Cedar Ridge’s annual Bourbon and Blues Festival is expanding in 2022, moving to Cedar Rapids’ McGrath Amphitheatre as it joins forces with the Linn County Blues Society Tickets for the multiday event starting Aug. 20 go on sale May 1.
Trading Grounds Coffee in Marion is opening this week ahead of a grand opening on Saturday at 917 Barrington Parkway, Suite B. The new coffee shop transformed the space in the MAC Express building previously home to a health club.
With “Sound of Music,” Director Brian Glick and company at Theatre Cedar Rapids are bringing to the surface the undercurrents swirling beneath the epic love story that dawns as Nazi power rises in Austria.
Italian favorite Popoli Ristorante & Sullivan’s Bar in the historic Kingston Village building will close May 8, making way for a new event center operated by Peppercorn Food Company.
Short’s Burger and Shine, known for its specialty burgers, has closed its original downtown Iowa City location. It’s east Iowa City and Uptown Marion locations are still open.
Megadeth aficionados will have to bide their time to experience the fresh cuts since the band, which performs Wednesday at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse in Cedar Rapids, refuses to preview tracks.
Riverside Theatre presents the first musical in it’s new space, “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812,” moving throughout the audience and throughout the space from April 22 to May 8.
Orchestra Iowa weaves social commentary from different centuries in “Voices of Change,” presenting Joel Thompson’s “Seven Last Words of the Unarmed” and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, in concert Saturday at the Paramount in Cedar Rapids and Sunday at Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City.
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Next Page Books and CSPS will present “An Evening with Page & Performance Poets” at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 28. The event will feature 10 of the area’s outstanding published, page, performance and emerging poets.
Popular Christian band MercyMe bringing Inhale (Exhale) Tour to Cedar Rapids
After two years of virtual events, EcoFest is bringing back a live event to NewBo for Earth Day.
Wandering through Shrine of the Grotto of the Redemption in West Bend, Iowa, is a religious experience. It’s often referred to as the “Eighth Wonder of the World.”
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