Diana Nollen

As a teen, John McCutcheon had never heard of Woody Guthrie. Now he practically is Woody Guthrie. Both folk music …

When other shops in the Amanas were exporting the colonies’ craftsmanship and goods to the outside world, each colony’s general …

Like the bratwurst and Wiener schnitzel you gobbled up at an Amana eatery? Stop by the Amana Meat Shop & …

Nestled among the scenic byways of the Iowa River lie seven villages where the past merges peacefully with the present. …

CEDAR RAPIDS — Roll up your jeans, slick back your hair and get ready to shake, rattle and roll with …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Tenor soloist Ta’u Pupu’a said he couldn’t believe the reception he received from Orchestra Iowa’s Brucemorchestra X …

IOWA CITY – Frank Brinton of Washington, Iowa. Michael Zahs of rural Washington County. Both projected history, a hundred years …

AMANA – Beautiful music makes me cry. Wrenching drama makes me cry. I wasn’t prepared to have ‘Footloose” make me …

The Floods of 2008 surged through the CSPS building in southeast Cedar Rapids that June, but couldn’t drown the first …

Amid the squiggles and splatters of her life, unemployed bartender Maude Gutman grabs an ugly painting for $3 that just …

CEDAR RAPIDS — During the ‘Amelia 2.0’ movie premiere at the Collins Road Theatres last month, someone purchased a DVD …

Chemotherapy temporarily took away Pamela Crouch’s ability to express herself in words. For a writer, that was devastating. ‘I lost …

AMANA – Take away the poufy hair and prairie prom dresses and ‘Footloose,” the 1984 film about a town where …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Her parents were accomplished pianists, but Malvina Hoffman, born June 15, 1885, in Brooklyn, N.Y., began carving …

Audiences seldom sit passively at a Monica Bill Barnes & Company dance event. True to form, observers will be part …