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Sara Jacovino
Trombonist Sara Jacovino is in Iowa City, as guest artist for the City High’s Jazz Showcase. She stopped by with City High band director Aaron Ottmar to talk with Hollis Monroe.
Culture Crawl 704 “That Sounds Terrifying! Sure, I’ll Try It”
Jennifer Fawcett, an Ontario native who spent several years living in Iowa City. Her plays, such as “Apples in Winter” have been performed multiple times in the Corridor. She has just published her first novel. “Beneath The Stairs” is a literary horror novel, that is to say, it’s scary, but also is driven by its …
Culture Crawl 702 “Hands Like Nosferatu”
Celebrated pianist Joyce Yang returns to Iowa to perform one of the most difficult piano pieces ever written, Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto with Orchestra Iowa, April 2 and 3. Tim Hankewich, a pianist himself, knows full well the challenge of performing this monumental piece, and says that coming to the pre-concert talks (6:45 in Cedar …
Culture Crawl 701 “One More Night”
Violinist and composer Josh Henderson is wrapping up a year at the University of Iowa as a Grant Wood Fellow with a brand-new composition inspired by the memory of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, Richie Valens, and pilot Ralph Peterson, who died in the 1959 Clear Lake plane crash later tagged by singer Don MacLean …
Culture Crawl 700 “Survivor’s Club”
Michael Bornstein is one of the very youngest survivors of Auschwitz, and through his life was reluctant to talk about what he remembered of the experience until he saw a picture of his liberation from the camp on a Holocaust Denyer website, purported to be proof that the Nazis didn’t kill children. After opening up …
Culture Crawl 699 “That’s The Guy Who Made It!”
The Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival returns April 1 & 2 after the pandemic layoff, with the original slate of films from the cancelled 2020 festival. Documentaries on Iowa’s real-life Monuments Man, Collins Radio and the Apollo program will be screened along with a huge variety of short and feature-length films. Daily and all-festival passes, …
Culture Crawl 698 “Bring Down The Power Hammer”
“Niceties” is a play at Riverside Theatre tackling. among other topics, one that is in our daily headlines today, teaching issues of race in American history in the classroom. Jody Hovland, founding artistic director at Riverside, returns to the stage (which actually is a new stage, of course, in Riverside’s new venue), and acts opposite …
Culture Crawl 697 “Secret Problem”
Family Promise of Linn County support dozens of families each year who are homeless or in danger of losing their housing. “Joyful Noises” is an annual fundraiser that features just about the biggest variety of musical entertainment that you can imagine, from blues to bluegrass to barbershop. Saturday, March 26 at the Olympic Theater in …