Marion’s Granger House recovering from pandemic, derecho, and ready to welcome visitors for August events.
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Marion’s Granger House recovering from pandemic, derecho, and ready to welcome visitors for August events.
Festival entertains young and young at heart
“We love living in Iowa, and we celebrate that with coming to the Iowa State Fair and we all come together those 11 days in August,” says the fair’s CEO
With increased security, pandemic concerns and must-see attractions, here is need-to-know information before heading to Des Moines.
This year’s fair fare includes Flaming Hot Cheeto funnel cakes, bacon fanny packs, rattlesnake sausage and Tennessee Twinkies.
An episode of the History Channel’s “Modern Marvels” show filmed at a Quad Cities Deere & Co. plant will air this coming Sunday.
Fun stops help break up 9-hour drive to Michigan’s Mackinac Island, where you won’t need your car once you arrive.
Hard rockin’ California band headlining Buck Fest at Five Flags Center in Dubuque.
The Pork Tornadoes ready to storm McGrath Amphitheatre stage.
Iowa City’s Riverside Theatre set to perform off-site this fall, then open new space in January.
ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill, the long-bearded bassist for the million-selling Texas blues rock trio, has died at 72. The band played the Delaware County Fair earlier this month.
Joey Jordison was already a veteran of the Des Moines metal scene when he founded the band that would become Slipknot in 1995, along with percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray.
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