The Addams Family has been a part of American pop culture for 80 years. Beginning as a New Yorker cartoon in the Thirties, then as a 60s TV show, movies in the 90s, and now onstage as a musical. Marqueta Senters plays GrandMama in the Old Creamery Theatre production that opens October 11. She tells …
The 22nd annual Metro Marching Band Classic takes place Oct. 8, 6:30pm at Linn-Mar Stadium. It’s the only time this season you can see the bands from Jefferson, Kennedy, Washington, Prairie, Xavier, Linn-Mar, and Marion perform their shows on the same night in the same location. Special guest band will be the UI Hawkeye Marching …
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place October 11, 2018. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Cats on the Keys: Geoff Keezer This week’s Short List introduces listeners to Geoff Keezer’s rise to the top rank of today’s jazzmen. If the relatively young – fortyish – pianist Geoff Keezer from Eau Claire, …
Cedar Rapids author Barb Feller has written a book that is part biography, part personal memoir exploring her journey learning about a man who had an extraordinary impact on the arts and culture not only of Iowa, but the entire world. Jay Sigmund was a friend and mentor to artist Grant Wood, and poet Paul …
John Kenyon is the director of the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature, presenting the Iowa City Book Festival Oct. 1-7. Dozens of literary events, most of them free, will range from a talk by rapper and actor Common to the celebration of this year’s Paul Engle Award winner, Dina Nayeri. There will even …
Singer Ann Hampton Calloway performs “A Night of Chicago Jazz” with Ramsey Lewis Sept. 28 at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines. She tells Dennis Green about how she thinks musical improvisation and improv theatre are connected, as well as remembering growing up in a musical family in Chicago. Tickets and information at www.civicmusic.org.
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Cats on the Keys: Phineas Newborn, Jr. Phineas Newborn, Jr. is always mentioned in discussions of the greatest jazz pianists. His technicality was beyond question, and he could improvise at breakneck speed. His greatest influence was …
