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If Beaverdale residents and business owners get their wish, visitors to this Des Moines neighborhood will be able to park their cars and enjoy easy access to an abundance of establishments by foot or bicycle …

Though fulfilling, diversity trainer Michele Soria’s job as executive director of the Iowa Council for International Understanding has definite challenges. Soria, a descendant of Ashkenazim Jews who escaped Nazi-era Europe, says she has encountered “members …

Iowa Public Television is about to start its 16-day-long conversation with Iowans. If trends of past Festival events hold true, IPTV will lure viewers away from network and cable programming that station manager Daniel K. …

Blues fest draws downtown crowds

Historians say blues music, the foundation of rock ‘n’ roll, country, R&B, jazz and hip-hop, was born in 1903 at a train station in Tutwiler, Miss. That’s where W.C. Handy, …

Des Moines musician Bob Cook figures entertainer Brent Webster, 63, may have gotten his last sinister “I gotcha” laugh on Feb. 6 when he died in Colorado without telling his friends in Central Iowa that …

Focus turns to Washington

Top executives at Iowa’s two biggest hospital groups have agreed to extend their talks about jointly building a hospital in West Des Moines for at least 30 days and said their …

The fortunes of David Stark, long considered a rising star at Central Iowa Health System, are burning brighter these days.

Two weeks ago, the 31-year-old hospital administrator was named chief operating officer at Iowa Methodist …

Oenophiles of Greater Des Moines, prepare to raise your glasses.  

For two days in May, the inaugural Des Moines WineFest will give festival-goers the chance to mingle with world-class vintners and cooks, from locations ranging …

The new chief operating officer finds the right fit.

Judy Winkelpleck has been a busy woman since she became the chief operating officer of the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines in December. She spends …

Pittsburgh native Michael Frantz has been illuminating Broadway shows like “Titanic,” “Ragtime” and “Fosse” and hundreds of musical artists like Jonny Lang, Rueben Blades and Styx for 10 years around the country. The 28-year-old lighting …