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Culture Crawl 242 “The Holocaust Didn’t Begin with Gas Chambers”

John Chaimov from Coe College is a member of the Thaler Holocaust Remembrance committee, which brings a Holocaust survivor to Cedar Rapids to speak about his or her experience. This year’s speaker is Dr. Jacob Eisenbach, a retired dentist who actually lived in Cedar Rapids for a time, and survived the Holocaust as a teen …

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Special Programs: Week of April 10 – 16

Short List with Bob Naujoks    Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM   Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Melissa Aldana) Chilean-born tenor saxophonist, Melissa Aldana’s dad was a well-known saxophonist in Santiago and she inherited his love for Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley and Phil Woods. She began with …

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Culture Crawl 241 “Evil, Evil, Evil”

RHCR Theatre of Cedar Rapids presents “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” April 28 – May 6. Amy Restroom plays Nurse Ratched, one of the all-time villain characters in literature and movies. Amy says that one of the things that makes the character chilling (and complicated to play) is that she takes her heinous actions …

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KCCK IOS App Updated

The latest update to IOS from Apple broke the KCCK app on many people’s phones. We’re happy to say that the app has been updated and now works fine. If your app still doesn’t work, head to the iTunes App Store and get the updated version. And for both IOS and Android, check out the app’s …

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Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet April 13, 2017

The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place April 13, 2017. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.

Special Programs: Week of April 3 – 9

Short List with Bob Naujoks     Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM   Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Emily Remler) On the Short List this week we start a new series on significant – but not necessarily well-known – women jazz instrumentalists. Up first is guitarist Emily …

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IOS Update 10.3 Breaks KCCK app

If you updated your iphone or ipad this week to IOS 10.3, your KCCK app may not work. Our vendor has contacted us and told us the update broke many of their apps, including ours. They’re working on a fix, but in the meantime you can still listen to KCCK on your mobile device: Open …

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KCCK’s Featured CD for April 2017

The KCCK Featured CD for April is “The Music of John Lewis” from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Few captured the sleek, swinging sophistication of jazz better than Mr. Lewis, the pianist, composer and leader of the Modern Jazz Quartet, who had a long, personal relationship with Jazz at Lincoln Center. …

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