When Toni LeFebvre was a young jazz trumpet player, she found herself searching online for videos of drummer Sherrie Maricle and the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, one of the few professional all-female jazz […]
Art / Social Issues
A Monument to The Past
Iowa was invaded on October 12, 1863. Twelve Confederate guerrillas wearing stolen Union uniforms crossed the Mason-Dixon Line, riding north from Missouri into Davis Country, roughly two hours south of modern Des […]
Art / Social Issues
Giving Women a Voice
Seven years into her music career, Courtney Krause is finally becoming a solid player in the Des Moines music community. She performs as a solo act, in groups with two or three […]
Social Issues
Safety in Numbers: Women find refuge through running groups
Erin Ellefsen, an Indianapolis native and former college track athlete, had just finished up a run at a remote Colorado trail when two men started talking to her. She had come with […]