Articles by Ashlee Seaton

About Ashlee Seaton (35 Articles)
Editor in Chief, Viewfinder Magazine (Spring 2023-Fall 2023)

Todd Bailey: Grand View’s Media All-Rounder

October 16, 2023 // 0 Comments

When you’re walking the halls of the buildings on the campus of Grand View University, you’ll sometimes stop and see headshots of students on the bridge or sitting in the [...]

Retail Trends

October 16, 2023 // 0 Comments

As children grow up, they decide their interests and passions. For one local woman, fashion is a passion she developed at an early age, but it was challenging to find [...]

Wellness U for U 

September 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

It was the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan and Simone Biles was warming up on the vault and was continuously bailing on tricks that would have seemed easy for her [...]

Lackey’s Legacy 

September 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

The word revival has a few meanings. It could mean, “a renewed interest or attention in something,” a “new presentation or publication of something old,” or a [...]

Cancel Culture

April 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

Humans have a long history of rejecting one another. In Nathaniel Hawthorn’s “The Scarlet Letter,” Hester Prynne is deemed an outcast and subjected to public ridicule [...]

Summer 2021 : A Preview

April 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

With school winding down, summertime is around the corner, and many people have already started planning how to spend it. Last year, much of the summer was spent in [...]

Local DSM Ice Cream Shops

April 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

Des Moines is home to many original ice cream shops. I went to four: Snookies, Outside Scoop, Over the Top and Dairy Zone. My mission when going to each establishment was to [...]

The Breakfast Club

April 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Breakfast Club is more than just a beloved ’80s film with an outstanding cast and a beautifully written (and partially improvised) script. Newly opened in Des Moines, [...]

Steak n Shake

March 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

I would rate this experience a 7/10 Steak ’n Shake, the highly anticipated West Des Moines restaurant that was pushed back for nearly two years has finally [...]
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