…the Best Place Ever!
This awesome little but ever-growing independent movie rental shop has been graciously lending some of the best films ever made for five years now. These guys have brought critically acclaimed features, dirty underground flicks, and rare and virtually unseen foreign masterpieces all at one store. Truly, it’s the Best Place Ever. This [...]
Amongst all the hullabaloo surrounding last Tuesday, The Des Moines Music Coalition officially announced the line up for this years Little Big Fest. Little Big Fest is the DMMC’s annual alternative music and culture fest featuring Iowa’s best in roots, jam, blues, bluegrass, folk, and electronica. This years line up is as follows….
Grand Ballroom
7:30 [...]
Mars Cafe’s first ever completely free wine tasting is going down tonight at 6:30 p.m. Its a great chance to taste a wide selection of wines for free PLUS there will be a performance by Andy Zipf afterward.
For those of you who don’t know, Mars is the host and site of our regular feature, Scented [...]
If you had five minutes to talk to Des Moines, what would you say?
Its the question that the first-of-its-kind event, Ignite Des Moines, is posing this thursday night. Hosted by Impromptu Studio, speakers from around the metro area are talking about topics from website design, to legal issues, to homelessness and more. Personally interested to [...]
After visiting family in Omaha, I was reminiscing about my teen years in the “Big O” with a high school friend. We were remembering going to shows and seeing 311, Clever, Jank1000, Gnome Slaughterhouse, Venaculus, early Cursive, and many more. Some of which have come and gone. My scene memory has been through the wash and I can’t remember [...]
