New Red Cedar Chamber program highlights world’s earliest known slides and films, found in Washington, Iowa, collection
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New Red Cedar Chamber program highlights world’s earliest known slides and films, found in Washington, Iowa, collection
It’s easy to find day trips around Eastern Iowa with festivals all summer long. Here’s a guide to explosions of art in parks and streets, cultural and heritage festivals — and lots and lots of fireworks.
From the Old World creatures of “Jurassic Park” to Dvorak’s “New World Symphony,” Bernstein to the Beatles and Sondheim to Stravinsky, Orchestra Iowa is pulling out all the stops for its 2022-23 celebration.
Steve Martin and Martin Short are heading to the Des Moines Civic Center on May 14 with their show “You Won’t Believe What They Look Like Today!” Now in their 70s, they look mahvelous.
There’s a music festival or summer concert for nearly every type of music in Eastern Iowa this summer. Check out the list of 2002 Iowa music festivals planned so far.
After 36 years as a favorite on the Ped Mall, George’s Best Gyros joins it sister restaurants in the expansion from food cart to brick and mortar on Iowa Avenue.
Try your hand at puppetry as Eulenspiegel troupe in West Liberty organizes a community storytelling project. The show will need seven to 12 people, from upper elementary to adults, to act as puppeteers or operate sound effects at each host town or site.
Surprises await throughout Theatre Cedar Rapids’ fresh take on classic tale
Old World charm, tulips ready to bloom for 2022 Pella Tulip Time Festival, slated for May 5-7.
Electropop opera “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812” takes whirlwind rise through slice of “War and Peace” at Iowa City’s Riverside Theatre.
Georger Thorogood crafted his share of hits, such as “Bad to the Bone” and “I Drink Alone,” but his revamped takes on buried blues tunes are his calling card. Thorogood, who will perform Tuesday at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Cedar Rapids, still delivers the songs with laudable energy bouncing all over the stage.
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.
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