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Tallgrass Theatre Company looks for new home

After 13 years at Rex Mathes Elementary School’s auditorium in West Des Moines, the Tallgrass Theatre Company is looking for a new home for shows beginning next year. The company had debated whether the auditorium would be …
By BPC Staff | Dec 2, 2019
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Clive Community Foundation announces 2019 grants

The Clive Community Foundation will distribute $30,925 this week to 15 Clive-area not-for-profit organizations, completing CCF’s 2019 grant process. The annual funding request process began in August, with charitable requests solicited by the foundation to …
By BPC Staff | Dec 2, 2019
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River Constellation dedication planned for Dec. 5

River Constellation, a new public art piece celebrating community and water, will be dedicated at 4 p.m. Dec. 5 in Des Moines Water Works Park, 2201 George Flagg Parkway. The public ceremony will include brief …
By BPC Staff | Nov 27, 2019
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NOTEBOOK: A brief listing of languages heard in Iowa

In the last couple of months for the Business Record and dsm Magazine’s upcoming Lifting the Veil magazine, I’ve enjoyed talking to quite a few organizations in the metro area interacting with newly arrived or …
By KATE HAYDEN | Nov 27, 2019
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Curtain call

From the opening curtain of the interview, John Viars made it clear that he was but a cog in part of the Des Moines Community Playhouse’s initial 100-year run that produced more than 1,000 shows …
By PERRY BEEMAN | Nov 27, 2019
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A Closer Look: Courtney Reyes

Courtney Reyes may be picking up the mantle of executive director at One Iowa, but she is no newcomer to the organization. Starting as an office assistant in 2017, Reyes found opportunity for growth while …
By KATE HAYDEN | Nov 27, 2019
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2019 Leaders Survey

Each year we get a pulse on key issues affecting the region’s business community from our audience of leaders. This is the eighth year the Business Record has asked for your thoughts.

We asked a …
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | Nov 27, 2019
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HomeDitty to stage Stoner shows, forms spinoff to do public pop-up shows

HomeDitty home-concert booker Katie Byers has forged a deal with Des Moines Performing Arts to stage public concerts at Stoner Theater (part of the Des Moines Civic Center complex) in a series called “Stoner [Un]Plugged: …
By BPC Staff | Nov 26, 2019
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Gray’s Lake Park gains a couple of acres

Sioux City Brick, recently acquired by Brickworks N.A., the parent company of Glen-Gery Corp., plans to donate 2.3 acres of land at 1200 Thomas Beck Road to add to Gray’s Lake Park’s east side. Plans …
By BPC Staff | Nov 26, 2019
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Want to annoy people on Thanksgiving? Bury your face in your phone

Meyocks has a holiday tradition of serving up national survey results, and this year’s bounty includes this nugget: if you want to annoy your relatives at the Thanksgiving banquet, pay attention to your mobile phone …
By PERRY BEEMAN | Nov 26, 2019