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Playhouse tickets on sale

The Des Moines Community Playhouse will hold its Holiday Hoopla program at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Playhouse theater, 831 42nd St.

The show will feature a list of performers that includes Madison Barnes, who …

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We’re in a giving mood

Thirty-six percent of charities reported an increase in donations during the first nine months of the year, up from 23 percent during the same time period in 2009, MarketWatch reported, based on data from the …

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AllSpice


From the photographs on the wall to the aluminum and birch shelving, Alexander Rhoads tapped local designers, contractors and artisans to fashion a business that thinks on a global scale.

Rhoads, an attorney for 15 …

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Dingel honored with Amy Jennings Award

Tyler Dingel, a senior associate with CB Richard Ellis/Hubbell Commercial, has received the 2010 Amy Jennings Young Professional of the Year Award from the Young Professionals Connection (YPC). Dingel, who is actively involved in the …

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Sister Stella killed in car crash

Sister Stella Neill, founder and former executive director of Anawim Housing, was killed in a car accident on Tuesday evening.

In 1987, Neill founded Anawim, which provides affordable housing for low-income families by renovating old …

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Junior Achievement receives endowment gift

Junior Achievement of Central Iowa will establish a $50,000 endowment to be held and administered by the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines.

The endowment was created with a gift from Richard Jacobson, chairman of …

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Last week for Crossroads survey

The Capital Crossroads visioning project online survey comes to an end on Friday. The survey is part of a regional visioning plan, supported by the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines, the Greater Des Moines …

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YPC effort works to create Impact in downtown


When Quentin Huston moved to Des Moines early in 2007, he settled near West Des Moines and worked in the East Village.

He decided to join the Young Professionals Connection (YPC) Impact Downtown Committee. He …

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Arts Festival artist invites announced

More than 180 professional visual artists, representing 33 states, have been invited to the 14th annual Des Moines Arts Festival. Sixty percent will be new to the event, the Downtown Community Alliance said in a …

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Get in there and spend


All right, it’s up to you now. I’ve heard a lot about you, you big, lovable, loopy American consumer, and I’m totally confident about sending you in with the game on the line.

At press …