That girl is on fire!
If you’re in northwest Des Moines and somewhere near Beaverdale or Drake University, and if you happen to see a flaming hula hoop spinning around a performer who is being [...]
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Posted September 02, 2020in Your Neighbors
Posted August 05, 2020in Your Neighbors
SCAD sisters
As she pulled and pushed and worked the lawnmower through the rougher-than-usual grass, Johanna Hayes felt her chest tighten and her heart race. She should have been hot, but instead [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Your Neighbors
Random acts of bagpipes
“Someone on our street…has been playing the bagpipes lately, and I love it!” writes one northwest Des Moines neighbor on an online community forum. “…I heard her practicing, (too)…” types [...]
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Posted April 01, 2020in Your Neighbors
Burrito slingers
“So there was one cold rainy night about five years ago, and I found myself with a crazy man with a backpack full of burritos and some fruit and some [...]
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Posted March 04, 2020in Your Neighbors
Beekeeping 101 with Julia McGuire
“Jill of Many Skills” teaches local beekeepers to be honey-production maximizers. A 5,500-year-old jar of honey — the oldest known honey in existence — was found within a noblewoman’s tomb [...]
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Posted February 05, 2020in Your Neighbors
37 mismatched napkin rings
And other Terrace Hill treasures “I taught for 45 years,” says Patrick Phillips-Schrock. As his official retirement date zoomed ever closer, he remembers wondering what was next. “This was my [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Your Neighbors
Killing orcs while complaining about your boss and warping around the galaxy
Local Dungeon Master Paul Privitera works to build the popularity of polyhedral dice in central Iowa. Maybe you pretend that Earth’s oceans have flooded, the ice caps have melted, the [...]
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Posted December 04, 2019in Your Neighbors
En pointe with Eleanor Danaan
From biscuit feet to bananas, ballet offers high-energy action. In the beginning of Eleanor Danaan’s ballet life, the young dancer’s feet were shaped like biscuits. “They were… we call them [...]
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Posted November 06, 2019in Your Neighbors
Skeletor!
Local pro wrestling referee offers insight from inside the ring. “What’s it like being a referee in a sport with absolutely no rules?” Comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s question seems like a [...]
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Posted October 02, 2019in Your Neighbors
Xnmate
Ex-convict serves heaping plates of home cooking to the hungry. It’s an indisputable fact: Bykrmark Carver (formerly known as Mark Carver) used to be a bad man. Indeed, this truth [...]
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