December 19, 2007 in newest articles
This weeks video features a look inside the campaign headquarters to both Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama. I could have included Mitt Romney as well, but who wants to see an Urbandale office building?
Obama is over in the East Village and Huckabee is in the Des Moines Building–if you weren’t already aware. These are a [...]
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December 18, 2007 in newest articles
Ice storms make for some of the best photos, and create the most beautiful winter wonderlands. Of course, when ice melts, especially the ice on buildings downtown, it can make a dangerous situation.
Here’s some pictures (that are very late) from last week’s big storm. Enjoy!
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December 18, 2007 in newest articles
These tickets have been hard to come by nationwide, so for all of you that are dying to see this show you just might want to take advantage of this offer!
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December 17, 2007 in jo hill, newest articles
by Jo Hill
The December Farmer’s Market at Capital Square was shoulder to shoulder people in spite all of the snow falling.
Christmas Spirit was high with everyone doing some Christmas shopping, and looking for that special gift. There were people everywhere including families with four generations enjoying a family outing. Some of the venders were outside [...]
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December 12, 2007 in newest articles
This weeks Mid-Week Video feature is two-parts. In case you missed it and wanted to see what Oprah’s appearance in Des Moines was all about, here is her speech made just for you.
Part 1
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QJJOtT32C0[/youtube]
Part 2
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCWgljr8tY&NR=1[/youtube]
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December 11, 2007 in brownstones on grand, newest articles
If you haven’t seen the episode of Welcome Home that featured the Brownstones on Grand you’ve missed some comedy gold my friends. And it’s not comedy in a mean way, it’s just plain funny.
To start, you have an over-enthusiastic host (which tv personalities must be) and the two people being interviewed really couldn’t look [...]
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December 10, 2007 in hawkeye caucai, newest articles
If you live on planet earth there’s just no way you haven’t heard about Oprah’s stop in Des Moines (at Hy-Vee Hall) on Saturday.� There was a turn out of almost 20,000 people, some of whom weren’t from the media.� (ok, that was a joke)
The media has been all over this as Oprah is one [...]
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December 6, 2007 in hawkeye caucai, newest articles
Saturday the most powerful woman in the world, as some say, will be making her way to Hy-Vee hall to make an appearance for the Obama campaign.� This event is sure to be attended by every member of the media on planet earth, as well as a few local voters who will get the chance [...]
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December 6, 2007 in mystery, newest articles
Colder weather is in sight….
Those of you who grew up locally aren’t going to find this story to be groundbreaking, but there are a lot of people moving to the area, or that recently arrived that will enjoy this!
Have you seen this tower of light at night? Do you find yourself wondering why [...]
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December 5, 2007 in gateway lofts, mid-week vids, newest articles
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCAZSNJSNy4[/youtube]
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