl Hall & John Oates are partnering with international multi-platinum selling band Tears For Fears for a 29-city North American tour that will visit Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines on Monday, May 8. The summer arena tour will also feature a special acoustic performance by opening act, Allen Stone. Tickets and VIP packages for
Read More →Rock legends Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo will perform at Hoyt Sherman Place on Monday, May 1 at 8 p.m. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 3, at 10 a.n. and are available at Hoyt Sherman Box Office, charge by phone 800-745-3000 and online at www.ticketmaster.com Together, with their talent and chemistry, the
Read More →The West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce today announced the hiring of Carole Chambers as its new president and CEO. Chamber chairperson Danny Beyer of Kabel Business Services released the following statement: Dear Chamber Members, As the Executive Board and Chamber Board started the hiring process for our next President/CEO, we had two
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