Mar 7, 2012

Since I do this weekly column focused on new restaurants with local ownership I always have my eyes out for new spots. I hadn’t heard of Taste of Oriental until I went to Raul’s Mexican Restaurant for last week’s column and saw Taste right across the street. I am not certain how long they have been open or, actually, much about them as they haven’t had...

Feb 17, 2012

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 this...

Oct 12, 2011

Typically heckling patrons to enter you restaurant is not the best way to get business. Not hot girl walking by a construction site heckling – it was actually a much more tame version of the heckle. Of course, I had yet to have my coffee that morning, so it could have been a sneeze for all I know. Something verbal came from the B Sharp Bistro shortly...

Dec 17, 2009

I cannot attest to the fact that Uncle Bucks had a specialized  Templeton Rye Bar inside their establishment, because I have never been there. But, yesterday’s Des Moines Register ran an article about Uncle Bucks, or the owner Tom Baldwin’s, decision to change the name of the bar to Jack Daniel’s from Templeton Rye due to demand concerns....

Nov 12, 2009

Social Media capital of the World…in Des Moines, Iowa!? Is that a bold statement? Is that complete insanity and laughable? Truly, I don’t know how to answer those questions. I would wager a bet most people not in Des Moines would laugh at that statement, and let’s face it that laughter would also be accompanied with visions of tractors, farms, pigs, and...