Restaurant ambiance
What is it, and which ones have it? Restaurant critics used to employ the word ambiance, or ambience, as a factor in their ratings. That’s not as common as it [...]
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Posted November 06, 2019in Feature 3
Posted October 02, 2019in Feature 3
Root cause
Learn why some central Iowans are turning to holistic, functional medicine to cure body, mind. Brittany Cousins was frustrated with the moodiness and lethargy she felt from the thyroid condition [...]
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Posted September 04, 2019in Feature 3
America’s Sport
How football has replaced baseball as our sport of choice In 1919, two years before the first baseball radio broadcast, the New York Times reported that all records for crowds [...]
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Posted July 03, 2019in Feature 3
Re-entering society
Overwhelming majority of ex-cons struggle in their return, but second chances go a long way in easing the integration. Literature, Hollywood, sports, music and politics have given the lie to [...]
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Posted June 05, 2019in Feature 3
Walking on sunshine!
Summer’s slate of outdoor live music has no shortage of music festival offerings, all within driving distance of Des Moines. Woodstock. This summer marks the 50-year anniversary of 1969’smother-of-all music [...]
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Posted May 01, 2019in Feature 3
Menace soccer team welcomes new dawn
A new coach, a new league, a new stadium and a new home office. In the U.S., soccer begins again each spring, when everything renews itself. This year, however, is [...]
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Posted April 03, 2019in Feature 3
2019 CHOICE Awards
CITYVIEW’s Hall of Iowa Culinary Excellence A veritable hall of fame for people and food institutions that give our city and state a singular quality and/or identity. The idea for [...]
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Posted March 06, 2019in Feature 3
Bouncing
Three Des Moines bouncers unleash memories of life protecting the door. The best moments. The worst situations. And the laugh-out-loud incidents. The Des Moines area is home to nearly 300 [...]
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Posted February 06, 2019in Feature 3
Size matters
And other confusing restaurant myths A favorite junior high school English teacher warned our class about “quality.” At the time, my friends were using the word as an adjective meaning [...]
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Posted January 02, 2019in Feature 3
Food pride soared in 2018
Harbinger is our choice for restaurant of the year again, as is Joe Tripp for chef of the year. Iowa has always been identified with food, not always in a flattering way. Yet [...]
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