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Cityview is a weekly alternative newspaper serving the Des Moines, Iowa region in the United States.

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Important reminder: Free speech includes right to criticize government

1 week ago | dmcityview.com | Randy Evans

A constitutional showdown taking shape in southern Iowa’s Decatur County could put taxpayers on the hook financially to defend the county’s efforts to silence a critic of public officials there. The Institute for Justice, a national nonprofit law firm, wrote Decatur County Attorney Alan Wilson last week expressing its concerns about Wilson’s recent threat to Rita Audlehelm that she could be sued for defamation for her comments in a letter to the editor published in the Leon Journal-Reporter.
Animatronics and pizza

3 weeks ago | dmcityview.com | Kristian Day

Des Moines Forgotten 4/2/2025Hell must have frozen over, because I am writing about ShowBiz Pizza. As a kid in the early 1990s, spending a birthday or two at a mall arcade blowing a pocket full of quarters on The Simpsons and Mortal Kombat was common.
Chicago Speakeasy is an ode to comfort

3 weeks ago | dmcityview.com | Jim Duncan

Food Dude 4/2/2025The year was 1978, a most Dickensian time. A murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, ended 909 American lives while Israel and Egypt were finding accord at Camp David, Maryland.
Drake is winning

3 weeks ago | dmcityview.com | Jim Duncan

Feature Story 4/2/2025Growing up in 1950s Des Moines, my family’s backdoor neighbor was an elderly German professor of Humanities at Grinnell College. Because our backyards were our baseball fields, we kids had several run-ins with the prof whenever we tried to retrieve foul balls from his fenced-in yard. “Get out of my yard.
‘Yellowstone’ is the most anti-adoption series in TV history

3 weeks ago | dmcityview.com | Douglas Burns

Political Mercury 4/2/2025Any conflicted pregnant woman who watched the just-concluded Paramount series sensation “Yellowstone” likely scheduled an abortion before the final cowboy deserted Kevin Coster and Taylor Sheridan’s fictional Montana ranch. Costner should reimburse them.
The business of chocolate

3 weeks ago | dmcityview.com | Lindsey Giardino

Business Feature 4/2/2025Chocolate isn’t just a treat. It’s a business built on creativity, strategy and its fair share of planning. At three metro chocolate shops, owners are doing all that and more to satisfy sweet tooths everywhere. The art of trying something newChocolate Storybook on Grand Avenue in West Des Moines is a family business.
German domination - this time, it’s all good

3 weeks ago | dmcityview.com | Jim Duncan

Art News 4/2/2025The world edged a little closer to discovering what art is, thanks to the German court system. At least, Germany’s Federal Court of Justice determined what art isn’t — that being Birkenstock sandals. The German company that makes those, which goes back to 1774, filed a lawsuit against three competitors who sold sandals that were similar.
David Baruthio at Waterfront West Des Moines

3 weeks ago | dmcityview.com | Jim Duncan

Lunch With... 4/2/2025David Baruthio is Des Moines’ most traveled top chef. A native of Strasbourg, France, the “cradle of great chefs,” he began working in Michelin star restaurants at age 15 under Hubert Maetz, and then under Gordon Ramsey at Aubergine, his breakout restaurant in Chelsea, England. Baruthio brought new ideas about dining to town more than two decades ago.
Iowa school shows leadership that others lack

1 month ago | dmcityview.com | Randy Evans

Stray Thoughts 3/25/2025As the president, governors and legislators elevate the stress and anxiety in higher education in the United States by seeking to change how colleges and universities operate and what they teach, the contrast between how an Ivy League school and an Iowa university responded shows the courage gap among college leaders.
The next big Trans fight isn’t what you think

1 month ago | dmcityview.com | Douglas Burns

Political Mercury 3/5/2025Compound interest. Of all the strands of imagination and provocations and fear and excitement that engage one during Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Weiner’s terrific book, “Long For This World: The Strange Science of Immortality,” the one that rushes to the fore for me is compound interest. And civil war.