OMGDSM Episodes

OMGDSM Bonus – The Heart of a Seed

OMGDSM@suburbanpanic.com (K.O. Myers and Sara Neppl) — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 00:12:10 +0000

Chaden Halfhill is the founder of Silent Rivers Design and Build and Indigo Dawn, a green urban development company. Cosette Boone is a staff certified nurse mid-wife, and the owner and founder of Willowsong Midwifery Care. They’re the husband and wife team behind Green and Main, rehabilitating a former corner grocery store in the Sherman Hill neighborhood to house Healing Passages birth and wellness center. As you’ll hear, there are a lot of interesting ways in which the two ideas complement each other. Learn more about the project and join the community supporting it at The Heart of a Seed.

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OMGDSM #005 – Art Month DSM

OMGDSM@suburbanpanic.com (K.O. Myers and Sara Neppl) — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 13:41:28 +0000

OMGDSM is back! K.O. and new co-host Sara Neppl explore some of the impressive list of arts events happening around Des Moines in June. Click here to listen or download.

Thanks to all of the guests who shared their perspective:

The co-founders of Art Week Des Moines: David Safris, President of Visionary Services and Liz Adelman, partner at the AdelmanDean Group
Art Week organizers Liz Lidgett and Monica Langin
Photographer Kristian Day, producer of the Interrobang Film Festival
Stephen King, Executive Director of Des Moines Arts Festival
Mat Greiner, Executive Director of Chicken Tractor
Artist Rachel Buse curator of the Art Beacon calendar
Artist and Chicken Tractor grantee Rob Stephens
Artist Brent Holland
ISU Professor and Artist Alex Braidwood

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OMGDSM #004a – Suddenly, A Thing

OMGDSM@suburbanpanic.com (K.O. Myers and Sara Neppl) — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 02:38:46 +0000

We’re (very nearly) back!

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OMGDSM #004 – Community Youth

OMGDSM@suburbanpanic.com (K.O. Myers and Sara Neppl) — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 21:16:07 +0000

This time on OMGDSM, we’re learning about programs and people working with at-risk youth in the city. We’ll talk to the staff of Community! Youth Concepts about their new programs designed to connect students to career skills and community opportunities. And we’ll speak to John Mark Feilmeyer, Executive Director at Art Force Iowa, about using arts instruction to enrich and empower at-risk teens.

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OMGDSM #003 – City Sounds

OMGDSM@suburbanpanic.com (K.O. Myers and Sara Neppl) — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 14:04:19 +0000

This time on OMGDSM, we’re exploring the musical landscape in Des Moines. We’ll talk to Christopher Ford, Program Manager at the Des Moines Music Coalition, about the experience of making and sharing music in Iowa. Kathryn Dickel, founding partner of MIDWESTIX, shares her plans for City Sounds: The Des Moines Public Piano Project. And we’ll talk to musician Rae Fehring about empowering girls through music with Girls Rock! Des Moines.

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Thanks to Maximum Ames Records and artists Christopher the Conquered, TWINS and Gloom Balloon for providing the songs in this episode. Thanks to Kelli Lydon for the ragtime piano.

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OMGDSM #002 – Because Des Moines

OMGDSM@suburbanpanic.com (K.O. Myers and Sara Neppl) — Tue, 20 May 2014 02:33:26 +0000

Despite a ton of positive press, Des Moines still seems to lack a strong identity, particularly on the national stage. We’ll talk to Ryan Crane and Maggie Carlson of New Leaders Council Des Moines about their leadership training institute, and a fundraiser celebrating all things uniquely Des Moines. Then we’ll ask reporter Josh Hafner about what it might take for Des Moines to move past being “nerdy hot.”

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OMGDSM #001 – Tomorrow

OMGDSM@suburbanpanic.com (K.O. Myers and Sara Neppl) — Thu, 08 May 2014 18:52:37 +0000

On April 22nd, the Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization unveiled The Tomorrow Plan, a blueprint for sustainable community development through the middle of the 21st century. We spoke to Senior Transportation Planner Bethany Wilcoxon to learn about the Plan, and its vision for the region. We also spoke about Bethany’s campaign to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

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