“Playing With Fire” is a play that follows the events after the story of Frankenstein. It was performed at DMACC’s Black Box Theater the last weekend of September and the first weekend of October. The problem with me writing an article about a month after production is that you willRead More

Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity. This November, DMACC Theatre is performing “Merge,” a dramatized look into the rise and fall of Atari, a video game-based company that saw its peak in the early 1980s. Director of “Merge,” Brittany Rebhuhn, gives insight into this retro play. Read More

By Adam Livingston, Special to The Chronicle A four-hundred-milligram testosterone injection weekly. That is normal for me. Every Friday morning, when I get up, it’s the first thing I do besides maybe getting a cup of coffee.  I grab the syringes, the two sets of needles, and the small vile,Read More

Prominent Iowa business leaders comprising the DMACC President’s Advisory Council spoke to a room of about 70 students and faculty on Tuesday, Oct. 17 in the Building 5 Black Box Theater.  The council was formed two years ago by the president of DMACC, Robert Denson, and the president of theRead More

A new school year has started at DMACC and Fall 2023 has proven to be eventful as DMACC has said goodbye to Blackboard and turned to Canvas.  For more than 10 years, DMACC Community College has used Blackboard as its primary software for online learning.  In 2020, DMACC’s contract withRead More

Childhood was the gateway to friendship; it was lined with paved roads that led you to people who had similar surface-level interests to you. You didn’t need to have the same political views or even the same tastes in style, all you needed were vaguely similar interests and you wouldRead More

You may have seen Professor Paul Byrd walking the halls of DMACC listening to heavy metal, teaching a variety of political science classes at the Ankeny Campus, or on the news occasionally giving his opinions on recent national affairs. Paul Byrd has been a professor at Des Moines Area CommunityRead More