Fall Arts & Entertainment Guide
The leaves are changing, the days are getting shorter, and the weather is cooling off. What does not change is the array of things to do around central Iowa. From [...]
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Feature Story
Traveling Highway 44
I pull off Highway 44 on a chance, turn off the car on a whim, step into a farmyard of swarming chickens with trepidation, and listen to an old man [...]
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Defining a brand
Making a good first impression is undoubtedly vital in job interviews, dinner with potential in-laws, and applying for a loan. However, when it comes to making a business a success, [...]
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State Fair’s impact. 3.7% unemployment. Mosquitoes. Straw poll. A major TV merger.
The theme at the Iowa State Fair this year was Fair Sweet Fair, and the grandstand concert attendance was sweet, indeed. The 131,616 attendees for 2025 broke the previous record [...]
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‘Pieowa’ showcases rural Iowa-ness
Pie is a stand-in for Iowa itself in many ways in a feature-length documentary from director Beth M. Howard, an Iowa filmmaker who is now on a national tour with [...]
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‘Honey Don’t!’ is a chaotic, stylish neo-noir that refuses to play it straight
In the sun-bleached, conservative community of Bakersfield, California, a Pontiac Firebird cuts through the dust and heat. Behind the wheel is Honey O’Donahue (Margaret Qualley), a private investigator with a [...]
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Masao is redefining fresh
Masao is Des Moines’ greatest application yet of the miracle of overnight air freight. It is also dramatic evidence that technology shrunk the world more than anything else did. When [...]
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When the movie cameras were rolling in Iowa
One of the bills that passed in this year’s legislative session was Iowa Bill SF657, the Economic Development Bill that includes tax credits and incentives. One of the programs that [...]
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The Irish lilt is a thing of beauty
The Irish lilt is a thing of beauty. It moves up and down the vocal scale like a soaring and diving bird rather than the flat and plodding groundhog of [...]
Read More →Center Stage
Historical America and UK featured in September shows
As summer slips into fall, central Iowa will be offering two distinctly different, yet delightfully appealing, shows set back in time. The 1920s and the 1940s America are the settings [...]
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CITYVIEW’s question of the week
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- SBA Opens Nominations for 2026 National Small Business Week Awards - 8/18/2025
- CIWW Exits the Water Shortage Program - 8/18/2025
- Des Moines Water Works Board of Trustees Issues Statement Regarding U.S. EPA Action on Impaired Waters - 8/14/2025
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Stray Thoughts
A man you’ve never met had advice you should never forget
During decades as a journalist, I had countless conversations with interesting people — future presidents, wannabe leaders, governors, business executives, religious thinkers, crooks, and ordinary folks who made a difference [...]
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Charlie’s Filling Station
“Saturday Night Live.” “Jaws.” “All In the Family.” “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” It was 1975 when these shows and movies were popular. Meanwhile, one other 50-year landmark is [...]
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Hess goes ‘psycho’ at Des Moines Farmers Market
Patrons of the Des Moines Farmers Market might have noticed a wild-looking mascot during this season’s farmers market, courtesy of Jennifer Hess, owner of Psycho Sweets. Like many, Hess learned [...]
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Des Moines’ time has come
September is a self-contradiction. It is our ninth month, yet named as if the seventh. It marks the end of summer and the beginning of the end of all things [...]
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Don Cotran at Pho 515
Don Cotran heads the C Fresh Supermarket and Pho 515 restaurant. He recently returned from a four-week family research trip to Vietnam, covering every province in search of new things [...]
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Des Moines-based PLC is recording third album
Music from thousands of years ago has evolved from culture to culture throughout the world. The same rhythm performed then is still relevant today and is played by the Parranderos [...]
Read More →Cars in the City
This isn’t your parents’ Ford Maverick
When I heard Ford was coming out with another Maverick vehicle, I groaned. As a child, I grew up riding in a brown Maverick four-door, a barebones vehicle for a [...]
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