Kindergartners at Brubaker Elementary School were treated to what, for many of them, was their first concert Friday afternoon in the school gym. In town for a Civic Music Association “Cool Yule” concert at Sheslow Auditorium on the …

Like a franchisee going solo, the Des Moines chapter of the I Have a Dream Foundation is rebranding as the By Degrees Foundation. Or maybe the better analogy would be to suggest that it’s graduating. The change was …

Disney’s Aladdin is in town and the hit Broadway musical’s two-week run includes some featured roles for DMPS Turnaround Arts schools. Aladdin opened on Broadway in 2014 and quickly rose to blockbuster status, breaking house records and welcoming …