Alison Gowans

After a busy day at work and day care, Stephanie Ostwinkle and her daughter Harper, 3, mix up a batch …

CEDAR RAPIDS – With black and white couches and 110 square inches of screens showing sports behind the bar, new …

At the eighth annual Top Chef: Downtown in Iowa City on Monday, 12 restaurants served bite-sized entrees, five offered up …

On the walls of Tiffiny’s Tipton Bakery, maps of Iowa, the United States and the world bristle with pins. Each …

The colder it is, the happier Mark Powers is to go running. ‘You know what it’s like in Iowa in …

With winter weather advisories and ice storms in the offing, the only thing keeping this Iowan going is thoughts of …

Hey, what’s that sound? I’ve got that Buffalo Springfield song going through my head. The 1960s protest song ‘For What …

A restaurant called Meat & Seafood Company is planned for the space vacated by the Motley Cow Cafe in Iowa …

When Edwin Gonzalez and his partner Emma Billa had a craving for Mexican popsicles or mangonadas, they used to drive …

l Who: Head chef Jim Jiang, 42, of Cedar Rapids and the Quad Cities l Where: Red Ginger Sushi, Teriyaki …

When Elizabeth Riordan found a pile of small rocks at the bottom of a bag of tangled press passes, she …

Diane Peterson fell in love with the social aspects of coffee in Germany. She and her husband lived there while …

In one corner of the room at Studio Reserved, a former church turned into a photography studio, a group practiced …

Two motorcycles sit on steel beams above the dining room at Chrome Horse Saloon & Slop House’s newly opened location …

The Donut Experiment, a shop whose website advertises everything from maple to Sriracha doughnuts, opened Wednesday at 5300 Fountains Drive …