What are local chefs doing in Des Moines Really Remember the food at the Iowa State Fair? To answer that question, Chris Hoffmann, chef and owner of Clyde’s Fine Diner in Des Moines’ East Village, who was a semifinalist for the James Beard Foundation’s 2024 Best Chef of the Midwest award, and Sammy Mila, owner […]
Visitors to Yellowstone National Park were startled last month by an unexpectedly powerful hydrothermal explosion – an eruption of hot underground water – that sent steam, boiling water, mud and grapefruit-sized chunks of rock several hundred feet into the air. No one was injured, but the July 23 explosion in the Biscuit Basin area, just […]
The annual Florida Python Challenge begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday and ends at 5:00 p.m. August 18. Participants can win over $25,000 in prizes by removing invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida. Burmese pythons, which are not native to Florida, have a negative impact on native wildlife. This invasive species is primarily found in and […]
