Comedy club wants to take over former Spaghetti Works premises in the city centre
A comedy club has its eye on the former Spaghetti Works restaurant space on Court Avenue in downtown Des Moines, city records show. The name...
Novelist reflects on his death after serious neck injury
Gail Godwin was born in Birmingham in 1937 while her parents were visiting family, but I still refer to her as an Alabama writer. Godwin...
Kinky Friedman, singer and satirist with ties to Nashville, dies at the age of 79
Kinky Friedman, a Texas-born outlaw and role model of the Nashville country music industry who was favored by Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, among others,...