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New Orleans Magazine tells delegates in its latest issue: "How to have a good time in the Big Easy...and keep it quiet in Des Moines."
Skywalks, however, have proliferated. During the past 25 years, the downtowns of more than a score of cities in the U.S. and Canada have become climate-controlled labyrinths. Calgary has 42 bridges running 6 miles that link 110 buildings. The American skywalks (also called skyways, skybridges, * or, in the unfortunate...
But very early on in the skywalk boom, weather was superseded by boosterism economics: elevated bridges came to be seen as prods for real estate development, quick fixes for tapped-out downtowns. Here and there they seemed to do the trick. The growth of the publicly owned Des Moines Skywalk...
Hefner had hoped to adapt the clubs, established in the 1960s as havens for male entertainment and dining, to an altered business world in which sexism had become unfashionable. But not even toned-down decor, less nudity and the hiring of male Bunnies could bring back Playboy's heydays of...
The folks in Des Moines pigged out last week, quite literally. An estimated 35,000 people gathered at the Iowa State Fairgrounds for "The Great Pork BarbeQlossal," and in a single day consumed 13 tons of barbecued pork served by 100 amateur and professional barbecue cooks who were competing for...