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DES MOINES, IA (08/21/2026) (readMedia)– The Porky Parm Gnocchi, from Destination Grille, is the winner of the 2026 Iowa State Fair People’s Choice Best New Food Contest. There were 15,954 votes for the People’s Choice Best New Food this year. The Porky Parm Gnocchi received 44.9% of the votes. The All-American Scrambled Egg Roll from [...]
As if your TV set were not inundated by enough political ads these days, you can expect a whole other set of them soon. The new load, probably coming your way after Labor Day, will try to persuade you to vote in November to allow a minority of Iowa legislators to prevent any increase in [...]
From Iowa’s cultural epicenter, Mainframe Studios at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, Iowa comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning indie radio station, KFMG-LP 98.9 FM (streaming simultaneously at www.kfmg.org), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. Quote of the Week – “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a [...]
You would think a school district readily knows its A-B-C’s. Not the Des Moines Public Schools — at least not when informing the public what its 6,600 employees were paid during the academic year that ended June 30. Yes, grade school teachers still call roll in alphabetical order. And next spring’s high school [...]
DES MOINES, IA (08/13/2026) (readMedia)– The Iowa State Fair is excited to welcome music legend John Waite, the acclaimed singer-songwriter behind the No. 1 hits “Missing You” and “When I See You Smile,” to headline the Grandstand for a free concert at 8 p.m. on Friday, August 14. Waite steps in for fans at the [...]
Des Moines Area Companies Claim Their Trophies DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 12, 2026 – Winners of the Des Moines Corporate Games presented by Wellmark will be celebrated at the Awards Celebration – returning to the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Friday, August 21. Join us on the main concourse for a celebration of all of our [...]
DES MOINES, IA (08/11/2026) (readMedia)– Due to medical issues, Rod Stewart’s Grandstand performance at the Iowa State Fair will not take place as scheduled. We are deeply sorry for the change. The Fair is currently looking for a replacement act. Tickets for the Rod Stewart concert will be refunded to the original point of purchase. [...]
The Chicago-based artist’s new initiative Ways and Means Reclaims and Reimagines the American Flag for a More Expansive and Positive American “We” WHO & WHAT On Wednesday, August 12, 2026, nationally recognized Chicago artist and designer Bob Faust will present a large-scale public activation of his new participatory artwork, Ways and Means, during the Iowa [...]
Game shows have one virtue Iowa’s open-records enforcement system does not: Winners and losers know on the spot what prizes are theirs to keep. Hendrik Van Pelt learned this firsthand. In February, the Guttenberg man won a case before the Iowa Court of Appeals when the judges affirmed a district court decision in [...]
From Iowa’s cultural epicenter, Mainframe Studios at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, Iowa comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning indie radio station, KFMG-LP 98.9 FM (streaming simultaneously at www.kfmg.org), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. Quote of the Week – “Correct what you can; learn from what you can’t” – Toni Morrison [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa – August 10, 2026 – Greater Des Moines Supportive Housing (GDMSH) announced the closing on two former extended stay hotels that will become an 89-unit campus at 2701 Westown Parkway in West Des Moines and a 104-unit campus at 3940 114th Street in Urbandale. Both cities gave unanimous approval to the projects [...]
