Next time you're walking around Des Moines, look up and you might see something interesting on some old buildings. We'll talk about the stone carvings of faces known as "grotesques" that adorn buildings around the world. The guest is Jan Fleming, author of "Grotesques in Des Moines..Iowa and Abroad." Later, University of Iowa professor Rick Altman will tell us about "The Living Nickelodeon," his presentation that relives the multimedia spectacles that characterized film exhibition during the two decades between the invention of cinema and the rise of feature films.
