This restaurant found the best way to win me over.  I had my web developers active with a client in West Des Moines and needed to find a place nearby for lunch.  Our agenda was going to include the upcoming IT schedule, and I was pushing for somewhere I knew could provide us with privacy. [...]

As hordes of eager and hopeful Iowa prep athletes descend on Des Moines in the coming weeks there is no better time to take a trip to the Iowa Hall of Pride, a high-tech monument to the achievements of Iowans in the field of academics, arts and athletics.  The Hall is located within the Iowa [...]

By now, Des Moines audiences are not as shocked to find raw talent in performance and directing within our local theatre scene.  There’s less of an emphasis on getting people out, because more are growing their anticipation for upcoming productions, such as last night’s opening of Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom.  If you were checking [...]

My big break was roughly ten years ago when I started writing a column for a professional wrestling site. And not just any site, one of the most popular in the world, for the subject matter anyway. The big issue was that I was really bad at it. Like, Hindenburg bad. Like, even worse then [...]

Des Moines has an amazing birth community. Yes, I said birth community. Did you know that many women who give birth in Des Moines don’t actually know all of their options? Yes, you can do your typical hospital birth, but our community has more options than that, and a plethora of resources to gain knowledge [...]