Always free! April kicks off the spring festival season with the return of two long-running fests: Mission Creek Festival in ...

The Acting Company’s recent production of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, presented by Hancher Auditorium in collaboration with Riverside and the Englert Theatre and performed on the latter’s ...

So far, the strongest pushback against the rapid, chaotic cuts and changes being made by the Trump administration has ...

In keeping with tradition, one dramatic beat of the presidential inauguration in January was the Naval Academy Glee Club’s ...

The Iowa Senate Education Committee approved legislation Monday to change state law defining bullying in schools, keeping it ...

Last week saw a slew of new singles, fresh videos and premiering music projects from local artists. Is it the spirit of ...

Generations of Des Moines residents have flocked to their neighborhood swimming pools for fun and to find relief from the heat, especially during potentially deadly  heat waves. For almost 90 […] ...

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The blues. An evocative word used more than two centuries ago by John James Audubon when he wrote to his wife that he “had ...

Have you ever been part of an innovation team? Its goal is not simply to develop as many new ideas and approaches as possible, but rather […] ...

When Tobi Parks opened a 250-capacity music venue in Des Moines’ Drake neighborhood in 2019, she was enacting her plan B. “I ...