Apr 27, 2012

There’s many ways to support local businesses and you’ve probably heard plenty of promotions through this site alone.  Through several bloggers, we’ve gone from covering Des Moines’ owned shops to Why Eat at a Chain Wednesday.  We don’t give much love to national chains, and they won’t be getting much this Saturday...

Apr 26, 2012

Influences can be what you make them. For instance, I spent most of my formative years playing hockey and reading Silver Surfer comic books. I pretty much listened to whatever was given to me on the radio, and was pretty sheltered artistically. It was okay for what it was, but I look back and think that maybe I did it wrong.  I feel as if I’ve grown a lot...

Apr 25, 2012

I actually had to search the web to find a new restaurant last week. I was Jonesin for a new experience and no newly opened restaurants popped into my head. My search took me past many of the main-stay local restaurants that we have covered on the column before, which are all great in their own right but I needed a new restaurant that I hadn’t been to before....

Apr 24, 2012

When the weather is nice and the grass is green once again, that only means one thing; the Roosters are out practicing and ready to play! Iowa’s only United States Australian Football League (USAFL), the Des Moines Roosters’ 2012 season has begun! Their first match will be an intersquad scrimmage held on Saturday May 5th at the Fort Des Moines Parade...

Apr 20, 2012

“Iowa is on Fire!”  It was a nice message to get in the middle of last week from someone who knows technology startups much better than I do and resides on the West Coast.   Plenty more followers within the technology culture have been turning their attention to Des Moines these past few weeks. It wasn’t just Ashton Kutcher’s new...