La Tomatina is an annual summer festival in a Spanish village. Thousands of people from all over the world come for the “World’s Biggest Food Fight” and hurl more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes at …
If you were a refugee who escaped a war-torn homeland and you were doubly lucky you’d be welcomed wherever you landed by a man the likes of Vinh Nguyen. His official title at Des Moines Public Schools is …
Why go to the time and trouble to go to the mountains, Jake Troja wondered, when we can get the mountains to come to us? Good question, it turns out. And they are coming for the inaugural Des …
Rabsa Naseer will be a junior in the fall at Roosevelt High School/Central Academy. The summer before she entered 8th grade she was, by her own description, “very shy and quiet.” We’ll take her word for that, hard as …
It’s one thing to lace up your shoes and run in a 5K event. It’s another thing entirely to administratively run one, especially if you’re a teenager otherwise preoccupied with prepping for your senior year of high school. …
