The Iowa Energy had their home opener last night over at Wells Fargo Arena. If you’re keeping track, that now gives downtown Des Moines residents pro baseball (I-Cubs), pro basketball (Energy), pro hockey (Stars) and coming soon, Arena Football. All in all it’s quite exciting for downtown Des Moines.
Here’s what the Register had [...]

Have you been paying any attention to all the fun things coming downtown this fall? Now that the Wells Fargo Arena is up and running well, we’re seeing a lot of great entertainment coming to Des Moines.
Remember not that long ago when anything worth going to only came to Ames? Nice to know [...]

Now for an event that excites me. Rib America is putting on a big ‘ol BBQ Fest this weekend.
Rib America Des Moines
Perhaps you don’t have much money? Hey, it’s $3 after 3pm, or free before then! Perhaps you like music?

Big Head Todd and The Monsters
Jimmy Buffet Tribute Band
Molly Hatchet
.38 Special
Buddy Guy
The Nadas

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Wow, I hope to see more weekends like this for downtown. Well, more like this on an amounto of things to do scale. I didn’t attend any of these, but there were 10’s of thousands that did.
I-Cubs first home stand
Kenny Chesney concert at Wells Fargo Arena Friday night
Rod Stewart concert at Wells Fargo [...]

I hope that you had a wonderful Easter. I’ve always loved Easter, I think it’s a holiday that should be way more important than it is. It’s kind of sad that the celebration of Jesus birth has become about Santa and the celebration of His resurrection has become about the Easter Bunny.
This year we headed [...]