John Busbee at Waterfront
John Busbee has been covering, creating, managing, promoting and producing the Iowa art scene for more than five decades. He and I both have columns in CITYVIEW and radio shows [...]
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Posted January 01, 2025in Lunch With...
Posted December 04, 2024in Lunch With...
Allison Pohlman at Drake Diner
Allison Pohlman is Suzie Glazer-Burt Women’s Basketball Coach at Drake. Around events celebrating the 50th anniversary of women’s basketball at Drake, we asked her to lunch, and she chose Drake [...]
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Posted November 06, 2024in Lunch With...
Teo Nguyen in Jackie Akerberg’s Jackfruit Kitchen
Teo Nguyen is a Minneapolis-based painter whose “The Politics of Worthiness” (PoW) visited Des Moines on a world tour reimagining how war is perceived. Jackie Akerberg is a wealth management [...]
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Posted October 02, 2024in Lunch With...
Scott Carlson at Americana
Scott Carlson opened Des Moines’ first successful brew pub. Recently, he sold his share of Court Avenue Brewing Company (CABCO) to concentrate on Americana, Gilroy’s and the Iowa Craft Beer [...]
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Posted September 04, 2024in Lunch With...
Charlie Sovich at Manhattan Deli
Charlie Sovich sold Charlie’s Filling Station two years ago after a 48-years-long run. We asked him to lunch and met at Manhattan Deli, where the sandwiches cover all traditional bases [...]
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Posted July 31, 2024in Lunch With...
Ben McCollum at Drake Diner
Ben McCollum is Drake University’s new head men’s basketball coach. Previously, he won four national championships including three in a row at Northwest Missouri State. In town amongst recruiting trips [...]
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Posted July 03, 2024in Lunch With...
Angela Harrington at Panka Peruvian Restaurant
Angela Harrington is a developer, hotelier and civic promoter of the I-80 corridor from Des Moines to Iowa City. We asked her to lunch and met at Panka Peruvian Restaurant, [...]
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Posted June 05, 2024in Lunch With...
Jacqueline Thompson at Wesley on Grand
Jacqueline Thompson is an ordained elder in the Iowa Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC) and is pastor at both Burns UMC and St. John’s UMC. She grew up [...]
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Posted May 01, 2024in Lunch With...
C.J. Bienert at Cheese Bar
C.J. Bienert is Des Moines’ chosen cheese monger. Through his Cheese Shop and Cheese Bar, he has enticed the city’s palate to appreciate distinctions between whey and casein proteins, goat’s [...]
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Posted April 03, 2024in Lunch With...
Jake Christensen at the original Thai Flavors
Jake Christensen is a developer who has repurposed many of East Village’s 19th and early 20th century buildings, including E300 (Zombie Burger). That was a ground-up construction on a vacant [...]
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